Postcards from Italy...
“Franz Rosati is a sound and media artist, focusing his research on real-time A/V, Visual Music projects and installations following an aesthetic idea based on discontinuity ...
Hauschka: The Meanin...
German pianist and composer Volker Bertelmann, better known as Hauschka, has won acclaim from many different quarters for his transpositions of the rhythms and structures ...
Peter Broderick and ...
The so-called ‘modern classical’ scene has furnished the world with a number of interesting and highly praised artists in recent years, but few have garnered ...
Interview with 0 (Sy...
0 is a collective based around a core of three French musicians, though it expands and shrinks to accommodate different projects. Representing the band at ...
Jacaszek: Hidden Rea...
On December 6, Michal Jacaszek released Glimmer, an unexpected siege of contrasts: frailty and force. Stillness and momentum. Ancient baroque instrumentation, and up-to-the-second processing methods. ...
Simon Scott Intervie...
Simon Scott’s latest record “Bunny” turned quite a few ears when it was released on Miasmah late last year, adding a darkly cinematic vibe to ...
Postcards From Italy...
The next chapter in the 'Postcards From Italy' series sees Gianmarco travel to Venice for an in-depth interview with sound artist Enrico Coniglio...
A Rare Occurrence, W...
It’s late 2008, and Dag Rosenqvist asks Aaron Martin for a cello part for his then work-in-progress, ‘The Black Sun Transmissions’…
Sounds and Textures:...
In late 2010 12k released “Monocoastal”, an album by Portland, Oregon-based musician and multimedia artist Marcus Fischer. The CD edition sold out within weeks, and ...
Stephan Mathieu / Ta...
Last November, Stephan Mathieu and Taylor Deupree were invited to play together at the Semibreve festival in Braga. As I was covering the festival for ...
Qluster: The Low Dow...
It would probably take a full book to write about legendary ambient/avant-garde collective Kluster formed by Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius and Conrad Schnitzler in 1969. ...
Simon Finn – P...
Hidden by the night, hold up your dream And be free - take flight No one may watch you in... ...Dreams don't be frightened by what you might ...
Echo Park: The Willa...
An Interview with Davin Chong and Joseph Edward from Willamette whose recent LP “Echo Park” is one of the standout ambient albums of 2011...
Christian Fennesz In...
The morning after a haunting performance at Semibreve Festival in Braga, I meet Christian Fennesz for coffee to talk about the concert, the recent EP ...
Carsten Nicolai Inte...
A couple of weeks ago, German multi-disciplinary artist and Raster-Noton co-founder Carsten Nicolai played a mesmerizing audio-visual set at Semibreve Festival in Braga. I caught ...
Postcards from Italy...
Talking to Alessio Ballerini spurred my interest in the work of the Italian Archive of Sonic Landscapes, AIPS, which, while still in its infancy has ...
Interview with Gordo...
"Her art in this piece is obscure, slow, difficult and sometimes agonizing. But it is never the grand agony of stately images and sets. It ...
Postcards from Italy...
Roman based sound artist Alessio Ballerini, explores real and imaginary landscapes by using field recordings, guitar, piano and digital composition, so that the sound finds ...
Danny Paul Grody Int...
Where to begin, to introduce an article about Danny Paul Grody? Where to start? A founding member of iconic San Francisco act Tarentel, member of Temporary Residence ...
Postcards from Italy...
Based in Rome, Elisabetta Luciani, aka Elisa Luu, is a musician and the co-founder of La Bèl, one of an increasing number of Italian netlabels ...
Postcards from Italy...
Garibaldi-Isola, a rapidly mutating district in the heart of Milan, is home to Die Schachtel, a record label/publishing house specialising in electronic/concrete/avant-garde music, sound poetry ...
Nils Frahm – F...
'Originally I wanted to do my neighbours a favour by damping the sound of my piano. If I want to play piano during the quiet ...
Jóhann Jóhannsson ...
“Icelandic-born composer Jóhann Jóhannsson’s debut album for FatCat’s 130701 imprint, ‘The Miners’ Hymns’ is a film score from a collaborative project based around the weighty ...
3ofmillions – ...
3ofmillions are a Sydney electro-acoustic improvising trio who take a multitude of influences from a multitude of sources, generating unique boundary defying textural material best ...
Postcards from Italy...
Nicola Ratti lives and works in Milan. He works as an architect in Gru Architetti, a multidisciplinary team. He runs the art / installation branch ...
PIAS REACTION: NORMA...
Everyone was shocked by recent events in London, and those involved in independent music were even more shocked to hear about the by now well ...
Austin Buckett ̵...
The sun’s creeping down these curtains, A blind shutter’s Stuttered shine. - J. Hayes Austin Buckett is probably best known to readers of Fluid for his role in experimental jazz ...
Postcards from Italy...
There's nothing official about The Lift. No programme, no website, no phone number. One gets the address and all the relevant info by replying to ...
