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Sub Rosa Sale: the label catalogue at reduced prices
Contemporary & Electroacoustic Vintage SaleContemporary & Electroacoustic Vintage SaleParmegiani, Bayle, Ferrari, Chion, Risset, Chadabe, Dashow, Wessel
Sub Rosa Sale: the label catalogue at reduced prices
Contemporary & Electroacoustic Vintage SaleContemporary & Electroacoustic Vintage SaleParmegiani, Bayle, Ferrari, Chion, Risset, Chadabe, Dashow, Wessel
Manuella BlackburnPetites ÉtincellesBack to the record
The Sound Projector

“Last heard from English composer Manuella Blackburn with 2012’s Formes audibles, apparently her debut release, where Stuart Marshall was very taken with her “fresh and authentic…”

Ed Pinsent

Last heard from English composer Manuella Blackburn with 2012’s Formes audibles, apparently her debut release, where Stuart Marshall was very taken with her “fresh and authentic… manner of articulation.” Today’s excellent release on the same label is Petites étincelles (empreintes DIGITALes, IMED 17147), and surveys five works dated from 2012 to 2017, each one evidence of a very sensitive and intelligent approach to sound manipulation and highly respectful of the source objects she’s captured them from.

Take Javaari, based on samples from sitar playing. She’s homing in on particular details of the physical instrument (the bridge, the buzzing sound of the strings), and creating a kaleidoscopic arrangement to highlight these aspects that interest her.

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6 other reviews

Tempo

“The listening experience is like a trip into Blackburn’s Sonic Chocolate Factory…”

Percorsi Musicali

“… is an award-winning and internationally recognized expert researcher, an intelligent manipulator of sound materials…”

Touching Extremes

“The term “acousmatic” belongs to the category of verbal devices generalizing studio-conceived opuses that are difficult to brand.”

RNE3: Atmósfera

“Manuella Blackburn es una compositora de música electroacústica especializada la creación de música acusmática. Sin embargo, también ha compuesto para instrumentos y electrónica, improvisaciones para orquestas de laptops y música para danza.”

Groove

“Dass sogar aus ernsthaft neutönender, akusmatisch elektroakustischer Musikproduktion so etwas wie Pop-Appeal herausklingen darf, dafür stehen die verspielten Kompositionen der Britin Manuella Blackburn.”

ATTN:Magazine

“These collages are like the obsessions that infiltrate dreams. Imagine, for example, that you have an epiphany about the beauty of photography.”