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Keiji Haino New Album Incoming

There's a new album on the way from Keiji Haino called Un Autre Chemin Vers L'Ultime, on Prele Records. The album exchanges Haino's usual mass of pedals and wires for solo voice, recorded in various resonant spaces in June last year. The central recording of the album is an hour-long section captured in a cave in La Haye de Routot, France.

Satoko Fujimoto from Prele says "Of all the spaces visited, amongst them many churches and caves, a forest, a cliff, a tunnel, industrial wastelands, etc, it was in a quarry cave in the village of La Haye de Routot that he was able to release his entire being, offering up one hour of introspective song, so good that I believed at one moment I saw him disappear." More info and audio samples are available at the Prele Records site here.

SoundFjord Crowdfunding SoundWaves Series

SoundFjord is crowdfunding a series of events called SoundWaves, starting with Phono:graphic, an event focused on graphic scores, with a series of performances based on a collection of visual scores.

The crowdfunding project, hosted over at IndieGoGo, will enable SoundFjord to bring French trio Formanex to London. The event is scheduled for 14 August at Galerie8. SoundFjord are looking to raise $3,000, with perks on offer for those donating, including free tickets to SoundFjord events. Read more at the IndieGoGo campaign page here.

Zomby: 4AD Free Single Download

The next single 4AD are releasing from Zomby's upcoming album is "A Devil Lay Here", which is available as a free download (MP3 or WAV) via the 4AD site. It's also being released as a limited 7", which carries B side "Basquiat". "A Devil Lay Here" is the second single to be released from the album, Dedication, which is due for release on 4AD on 11 July. Get it here.

Wolf Notes Issue Two Out Now

Issue Two of Compost And Height’s PDF zine Wolf Notes is now available for download. Wolf Notes describes itself as “an attempt at an open platform,” where “all and any degree of interpretation will fall within myriad rooms of disposition…Wolf Notes in its totality is hope to the impossibility of maximum openness.”

Issue Two includes Tick Mark Studies, a piece by Adam Sonderberg (American Hours With German Efficiency on Entr’acte) where Sonderberg attempts to record every snare drum hit on each track of the Ramones’s self-titled album, as a form of what he calls “active listening”. Also inside is a piece by Unnamed Music Festival curator Simon Reynell: Thoughts On Not Being A Musician, plus articles by sound artist Jeph Jerman, composer Michael Pisaro and artist and composer Jason Kahn. Download it here.

Tristan Perich: First London Show For 1-Bit Symphony

1-Bit Symphony composer-cum-inventor Tristan Perich will be performing his first ever London show alongside UK audio visual act Sculpture this month (organised by the audio arm of Sculpture, Dan Hayhurst). The show follows slots for both acts on the same bill at Mutek's series of A/V events in early June. Watch Perich’s video explanation of 1-Bit Symphony below. More info here. London Servant Jazz Quarters, 26 June, 7pm, free.

Bang The Bore: Call For Media And Artefacts

Bang The Bore are looking for all manner of artefacts: photographs, quotes, articles, video, audio, and more, to fill the Southampton’s Hansard Gallery for their next event. The show will accompany an exhibition of photographs taken inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone by Jane and Louise Wilson.

Bang The Bore are looking for submissions about “nuclear energy specifically, but in the context of its place in the wider energy supply industry, its environmental and societal impact and humanity's ceaseless and increasing demand for more power.”

Seth Cooke from Bang The Bore says: “The Hansard Gallery have only just finalised the agreement to let us stage our performance there, so we've got a third of the usual time to stage an even that's at least three times more ambitious than anything we've attempted in the past.” Fore more info on submissions and getting involved head here. Southampton Hansard Gallery, 3 August.

Mono.Kultur Launches iPad Magazine

Wire photographer Kai von Rabenau has launched an iPad version of his magazine Mono.Kultur, called mono.app. The app is free, and this first edition expands solely on the magazine’s feature with ECM boss Manfred Eicher, from Mono.Kultur #26. The app adds multimedia content to the interview, including behind the scenes footage, audio of the ECM records being discussed, and ECM videos. The magazine has been translated for iPad by Atelier Bernd Kuchenbeiser and developed by Serum Network. To download, and for more info, head here.

UbuWeb Opens New Branch: Electronic Music Resource

UbuWeb has opened up a new branch of its site covering rare and historical material documenting technical aspects of electronic and experimental sound creation. Custodian of the Electronic Music Resource, Michael Johnsen, says: “Regrettably, most previous treatments of electronic music have tended to shy away from the details of the medium itself. In hopes of rendering the subject palatable they have removed much of its flavour.”

Initial additions putting the flavour back into the discussion include Daphne Oram’s An Individual Note: Of Music Sound And Electronics, audio interviews with Ralph Jones and John Driscoll, all seven issues of journal Electronic Music Review, plus collections of patent documents tracing the invention of methods and machines for creating sounds. An update is planned within the next few months, with a section devoted to optical sound methods.

The site is seeking submissions on instrument design, performance methods, and graphic scores, although tutorials and schematics will not be covered. Head here, or email lilypadears@gmail.com.

NTS Radio: Open Call For Jingles

Dalston-based online radio station NTS Radio is looking for jingles and idents of any length, to be aired on the station. As well as having their jingle broadcast, successful applicants will also be given a three hour slot to play whatever they want.

NTS has been broadcasting for two months, and has featured guest shows from Kyle Hall, Bo Ningen, James Pants, The Band Of Holy Joy, and more. For info and to submit a jingle, email hello@ntslive.co.uk.

Oramics: Funded PhD On Offer At Goldsmiths

Goldsmiths will be making someone a Doctor of Oramics. Applications are currently open for an AHRC funded PhD titled Oramics – Electronic Music Precedents, Technology and Influence. The PhD is computing-based, and aims to improve the understanding of Oram’s working methods, the systems she invented, and the impact of her work on future generations.

The Goldsmiths description states: “At the moment, Oram’s relations to existing artistic and musical practice is only understood at the most general level; equally the extent and pathways of her influence on subsequent electronic and digital music practices require extensive study to be able to make a fair evaluation. The project will use the Daphne Oram archive of recordings and papers held at Goldsmiths to build on existing technical and musical studies to locate Oram and the machine within a variety of societal, technological and musical contexts.”

The award covers tuition fees and includes a maintenance grant. The successful applicant will be enrolled at Goldsmiths and also will have staff status at the Science Museum. Closing date for applications is 1 July. For more info and requirements head here.