| Farhadian, Thea / Tectonic Shifts |
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| Album: | Tectonic Shifts | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Farhadian, Thea | Added: | Nov 2017 | |
| Label: | Creative Sources Recordings | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2017-11-12 | Pull Date: | 2018-01-14 | Charts: | Classical/Experimental |
| Week Ending: | Jan 14 | Dec 17 | Dec 10 | Dec 3 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Sep 02, 2021: | Waste FM (rebroadcast from Nov 28, 2017) Integer Study | 4. | Dec 09, 2017: | Music Casserole Integer Study | |
| 2. | Jan 08, 2018: | Sound Landscapes Thin Silver Line | 5. | Nov 28, 2017: | Waste FM Integer Study | |
| 3. | Dec 11, 2017: | Everything A to Z week 114 Ice Wave | ||||
| Album Review |
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| Be Sharp Reviewed 2017-11-09 | ||
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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) | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Thin Silver Line | 7. | Transfer | |||
| 2. | Light Edge | 8. | Decay | |||
| 3. | Time Shift | 9. | Quantum Shift | |||
| 4. | Splinter | 10. | Vertical | |||
| 5. | Particle Party | 11. | Integer Study | |||
| 6. | Ice Wave | 12. | Silver Plate |