Freida Abtan

about

Freida Abtan is a Canadian multi-disciplinary artist and composer. Her music falls somewhere in between musique concrete and more modern noise and experimental audio and both genres are influential to her sound. Her work has been compared to bands such as Coil, and Zoviet France, and to that of performers such as Andrew Liles because of her use of spectral manipulation and collage. Freida primarily works with samples of both musical and non-musical objects that she records herself and then manipulates, often beyond recognition, through techniques derived from musique concrète and through successive layers of digital signal processing. She uses structures reminiscent of popular music and more abstract compositional variants to sequence these sounds into melodic songs before incorporating her own treated voice. As well as having created visual shows for and performed with the internationally renown group Nurse with Wound, Freida has presented her own sound and visual work at festivals across North America and Europe. Her first album "subtle movements" is available on United Dairies / Jnana Records. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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albums

subtle movements

the hands of the dancer / the temple of the dreamer

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The Hands of the Dancer

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vague terrain 07: sample culture: freida abtan

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The Swinging Reflective II

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Cache 2004

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Circles

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E: Subtle Movements

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jttp 2004 canadian electroacustic community

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the hands of the dancer / the

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The Hands Of The Dancer/The Temple Of The Dreamer

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The Hands of the Dancer - The Temple of the Dreamer

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