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		<title>@Playgroup Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 09:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did enjoy the Playgroup Festival, so thought I should write another blog post to tell you about all the great stuff. And this, dear reader, is a rambling blog post, well over my 500 word limit! It was a &#8230; Continue reading &#8594;]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Poetry@Playgroup Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I gave a performance Saturday night at the Playgroup Festival as part of the Forest of Thoughts Bedtime Stories and Poems.  I don&#8217;t know what ever possessed me to accept a slot at 12:30 AM, immediately following a burlesque act, &#8230; Continue...]]></description>
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		<title>Budapest Autumn Festival: A Musical Journey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece ran in the Budapest Times in October 2004.  Images via Zemanta. Budapest (Őszi) Autumn Festival A Musical Journey by Alison Boston October can be bleak.  The leaves and temperatures fall, and the days get shorter.  But if you &#8230; Con...]]></description>
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		<title>The Underwater Chorus Experimental Improvisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Safehouse@CoachHouse August3, 2011- We were rolling dice to determine number of musicians to make up ensembles, and another roll to determine length of piece. Annie Kerr was on violin, and the mood was right so I decided to improvise a &#8230; Continue...]]></description>
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		<title>Safehouse @ Coach House Available for Listening</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slow, quiet start that builds. The ensembles were composed of random musicians chosen by drawing names from a hat. Recorded life at a one-off Safehouse session at the Coach House in Kemptown May 4th, 2011, which offered great acoustics. (Safehouse &#38;#82...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Remix Libya</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Libya Bloody Libya by dimitristuer  Being an aficionado of the protest song, I was recently wondering whether there had been any tracks produced about the current conflict in Libya, particularly from remix culture. 
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 23:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Free music for Japan (&#8216;The Sun Will Rise&#8217;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<tr> <td>Many people around the world were quick to react to the Japanese  earthquake/tsunami and reach out to those affected, through donations of  cash, goods or time. The immediacy of the needs combined with the platform of the internet also led to some innovative approaches to fundraising.</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td>&#60;p&#62;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-will-rise-2"&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Sun Will Rise = by The Sun Will Rise: An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#60;/p&#62;</td> <td>One such example is the crowd-sourced book '<a href="http://www.quakebook.org/">2:46 - Aftershocks</a>' (previously written about <a href="http://postingsfromanedge.blogspot.com/2011/03/quake-gallery.html">here</a>). Another project, which has received far less publicity than the book, is the new album release '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>'. I've got a track on it too, so have another reason to want to spread the word.<br />
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Started by ambient musician <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/saffronslumber">Kevin Stephens</a> from Portland Oregon a few days after the first quake, the 'double disc' collection was released online on April 17th. With contributions, musical and otherwise, flooding in via tweets, blog posts and Facebook status updates, the entire project went from idea to realisation in a little over a month.<br />
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The compilation has its roots in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel">netlabel</a> scene. Netlabels are <a href="http://www.netlabelindex.com/">online record labels</a> that distribute music entirely over the internet via digital audio formats and typically give away the music for free under 'free to share' licences. With no physical product to contend with, the running costs of such a label are considerably lower than those of a traditional record label (if not non-existent). The element of curation that comes with a label means that there is also a level of quality control over the music. Although many netlabels deal mostly with electronic music, there are other genres of music also released in this way, as the tracks in the player on this page should show.</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td>Despite this music generally being made available for free, '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>' is intended as a charity project with 100% of proceeds raised going directly to the <a href="http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002144.html">Japanese Red Cross</a>. This is why downloads are completely free and donations are requested via a separate page at <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/fundraiser/prevfund/gg.html?regid=5070">globalgiving.org</a>. The album itself is available from profiles at both <a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> and the <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TheSunWillRise">Internet Archive</a>.<br />
