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I forgot about this magazine for too long.. Glad I stumbled across it again..

Check out Australias only electronic music magazine!!

I love the artwork on this issue ..

 

Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia is written by artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making, and including a companion CD, Experimental Music explores the development of forms, ideas and scenes in Australia from the 1970s to the present. It brings together a wide range of musical experimentation, from post-punk, noise, appropriation, electronic dance and listening music, to free improv, computer process music, experimental radio, instrument building and audiovisual fusions — practices that have formed an integral part of Australian creative culture. Experimental Music illustrates how these forms have influenced each other to create a fertile and diverse culture, and highlights why it is vital to question, experiment and break the rules.

CONTRIBUTORS: Julian Knowles ::: Ian Andrews with John Blades ::: Cat Hope ::: Shannon O’Neill ::: Bo Daley ::: Alistair Riddell ::: Jim Denley ::: Virginia Madsen ::: Sean Bridgeman ::: Gail Priest with Sebastian Chan

edited by Gail Priest

Books can be ordered from UNSWPress

To accompany the book, there is also a website with additional information about experimental music and sound in Australia including a resource list of events, organisations, and publications, an artist directory and a calendar.

http://www.experimentalmusicaustralia.net

Heres a message I got from dual plover wich is very exciting if you love weird music…

“dualpLOVER is excited to announce that it has been asked by the revered wmfu to be a curator for its brand spanking new Free Music Archive. since the invitation i’ve been going nuts uploading parts of the dualpLOVER back catalogue see.

http://freemusicarchive.org/label/Dual_Plover/

as a curator for the site i want to concentrate on the australian underground with an obvious emphasis on the types of music dualplover knows and loves. and will be uploading more stuff in the coming months.

the site it’s far more fun than facebook and you’ll be able to access tons of incredible music, but please don’t forget to tip your favourite artists.

more on the archive below

The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is being directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

Every mp3 you discover on The Free Music Archive is pre-cleared for certain types of uses that would otherwise be prohibited by outdated copyright law. Are you a podcaster looking for pod-safe audio? A radio or video producer searching for instrumental bed music that won’t put your audience to sleep? A remix artist looking for pre-cleared samples? Or are you simply looking for some new sounds to add to your next playlist? The Free Music Archive is a resource for all that and more, and unlike other websites, all of the audio has been hand-picked by established audio curators.

The Free Music Archive is a platform for collaboration between WFMU and a group of fellow curators, including KEXP, dublab, KOOP, ISSUE Project Room, and CASH Music. The site combines the curatorial approach that these organizations have played for the last few decades, with the community generated approach of many current online music sites.

Inspired by Creative Commons and the open source software movement, the FMA provides a legal and technological framework for curators, artists, and listeners to harness the potential of music sharing. Every artist page will have a bio and links to the artists’ home page for users to learn more about the music they discover via the Free Music Archive. We also seek to compensate artists directly. Artist, album and song profiles will contain links to buy the full album from the artist and/or label’s preferred vendor(s). Users can also “tip” an artist if they like what they hear, sending a donation directly to the artists’ PayPal account. Artist profiles include tourdates, encouraging users to step away from the glowing computer screen and see some real live music.

While the Free Music Archive is free and open to anyone regardless of registration or other requirements, written and audio content is curated, and permission to upload/edit content is granted on an invitation basis.”

                                       

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