»Alles neu macht der Mai« (»Everything is new in May«)—this German proverb rings probably more true this year than ever before because Berlin...

Free jazz and improv, punk rock and ... Umm Kulthum? These are the references the Berlin label Zehra mentions in the context of » Al Saher ,« a...

This month, the extremely successful exhibition » Broken Music Vol. 2 « in the Hamburger Bahnhof came to an end. Dealing with the cult around and...

The Berlin-based collective, festival and label Tehran Contemporary Sounds is dedicated to representing Iranian artists from the country and the...

The Leipzig-based artist Anna Schimkat conceived » Brot und Ro-sen « as a sound installation, drawing on interviews with women from the former...

Chromacolor is a new project by Hanno Leichtmann, but many other people can be heard on his self-titled debut album for the Danish label...

» Fiction of the Physical « brings together four or, in the digital version, five pieces by the poet, performer and composer Ellen Zweig from the...

Johan Arrias has played with international greats such as Tetuzi Akiyama and collaborated with numerous members of the Swedish jazz, improvised...

» Battering Rams « brings together four pieces that the electronic music and sound artist Kevin Drumm produced between the years 2000 and 2022 and...

The fact that Kjell Bjørgeengen and Chris Cogburn call this four-part box set » Fear of the Object « is obviously intended as a wink, but the...

» Monument « compiles compositions by Lisa Stenberg that the Swedish composer created especially for (or rather: on) the rare synthesiser EMS...

The Uganda-based Nyege Nyege collective offers a platform for the forward-looking sounds and rhythms of club music trends in Central and East...

In recent years, the organ has been increasingly expanded and some artists have even designed completely new systems that are only loosely based...

On 28 February 2022, the Augsburg-based label attenuation circuit released the compilation » С​т​о​п​! ,« which was to grow steadily until the...

The album » Symposium Musicum « is an act of creative anthropology, which is a necessarily engaged one. In the Slovakian towns of Podolínec,...

Within almost three decades, the »krautfolk« project Staraya Derevnya around Gosha Shtasel has produced the most outlandish blossoms and the...

Eiserne Regel: Keine Ausgabe der Releases des Monats ohne Xenakis-Neuheiten! Wobei » Mein Vater « von Mâkhi Xenakis natürlich schon im Jahr 2015...

Noch bis 18. August widmet die Kunsthalle Düsseldorf einem der innovativsten Adoptivsöhne Berlins eine Ausstellung , die von einer von Gregor...

Und wo wir schon beim Thema DDR sind: Mit » Magnetizdat DDR. Magnetbanduntergrund Ost 1979–1990 « hat das Herausgeber-Trio Alexander Pehlemann,...

»What does tradition mean when the past is tainted by crimes?,« reads the accompanying text to » Rwandan Records .« The album, released via Cedrik...

»Second Editions is coming full circle and is calling it a day,« the Berlin label writes somewhat dryly in the announcement for its latest and...

The label система | system is characterised by a great openness to style and the release of » Mundane Levitation « underlines this once again....

Three years ago, the Arc Light Editions label dedicated a comprehensive exhibition to the artist Ruth Anderson in the form of the anthology »...

Rhythm has always been at the centre of Alejandra Cárdena's releases under the name Ale Hop . This is also the case on » Agua Dulce ,« her...

Anaïs Tuerlinckx only recently released a joint live album with Andrea Ermke, and now the Belgian Berliner-by-choice follows this up with two solo...

When the exhibition » Rooted in Iran ,« curated by Ruth Wiesenfeld, was dedicated to the work of members of the Iranian Female Composers...

Brìghde Chaimbeul emancipates an instrument from all the clichés inscribed on it from the outside by unleashing its intrinsic potential. On her...

Wonderfully megalomaniac: this is how Iannis Xenakis could be described and also this release on the Berlin label Bastille Musique , for which...

It is a comprehensive work with which the trumpeter Franz Hautzinger presents himself on the Viennese label Trost . » Gomberg III​-​V - Airplay...

Grischa Lichtenberger hat sich noch nie damit zufrieden gegeben, in nur einem Medium allein zu arbeiten. Auch » Works for Last Work « ist eine...

» SEASCAPE – polyptych « was born out of a collaboration between Jan Jelinek and the media artist Clive Holden; the Faitiche owner composed...

Berlin-based composer and experimental musician Joseph Kurdika has spent his lockdown days toying around kids' stuff. Or at least that’s what some...

Lakiko belongs to a young generation of Eastern European artists who deal with pre-modern traditions, atrocities of the recent past and...

The music producer and vocalist SABIWA, who now lives in Berlin, has pursued an approach on previous albums that was clearly influenced by the...

The story of each family is also always one about world-historical processes. This is also the case with » 14-20-22 ,« which begins with the words...

What is improvisation? Is it even possible to talk about improvisation and if so, how? The German-language anthology » Aspekte der Freien...

» Sawt, Bodies, Species. Sonic Pluralism in Morocco « began with a twofold mediation, writes the artist, musician and researcher Gilles Aubry in...

The title of » Politics of Curatorship: Collective and Affective Interventions « already makes it clear that editors Monia Acciari and Philipp...

If you try to find out something about the label Tjacktapes , you won't have much success. The name appears on the websites of some mail orders...

Monique Recknagel laid the foundation for Sonic Pieces in March 2008, before the first official release a year after marked the label's proper...

For » Terra ,« Luca Forcucci collected field recordings in Los Angeles, the Brazilian city of Recife and Beirut. The Berlin-based composer and...

