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, 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….
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…
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…