Wouter Jaspers seamlessly navigates his daily life as a sound artist, instrument designer, researcher and experimenter. He creates tools to explore both the audible and inaudible frequencies of our planet, focusing on the upper atmosphere, electromagnetic fields, the Earth’s natural radio frequencies and even our own body radiation.
Published July, 2025
At this point AI is not just a particular technology, it’s a whole cultural-historical moment. Any music dealing with AI is dealing with that, whether it likes it or not.
Published July, 2025
Pedro Ramírez became interested in erinleehong's soundworld when he first saw her work, titled "home". In it she drew the floor plan of the only apartment she’s ever felt at home by using the graphic interface of Pure Data, the popular sound coding environment.
Published July, 2025
Across a discography that resists easy categorization, Rrose has long pursued a singular aesthetic. As one of the protagonists of minimal techno, Rrose bridges club music, and avant-garde composition methods, enriching their enigmatic tracks with psychoacoustic detail, and ambiguous qualities.
Published July, 2025
In the southernmost territories of South America, the nomadic platform Terra Ignota provides a new approach to exploring through radical listening and collective unlearning. For over a decade, Terra Ignota has challenged conventional methodologies, replacing fixed questions with the fluid act of walking, listening and engaging with the landscape.
Published July, 2025
It’s one of the most educational books I’ve ever read about music (and I’ve read an awful lot of music books): “Rip It Up and Start Again”, music journalist Simon Reynolds’ comprehensive post-punk bible. The great indie group Lifeguard sound as if they have studied this book intensively.
Published July, 2025
As far as I’m concerned, most artists and fans of a given genre are fairly content with the name they have for the kind of music they are involved in. Punks are proud to be punks, pop-music lovers can hardly argue that their current pop-icons are making popular music, and I have never met a musique concrète fan complaining about this very French term.
Published July, 2025
Gabriela de Mola runs the Argentinian publishing house Dobra Robota, which since 2016 (as she herself defines it) has been publishing non-technical music books in Spanish, using music as a starting point for thinking about people, societies and history itself. It covers a very wide thematic spectrum, ranging from more traditional genres like rock to sonic experimentation, unexpected translations, the recovery of hidden voices from Argentina’s experimental music scene, listening practices, field recording and sound recycling.
Published July, 2025
“Complexity, polyphony, brokenness,” is Heiner Goebbels‘ answer to the question of what music must contain in order to fascinate him. “And it always has to be a confrontation with something foreign to me.
Published July, 2025
Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her quadraphonic performances, characterized by their physical affect, seek a cathartic effect through the interplay of psychoacoustics, the perception of rhythmic structures and the interchange of noise and melody.
Published June, 2025
Digital streaming platforms (DSPs) are mighty. The best known player is obviously Spotify.
Published June, 2025
There is a new genre in town: punchier than your average Billboard Top whatever queen, and witchier than anything these days; it would be like a warehouse rave party if everyone cared to dance with each other while holding hands. Where did it come from, what does it sound like, and who are these folks? Tag along and let’s find out.
Published June, 2025
We are living in difficult times, or maybe we always have been. It feels like every conflict in the world is a palimpsest of people suffering, fighting and resisting for their lives.
Published June, 2025
The fact that Cologne is internationally known as a city of new music is largely due to the WDR studio for electronic music. For 50 years, the studio attracted an international avant-garde of composers.
Published April, 2025
Daniyal Ahmed is a musician, ethnomusicologist, music enthusiast and founder of the honiunhoni label from Karachi based in Pakistan. The label started as a blog gathering recordings of regional classical music from Pakistan, but quickly evolved into a full-fledged platform for publishing and promoting local artists.
Published April, 2025
While “Merhem” was an album about healing, on the follow-up album “AKKOR”, Melike Şahin reflects on childhood traumas and difficult relationships, and also the pressures of her newfound fame. A constant: her songs remain hymns for the fight of especially women in Turkey.
Published March, 2025
The reputation of Hyperdub, one of UK’s most celebrated labels for underground electronica, precedes this article. What began in 2004 in the hands of Steve Goodman aka Kode9, fueled largely by his time with the early dubstep scene in the UK, celebrated its 20 years in 2024 with a sprawling tour that presented its crew in varying constellations.
Published March, 2025
Stefan Schneider is a prominent figure in the contemporary Düsseldorf scene. Although this statement may sound clichéd, it accurately reflects the musician’s extensive experience.
Published January, 2025