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Korean cellist, composer, and improviser, Okkyung Lee talks with Sonosphere about her time at this year's Big Ears festival in Knoxville, TN, working with Evan Parker, learning to love the cello, and what's in store for her this year.

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This episode Sonosphere dives into Remix Memphis with Alex Greene and Luis Seixas, two Memphis musicians that make the duo The E.G.G.G.

Remix Memphis grew out of a partnership with the Urban Arts Commission and the city of Memphis' 3.0 comprehensive planning initiative that worked to solicit participation from community leaders, residents and planners to inform future land use and neighborhood plans for the city.

Art was an important piece. As a musician Alex was interested in the sounds of the city.

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In this month's episode we highlight Sonosphere's Sound Observations series. Sound Observations is a quarterly performance and lecture series featuring experimental artists from around the nation.

We were honored to host turntablist and DJ Maria Chavez, and vocalist and musician  Christina Carter of The Charalambides on May 11, 2018.

Maria and Christina's site specific works took place in the atrium of the Crosstown Concourse building, an old Sears Roebuck building retrofitted for art galleries, residential and commercial spaces. The result is echoing vocals and scratchy, vinyl sounds that swirl up a red staircase to the entrance of the stage.

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Moogfest continued... brings you a brief interview with Kai Riedl, Operations Director at Moogfest. He says this festival seeks to bring new forms of creativity, form communities around art and technology, and create spaces for artists of all inclinations, genres, subcultures and movements.

Although it seems timely to showcase female and non-binary artists this year, according to Kai, Moogfest has had a history of being an inclusive festival.

Tracks in the episode:

Smerz - Worth It

Caterina Barbieri - Information Needed to Create

Mouse on Mars - Dimensional People I

Jon Hopkins - Singularity

Michael Stipe - Everything's Coming Undone

Sonosphere ventured out to MoogFest this year and we caught up with Memphis-based Delta Sound Labs. Their audiovisual installation called Vorticity was a collaboration between Delta Sound Labs + Nokia Bell Labs at American Underground in Durham, NC. This interactive, data-art set brought science and art together. Of the free programming, this fun, collaborative piece showcased what Delta Sound Labs can create with innovative, high-speed Schlieren imaging equipment and two sonified datasets. Colorful bubbles sliding around the screen were generated and distorted with every new person walking through the scene.

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This month the Sonosphere podcast highlights our conversation with Tess Roby from our Moog Fest visit back in May this year. She recently released her debut album Beacon on Italians Do It Better.

Hailing from Montreal, Tess Roby brings dreamy synths and strong vocals on melodic tracks like "Given Signs" and "Catalyst." She talks to us about her inspiration for Beacon, how her photography inspires songwriting and how growing up in a musical family lead her to collaborating with her brother on her debut.

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Sonosphere spoke with Rachel Grimes about her score for the film The Doctor from India. Rachel talks about the composition and the ways this film has inspired her to pay closer attention to the way she lives her own life. The interview took place via telephone on April 4th, 2018 and Rachel talks about the importance of this date. Enjoy!

This month the Press Play mixtape features Tara Rodgers, aka Analog Tara. Tara is a multi-instrumentalist composer and historian of electronic music and sound who produces techno tracks using analog sound sources.

This is a mix of Analog Tara tracks from the album At the Switch Hotel from 2003, written, performed, and produced by Analog Tara on synths, drum machines & more.

She’ll be presenting a free, open to the public artist talk at noon on the Crosstown Concourse Theater Stair in Memphis, TN on March 31. Later that night at 8 pm (doors at 7:30 pm), she’ll perform original compositions in Crosstown Arts’ East Atrium, including tracks from her new Fundamentals EP, out this spring on the DC label 1432R.

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Aukai talks about his history and his new album Branches of the Sun

Welcome to Press Play, the monthly playlist curated by labels and artists from around the world. Today Sonosphere highlights the French label, A N Y W A V E. This mix was a collaboration created by both Anywave co-founder Aurel Delamour and Anywave artist, Bad News from Cosmos with exclusive, unreleased tracks from Fléau and Patrick Wiklacz.

We had the pleasure to correspond with Aurel about the inception of the label and what's in store for the future. Check out the interview and track list at www.sonospherepodcast.com.

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