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…
Event: Yann Novak, ‘The Future is a Forward Escape into the Past’
Yann Novak is a prolific artist and composer based in LA whose work balances between field recordings, analogue and digital sound synthesis in interplay…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
FOUL-UP with Beastie Respond and Eva Papamargariti
Foul-up: [noun] an occasion when something is spoiled by a stupid mistake -English Oxford Dictionary Mistakes often have a significant influence on…
Event: Alva Noto UNIEQAV at The Barbican Hall, London
“My definition of beauty is something very simple, which can express something very complex.” There’s no better way to define Carsten Nicolai’s work, one…
Festival: Max Cooper’s Aether, Lumiere London 2018
London-based techno producer Max Cooper has collaborated with the design studio Architecture Social Club to create Aether, an extraordinary audio-visual experience. The 3-dimensional light field…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
JEFF MILLS, the wizard who came from space
The cosmos and what lays beyond our planet have fascinated human minds for thousands of years and have inspired a whole artistic and literary…
Unsound Krakow 2017: The Day After
Systema naturæ per regna tria naturæ, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis.* Carl Linnaeus, Systema naturæ (1735) Wolfsbane, Nightshade,…
VISIBLE CLOAKS, transcending culture through sound
In a shaker, place 1 ½ parts of computerised exotica, ½ part of linguistics, 1 part of ethnography and transculturalism and ¼ part of…
Event: Unsound Dislocation at The Barbican
Next Friday 8th December, Unsound – one of the world’s most adventurous music festivals – comes to London’s Barbican with an evening of live…
Event: re·search Label Launch
It is always exciting to see the launch of a new record label. Last week was the turn for re·search, the brainchild of the two…
Event: Dasha Rush + LCC at The Barbican
Last month Barbican brought us the UK premiere of two immersive audiovisual performances. An evening curated by Estela Oliva, who was presenting her new project…
Event: Stockhausen: Stimmung & Cosmic Pulses with Robert Henke
Next Monday 20th November, for the tenth anniversary of Stockhausen‘s death, the Barbican is bringing us the opportunity to enjoy rare performances of two…
Event: Disobey / Dystopia II
Cluster Node presents Disobey/Dystopia II. Join us to celebrate their first release, Outlander EP “Father, Lord and Wizard” at their second edition of Disobey/Dystopia on 18th…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
ROBIN RIMBAUD aka SCANNER, sound impressions of space and time
In The dreamer is still sleep – one of the latest artworks of Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner)- the British artist explores the dreamy state…
Festival: Sonica Festival of Sonic and Multimedia Arts
The fourth edition of Sonica Festival of Sonica and Multimedia Arts has arrived in Glasgow and will end on the 5th of November. This fascinating…
SERGE VUILLE & LUC HENRY, artistic experimentation, music, and living systems
In recent years artistic experimentation in music has been gaining more exposure to larger audiences. This results in unorthodox compositions that depart from conventional…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Sound
GREG FOX, new shapes of drumming
There is a certain type of drummer who has never seen eye to eye with technology. Rhythm and drum beats relate to something primal,…
BEAU WANZER, molecular biology and synths
It is not easy to find artists, especially musicians, with a scientific background and even less frequent, that they are trained as molecular biologists….
Event: Ben Frost Solaris
This June, London’s Barbican Centre opened Into The Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction. The exhibition, curated by Swiss historian and writer Patrick Gyger…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sound, Unsound
EWA JUSTKA, enquiries into the materiality of sound and light
With one of the best live shows at the moment, Ewa Justka, a polish electronic and noise artist, is challenging audiences with her the…