TWiS Listening Post (0000)

A remix, a demo, and a clip

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INTRO

This email is written just for paid subscribers. It’s an experiment, and supplements the usual Tuesday and Friday issues.

Just yesterday I asked what people would potentially pay for, or more to the point what people who do pay might appreciate, and so far in the poll recommended ambient music came up on top, seconded by an additional email issue. This note accomplishes both those ideas. We’ll see how it goes.

Welcome (back) to my newsletter about the role sound plays in culture, technology, politics, science, ecology, storytelling, warfare, art, society, and anywhere else it might crack.

Today, we’ve got: (1) a remix, (2) a demo, and (3) a clip.

Thanks for your ongoing support. A reply to this newsletter is a good way to get in touch. My name is Marc Weidenbaum and I live in San Francisco and at Disquiet.com.

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1. A REMIX

A CHANGELING: Karen Vogt has a new collection of remixes due out later this month, on May 22. It updates her April album, Losing the Sea, by submitting all but one of the original tracks to other hands, to do with as they wish. “Night Soughing” in its initial form featured a significant absence. Above a strummed guitar, a vocal (which I called “diaphanous” at the time) gently soared, but in between them was a cavernous void. In the remix, contributed by Jolanda Moletta (of Berlin, Germany), that space is eradicated — or more to the point, it is filled to the rim with echoes of the original singing. Absolutely gorgeous. (Vogt is from Australia and lives in France.

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2. A DEMO