Avant jazz guru Bill Laswell has created Method of Defiance, a new super group that marries drum and bass electronic beats with the improvisation of jazz musicians. Inamorata is possibly one of his most ambitious projects in a prolific career that has included producing Grammy winning albums and singles for Herbie Hancock – who makes… Read More Bill Laswell Forms Jazz / Drum and Bass Super Group
Rhythmicon’s Feedback Machine is a mini-CDR release of experimental electro-acoustic music. The three tracks on Feedback Machine combine synth, saxophone, theremin and extensive electronic processing. The release captures a live event featuring Carya Amara on electronics and Hypnotique on theremin and sax. “The organisers of the event had asked performers to accomodate feedback from the… Read More Rhythmicon – Feedback Machine
The debut CD from multi-instrumentalist Hypnotique, The Hanging Garden, is a daring and challenging CD, combining influences of classical electronic music, electronica, cabaret, gothic lyrics and English folk music. Hypnotique is known to many UK electronic music fans as the voice of the Switched-On radio interview series. In addition to her skills as a radio… Read More Hypnotique – The Hanging Garden
The latest release from enigmatic UK label em:t, Gel-Sol1104, combines luscious synth work, quirky samples and a generous dose of wit to create an serious ambient release that won’t creep you out. gel-sol is a solo project of Andrew Reichel. Reichel’s music follows in the tradition of synth music pioneers, but freely mixes in dance… Read More Gel-Sol1104
From England (aka the UK), the lovely and mysterious thereminist Hypnotique sends news that the end is near. Her spectacularly dark and disturbed debut album The Hanging Garden, soothing and uplifting music for the impending apocalypse, will be available from March 2005 on limited edition CD with handmade artwork and MP3 download on Hypnotique’s own… Read More The End is Near
Break out the filter banks, crank up the vocoders, hook-up a microphone and a kazoo, patch your brains out and get funky! Cyndustries has announced Bug Off!, the 2005 Aleatoric Music Contest. The theme this year is Singing Robots. Pavarobotti may hit the high C’s, but hasn’t found a place yet in any of the… Read More Bug Off! Aleatoric Music Contest
Valentine Records is offering a free MP3 download from Hypnotique’s upcoming debut album, The Hanging Garden. Hypnotique calls her music soothing and uplifting music for the impending apocalypse. Look for The Hanging Garden to be released in late January 2005 as a limited edition CD with handmade artwork. For the rest of the month of… Read More Free MP3 Download from Hypnotique
Switched On: Early Electronic Oddities, a 90-minute live radio show featuring Hypnotique, the UK’s leading cabaret thereminist/talk-show hostess, is now available online as streaming audio. The show features recordings of early electronic instruments from 1860 to 1975, including the Trautonium, the RCA synthesizer, the Italian futurists, the electro-theremin, and the Radiophonic Workshop. It also includes… Read More Free Download: Switched On Early Electronic Oddities
Hypnotique is a multi-talented artist that incorporates the theremin, one of the earliest electronic music instruments, into much of her work. She has many guises, working professionally as a multi-instrumental musician, actress, performance artists, radio producer and music educator. In this exclusive interview, Hypnotique talks about her work, making it as an alternative musician, the… Read More Hypnotique: Mistress of the Theremin
Brian Eno has been successful in many fields. As a visual artist, his work has been displayed around the world. As a musician and composer, he created some of the most innovative pop songs of the seventies, and helped define a new style of music, ambient. Finally, it would be difficult to escape his work… Read More Brian Eno
