Tectonic Shifts
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Reviewed 2017-11-09
Reviewed 2017-11-09
AVANT GARDE / ELECTRONIC / EXPERIMENTAL
Violinist / composer Thea Farhadian was born in Oakland, got her MFA from Mills College, and appeared on Day of Noise in 2012. Here she mixes violin, electronics, and sound-processing software. The pieces interestingly “blend improvisation and composition”
1 * Very slow. Peaceful. Short violin motif; electronics reply. Repeat; develop. (2:39)
2 Very slow. Tense. Bits of melody, both arco & pizzicato. Electronic beeps & blips. (2:30)
3 VERY slow. Eerie. Like incidental music in a scary movie. Multiple violin lines. (5:56)
4 Mid-slow. Strange. Sounds like tuning up and down an old radio dial. Interesting. (2:10)
5 Mid-tempo. Sci-fi. More radio tuning. Scraping & shuffling. (1:48)
6 * Very slow. Ominous but calm. Scary music & sounds in Antarctica perhaps. (4:39)
7 Very slow. Mostly quiet, but punctuated with louder bursts. Screechy. Disturbing. (1:27)
8 * Very slow. Relatively melodic. Arco violin with blurps & blasts of other sounds. (2:58)
9 Very slow. Hesitant. Dreary. Violin tries to start something, but never succeeds. (3:42)
10 * Very slow. Violin notes (arco & pizz) emerge from squeaky, squishy noises. (2:27)
11 ** Very slow. Melancholy. Almost solo violin (arco & pizz)—less noise. (3:04)
12 * Slow. Overlapping violin & electronic voices. Almost orchestral. Quite nice. (4:07)
Violinist / composer Thea Farhadian was born in Oakland, got her MFA from Mills College, and appeared on Day of Noise in 2012. Here she mixes violin, electronics, and sound-processing software. The pieces interestingly “blend improvisation and composition”
1 * Very slow. Peaceful. Short violin motif; electronics reply. Repeat; develop. (2:39)
2 Very slow. Tense. Bits of melody, both arco & pizzicato. Electronic beeps & blips. (2:30)
3 VERY slow. Eerie. Like incidental music in a scary movie. Multiple violin lines. (5:56)
4 Mid-slow. Strange. Sounds like tuning up and down an old radio dial. Interesting. (2:10)
5 Mid-tempo. Sci-fi. More radio tuning. Scraping & shuffling. (1:48)
6 * Very slow. Ominous but calm. Scary music & sounds in Antarctica perhaps. (4:39)
7 Very slow. Mostly quiet, but punctuated with louder bursts. Screechy. Disturbing. (1:27)
8 * Very slow. Relatively melodic. Arco violin with blurps & blasts of other sounds. (2:58)
9 Very slow. Hesitant. Dreary. Violin tries to start something, but never succeeds. (3:42)
10 * Very slow. Violin notes (arco & pizz) emerge from squeaky, squishy noises. (2:27)
11 ** Very slow. Melancholy. Almost solo violin (arco & pizz)—less noise. (3:04)
12 * Slow. Overlapping violin & electronic voices. Almost orchestral. Quite nice. (4:07)
Recent airplay
Integer Study
Waste FM (rebroadcast from Nov 28, 2017) — Sep 02, 2021
Thin Silver Line
Sound Landscapes — Jan 08, 2018
Ice Wave
Everything A to Z week 114 — Dec 11, 2017
Integer Study
Music Casserole — Dec 09, 2017
Integer Study
Waste FM — Nov 28, 2017
Charting
2017-11-12 — 2018-01-14
Classical/Experimental
| Week Ending | Airplays |
|---|---|
| Jan 14 | 1 |
| Dec 17 | 1 |
| Dec 10 | 1 |
| Dec 3 | 1 |
Track listing
| 1. | Thin Silver Line | ||
| 2. | Light Edge | ||
| 3. | Time Shift | ||
| 4. | Splinter | ||
| 5. | Particle Party | ||
| 6. | Ice Wave | ||
| 7. | Transfer | ||
| 8. | Decay | ||
| 9. | Quantum Shift | ||
| 10. | Vertical | ||
| 11. | Integer Study | ||
| 12. | Silver Plate |