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…
Contributors, Digital Culture, News, Scout & Trends, Sound
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…
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…
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, Series, Sound
CTM 2017: The Day After
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Unsound Krakow 2016. The Day After
Dislocation: [noun] Disturbance from a proper, original, or usual place or state —English Oxford Dictionary The first of the three definitions that the English…
KODE9, devoiding of content an empty circle
Steve Goodman (better known as Kode9) is an artist, DJ and founder of the influential record label Hyperdub. Born in Glasgow and resident in London,…
Interviews, Series, Sónar, Sound
MARTIN MESSIER, electroacoustic music by objects and bodies
As electronic technology impact on music becomes more prominent, we wonder if we are aware where sounds derive from; especially those from the natural…
Digital Couture, Series, Sónar
Sónar 2016: The Day After
Sónar Festival closed this edition with over 115.000 visitors and Barcelona was, once again, at the forefront of electronic music and culture. Sónar+D, the…
Sónar 2016: Highlights
A music festival at the forefront of the most advanced electronic music and cutting-edge digital and new media technology for more than 20 years: what…