With the label Zabte Sote , the artist Ata Ebtekar a.k.a. Sote offers a platform to artists from Iran and the Iranian diaspora. The stylistic...

Andrea Belfi is a busy drummer who is constantly expanding the possibilities of his instrument and is also committed to constant change as an...

» elletsreuef « documents a half-hour performance by echtzeitmusik pioneer Andrea Neumann at the Stockholm festival MONOPIANO in 2021. Neumann...

Already two years ago, CM von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla released » Travelogue [Nepal] ,« an album for which the two had met in Kathmandu,...

The US vocalist and interdisciplinary artist Megan Mitchell has been releasing music under the name Cruel Diagonals for almost five years, and »...

With » Still ,« Peruvian composer Efraín Rozas attempts to break away from the Western paradigm of linearity. Conceived in 2021 during a residency...

The anthology » Les Espaces Électroacoustiques III « promises to offer nothing less than »masterpieces of electroacoustic music.« The third issue...

Music can transcend space, but it is never fully placeless. Mayssa Jallad exploits the potential of this supposed problem on » Marjaa: The Battle...

With » Affects and aesthetic speculations ,« the architect and sound artist Nicola di Croce translates a question that had been on his mind into...

The US label Important continues to work intensively on making Pauline Oliveros' broad oeuvre available again for the public. » The Well &...

After the Polish composer Piotr Kurek reissued one of his early works last year with » Edena « and at the same time attracted a lot of attention...

Unimaginable for Berliners, when Richard Skelton looks up at the night sky, there is a lot to see. The British composer's album » selenodesy « is...

The tireless percussionist Valentina Magaletti and the multi-instrumentalist Laila Sakini form a cunning duo because they complement each other...

It's hard to believe, but Marc Sinan has apparently found time to write in addition to his work with his own company. His German-language debut...

The title alone should make it clear that » Méandre(s) – An experience in spontaneous, collective creating «  is more than a book: The...

The German-language books » Anthony Braxton. Creative Music « attempts the almost impossible, i.e. to do justice to the work of Anthony Braxton....

» Strange Songs « is the title of a new album by Berlin-based vocal artist Ute Wassermann. But what does that mean? Who determines what is...

Biliana Voutchkova's musical dialogues were already the subject of the last issue of our Releases of the Month . Here’s another one though, or...

Two new releases on Cedrik Fermont’s Syrphe label in February: Egyptian-Canadian composer Alex Abahmed releases music under the pseudonym AHA...

Given the sheer release frequency of Oren Ambarchi's Black Truffle label in recent times, it almost comes as a surprise that it only now...

» Szabads​​​á​​​g « was already released in 2022 in a small edition on cassette, but the reissue of Adela Mede's solo debut courtesy of the...

The spirits of two great, late artists make themselves heard through » Fifth Continent ,« which is why the multimedia presentation in the form of...

The siblings Emanuele and Elisabetta Porcinai already debuted in 2018 under the name Aperture with an album on Subtext and now return with »...

Legendary radio host John Peel gave one of the most beautiful compliments in music history to the band The Fall : »They are always different;...

As co-owner of the One Instrument label, Berlin-based composer Aimée Gisetta Portioli focuses on dogmatic reduction—the hint is in the name. Her...

» Kyiv Eternal « is released on 24 February and thus on the anniversary of an event in which things were to change forever in the city that...

There is a lot going on in John Bence's second full-length. » Archangels « was written two years after the British composer overcame his...

Katrina Krimsky can be heard on the first recording of Terry Riley's »In C« and worked together with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luc Ferrari, but...

The catalogue of the Portuguese label Crónica is a veritable treasure trove for fans of unconventional sound art. Marla Hlady and Christof...

Two new interpretations of Stockhausen pieces within just one month. Or more than that, actually: As part of the CC Series of the Lithuanian...

The joint performance » Thirdspace « by The Rest Is Music host Nico Daleman and the busy artist Dea Karina, who is also active under the names...

The music of Roxane Métayer is difficult to explain and easy to understand. Originally trained as a violinist, on » Perlée de sève « the Belgian...

The big celebrations for the 100th birthday of Iannis Xenakis may be over, but the fascination is far from it. In the compact volumes of...

Bernhard Rietbrock himself has already participated in the recording of pieces by Alvin Lucier and dedicated the research project »Reflexive...

As part of a retrospective of his work at the Centre Pompidou , this anthology explores Christian Marclay's oeuvre. One focus lies on Marclay's...

» Our social skills and our ability to share the time and space with others have been seriously crippled, and in some instances made redundant«,...

Marion Wörle and Maciej Śledziecki are among the busiest androids of the Berlin contemporary music scene, always eager to expand their own...

In the past, the Zehra label has attracted attention with its equally stylish and essential reissues of albums by, for example, Gnawa maestro...

»Noise is resistance!« reads the accompanying text of the comprehensive four-part compilation » Noise à Noise 23: Noise vs. Silence (Vol. I​-​IV)...

Over the past two decades, Miasmah boss and mi — so co-owner Erik Skodvin has repeatedly proven his knack for gripping sounds and suspenseful...

Esecutori di Metallo su Carta —Sebastiano De Gennaro, Enrico Gabrielli, Francesco Fusaro, Marcello Corti and Roberto Rettura—react musically to...

The 22nd release on bastille musique is probably one of the most ambitious ones by the Berlin label. In addition to the GrauSchumacher Piano...

Did 99CHANTS owner David August consciously quote John Cage for the title of this compilation? It is at least true that none of the...

