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…
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…