Hello,

Sorry for the two months silence, I´ve been very busy with my last tour and other delayed projects. Many info at once, have fun !

C-drík


News.


Two new CD´s will be published on Syrphe in August or early September, they should have been out earlier, time flies... :

• The first one is a cd of a unique collective from Myanmar (Burma) : Burmélange, the band composes some music that oscillates between post-industrial, post-punk and improvisation ; we are working on the cover now with a great artist from Berlin, they are going to be printed by hand (linocut).
  
  The second one is a solo album by C-drík that was composed during an art residency at the Hospital of Malévoz in Monthey, Switzerland around February and March 2015. The concept was to let some volunteers listen to a variety of field records I made in the past few years around the globe and ask and record them telling me a story or describe their emotions or memories popping up, some of those stories or portions of them have been selected and recomposed as electro-acoustic tracks.
  
  More details and links soon !
   
• A new album by Tasjiil Moujahed will be published later too but due to various circumstances it is postponed, we are going to work on a few more songs before publishing it.
   
• Folio Volume 5-6 (2013-2014) published by Kibla is out now, on paper version (you can pick a free copy at Kibla in Maribor, Slovenia) and digital. From page 56, you can find my essay An introduction to electroacoustic, noise and experimental music in Africa and Asia / Uvod v elektroakustično, noise in eksperimentalno glasbo Azije in Afrike in English and Slovene. And plenty of other interesting articles and pictures. You can also download the essay alone (without illustrations) on Academia.
   
• From a wide range of contemporary Asian music, via German electronic pioneers AtomTM and Robert Lippok, to Norwegian poetry interpreted by In the Country and Frida Ånnevik: Punkt 2015 may be described as this year’s most kaleidoscopic musical event.
  
  Sigbjørn Nedland of NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) has curated an exciting program of electronic music from Hanoi, Vietnam, consisting of artists Vu Nhat Tan, Luong Hue Trinh and Nguyen Xuan Son.

  Another Vietnamese artist, Nguyen Le, has composed music for the Japanese silent movie «A Page of Madness», which he will perform live with a band consisting of Nils Petter Molvær, Jan Bang, Mieko Miyazaki and string quartet.

  At the Klubben venue, young Malaysian pianist Mei Yi Foo, voted «Best Newcomer of the Year» in 2013 by both the BBC Music Magazine and The Arts Desk, will perform works by Unsuk Chin (South Korea), Dai Fujikura (Japan) and George Benjamin (UK). This evening will also include contemporary music for koto, performed by Mieko Miyazaki (Japan).

  Dai Fujikura, who we first met when collaborating with him on David Sylvian’s «Died in the Wool -Manafon Variations», will also give a lecture at the Punkt Seminar and take part in a Live Remix.

• Q-O2, a workspace for experimental music and sound art in Brussels, is looking for sound artist and musicians who want to participate in a research about gender and sex in the artistic field of music and sound art. So far mainly European artists participated, so please, Asian and African artists, we need your voice! Deadline: 1 August Short Query (will take about 30 minutes):  Long Query (will take about 60 minutes).


• Japanese musician and producer Susumu Yokota died on 27 March following a long period of illness, read more on the Wire.
   
• Charanjit Singh who composed some proto-acid music in the early 1980's in India passed away on the 5th of July.


• I am looking for any noise, experimental, industrial or maybe electronica composer/musician from Brunei Darussalam.
   
• Decade is an online interactive platform featuring music and moving image, presenting cinematic and musical narratives of Hong Kong in the past 100 years.
  
  Organised by the West Kowloon Cultural District Authority (WKCDA) and co-curated by Fieldwork Productions and the Hong Kong Film Archive, Decade is an online and live cinematic and music journey through ten decades of Hong Kong. By revitalising archival moving images, edited into ten 5-minute clips paired with new scores by ten composers, Decade triggers new interpretations of a metropolis and juxtaposes the texture of its cityscape with the sentiments of the populace. The online platform comes with an interactive installation for audience to create their own digital art piece. By rearranging the ten film clips and ten music accompaniments, audience can create their own interpretation of Hong Kong through sound and moving images.
   
