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Our podcast guest today is Luce Mawdsley, a composer and guitarist based in Liverpool. Mawdsley’s practice is rooted in progressive experimentation and draws from an appreciation of all things Americana.

In March 2024, Luce released Northwest & Nebulous, an album inspired by the northern English landscape of their youth and draws from Mawdsley’s personal experiences as a neurodivergent non-binary composer.

Listen here: https://audio.com/audio-com/audio/luce-mawdsley

Photo by Rosie Terry Toogood.

Today's podcast features a conversation with the French-Spanish conceptual sound artist, composer and curator Lola de la Mata.

Lola’s practice evolved out of weaving, printmaking and Labanotation (a form of dance notation developed by Rudolf von Laban in the 1920s) and crosses over performance art, installation and sculpture.

In this interview, Lola talks about her upcoming album Oceans on Azimuth, which reflects on her experiences of tinnitus. Her new compositions feature sonic landscapes crafted from throbbing heartbeats and otoacoustic emissions reimagined through musical instruments made from metal, glass, ceramics and ice.

Listen here: https://audio.com/audio-com/audio/lola-de-la-mata

Photo: Rosie Terry Toogood

Celebrate Piano Day by diving into Piano Sketches, our curated playlist featuring compositions by the audio.com community!

🔗 https://audio.com/audio-com/collections/piano-sketches

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Head over to audio.com for an hour of carefully crafted, current hip hop and rap joints. Selected directly from the personal playlist of Kansas City's Swig The DJ.

➡️ https://audio.com/swig-the-dj/audio/yeahswig

Good news! Audacity has just published its 3.5 Beta version, which includes a Cloud feature that allows you to save Audacity projects to audio.com.

Download it here: https://www.audacityteam.org/beta/
More details here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEAZv_o0HuQ

Audacity 3.5 - Cloud Saving, Tempo Detection & Pitch Adjustment Audacity 3.5 is a major release that introduces Cloud saving, automatic tempo detection, new pitch adjustment functionality and much more!You can download Au...

Our podcast guest and resident artist this weekend is the award winning composer, producer, DJ and instrument builder Lia Mice.

Lia’s multidisciplinary work includes music production, designing large-scale digital instruments, interactive sculpture, AV performance, composition for film, and academic writing.

In this interview we discuss Lia’s approach to composition, her album Sweat Like Caramel, instrument building and her advocacy for better accessibility within music.

Listen here: https://audio.com/audio-com/audio/lia-mice
Photo by Chris Turner.

Today, Castles In Space is releasing A Loop Where Time Becomes, a compilation of archival recordings by Robin The Fog aka Howlround. It’s a retrospective of outtakes created between 2012 and 2017.

Howlround’s sound centres on manipulated field recordings that have been dubbed onto analogue tape. No outboard or digital effects are used. Instead, Howlround foregrounds the ‘natural’ quality of the tape loops themselves and the raw feedback of his reel-to-reel machines. A Loop Where Time Becomes documents Robin’s transition from the haunting ambient soundscapes that characterised his early work to the dark but swinging industrial techno of his later output.

Last year, we interviewed Robin about the Howlround project, his love of jungle and William Basinski, and his work for the British Library as an audio archivist.

Listen to the interview below:
https://audio.com/audio-com/audio/robin-the-fog

Buy A Loop Where Time Becomes here:
https://howlround-cis.bandcamp.com/album/a-loop-where-time-becomes-rare-unreleased-recordings-2012-2017

Our latest podcast features an interview with Sian O'Gorman, composer and creative director of the NYX electronic drone choir.

Ahead of their concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall we discuss how NYX tests the limits of collective vocal performance by embodying live electronics, drone and extended vocal techniques.

Listen to the interview here: https://audio.com/audio-com/audio/nyx

Photo: Nathan Goldsworthy

Our today is “What You Love” by The Telescopes. It’s a slow and psychedelic meditation on things you shouldn’t turn you back on. The song features on their latest album Growing Eyes Becoming String, which is out now on Fuzz Club.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out our interview with the band’s driving force Stephen Lawrie, you can do so here: https://audio.com/audio-com/audio/the-telescopes.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Our latest Substack post features a sonic snapshot of Montréal. Content editor Ilia Rogatchevski visited the city last August and found some treasures at the Cheap Thrills and Atom Heart record stores. Sounds of note include TG’s “Very Friendly” by AIDS Wolf, “Les départs” by Enfant Magique, and “Very Fresh” by Rock Despot fka Ghetto Pony.

Read it here: https://audiocom.substack.com/p/very-friendly-very-fresh

Image: AIDS Wolf. L-R: Alex Moskos, Chloë Lum, Yannick Desranleau.