M Faisandier has released a floaty album of ambient drone made with processed electric guitar. Click the image to listen & read more or check their artist page below:
Paperghost's Zach Webber continues his prolific musical journey with a double-album soundtrack release for the game, Escape the Living Nebula – the first from his new company, Plimmerton Games (for which he also does the pixel art!).
It's lush, synth-laden instrumental sci-fi soundtrack music – one album containing the main level themes and one album of more ambient material.
The game, ESCAPE THE LIVING NEBULA is out now for Android and Steam (Apple version out soon).
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Dream Chambers‘ The Longest Night reflects the continued journey from Jess Chambers’ ‘former life as a singer-songwriter’ into more experimental territory, featuring re-imaginings of folk songs deconstructed and condensed into potent forms with sonic beds of synthesiser and granulated vocals.
Influences include the vocal works of film composer Hildur Guðnadóttir and modular synthesists such as Caterina Barbieri and Hiro Kone for their expression of complex, sometimes dissonant or paradoxical, emotional states.
Themes on the album range from a longing for love and connection to aspirations of transcendence beyond the mundanity of daily life – an impulse that drew Jess to synthesisers: ‘I experience the sound of electricity and oscillators as the most evocative of that transcendent experience’.
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We're excited to welcome a new artist into the collective!
Dream Chambers is the name for APRA award-winning singer-songwriter Jess Chambers' ethereal electronic music.
Her sound, created using a mass of modular synthesizers, sequencers, and vocal processors, counterpoints heavy sub-bass with crystalline granular vocal samples and shimmering arpeggios.
Stay tuned for a single release in the coming weeks and a full album out on October 28th!
Works For Loudspeakers is a platform for emerging and established composers working in the field of electro-acoustic music. Many thanks to the composers for their work! Click through to listen:
Thanks so much to all who submitted works this round!
WFLS#22 will feature works by:
Megumi Okuda
Zachary Backdrop
harbourcalm
Gemma Notara
Kirsten Strom
Kraus
Band Sensations
Synthesised Waves
Doda Lingua
Miles Sutton
Nathan Taare
Destroy with Science
Inspired by great horror films and the music created for them, Bright Eyed Sparrow mixes live instruments, synths and samples to create music that aims to immerse the listener in an uneasy space between the sublime and the dreadful. Click through to check it out:
Continuing down the path releasing my music from projects past, this lil EP is from my soundtrack for a dance-theatre piece by Katrina George called RIB.
The show, performed at Toi Whakaari Drama School in 2017, was a creative exploration of the decay of a romantic relationship.
Many thanks to the dancers who also lent their voices to some of the tracks! – Thomas Arbor
Seven years ago I was Artist in Residence at the Audio Foundation in Auckland, during which time I made the majority of my album, Opening. Since then I’ve been very lucky to have been kept afloat working on all manner of music and audio-related projects.
I’ll release some of the fruits of this labour in the coming months – starting with this compilation of tracks made for theatre productions between 2013 & 2018… – Thomas Arbor
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