This week I wanted to post about the WAFA (We Are Fucking Awesome), a collective of artists I learned about from my favorite collage blog, NOTPAPER.NET. Consisting of members from around the world, Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, North Carolina, St. Paul, Sydney, Brighton, and Norwich, all of the work posted on their website is a collaborative [...]
Cristian Subirà of Summer Recreation Camp sent me away from Barcelona with an awesome mix to post for this week. This will be followed next week by stories and photos of his recent 2 month tour in the US. Enjoy!
Eternal Sunrise Mixtape
Sun Ra – Of Heavenly Things
Ghédelia Tazartès – Mourir Un Peu
Pearls Before Swine – [...]
Short but grotesque, this mix combines 40 minutes of music into a 7 minute pleasantly unlistenable cacophony. Mainly inspired by the history of collage music put together by John Leidecker/Wobbly and the music of Erik M. , I wanted to experiment with the way we experience recorded material, and how we think we should listen [...]
Last week, I saw composer and sound artists John Oswald give a lecture at the Modern Museum of Art of Barcelona as part of the Variations. A Showcase of Sound Appropriationism program. John Oswald is the father of the term and practice Plunderphonics, which is based on the transformation of a recording into another singular piece [...]
Some of my more courageous friends have been long reflecting on the qualities of the audiovisual language and the new practices of filmmaking in a context where the new technologies have affect the way we work, perceive and interact with images. These ideas have taken form in Lacasinegra, an artistic collective that focuses on the [...]
New on sociotree is a must listen mix, ”Modern Voices”, by Pilar Rico which traces the recipes of sound collage from the beginning of the twentieth century to now.It is based on the project “Variations”, a radio project curated by the Jon Leidecker for his lecture at MACBA where he explored the history of collage and appropriation [...]
There is a new short mix by Parent_M available on Sociotree called ”Mangled Dino Tons”. This mix sounds like dino mash mixed with leopard pops and broken record curls. Coming soon will be two compilations, one of American Folk music by Santi Rivas of Barcelona, and a mix by Pilar Rico surveying the history of sound [...]
There are two new mixes that have been posted on Sociotree. One by Pilar Rico called “Extrapolando” and the other by Summer Recreation Camp (Cristian Subira) called “Los Aguacates Tridimensionales”.
“Extrapolando” combines recorded howls and moans that seem to reach out toward a common thought, but all the while inaudible. It is what electricity would sound [...]
Check out People Like Us’ take on Daphne Oram’s compositions on the album“Reworking Daphne Oram.” It’s an audio fist-bump spanning generations of ladies on the forefront of creating strange and wonderful sounds…more
Magic Afternoon/Mirror Faced Monster has been uploaded into the player. It is a mix of instrumental tracks, save a few reverberating bumbles every now and then. From syncopated psychedelics to seamless simultaneity, these are ups and downs compiled into 41 minutes.
Magic Afternoon
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