For a commissioned work by the recently reactivated Berlin label and sound archive HEM , Jeļena Glazova explores, as the title suggests, motifs...

Kaan Bulak from Berlin is a composer, pianist and producer all in one and also runs the Feral Note label together with Lucilla Schmidinger. In...

The first lockdown came as a shock and made a lot of things impossible. For composer Kali Malone, however, it opened up unexpected possibilities....

The music of Hildegard von Bingen has inspired generations of composers and musicians, but recently a veritable hype seems to have developed...

Luca Forcucci refers to the three pieces on his album » The Room Above « a »sonic moiré«, and it becomes immediately clear from the first notes...

On » Hypnagogia «, Berlin-based cellist and electronic musician Martina Bertoni delves into the depths of the unconscious—at least halfway. The...

A few years ago, the Sub Rosa label dedicated a retrospective to Otto Siddarta, and now follows it up with » Kajang «, a compilation of previously...

In 2015, the vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices organised a five-day performance (that is, five days without interruption!) called »Gjestehus« with...

Given the sheer breadth of Peter Brötzmann's catalogue, it is always surprising when even more old treasures are unearthed from the past. His...

What is dub: a genre, a production technique, an attitude? All of it, and more, and for more than 50 years it’s been developing even further. For...

With »Heavy Metal Islam«, Mark LeVine presented a sensational book at the end of the noughties that fuelled a general interest in the role of...

The personal is political according to the second wave of feminism and the New Left. Hardly any other idea has become so deeply and sustainably...

In recent years, street names and monuments have often been discussed: What (hi)story(s) do they tell and wouldn't it be better in some cases if...

As part of the fifth edition of the event series »CC No. 2 - Craving Coincidence«, the Finnish sound artist Marja Ahti invited various artists to...

The human voice has always played a central role in the music of Jochem Baelus' project Slumberland, but rarely has it been used so prominently as...

In the history of western pop and rock music, the sitar has usually been used as an ornamental element, but on » The Living World’s Demands « Ami...

The two Berliners by choice Andrea Ermke and Anaïs Tuerlinckx have been working together for a round decade now. This release on the Scottish...

» Beirut Adrift « was compiled by Rayya Badran for the online platform Norient and brings together some of his personal favourite pieces by...

Denis Frajerman is the kind of composer whose business cards need to be printed oversized. He was a member of experimental bands such as Palo...

The In Situ Ensemble consists of Liz Allbee (trumpet), Rhodri Davies (acoustic and electric harp), Christian Kobi (saxophone), Enrico Malatesta...

Marc Richter seems more active than ever. Only in September he released » Diode, Triode «, two multi-channel works recorded in the GRM studio in...

The Japanese-US-American saxophonist Patrick Shiroishi is almost frighteningly productive and his work is characterised by a stylistic openness...

The title already suggests that the joint album by sound artist Porya Hatami and composer Marie Rose alias Monologue draws its inspiration from...

Japanese sound artist Sawako Kato has always been good for surprises, but an eight-year break from releasing music is one of the more unpleasant...

In November, the Berlin label VAAGNER offered three new releases, all by Japanese artists. In addition to albums by Yuto Ohashi and yolabmi, they...

There is not much to read in the booklet of this inconspicuous cassette, but it explains a lot: according to Russian law, all those who spread...

The last release on Monique Recknagel's label Sonic Pieces came out a while ago, but with the debut album of To Move, the Berlin imprint now...

After the Prostir sublabel I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free already released a reissue of Merzbow's album »Peace for Animals« this year, new...

» A Common Misunderstanding of the Speed of Light « is a mammoth project and yet dedicated to the everyday, the ephemeral and at times even the...

The eleventh edition of the Week-End Fest took place at the end of October and all those who could not make it to Cologne can console themselves...

In the field of pop music, the trend of song comics has emerged in recent years: Classic albums of music history are visualised and staged song by...

Those who listen to music travel the world with their ears. But that alone is not enough to understand it—neither the music nor the world. The...

The 'A' Trio consists of three light-footed heavyweights from the world of improv music: Mazen Kerbaj, Sharif Sehnaoui and Raed Yassin came...

Edward Solomykin is a man of many pseudonyms and even more activities. The artist runs no less than three different labels through which he mainly...

This year, not only gas but also water became scarce in some parts of the world, and perhaps that is even more threatening in perspective....

Erik K. Skodvin closed the presentation of his label Miasmah at the second edition of this year's KISSA series during the Month of...

Chloe Kim 김예지 says that with the mini-LP » I Love and Embrace « for the digital imprint Spirituals of the British label Phantom Limb , she did...

With the beginning of the first lockdowns, the online mail-order Boomkat founded the cassette imprint Documenting Sounds , through which...

The Berlin label Forms of Minutiae is dedicated to exploring acoustic ecologies and » A Conference of Critters « is no exception: Diane Barbé...

Barely a year ago, Berlin-based sound artist Kei Watanabe debuted on Syrphe with the album » Whisperings ,« and now she is already back again,...

30 years ago, Jerzy Bawoł (accordion), Tomasz Kukurba (violin, viola, vocals and percussion) and Tomasz Lato (double bass) founded the group...

Already in 2011, the label Buh released a compilation of Peruvian sound poetry called »Irse de lengua.« » La Materia Verbal: Antología de la...

Almost exactly a year ago, the Guatemalan composer Mabe Fratti made a guest appearance at the Kiezsalon , after having released a joint...

A MIDI-controlled organ? Nope, for once we are not talking about gamut inc —but Maxime Denuc. For » Nachthorn ,« the Belgian composer and...

