Exquisite collage for circuit-bent toys.
Crucial Listening #50: Ingrid Plum
Choral jet engines, childhood dictaphones, not giving a fuck. The vocalist, composer and improviser discusses three important albums.
Review: Yiorgis Sakellariou – Nympholepsy
With vocalist Savina Yannatou playing source material, Sakellariou explores the muddling of bodily autonomy and divine influence.
Review: en creux – PHASE
Fierce and fresh no-input improvisations for MXR Phase 90 pedal and a Tapco MIX 260 FX mixer.
Review: Sebastian Maria – L.L.
Experimental electronics as a piping hot thwack, stripped of the mediation of meaning.
Crucial Listening #49: Siavash Amini
Monolithian matter, melting Arvo Pärt in a pan, finding the hidden trumpets. The Tehran-based composer discusses three important albums.
Review: ndr0n – Black
Afonso Proenca employs generative processes to scrutinise the artifice of dance music and social behaviour.