{"id":818,"date":"2013-01-26T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T05:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/woodandwire.com.au\/?p=818"},"modified":"2021-01-31T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T07:08:12","slug":"a-brief-history-of-textile-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2013\/01\/26\/a-brief-history-of-textile-audio\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Textile Audio"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThis week sees the release of The Pomegranate Cycle<\/em> by Textile Audio<\/strong> on Wood & Wire. Woven from song, sound textures and fragmented orchestration, The Pomegranate Cycle<\/em> is the creation of composer, mezzo soprano and sound engineer Eve Klein.
\nSince 2002, Eve has been working as a professional operatic mezzo soprano, electronic musician and academic. The Textile Audio project finds her working with scores, field recordings, and operatic-pop composite vocals to weave rich melodic soundscapes and textures that she describes as “unashamedly romantic”. \u00a0With a PhD in Music and Sound from Queensland University of Technology, and over 300 shows for Opera Australia under her belt,\u00a0The Pomegranate Cycle <\/em>marks the culmination of many years of explorations into the marriage of opera and classical forms with contemporary audio production.
\nAn early work, Some Kind Of Mininova<\/em> opened New Weird Australia’s free compilation, Volume Four<\/em><\/a>, and introduced Textile Audio to an audience who were among the first to experience Eve’s unique contemporary Australian experimental opera. This was shortly followed by The Pomegranate EP<\/a><\/em> on Feral Media, which featured early versions of tracks from The Pomegranate Cycle<\/em> as well as a wonderfully sensitive rework of The Pomegranate Cycle<\/em>‘s\u00a0Demeter’s Lament<\/em> by electronic producer, Gentleforce<\/a>.
\nIn an interview with Eve in Cyclic Defrost<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0Melonie Bayl-Smith commented on the (then) work-in-progress\u00a0Pomegranate Cycle<\/em>\u00a0: “In a way, whilst there is a provocative electronic subversion inherent in the disruptive industrial clicks, blips and tears that punctuate the work, it is the sheer beauty of Klein\u2019s voice, heard against itself, against the samples and lines, against the disembodied choruses, that is the glue by which\u00a0The Pomegranate Cycle\u00a0is most potently held together. Here, at the point of Klein\u2019s voice and its placement in the structure of the music, are operatic traditions celebrated, challenged and reframed. This is contemporary music at its most relevant<\/strong> \u2013 it is simultaneously inward and outward focused in addressing the challenge of its existence and its capacity to produce something great”<\/em>.
\nThe Pomegranate Cycle <\/em>is now available as a\u00a0Free Download and Limited Edition CD<\/a> – housed in a four-panel digipak sleeve with original design by Heath Killen and photography by Ravi Glasser-Vora<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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