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Korean cellist, composer, and improviser, Okkyung Lee talks with Sonosphere about her time at this year's Big Ears festival in Knoxville, TN, working with Evan Parker, learning to love the cello, and what's in store for her this year. sonospherepodcast.com @sonospod

This episode Sonosphere dives into Remix Memphis with Alex Greene and Luis Seixas, two Memphis musicians that make the duo The E.G.G.G. Remix Memphis grew out of a partnership with the Urban Arts Commission and the city of Memphis' 3.0 comprehensive planning initiative that worked to solicit participation from community leaders, residents and planners to inform future land use and neighborhood plans for the city. Art was an important piece. As a musician Alex was interested in the sounds of the city. more at sonospherepodcast.com @sonospod

In this month's episode we highlight Sonosphere's Sound Observations series. Sound Observations is a quarterly performance and lecture series featuring experimental artists from around the nation. We were honored to host turntablist and DJ Maria Chavez, and vocalist and musician  Christina Carter of The Charalambides on May 11, 2018. Maria and Christina's site specific works took place in the atrium of the Crosstown Concourse building, an old Sears Roebuck building retrofitted for art galleries, residential and commercial spaces. The result is echoing vocals and scratchy, vinyl sounds that swirl up a red staircase to the entrance of the stage. Thanks for listening. www.sonospherepodcast.com @sonospod

Moogfest continued... brings you a brief interview with Kai Riedl, Operations Director at Moogfest. He says this festival seeks to bring new forms of creativity, form communities around art and technology, and create spaces for artists of all inclinations, genres, subcultures and movements. Although it seems timely to showcase female and non-binary artists this year, according to Kai, Moogfest has had a history of being an inclusive festival. Tracks in the episode: Smerz - Worth It Caterina Barbieri - Information Needed to Create Mouse on Mars - Dimensional People I Jon Hopkins - Singularity Michael Stipe - Everything's Coming Undone

Sonosphere ventured out to MoogFest this year and we caught up with Memphis-based Delta Sound Labs. Their audiovisual installation called Vorticity was a collaboration between Delta Sound Labs + Nokia Bell Labs at American Underground in Durham, NC. This interactive, data-art set brought science and art together. Of the free programming, this fun, collaborative piece showcased what Delta Sound Labs can create with innovative, high-speed Schlieren imaging equipment and two sonified datasets. Colorful bubbles sliding around the screen were generated and distorted with every new person walking through the scene. Check out www.sonospherepodcast.com for more info and episodes. Thanks for listening!

This month the Sonosphere podcast highlights our conversation with Tess Roby from our Moog Fest visit back in May this year. She recently released her debut album Beacon on Italians Do It Better. Hailing from Montreal, Tess Roby brings dreamy synths and strong vocals on melodic tracks like "Given Signs" and "Catalyst." She talks to us about her inspiration for Beacon, how her photography inspires songwriting and how growing up in a musical family lead her to collaborating with her brother on her debut. Enjoy!

Sonosphere spoke with Rachel Grimes about her score for the film The Doctor from India. Rachel talks about the composition and the ways this film has inspired her to pay closer attention to the way she lives her own life. The interview took place via telephone on April 4th, 2018 and Rachel talks about the importance of this date. Enjoy!

This month the Press Play mixtape features Tara Rodgers, aka Analog Tara. Tara is a multi-instrumentalist composer and historian of electronic music and sound who produces techno tracks using analog sound sources. This is a mix of Analog Tara tracks from the album At the Switch Hotel from 2003, written, performed, and produced by Analog Tara on synths, drum machines & more. She’ll be presenting a free, open to the public artist talk at noon on the Crosstown Concourse Theater Stair in Memphis, TN on March 31. Later that night at 8 pm (doors at 7:30 pm), she’ll perform original compositions in Crosstown Arts’ East Atrium, including tracks from her new Fundamentals EP, out this spring on the DC label 1432R. For more information visit www.sonospherepodcast.com

Aukai talks about his history and his new album Branches of the Sun

Welcome to Press Play, the monthly playlist curated by labels and artists from around the world. Today Sonosphere highlights the French label, A N Y W A V E. This mix was a collaboration created by both Anywave co-founder Aurel Delamour and Anywave artist, Bad News from Cosmos with exclusive, unreleased tracks from Fléau and Patrick Wiklacz. We had the pleasure to correspond with Aurel about the inception of the label and what's in store for the future. Check out the interview and track list at www.sonospherepodcast.com. Subscribe to us at SoundCloud, itunes, GooglePlay and wherever you get your podcasts. @sonospod

New York City-based composer collective ICEBERG New Music was in residence at Crosstown Arts for two weeks of concerts, workshops, and lectures back in June of 2017. We spoke with composers from the second of the two concerts in the Crosstown Arts series, and attended their workshops and lectures that ranged from a “Sound Scavenger Hunt” to a lecture on “Popular and Classical Music in 1960s America.” Memphis-based contemporary chamber group Blueshift Ensemble collaborated with ICEBERG and performed the collective’s original compositions for the concert series. I hope you enjoy our talk about Iceberg's mission, the future of new music, collaboration, blending genre's and more!  Visit sonospherepodcast.com for track listing.

