Festival: L.E.V. 2025 Gijón – Sound, audiovisual & digital creation programme highlights advance
Text by CLOT Magazine The first batch of artists for L.E.V. Festival Gijón has just been revealed. With the support of Gijón’s Town Council and the Principality of Asturias, the festival will host a four-day line-up in different spaces and cultural centres. From 1 to 4 May 2025, live shows including local, national, and international artists […]
FIBER x The Rest Is Noise 2025: the healing power of sound & storytelling
Text by Katazyna Jankovska Every ritual in ancient times used technology. Drumming and percussion usually played central roles in those practices. With a symbolic meaning attached, percussion was used in the rituals of the transitions of social life, the transmission of important messages, the passage of solar time, and many others. Today, electronic music continues this […]
In conversation: Tereza Havlíková & Katharina von Hagenow on ‘Passing Data – Upcycling the Digital’
Text by CLOT Magazine More than half of all data stored in clouds is no longer in use. In impenetrable quantities, data loses meaning and can be described as garbage that consumes energy and other resources. But what if we could upcycle this unused mass of data? The exhibition Passing Data — Upcycling the Digital […]
CARSTEN NICOLAI, experimentation, technology & dissolution
Interview by Maria Orciuoli In the seminal 1968 Artforum essay ‘Systems Esthetics,’ [1] Jack Burnham proposed a view of art as a tool that extends human capabilities. He argued that the value of art lies in its ability to reveal relationships. I often think of Burnham’s words when I encounter the work of Carsten Nicolai. […]
Insight: ‘Under Construction’, Geumhyung Jeong’s machines of intimacy & resistance
Text by CLOT Magazine At the ICA in London, Geumhyung Jeong’s Under Construction presented, from September to December 2024, a world where the boundaries between humans and machines are neither blurred nor entirely separate. Through sculpture, video, and performance, Jeong invited the audience into an environment where homemade robotic beings, built from skeleton models, DIY hardware, and spare parts, […]
ANDREW PEKLER, the confluence of nature & digital soundscapes
Interview by Neshy Denton Tristes Tropiques was Andrew Pekler’s first album to catch my attention. It felt like a mosaic of gurgling substance, pouring meaning into the intangible. This interview peers into his world, where he wanders through the experimental side of music and sifts through the ambient realm where sound and silence intertwine. His relationship […]
Insight: How L.E.V. Matadero redefines the possibilities of visual electronica, extended realities & storytelling
Text by Irem Erkin As the boundaries of art continue to expand, the LEV Festival symbolises the fusion of technology and creativity. Renowned for its pioneering role in digital and immersive art, the festival invites audiences to explore cutting-edge experiences that challenge perceptions and reimagine storytelling. The 2024 edition of L.E.V., held at Matadero Madrid, […]
MATTHEW COSSLETT, highlighting the nuanced interplay between digital & physical spaces
Interview by Eleni Maragkou In uncertain times, punctuated by volatile temporalities as a result of digital mediation, the feeling of unrootedness can become overwhelming. Familiar anchors to history, land, and physical presence are destabilised by the ephemerality and opacity of digital and media infrastructures, fragmenting our sense of self and place. How does technology reshape […]
Set it & play: The audiovisual carnivalesque of AXONTORR
Text by Natalie Mariko Lights down. Two figures carrying gun cases walk to the centre. A screen flashes nightmarish behind, landscapes morphing cataclysmic as sounds rush, slapping like the strike of a meteor. A sonic war plays out between sweet melodic sweeps and a crack which seems to have opened up in the sky above […]
Assimulation, a film exploring a simulated world of AI & the idea of being subsumed by technological changes
Text by Les Garçons Our taxi pulled up to the hotel, and we stepped out into the street, still wet from the rain the night before. As the taxi driver unloaded our suitcases, we looked at the tall, imposing building. The beehive of windows adorning the facade resembled a geometric cocoon that seemed like something […]
