Albert Sapsford – Awaiting the Great (digital, self-released)
Here is a new release by South African composer Albert Sapsford presents five compositions in the field of melodic ambient, sometimes quite melancholic. The titles and music itself evoke an imaginary film’s sound track. All compositions have been made with open source and free softwares such as Cecilia, amsynth, zynaddsubfx and Audacity.
Kadaver – Awaiting the Great (CDr, digital, self-released)
More or less static noise track by Israeli composer Michael Zolotov.
v.a. – Noise a Noise 20.4-1 & Noise a Noise 20.4-2 (digital, Noise À Noise)
Noise a Noise is a series of compilations published by Iranian label Noise À Noise since January 2019. Each compilation includes a large range of Iranian artists as well as several international ones who are often connected to Iran or the Iranian scene. All the tracks are carefully selected and the final result is very pleasant. Volume 20.4-1 featuress C-drík (Belgium/DRC), Ibukun Sunday (Nigeria), Leonie Roessler (Germany/Netherlands), Silo Portem (Scotland), Parsa Shomali, Arshan Najafi, Ali Sasha and Zhoobin Askarieh, Babak Sepanta, Saeed Ramezanpour (all from Iran) and includes pieces in the field of electroacoustic, drone, ambient, sound art, and two ambient electronica pieces at the end of the volume that gives a hint about the second volume atmosphere.
While still incorporating ambient and experimental music artists Mehdi Behbudi, Rhonchus Ft. Zeee, Babak Sepanta, Sepersa, Mehdi Boroosan, Takcharkh, Nyctalllz, Saturn Cube (all from Iran), Ouranoise & Noises By Mehr (Ecuador/Iran), Stefan Tiefengraber (Austria), Volume 20.4-1 includes more beat-oriented pieces ranging from electronica to ambient techno and industrial music.
Noise A Noise is, to me, a very interesting label to follow, not only does its manager Soheil Soheili introduces us to a very eclectic Iranian scene but also connects the dots with like-minded international artists. Most artists’ biographies are included on the release.
Cem Güney is a prolific improviser, soun artist and electroacoustic musician from Istanbul, Turkey. 3077 consists in three short composition for electronics and guitar.
toshimaru nakamura & yan jun – oh my God and yours (vinyl, digital, Sub Jam)
Toshimaru Nakamura (中村としま) : no-input mixing board Yan Jun (颜峻) : open-input feedback, a noise collaboration by wo great figures of the Japanese and Chinese noise and sound art scene.
Sy Shamsudin aka -5°C is an ambient and dark ambient composer from Malaysia. Music that evokes ice cold temperatures.
Bewitched As Dark – Long Time Dead (digital, self-released)
Active since 2010, Bewitched As Dark is a darkwave project from Turkey whose compositions are influenced by the European scene. Most of her tracks are instrumental, some include lyrics, the voice is often mixed in the background with one exception, the track Aileen featuring Özüm Özgülgen aka Dahakara.
Kuntay Seferogl aka Kunsf is a composer and sound designer from Istanbul. Distant Music I is a sort of cinematic ambient piece that slowly develops over time (22 minutes). Various layers are put in place, in the background, foreground, right, left and keep their positions. Slowed down soundscape that requests deep listening. Also worth to mention, Kuntay recently published Raw Circuit vol. 1 (samplepack) that you can freely use in your compositions : “Handpicked sounds from the recordings I made while experimenting with the delay chip PT 2399. Truly experimental, full of glitch & noise! Use it however you want. Kuntay would be glad to listen to what you have done with them.”
Nakajima / Ikeda / Bell – The Bell, The Pond And The Island (digital, SUPERPANG)
Free improvised music recorded at Hundred Years Gallery, London on 12 October 2018, featuring : Clive Bell (shakuhachi and other woodwind), Ken Ikeda (electronics), Rie Nakajima (objects and motors)
Harsh noise by the master of noise. What did you expect ?!
meira asher – North Jordan Valley 2018 (digital, self-released)
New radio art project by Israeli activist and musician Meira Asher : “There is a project by the Israeli state to make life intolerable for the Palestinians remaining in the Jordan valley, the West Bank, for the purposes of de-facto annexation of this land and its resources.
