Experimental

We are not blessed with all that much interesting Japanese experimental electronic music, but occasinally they do show up. Some time ago we reported on Kyoka but today we will listen in on singer and improviser Phew who is out with new material. Phew, a Japanese singer and analogue electronics […]

Electronics artist Phew continues her experimental journey

19 Jul, 2021 in Art / Experimental / Music tagged Electronic music / Experimental / Holger Czukay / Jaki Liebezeit / Phew / Ryuichi Sakamoto by admin

Are you getting enticed by the dark and the beautiful? Music that is both bombastic and ambient? Well then there’s a good chance you will enjoy the generative arts produced by 404.zero. Kristina and Aleksandr create modern generative art and innovative tools that raise the bar on the synergistic possibilities […]

At the core of generative arts with 404.zero

15 Apr, 2021 in Art / Experimental / Music / Synthesizers tagged 404.zero / Experimental / Generative music by admin

As Europe hopefully is about to open up many of us are eager to get going with life. And the new exhibition at The Strand will be something to really look forward to. The innovative Japanese artist Ryoji Ikeda is bringing London a brand new installation, and it’s going to […]

The Strand will host an ultra-immersive Ryoji Ikeda exhibition

25 Mar, 2021 in Art / Experimental / Video tagged Art / Exhibition / Experimental / Ryoji Ikeda / The Strand by admin

It’s still summer but that doesn’t stop us from presenting some recently released experimental tracks that pushes the boundaries in electronic music. In this wrap up we have contributions from Pinkcourtseyphone, Drew McDowall, Robin Rimbaud/Ursula Berlot and Katie Gately, plus a bonus synth from v::tol. Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) enlisted the […]

Fresh additions to the world of electronic music

5 Aug, 2020 in Art / Experimental / Music tagged ::vtol:: / Drew McDowall / Electronic music / Experimental / Katie Gatley / Pinkcourtseyphone / Robin Rimbaud / Scanner / Ursula Berlot by admin

A tribe on Facebook called Electronically Yours set out with a challenge to its team members – create a glitch track in one hour. Those who undertook the challenge had to make the song, mix and master within the timeframe and then send it to the gamemaster, who in this […]

Making a complete glitch album in one hour

10 Mar, 2020 in Experimental / Music / Music Production tagged Experimental / Glitch / Ryoji Ikeda / Stereoklang / TEGEL by admin

We have all seen numerous quirky instruments over the years and now it’s time for yet another experimental gadget for music creation. Artiphon originally made a splash with the Instrument 1, a futuristic-looking MIDI controller that raised well over $1,000,000 on Kickstarter. It took a lot of inspiration from the guitar but incorporated […]

Perhaps an Orba for Xmas?

19 Dec, 2019 in Experimental / Music Production tagged Experimental / Music creation / Orba by admin

We have reported before on field recordings and the growing popularity of using these recordings in music productions. Now we may see an ever growing library of natural sounds as Australia pulls off an ambitious project. The A2O will transform environmental science and assessment in Australia, and foster cross-disciplinary research […]

The Acoustic Observatory – Monitoring the unheard

4 Dec, 2019 in Experimental / Music Production / Science tagged A20 / Astronomy / Australia / Experimental / Field recording / NASA / Science by admin

The Store X The Vinyl Factory will present a new exhibition by United Visual Artists called Other Spaces at 180 The Strand this autumn, in collaboration with the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris. Other Spaces features three large-scale installations by the multi-disciplinary collective UVA – Our Time, The Great Animal Orchestra and Vanishing Point. Vanishing Point is an […]

Other Spaces – immersive experiences feat. Massive Attack and James ...

3 Oct, 2019 in Art / Experimental / Music / Science tagged Audiovisual art / Experimental / Installation / James Blake / Massive Attack by admin

Few has the back catalogue of Richie Hawtin and even fewer keep pushing the boundaries like he do, perhaps with the exception of Björk and Prydz (as we have reported on earlier). Now it is time for an audiovisual treat that manifest his progressive thinking. Richie Hawtin announces the next […]

An audiovisual treat from Richie Hawtin

25 Sep, 2019 in Concerts / DJ / Music tagged Concert / Experimental / Richie Hawtin / Techno by admin

If experimentalism had a name in music Miles Davis would certainly be a candidate. The level of innovation in his life’s work is immense and now there is actually a new treat out there for you. Last summer we made a trip to Rome and of course did some decent […]

A hidden gem from Miles Davis

19 Jun, 2019 in Experimental / Music tagged Experimental / Jazz / Miles Davis by admin

The next Outlands tour, which starts Thursday 13 June, will feature Fracture Patterns, the live collaboration between UK duo Semiconductor (made up of Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt) and New York producer Eartheater (alias of Alexandra Drewchin). Semiconductor makes visually and intellectually engaging artworks which explore the material nature of […]

Fracture Patterns

5 Jun, 2019 in Concerts / Experimental / Music / Photography / Video tagged Audiovisual art / Eartheater / Experimental / Semiconductor by admin

London’s Barbican recently launched an exhibition called AI: More Than Human, which showcases the latest developments in creative and scientific applications of AI. One of the installations you may come across is an AI platform called Mimic, which lets you create and remix sounds using AI software. At the installation, Massive […]

Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja goes AI

23 May, 2019 in Experimental / Science tagged AI / Artificial Intelligence / Experimental by admin

Though avatars and other types of artist expressions are fairly common Jumo does it in the spirit of releasing himself of the boundaries between audio and visuals. Four years ago, Clément Leveau gave birth to Jumo, a musical avatar and singular identity, that allowed him to give free rein to his […]

Jumo – a musical avatar and singular identity in music

4 Apr, 2019 in Experimental / Music / Photography / Video tagged Audiovisual art / Clément Leveau / Experimental / Jumo by admin

The idea behind Endel is that your mind responds to ambient noise in different ways — sound can invigorate you, relax you, help you focus, or put you to sleep. We’ve all been there: uplifting music at the gym, a soothing piece to help us sleep or relax — this isn’t […]

Endel – an algorithm that creates music on demand

27 Mar, 2019 in Experimental / Science tagged Alexa / Algorithms / Artificial Intelligence / Experimental by admin

We can´t help it but every time we engage with Caterina it is impossible not to associate with the ex-Japan member Richard Barbieri, although to our knowledge they are not related in any way – apart from the fact that both are highly acclaimed artists and their fascination for synthesizers. […]

Ecstatic Computation

21 Mar, 2019 in Experimental / Music / Synthesizers tagged Ambient / Caterina Barbieri / Experimental / Modular synthesizers by admin

We’ve all seen those images of war and the terror that comes with it. But through the media we’ve also heard the ambient and sometimes disturbing noise that goes with it. Many get terrified others want to explore it further, Nik Nowak is one of the those guys. The Berlin […]

The sound of war

14 Mar, 2019 in Experimental tagged Ambient / Berlin / Experimental / Nik Nowak / Noise / Sound creation / War by admin

It is time to explore what Eastern Europe has to offer when it comes to experimental music. Loads of books has covered the legacy of western electronic and experimental music, so it is about time that we indulge ourselves in what the eastern realms have to offer. Berlin, and Europe […]

400 pages covering experimental music in Eastern Europe

6 Feb, 2019 in Experimental tagged Eastern Europe / Experimental / Sound Exchange by admin

Don’t we all love to experiment with new sounds, well some are taking this quite seriously. As field recordings have become the new hype among electronic artists some prefer to create those unique sounds with test equipment. Like the German synthesist Hainbach for example who explores an early electronic music technique. But […]

Using Lab equipment to make electronic music

30 Jan, 2019 in Experimental / Music Production tagged ::vtol:: / Divina / Experimental / Hainbach / Soma / Telemetron / Zero-gravity by admin

Brian Eno used and coined the term “Generative Music” to describe any music that is ever-different and changing, created by a system. And last year Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers announced a new version of the generative music app, Bloom. But of course it all started much earlier. In ambient music, […]

Infinite loops and generative arts

8 Jan, 2019 in Experimental / Music / Music Production / Science tagged Experimental / Generative music / Minimal Techno by admin

You may, or may not have heard of FLORA, but if you are in to experimental electronic expressions like 4D performances, this one may be for you. FLORA is the collaborative alliance of Melina Åkerman Kvie (AnnaMelina) and Jonas Rönnberg (Varg), two Swedish artists whose works seemingly divert from one […]

FLORA explores sound in 4D and the route to excellence

5 Dec, 2018 in Experimental / Music tagged 4D / Experimental / FLORA / Minimalism by admin

We have done some cherry picking among the latest releases. Material that deserves a little more attention. First one out is an intriguing EP from Sweden. Peder Mannerfeld is at it again with a live recording from Berlin Atonal dubbed Roll the Dice. Live at Berlin Atonal 2017 collects four tracks recorded […]

Peder Mannerfelt’s Atonal performance on new EP, and a bunch ...

3 Oct, 2018 in Music tagged Atonal / Berlin / Einmusik / Electronic music / Experimental / Gabriel Ananda / Jeff Mills / Ljungblut / Nina Kraviz / Peder Mannenfelt / Prodigy / Techno by admin

The use of lasers in music is not new and artists like Jean-Michel Jarre has been experimenting with it for years. But things are progressing and many artists are now now leaning to more autonomous systems – creating their own code to have the audiovisual performances behave in a certain […]

The sound of lasers – The audiovisual experience Espsills

27 Sep, 2018 in Experimental / Music / Science tagged Audiovisual art / Espills / Experimental / Laser by admin

Incorporating elements of video art, dance, and Lena Willikens’ eclectic sonic palette, the duo’s performance is described in a press release as “a socially-conducted, aesthetically-charged experience that whirrs, reels, and metamorphoses as a film playing in the deepest crevice of one’s mind.” Lena Williken has established herself in the forefront […]

Soundtrack – Lena Willikens and Sarah Szczesny to release their ...

15 Aug, 2018 in Experimental / Music tagged Atonal / Audiovisual art / Experimental / Lena Willikens / Phantom Kino Ballett / Sarah Szczesny by admin

Europe’s leading underground festival for experimental electronic music is gearing up. Berlin’s Atonal every year packs an impressive line up of musicians, artists that are pushing the boundaries in electronic music and more. https://berlin-atonal.com/wp-content/themes/berlinatonal/videos/video-1-desktop.mp4 In the second wave of artists for its 2018 edition, which takes place from August 22–26 […]

Berlin is yet again getting prepared for Atonal – Line ...

5 Jul, 2018 in Concerts / DJ / Experimental / Music tagged Atonal / Berlin / Electronic music / Experimental / Festival / Minimal Techno by admin