Podcasts about obsidian sound

The electronic musician Kelly Lee Owens won this year's Welsh Music Prize for her album Inner Song. She tells Samira Ahmed about her inspiration - and her collaborations with John Cale, Björk and Michael Sheen. This evening theatres in the West End dim their lights in honour of the great composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who wrote the words for the songs in West Side Story, and the musicals Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Company, Assassins, and more. From Front Row's archive we hear Sondheim himself talking about matching words to music, and his biographer, David Benedict, looks closely at one song, explaining how it demonstrates his remarkable skill. Throughout his life Rowan Williams, who was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 until 2012, has written poetry. Now his previous collections have been gathered with new pieces in a single volume, his Collected Poems. He talks about his work, which ranges from poems inspired by the landscape of West Wales to a sequence of sonnets inspired by Shakespeare's plays, another commissioned to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan disaster, and translations from German, Russian and Welsh and, his latest poem set in a vaccination centre in Splott. The nominees for this year's Turner Prize are all artists' collectives and Front Row has been hearing from them in the run up to the announcement of the winner. Tonight, we hear from Black Obsidian Sound System, a London based collective who use their sound system to organise events that connect communities. They tell Samira how their collective works and explain why being nominated for the UK's biggest art prize hasn't been a totally positive experience. Presenter: Samira Ahmed Producer: Julian May Production Co-ordinator: Lizzie Harris Photo: Kelly Lee Owens Photo credit: Sarah Stedeford

Black Obsidian Sound System: Lisa Amanda Palmer with Nzinger Sounds is the second of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System' by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. This episode is a conversation between writer and Deputy Director of the Stephen Lawrence Foundation, Lisa Amanda Palmer, and veteran DJ duo Nzinga Sounds, as they talk about their formation, experiences of being Black women in sound system culture, and their role in the wider Black arts movement in the eighties and nineties. For more information about FACT's programme, head to fact.co.uk

Black Obsidian Sound System: In Focus with TYGAPAW is the first of two episodes of podcasts produced by Sable Radio with FACT and Liverpool Biennial to accompany the exhibition ‘The Only Good System is a Sound System' by artist collective Black Obsidian Sound System. The exhibition can be seen at FACT from 19 May until 28 August 2021.This episode is a conversation between DJ, Curator and Producer TYGAPAW and B.O.S.S. member, writer and filmmaker Deborah Findlater. Stay tuned for the second episode of this podcast, coming soon. You can keep up with B.O.S.S.' work here and TYGAPAW's here. For more information about FACT's programme, head to fact.co.ukCommissioned by Liverpool Biennial for the 11th edition, The Stomach and the Port, curated by Manuela Moscoso.

Tyresta is the experimental music project of social worker and musician Nick Turner.  Nick is based in Chicago, Illinois and makes music utilizing various instruments including Buchla Music Easel, eurorack modular, mellotron, and guitar.  He also helps behind the scenes with the ambient, drone, and experimental music labels Past Inside the Present and sub-label Fallen Moon Recordings.    You can find his music on Bandcamp or through your streaming service of choice.   Piece description:  I wrote and recorded "Facing Ourselves" during the Coronavirus shelter-in-place order in April 2020.  Outside of my life in music, I am a mental health therapist so I have directly witnessed what happens when people (myself included) are forced to give up certain routines and distractions and face themselves.  The four parts of "Facing Ourselves" sort of represent the various emotional states that both I and the people I work with have gone through since the Coronavirus outbreak.  Though at times uneasy and tense, there have been moments of deep love and connection, which has been interesting to witness and experience.   Like many people, when working with the Easel, I can get lost in shaping sounds for hours on end.  With each of these pieces, I was working with both the Easel and various effects  (Strymon Timeline, Strymon BigSky, and Valhalla reverb) in order to land on sounds that adequately represented the emotions/feelings I wanted to evoke in the listener.  Effects, both in and outside of the box, help inform my approach to sound design and also assist in determining the direction I go in with certain patches on the Easel (timbres, waveshapes, tempo, envelope shapes, etc.).   Mastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound.

This week we FINALLY chat with Alex from WMD. I have wanted to for a while and we finally made it happen! WMD: https://wmdevices.com/ Nasty Nachos: https://nastynachos.bandcamp.com/ WAVEFORM: https://www.waveformmagazine.com/ SPONSORS Acid Rain Technology: http://acidraintechnology.com/ After Later Audio: http://afterlateraudio.com/ Needham Woodworks: https://needhamwoodworks.com/ Schlappi Engineering: https://schlappiengineering.com/ Obsidian Sound: http://obsidiansound.net/ Recovery Effects: https://recoveryeffects.com/ Patchwerks: https://patchwerks.com/ One Million Tampons: https://www.onemilliontampons.com/

About: Jörgen Kjellgren is a music maker and producer from Stockholm, Sweden. He is a free-range sound designer, musician and songwriter. In 2018 he released five EPs of ambient music, He and his wife, Anna Maria, also released a few tracks as pop duo under the name, Little Boxes. "I made these tracks during a period of heightened creativity that eventually shifted into a few nights of insomnia. Maybe it comes through at the end of the set, that slow, sluggish feeling." Some of the tracks from this episode of Data Cult Audio will be released as an EP after they air here on the podcast. The audio for this episode of Data Cult Audio was mastered by Nathan Moody at Obsidian Sound (obsidiansound.net). Links: https://jorgenkjellgren.bandcamp.com/ https://open.spotify.com/artist/49dj9JMf1fRLv9VqBggYfi?si=XG-f3h46TNG5heCa88soeQ https://soundcloud.com/jorgenkjellgren

Nathan Moody is a jack of all trades and he probably mastered a few of your favorite modular albums. http://obsidiansound.net/ https://nathanmoody.bandcamp.com/

Resynthesize is Northern California producer Brandon Tallent, who has been producing and DJing since the late 90s.  He got his start in the demo scene using the MS-DOS program Impulse Tracker before eventually moving to modern DAWs and finally discovering modular synthesizers. He has released several albums and EPs which are all available on Bandcamp and Spotify, and regularly posts modular related videos on Instagram.  While he has written lots of IDM and glitch-hop influenced music in the past, these days he is mostly focused on minimal techno and tech house. Links: https://instagram.com/resynthesize https://soundcloud.com/resynthesize https://facebook.com/resynthesize1 https://bandcamp.resynthesize.com Mastered by Obsidian Sound: http://obsidiansound.net/

Mylar Melodies is known for his rather fantastic youtube channel exploring modular synth gear and technique, with a particular emphasis on live performance modulars. He has been exploring and producing electronic music for nearly 20 years. This original set was entirely improvised live, in one take, using his live modular performance system explored in recent videos on his Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/mylarmelodies - the final session was trimmed then mastered. If you like what you hear, you can support Mylar Melodies by buying this set for download/streaming in lossless quality at: http://mylarmelodies.bandcamp.com Mylar’s own podcast called Why We Bleep, features fascinating long form interviews with electronic musicians and manufacturers and comes highly recommended. Listen at: http://whywebleep.com Mastering by Nathan Moody of Obsidian Sound: http://obsidiansound.net