Sound Propositions

Ukrainian Field Notes - 16 October 2024 - with the North Azovian Greek NGO Надазовські греки Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklist Folk Group Fos - Bugdanku Sartanskie Samotsvety ensemble - Of, mana, vay! Nadiia Kalus - Ditty (udrama) "Ela miia kamiia" Bir Taifa group - Dushenkalar Bir Taifa group - Chikhmakh Khirimda Vasyl Tanacha - track 9 (button accordion) Suren Voskanian, Ya...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 September 2024 - with Whaler Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re tracklist: NINA EBA - DOVES (Whaler Remix) Whaler - Unity Whaler - Tanok Whaler - Underwater Whaler - Викид Potras23 - Kotuky (feat. Sofia Leshyshak) Whaler - The Event Horizon Whaler, Хор "Осоння" - В темную нічку Група Б - Нічні кімнати

Matana Roberts is a multidisciplinary artist, saxophonist, composer, and performer. With the release of In the Garden… , their ongoing, projected 12-chapter series COIN COIN is near its midpoint. Roberts has developed a composition system for the series based on mixed media scores combining graphic notation, visual art, film, and ephemera, channeling the images and (hi)stories left behind. Coming...

France Jobin has been exploring quantum theory for many years now, an interest that has shown up in her compositions, sound installations, and work with VR. But the pandemic finally afforded the Montreal-based minimalist composer time for deeper study with a personal brain trust of physicists she’d assembled over the years. Jobin recently released Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) on the great R...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 July 2024 - with Ostap Manulyak Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re tracklist: * Ostap Manulyak - "Aeolian processes" [Fragment] * Myroslav Trofymuk - "Місто" [The City] [excerpt] * Dallek - "Arpeggio Disorder"
 * "Unspeakable Weight" - A multichannel audiovisual installation by Andriy Linik, Ostap Manuliak, Yurii Vovkoho...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 June 2024 - with Lostlojic and Clasps Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklist Lostlojic - Майструймо гучну культуру ( Let's make a loud culture) Clasps - Re-Rooting (ft. Daryna Panas) Lostlojic - Bayraktar (excerpt) Lostlojic - Night Explode (excerpt) Distortion (UA) - Jaguar (excerpt) Clasps - Shibboleth (excerpt) Clasps - Take Charge And Move In (ex...

C. Lavender is a sound artist, sound healing practitioner, educator, and author of Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives . She has worked with labels including Editions Mego, RVNG, Longform Editions, and most recently iDEAL, who have just released Rupture In The Eternal Realm , a sonic reinterpretation of a Tibetan Buddhist meditation practice. In this episode of the Sound Pr...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 May 2024 - with  Zlata  and  Katro Zauber Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklist Marina Herlop - abans abans Loslojic - Kyivskyi vechir Katro Zauber - DNA Тонка - Болить k.e.d.r.o.v.a - Вечр Andrii Barmalii - я нормально Yansima - Tweede Cans -- SoundCloud Links @Zlata @Katro Zauber

Ukrainian Field Notes - April 17 2024 - with Lesik Omodada and Yurii Bazaka (Musicians Defend Ukraine) Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklisting Stasik - Lullaby for the Enemy Lady Aphina - Yakby ne ty Kurs Valüt - Ni The Unsleeping – “Не сплю” [Ne splyu – I don’t sleep] Пиріг і Батіг (Pyrih and Batih) - Vesna Omodada - Nove Zhyttia --

AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed , her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer , almost exactly 20 years after Westerniz...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 20 March 2024 with Iryna Lobanok and Mariana Bondarenko (Ukrainian Institute) Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re tracklist: Hidden Element x Floex - Yellow Ribbon DZ'OB Ft. Mattia Prete - Zamovliannia Pokaz Trio - Song Of Sirens (Live at Bimhuis Amsterdam) SI Process - Rukh Vadim Neselovskyi - Odesa Railway Station Blooms Corda - Пісня про війну Ihor Tsymbrov...

This episode of Sound Propositions features scholars Kerry O’Brien and Will Robin, editors of the recent anthology On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement. Described as a historical source reader, the book compiles over 100 primary sources retelling the story of minimalist music from the 1950s to the present. Sources include liner notes, interviews, journalism, manifestos, and other material...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 February 2024 - with Polje Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re tracklist: Wiseword. Nidaros - Лев Polje - Maliunok Polje - Pa Polje - Yasne Mi Polje - Wall of Sirens Arthur Mine - Helicopter Theme Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song Вічний Ґандж - Комарик Polje - Janmarko Read more at www.acloserlisten.com