This radio composition is focused on the evacuation and demolition orders issued to the Palestinian communities by the Israeli Civil Administration. The orders are vocallised throughout the piece.”
Songs For A Tired City – Songs For A Tired City (digital, self-released)
Indian musicians Shiv Ahuja (Eurorack synthesizer and tape loops) and Jayant Manchanda (computer with Max/MSP) composed here a minimalistic ambient album that often includes voice samples, glitches, drones, sometimes gentle beats. A music that sometimes evokes some lost radio transmissions and forgotten post-industrial soundscapes. [cdrk]
The Japanese duo group A comes back with a new album, such as the previous one (70 + a), while they keep their uniqueness, industrial music influences as well is 1970s-1980s minimalist electronic music spread through their compositions : tiny bits of Cabaret Voltaire, SPK or Tolerance references here and there.
This new album is also more instrumental than what they released before. [cdrk]
Two new tracks by Kenyan artist KMRU : cinematica ambient with field recordings. [cdrk]
Kid Fourteen – Love (Side B) (digital, self-released)
Lebanese singer project led by Khodor Ellaik (ex-Beirut Scum Society) together with Karim Shams and Dani Ghassan released four tracks that didn’t make it on his latest album Love. While electronic (rock ?) Love is still strongly influenced by Suicide, three of the tracks take another direction, quieter but still deeply rooted in the 1970s. [cdrk]
Kenyan artist Slikback comes back with a new LP that includes two of his previous digital releases (Lasakaneku and Tomo as you may have understood) and several more tracks.
Slikback presents a minimalist rhythmical music that contains heavy and deep bass drums, treated voice samples and electronics ; Slikback develops his own style but grabs some influences here and there from trap (on Kite) to hardcore techno (on Zuhura), some touch of gqom or heavily distorted beats and East African rhythmic structures are never far away.
If you are used to what the label SVBKVLT releases, this new LP might be of interest, this new album is less distorted and not as punchy as his collaboration with Chinese musician Hyph11E but nevertheless very interesting. [cdrk]
Intense free improv, noise jazzcore, hatever you name it, well known figures of the Berlin and international scene (Palestine, Switzerland, Turkey, the Netherlands) who really go to the extreme, take Sudden Infant‘s noises, spoken words and screams , BEEATSZ v2.0999e‘s heavy noisegrind drums, Dirar Kalash‘s noise experiments and Jasper Stadhouders‘ distorted free improv guitar, put this in a blender and here we go, all recorded at Loophole, Berlin. [cdrk]
Originally released as cassette in 1985, these three tracks were composed with guitar, objects, tape. Sound experimentations, free improvisation and sometimes noise. [cdrk]
Thai guitarist iPlayAlone (Pengboon Don) improvises with guitar and field recordings or do the birds, frogs and insects improvise with him ? [cdrk]
AtheerSoot – Like we’re spinning in a glass Carousel (digital, self-released)
Syrian composer AtheerSoot presents two ambient tracks : Like we’re spinning in a glass Carousel where sad and slightly distorted melodies and drones let you dive into a state of trance until you suddenly wake up next to a river while Let the sea washes it all away brings you back to an eerie and melancholic place. [cdrk]
13 minutes of relaxing ambient music by Iraqi musician Omar Fadel Hadi. [cdrk]
Asher.Zax – The Last Shall be First (cassette, digital, self-released)
Meira Asher and Eran Sachs (who is also a member of Hyperion Ensemble, Lietterschpich and more), well known politically active Israeli musicians present here an album that explores noise, industrial, experimental music with a touch of power electronics, together with Ben Riftin featured on several tracks.
The album includes L’abolition De La Croix (Antonin Artaud) and Resist my people, resist them, a text by Palestinian poet, photographer, and activist Dareen Tatour.