For » Aftershock ,« the Austrian violinist and noise maker Mia Zabelka and the Indian guitarist and bassist Icostech met in the first year of the...

Muscut , run out of Estonia by Ukrainian composer and sound artist Dmytro Nikolaienko, is a safe harbour for fans of advanced electronic music....

The Viennese quality label Tros t has just released a recording of the joint live performance of the group Oxbow and Peter Brötzmann at the...

Jan Jelinek welcomes Roméo Poirier to faitiche . » Living Room « is the third solo album by the prolific French artist, who works with short...

There is a lot of news to report from Lawrence English again. He contributed music to the new documentary film by Adam Curtis and released three...

Thibault Florent is part of the ensemble Nist-Nah and made a guest appearance with them during the Month of Contemporary Music at an edition...

The meeting of the Danish composer and sound artist Sofie Birch with the Polish voice artist Antonina Nowacka makes just as much sense as that of...

News from Wendelin Büchler's label Corvo are always good ones, and in October there were two of them: Stefan Römer returned with » ReCoder SOUND...

Soon the Haus der Kulturen der Welt publication series The New Alphabet will be spelled out. The 21st of the planned 25th entries is edited by...

The Black Med project, inspired by Paul Gilroy's concept of the »Black Atlantic« and informed by academic Alessandra Di Maio's research,...

It is not without a certain irony that the anthology » Sonic Identity at the Margins ,« edited by Joanna Love and Jessie Fillerup, mainly brings...

Around 150 events, more than 90 stages all over the city: During the sixth Month of Contemporary Music , Berlin's Free Scene once again proved...

The » Fünf Orte « (»Five Places«) that lend their names to Katharina Schmidt's new release are all located in Berlin. However, the performances on...

Just one day after presenting their label L_KW with many personal stories and political reflections at the first KISSA during the Month of...

Cedrik Fermont uses his label Syrphe not only as a platform for contemporary experimental and electronic music from Africa and Asia, but also to...

Lawrence English remains hyperactive both as an artist and as the owner of the Room40 label: in addition to a joint album by Manuel Mota and...

Budhaditya Chattopadhyay's most recent work as a participant in the conference » Soundings 2022. Assemblies of Listenings and Voices Across the...

The Berlin-based composer Ellen Arkbro is actually known for pieces for the organ, but on her joint album with the multi-talented Johan Graden she...

What can and cannot be considered entertainment may be subjective. The objective facts about the release » Pains of Sleep « by the anonymous...

I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free was launched in June 2022 by Kateryna Zavoloka and Dmytro Fedorenko as a sublabel of Prostir , whom the two...

Only shortly after the release of their solo album » World in World «, Julia Reidy returns with a collaboration with Morten Johan Olsen, here...

Joseph Kamaru has been highly productive since his arrival in Berlin in the first year of the pandemic, and » dont linger they might see you « was...

The results of the commissioned works created as part of Speicher — festival for site-specific music are regularly released by the organisers on...

In the first KISSA event during the Month of Contemporary Music , Oren Ambarchi traversed the impressive back catalogue of his label Black...

Jan Gerdes is a pianist, Frank Bogdanowitz a.k.a. Dr.Nojoke a producer of electronic music and the name of their joint project Rand . After the...

The title already says it all: for » Delirious Cartographies ,« Richard Scott was inspired and musically guided by the contexts surrounding him....

» Time Bends « was already released digitally in July, but the Gebrüder Teichmann —Andi and Hans—celebrated the release of the vinyl version of...

The Berlin-based label Vaagner and its affiliated imprints A Sunken Mall and VAKNAR have released a total of more than 70 records in only...

The team behind the Berlin label Midnight Shift recently teamed up with the collective Soydivision for a four-part edition of the event series...

When Alvin Lucier died last December, the sheer volume of condolences from all corners of the music world showed how far-reaching his influence...

Eine simple Frage, die so leicht nicht zu beantworten ist. Ina Roß hat es im Jahr 2013 versucht und nun geht ihre Monografie » Wie überlebe ich...

The late 1970s in Britain marked a time of cultural and political upheaval, but much more was happening beyond (post-)punk and the beginning of...

For two or three weeks, the streets of Berlin seemed as empty as the inboxes of our email accounts. A clear case of the usual summer slump? Not at...

Barely two months ago Alexandra Spence released the album » Blue waves, Green waves «  on Room40 , and now follows up on it with » a veil,...

Päfgens is the joint project of Filip Drábek and Jana Kočišová. The Slovakian duo leads a rather nomadic life, but has been based in Berlin for...

As one half of the duo Senyawa , Wukir Suryadi has just been on an extensive tour and stopped over at the CTM Festival for two concerts and a...

The Berlin label Kashual Plastik continues to throw us curve balls and we’re not at all complaining. After a compilation of lullabies and albums...

As the owner of the Thanatosis label, composer Alex Zethson is in full swing; Magnus Granberg's album » Night Will Fade and Fall Apart «,...

Bernhard Fleischmann has been active for over two decades at the interface of conceptual pop and adventurous electronic music as a solo artist,...

Founded in 2016 by Sebastiano de Gennaro, Enrico Gabrielli and Francesco Fusaro, the label  19'40'' regularly provides its subscribers with...

When her grandmother died of COVID-19, Belgian composer and vocalist Dienne was unable to say goodbye to her in person, for obvious reasons. ...

It was only a question of time until Kiezsalon organiser Michael Rosen would add a label to his portfolio and the 15th birthday of Digital In...

