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pan y rosas release Wir brauchen angst. und schade by Helena Ford!

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Helena Ford is a transgender artist from Chicago, IL that specializes in semimodular synthesis and feedback works; her work exists in the same lineage of Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, and Mira Martin-Grey in the sense of navigating avant-garde and experimental electronic music away from the Academy and to the people. Her most recent series, including her album Wir Brauchen Angst. Und Schade, explores transness in the form of no-input feedback mixing; she deftly produces sonic sculptures and art from the same principles of musique concrete and minimalism and uses them to showcase the experience of being a transgender woman in today’s society. Her common album themes include gender dysphoria, anxiety, passing, and other such topics and the length of her solo releases are meant to invoke the immense span of time that it takes to transition. Aside from her musical endeavors, Helena loves long walks, collecting field recordings, and playing with her cat.

Wir Brauchen Angst. Und Schade explores transness in the form of no-input feedback mixing; she deftly produces sonic sculptures and art from the same principles of musique concrete and minimalism and uses them to showcase the experience of being a transgender woman in today’s society.

Get the album here!

Jefferson Park EXP with Maria Sappho + Raymond MacDonald and Lauren Sarah Hayes – November 8, 2pm

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In lieu of free live shows at the neighborhood library, we’re doing free live shows via twitch! The next show is on Sunday November 8 at 2pm (CST/UTC-05), join us!

https://www.twitch.tv/jeffersonparkexp

Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser and sound artist based in Arizona. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. She is a sculptress of sound, manipulating, remixing, and bending voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software live and physically. She is excited by what can happen in the vulnerable relationships between sound, space, and audience. Her shows are highly physical, making the performance of live electronic music more engaging for audiences. The Wire described her most recent album MANIPULATION (pan y rosas discos) as “skittering melodies and clip-clopping rhythms suggesting a mischievous intelligence emerging from this web of wires”.

www.laurensarahhayes.com

@elleesiach

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Maria Sappho is a hybrid. The present is full of plasticity so she doesn’t worry much about being anything in particular. Most often she enjoys any opportunity to explore the magically absurd. She has worked with the BBC Scottish symphony orchestra, Australian Art Orchestra and is a current member of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra. She is a winner of the New Piano Stars Competition, Governors Recital Prize, and the Dewar Awards. She is a current PhD Candidate at Huddersfield University, on the European Research Council project   IRiMaS She runs the Feminist Free Improvisation Archive, works for Mopomoso TV, is one head of the three headed beast the the Mass.

https://www.mariasappho.com

Raymond MacDonald: Equally comfortable working in concert halls, galleries, cinemas and non-conventional spaces, Raymond MacDonald is a cross disciplinary artist working primary in music as a saxophonist and composer. With a particular interest in collaborative creativity, MacDonald’s work is informed by his training as a psychologist. Viewing improvisation as a social and uniquely creative process, his performances explore the boundaries and ambiguities between what is conventionally seen as improvisation and composition. This approach, that combines music and psychology, has been used to develop collaborative projects and ongoing working relationships around the world. With a background in jazz and pop music, coupled with a passion for graphic scores, free improvisation and visual art, he has collaborated widely and has released over 60 CDs, toured and broadcast worldwide, and created music for film, television, theatre, radio and art installations.

https://raymondmacdonald.co.uk

Jefferson Park EXP with Amanda Kraus + P.M. Tummala and Helena Ford – November 1, 2pm

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In lieu of free live shows at the neighborhood library, we’re doing free live shows via twitch! The next show is on Sunday November 1 at 2pm (CST/UTC-05), join us!

https://www.twitch.tv/jeffersonparkexp

Amanda Kraus is a drummer in Chicago. She improvising and plays composed songs. Her drumming is sensitive, responsive, consistent, and informed by decades of listening. She is a human jukebox and a good dancer.

https://www.amandakraus.org/music/

P.M. Tummala’s solo works explore identity and memory to create an aural companion to Indian Modernism and Indo-Futurism. With his debut album, Brindavan Mon Amour, he presents a collage of Indian film music from an alternate history. Drawing inspiration from some of the more atmospheric incidental music and cues from 60s and 70s Tollywood and Bollywood films, he layers synth-heavy Hindustani and Carnatic-influenced melodies and drones over a foundation of hazy textures and loops informed by the ghosts of 90s ambient and shoegaze. The resulting work attempts to form a bridge between contradictions: distant and intimate, nostalgic and looking ahead, lost-in-time and contemporary.

https://pmtummala.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQdP7bjGk8M

