it's cheaper to rent an orchestra and orchestra hall than it is to build a buchla synthesizer set-up!
This is true!
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:00 (six years ago) link
I was at the Scala show too - pretty astonishing. Has she done one of those "Ableton Live" type videos recently (or ever) where explains the gear she uses on stage and how the sounds are generated?
Hearing all the recent stuff end to end did however betray how samey some of the vocals are (and it doesn't help that a lot of the songs are in the same key). I want her to carry on with lyrics but I think a radical change of direction on the vocal front for the next record is called for.
― Jeff W, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 18:29 (six years ago) link
Played the new one at record club. https://devonrecordclub.com/2017/12/02/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-a-kid-round-105-nicks-choice/
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 2 December 2017 07:56 (six years ago) link
Were you able to put on another record afterwards?
― octobeard, Monday, 4 December 2017 22:07 (six years ago) link
lol
― the late great, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 02:32 (six years ago) link
haha, actually we did play this last I think, although not deliberately because of that!
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 06:32 (six years ago) link
couldn't find a better thread to post this, but claire was mentioned above
classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOWG03-xnXU
― kolakube (Ross), Thursday, 8 March 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
touring and playing Dublin next month!
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
A new thing.
https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/electronic-series-vol-1-abstractions
― Jeff W, Saturday, 24 March 2018 15:43 (six years ago) link
I listened to it late last night. It seemed likeable as a long improvisation, maybe not worth $10?
My students mostly seem to think she's crazy for working with Buchla synths instead of a laptop in the 21st century.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
Yes, definitely one to stream now and then, rather than buy. The cartoon sounds about two thirds of the way through injected some nice levity.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Listening to it now (and I bought it anyway) -- it's fun!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
Not sure if this has been linked already, she has a monthly radio show on nts - https://www.nts.live/shows/kaitlyn-aurelia-smith
― just sayin, Saturday, 24 March 2018 22:58 (six years ago) link
sounds nice would be cool if the tape came with some succulents
― tomorrow, Sunday, 25 March 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
Radio show starting up now, checking it out.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 10 August 2018 19:01 (six years ago) link
cool!
― marcos, Friday, 10 August 2018 19:56 (six years ago) link
Good stuff, pretty eclectic.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 10 August 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link
She’s so lucky to have inherited a buchla from a neighbour. That’s insane. Also living on orca island - damn
― grandaddy of all liars (Ross), Friday, 10 August 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
https://crackmagazine.net/2018/08/listen-to-a-new-ambient-track-kaitlyn-aurelia-smith-created-using-field-recordings-from-a-mountain-hike-in-los-angeles/
― Jeff W, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
unusually informative URLthanks!
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 21 August 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/tides-music-for-meditation-and-yoga
― just sayin, Saturday, 10 November 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
I wonder if that's just a vinyl/digital reissue of the original Waves? I love it to death, but I don't see the point of listening to ambient music on vinyl, and obviously I don't need to buy the digital version twice. It seems to be lacking the final track ("Tides X") of the original release, so maybe it's been reworked in some way?
― Tuomas, Saturday, 10 November 2018 12:57 (five years ago) link
New album on Ghostly International in May.
Teaser track, "Expanding Electricity":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-fBFJ6KuM4
Press blurb extract:
West coast composer, artist, and producer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith has chartered a pioneering career with multiple critically-acclaimed albums since 2015. Following the release of The Kid in 2017, Smith focused her energy in several directions. She founded Touchtheplants, a multidisciplinary creative environment for projects including the first volumes in her instrumental Electronic Series and pocket-sized poetry books on the practice of listening within. She's continued to explore the endless possibilities of electronic instruments as well as the shapes, movements, and expressions found in the physical body's relationship to sound and color. It is this life-guiding interest that forms the foundational frequencies of her latest full-length, The Mosaic of Transformation, a bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself.
"I guess in one sentence, this album is my expression of love and appreciation for electricity," says Smith. While writing and recording, she embraced a daily practice of physical movement, passing electricity through her body and into motion, in ways reflecting her audio practice, which sends currents through modular synthesizers and into the air through speakers. Not a dancer by any traditional definition, she taught herself improvisatory movement realizing flexibility, strength, and unexpectedly, what Smith calls “a visual language” (the term was introduced to her by filmmaker Sean Hellfritsch) stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, "as a reference for how frequencies can be visualized," much like a mosaic.
