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Radio: Resonance Extra – Episode 10 (31/10/2017)

Radio: Resonance Extra – Episode 10 (31/10/2017)

Ian Hawgood of the Home Normal label joins ATTN for a playlist and an interview. Also – an extended conversation with one of the founders of Ting Shuo Hear Say: an organisation and community based in Taiwan, centred on sound art and the act of listening. HOME NORMAL TRACKLIST: 1) Federico

Review: Ian Hawgood – Love Retained

The pieces on Love Retained were originally intended to form the basis of collaborations. This would explain why the piano often appears to be crouching down in a small portion of the stereo frame, or why chords seem to pause and await reply (to which only silence acknowledges receipt). Hawgood

Review: M. Ostermeier - Tiny Birds

Ostermeier’s piano melodies refrain from excess. Their allure doesn’t reside in ornamental detail or the presence of intricate little trills, but for the elegant slopes that carry one chord into another. The self-conscious hesitations and sentimental indulgence that dictate when a note is depressed, and for how long.

Review: Gurun Gurun - Kon B

There are numerous moments during Kon B that sound like a ship’s cargo hold tilting severely back and forth. Instruments slide from one end of the space to the other, groaning and scraping against the floor, contents rattling against the inside of gigantic wooden crates, slamming against the side

Review: Orla Wren - Book Of The Folded Forest

It’s bleak but bustling too; a snow globe in which skeletal tree branches glitch and chink against curved glass and voices roll round the perimeter, teased upside down and gently shaken so that electronics shower onto pools of soft synthesiser cream, which in turn dribble down the sides of

Review: Gurun Gurun - S/T

Gurun Gurun create a real three-dimensional clatter and commotion, through which structured melody is just barely able to establish a presence. It’s as though the musicians are clumsily stumbling into their instruments rather than taking charge of them, and often sounds like Fennesz’s Endless Summer set in a