Event: FIBER x The Rest Is Noise 2025, identity, ritual & healing
Text by CLOT Magazine Following their traditional New Year’s gathering, FIBER Festival and The Rest Is Noise open the year 2025 with a showcase of unique acts from the international festival circuit in Amsterdam alongside emerging talent from the Netherlands. For this year (and their 8th undertaking this collaboration), the teams behind the two institutions […]
Audio essays as multiverse portals: Sonic Faction, By the North Sea & the practice of anti-linear time
Text by Mila Azimonti What if audio essays had the power to transport and transform us? What if they could carry us through shifting temporalities, unveiling pathways to unearth buried and ancestral memories? Could they facilitate transcendental experiences that disclose deeper layers of meaning about our reality and our very selves? Think of a sociological […]
Event: Sunday School x CLOT Magazine present a very ~noisy~ Christmas
Text by CLOT Magazine Sunday School and CLOT Magazine launch their first in a run of exciting collaborative events, with a very ~noisy~ Christmas party on December 19th at The Glove That Fits in London. Sunday School has taken London’s punk, noise, experimental, and DIY scenes by a storm this year with biannual all-dayers and […]
Metropolitan Aesthetics in the Age of Transparency, Eliott Paquet’s ‘Ceci Tuera Cela’
Text by Gabriella Gasparini My first month in Paris was crowned by an encounter with the city’s aesthetic libidinality. As I entered its streets and perforated its belly, I basked in its excesses. Piss-strewed alleys and keys to midnight parks, wine-spilt shirts and bon vivant prolapsing into the streets from the dim-lit haunts that dot […]
MICHAEL SALU, on ‘Cybernetics, or Ghosts? — Stories from Myth to AI,’ Subtext Recordings’ latest literary anthology
Interview by Christopher Michael Reading Italo Calvino’s essay Cybernetics or Ghosts is an eerily prescient experience. In the essay, Calvino boldly asserts that, in the near future, a machine would be able to take the place of the writer. Specifically, Calvino believes that a “poetic-electronic machine” might soon create poetry as good as a human. […]
Diasporas Now’s ‘Tecnobrujxs’, intrinsically united techno-magic-resistances
Text by Ludovica Bulciolu The land retreats, the water beneath her, turquoise and blue, as if an enormous sky had cried from the surrounding rocks and opened at her feet. The steps, irregular and infinitely small, make circles, half dancing, half swimming, closer and closer to each other until dissolving into an ancient darkness. Across […]
Intelligent Music, unearthing the human intention behind vintage algorithmic sequencing software
Text by Kristen Roos These are some of the qualities that identify what Americans call ‘smart software´- a new breed of music software designed to let computers play a more active role in the creation of your music. [1] Recently, I’ve been digging through online archives of magazines that focus on electronic music and technology, […]
SEMIBREVE festival 2024: The Day After, ode to an unforgettable experience
Text by Irem Erkin Braga, a city that fuses contemporary vibrancy with deep historical roots, serves as the perfect backdrop for the Semibreve Festival. Walking through its streets, you feel the layers of tradition alongside the pulse of something new and exciting. It’s a fitting setting for Semibreve, a festival that celebrates cutting-edge electronic music […]
Insight: ‘Hollow Bodies’ video installation at Chronic Illness 23
Text by Piotr Bockowski Aborted speculation, informed by a mutagenic array of strategies of online image creation. Do media contribute to changes in human reproductive strategies, shifting from sexual coupling to postsexual replication? Voyeuring Autojektor’s Hollow Bodies video installation at Chronic Illness 23 coming up on the 16th of November fertile with parasite brood, undead […]
Insight: Navigating through pixelated realities in the age of AI with Simple Noodle Art
Text by Meritxell Rosell In a striking exploration of digital aesthetics, the Taiwanese art collective Simple Noodle Art delves into the intricate world of pixels with their video installation, How To Improve Photo Quality by AI | Noise Reduction, Super-resolution Tutorial. This immersive piece unravels the complexities of image enhancement through artificial intelligence, highlighting both […]