Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
SUZANNE CIANI, a conversation on technology and timbre
If one would be forced to consider base level categorisations of musical instruments, it would perhaps feel instinctive to look to the contrasting nature of…
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…
AI & A.Life, Contributors, Op & Ed
Barbican ‘AI: More than Human’ – artificial agency, determinism and delusion of the cognitive self by Agata Kik
To be more than a human means to be more than his brain, to be more than the cognitive self, it means to be her…
Emma-Kate Matthews, a cross-disciplinary creative practice by Adriana Ciotau
Emma-Kate Matthews as an architect, artist, and composer has built an amazing array of transdisciplinary projects between the interconnected fields of architecture, acoustical engineering and…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
JUAN ATKINS, reinventing the future with techno
In The Last Angel of History (1996), a film-essay by John Akomfrah that deals with concepts of Afrofuturism tracing de deployments of science fiction within…
Live performance: Cybotron at Barbican London
Next week, on 12 April 2019, legendary Cybotron returns to perform live at Barbican London, showcasing a creative collaboration between Detroit’s pioneering Juan Atkins…
CLOT Magazine recommends: APRIL
BARZAKH by The Waldorf Project, Shredded Wheat factory Welwyn Garden City, 9 April – 12 May 2019 The Waldorf Project have been engineering the most…
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…
Performance: Aisha Devi feat Asian Dope Boys at the Barbican
On the 7th October 2018 Barbican Hall gives its stage to Estela Oliva, who as Clon presents two London premieres, jointly titled as ‘New…
CLOT Magazine recommends: SEPTEMBER
Dawns, Mine, Crystal, Yunchul Kim, Korean Cultural Centre London, 18 September – 3 November 2018 The Korean Cultural Centre, London (KCCUK) presents Dawns, Mine, Crystal, the first UK…
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….
CLOT Magazine recommends: AUGUST
Whose Scalpel, Yen Tzu Chang, Music Hackspace, Somerset House Studios London, 9 August 2018 Taiwanese artist Yen Tzu Chang presents an artist talk followed…
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…
Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists
CLEARY & CONNOLLY, the art of looking
The work of artistic couple Anne Cleary and Dennis Connolly revolves around the intriguing art of looking. According to them, how we look at…
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: 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…
Exhibition: John Akomfrah, ‘Purple’. The Curve, Barbican
British-Ghanaian artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah presents his latest commissioned work, Purple, at The Curve in Barbican Centre. The piece follows on the heels…
HENRY DRIVER, digital image or physical surface?
Technology is evolving fast, and we can only wonder whether we are able to adapt quickly or predict the implications of its exponential growth…
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…