Outside Norway, the Hardanger fiddle is rarely used. Erlend Apneseth is a virtuoso on the instrument, but has not dealt with it at album length...

As an offshoot of Editions Mego , the sub-label Ideologic Organ , run by Stephen O'Malley, has always focused on radical musical approaches that...

While Karlrecords has recently recovered a free jazz and improv treasure from the recent past with » Dolunay « by Peter Brötzmann and the...

The work of the label Noise à Noise was already featured in this column a while ago and although it mainly represents the Tehran scene for...

Jeremiah Carter’s  » Rejoice! « was the inaugural album on the Vaagner sublabel A Sunken Mall in 2020 and the composer now returns with...

Yan Jun is a veritable artistic jack-of-all-trades and a welcome and—fortunately—frequent visitor in Berlin. The album » quartet h​.​k. 香港四重奏 «...

Cosey Fanni Tutti was a co-founder of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle and has repeatedly set impulses as a forward and further...

More than ever, it is important to listen to the world around us. The practice of field recording can play a key role in this, but it is not free...

LJ Müller published the book »Sound und Sexismus« in German in 2018, and now it is also available under the title » Hearing Sexism. Gender in the...

Every piece of music not only has a story, but also tells something about history or reflects on a small scale the larger historical contexts in...

As part of Month of Contemporary Music , Elo Masing will visit the Floating University together with the Reanimation Orchestra to perform a...

During the month of contemporary music, Biegungen im ausland presents the Australian sound artist Alexandra Spence and trombonist Rishin...

Benefit compilations in support of the Ukrainian people have appeared in large numbers so far, and only recently this column also listed some of...

Composer and synthesizer builder Bridget Ferrill and musician Áslaug Magnúsdóttir have been working together for quite some time, and their joint...

During the Month of Contemporary Music at Kontraklang , two ensembles—Will Guthrie's Nist-Nah and Pak Yan Lau's Bakunawa —will present...

A year ago, Emeka Ogboh already talked about Lagos as a constant source of inspiration for his work with sound in his field notes interview ;...

François Robin works mainly with the Breton bagpipe called veuze, but also instruments such as duduk, mizmar and—a bit more common—the violin....

When Netflix isn't catapulting pop evergreens back into the charts, the platform's own productions sometimes offer new and unreservedly exciting...

Swedish-based US-American Kali Malone has become an unlikely star in recent years, celebrated far beyond the international contemporary music...

Already on her joint album with Fahmi Mursyid , the Berlin sound artist Katharina Schmidt pursued a kind of speculative acoustic ecology, in the...

The Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group teamed up with the British institution Cold Spring in July to follow up a first compilation of...

There was—of course—a lot of new music coming from Room40 again this month. Label owner Lawrence English released new albums by Yui Onodera ,...

For the release of the album » Repetitions « by the New York City-based Swiss artist Samuel Reinhard, the two labels Präsens Editionen and...

»It may sound boring, but I like it«, comments Beijing-based sound artist Sun Yizhou on his self-published album » Noise Floor « and it is rather...

After the release of an anthology with works by KMRU , the British label Injazero has become rather quiet. » Ima ایما «, however, marks the...

»I'm writing this book out of love and anger. Love for the music; anger for the neglect«, Kate Molleson wrote when announcing her book » Sound...

Lauren Newton is unquestionably one of the most important (jazz) singers and vocal artists of our time and the publication of » VOCAL Adventures....

Pauline Oliveros would have turned 90 in May, which was honoured with numerous new music releases and reissues and now also the slim but dense...

Time has passed more strangely than ever in these past two and a half years. Sometimes it didn't seem to pass at all, sometimes it raced by and...

A series of islands rising from the sea: the Turkish-American composer Cenk Ergün took this image as inspiration for his composition » Inseln «....

Under the pseudonym MimiCof , Berlin-based artist Midori Hirano last explored the possibilities of analogue sound synthesis five years ago on the...

Wendelin Büchler regularly offers a platform for unusual artistic concepts with his Corvo label, but this may be the most ambitious release to...

Pascal Bideau was born in France and lives in London, but he recorded his debut album under the name Akusmi in Berlin and enlisted support from...

The Australian artist Alexandra Spence pursues a subjectively influenced field-recordings approach, in the context of which she sometimes also...

For » Time For Change «, the Kazakh artist Angelina Yershova has collaborated with the Rome-based electronic musician Ynaktera . Acoustic...

Frieda Bertelsohn Martholdy is n a t u r a l l y one of the most important composers of her time and the Baldrian Quartett has long been known...

A few years ago, Chinese noise artist Ding Chenchen lost an external hard drive and with it his entire archive of live recordings from previous...

This vocal artist, active under the name Hatis Noit , borrows the title of her debut album from Walter Benjamin; her music, recorded...

The last three previous albums by the multimedia artist Lamin Fofana were already arranged as a trilogy, » Ballad Air & Fire « now marks the...

The Berlin label Hyperdelia has largely paused during the pandemic, but is now following up a recently released album by Stellan Veloce with...

The title of Thai sound artist Liew Niyomkarn's » I Think of Another Time When You Heard It « sounds as intimate as it is inviting, and the music...

For » Antigone: The Writings of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement «, composer James Kallembach enriched Sophocles' ancient drama with...

For » Tinctures « on the Berlin label Ediciones Capablanca , the composer Luka Aron worked with a chord zither and took an almost microscopic...

Fans of Mazen Kerbaj are not used to long dry spells and here it is already, the next release after his comprehensive album and remix project »...

Paul Régimbeau's discography is a veritable treasure trove: adventurous techno, noise and excursions into the realms of composed music and drone...

