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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.

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.

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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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Skream

UK dubstep maestro Skream is coming to Oslo next friday, i.e. 3rd of April. He will play at the Villa . Local lads Shit City Trek who have a weekly spot on Reload Radio will be warming up the dancefloor. CC is 100NOK.

Pjusk's new album "Sval" in the making

At the moment Pjusk is busy working on their new album Sval, having joined forces with the Japanese project Fjordne as well as the project Strië. First reports are of happiness with results audible chemistry, and the album is scheduled for release autumn 2009 on the 12k label.

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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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Fennesz - Endless Summer

Back in 2001 now legendary austrian record company, Mego, released the now legendary Fennesz record “Endless Summer”. Four years after releasing his first full length album, “Hotel Paral.lel”, also on Mego, it was time for the elusive austrian to shine. Nine years on, Soundscaping looks back on Fennesz’s breakthrough record.

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The Last of Home Normal in 2009 - A Digested Reader

A triptych of releases to cover on Home Normal to ensure we got all of this brilliant label’s music on the radar of our listeners. For our early 2010 series of label features we start off with the Home Normal reader to bring ourselves up to speed for 2010 with Hawgood/Jones’ label’s remaining three releases from 2009, namely Mountain Ocean Sun, Isnaj Dui and Greg Davis.

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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.