“Asher.Zax directed their machines at the occupation and the anniversaries of: 69 years of Israeli state occupation of Palestine, day 21 of the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike, the death of Bobby Sands who died on day 66 of his hunger strike in 1981.” [cdrk]
Yasuyuki Uesugi – I Have A Lot Of Insistence That No One Else Understands (digital, self-released)
Old school noise composed with (very) old and also new gears (such as some Japanese-built JMT synth and effect). The music is very repetitive and gives the impression to the listeners that they are visiting a factory, the sounds are not abrasive but mesmerising, sometimes close to harsh noise wall. [cdrk]
Filipino composer Gen Thalz presents four tracks whose sound source are electromagnetic noises of laptop and cellphone. The result is a drone, ambient, lowcase, onkyokei album, if I may summarise it so : extreme minimalism. [cdrk]
VV-VA-00 is the first release of VV-VA, a new Lebanese label run by Jawad Nawfal aka Munma, also known for his duo Tasjiil Moujahed. This collaboration includes a lot of his collaborations and collaborators, all based in Beirut : Mazen El Sayed (El Rass), Elyse Tabet (_Litter), Sharif Sehnaoui, Jad Atoui and Charbel Haber (Scrambled Eggs). Despite the sometimes very different scenes some of the musicians come from (from hip hop to free improv), the compilation maintains a very good unity, the tracks are for most ambient and electronica, many are instrumental, some include voices. (cdrk)
Very peaceful and relaxing drone and ambient album with a pinch of field recordings ba Japanese composer Serata Keiji. (cdrk)
Normal Brain- Lady Maid (CD, cassette, vinyl, digital, WRWTFWW Records)
“Originally released in 1981 as a limited vinyl pressing of 300 copies on Agi Yuzuru’s fabled experimental label Vanity Records (R.N.A. Organism, Dada, Sympathy Nervous, Tolerance…), Lady Maid is a testament to the creativity of the early 80s’ Japanese electronic and experimental scene, encapsulating a prolific era when audio gear became affordable for musicians to explore sounds in the comfort of their home, free from studio time pressure and major label rules.” (from the labels’ page)
Miftah Bravenda – It’s Alright EP (digital, self-released)
New EP for Tangerang (a town at the outskirt of Jakarta) based Miftah Bravenda. From post-rock to electronic pop music. (cdrk)
Mise_En_Scene is an Israeli solo project active for more than a decade.
-O-R-G-A-N- is a very minimalistic meditative drone album, except for the fifth track, remixed by sound artist Adam Basanta who provides a glitch/electronica piece. (cdrk)
Excellent industrial dub made in Uganda and the UK. The release includes four heavy bass and distorted dub tracks with political lyrics, recorded in Kampala.
Sankara Future Dub Resurgence is a trio made of Ras Isaacs (percussions), Ras Charles (dj), Kabaka labartin Klacity (vocals) featuring Indonesian guest vocalist Nina and Dhangsha aka Dr Das, Churulian (Asian Dub Foundation) (noisy electronics).
You can watch their video on Vimeo. (cdrk)
Pengboon Don – I play Alone (digital, self-released)
Pengboon Don is one of the few free improvisers in Thailand. This new release contains one improvised piece for guitar, effects and field recordings. (cdrk)
Xu Shaoyang, Fiona Lee, Livia Garcia – live at cafe oto (digital, self-released)
This live recording is a mix of jazz piano and field recordings made in Honk Kong by Fiona Lee during the demonstrations happening in 2019, a field recording collage that you can hear here. (cdrk)
Fiona Lee – Hong Kong 9 June to 12 Sep 2019 (digital, self-released)
“This track is the field recordings on the protest to No Extradition Law in Hong Kong, from 9June 2019 to 12 Sep 2019.
From the first day till now, we Hong Kong people step out to fight for our right and freedom.
This track is including around 7 days recordings during the protest.” (Fiona Lee)
4lienetic is a solo project based in Mumbai, India. This new album contains six ambient tracks, mostly electronic but here and there with post-rock or classical music influences, that remind of a film score. (cdrk)
Filipino electronic music composer Dethomega is back with a new album that mixes plunderphonics, ambient, post-industrial, noise electronics that reminds of some music productions from the late 1990s. (cdrk)
BRRR. is Mahamboro, a musician from Jogjakarta, Indonesia. This one track release is inspired by Javanase culture (no gamelan in here !) and rhythmical industrial music. (cdrk)
Arcade Ghoul – Heart of a Statue (digital, self-released)
Hailing from Istanbul, Turkey, Arcade Ghoul released a ten tracks album that oscillates between post-industrial, distorted electronics, rhythmic industrial and lo-fi ambient ballads. (cdrk)
Reza Solatipour is an Iranian dark ambient artist. This new album contains ten dark and cinematic tracks that include many traditional ingredients of the genre : whispering, drones, reverberated choirs, tribal rhythm deeply buried in the background, dark melodies, and so on. (cdrk)
Great hip hop made in Kampala, Uganda, Ecko Bazz teams up with UK music producer pq to deliver three dark, distorted and heavy tracks between bass music and industrial hip hop. (cdrk)
“Hoshiko Yamane is a classically trained violinist, and a current member of the legendary band Tangerine Dream. She’s also an accomplished composer, and whether releasing and playing under her own name, or as Tukico, her unique sound often features looped strings together with Moog synths and effects.
