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Review: Radionics Radio – An Album Of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies

“Delawarr’s Multi-Oscillator was not intended for purposes as frivolous as music. It was designed to ascertain combinations of frequencies that related to specific psychological conditions, ailments and their therapeutic equivalents. Whilst concentrating on a thought, a rubber radionic detector pad connected to the instrument would be rubbed whilst turning

Interview: Laurence Tompkins

Interview: Laurence Tompkins

For details on attending the two secret Bournemouth shows on April 23rd, get in touch here. So in a nutshell, what is Handy? It’s four days of gigs. I’ve written a piece for David Bainbridge on six-string banjo and I’m playing two saucepans, a harmonica and weird

Live: Nathaniel Mann + Dead Rat Orchestra - Rough Music @ Ovada Warehouse, 29/03/2014

Live: Nathaniel Mann + Dead Rat Orchestra - Rough Music @ Ovada Warehouse, 29/03/2014

“Play the long notes as if you’ve forgotten the melody.” Indeed, they hang like a boat pushed out from dock and left to drift, or like an open mouth waiting for words to come. Daniel Merrill is playing an alternate version of “Scarborough Fair” on solo violin, to which

Interview: Nathaniel Mann

Interview: Nathaniel Mann

This performance will mark the end of your Embedded residency. Could you take us through what you’ve been up to the past 18 months? 18 months is a long time, so I’ve had the opportunity to do quite a lot. It’s a Sound And Music programme, and

Live: The New Experimentalists @ Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, 14/01/2014

Live: The New Experimentalists @ Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, 14/01/2014

I walk in, and the atmosphere of a performance in progress swallows me whole. The Queen Elizabeth Hall is unquestionably an auditorium – luxury tiered seating, low lighting, a high sloped ceiling somewhere up there in the darkness – and its formidable call for silence is a roar in itself. But it’

Live: CoH @ BE OPEN Sound Portal in Trafalgar Square, London, 19/09/12

While the BE OPEN Sound Portal may have adopted a bizarre presence in amongst one of London’s most iconic spaces – it is, after all, some sort of gigantic hockey puck plonked not far from the foot of Nelson’s Column – it’s also a faceless one, visually speaking. What

Feature: Befriending Sound

In a space barely bigger than your average living room, Robert Curgenven and his audience of twenty sit surrounded by speakers in absolute pitch black. Robert himself is at the front, legs crossed, operating various Walkman CD players by light of a mobile phone, triggering drones and field recordings that