Hot on the heels of a new release on Freedom To Spend, we caught up with Japanese artist and composer June Chikuma about ‘Les Archives’, absolute music, and why the beat always comes first.
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Lee Gamble: In A Paraventral Scale
‘In A Paraventral Scale’ is the first part of ‘Flush Real Pharynx’, a triptych being released via Hyperdub throughout 2019, accompanied by a new audio-visual live show. According to Gamble, the work is a “sonic documentary”, aiming to explore the “three stages of the Semioblitz” – the aggressive onslaught of visual and sonic stimuli of contemporary cities and virtual spaces.
Premiere: Bass Clef – neon-joy threads
31st January will see Slip release ‘111 angelic MIDI cascade‘, the first Bass Clef full length since 2012’s ‘Reeling Skullways‘. Largely veering away from the disheveled
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Eliza McCarthy & Mica Levi: Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall
The six piano pieces contained within ‘Slow Dark Green Murky Waterfall’ are an attempt by Mica Levi and Eliza McCarthy to emulate the imagery embodied in the track titles, turning what would be arbitrary word combinations into vivid, achingly poetic musical responses.
Tim Hecker with the Konoyo Ensemble and Kara-Lis Coverdale at The Barbican
Daryl Worthington shares his thoughts on the digital and organic sonics that he experienced last weekend at Tim Hecker’s and Kara-Lis Coverdale’s performance at the Barbican’s main hall.
Moscow based producer Kate NV talks up her new album on RVNG Intl.
Following the recent release of для FOR on RVNG Intl, Kate NV has collaborated with visual artist Sasha Kulak on a short film to accompany the album. Inverted Audio caught up with her to learn about the process that brought the record to both wax and screen.
Sculpture: Nearest Neighbour
The graphic novel format pulls Sutherland’s visuals away from their usual spinning zoetropic prints. No longer produced for display on a constantly spinning turntable, his images have a greater sense of momentum by being allowed to evolve over the static page.
Reel-To-Reel: Ramjac Corporation talks up ‘Cameroon Massif’ ahead of Farr Festival 2018
Daryl Worthington caught up with Ramjac Corporation, aka Paul Chivers, ahead of the reissue of his seminal 12 inch Cameroon Massif and highly anticipated live reel-to-reel set at the Inverted Audio curated stage “Campfire Headphase” at Farr Festival 2018.
GAS: Rausch
If new album Rausch is music of the forest, it’s a forest existing in the laws of time, physics and narrative found in a Christopher Nolan movie. Where earlier GAS records tethered beats and orchestral samples to a dub techno groove, here the instrumentation often feels like it has been cut away from gravity to orbit erratically through and over the beat.
Premiere: Shy Layers – 15 and 4
From modular improvisation to vocalists recruited through Craigslist, Shy Layers ‘Midnight Marker‘, released May 25th on Tim Sweeney’s Beats In Space, had an unusual creation. The record is
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Pablo’s Eye: Spring Break
The 8 tracks here feel assembled as much as arranged, designed as much as composed. Sounds have undoubtedly been picked for their audio quality, but they’ve been layered on the canvass in the way a painter uses colours.
Belong: October Language
Twelve years after its original release, Belong’s debut ‘October Language’ gets it first vinyl pressing courtesy of John Elliot’s Spectrum Spools label. The reissue launches the record into a new context, shedding new light on both its predecessors and what came after.
EditedArts to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Radiophonic Workshop at The Cause, London
To mark the 60th Anniversary of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, EditedArts will present RADIOPHONIC, a day long mini-festival in London on Saturday 21st April. Taking place
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Discover how Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton excavated the Music and Poetry of the Kesh
Staff writer Daryl Worthington caught up with Moe Bowstern and Todd Barton to find out more behind bringing Ursula K. Le Guin’s Music and Poetry of the Kesh to life, and the enduring impact of the ground-breaking novelist.
Alva Noto & Anne-James Chaton live at The Barbican
Staff writer Daryl Worthington shares his experience of UNIEQAV at The Barbican, a new audio-visual performance from artist and musician Alva Noto featuring French sound poet Anne-James Chaton.
Brett Naucke: The Mansion
In the four years since ‘Seeds’, his debut full length, Brett Naucke has produced a slew of cassette releases that have seen his music drift into a vivid, synthetic esotericism. Constantly in flux between ambient beauty and a cracked electronic reality, ‘The Mansion’ is new age music for the era of biometrics and online dating.