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I must admit that the first 'disc', an entirely ambient collection, isn't completely to my tastes. The tracks are glacially slow, somewhat meditative, and almost uniformly rather dark sounding. This is perhaps inevitable for music inspired by the worst natural disaster ever to hit the benefiting country and perhaps likely for a collection that has emerged from the ambient community, but it doesn't seem a natural candidate for taking the project to a wider audience. I'm a fan of ambient music myself in some cases, but I do prefer a slight sense of narrative to what I listen to. However, it will undoubtedly have an audience with the right set of ears.<br />
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The second collection is the more accessible one. It opens with <b>Kristopher Fisher</b>'s 'Tsunami', an building orchestral swell with a sense of large pending waves. The punky 'Another way of living' leads on to the gorgeously spacious 'Essex' by <b>Mark Preston</b>. </td> <td><br />
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&#60;p&#62;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-will-rise"&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Sun Will Rise - by The Sun Will Rise: An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#60;/p&#62;</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><div>'Going My Way' is a fairly jaunty acoustic romp, followed by 'My Heart  Bleeps Noisy Beeps', a high school electro jaunt that in parts conjures up  early 80's New Wave. <b>Liam Stewart</b>'s 'German Army Coat' is up next, a  thoughtful guitar-based piece reminiscent of an upbeat Joy Division  after a bit of a lie down.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The next piece is the one that I was involved with. Now I am back in Brighton, I have started working again with an old band mate from <a href="http://www.soundsphenomenal.org/Zamora_home.htm">The Zamora</a>. The first fruits of this project (dubbed <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">NASA Technical Station</a>) is titled 'Stenographic Records' and was essentially put together in a night - specifically for this album. I sequenced the beats and other samples, Steve played guitar over the top plus added a bass line, then I topped it off with a vocal (a reading of a speech given by someone from Japan's 1960's space programme). We were a little surprised yet rather thrilled to have been selected to appear on the album - an encouraging sign for such a new project. If you like the track, you can comment on it over at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">SoundCloud</a>.</div><br />
<div><b>Aeroshell</b>'s 'Lighthugger' comes after us, delivering up more ambience, but beaty enough to be a distant relative to the likes of Air. The pace drops a little with <b>Dao Audio</b>, then gets dramatically Wagnerian with the orchestral swells of 'Heaven's Gate'. The slightly paranoid beeps and swirls of <b>IR</b>'s 'electric dragonfly' (great title) precede the thoughtful and spacious textural synthscapes of 'Light Splash Dream', which is the followed by 'Million Eyes Of Dew', the most 'Asian' sounding track on the collection. The album concludes with <b>Cascadian</b>'s 'The Corinthian Sea', a track of pending darkness.<br />
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The player at the top of this post contains all the tracks on the second collection. This post also contains a badge to donate directly to the fund (go on - they're aiming to raise $1,000) and a mini player for the first collection. Click through onto the album profile pages, download 'em all or track by track and please drop some cash in the collection box on your way out. Spread the word too, while you're at it.<br />
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		<title>Free music for Japan (&#8216;The Sun Will Rise&#8217;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[ambient]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bandcamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benefit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA Technical Station]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Sun Will Rise]]></category>

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<tr> <td>Many people around the world were quick to react to the Japanese  earthquake/tsunami and reach out to those affected, through donations of  cash, goods or time. The immediacy of the needs combined with the platform of the internet also led to some innovative approaches to fundraising.</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td>&#60;p&#62;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-will-rise-2"&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Sun Will Rise = by The Sun Will Rise: An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#60;/p&#62;</td> <td>One such example is the crowd-sourced book '<a href="http://www.quakebook.org/">2:46 - Aftershocks</a>' (previously written about <a href="http://postingsfromanedge.blogspot.com/2011/03/quake-gallery.html">here</a>). Another project, which has received far less publicity than the book, is the new album release '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>'. I've got a track on it too, so have another reason to want to spread the word.<br />
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Started by ambient musician <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/saffronslumber">Kevin Stephens</a> from Portland Oregon a few days after the first quake, the 'double disc' collection was released online on April 17th. With contributions, musical and otherwise, flooding in via tweets, blog posts and Facebook status updates, the entire project went from idea to realisation in a little over a month.<br />
