Op & Ed
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,
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
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
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
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
Event series: ‘National Grid’ sound installation by Disinformation Expanded_Music ‘Into the Depths’
Text by Joe Banks Pulsing sub-bass audio suggests associations with the most primal anthropomorphic element in music – the rhythms of the human heart, with
Meakusma Festival, a passionate ode to 20 years of outlander music
From the visceral heart of London’s punk, noise, experimental, and DIY scenes, a unique biannual event series has emerged with force this year. Just days away from its third iteration (and the second in London), Sunday School, conceived by Dom Stevenson (aka YAWS), is set to return on August 26th at the iconic New River Studios in North London. The lineup packs a fierce array of bands and live acts featuring heavy hitters like Russell Haswell and Autumns, among many others.
Sunday School, a celebration of art, experimentation & pure devilish creativity
From the visceral heart of London’s punk, noise, experimental, and DIY scenes, a unique biannual event series has emerged with force this year. Just days away from its third iteration (and the second in London), Sunday School, conceived by Dom Stevenson (aka YAWS), is set to return on August 26th at the iconic New River Studios in North London. The lineup packs a fierce array of bands and live acts featuring heavy hitters like Russell Haswell and Autumns, among many others.
Continuation or rupture: Heather Dewey-Hagborg’s multimedia opera ‘Xeno in Vivo’
Throughout Xeno in Vivo, the scientists position CRISPR-enabled gene editing within this aeons-old history of selective breeding — the only mutation, they posit, is the speed at which evolution occurs.
MUTEK Forum as Temporary Utopia — crafting human-centered technological futures & showcasing the future of digital creativity
Text by Sarah Mackenzie & Maurice Jones The 10th edition of MUTEK Forum – MUTEK’s annual assembly and showcase of the future of digital creativity
On how the record label & artistic platform 99CHANTS produce cultural artifacts in the form of images, text & sound
Text by Agata Kik (…) doing music alone is a solitary process that I see as a shelter. Releasing others’ music instead is made of
Deciphering ‘Echoes of the Future: Artistic Interventions’, how artists use narratives & aesthetic practices to explore the environmental crisis
Text by Tuçe Erel, Jenny Alten & Udo Koloska Echoes of the Future: Artistic Interventions is a group exhibition featuring works by Cécile Wesolowski, Jenny
Discussing the history, creative possibilities, ethical & legislative challenges of AI with Lluís Nacenta
Text by Irem Erkin Lluís Nacenta is a curator, writer, musician, and researcher working in the confluence of music, art, technology, and science. He holds
‘Sweet Dreams’, how Marshmallow Laser Feast dig deep into the worlds of appetite, human desire & the evolving landscape of food
Text by Juliette Wallace Most of us have sweet memories of being kids, sitting at the breakfast table propped on our knees and looking up
‘Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today’, on contemporary modes of spectatorship for performance exhibitions, interventions & invocations
Text by Nicholas Burman Around a year ago, I attended an ‘Art and Technology’ panel at a festival. During the event, a co-founder of an
A contemporary Loneliness, exploring the political form loneliness takes within neoliberal societies
Text by Elena Bray & Iacopo Prinetti The research: a project on contemporary Loneliness The pervasive Loneliness [1] and its phantasmal and material presence in
