EMPTYSET, from the algorithmic to the architectural—filling the spaces between our ears
Can you automate the production of music? Can something intricate and moving be composed with the help of AI? For many, the almost invisible iterations…
BEATIE WOLFE, beaming music into space
Many contemporary artists have a hand in a range of disciplines which broadens their remit beyond their core set of influences and intentions, and for…
Editor’s pick: Jesse Kanda’s new album ‘Labyrinth’ and video-premiere
We’ve always been huge fans of Jesse Kanda‘s visual art for which he is widely known; his modern, gothic surrealist art, especially with his work…
CLOT Magazine recommends: SEPTEMBER
»Seasons of Media Arts«, ZKM Karlsruhe, until 15 September 2019 Today’s cities are subjected to constant yet invisible change, as thousands of data streams are…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
LOREM, the gravitas of an AI music composer
Lorem, conceived by Italian musician and Publisher, Francesco D’Abraccio, is a multidisciplinary project involving AI and video artists, musicians and instrument designers as well as…
SURACHAI, the dark modular synthesis master
The L.A. based producer Surachai released the album Come, Deathless on BL_K NOISE, the label he runs with Drumcell (Hypoxia), on January 25, 2019. Surachai’s…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, News, Sound
Video Premiere: Lorem-‘The Sky would clear what the Man had wrapped to the Link’
Lorem is a music-driven multidisciplinary project by the Italian musician and visual artist Francesco D’Abbraccio. Lorem is an inquiry about human-computer interaction in the age…
Insight: ‘Cipher’ by C.A.N.V.A.S., on the meaning of code
C.A.N.V.A.S. is a platform and label that aims to bring an increasingly dispersed group of electronic artists together in order to release records, foster dialogue…
Editor’s Pick: ‘On Time Out of Time’ by William Basinski
On Time Out of Time (Temporary Residence), the new production by William Basinski, is a set of works that was originally commissioned for the 2017 installations ‘ER=EPR’…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
BOD [包家巷], between visual design and building digital utopias
Nicholas Zhu, aka bod’s [包家巷] music operates as a visceral leg of an oscillating whole. After punctuating last year with two prior EPs, Zhu emerges…
GAZELLE TWIN, surrounded by androgynous demons
Gazelle Twin, aka Elizabeth Bernholz, last album Pastoral (Anti-Ghost Moon Ray) features dreamy synths and voices, in a hallucinatory schizoid stat that announces more a…
Design, Interviews, Sound, Unsound
Insight: ALEKSANDRA GRüNHOLZ, the allure of the dark and the grotesque
When we cannot make sense out of all the information, with which we are bombarded each day. When we cannot use reason to comprehend the…
Insight: ‘Spring Bloom in the Marginal Ice Zone’ by Jana Winderen
The marginal ice zone is the dynamic border between the open sea and the sea ice, which is ecologically extremely vulnerable. The phytoplankton present…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
ANDREA TAEGGI, the sculptural potential of the sonic
Andrea Taeggi, the Italian-born and Berlin-based music producer, often categorized under the labels of experimental ambient, techno or minimalist, through his practice explores the…
Digital Culture, Key Artists, News
Editor’s Pick: ‘Equinoxe Infinity’, Jean-Michel Jarre
Electronic music pioneer Jean-Michel Jarre is releasing his brand new studio album Equinoxe Infinity, the sequel of his 1978 album Equinoxe. Jean-Michel Jarre has always…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
THOMAS ANKERSMIT, exploring psychoacoustic properties of sound
Thomas Ankersmit is a musician and composer based in Berlin and Amsterdam. Working primarily through sound and installation, he produces complex and incredibly physical…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
Insight: SM-LL record label, the reductionist aesthetic
SM-LL is a record label based in London run by Martin J Thompson a.k.a Pokk!, Typeface, and Lucia H Chung a.k.a en creux. They…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
MARIA W HORN, invoking the alternate
For the most part, time and space have been conceptualized in terms of their mathematical properties, like dimensions. The two are also the foundation…
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,…
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…