SEMIBREVE festival 2022: The Day After
Europeans nowadays live accustomed to a hyper-caloric diet of music experiences. The music festival explosion is well known and documented: we live in an era…
L.E.V. Matadero 2022: The Day After
In the year of the so-called return to normality, everything seems normal, except it is not. After emerging from the nightmare, panic and paranoia of…
Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
L.E.V. 2021 Gijón & Madrid – Comfort & community for uncertain times by Jacobo García
This year L.E.V. celebrates its 15th anniversary as one of the leading experimental music festivals in Spain. Conditioned by pandemic restrictions to festivals plus the…
Jacobo García for ‘Dynamic Nodes’, January 23 at STATE Studio Berlin
For our 8th Mixtape, CLOT Magazine’s editor Jacobo García has prepared a selection of some of the most relevant Spanish ambient and experimental sound artists…
Digital Culture, Op & Ed, Sound
L.E.V. Matadero Madrid, by Jacobo García
In 2007, a modest collective named “Colectivo Datatrón” decided what it seemed impossible, launch an avant-garde electronic music festival in Gijón. A city with 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….
‘Archipiélago Madrid: A Bird’s Eye View’ by Jacobo García
Archipiélago is a music series organised at Reina Sofia Museum – leading modern art museum of Madrid – every September since 2017. Concerts and DJ…
Contributors, Op & Ed, Series, Sónar
‘Solar Punk, a framework for hopeful futures’ by Jacobo García
Dystopia is a common theme on sci-fi literature, from classics such as the two little gems A Brave New World or 1984 are, to more…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOT Mix: CLOT Magazine presents JACOBO GARCíA
For our 8th Mixtape, CLOT Magazine’s editor Jacobo García has prepared a selection of some of the most relevant Spanish ambient and experimental sound artists…
Interviews, Key Artists, Sound
SUSO SÁIZ, a giant in ambience, timbre and texture
Not many outside of Spain knew about Suso Sáiz’s music before 2016, only hardcore ambient fans and niche record collectors. Even in the country he…
Interviews, Series, Sound, Unsound
FÉLICIA ATKINSON, on the sonic poetics of absence
Pregnancy is an underlying motive in The Flower & The Vessel, Félicia Atkinson´s just-released new album. A theme that has historically been neglected in arts,…
Editor’s Pick: MADATAC 2019, the day after
Madatac is a new-media, art and technology festival that takes place in Madrid in the first months of the year. The 2019 edition of the…
Computing Art, Interviews, Sound
MARTA VERDE, the artist who doesn’t know how to stop
Marta Verde feels at home crossing borders between fields and techniques, she never gets tired of exploring what technology puts on the plate, always hungry…