Category Archives: Experimental
Hekla ~ Xiuxiuejar
Few instruments are as affordable and versatile as the theremin, yet few people play it and fewer still play it well. Iceland’s Hekla has risen to the top of her field by matching the instrument with dark cello, crushing soundscapes and her
Hekla ~ Xiuxiuejar
Few instruments are as affordable and versatile as the theremin, yet few people play it and fewer still play it well. Iceland’s Hekla has risen to the top of her field by matching the instrument with dark cello, crushing soundscapes and her
Verena Barié, Gerri Jäger, Sjoerd Leijten, Malu Peeters, Stijn Verhoeff ~ A Rational World
A father and son plod through a wet, barren landscape. All that can be made out is a hazy object far in the distance— perhaps some kind of ship. This is the opening scene of “Ansage Ende” (end of announcement),
Verena Barié, Gerri Jäger, Sjoerd Leijten, Malu Peeters, Stijn Verhoeff ~ A Rational World
A father and son plod through a wet, barren landscape. All that can be made out is a hazy object far in the distance— perhaps some kind of ship. This is the opening scene of “Ansage Ende” (end of announcement),
Various Artists ~ Matter Affect
Happy Anniversary, Esc.rec. ~ 18 years old and now on your hundredth release! How are you going to celebrate? We’re going to release a three-hour box set featuring artists reflecting on the pandemic, we’ll stuff the box with as many
Various Artists ~ Matter Affect
Happy Anniversary, Esc.rec. ~ 18 years old and now on your hundredth release! How are you going to celebrate? We’re going to release a three-hour box set featuring artists reflecting on the pandemic, we’ll stuff the box with as many
SA Recordings ~ The Hearing Experience
SA Recordings‘ The Hearing Experience was released one track a month, beginning this spring and ending today. The series tackles a subject close to our heart: the act of listening closely, not just to music but to sound. Across these singles, four
SA Recordings ~ The Hearing Experience
SA Recordings‘ The Hearing Experience was released one track a month, beginning this spring and ending today. The series tackles a subject close to our heart: the act of listening closely, not just to music but to sound. Across these singles, four
Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart ~ Zenith/Nadir
Genres are a fact of contemporary musical life: they categorize, organize, and make manageable the sea of sounds that is the current musical landscape. Traditionally, artists are meant to find a genre or a style and stick with it —
Amirtha Kidambi & Luke Stewart ~ Zenith/Nadir
Genres are a fact of contemporary musical life: they categorize, organize, and make manageable the sea of sounds that is the current musical landscape. Traditionally, artists are meant to find a genre or a style and stick with it —
Felicia Atkinson ~ Image Language
Across her body of work, Felicia Atkinson has explored the gap between experience and its capture. She creates spacious electroacoustic soundscapes drenched in landscape and imagery, fusing a variety of sonic genres from spoken word to sound collage. Through the
Felicia Atkinson ~ Image Language
Across her body of work, Felicia Atkinson has explored the gap between experience and its capture. She creates spacious electroacoustic soundscapes drenched in landscape and imagery, fusing a variety of sonic genres from spoken word to sound collage. Through the
Fuji Yuki & Dimitris Tsironis ~ that sounds greek to me | Japanese & Greek Poetry of Grief
The process of translation is hypothetical, subjective, and elliptical. It prompts exchanges between languages, cultures, personal ideations, and inclinations, and demands a ‘digging deeper’ from the part of the translator who approximates the depths of a text with a searchlight,
Fuji Yuki & Dimitris Tsironis ~ that sounds greek to me | Japanese & Greek Poetry of Grief
The process of translation is hypothetical, subjective, and elliptical. It prompts exchanges between languages, cultures, personal ideations, and inclinations, and demands a ‘digging deeper’ from the part of the translator who approximates the depths of a text with a searchlight,
Various Artists ~ Peace and Plenty
Concurrent with the release of Blackford Hill’s print journal Oscillations #3 comes a 36-track compilation curated by Simon Lewin and Tommy Perman to raise funds for UNICEF’s work in Ukraine. The cover collage is bright and colorful, the title hopeful and encouraging, an idyllic
Various Artists ~ Peace and Plenty
Concurrent with the release of Blackford Hill’s print journal Oscillations #3 comes a 36-track compilation curated by Simon Lewin and Tommy Perman to raise funds for UNICEF’s work in Ukraine. The cover collage is bright and colorful, the title hopeful and encouraging, an idyllic
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