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Standing On A Hummingbird
''Standing on a Hummingbird'' is Mark Templeton's first full-length album, released February 2007. The album has the distinction of being the inaugural release on the New York ambient electronic label Anticipate Recordings. Track listing #"Amidst Things Uncontrolled" – 5:00 #"Pigeon Hurt" – 3.17 #"Roots Growing" – 4:42 #"From Verse to Verse" – 3:40 #"Refrain From" – 1:04 #"Tentative Growth" – 4:29 #"Across From Golden (Remix)" – 5:05 #"Standing on a Hummingbird" – 4:52 #"Pattern for a Pillow" – 7:15 #"Difficult to Light" – 5:02 External linksMark Templeton's website *Boomka review *'' Exclaim!' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Templeton (electronic Artist)
Mark Templeton (born 1976) is a Canadian experimental electronic artist. Templeton's works are released by New York City record label Anticipate Recordings. Background Templeton utilizes acoustic instruments, found sounds and sampled material to construct textured, collage-like electronic compositions His style has been called ' glitchy', but also ' painterly', in an attempt to describe his deconstruction and crumbling of instruments' traditional voices. His works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. Collaborations with experimental filmmakers aAron Munson and Kyle Armstrong and sound artists Nicola Ratti and Ezekiel Honig have produced numerous works on various formats. Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK (Montreal), Unsound Festival (Kraków), send+receive: a festival of sound (Winnipeg), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Latitude 53 (Edmonton) a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie's furniture music and styles such as musique concrète, minimal music, and German electronic music, but was prominently named and popularized by British mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroacoustic music). Pure electronic instruments depended entirely on circuitry-based sound generation, for instance using devices such as an electronic oscillator, theremin, or synthesizer. Electromechanical instruments can have mechanical parts such as strings, hammers, and electric elements including magnetic pickups, power amplifiers and loudspeakers. Such electromechanical devices include the telharmonium, Hammond organ, electric piano and the electric guitar."The stuff of electronic music is electrically produced or modified sounds. ... two basic definitions will help put some of the historical discussion in its place: purely electronic music versus electroacoustic music" ()Electroacoustic music may also use electronic effect units to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anticipate Recordings
Anticipate Recordings is an independent record label based in Manhattan founded by electronic music producer and performer Ezekiel Honig. Anticipate combines elements of electro-acoustics, ambient, slow motion techno, and found house with traces of filtered influences ranging from jazz, post rock, classical, dub, musique concrète, and minimalism. Artists *Ezekiel Honig (United States) * Sebastian Meissner aka Klimek (Germany) *aAron Munson (Canada) *Joshue Ott (United States) *Morgan Packard (United States) *Nicola Ratti (Italy) *Sawako (Japan) * Mark Templeton (Canada) Catalog *ANT-001 - Mark Templeton - ''Standing on a Hummingbird'' (February 19, 2007) *ANT-002 - Morgan Packard - ''Airships Fill the Sky CD'' + Morgan Packard & Joshue Ott ''Unsimulatable DVD'' (July 2, 2007) *ANT-003 - Sawako - ''Madoromi'' (October 15, 2007) *ANT-004 - Klimek - ''Dedications'' (November 12, 2007) *ANT-004A - Klime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frail As Breath
''Frail as Breath'' is an independently released solo EP by Canadian electronic artist Mark Templeton. The album was re-released in connection with net label Robotopera in 2005. Track listing #"Not Alone Anymore" – 4:13 #"Continue Later" – 2:57 #"Birds" – 1:16 #"Drama Section" – 3:29 #"Spring Breakup" – 3:00 Mark Templeton (electronic musician) albums 2005 EPs {{2000s-electronic-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acre Loss
''Acre Loss'' is a collaboration project between electronic musician Mark Templeton and filmmaker aAron Munson. Released in 2009 by Anticipate Recordings, Acre Loss explores the artists' feelings of attachment to the land from which they came and will leave behind. This is a CD/DVD set with ten musical compositions accompanied by ten short films shot in Alberta, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot .... The artist collaboration was made possible through funding from the Edmonton Cultural Capital Explorations Grant program, in which each artist attempted to mentor the other in his craft. Track listing #"aTest" – 3:05 #"this will pass" – 5:25 #"saw to the seed" – 3:34 #"too small" – 1:03 #"contents are" –2:35 #"1 is to one as..." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exclaim!
''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly Exclaim! print magazine publishes 7 issues per year, distributing over 103,000 copies to over 2,600 locations across Canada. The magazine has an average of 361,200 monthly readers and their website, exclaim.ca, has an average of 675,000 unique visitors a month. History ''Exclaim!'' began as a discussion among campus and community radio programmers at Ryerson's CKLN-FM in 1991. It was started by then-CKLN programmer Ian Danzig, together with other programmers and Toronto musicians. The goal of the publication was to support great Canadian music that was otherwise going unheralded. The group worked through 1991 to produce their first issue in April 1992, with monthly issues being produced since. Ian Danzig has been the publisher of the magazine since its start. James Keast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grooves (magazine)
''Grooves'' is an American electronic music magazine founded in 1999 by editor Sean Portnoy, initially concentrating on the then-burgeoning IDM music genre and expanding to its more experimental, abstract offshoots, such as microsound, microhouse and glitch, eventually encompassing a global view of musicians and cross-cultural influences that is reflected in coverage of jungle, two-step, avant rap, broken beat and other offbeat new music. The headquarters is in San Francisco. Early issues contained a vast range of full-length album and 12" single/ EP reviews; later issues added new media release types, including reviews of books and DVD-based documentary and music video film releases. Additionally, each issue contained several artist interviews and label profiles, evaluations of new and offbeat digital and analog hardware and software tools for making electronic music, and coverage of live performances and festivals throughout the United States, Canada, South America and Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2007. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2007 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2007 albums Albums An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records coll ... 2007 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
