IFEM: Strange Relaxation in the Northern Wastes
The third IFEM (Inari Festival of Experimental Music) is approaching fast. Between September 5th and 7th, experimental artists and experimental ...
Chocolate Sprinkle Sounds
Torturing the Postman: Stephen Vitiello and Machinefabriek's "Box Music" doesn’t use its inventive concept as an excuse.
CD Feature/ Mathias Delplanque: "L'inondation"
Composing is like gardening: What will happen to these sounds when the composer lets go?
LP Feature/ Esther Venrooy: "The Spiral Staircase"
Sounds with a personality: A burning path along transitory scenes of halucinatory intensity.
LP Feature/ FRANCIS| GUERRA| MATTIN| STERN: "s/t"
Dense, organic scrapescapes: The individual voices of the performers can clearly be discerned at every moment.
CD Feature/ V.A.: "Edition Sonoro"
Variations on "sound evolving in time": A day dream soundtracked by a ghost violin.
Li Tie Qiao: Returns to China's Improvisational Heart
Chinese Sonic Explorer, Improvisor and Composer Li Tie Qiao is leaving his current home of Oslo to return to his ...
Interview with Birchville Cat Motel
“Aren’t ALL descriptive words for music hopelessly inadequate?” Campbell Kneale (aka Birchville Cat Motel) protests in this interview, when faced ...
Cem Güney: Puts Sound-Theories into "Praxis"
After years as a DJ and experimental Trumpet player, Cem Güney is entering a new phase of his colourful career ...
CD Feature/ Luigi Turra: "texture.vitra"
Backwards translations: Turra has chosen to place his sounds carefully.
15 Questions to Mico Nonet
After decades of experimentation and cross-over projects both of the more intricate and explicit kind, composers and sound sculptors have ...
CD Feature/ Ulna: "Frcture"
Powerbooks for instruments: Flexible and funky 21st century electronica.
CD Feature/ Aranos: "Koryak Mistress stakes Golden Sky"
A shifting body of sound: Tonality is tweaked and tweezed into a slightly different form.
Richard Barbieri: Stranger Inside, Deep Moods Outside
In just over a month, Keyboard wizzard Richard Barbieri will be back with his second solo full-length in a career ...
CD Feature/ Janek Schaefer: "Alone at Last" & "Extended Play"
Schaefer has long put his three-armed turntable aside: If hope could become music, this is what it would sound like.