Music is always also a form of incantation. According to the title, Nancy Mounir calls for a » Nozhet El Nofous «, a promenade of souls, on her...

The Danish musician Rolf Hansen was already on the road in the alternative folk scene, but has recently said goodbye to storytelling and turned to...

There is more than »Bella Ciao« out there, so much more! Silvia Tarozzi and Deborah Walker’s » Canti di guerra, di lavoro e d'amore «—songs of...

The Berlin label bastille musique relies on a reduced and classical aesthetic in visual terms, but underneath the artwork, which seems generic...

Until 2020, only a few connoisseurs of experimental and contemporary music had heard the name Valentina Goncharova, until Dmytro Nikolaienko...

The name already spells it out, at least indirectly: On » Flash 須臾 «, the Taiwanese sound artist Yenting Hsu deals with the concept of time. In...

Is hate destructive per se, purely negative, unproductive? Or perhaps even the opposite of all that? In music at least, it can become a driving...

» Trance « was first performed by Syrphe owner Cedrik Fermont in the London creative space IKLECTIK and has subsequently been released for home...

» A Million Magnets « began as a kind of creative recycling project: during a train ride, Guido Möbius discovered previously unused recordings on...

Julia Reidy's music has always been difficult to categorise. Fingerpicked guitar and vocals manipulated by means of autotune technology meet in...

Adam Badí Donoval is a prolific label owner who releases all kinds of exciting sound experiments via Warm Winters Ltd. that mediate between...

an moku and Stefan Schmidt are finally back with the second part of their »Raum« trilogy for the Berlin-based Karlrecords. On » Zwischenraum «,...

In mid-May, US-born Andrew Bernstein performed his new album » a presentation « on stage in Berlin with the newly founded In Flux Ensemble. It...

The Equations Collective is a group of music producers firmly anchored in the international techno scene, but together they combine free-form jam...

Brian Bamanya claims to be working with the first self-built modular synthesizer on the African continent. Whether this is true or not is another...

The duo Exotic Cipher runs the Prehistoric Silence label for sound art and experimental electronic music. Against this background, it is not...

A new release by Hermann Nitsch is always welcome, but this one comes with a grain of salt: » Weinviertel Sinfonie « is the first posthumous...

The producer Hüma Utku, who has been living in Berlin for some time now, has always had a knack for deep and dark atmospheres. On her debut for...

The composer Koray Kantarcıoğlu continues his work based on bits and pieces from the music history of his Turkish homeland and this time expands...

For decades, the US duo Matmos has been working at the intersection of conceptual and experimental music, electronica and noise. However, an...

What’s the sound of the climate crisis? In the case of the Amsterdam collective Wanderwelle, it is as beautiful as it is ominous. As the first...

Apart from the piano, hardly any other instrument has played such a leading role in recent Western music history as the guitar. This also means...

The question of the space(s) in and around music has probably been the most central one in recent years—even before the pandemic. Where is it...

Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ book series is usually dedicated to the great and groundbreaking albums of pop history, which is why Ginger Dellenbaugh's book...

Is it possible to carry out an academic examination of musical cultures beyond Eurocentric composition, production and reception without...

Hermann Nitsch, Harrison Birtwistle and Klaus Schulze: the art and music world had to say goodbye to three artists in April 2022. They could...

In the past two years, the soundscapes of our living spaces have seemed unfamiliar to us more often than we would have liked. Hasn't this also...

Joseph Kamaru moved to Berlin only recently, and yet the sound artist and ambient producer, who previously used to work in Nairobi, is already...

Stellan Veloce is a member of collectives such as Y-E-S and Fem*_Music*_ and can look back on a series of collaborations with artists from...

Lea Bertucci has always had an interest in the human voice, its limitations and, most of all, overcoming them. This is also audible on this...

» Passion for Numbers « is a piano album on which Chris Korda does not play the piano. Instead, the eight pieces were created with the help of the...

»The Experience Of Repetition As Death« is the title of an album by cellist Clarice Jensen, and the poetology and philosophy of her music could...

From Euripides to Christa Wolf and contemporary adaptations for the theatre, the Medea myth has been subjected to radical reinterpretations again...

The extensive Éliane Radigue retrospective at this year's MaerzMusik was above all exactly that, a look back on the early work of a quiet...

Jani Hirvonen and Johannes Schebler joined forces about a decade ago under the name Grykë Pyje and work between Turku and Wiesbaden on ... Well,...

Jana Irmert is one of Berlin's most reliable contemporary sound artists, not only in terms of quality but also quantity: » What Happens at Night «...

Most recently, the Swiss drummer Julian Sartorius became the talk of the town with an album on which he compiled a total of 112 locked grooves,...

To call Keiko Higuchi a jazz singer would be mere understatement. And yet she is just as little a pure avant-garde artist. » Vertical Language «...

The label Noise à Noise was founded in Tehran in 2019 to serve as an outlet for the regional electronic and experimental music scene. Number »...

XKatedral is the focal and meeting point of the central figures from Stockholm's scene for minimalist compositional styles and drone music,...

Marc Richter is a collector, anarchistic archivist and transformer. Under the pseudonym Black to Comm , he has proven time and again with an...

The anthology » We Have Delivered Ourselves From the Tonal – Of, Towards, On, For Julius Eastman « was published last year by Archive Books in a...

Following Harry Sword's »Monolithic Undertow: In Search of Sonic Oblivion« from the summer of 2020, here’s another writer who dedicates herself to...