Mikael Lind has released several albums of experimental ambiances, often drifting between either more classical Warp style electronica, or a modern classically oriented sound. Early this year, Hoshiko and Mikael decided to try to compose two tracks together, mostly out of curiosity. Thrilled by the outcome of the first two songs, they ended up finishing this entire album!” (from the label’s page)
“Based in Germany for the last two decades, Japan-born Miki Yui’s music is relatively small in scale but exceptionally rich in texture. She is known for her peculiar minimalistic and organic approach towards sound, balancing a delicate tiny hiss to a distant hum, quirky electronic clicks and field recordings, and sculpted it into unhurried pieces of composition with suspense and narrative tension. wigawiga/wigawigawiga was recorded live earlier this year in her Düsseldorf studio, and is a manifestation of the memory of lived events. An ever-flowing streams, constantly rise and recede, reveal then erase its own traces, fading after having appeared or being awakened, crafting a poem of abstract landscapes.” (from the label’s page)
Das B is an international project founded in 2015 in Berlin and including Lebanese free improv musician Mazen Kerbaj (trumpet), German improviser Magda Mayas (piano), Australian improvisers Mike Majkowski (double bass) and Tony Buck (percussion) well known for playing with The Necks. Excellent team for an excellent result, a perfectly crafted free improv live recording at the Konfrontationen festival in Austria.
“Left Hand Path presents the second full-length LP, IDOL COLLAPSE, from Forests 森林. Written by Jon Du, Kuo-Hung Tseng, and Zun Long in Taipei, Taiwan. Eight songs in 36 minutes that unfurl like a flower and expand like a mushroom cloud, designed for utter osmosis and total absorption. The helix twists; the loop is closed. The cycle begins anew”
For fan of old school industrial (metal percussions, electronics, guitar, bass, voice) with a tiny SPK and Last Dominion Lost influence, especially on the great track Non-marginal. I release not to be missed !
“Left Hand Path 推出「Forests 森林」第二張黑膠專輯「IDOL COLLAPSE」，收錄Jon Du、國宏及尊龍共同創作，總長 36 分鐘的八首曲目。想像凝視著一朵正在綻放的花，在你回神意識到時已開展成鋪天蓋地的蘑菇雲，這是張有意識地滲透聽者每一絲神經的專輯，既是捻捆的雙螺旋、閉鎖的迴圈，又在每次輪迴產出新聲。”
“PUPA is a cooperative of two: Jun and Zeek, names to place in action bubbles in a hypnagogic, homoerotic episode of Batman (and his Boy Wonder) starring Adam West; boys with their toys electronic, ringing the body electric.
The music on Lies has a fuzzy temporality, conjuring an electronica that could have come from 1998 as it could 2018. But if ’90s electronica – growing alongside the early days of the internet – was a dream of the future rife with utopian possibilities, the music in Lies seems instead to commemorate a laundry list of unrealised dreams. In sound and mood, Pupa are fellow travellers with artists like Boards of Canada, The Caretaker and William Basinski. Lies moves at a ponderous pace, as if surveying the wreckage of time caused by everything that has prevented the promised technological utopia. Tape loops underscore the passing of time as uncluttered elements build with the subtlest of shifts. Tape loops re-released on tape, the Basinsking of the Titanic, repeat a lie enough times and it becomes…”
Chinese composer Xiang presents five minimalistic compositions made of vocal samples, field recordings taken in various locations in France and China, and analogue synthesizer (performed by John Richards and Max Wainwright). The result is a very beautiful cinematic composition that flirts with dark ambient (without the usual clichés), noise drones and industrial music (without current the distorted techno beats trend).
