Editor’s picks: support artists on Bandcamp Friday
At CLOT Magazine we feature lots of artists and their works dealing with speculative futures regarding technology, nature, capital and health but the current COV19…
Insight: One Instrument record label, the jouissance of creative constraints
Grand River (Aimée Portioli), is a Dutch-Italian composer, musician, and producer based in Berlin and the mind and soul behind One Instrument record label. Portioli’s…
Insight: Evening Chants record label, building on beautifully strange music
Established in 2018, Evening Chants is a contemporary electronic label based in Singapore that presents personal strange and unknown musical explorations that highlights (but not…
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…
Audio & Visual, Scout & Trends, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOT Mix: Touch presents ZACHARY PAUL
For our second Mixtape, experimental musician Zachary Paul has prepared a selection of novel approaches to string instruments. Zachary Paul is a violinist and composer…
30D Records, on techno encouters and what lies beyond us
“Are you awake? You were talking recently about the meaning… of our… life… unselfishness of art… Let’s take music… music miraculously penetrates into the very…
Insight: ‘Cipher’ by C.A.N.V.A.S., on the meaning of code
C.A.N.V.A.S. is a platform and label that aims to bring an increasingly dispersed group of electronic artists together in order to release records, foster dialogue…
Editor’s Pick: ‘On Time Out of Time’ by William Basinski
On Time Out of Time (Temporary Residence), the new production by William Basinski, is a set of works that was originally commissioned for the 2017 installations ‘ER=EPR’…
Audio & Visual, Sound, The CLOTMix
CLOT Mix: Phantom Limb presents DYLAN HENNER
We inaugurate a new series of mixtapes specially created for CLOT Magazine. The first instalment comes from the hand of Phantom Limb and a newcomer…
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
BOD [包家巷], between visual design and building digital utopias
Nicholas Zhu, aka bod’s [包家巷] music operates as a visceral leg of an oscillating whole. After punctuating last year with two prior EPs, Zhu emerges…
BRAD LANER, a life in sound experimentation
Brad Laner is a musician and producer, well-known for his participation in the American shoegaze scene with Medicine, formed in 1990, as an experimental postpunk…
Digital Culture, Interviews, Sound
Insight: SM-LL record label, the reductionist aesthetic
SM-LL is a record label based in London run by Martin J Thompson a.k.a Pokk!, Typeface, and Lucia H Chung a.k.a en creux. They…
Event: Sonos London celebrates the Voyager Golden Record
Last month Sonos London Store brought us the opportunity to listen live for one of the first times the sounds of the recently re-edited,…
AI & A.Life, Computing Art, Interviews, Key Artists
COLDCUT, a journey through cut n’ paste and audiovisual innovation
There’s a particular type of artist (or musician) who, no matter how many years active, still possess an immense drive for discovery and experimentation….
Interviews, Scout & Trends, Sound
FOUL-UP with Beastie Respond and Eva Papamargariti
Foul-up: [noun] an occasion when something is spoiled by a stupid mistake -English Oxford Dictionary Mistakes often have a significant influence on…
Event: re·search Label Launch
It is always exciting to see the launch of a new record label. Last week was the turn for re·search, the brainchild of the two…