Smith describes her first encounters with this mosaic; "the inspiration came to me in a sudden bubble of joy. It was accompanied by a multitude of shapes that were moving seamlessly from one into the other...My movement practice has been a constant transformation piece by piece. I made this album in the same way. Every day I would transform what I did yesterday...into something else. This album has gone through about 12 different versions of itself." As it has arrived, in a completed state, The Mosaic of Transformation is a holistic manifestation of embodied motions. Smith's signature textural curiosity that fans have grown to adore pivots naturally into a proprioceptive study of melody and timbre. Airy organ and voice interweave with burbling Buchla-spawned harmonic bubbles.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ES6qKBxWsAAdLRe?format=jpg&name=small
― Jeff W, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
*reads blurb*
*stocks up on rotten tomatoes*
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:50 (four years ago) link
I'm sure you did the stocking up proprioceptively.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:54 (four years ago) link
tbf now i'm on lockdown my flat is now also a 'multidisciplinary creative environment'
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
hurling the rotten tomatoes will probably qualify as a 'holistic manifestation of embodied motions' though
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 12 March 2020 19:58 (four years ago) link
Nice, pretty psyched to add this to the collection
― omar little, Thursday, 12 March 2020 20:31 (four years ago) link
I love her music and I'm woo-woo as fuck so I can't wait for this
― winters (josh), Friday, 13 March 2020 00:23 (four years ago) link
I know certain posters are docking her coolness points or whatever, but I like that she is true to herself and her own idiosyncratic weirdness.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 13 March 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
It makes a lot of sense if you;ve seen her live.
― Chief Kyiv, Friday, 13 March 2020 03:35 (four years ago) link
She emanates L.A./west coast New Ageness both in her music and her promos too now haha. Probably has some crystals next to her synths or something, but still love her to death
― octobeard, Friday, 13 March 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
Shes from and lives on orcas island in the san juans, no? Peak west coast crystal vibe zone
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Friday, 13 March 2020 06:36 (four years ago) link
still a shocking album cover regardless of her vibe
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Saturday, 14 March 2020 07:56 (four years ago) link
she should tour with Marianne williamson
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
or score a love prayer
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
what's the matter with peace love and understanding
― lukas, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:46 (four years ago) link
sayin
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 March 2020 19:47 (four years ago) link
https://kaitlynaureliasmith.bandcamp.com/album/the-mosaic-of-transformation
Enjoying the new album
― mirostones, Friday, 15 May 2020 13:03 (four years ago) link
It's a bit more chill and vocal focus. Feels like a return to the direction she took on Euclid.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 15 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
I am very into this, so dreamy
― coptic feels (seandalai), Saturday, 16 May 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
So, apparently she’s an anti-vaxxer too? Bummed to find out that facet. I don’t mind the crystal vibe zone aspect of her personality, but this puts her work in a whole new, unfortunately, less charitable view for me.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
lj warned us back in 2017.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
Ah fuck, really? Where did she air these views?
― Position Position, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:00 (four years ago) link
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith did an AMA yesterday and didn't answer a question about her apparently being an anti-vaxxer. This all sucks, obviously, but something I didn't expect is that I'd now begin to view her musical endeavors as some sort of grift. pic.twitter.com/0GqQ3Bbnl2— Joshua Minsoo Kim (@misterminsoo) May 20, 2020
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
the new age movement has always involved a lot of grift, didn't help that the skeptical community turned out to be raging jackasses
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:10 (four years ago) link
Zappa to thread.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:12 (four years ago) link
She makes vaguely new age music? Its going to come with the territory
― anvil, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:13 (four years ago) link
Wholly unsurprising, but yeah I think it's ok to enjoy the music that comes out of being a crystal-brain yogahead
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:20 (four years ago) link
"I'd now begin to view her musical endeavours as some sort of a grift"
Hassling an established micro-celebrity about a viewpoint that they've expressed via a single Instagram story is full-tilt narcissistic abuse. I read that AMA yesterday and I hope that everybody's next favourite band is a cliff and they all dive right in
Not saying anti-vaxxers aren't the worst, they are, but ffs when is this shit gonna abate
― it’s been one week since you pissed on me (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link