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The compilation has its roots in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netlabel">netlabel</a> scene. Netlabels are <a href="http://www.netlabelindex.com/">online record labels</a> that distribute music entirely over the internet via digital audio formats and typically give away the music for free under 'free to share' licences. With no physical product to contend with, the running costs of such a label are considerably lower than those of a traditional record label (if not non-existent). The element of curation that comes with a label means that there is also a level of quality control over the music. Although many netlabels deal mostly with electronic music, there are other genres of music also released in this way, as the tracks in the player on this page should show.</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td>Despite this music generally being made available for free, '<a href="http://internetlabelcompilation.blogspot.com/">The Sun Will Rise</a>' is intended as a charity project with 100% of proceeds raised going directly to the <a href="http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002144.html">Japanese Red Cross</a>. This is why downloads are completely free and donations are requested via a separate page at <a href="http://www.globalgiving.org/dy/fundraiser/prevfund/gg.html?regid=5070">globalgiving.org</a>. The album itself is available from profiles at both <a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> and the <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TheSunWillRise">Internet Archive</a>.<br />
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I must admit that the first 'disc', an entirely ambient collection, isn't completely to my tastes. The tracks are glacially slow, somewhat meditative, and almost uniformly rather dark sounding. This is perhaps inevitable for music inspired by the worst natural disaster ever to hit the benefiting country and perhaps likely for a collection that has emerged from the ambient community, but it doesn't seem a natural candidate for taking the project to a wider audience. I'm a fan of ambient music myself in some cases, but I do prefer a slight sense of narrative to what I listen to. However, it will undoubtedly have an audience with the right set of ears.<br />
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The second collection is the more accessible one. It opens with <b>Kristopher Fisher</b>'s 'Tsunami', an building orchestral swell with a sense of large pending waves. The punky 'Another way of living' leads on to the gorgeously spacious 'Essex' by <b>Mark Preston</b>. </td> <td><br />
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&#60;p&#62;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://sunwillrise.bandcamp.com/album/the-sun-will-rise"&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The Sun Will Rise - by The Sun Will Rise: An Inter-Netlabel Compilation for Japanese Relief&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#38;amp;amp;amp;lt;/p&#38;amp;amp;amp;gt;&#60;/p&#62;</td> </tr>
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<tr> <td><div>'Going My Way' is a fairly jaunty acoustic romp, followed by 'My Heart  Bleeps Noisy Beeps', a high school electro jaunt that in parts conjures up  early 80's New Wave. <b>Liam Stewart</b>'s 'German Army Coat' is up next, a  thoughtful guitar-based piece reminiscent of an upbeat Joy Division  after a bit of a lie down.</div><div><br />
</div><div>The next piece is the one that I was involved with. Now I am back in Brighton, I have started working again with an old band mate from <a href="http://www.soundsphenomenal.org/Zamora_home.htm">The Zamora</a>. The first fruits of this project (dubbed <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">NASA Technical Station</a>) is titled 'Stenographic Records' and was essentially put together in a night - specifically for this album. I sequenced the beats and other samples, Steve played guitar over the top plus added a bass line, then I topped it off with a vocal (a reading of a speech given by someone from Japan's 1960's space programme). We were a little surprised yet rather thrilled to have been selected to appear on the album - an encouraging sign for such a new project. If you like the track, you can comment on it over at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/nasatechnicalstation">SoundCloud</a>.</div><br />
<div><b>Aeroshell</b>'s 'Lighthugger' comes after us, delivering up more ambience, but beaty enough to be a distant relative to the likes of Air. The pace drops a little with <b>Dao Audio</b>, then gets dramatically Wagnerian with the orchestral swells of 'Heaven's Gate'. The slightly paranoid beeps and swirls of <b>IR</b>'s 'electric dragonfly' (great title) precede the thoughtful and spacious textural synthscapes of 'Light Splash Dream', which is the followed by 'Million Eyes Of Dew', the most 'Asian' sounding track on the collection. The album concludes with <b>Cascadian</b>'s 'The Corinthian Sea', a track of pending darkness.<br />
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The player at the top of this post contains all the tracks on the second collection. This post also contains a badge to donate directly to the fund (go on - they're aiming to raise $1,000) and a mini player for the first collection. Click through onto the album profile pages, download 'em all or track by track and please drop some cash in the collection box on your way out. Spread the word too, while you're at it.<br />
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Thanks. </div></td> </tr>
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