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The composer/electronic musician/healer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s new album The Mosaic of Transformation on Ghostly International is the follow up to the critically acclaimed 2017 album The Kid.
For her, expressions found in the physical body&#8217;s relationship to sound and color became the foundational frequency of the new album. A bright, sensorial glide through unbound wave phenomena and the radiant power discovered within oneself, with a distinct healing quality to it that existed long before society’s recent shift. Katilyn continued to explore the endless possibilities of electronic instruments as well as the shapes, movements, and expressions found in the physical body&#8217;s relationship to sound and color. It is this life-guiding interest that forms the foundational frequencies of the new album.  While writing and recording, she embraced a daily practice of physical movement, passing electricity through her body and into motion, in ways reflecting her audio practice, which sends currents through modular synthesizers and into the air through speakers.
Not a dancer by any traditional definition, she taught herself improvisatory movement realizing flexibility, strength, and unexpectedly, what she calls “a visual language” stemming from the human body and comprised of vibrational shapes. Understood as cymatics, as she says, &#8220;as a reference for how frequencies can be visualized,&#8221; much like a mosaic.
(Photo Credit: Chantal Anderson)

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

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Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and East Forest Allow Themselves to Be Human

Olga Bell is an American composer, producer and performer based in New York. Her website is <a href="http://bellinspace.tumblr.com/">here</a> and you can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/bellinspace">here</a>. <a href="http://smarturl.it/incitation-itunes">Her new EP Incitation</a> is out October 16th, 2015 on One Little Indian.
(Photo credit: Nick Fancher)

Olga Bell

Olga Bell Talks Jamie XX’s In Colour

Claire L. Evans (YACHT) Talks Holly Herndon’s Platform

Following chart-topping success across Europe at the dawn of the new millennium, Ambrosia Parsley determinedly brought avant-pop band Shivaree back into obscurity. Her solo debut Weeping Cherry came out April 28th. She’s presently working on a book of inspirational limericks. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/parsley23" target="_blank">here</a>.

Ambrosia Parsley

Ambrosia Parsley (Shivaree) Talks Todd Rundgren, Emil Nikolaisen and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm’s Runddans

Alanna McArdle used to sing in Joanna Gruesome. You can follow her Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/alannamcardle_" target="_blank">here</a>, and follow her Tumblr <a href="http://alanna-mcardle.tumblr.com" target="_blank">here.</a>

Alanna McArdle

Alanna McArdle (Joanna Gruesome) Talks Grouper’s Ruins

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First and foremost, Talkhouse Contributing Writer Liam Wilson is a good vibe technician. He&#8217;s known to moonlight as an avid psychonaut and enjoys occasional visits with his worldly possessions in Philadelphia. He spends most of his time wandering Earth in an endless pursuit of a clearer understanding of all things bass-frequency related with his band the Dillinger Escape Plan. Follow him on: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/liamwilson">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/goodvibetech">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://instagram.com/liam_wilson">Instagram</a>.
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Liam Wilson

Liam Wilson (the Dillinger Escape Plan) Talks Daniel Lanois’ Flesh and Machine

Sondre Lerche is a Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter and film score composer from Norway. His album Patience is out now. You can follow him on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/SondreLerche">here</a>.
(photo credit: Marius Hauge)

Sondre Lerche

Sondre Lerche Talks Brian Eno and Karl Hyde’s High Life

Anika is a British and German singer-songwriter and political journalist.

Anika

Anika Talks Mount Kimbie’s Cold Spring Fault Less Youth

Rosanne Cash has recorded 14 albums, with 11 number one singles and 11 Grammy nominations (with one award) including two for her latest album The List. She wrote the bestselling memoir Composed, a collection of short stories, Bodies of Water, and a children&#8217;s book, Penelope Jane: A Fairy&#8217;s Tale. Her essays and fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, and New York, among others. She is writing an album about the South with husband and longtime collaborator, Grammy award-winning producer and musician John Leventhal. You can follow her on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/rosannecash">here</a>.

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