Support Dirar Kalash, experimental multi-instrumentalist behind Sonic Liberation Front
Palestine-born, Berlin-based artist Dirar Kalash faced an accident after a gig without health insurance. But an outpouring of support is...
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Prequel Tapes works through trauma in meticulous sound and choreography [trigger warning]
The Golden Cage is a deeply intimate work by Berlin-based Prequel Tapes, who strings together electronic sounds and voice to...
Finding lost intimacy and freedom, in the collaborative hacklab at CTM Festival
In tenuous times of war, disease, and uncertainty, our MusicMakers Hacklab program in May at CTM Festival held a special...
Kyoka is imagining new worlds, playing machines, and exploring neurology: interview
Kyoka, the innovative producer and artist (Raster-Noton), has electrodes attached to her head with good reason. In collaboration with neurologists,...
Healing, history, and a future reclaimed: Nina Pixel deep dive from Signals Festival
Ancestral Archaeology is more than the title of Nina Pixel's new double-album. It's an urgent practice at a moment of...
Brutal, creative sound worlds in 4-part compilation from Paula Temple’s Noise Manifesto
Distort sound, distort norms - that's the watchcry of Paula Temple's Noise Manifesto. But even though it's a celebration of...
Geometric meditation – peace in Arash Azadi’s “Healing Light Through Stained Glasses”
The topic keeps coming up - how to find mental peace and remain centered even in tumultuous times. Iranian-born composer...
Listen to hours of music by Iranian women and nonbinary artists from solidarity takeover
From Tehran to locations around the world, on Palestine's own Radio Alhara, we now have hours of music to play...
Elektron’s Song Mode is already making ambient music to chill out to; OS updates at a glance
Elektron's Song Mode for Digitakt, Syntakt, and Digitone chains together patterns beyond the 64-step limit - and there's some beautiful...
Cycling ’74 asked artists to make a collaborative Max drum kit – and shared the patches
Kick, snare, hat, tom, and sequencer - the makers of Max remind us that patching your own drum machine gives...