Teenage Granny – Glossolalia (The Harsh Sounds of the Internet) (cassette & digital, Gerpfast Record)
Filipino electronic artist Teenage Granny got a physical release of her Glossolalia album previously published on her Bandcamp page,
“Glossolalia (The Harsh Sounds of the Internet) is a collection of raw sounds of random Internet data (html files, photos, text, etc). These contents have been converted, translated, and databended into audio using a variety of programs. The result is harsh and defining of our online culture and consumption. The piece shows, however, that with noise coexists sound, in which we may form our own meanings, which in turn form the rhythm of our lives. We struggle to hear through this raucous nebula but through critical subtraction and selection, our plights and intentions will be heard, whether we are speaking for ourselves, or for those without a voice. ”
US project Das torpedoes, relocated in Shanghai if I understood well presents a drony, ambient, industrial piece, while Torturing Nurse presents his usual powerful harsh noise.
Chinese project 若潭 ruò tán recorded live at L’homme Sauvage Festival in France in September 2018, one long take (45 minutes) of ritual industrial, noise and dark ambient music.
“Created shortly after the death of his father to cancer, Thai artist Pisitakun has combined traditional mourning instruments with harsh noise and techno beats, wrapping them around intimate recordings of the hospital machinery keeping his father alive during his final days.
The result is SOSLEEP, a meditation on the raw, messy chaos of grief. Opening with the sound of a Buddhist monk’s funeral chants, the record’s BMP is led by real recordings of his father heartbeat, turned into electronic blips by the hospital pulse gauge.”
Japanese trio Eartaker (Goth Trad, Die Suck, Masayuki Imanishi) presents a mixture of dark industrial electronic and doom music. Few parts of the release remind me a bit of Ichiro Tsuji’s project : Dissecting Table blended with a voice closer to the one of Rully Shabara (Senyawa). Their music unique and fantastic mixture doesn’t come as a surprise, knowing that Goth Trad has collaborated with Boris and is part of the dub and drum n bass duo Rebel Familia
“Saphy Vong was born to Cambodian parents in a Thai refugee camp. He has lived in cities across Europe and Asia, from Paris to Phnom Penh to Riga. These experiences have seeped into his music – a vivid, high energy collision of synths, samples and off-kilter polyrhythms”
“I wanted to give a voice to ethnic minorities, indigenous people, environmental activists who’ve been killed or jailed in Cambodia. I used samples from field recordings of Cambodian tribes, made in 2015 with the help of ethnomusicologist Julien Hairon.”
The interesting result is an electronic music album that navigates between ambient, electronica and traditional music samples.
v.a. – Pop Hits Bootleg Chiptune Compilation (1984-2008) (digital, Indochip)
An Indonesian chiptune compilation that include covers of popular hits such as Boys don’t cry (The Cure), Creep (Radiohead), Song 2 (Blur), etc. – Yes, Indonesia, apart of hosting one of the biggest grindcore, punk or noise scene in the whole Asia also hosts a very important chiptune scene, check it out ! Featuring : Astrojo, Chips4breakfast deat. Givana, Giffari Rifki, Gyld, Little Sound Orchestra, Lonely Tunes, Luglio, Patrick Electric, Remedmatika, Shakaboyd.
Sinotronic ? 33EMYBW is a member of Chinese duo Duck Fight Goose, her electronic music incorporates a lot of Chinese music elements (but no world music stereotypes !), she is part of a new generation of Chinese composers who managed to blend modern and very dynamic, rhythmical electronic music and an original Chinese influx, such as Zaliva-D, among many others.
You can also watch a video clip made by Fang Yang on Youtube.
Fahmi Mursyid is a very prolific artist from Indonesia who often collaborates with other musicians, this time pianist and singer Safira Anjani. The three tracks presented in this release bring the listener to an ambient, almost eerie universe, nevertheless delicate and beautiful. You can read more about Fahmi’s work in this article : Eerie, amazing sounds from tape loops, patches – like whales in space by Peter Kirn.