Listening to music means taking in unknown perspectives, even if only for a few minutes. Why this is important is also underlined by global...

The award for the best record cover of the year clearly goes to these two. And whenever Axel Dörner and Mazen Kerbaj are involved, the music...

Sound artist crys cole has been anything but idle in recent years. In 2021 alone, she released an album from her joint project with James...

In recent decades, a veritable run on the archives of supposedly forgotten composers of electronic music or composers working outside traditional...

For » Muster «, Faitiche founder Jan Jelinek and Frank Bretschneider have joined forces under the name Beispiel to improvise together with...

The debut album of the El Khat ( القات ) project was already a small sensation: »Saadia Jefferson – سعديا  جيفيرسون« offered exciting new...

The music of Mathieu David Gagnon is full of twists. Already the first piece on the album » Volume I « under the pseudonym Flore Laurentienne...

Gonçalo F. Cardoso belongs to a group of artists who, in the area of field recordings, counter the dogmas of acoustic ecology and neo-colonial...

Iguan is the joint project of Claire Trouilloud and Yérri-Gaspar Hummel, who document their improvisations with voice and electronics for the...

Unfortunately, no one will be able to enrol at the Institut für Elektroakustik Hamburg , and we may doubt whether we are really and truly dealing...

Jeremiah Chiu and Marta Sofia Honer's » Recordings from the Åland Islands « have a long history. The duo's preoccupation with the nature and...

Natasha Barrett has fortunately been very active recently, for example releasing a joint split record by her and Beatriz Ferreyra just last year....

The discography of the British composer Robert Haigh is broad and varied, but his music is usually reduced and focused. This is also the case on »...

In addition to very welcome shows of works by Léo Kupper, Frederic Rzewski and Reinhold Weber, » Majestic Noise Made in Beautiful Rotten Iran «, a...

The twelve pieces on Stefano Pilia's » Spiralis Aurea « seem to know neither beginning nor end, moving in a circular and leisurely manner. This is...

Pianist Vanessa Wagner has been moving between different worlds for quite some time, which is why her interpretations of lesser-known pieces from...

The brand new issue of field notes for March and April 2022 is full of thoughts about and reports on alternative collective practices....

The Crush String Collective is exceptional in several respects. This is already expressed in the name of the Copenhagen ensemble, whose working...

Park Jiha belongs to a generation of musicians who are opening up new compositional possibilities with the instruments of the South Korean gugak....

With her album 2020 »卵生 Oviparity«, Sheng Jie delighted critics and fans with cello compositions that mediated between a demanding improvisational...

Concepcion Huerta , Elsa M'bala, Felicity Mangan, KMRU , Sukitoa Onamau and Tomas Tello are just a few of the artists from whom the Berlin-based...

Is this really experimental and who decides what this means anyhow? Anyhow, the »anthologies« compiled by the Unexplained Sounds Group label...

It's been a while since Francis Plagne's last solo album. » The Refrain « consists of two long pieces, in the course of which the Australian...

With his label Klammklang , Stas Sharifullin has been enriching the world with unusual music and fascinating conceptual art like that of Diana...

Anything you need to know about this legendary duet between Jim O'Rourke and Mats Gustafsson, from which only excerpts were first released in...

The human voice has always played a central role in the work of Marta Forsberg, a composer who has been living in Berlin for a good two years....

In the current issue of field notes , Mazen Kerbaj already answered all our questions about his mammoth project » Sampler/Sampled «, so is...

» Plucked and Bowed «: My Hellgren and Peter Söderberg could not have titled their first release together more soberly, though it actually turned...

Saint Abdullah is a joint project by brothers Mohammad and Mehdi Mehrabani-Yeganeh, who grew up in the Occident but  on their numerous...

The artist Erik Knive Skodvin, who has been living in Berlin for some time, is known as a member of the duo Deaf Center , but also as a solo...

The »psychoacoustic« clarinet duo The International Nothing is made up of the Berlin artists Kai Fagaschinski and Michael Thieke, who obviously...

Following up on 2019’s »The Funnel«, the instrument maker and composer Wojciech Rusin releases the second part of his »alchemical« trilogy on a...

As part of the Goethe-Institut's »Virtual Partner Residency«, Berlin-based composer Kaj Duncan David and his New York-based colleague Assaf...

Mark Fell is a friendly radical. As a member of the Mille Plateaux -affiliated duo SND , he helped elevate electronic (dance) music to a new,...

The sound artists Pedro Tudela and Miguel Carvalhais have been working together for more than two decades and have released an almost incalculable...

In December 2008, someone scrawled the words »Merry Crisis and a Happy New Fear« on the outside of a bank in Greece. At that time, the global...

An organist releasing a live recording of a concert at one of the world's most important jazz festivals on a metal label is unusual. But Anna von...

Good times for and with Eiko Ishibashi. Recently, the musical all-rounder released a melancholic jazz album perfect for late hours with Hiroshi...

The Viennese quality label Trost kicks off the year 2022 as it deserves: loudly and unrulily. Besides the sweaty psych-noise-rock grooves of...

» Plane/Talea #31–34 « sees Alessandro Bosetti further intensify his exploration of the human voice. After the predecessor »Plane Talea #31–#32«...

» Gospel et le râteau « was already in the works when Ghédalia Tazartès passed away last February. The 17 pieces were culled from the archives of...

Since the unexpected death of Peter Rehberg, Editions Mego's hours are numbered. But some of the outstanding projects are still being handled by...

If it has Sofia Jernberg's name on it, you’re in for a surprise. The same is true in the case of » Koma West «t, her collaboration with Petter...