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Helena Ford is a transgender artist from Chicago, IL that specializes in semimodular synthesis and feedback works; her work exists in the same lineage of Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, and Mira Martin-Grey in the sense of navigating avant-garde and experimental electronic music away from the Academy and to the people. Her most recent series, including her album Wir Brauchen Angst. Und Schade, explores transness in the form of no-input feedback mixing; she deftly produces sonic sculptures and art from the same principles of musique concrete and minimalism and uses them to showcase the experience of being a transgender woman in today’s society. Her common album themes include gender dysphoria, anxiety, passing, and other such topics and the length of her solo releases are meant to invoke the immense span of time that it takes to transition. Aside from her musical endeavors, Helena loves long walks, collecting field recordings, and playing with her cat.

https://helenaford.bandcamp.com/

pan y rosas release dual remix by ren walters and david tolley

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Ren Walters is completing his phd at Melbourne University and facilitates the improvisation materials and free play classes at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne University. David Tolley was an integral member of Melbourne’s music community until his death in 2014.

Edited versions and blends of performances at a dance club and a home between 1997 and 1999. Hard disk recorder, a microphone, text, magazines, and scissors. An acoustic bass, an acoustic guitar, an electronic guitar. Projected images. Performances of performances. Folding over on itself.

Get the album here.

pan y rosas release anedition by ishmael ali, judith berkson, josh davidoff, and ben zucker!

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Ishmael Ali is a cellist, guitarist, composer, and improviser based out of Chicago and New York. Judith Berkson is a soprano, pianist and composer living in Brooklyn, New York. Josh Davidoff is a Brooklyn-based composer and arts administrator. Ben Zucker is a performer-composer and multi-instrumentalist improviser, currently based in Chicago.

The four musicians came together in October of 2019 to document an edition of a cross coastal electroacoustic collaboration. Emissions. Ozone. Artifice. Tactful, inopportune nothing. Built with cello, synths, voice, clarinet, trumpet, electronics.

Get the album here!

pan y rosas release radiant drift by rachel devorah!

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Rachel Devorah is a sonic artist and feminist technologist based in Boston. Her work seeks to reveal and reframe habits of autoecholocation (locating/situating one’s self with/in sound/space).

Pregnant in the winter of 2019 with the fetus who would become her daughter, Rachel made hydrophone recordings from her cervix periodically between viability and birth. radiant drift accounts for the relative motion of her daughter and Rachel in spacialized audio as they individuated in gestation. The literal hydrophone recordings are set in counterpoint against a poetic rendering in analog electronics.

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pan y rosas release home by orlando!

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Orlando is a musician from Campina Grande, a country town in the state of Paraíba, Brazil. He has been involved with activities related to popular music since 1995 when he began his career as an upright bassist.

Home is a sonic bricolage that Orlando recorded between January and March 2020. He used fragments from his daily life, melodic texts, domestic sounds, and an upright bass to create improvised layers sewn into noisy textures. Orlando suggests you listen to this piece through headphones.

Get the album here!

pan y rosas artists on bandcamp!

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In case you ever want to send them some financial love.