Necromishka – The space between us (CD, digital, self-released)
Necromishka is an Israeli duo that operates in the field of ambient, drone and (noisy) dark folk. Expect blurry atmospheres, distorted instruments and melancholic melodies.
Miteai Narico / Synthmolación – If there was a light, it was gone (digital, No Records)
Japanese artist Miteai Narico composes ambient and drone loops that remind me of Japanese musician Aube, Synthmolación, from Paraguay plays straight in the face noise music.
For the Cairo Book-Launch of the Norient Book «Seismographic Sounds – Visions of a New World» (20.11.2015) the contributors Rami Abadir, Bosaina, Maha El Nabawi, Yara Mekawei, Angie Balata and Thomas Burkhalter collected some of their favorite current tracks from Cairo.
The playlist contain tracks that range from post rock to electronica, alternative hip hop, ambient and so on.
CTM 2016 will host a special edition of the “Seismographic Sounds. Visions of a New World” exhibition, created with Norient (International Network for Local and Global Sounds and Media Culture), an innovative network that explores issues of globalisation and digitisation. For the exhibition’s presentation within CTM 2016, Norient and CTM curated additional works by Pedro Reyes, Tianzhuo Chen, Raed Yassin, Svetlana Maraš, Urs Hofer and hands on sound. More info here.
Onebeat artist application 2016
Applications for the fall 2016 program open on January 4, 2016, and are due by February 5, 2016, 5:00 p.m. EST.
Applicants must be 19 or older at the time of the application and 35 or younger at the end of the program (October 2016) and come from one of the following countries :
Algeria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burma, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Panama, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, United States, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.
Filipino avant-garde composer Jose Maceda leading an audience in San Francisco in his ritual-music composition “Udlot-Udlot”. Yerba Buena Gardens, April, 2003, in English and more mostly in Tagalog.
For a few years now, I see and meet plenty of feminist enthusiasts who try to develop new networks, events, workshops, festivals dedicated to women and feminism in the often male-centric experimental and electronic music scenes, where indeed, most djs represented are men, most famous electro-acoustic composers are males, most power electronics artists are males, most famous electronica artists are males and so on and so forth.
Many of those who call themselves feminists and quite rightly scream and shout that they want more equality, more exposure and recognition and want to offer women more opportunities to access the electronic and experimental music world have for most a western-centric vision of the scene.
Never did I see them promoting female artists in the field of electronic and experimental music who come from Asia and Africa (or even Latin America). The victims of exclusion exactly behave like their oppressors and should definitely admit that their fight is a failure and will remain so unless they include all women of the various scenes (including underground rock, metal, punk, grindcore, etc.), no matter what their ethnicities, nationalities, geographic locations, social classes are.
Of course, I hear some of you fulminating against me, accusing me of disempowering them, telling me : “But we didn’t know ! We never heard about them ! How could we imagine there were women doing this music in those places !?” (sic).
It sounds to me like those men telling :”Seriously ? You know of women building modular synthesizer ? I never imagined that it would be ever possible !”
Zero difference.
This is one of the problems of the Western World, it is so much self-centred that it often lacks of imagination and curiosity (even not going so far away as Asia or Africa, how many times did I hear some being surprised that there are musicians in Sardinia or Kosovo or whatever remote village lost in the Swiss mountains who do play underground music).
Now that we live in a more and more interconnected society, to me it is some kind of pure egotism and a certain form of social racism to imagine that only women (or people in general) in the west do compose electronic, experimental music or punk, metal, oi, you name it… In the time of the invasive internet where those who want, especially those who pretend to fight for some rights, can search, deeply, all kinds of informations using search engines, social networks, databases, music streaming services, it is a shame to see that those born in the “wrong” place still often remain excluded.
I remember women from some networks I will not name here telling that they wanted full support and promotion for women´s projects but how many of them bought or promoted the works and publications I was telling them about ? How many of them attended the concerts I organised ? Very few ! Some even decided to work in closed circles, excluding men from their networks or activities, even those who supported them from the beginning. Some gave me the feeling that they were working for their own ego, that the feminist fight was an excuse for them to clime higher and reach the peak… I may be wrong, I wish so but this is how I perceive this situation for many years.
Now to conclude this small article, here are a few CD references among many others, and following those, you´ll find a non-exhaustive list of under represented women. The CD list is only a small sample that what is currently existing, of course.
