experimental music

Landscape’s Ferrous, an electro-mechanical resonator for strings

In collaboration with SF builder and experimental sound artist Victoria Shen, Ferrous from Landscape is a "Spinning Magnetic String Resonator."...

Phil Niblock, unstoppable composer and artist, remembered

Adventurous composer, musician, filmmaker, and conceptual artist Phil Niblock remained active right through his later life - an embodiment of...

Tour Beirut’s music underground in a free PDF, from the inside out

Crises are a given; resilience is a given - to slightly bastardize the author's words on Beirut's Underground Scene, Hajar...

“Exist is a feeling”: Organizers talk about their festival after losing Odai Masri

Palestinian-global festival and music platform Exist reached London this month at Cafe OTO, the latest triumph of adventurous programming and...

Ziúr’s hard-hitting percussion, epic collaborations speak volumes in “Eyeroll”

Don't miss this latest LP on Kampala, Uganda's Hakuna Kulala, as Berlin-based Ziúr takes on a dream roster of international...

Make Noise brings Tom Erbe’s soundhack spectral ideas to a dual oscillator: Spectraphon

The pandemic apparently brought together modular house Make Noise, instrument maker Jeff Snyder, and soundhack creator Tom Erbe. Spectral analysis/resynthesis,...