Day One by Rupert Lally Free Music Friday: Synthesist Ruper Lally has released an album of compositions, Day One, created almost entirely with a small Eurorack modular system, as a ‘Name your price’ release.
Free Music Friday: Future World, by Norah Lorway, is an album of ambient soundscapes creating using music programming and digital synthesis tools.
Free Music Friday: Project Records has made synthesist Steve Roach’s Sigh of Ages available this weekend as a free download. They describe Sigh of Ages as a ‘deeply self-reflective album exploring the terrain between melodic electronic/ambient and modern minimalism’. The six pieces collected on the album reflect upon the passage of time. You can preview Sigh of… Read More Free Music Friday: Steve Roach’s ‘Sigh Of Ages’
https://soundcloud.com/user18081971/iwanttobewithyouafx-editionala-sideedwrdget-dwn-crosby88-street-side-boyzprodmaster-cj Free Music Friday: Richard D. James (Aphex Twin) shared this take on a 1988 Chicago house track, the Street-Side-Boyz’s I Wanna Be With You.
This video, via composer & sound designer Richard Devine, captures a new modular synth performance, Ascension. He’s also released it as a free download, via Dropbox (.zip of an .mp3 file).
This video, via FACT TV, takes a look into the studio of Dutch producer Legowelt (Danny Wolfers). In the video, Wolfers makes a track from scratch, using a combination of his own patches and sample packs, a tape player and more.
https://soundcloud.com/scanner/phenol-time Free Music Friday: Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) shared this track, Phenol Time, as a free download, via SoundCloud. In the track, Rimbaud explores the abstracted emotional quality of processed vocals, along with the sound of the recently introduced Kilpatrick Audio Phenol synthesizer. Here’s what he has to say about the track:
Free Music Friday: The Sonic Encounters podcast features ‘soundscapes synthesized from sounds around us.’ With the Sonic Encounters podcast, synthesist Mark Mosher explores his experimental side Each episode features a soundscape that falls somewhere between ambient music and experimental electro-acoustic music. In the most recent episode, Mosher credits the ground-breaking work of Louis and Bebe Barron… Read More Free Music Friday: The Sonic Encounters Podcast
Moog Music this week released a free EP of music by synthesist Robert Rich. The EP, Hiding In Daylight, was created to commemorate the retirement of the Minimoog Voyager Rack Mount Edition (Voyager RME) analog synthesizer. Hiding in Daylight is a 3-song EP, embedded below, of evolving soundscapes. Moog describes the EP as “a meditative… Read More Free Music Friday: New Music From Robert Rich
Avant-garde and outsider arts site UbuWeb has shared a 40+ year audio retrospective of women in electronic music. Women In Electronic Music 1938-1982, originally broadcast on April 1, 2010, features the work of Clara Rockmore, Bebe & Louis Barron, Daphne Oram, Delia Derbyshire, Pauline Oliveros, Laurie Spiegel, Eliane Radigue (above), Suzanne Ciani and many others.
