Experimental Frequencies

Cock & Swan – Stash

Cock & Swan ...

Have you ever experienced that moment of clarity when a dream becomes a lucid one? The feeling is uncanny as one explores their subconscious with ...

Pimmon / Jon Mueller: Live Session

Pimmon / Jon Mueller...

I wonder what people passing by the large glass walls of Café OTO on Wednesday would have made of the strange spectacle inside. Would they ...

Hitting all the right notes | An encounter with Yann Novak

Hitting all the righ...

Putting together an audio-visual exhibit, an audio screening room and a live event is an undertaking that requires time, dedication and attention to details. The ...

The Arnolfini Presents: Jon Mueller, Pimmon, The Organ Octet & Syntjuntan

The Arnolfini Presen...

Jon Mueller and Pimmon headline an evening of immersive and radically different approaches to music production: Swans, Wilco and Bon Iver affiliate Mueller performs a ...

James Murray – Solace

James Murray –...

For one reason or another all of this material has caught me off-guard lately, in some hard to define way. Often it's in the lonely, ...

Monolyth & Cobalt: The Outlined Crossing Seasons Vol.II

Monolyth & Coba...

A mix session to conciliate experimental music and the contemporary to try and find bridges between post-rock, classical, electronic and world music... To confront, to ...

Three:Four Selection

Three:Four Selection...

three:four records will soon celebrate its third birthday. This music selection gives us the opportunity to look back on the records that made us what ...

Nuojuva – Sunnuntai

Nuojuva – Sunn...

13 tracks compiled one Sunday in the late afternoon, inspired by the dimming light behind the window. - Olli Aarni

Justinas Mikulskis: Secret Thirteen

Justinas Mikulskis: ...

The selection is based on the academic perspective of field recording, drone, noise and experimental musical styles. Sinister intensive atmospheres are constantly being fused with ...

Will Montgomery / Robert Curgenven – Split

Will Montgomery / Ro...

“Putting vinyl out these days is a romantic thing. Otherwise no one would do it anymore”, once said Ricardo Villalobos in a very insightful interview ...

Bersarin Quartett: II

Bersarin Quartett: I...

Comparable effects can bring back pain for artists; they sporadically duck out of hard graft because of apathy to monotony. Sometimes technique blinkerdness is even ...

Film Scores Vol. VI: Olan Mill – Soundtrax

Film Scores Vol. VI:...

I often watch films, but rarely pursue their soundtracks. I personally find that a piece of music created for visuals and narrative is often left ...

Unnamed Soundsculpture

Unnamed Soundsculptu...

The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. ...

Vieo Abiungo – Thunder May Have Ruined the Moment

Vieo Abiungo –...

Thunder May Have Ruined the Moment begins like any orchestral performance would, with a brief volume and tune check, some uncombed harmonies, the single drum ...

Greenland

Greenland...

In Greenland there’s a myth, Telling about a woman, On the bottom of the ocean...

Konntinent – Closer Came the Light

Konntinent – C...

So, I’ll be the first to admit I haven’t really come on board with the analogue synth revival...I keep reading about extended synth jams, and ...

Hibernate At St John the Baptist in the Wilderness

Hibernate At St John...

This morning when I switched on the computer - the map for St John's was looking at me. Of all the improbable places we've visited ...

Stare

Stare...

Erased Tapes label mates Ólafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm record and mix their first collaborative record between Reyjkjavík and Berlin as a surprise release for ...

Snapshots From The Netherlands: Fryslân

Snapshots From The N...

The ice beneath my feet is singing: high-pitched, grainy crackles, underpinned by a deep low thud. A very deep low thud. Brush away the snow ...

Matteo Uggeri / Luca Mauri / Francesco Giannico – Pagetos

Matteo Uggeri / Luca...

The fourth instalment in the 'Between The Elements' series, Pagetos begins with the early crackles of ice forming on trees, treating the wee small hours ...

eRikm – Transfall

eRikm – Transf...

For the past twenty years or so, Erik Malton, aka eRikm, has been producing highly complex musique concrète works, often combining electronics and acoustic instruments. ...

Sean McCann – Sincere World

Sean McCann – ...

Sincere World is a collection of gently unspooling instrumentals by Sean McCann. Bowed guitars and electric violins circle and repeat, aided by almost-vocal tones that ...

Konntinent – Kiruna

Konntinent – K...

Continued Hibernation deliberations and ruminations on the winter months from the ever prolific Anthony Harrison and his first full length for the label under the ...

Celer and Machinefabriek, Kleefstra | Bakker | Kleefstra live in The Hague

Celer and Machinefab...

Tucked away in a corner of a residential area in The Hague is Studio Loos, a workspace, laboratory, and public presentation space for electroacoustic music, ...

Artist Profile: Sue Paraskeva

Artist Profile: Sue ...

This may just be one of the most beautiful films we have ever posted on Fluid! Many thanks to our right hand man Tui (Orla ...

Cafe OTO Session: Stephan Mathieu / Tashi Wada

Cafe OTO Session: St...

According to the field of cognitive neuroscience, all animals, humans included, when offered a choice, would go for a small, short-term reward over their large, ...

En – Already Gone

En – Already G...

A universal definition of what is “beautiful” will probably remain eternally elusive. Different tastes, different cultures, backgrounds and a myriad of other factors play into ...

Max Bondi – Convolution

Max Bondi – Co...

“This is uncompromising machine music, but with a melodic edge, rhythmical but irregular, ‘electrical’ rather than electronic.”

A great deal of opposites or inversions : An interview with Mimosa | Moize

A great deal of oppo...

The collaborative duo Mimosa | Moize, comprised of Martin J. Thompson & Lucia H. Chung, exercises restraint and precision in their approach to minimalism and ...

Kleefstra / Bakker / Kleefstra – Griis

Kleefstra / Bakker /...

Poetry, soundwaves: stewed - business as usual for the Kleefstra brothers. "Piipisijllling", Jan Kleefstra's collab with fellow Dutchman Machinefabriek, caught many ears back in 2008. ...