Having first captured our attention with Monolithic Nuance (2018) for Longform Editions, Megan Mitchell’s Cruel Diagonals has continued to impress with each new work. With Fractured Whole, she set herself the task of producing an album using nothing but her voice as raw material. While she deserves recognition as a gifted vocalist, she deserves at least as much praise for her production work, alch...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 January 2024 - with ummsbiaus and Difference Machine Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re tracklist: ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: торований шлях ummsbiaus: Lichylnyk Difference Machine: боротьба за вбивство / боротьба за виживання ummsbiaus and Difference Machine: коло зачароване ummsbiaus: Hypnagogia

Ukrainian Field Notes - 15 November 2023
 Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklist: Andriy Kiritchenko - Eyes of Exiles Roman Khropko - Kyiv 17.04.22 Roman Khropko - The Moment Of Unity (Sympathetic Mix) Myroslav Protsan - Ravens On The Cemetery Myroslav Protsan - Very Old Piano Improvisations Anthony Junkoid - Drum Vision Nightcourier - Temnivody Lena Mirzakh - A Little Interlude K...

Patrick Nickleson is the author of The Names of Minimalism : Authorship, Art, Music, and Historiography in Dispute , an academic study that radically reconsiders the origins and boundaries of musical minimalism. Uninterested in searching for the earliest work of musical minimalism, or even in doing the admittedly necessary work of expanding the canon to include lesser known but equally important f...

Ukrainian Field Notes - 18 October 2023 - with Igor Yalivec, Revshark, Waveskania, Difference Machine, Natalia Tsupryk, YLOI and Andrii Kunin Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Tracklist: Gamardah Fungus - Vega Revshark - Restricted Areas Waveskania - Essential Difference Machine - Повідь Natalia Tsupryk - beyond the cemetery wall YLOI - UAV Hunting Andrii Kunin - threshold

Episode 12 - with Nastia and Vlad Fisun Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Nastia and Vlad Fisun talk about the burgeoning electronic scene in Ukraine, toxic behaviour and Ukrainian Identity. TRACKLIST DZ'OB - Sometimes Everything Is Wrong (S.Tolkachev re-imagining) Louwave and Splinter (UA) - Baby Let's Vibe Polygrim - Klang Koloah - Away https://soundcloud.com/nastia_ua https:...

Andrea Belfi discusses his latest album, Eternally Frozen , a canon-based composition for percussion, electronics, and brass ensemble. Inspired by a visit to LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology, Belfi draws upon the story of Deprong Mori, a mythological bat that could use its powers of echolocation to phase through solid matter, before being captured by an American researcher, “eternally frozen” in...

Episode 11 - with Katia Stieber and Kadiristy from Regular Disco @ stieber_k 
 @ kadiristy Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re TRACKLIST 
 
Misha Tsiganoff (intro) Lobanov K. - Bios Recall
 58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background)
 Yaroslav M - Pog (Victor B. Remix)
 58918012 - Minimal Friction (excerpt - background)
 Clasps - Ex Voto 58918012 Brainwave
 Denys Coin - Flowers of...

Happy (very belated) birthday to us! Back in February of 2022 we celebrated the tenth anniversary of our blog. To celebrate, in this episode, we pull the curtain back a bit to talk with ten of the writers who have contributed to A CLOSER LISTEN since we began over a decade ago. Utilizing my idiosyncratic editing skills, I’ve conjured a virtual roundtable discussing the past, present, and future of...

Episode 10, Ukrainian Field Notes - 21 June 2023 - with Mykyta Moiseiev and Maryana Klochko Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re TRACKLIST Mykyta Moiseiev featuring Maryana Klochko - Intro (from Falling OST) Maryana Klochko - оченька мої чорні Mykyta Moiseiev - Твій дім Mykyta Moiseiev – One Day in Ukraine OST trailer Mykyta Moiseiev - I’ve learned something (Falling OST) Mykyta Moiseiev...

Episode 9 Ukrainian Field Notes - 17 May 2023 - with Alexander Pavlenko ( ⁠Sunchase / Na Nich⁠ ) and  ⁠Vera Logdanidi⁠ Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re ⁠Alexander Pavlenko and Vera Logdanidi talk about the first days of the full-scale invasion, the Ukrainian electronic scene and touring. TRACKLIST Misha Ziganoff (intro) Sunchase – "Step Outside" (from Timeline) Laima Adelaid...

Episode 8 Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 April 2023 - with Alexander Stratonov Produced for Resonance FM by Gianmarco Del Re Alexander Stratonov  talks about working for Ukrainian state television Suspilne and scoring documentaries about war crimes. TRACKLIST Alexander Stratonov - "Before the Storm" (from  Bucha 22  -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RXf6REnoSs ) Alexander Stratonov - &quot...