Much of the discussion in the midst of Global uprising to end white supremacy has been how record labels and artists can use their platform to aid this work. Many labels and artists have donated their proceeds towards organizations that support the ends of Black Lives Matter. Further discussion has taken place on how white …
“Shizzo” by the Norwegian noise / experimental artist Skurr (Øivind Idsø). According to Skurr the 5 song album Gniss that “Shizzo” is found on “is an attempt to both respect and disrespect tape music, electroacoustics and those french electronic experimentalists we all (well, some of us) love.” On it we hear broad influences of heavy …
tometotheweathermachine · Matthew Ryals I sit down with electronic artist Matthew Ryals to discuss his early childhood in rural Arkansas in a Conservative Christian home, early musical discoveries, studying classical guitar and his move into modular synth work and recent embrace and experiment with creating pop music with the tools of the bleepers and bloopers. …
Ruben Kotkamp, the Dutch composer and experimental artist, work with “Untitled in Chrome 01” is inherently experiential, concerned more with evoking a physical or emotional response rather than an intellectual one. Currently he is mostly interested in physicality and objectivity in a sonic context. By employing techniques from psychoacoustics, synesthetic art and non-linear composition he …
gazelle(s) play an intricate, emotionally volatile post-rock that never fails to hit a nerve. Compared fondly to the sadly defunct futurerecordings output, Red Stars Theory and The Ascent of Everest , the inclusion of neo-classical elements and heavy synths on “Sunset Over Harvest” creates deeper incisions into the emotional polarities on this song and opens …
“Friends” by the St. Petersburg Russia ambient duo Foarm is a deeply dark, deep, melodic music full of sorrow, which nevertheless possesses a great beauty. This great beauty comes from several places. I love the buried vocals underneath the composition, the shimmering and distorted guitar and tonal shifts that tilt into the light despite the …
Chicago-based experimental artist William Sanford describes “American Dada (Election Year)” as “absurdist, dadaist, weird and aggressive”. Hell yeah. The result is a strangely submerged composition that ties together heavy auto-tune, distorted vocal samples, delay heavy percussion and Memphis style triplet hi-hats and totally fried synth leads. A murky, drugged out composition whose relationship to the …
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Dutch composer Winterdagen has created a subtly growing and building composition that stitches together old synthesizer and effects to draw out the inherent emotion of clean piano tones dropped into the middle of a drone-heavy composition. Multiple musical voices swarm and bloom underneath this steady melodic movement as “Phase In” gradually accrues weight and majesty. …
In this stately and downright majestic composition by the Greek musician Thanos Christodoulou, “Doppler” tackles a knotty sense of Steve Reich rhythmic minimalism beneath a stirring neo-classical composition that starts and stops on a dime without any flagging momentum. The visual accompaniment by Theo Tagholm, a London-based artist who created the video “playing” with real …
Future Islands member and ambient artist William Cashion’s latest output recorded in The Outer Banks in North Carolina imagines if these recordings existed outside of time itself. If, in fact, these sounds were part of a song that had no beginning or end. A continuous ribbon of sounds that “Triple Ocean”, in essence, samples from. …