The duo of Koshiro Hino and Yuki Nakagawa team up with Polish percussionist Adam Gołębiewski for an album composed and recorded in a single improvised session Watching KAKUHAN at last week’s Insomnia festival in Tromsø, Norway, I was struck by how a duo performing with… Read More
Ilia Rogatchevski speaks to Polish multi-instrumentalist Wacław Zimpel and master ghatam player Giridhar Udupa about their parallel journeys through music, and their combination as “interstellar folk” project Saagara. Photo by Rakesh Maiya. In the first few seconds of ‘God Of Bangalore’, the track that opens… Read More
Ilia Rogatchevski speaks to the child star turned artist, musician and composer about his excellent new album Instability Of The Signal and his many collaborations with Derek Jarman. Portraits by Marta Ruly On a torrid June morning, I’m invited to speak with Simon Fisher Turner… Read More
Berliner takes radical politics and 12th-century Persian poetry and sets them to an infectious disco beat, finds Ilia Rogatchevski Mary Ocher reclines on a rubber dinghy that is perilously adrift at sea. Her voice lifts above the waters as a shuffling backbeat dominates the track.… Read More
In a new book published by Bloomsbury, sound artist Mark Peter Wright unpacks the knotty politics of field recording. Images of Tellenes Wind Farm, Norway courtesy of the author. Where is the field in field recording? Does it begin when the recordist enters the location, when they… Read More
With a tingle running down the back of his spine, Ilia Rogatchevski explores the world of ASMR at London’s Design Museum. All photos: Ed Reeve for the Design Museum. In the centre of the Design Museum’s subterranean exhibition space is a room constructed from scaffolding… Read More
A new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery sheds new light on the relationship between records and their covers. Exhibition photographs by the author. “In the very beginning, I was hanging books on the walls like art pieces,” explains Antoine de Beaupré over email. “I realised… Read More
A new release from the Institute for Danish Sound Archaeology explores the pioneering sound work of Danish visual artists, Richard Winther, Hans “Bamse” Kragh-Jacobsen, Niels Macholm, Ib Geertsen and Gunnar Aagaard Andersen Linien II (Danish for The Line) was an artists’ association set up in… Read More
In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing legacy From The Port To The Bridge is an intimate and engaging exhibition exploring the post-punk… Read More
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