Art of the Muses (CD and digital, Syrphe, 2012, international) with Alice Hui-Sheng Chang [Taiwan], Aki Ito [Japan], Itta [South Korea], Tomoko Sauvage [Japan], Kismett [Singapore], VAVABOND [China], Pei [Taiwan], Verita Shalavita Koapaha [Indonesia], Lương Huệ Trinh [Vietnam], Lau Mun Leng [Malaysia].
Egyptian Females Experimental Music Session (CD, 100Copies, 2013, Egypt) with Asmaa Azzouz, Shorouk El Zomor, Hala Abu Shady, Jacqueline George, Nina El Gebaly, Ola Saad, Yara Mekawei, details on 100Copies.
_Litter – Newfound Grids (CD and digital, Syrphe, 2013, Lebanon)
VAVABOND – HOLOGRAM OF sea (CD and digital, C.F.I Records, 2012, China)
PEI – Normality Envision (CD, Sub Jam, Kwanyin Records, 2007, Taiwan), details and extracts here.
Leila Bela – Angra Manyu (CD, Ellahy Amen Records 2003, Iran/USA), details here.
Hui-Shen Chang Alice – When She Was Asleep (Cassatte, Antifrost, 2011, Taiwan).
Okkyung Lee – Noisy Love Songs (CD, Tzadik, 2010, South Korea), details at Discogs.
And one more western oriented ones that I anyway find worth to mention (and because most feminist activists I talked to in the scene told me they never heard about it and it´s a pretty good one !) :
Women Take Back The Noise (3xCD, UBUIBI, 2006) with Michiko Kawagoe, Dark Muse, BCO Women’s Auxiliary, Passiflora, Suzanne Quincey, Ava Mendoza, Meri von KleinSmid, Analog Tara, Fe-Mail, Experiment Haywire, Hertta Lussu Ässä, Cosey Fanni Tutti, etc.
This non-exhaustive list comes from this database I´m permanently working on, this database contains more than 1500 references for Africa and Asia. I could have added more of them but sorry, my time is limited at the moment !
Note I noticed that the formatting of the list appears incorrectly but I can´t correct it for some odd reasons…)
Algeria :
Rula El Bahr Soundcloud [electronic, sound art, lives in France, see Kamekaz]
Armenia/USA :
Farhadian, Thea Site [electro-acoustic, improv, video, lives in the USA]
Iran :
Bela, Leila (ليلى بلا) SiteMySpaceDiscogs [noise, sound art, lives in the USA]
Bigdeli Shamloo, Sara SoundcloudTwitter [electronic, sound tracks, lives in France]
Hatam, Farahnaz MySpace [sound art, lives in Germany]
Pazhutan, Honey Haq SiteSoundcloud [see vH+] / vent aitcH Plus (vH+, V H +p) SiteSoundcloud [ambient, drone, see Honey Haq Pazhutan]
South Africa :
Beckmann, Inge MySpaceDiscogsFacebook [electronic, contemporary]
Isadora Dustmite Junk MySpaceBandcampFacebook [electro-acoustic, noise, sound art]
Schneider, June [electro-acoustic, multi-media installations][1971 ?]
South Korea :
Itta (있다) https://www.youtube.com/user/TxNxGxRMySpaceFacebookTwitterMySpace [sound art, ambient, minimal, member of 10 and Tengger]
Okkyung Lee SiteMySpace [classical, improv, sound art, lives in Germany]
Shin, Amy Soundcloud [classical, sound art, post rock, etc., USA/South Korea] – she´s an American of Korean descent who migrated to Seoul.
Ha Jane Facebook [improv, see Pika & Pikasland] – from the US I think but lives in Seoul.
Udlot-udlot is a piece by Filipino experimental musician and composer José Maceda. The performance of the piece in 1975 was commissioned by the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the UP Prescounarts. Involving some 800 UP high school students in a public space, the performance was an experimental practice between repression and freedom during the years of martial law in the Philippines. See the images of Udlot-udlot in the Chabet Archive.
Learn more from the talk and tour of the exhibition Udlot-Udlot by Hong Kong-based curator Inti Guerrero on 9 Jan, sign up now here.
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