• As I am back to Berlin, every two weeks, I take part of Radio Staalplaat again and play 30 to 60 minutes of electroacoustic, noise, drone, avant-garde from Asia, Africa and Latin America. You can see the forthcoming dates here.
   
• Wits University in South Africa will be hosting a second Fak’ugesi African Digital Innovation Festival in conjunction with headline sponsor, the City of Johannesburg. Taking place over three weeks during August and September, the 2015 festival will be held at the Tshimologong Innovation Hub in Braamfontein and will include an audiovisual laser performance on the opening night.
   
• Synth-building culture in Indonesia: An Interview with Lintang Radittya by Zacharias Szumer.
   

Concerts and events.


I didn´t have any time to update those pages (except mine), I will do my best to do it before the end of the month.


Videos
 

• Kirdec, video live at Zasavje Noise fest International (ZNFI), Trbovlje, Slovenia.

Audio.
 

• A Minor Music's radioprogram An introduction to Iranian experimental electronic music is available on line, it includes the following composers : Ata Ebtekar and Mazdak Khamda, Tegh, Pouya Pour-Amin (Pannulus), Alireza Mashayekhi, Shaahin Saba (Dipole), Baaroot, Ata Ebtekar, Umchunga, Arash Akbari, Siavash Amini, Idlefon.
   
• Chinese noise project Torturing Nurse just published a new record : Collapse/Ikiru (Lime lodge/USA 12" white vinyl).
   
• Offshore Devices Vol​.​2, a project by Munma, Jad Atoui, Al Rajul Al Hadidi, all from Lebanon is out now.
   
• Metal Postcard Records presents Asian electronic music is coming, free download (pop, dub, etc. from China, Cambodia, Hong Kong)
   
• Extended voice Taiwanese artist and composer Alice Hui-Sheng Chang talks about her work and performs solo at this year's Totally Huge New Music Festival.
   
• Ethiopian electronic artist Mikael Seifu just published a vinyl on 1432R.
   
• π, new album by Uzbek electronica duo Orgatanatos available on Bandcamp, some tracks feature Plandercozeron.
   
• Be whole, new noise release by Vietnamese artist Sound Awakener on Bandcamp.
   
• And to close this newsletter, a small selection of interesting tracks from Réunion Island project Les Statonells : Nouvel extrait statonells (live), Iranian dark ambient artist Xerxes The Dark with a very nice electro-acoustic piece : Timetube Travel, Vietnamese harshnoise artist Nguyen Hong Giang presenting an excellent trap track Buoc Toi (Trap Version) and Syrian artist Shams Asma with a melodic musique concrète track : Les Trompettes De Maracuja - أبواق الماراكوجا

Added to the database.


Indonesia

• Logic Lost Bandcamp Soundcloud Mixcloud Tumblr Facebook Last.fm Youtube [ambient]

Iran

• Abedian, Arsalan (ارسلان عابدیان) ACIMC [electro-acoustic, classical]
• Āzādi, Ārash Site Soundcloud Youtube [electro-acoustic, lives in Armenia]
• Dipole (Shahin Moghadam Saba) Site Soundcloud Facebook [electronica, ambient,techno]
• Radman, Ali (علی رادمان) ACIMC [electro-acoustic, classical]
• Tahriri, Madjid (مجید تحریری) ACIMC [electro-acoustic, classical]
• Set Site Facebook [experimental art events]
• ACIMC (Association of Iranian Contemporary Music Composers - نجمن آهنگسازان ایرانی موسیقی معاصر) Site Facebook [2012, based in France]

Philippines

• Joee & I Soundcloud Tumblr Youtube Twitter Facebook Instagram [electronica, ambient, avant-pop]

Turkey

• R.A.N (Hüma Utku) Site Soundcloud Facebook [ambient, lives in Germany]

Vietnam

• Nguyễn Thuy Chi (Nguyen Thuy Chi) [improv]

 

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