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Wonderful music

Philip Ball has written a book called The Music Instinct: How music works and why we can’t do without it Music seems to be unique to the human race. No other species produces elaborate sound for no particular reason. Music can mean different things in different cultures, but some of the fundamentals are shared. Melody, harmony, rhythm. Almost all musical systems are based on scales spanning an octave. Philip Ball goes through each component of music in turn to explain how and why it works. An enjoyable book for all of us interested in the sounds we make for fun.

Autechre - FACT mix 122

British duo Autechre is soon out with their new album Oversteps and are about to embark on a tour of the UK and parts of Europe. They’ve released a mix, available through FACT mag for three weeks.

Experimental Musical Instruments

Experimental Musical Instruments is an organinization devoted to unusual musical instruments. This site offers a wide array of unusual instruments and offers tips about instrument making. If a Branching Corrugahorn or a Daxophone tickles your imagination take a peek.

Francisco López - untitled #228

Francisco López is a sound artist who is active since 30 years and has composed an impressive catalogue, strongly consistent and full of nuances. Trained as an entomologist and ecologist, his attention is acutely focused on the natural
sound environments. His reflection on the phenomenology of the act of listening has led him to develop of a form of “absolute musique concrète”, paralleling the richness, complexity, slow changes and extreme level dynamics of nature. Listen to his latest work “untitled #228” – based on field recordings from Indonesia – released now on ini.itu

Sonar 2010 tickets

Tickets for this year’s Sonar are now on sale. A Sonar pass, that includes admission to three days and two nights are available at a special price of 130€until January 31st 2010. A new two night pass is also on sale for only 100€.

So far Air and LCD Soundsystem are two acts that have already been confirmed. If June is too far off, go to London between 5th and 6th of March for a Taste of Sonar at the Roundhouse in Camden where DOOM and Laurent Garnier along with other artists will make the wait a bit easier.

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World Forum for Acoustic Ecology

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), founded in 1993, is an international association of affiliated organizations and individuals, who share a common concern with the state of the world’s soundscapes. WFAE members represent a multi-disciplinary spectrum of individuals engaged in the study of the social, cultural and ecological aspects of the sonic environment. Check out their rich online library or journal for more.

Klubb Vriompeis: Oren Ambarchi (AUS) + DEL

Blå‘s Klubb Vriompeis will on Tuesday 27th of October host Australian musician Oren Ambarchi CC is 100NOK and tickets can be bought in advance at the record shop Tiger Billettservice, the Post Office, 7eleven and Narvesen.

Soundscaping featured on DJ Friendly's show on NRK P3

On Saturday 19 April 2009, in the wee hours betweren 6-7 am, Soundscaping Records hit the airwaves of the national broadcasting company in Norway, NRK, when DJ Friendly so kindly featured the Pjusk remix Franskblanding of Christophe Bailleau’s inauguration album for Soundscaping, Air Resort. To check out DJ Friendly’s show, visit the DJ Friendly page on the NRK website

Skate fight club dubstep night featuring dj Walsh

One of the pioneers of the Dubstep genre, dj Walsh, is coming to Oslo. Skate fight club at Hausmania welcomes dj Walsh on the 2nd of May. CC 100nok. The Shit-City-Trek will get the crowd warmed up.

Dronerom - 6-hour drone performance for 8 musicians

Sunday May 3rd, 11am-5pm sees Dronerom performance at Henie Onstad Kunstsenter at Høvikodden, right outside Oslo. We believe our readers are familiar with the drone genre, this Sunday afternoon you can catch 8 musicians (Ole Henrik Moe, Kari Rønnekleiv, Michael F. Duch, Snorre Ruch, Fredrik Ness Sevendal, Jon Wesseltoft, Per Gisle Galåen, Hild Sofie Tafjord) of diverse musical backgrounds (jazz, contemporary music, electronica, black metal, rock) delivering a continuous concert performance. Pillows and sofas will be made available and audience is welcomed to pop in and out. Tickets free with standard museum admission.
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Tim Catlin & Machinefabriek - Glisten

Tim Catlin & Rutger Zuyderveldt have collaborated on a record called Glisten, released on Low Point Records. Catlin recorded a number of tracks and sent these to Zuydervelt for overdubs, final editing and sequencing. The result has been a half hour long record that amongst others became an album of the week at Boomkat in November 2009.

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A mAtter of perspectives on sound and design

It is one of those sought-after moments, when you come across a new finding and rub your hands together in glee and anticipation, and I am experiencing such a moment after now establishing a relationship with the cross-disciplinary label for sound and design, mAtter from Japan, curated by Yukitomo Hamasaki. The label features output centered around his own works, with interpretations of various concepts such as sound design, architecture, and product design to create dense spaces.

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The Phenomenon of Broderick

The name Broderick has cropped up very frequently over the past two years, so we though to look in more detail at this highly influential and talented sibling couple of Peter Broderick and Heather Woods Broderick, well-deserving of a thorough spotlight feature, and throw in a little unrelated Broderick-surprise towards the end.

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About Soundscaping.net

Soundscaping was started in 2005 primarily to become an online resource directed at the Norwegian music scene, predominantly music which involves an element of electronica. 2008 will also see the launch of Soundscaping Records, an independent label with a focus on quality releases in the same music genres promoted by the Soundscaping netzine.

Soundscaping now offers RSS feeds of recent updates to the web-site, just drag or click the -icon displayed in the left column into your RSS-reader of choice to stay right up to date with Soundscaping news. Adjacent to the RSS-icon, you’ll also find the little (Digg!-guy) so you can easily digg Soundscaping stories; and there’s also a quick link bookmark pages into your (del.icio.us) account.

Falling from the sky soundwaves… let the sonic excursions into new, electronic music begin.