Click Opera: Chris Watson, who's featured in an Invisible Jukebox in the September issue of The Wire, was one of the three original members of Cabaret Voltaire. He left in 1981 to work on sound for television and radio, specialising in field recordings of birds, mammals and insects.
From the great CLick Opera: Chris Watson, who's featured in an Invisible Jukebox in the September issue of The Wire, was one of the three original members of Cabaret Voltaire. He left in 1981 to work on sound for television and radio, specialising in field recordings of birds, mammals and insects. Even while working on mainstream BBC TV series with David Attenborough he continued to make more experimental tape collages with Andrew Mackenzie of The Hafler Trio. He's released three solo albums of wildlife sounds on the Touch label and currently has a sound installation featuring the sounds of Mexican railways running in Mexico City. More
Björk radio interview:
I found the link on an italian fan page, therefore I don't know the name of the radio staion, but it must be a very resent interview. Get it here
Jacques Berrocal has been very active since the beginning of the 1970s. No one in France could mix jazz, improvisation, rock'n'roll, punk, no wave, spoken words and industrial music like him. He also had a central position in the creation of d'Avantage, a collective record label that issued some of the most particular sessions of the mid-late Seventies. At the same time he was working on never ending sessions for records that were never issued. Jac and his band were the Apostles of the non-urgency, enjoying recording in unusual situations, with no rules, improvising on undefined structures or using non-musical material mixed with ethnic instrumental solos. More
A promoter, DJ and formerly a publicist at Warp Records, Mira Calix was signed to her own Warp contract in 1996 to record abstract ambience that relies on a wide variety of sound sources, organic or otherwise.[...]The fruits of her first Peel Session appeared later that year, and second LP Skimskitta followed in early 2003.More
The German sound and radio artist Felix Kubin and the experimental electronic artist Wojtek Kucharczyk from Poland meet for a noisy national match in several sets, patching very typical, striking elements of their respective culture and confronting these with eachother. Annulment of borderlines. It's all about getting to know eachother without diplomacy - soundwise referring to traditions like gang fights, disputes, and posing: Besides sounds of everyday life, as well as chopped political pitches, street sounds, from bars, clubs, and underground shafts, also randomly picked up material and short fragments of music from one's own cultural heritage are used to outgo the other player by means of wit, inventiveness, speed or simply by acting as a loudmouth. Just like with pinball or computer games, an acoustic signal defines when it's time to take turns; it's also possible to overlay different sound sources. Right in the sense of a collage-like musique-concrète, the noisy, the experimental elements are focused on. More
