Curious sound.

Subscribe

Jack Chuter

Jack Chuter

Interview: Ingrid Plum

Interview: Ingrid Plum

Ingrid Plum is a conceptual artist working with sound, voice, space, video, currently based in both Denmark and England. Plangent is her debut record. Much of Plum’s previous work has centred on site-specific installation, which no doubt informs Plangent’s acoustic and environmental awareness; throughout these pieces, I

Review: A Wake A Week - Twelve Days

I’ve spent my last few listens to Twelve Days straining to hear the poem tucked away in the background of the opening track. A woman is reading aloud, her voice raised as if battling the rumble of the wind. I imagine her leaning over the edge of a cliff,

Feature: Animal Music

Feature: Animal Music

Tobias Fischer and Lara Cory run the fantastic Fifteen Questions website, which (as the title suggests) compiles 15-question interviews with all manner of sound artists and musicians. The questions are always attentive yet open, catching that balance between a comprehension of the artist’s work and a humble desire

Review: Ryoko Akama + Bruno Duplant - immobilité

Marbles of feedback roll around tiny pillars of electronic interference, doing their utmost to try and establish a sense of stasis. The surface is never entirely flat. Never entirely balanced. The music tilts gently to the left. There’s a heavy-handed correction attempt. The music swings over to the

Feature: ATTN in 2015

Feature: ATTN in 2015

In 2015, I wrote my first book. Storm Static Sleep is the first to be dedicated to the story of post-rock music, and stands as both my biggest undertaking and my greatest achievement. I spoke to several of my favourite musicians and discovered some of the strangest, most exhilarating

Review: Cheel Ghar - S/T

Cheel Ghar translates from Hindi as “tower of silence”, referring to gigantic circular structures used to dispose of the dead back in the 9th Century by subscribers to the Zoroastrian religion. Bodies would be left in the tower to decay and be scavenged by birds. Gigantic, resilient towers welling with

Review: Stephan Mathieu - Before Nostromo

“Minutes before the Nostromo crew awakes from hypersleep, each member has a dream.” Before Nostromo takes place inside the diegesis of Ridley Scott’s 1979 film Alien. Specifically, it takes place at the beginning of the film, minutes prior to the awakening of the crew. Moments before the introduction of