Residence: Symmetry at CERN, ALMA and VLT
Symmetry is a new residency programme launched to foster interdisciplinary exchange between artists and scientists working or living in Chile and Switzerland. It combines the residency of…
Weaponised Silence: An Experience With Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s ‘Saydnaya, by Allan Gardner
I want to begin with a caveat – I have been to Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Earwitness Theatre at Chisenhale Gallery once. I attended the…
Curators, Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
AIDA RODRIGUEZ, one of the minds behind MIRA festival
MIRA is a digital arts festival held annually in Barcelona (since 2011) and Berlin (since 2016) focused on new trends in digital culture…
Digital Culture, News, Robotics & Kinetics, Sound
Perfomance: Martin Messier and Yro at MUTEK Japan
ASHES is a new visual and sound performance originating from the first collaboration between Montreal artistMartin Messier and French artist Yro (Élie Blanchard). There…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
LAWRENCE ENGLISH, the philosopher of sound
Where does one start with when attempting to write about Lawrence English? With a career spanning almost over 20 years and using a broad…
Festival: NODE, digital art and music festival in Modena
Taking place between the 14th and 17th November 2018, Modena welcomes the ninth edition of NODE festival, bringing to Italy a series of interesting…
Unsound Krakow 2018: The Day After
Presence, the state or fact of existing, occurring or being present; a person or thing that exists or is present in…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
DAVID PESCOVITZ, adventures in sound and space
David Pescovitz is one of the creators of the vinyl reprint of the Voyager Golden Record. He is also researcher director at the Institute…
Computing Art, Digital Culture, News, Sound
Festival: ‘Phonetics’, digital and sound art festival in Algiers
Phonetics is a new digital art festival focused on sound art and avant-garde musical practice, taking place this November in Algiers. The festival also…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
IPEK GORGUN, the sensibility of discerning humanness through sound
We have witnessed an increasing intersection of practices in the last couple of years and the music industry presents no exception to this phenomenon….
Digital Culture, Key Artists, News, Sound
Performance review: Ryoji Ikeda at the Barbican
Ryoji Ikeda was back at the Barbican for a dual show. Both parts contrasting but complimentary of the work of the groundbreaking Japanese audiovisual composer. Ikeda…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
STUART HYATT, documenting the poetic sounds of planet Earth
A soundscape is a collaboration between biotic and abiotic elements in a landscape: wind slicing through tree branches, river water churning through a floodgate,…
Insight: Commend See (RVNG Intl) and Phantom Experiences in NYC
A couple of years ago, Commend, a small New York City record shop and gallery space and the gravitational center of the RVNG universe,…
TOMOKO SAUVAGE, exploring the sonic properties of water
Tomoko Sauvage, the Japan-born musician and artist, has been exploring sonic properties of water in different states for over ten years. The title of…
Digital Culture, News, Series, Sound, Unsound
Unsound Krakow 2018: Final line-up Highlights
At just a few days away to kick off, the final Unsound Kraków programme has just been announced with the final additions of the…
Event: Sonic Vibrations #7, Materiality of Sound at Spektrum Berlin
Sonic Vibrations is a series of hybrid events in Berlin presenting scientific and technological research applied to sound art, new musical instruments and installation…
Contributors, Digital Culture, News, Scout & Trends, Sound
Event: TFT’s BLK PWDRS album launch at The Glove that Fits
This Thursday 27 September our digital producer Stephen MacLaughlin is launching a new solo musical project, TFT, with an evening of noisy dancefloor electronics to…
Biomedia, Computing Art, Fort Process, Interviews, Key Artists, Series, Sound
URSULA DAMM, a cybernetic look on our public spaces
Ursula Damm is a media artist working at the intersection of art, science and technology on a delicately balanced ground. Besides, she is a…
Editor’s Pick: ‘Metaphonics: The Complete Field Works Recordings’ by Stuart Hyatt
Field recordings have the capacity to capture and preserve the acoustic characteristics of places and people; usually confined to the realms of research and the most…
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…