Fort Process, News, Series, Sound
Fort Process 2018: Highlights
Fort Process is a one-day biannual festival, during which the past meets the future and the contemporary man meets the natural environment. The sonic…
Fort Process, Interviews, Sound
FORT PROCESS Geoff Reader, Graham Newbury, Daniel Mackenzie & Alistair Strachan
Fort Process, the one-day multidisciplinary experimental sound and art festival, is back on the 22nd of September for its third edition next month. With…
LUCRECIA DALT, earthly encounters with sound and flesh
Liminality, borders, skin, geologic formations and, at the same time, identity and belonging, are some of the concepts experimental sound artist and musician Lucrecia Dalt…
Insight: BANA HAFFAR & HYPOXIA on Make Noise Records
A few months ago we published an interview with Tony Rolando, the mind behind the acclaimed modular synth company, Make Noise, who’s been building…
Performance: Yen Tzu Chang’s Whose Scalpel at Music Hackspace, Somerset House studios
As what was once considered technology of some distant utopian future quickly becomes the technology of today, lines between machine and man can get…
Performance: ‘Two’, Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Barbican
Pioneering Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and experimental electronic musician Alva Noto were together again to offer their new show called “Two” at the Barbican….
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
MICHAEL BEGG, sounds of daily life that lurk just beneath the surface
Michael Begg is quick to cite his sources. Talking about the wells of inspiration for his work, he credits a stranger on a train,…
YANN NOVAK, ambiental explorations of sound and light
Listening to a Yann Novak composition is akin to sitting in Pacific Northwest rainfall. Whispers of field recordings and modular synthesizers gently percolate the atmosphere,…
CTM/transmediale, Digital Couture, News, Sound
Festival: Sote’s Sacred Horror in Design and SETxCTM
Sote, or Ata Ebtekar, is one the most prominent current Iranian composers and sound artists. He produced one of the most exciting (and one of…
Architectures, Fort Process, News, Series, Sound
Festival: Fort Process 2018
Space and location is always a crucial player in sound art performances. And for Fort Process, a one day sound art festival is one of their…
TONY ROLANDO, and the new wave of modular synthesis
There was a point a decade ago where the ubiquity of the onstage glowing apple caused something to crack in the electronic musician. The…
Unsound Krakow 2018: First announcements
Unsound Krakow festival passes are going on sale tomorrow, 6th June at 4pm CEST, so be quick to grab them, as they usually sell…
Sónar+D 2018: Highlights
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to step foot on the moon. 49 years later, Sónar has become the…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
NELO AKAMATSU, meditave studies of water and sound
When experiencing the installations of Nelo Akamatsu, one might be gently overcome by a very delicate, physical sense of calmness. The artist incorporates Japanese…
Festival: Unsound Krakow 2018 PRESENCE
PRESENCE. Unsound just shared with us the theme for the 16th edition Unsound Krakow 2018 [1] – which we have been eagerly expecting….
Biomedia, CTM/transmediale, Op & Ed, Sound
HKW x CTM: Technosphärenklänge #3
How can music respond to the intertwining of natural, social and technological processes? HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) in Berlin, in cooperation with…
Live broadcast: ‘Who cares? A radio tale’ at Resonance FM
Naz Bescan, Ibrahim Cisse, Harriet Costello, Benedetta d’Ettorre, Alba Folgado and Agata Kik, are the curators behind Who cares? A radio tale. They will…
RICHARD SKELTON, musical invocations of meditative landscapes
Nature’s cycles of life and decay are a fascinating subject. And interruptions in these processes are even more intriguing. At a young age, I…
Release: Robert Lippok ‘Applied Autonomy’ and »raster.index«
Robert Lippok the influential avant-garde German musician, visual artist and composer is back with a new album, Applied Autonomy, after a 7 years hiatus….
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
PETE SAVILLE & VIK GUDI, maths, sound and sculpture
“We tried to make a record label that was art-focused”, that was the starting point of Re·search, a new experimental music record label…