Video Premiere: Lawrence English’s “A Mirror Holds The Sky”
Australian composer Lawrence English is announcing his immersive new album A Mirror Holds The Sky, created entirely from field recordings taken deep in the Amazon rainforest, with the…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOTMix: CLOT Magazine presents PRAIRIE
Next in our series of mixtape comes from Prairie, the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Marc Jacobs who has prepared a selection of tracks to…
STUART FOWKES, capturing the world into an autonomous network of sounds
It’s natural for humans to use sound as a main form of connection – communicating involves employing complex linguistic and musical systems, a legacy of…
Insight: Bat ultrasounds and music composition in Stuart Hyatt’s Field Works ‘Ultrasonic’
Bats are one of the most intriguing of mammals species, with their ability to fly thanks to their membranous wings and communicating by ultrasounds that…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
RENAUD BAJEUX, converting electromagnetic radiations into a new sonic territory
Musician and sound engineer Renaud Bajeux’s work Magnetic Voices From The Unseen (NAHAL recordings, 2020) is a chronicle of existence grasped from the sphere of…
C. LAVENDER, brainwave weaving patterns in sonic healing and creative processes
C. Lavender is an NYC-based artist and healer. In her multidisciplinary practice she uses sound as a medium for music expression and for bioenergy channelling….
KYOKA, electronic music fusion with synths, drum machines, and strange voices
Kyoka is the first solo female artist signed to what it used to be iconic German experimental label Raster-Noton (posteriorly split into raster-media and NOTON),…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
KEPLA, meditations on the malleability of material experience
My introduction to Kepla’s work came through DeForrest Brown Jr. An artist I’ve recently written about for CLOT Magazine and an article that might make…
Performance: Alien Jams presents Kepla’s album launch at New River Studios London
Alien Jams, the record label run by Chloe Frieda exploring sounds across leftfield electronics, industrial, electro, EBM and noise, is launching Kepla’s debut full-length -and his first…
SIMON SCOTT, dreamlike elegance in audio diaries
Simon Scott is a sound ecologist and multi-instrumentalist from Cambridge, England, also best known as the drummer od Slowdive, the influential shoegaze band that produces…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOT Mix: LOST FEW and The Silent Few
The fifth volume of our Mixtape series comes by Lost Few, the audio-visual project of Melbourne-based experimental artist David Thomson. For this Mix, he’s prepared…
K Á R Y Y N, imagining trajectories with sound
K Á R Y Y N is an LA-based visual-composer, producing music with an intense physicality influenced by the aesthetics of her environment. The Syrian-Armenian-American…
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, Key Artists, Sound
LAWRENCE ENGLISH, the philosopher of sound
Where does one start with when attempting to write about Lawrence English? With a career spanning almost over 20 years and using a broad…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
IPEK GORGUN, the sensibility of discerning humanness through sound
We have witnessed an increasing intersection of practices in the last couple of years and the music industry presents no exception to this phenomenon….
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…
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…
YOLANDE HARRIS, techno-intuition and sonic consciousness
Yolande Harris, is a composer, visual artist and academic, who aims to reinterpret from a post-humanist perspective the techno-ecological spaces we are meant to…
JANA WINDEREN, haunting a palette of deep sea sounds
Seas and oceans, and the strange creatures that they sustain life in have fascinated human beings for thousand of years. And some people have…