Festival: Lunchmeat in Prague
The annual international festival dedicated to advanced electronic music and new media art based in Prague 11th edition is to take place between 28th September…
Unsound 2020: Highlights
Unsound festival returns for another edition in less than two weeks. Adapting to the unpredictable circumstances the team this year has pushed their creativity again…
Editor’s pick: Aircode’s ‘Effortless EP’ for Alien Jams
Sweedish producer Aircode is the last addition to record label Alien Jams, with a new EP, effortless (Alien Jams, 2020). Aircode works with sounds extracted…
Festival: Sónar+D 2020 takes over the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB)
On March 11 the WHO announced COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic and the world went into a lockdown leaving our lives and plans on a…
AI & A.Life, Interviews, Sound
SOLAR X, from electro incursions to AI research
For anyone that follows the daily press, it’s easy to fall for the piling news that Russia is consolidating as a global antagonist of democracy….
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…
Interviews, Robotics & Kinetics
Insight: MORITZ SIMON GEIST & techno robots
Moritz Simon Geist is a media artist and robotic musician. As a robotic musician, he uses everything from the clicking of failing hard drives,…
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE, the excitement of exploring new concepts
Jean-Michel Jarre. Where to begin? A goodwill ambassador for Unesco, president of the CICAC (the global body for authors’ societies), recipient of the Stephen…
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…
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…
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…
LUCRECIA DALT, earthly encounters with sound and flesh
Liminality, borders, skin, geologic formations and, at the same time, identity and belonging, are some of the concepts experimental sound artist and musician Lucrecia Dalt…
Insight: BANA HAFFAR & HYPOXIA on Make Noise Records
A few months ago we published an interview with Tony Rolando, the mind behind the acclaimed modular synth company, Make Noise, who’s been building…
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….
Sónar+D 2018: The Day After
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. Stephen Hawking Step outside on a clear, dark night, and…
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…
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…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Series, Sónar
Sónar+D 2017: The Day After
Sónar’s 24th edition has, for another year, closed with great success. In terms of numbers at least, with 123,000 attendees – the highest in the…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Series, Sónar
Sónar+D 2017: Highlights
With only 5 years of existence, Sonar+D is becoming a world reference showcase of the latest trends in digital art and creative technologies –…
Computing Art, CTM/transmediale, Series, Sound
CTM 2017: The Day After
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