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...
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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...
Premiere – Noise in the Key of Life: Lukasz Polowczyk meditates on music and listening
A funeral with violins, a hospital, a broken piano, a diesel engine, a farewell - artist Łukasz Polowczyk's new work...
Morton Subotnick, singing out to new generations, in film premiere this week
Born in LA, known for the West Coast, worked on the East Coast - but this week a stunning portrait...
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...
The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies
Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer...
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...
Thomas Dolby’s 1989 explanation of synthesis with the Muppets and a fly in a box is pretty ingenious
Thomas Dolby on Jim Henson's little-known The Ghost of Faffner Hall manages an explanation of synthesis basics that is surprisingly...
