Video Premiere: Lawrence English’s “A Mirror Holds The Sky”
Australian composer Lawrence English is announcing his immersive new album A Mirror Holds The Sky, created entirely from field recordings taken deep in the Amazon rainforest, with the…
Insight: the uncanny plant-life speculations of 30drop’s “Photosynthetic Zone Manifesto”
It is widely known the key roles plants play in human cultures across the globe and across and generations; from Greek and Northern European mythology,…
ISLAND PEOPLE, how »II« circles our gloomy moments of stillness
Despite the name, we can’t really say Island People are stuck in their haven. On the contrary, the modus operandi of the quartet (mastering engineer…
Performance: ‘Phytocene’, a live experimental performance at Le Marais Paris
Phytocene, from the Ancient Greek word phytos (plant), is a collective work by Oscar-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker, musician Agoria and bio-physicist Nicolas Desprat, produced…
Editor’s Pick: Island People’s “crash” video premiere
Island people is a band project consisting of four Scottish-Irish musicians, the mastering engineer Conor Dalton, grammy award-winning producer David Donaldson, musician and DJ Graeme…
SIGURÐUR GUÐJÓNSSON, creating experiential universes through uncovering hidden landscapes
Icelandic artist Sigurður Guðjónsson blends moving imagery and sound to create experiences built through the intimate observation of matter. Investigating cameras, optical instrumentation and natural…
Online event: Music Futures & Simulacra: Exploring Without a Map by CO:QUO
CO:QUO (CO-CREATE STATUS-QUO) is a collective of multidisciplinary creatives collaborating internationally to address status-quos that negatively impact society through the intersection of art, music, science,…
HAINBACH, exploring new sound depths using nuclear research equipment
Crafting beauty from what could be seen as obsolete and exploring new sound depths with it almost sounds like Hainbach’s motto: the composer has a…
Editor’s Pick: Sophia Saze & Simon Faithfull Tresor 30 video premiere
Since 1991, Tresor has provided a home for artists to germinate their ideas for advanced new sounds and broadcast them to the world. The pioneers…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
KEITH RANKIN, responding to cultural shifts in information processing
The ceaseless stream of data that has become a defining feature of our present reality continues to present new potentialities for those invested in the…
Open Call: Unsound 2021 ‘Dəəp Authentic’
Unsound festival have just announced the new theme for the 2021 editions, plus a call for entries from artists, writers, theorists and activists in response…
Insight: NOETIC, Dia Munoz on the voice of the plants
Dia Munoz is a multidisciplinary Ecuadorian artist based in London focused on the interplay between human behaviours, nature and technology. Her research revolves mainly around…
Editor’s Pick: Ramón Oliveras feat. Lukasz Polowczyk’s ‘What Remains’ video premiere
What Remains When Nothing is Left is an experimental composition based on a reconstruction of a micro poem written by artist and poet Lukasz Polowczyk. It…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOTMix: CLOT Magazine presents Jana Winderen
The next mixtape instalment comes from the hand of one of the sound artists we have long followed and admired. Jana Winderen is contributing to…
Art Russia Fair 2021: ‘The Resistance’, the act of resisting, or the capacity to resist by Daniel Solomons
Art Russia Fair is a contemporary art fair that combines art with a professional educational program. It took place between 1-4 April at Gostiny Dvor,…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
GANG OF DUCKS, electronic music as a conceptual framework for exploration or research
Gang of Ducks is a multidisciplinary group established in 2013 in Turin. Although they most often engage in work through audio, the group’s output includes…
Editor’s Pick: James Ginzburg’s ‘Absence Intact’ video premiere
James Ginzburg, one half of the industrial-experimental duo Emptyset, has wrestled with extremes, tearing apart techno and harsh noise frameworks and re-assembling them with endearing…
INTERSPECIFICS, sound as the interface for the universe and inter-species communication
Interspecifics are a nomadic and independent research collective, founded in Mexico City in 2013, experimenting with the intersection between art and science. Deeply intertwined and…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOTMix: Gang of Ducks presents SARA BERTS
Our next mixtape instalment comes from Sara Berts, an Italian composer and sound artist. Sara’s work is saturated with elements from the natural world blending…
MILEECE, translating plant signals into immersive soundscapes
English sound artist and environmental designer Mileece gives a voice to plants. Immersed in a musical environment from a young age —meeting Stevie Wonder in…