Soundologia Anthology Volume 3: South Florida Contemporary Composers & Sound Artists
Soundologia, 2025
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Listen to Soundologia Anthology Volume 3: South Florida Contemporary Composers & Sound Artists
A double disc of tracks that showcase South Florida’s thriving experimental and contemporary music community, we’re treated to the works of 17 composers and 35+ performers, where plenty of diverse ideas and sounds are present.
Charles Norman Mason’s “Swagger” opens with the unpredictable bassoon alongside playful fixed media for the cinematic climate, and it isn’t long until Orlando Jacinto Garcia’s “Marea Cambiante/Changing Tide” illuminates the solo amplified violin that radiates all sorts of atypical gestures.
Further into Disc 1, Dorothy Hindman’s “Ulterior Motives” blends a trio of strings with much detail and harmonics, while “Within”, by Atomic Theatre, finishes this portion with vocals, bass, piano, drums and percussion that’s poetic and bare in its sophistication,
Disc 2 leads with Richard Garet’s “Residue”, where 10 minutes of soothing droning via the electromagnetic noise and analog tape hardware, but it’s the boiling water used as an instrument across Juraj Kojš’ “Boiling Anew: A Sonic Meditation On Water” that takes the prize as the most unorthodox.
Fsik Huvnx’s “An Eye That Breathes” exits, and it blends classical and electronic ideas into a chilling, nearly therapeutic finish.
An eclectic assembly that touches on electroacoustic moments, instrumental bouts (with and without electronics), avant-garde jazz and plenty of collaborative creativity, there’s much to explore and revisiting the listen yields even more intrigue.
Travels well with: Russ Spiegel- Nitty Gritty; Juraj Kojš- Birds Of Paradise