?alos https://alos.bandcamp.com/ and https://ovomusic.bandcamp.com/
23redants https://kaczynskieditions.bandcamp.com/
Edith Alonso – https://tt-edithalonso.bandcamp.com/
Clara de Asis – https://claradeasis.bandcamp.com/
Daniel Barbiero – https://danielbarbiero.bandcamp.com/
Bella – https://bellacomsom.bandcamp.com/
Ilia Belorukov – https://iliabelorukov.bandcamp.com/
Diego Caicedo – https://morb0records.bandcamp.com/
Tatiana Castro Mejia – https://tatianacastromejia.bandcamp.com/
Brice Catherin – https://bricecatherin.bandcamp.com/
Chemiefaserwerk – https://chemiefaserwerk.bandcamp.com/
Cinchel – https://cinchel.bandcamp.com/
CP – https://cavepebbles.bandcamp.com/
Gustavo Obligado – https://gustavoobligado.bandcamp.com/
Francois Couture – https://cefrancoiscouture.bandcamp.com/
Tom Djll – https://djll.bandcamp.com/
Alex Elgier – https://alexelgier.bandcamp.com/
Florconvenas – https://florconvenas.bandcamp.com/
Dave Gabriel – https://davegabriel.bandcamp.com/
Iris Garrelfs – https://irisgarrelfs.bandcamp.com/
Getdizzzy – https://octopusinc.bandcamp.com/
Jelena Glazova – https://jelenaglazova.bandcamp.com/
Lyn Goeringer – https://jelenaglazova.bandcamp.com/
Lauren Sarah Hayes – https://laurensarahhayes.bandcamp.com/
Rosalind Hall – https://rosalindhall.bandcamp.com/
Lucy Cheesman – https://pickleddiscs.bandcamp.com/
Ed Herrmann – https://edherrmann.bandcamp.com/
Reid Karris – https://reidkarris.bandcamp.com/
Keshco – https://keshco.bandcamp.com/
Muyassar Kurdi – https://muyassarkurdi.bandcamp.com/
Last King Of Poland – https://lastkingofpoland.bandcamp.com/
Cecilia Lopez – https://cecilialopez.bandcamp.com/
Ryan T Dunn – https://instinctcontrol.bandcamp.com/
Marta Smilga – https://martasmilga.bandcamp.com/
Mira Martin-Gray – https://tendencyitis.bandcamp.com/
Wilhelm Matthies – https://wilhelmmatthies.bandcamp.com/ and https://darkpebble-bluewave.bandcamp.com/album/october-grounds-1-8
John Collins McCormick – https://johncollinsmccormick.bandcamp.com/
Beth McDonald – https://bethtuba.bandcamp.com/
Luis Ianes – https://luisianes.bandcamp.com/
Pat Moonchy – https://patmoonchy.bandcamp.com/
Ken Moore – https://mooremyers.bandcamp.com/
Nhung Nguyen https://nhungnguyen.bandcamp.com/ and https://soundawakener.bandcamp.com/
Isabel Nogueira – https://isabelnogueira.bandcamp.com/
Lorenzo Gomez Oviedo – https://adaptador.bandcamp.com/
Agnes Pe – https://agnespe.bandcamp.com/
Pablo Piacente – https://pablojavierpiacente.bandcamp.com/
Plastic Crimewave – https://pcwsyndicate.bandcamp.com/
Marina Poleukhina and Alexander Chernyshokov – https://o-i-o.bandcamp.com/
Po Poy – https://popoy.bandcamp.com/releases
Cecilia Quinteros – https://ceciliaquinteros.bandcamp.com/
Sarah Rasines – https://sarahrasines.bandcamp.com/
Ada Rave – https://adarave.bandcamp.com/
Martin Rach – https://martinrach.bandcamp.com/
C. Reider – https://c-reider.bandcamp.com/
Eliana Rosales – https://elianarosales.bandcamp.com/
Kirill Shirokov – https://kirillshirokov.bandcamp.com/
Sabrina Siegel – https://sabrinasiegel.bandcamp.com/
Chris Silver T. – https://nosproject.bandcamp.com/
Asha Tamirisa – https://ashatamirisa.bandcamp.com/
tay_ploops – https://tayploops.bandcamp.com/
David McNamee – http://bluetapes.bandcamp.com/
Piaka Roela – https://piaka-roela.bandcamp.com/
LIbertad Figueroa – https://libertad-figueroa.bandcamp.com/
Winded – https://windedmusic.bandcamp.com/
Anna Xambo – https://carpal-tunnel.bandcamp.com/
Zheimeer – https://zheimeer.bandcamp.com/
Zle Oko – https://zleoko23.bandcamp.com/
Arvo Zylo – https://nopartofit.bandcamp.com/

pan y rosas release ALGIZ by Zorya and Brice Catherin!

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Zorya is a duo of two women, Maria Sappho and Katie Oswell. As artists, activists, researchers, and makers of sounds, the duo looks to incorporate the real aspects of our existence with magic and the surreal. Zorya bring elements of ritual, the Divine Feminine and intuition to creative works that range from sonic, sculptural, and the absurd. Taking inspiration from folklore, astrology, and marginalised histories, the duo works to create new forms of metanarrative that reflect the real global enmeshment of human, nature, ecology and time. Passing comment and reflecting societal fractures, Zorya portends to a world with deeper connection to its nature, its uncanny, its unbelievable, and its feminine glory.

Brice Catherin is a multi-instrumental cellist, improviser, composer and art performer who organizes multidisciplinary shows and improvised concerts. Most of his recent projects explore the idea of democracy in art: the artists’ individual responsibilities and their place in the social group, as well as those of the members of the audience, are challenged and questioned.

Katie Oswell and Maria Sappho came to Huddersfield to premiere their Mushroom Opera at the monthly Noisebringers improvisation series. The day after, on December 17, 2019, they met with Brice Catherin to record some sounds. On ALGIZ they sing, play zither, gong, celeste, piano, flutes, a christmas tree, organ, and tubular bells.

Get the album here!

pan y rosas release de acá a cien años by mentolados durruti

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Mentolados Durruti is an improvising trio from Buenos Aires.

Luis Conde, Luis Ianes and Carlos Vega improvised and recorded their album on March 3 of 2019. An attempt to recover narratives found in the archaeology of other music and other discussions. There is no fusion. There is an epic. Clarinets, saxophone, guitars, bass.

Get the album here.