Author: elizabethjoankelly

Avant Music News and Independent Music Podcast

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Thank you to Mike for this amazing review of C.M.S.O. on Avant Music News. My favorite part:

The coupling of these topics with abstract modern classical and electronics is unique as far as I can tell. And this degree of quirky novelty is certainly in line with Kelly’s previous release. After a few listens, I am not sure what I learned but I do feel a little smarter.

And thank you as well to the legends at Independent Music Podcast for including “Abstract” on this week’s episode, which as always has resulted an influx of new additions to my Bandcamp wishlist.

Lone Frequencies and Dark Train

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Thanks to my friends across the pond for more C.M.S.O. plays this week! Lone Frequencies on Mad Wasp Radio featured “Abstract,” along with some hilarious toe-themed banter.

And the ever-fabulous Kate Boswell will be playing “Ethical Approval” on Warminster Community Radio’s Dark Train tonight 10pm BST / 4pm CST, along with a guest mix by Fragile X.

Brainvoyager’s Electronic Fusion and The Moderns

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Lots of chances to listen to some C.M.S.O. this weekend. Brainvoyager’s Electronic Fusion features three tracks, playing on Modul303, Radio Dark Tunnel, Sci Fi Radio USA, and Electronic Music Radio Chile:

And Kevin Press of The Moderns included “Ethical Approval” in this week’s episode on Radio Regent, now available on Mixcloud:

Album release, Autumn Roses, and Truants Radio

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Orca, Attack!’s C.M.S.O. is now out on Strategic Tape Reserve. There are only 3 cassettes left, and the digital album is also available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, and wherever else you like to listen.

Autumn Roses spotlights the song “Conclusion” on their blog today, writing, “today their Orca, Attack! project released the surreal and psychedelic “listening guide” C​.​M​.S​.​O. (Learning by Listening Vol. 1). You can take an apricot-colored, helix-shaped trip with its “Conclusion” above.”

And Aidan Hanratty of Bandcloud hosted a Truants show on Refuge Worldwide that included “Limtations.”

Many thanks to all for the shares, comments, spotlights, and radio play!

Further. Review of C.M.S.O.

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Excellent review of C.M.S.O. is up on Further. Here’s an excerpt:

…these pieces acknowledge the influence of Raymond Scott, beloved inventor of electronic instruments, unlikely jazz band leader and a composer whose distinctive approach leant itself to use in madcap cartoons – in short, the kind of avant garde personality we’re sorely missing in these uptight 2020s. You hear the overhang of Scott’s approach in a sort of playful bounce in these pieces, each of which find itself on an odd frontier between wide-eyed synth experiments and science documentary soundtrack. Both Kelly and Rodriguez contribute vocals, either as spoken-word, instructive lecture-esque monologues, or as angelic harmonies sweeping high above the accompanying electronic backdrops, or as processed, gradually slowed-down, indecipherable non sequiturs.

Read the full review over on the blog, and thank you to Mat for the kind words! C.M.S.O. releases on Friday and there are 4 cassettes left from Strategic Tape Reserve!

WTUL Charts

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Wow–Farewell, Doomed Planet! is on the WTUL charts for the NINETEENTH TIME, coming in at #29 overall and #7 electronic. I’m speechless. A thousand thanks to all the DJs. WTUL’s “not quite 51st annual rock on survival marathon” is going on right now, so it’s a great time to donate! Furthermore, if you email me and let me know you’ve donated, I’ll send you a Bandcamp download code for the album of your choice from my releases. Offer expires in seven days!

CMSO on Ambient Atomic Orbitals

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Thank you Ambient Atomic Orbitals for remixing/mashing/weaving a handful of tracks from the upcoming EP C.M.S.O. on their newest episode (there’s some bonus Farewell, Doomed Planet! on there too). It’s a great sneak peek of the album and also a totally different way of listening to it, check it out!

Madeline Hoak on Spectators of Digital Dance

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Part of the Telephone project (previously written about here) is a section of essays about the project as a whole. Artist and academic Madeline Hoak‘s “Digital Dance & TELEPHONE: A Unique Spectator Experience” analyzes how participants interpreted digital dance including my piece, “Nest,” which was preceded and inspired by a digital dance by Micaela Mamede.

[Image: still from Micaela Mamede’s dance film]

New song and a giant game of Telephone

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Today is the launch of Telephone, “a game of art whispered around the world” in which a singular message was eventually passed along and interpreted artistically by more than 900 artists from 72 countries. The game began almost a year ago; I received my assignment and finished my song in July; and today is the first time I’m getting to see the original message as well as the works that were inspired by my interpretation (1, 2). It’s a beautiful, amazing, humbling thing. And the Telephone team did a heckuva job figuring out how best graphically represent the transmission of the message across the world and through different art forms.

I know I’ll be exploring this for weeks, months. I hope you do too. My song, “Nest,” is here.