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Parallel Lives: Maja Ratkje & Kathy Hinde

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10539469&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Exclusive footage of Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde's collaborative work, Birds And Traces . The composition was created during a week long residency at Aldeburgh Music as part of Faster Than Sound , a series of residencies set up to promote crossover between classical composers and artists working with electronic media. Inspired by the themes of bird migration, the season of Spring and climate change, Birds And Traces involved school children local to the Snape area reinterpreting Norwegian songs about birds and Spring along with making origami birds and mapping out migration routes. Alongside the resulting composition, the artists created two installations which included research materials produced during their residency and a multimedia film sculpture. The performance featured Norwegian accordionist Frode Haltli. Parallel Voices was curated by The Wire . Also performing at Parallel Lives was Marina Rosenfeld, watch exclusive footage of her installation and performance here. ...

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Parallel Lives: Marina Rosenfeld

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10526337&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=1&color=ffffff&fullscreen=1 Footage of Marina Rosenfeld's composition Cannons , created specifically for the space at Aldeburgh Music's Hoffman Building at Snape, Suffolk during a one week residency leading up to the performance on 20 March 2010. Cannons features a custom built sound system comprised of four large resonating 'bass cannons' made out of steel pipes fitted with subwoofers, along with two steel horns, all created in collaboration with the sound engineer Paul Geluso and the Suffolk metalwork firm JT Pegg & Sons in Aldeburgh. The work was made with Paul Geluso and players from the London Contemporary Orchestra: Robert Ames (viola), Lucy Railton (cello) and Sarah Cresswell (percussion) and was curated by The Wire .

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Acid flashbacks

“Will anybody under the age of 40 get that joke?” asks David Toop in the new March issue of The Wire , referring to the title of FennO’Berg’s In Stereo album. I’m a long way over the wrong side of 40, but still I ain’t laughing, mainly because, as David hints in his review of the record, In Stereo represents something of a muted return on the part of the original Powerbook trio. But the appearance of the album, not to mention its rather humdrum punning title, sends me back to a couple of unvoiced, and quite possibly half-arsed, notions that were prompted by the release of one of 2009’s most audacious records of digital sound processing, one which wipes the floor with In Stereo in terms of its conceptual rigour, and which happened to contain a pun in the title that could be got by at least three generations of electronic music aficionados. Apart...

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Netaudio survey: How does the Internet influence your music habits?

The Netaudio festival (an offline festival for online music) are calling out for participants in a short survey about the effect of the internet on how people make and listen to music. It should take about 10-15 minutes of your time and has some prizes up for grabs to those who complete it, including a copy of our very own The Wire Primers, a Last FM membership subscription, a copy of Nicolas Collins's Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking and a copy of Steve Goodman's (aka Kode9) Sonic Warfare: Sound, Effect And The Ecology Of Fear amongst other goodies . Click here to go to the survey