When: Sat., July 31 Laurie Anderson narrates Sisters With Transistors, a 2020 documentary that profiles some of the 20th century s female pioneers of electronic music, including Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, theremin virtuoso Clara Rockmore, and Wendy Carlos. The film includes new and vintage interviews, archival film clips, and terrific music. It screens at 5 p.m. today and at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque. Tickets cost $10, $7 for Cinematheque members, CIA and CSU I.D. holders, and those age 25 and under. 41.51016;-81.60960
Patrick Clarke
, May 27th, 2021 23:56
From exuberant pop to all-out brutality, via everything in-between, here are tQ s favourite albums and tracks of May 2021
I received my first dose of Pfizer vaccine yesterday, having heard from a friend of a friend of a relative of my partner that an old function hall in Woodford had some spares for walk-ins. When I got home I checked my emails and saw that I was invited to a gig. Typically, after a year and a half of waiting for such an opportunity, I m busy that day, but nevertheless if I were to stretch for a sign, it s fitting that it was the first day in weeks that the rain clouds that have been clinging over London for the last month finally went away, leaving a balmy blue sky in their place. Not to labour the point too much, but it feels like things might be getting better.
Dedicated to Ankersmit s friend and collaborator Maryanne Amacher,
Perceptual Geography is a wild trip into inner space, finds Daryl Worthington
“When the ‘events’ of May ’68 took place, suddenly everything went quiet. The masses had their fill of the ‘underground,’ and freedom had been expressed on the streets,” writes François Bayle in an essay in
Spectres: Composing Listening. Tracing the history of experimental music in France, he recalls the French protests of 1968 “sweeping away any desire to come back into an auditorium to listen to a concert of electroacoustic music.”
It was a temporary blip. Thomas Ankersmit’s
Perceptual Geography is acutely visceral, brilliantly dynamic electroacoustic music – it even had its live premiere on the Acousmonium, the diffusion system designed by Bayle. When more forces are competing for our attention and our time increasingly enclosed, the piece’s rendering to CD and mp3 also provides a conduit to a temporary, p