Mix curated by Ihcilon

Birth of Modern Music Part 6: John Cage by Sonosphere Podcast

Parsons Rocket Project is obsessed with all things celestial and spacey. Perhaps that's why they named their band after rocket scientist, Jack Parsons... Sonosphere corresponded with the members of PRP to talk about space, time, and the music in between. They also shared a dream-pop playlist flush with rock reverb, fuzz and disco thumps. Check it all out in the interview on our website: sonospherepodcast.com Track listing: Trailer Trash Tracys - Strangling Good Guys (0:00) Ulrich Schnauss, Mark Peters - Slow Southern Skies (3:48) Parsons Rocket Project - Exit Launch (8:05) Amber Arcades - Turning Light (11:01) Blouse - Happy Days (18:02) No Joy - Second Spine (22:13) PLS PLS - Jet Black (26:03) Applesauce Tears - Fuzzy Mammoth (29:30) Bee Gees - Jive Talkin’ (33:21) No Joy - Hellhole (37:06) Ummagma - Rotation (40:25)

This month Sonosphere talks with Martyn Heyne, composer, producer and engineer. Martyn has a new album out on November 17th called Electric Intervals on !K7 Records’ new imprint 7K! We discuss the making of this album, which is his first full-length solo work. Martyn has worked as a producer and engineer with the likes of Nils Frahm, The National, Efterklang, Peter Broderick, and others. We also chat about the creating the video of the single “Carry” with FELD, the Berlin based design studio behind the album’s imagery, and the nuisances involved in listening and recording music. Tracks in this episode: The National - Don't Swallow the Cap Martyn Heyne - Curium Martyn Heyne - Carry Funkstörung - Test sonospherepodcast.com @sonospod

Interview with Ryan and Gibby of Dais Records followed by a playlist. Tracklist: 2:45 Ragnar Grippe - Sand Part 1 30:02 Tor Lundvall - Hiding 32:56 Coil - 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline: (Telepathine) 55:49  GENESIS BREYER P-ORRIDGE & Thee Early Worm - Rather Hard to Libel 57:22 Choir Boy - Sunday Light 1:01:29 YOU - Feral 1:05:26 Psychic TV - Papal Breakdance 1:11:37 Annabelle's Garden - If 1:16:37 Youth Code - What Is The Answer 1:19:37 Drab Majesty - 39 By Design 1:24:30 Death of Lovers - The Absolute 1:29:35 Deviation Social - Machines Convulse 1:32:58 Sissy Spacek - Always Eating 1:33:16 Aaron Dilloway - Ghost 1:38:05 Iceage - Remember 1:40:17 Coum Transmissions - 73 Vibrant 1:43:07 Them Are Us Too - Marilyn 1:46:41 Twin Stumps - Siberia 1:50:58 Tor Lundvall - July Evening 1:52:30 Cold Showers - New Dawn 1:57:00 Martial Canterel - And I Thought 2:00:49 Drew McDowall - This Is What It's Like

This month Sonosphere teams up with the Rock 'n' Soul Museum and the Memphis Musicology podcast to bring you 60 years of Royal Studios. We visit with co-owner and music producer Boo Mitchell on a tour of Royal Studios in South Memphis. Come celebrate with Boo and the Mitchell family at the Levitt Shell on October 14th featuring local, regional and national artists and November 18th for the grand finale event at the Orpheum. For more information visit royalstudios.com Special thanks to Ezra Wheeler from the Rock 'n' Soul Museum and host of the Memphis Musicology podcast for co-producing this episode with Sonosphere. Visit memphisrocknsoul.org For photos of the Royal Studios tour and more visit sonospherepodcast.com

Welcome to Press Play, a monthly interview and mixtape from record labels, musicians, and bands from around the globe and in our own backyard! This month's Press Play mixtape comes from a Toronto-based label called Adhesive Sounds (A/S). Sonosphere connected with A/S creator, Kel. When did you create Adhesive Sounds? The winter of 2014 was a time when I was basically housebound with an illness. I was forced to find some kind of creative outlet to keep me active and ease any symptoms of cabin fever. During my imposed confinement, I started listening to more ambient and freeform music. Film scores were big on my listening menu as well as modern composers. I studied graphic design, and have an enduring interest in the relationship between sound and imagery and its packaging. Music has always been a huge part of my life and starting a label had been a pipe-dream. The label developed from this period of isolation. A blessing in disguise. For more on our interview with Kel and a complete track listing visit son

A recap of Continuum Music Festival that happened in Memphis, TN August 3-5, 2017. Enjoy!

On June 24th and 25th of 2017 an interesting experimental electronic music fest descended upon the MidSouth with artists primarily from Memphis, Mississippi, and the southeast. "I wanted to take electronic music back to its roots," said creator Robert Traxler. His inception for the fest came from the experimental spirit of the original electronic music artists like Delia Derbyshire, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Suzanne Ciani, Pierre Schaeffer, and many, many more from the 1940s, 50s and 60s. But musique concrete is not all we found at this festival. Harsh noise, techno, ambient analog improv sets, and a live score of Forbidden Planet were a few of the performances found at Memphis Concrete.  Take a tour through the fest with Robert and some of the talented artists that participated in the Memphis Concrete Festival in the latest episode of Sonosphere. Thanks to: Robert Traxler Dominic Van Horn (Aster, manualcontrol) Luis Seixas Ben Bauermeister Kim Rueger (Belly Full of Stars) C