The album » Hayví « by the Spanish musician Lee Yi does not scream for attention, his label Midira writes in the accompanying press release....

Is this still sound poetry or already vocal music? Whatever the case, what Marc Matter offers with » Could Change « sets the brain to work with...

From a Central European perspective, the potato is actually an exotic plant: originally it was only found in South America. In » Life of a Potato...

To call Cornelius Cardew a radical is more (or: less?) than an understatement. That is why his work continues to provide inspiration for numerous...

It is not long ago that Pan Daijing combined electronic music and music theatre on her last album » Jade 玉观音 «, and now the next one is already...

For the album » World Speaks «, Piotr Kurek worked with voice archives. So far, so inconspicuous. But over seven pieces, the Polish composer...

Vilhelm Bromander is part of Stockholm's experimental and drone music scene and runs the Differ label, on which he last released a solo work in...

» Dieses unbändige Gefühl der Freiheit. Irène Schweizer – Jazz, Avantgarde, Politik « was published a while ago, and now the book by the author...

After almost two years, it is a truism that the pandemic has forcefully brought about new performance practices. However, this does not change the...

Music reflects great historical movements to the same extent that it can sometimes initiate them. Celeste Day Moore's » Soundscapes of Liberation...

Music is not material in a strict sense, but it is always dependent on materials. These are sometimes affected, whether it is the strings of a...

The Nyege Nyege Tapes label is internationally known for advanced club music from Uganda and the wider East African region, but with » Buganda...

Through the digital label Tokuroku , Café Oto released exclusive recordings of a variety of musicians over the course of the pandemic to raise...

The concept behind the One Instrument label is already fully explained by its name: Berlin-based composer Aimée Portioli, better known under her...

It almost seems as if Carsten Nicolai is perceived worldwide primarily for his audiovisual installation art and hardly any more for the music he...

Even before the great biblical flood came, the patriarchs ruled. The British composer Christopher Chaplin dedicates an impressive concept album to...

More impressive than the music on » Open the Gates « may be the fact that this album was recorded in just one day. The group Irreversible...

The collective FLEE has already published a book on Kenyan Benga music and led residencies in Apulia in southern Italy and Nairobi, which is why...

The label Shameless , founded by Boris Hauf, only ships out its releases carbon-neutrally or, within Berlin, delivers them directly by bicycle....

The Berlin label Sonic Pieces is dedicated to a quiet sound, as also represented by Otto A Totland's new LP »Companion,« comprising gentle,...

With » Espacios en Soledad ,« Berlin-based sound artist Paula Schopf processes a personal story along with its political implications: the...

Basque lyricism, medieval and gamelan instruments, no less than four organs and much more: on » Pozgarria da «, many otherwise only discrete...

The Brussels label Sub Rosa pays tribute in one fell swoop to two of the most extraordinary voices of the past decades. » Two Men in a Boat «...

News from Grünrekorder invariably equals good news. In addition to the compilation » Soundlapse «, which documents the acoustic ecology in...

What a star-studded line-up! »LOVOTIC« by the Soundwalk Collective was presented for the first time at the second part of this year's festival...

The sound researcher Diana Romanova lives in the Russian town of Shcholkovo a few hours' drive outside Moscow and presumably has the necessary...

New month, a whole bunch of new Room40 releases. In November, Lawrence English put out new music by Marina Rosenfeld and Olivia Block , among...

A spectre is haunting the world of contemporary music, and for the third time already. In » Spectres III. Ghosts in the Machine / Fantômes dans la...

Earlier this month, Andrew Pekler presented a slightly different kind of site-specific composition: »Browser Music 1« is a composition split over...

The list of those who have been inspired by gamelan is long. Alexander Zethson, known among other things as a member of the Trondheim Jazz...

A few months ago, John Brien turned his back on vinyl. The reason: waiting times were too long. Since then, he has been releasing reissues of...

What actually makes music uncanny? There may be many answers to this question, but in the case of » Eldorado « it is all the stories that...

Belgian composer Ben Bertrand often works with the bass clarinet, but on his third solo album he expands his musical approach by bringing...

The Berlin label Care Of was inactive for a while, but is now back with a series of releases. Alongside new music by Mari Matsutoya and Adam...

Syrphe founder Cedrik Fermont remains hyper-productive and that of course is a real blessing for all fans of unusual sounds. » Détails «...

It was probably only a matter of time before the two free jazz and improv fanatics Christoph Berg and Stefan Lingg followed up their show Pattern...

Maya Shenfeld moves between many different worlds. On » In Free Fall ,« her solo debut on the Chicago label Thrill Jockey , the versatile...

If you want to hear the two predecessors to » Constant Imbalances III ,« you'll have to read them to yourself. The second album by musician,...

The cover of » GASPING_SIGHING_SOBBING « features Lili Boulanger in front of the Tokyo Tower, and that is not the only puzzling thing about this...

Ibukun »Sunday« Oladipupo has already been featured on several compilations of the Berlin label Syrphe and now debuts on the British imprint...

Jörg Sasse is known primarily as a photographer and visual artist, but since last year he has also been actively pursuing his interest in music....

On » Revolver ,« composer Kate Moore presents eight brilliant pieces written for a dance installation by Ken Unsworth. Although sparsely...

Lawrence Englis h keeps busy: his label Room40 released a good half-dozen releases in October by Toshimaru Nakamura , Aki Onda and also...

The pieces of the Italian composer Mario Bajardi collected on » LUX – Theater Works « are marked by a dreamlike atmosphere. In the interplay of...

The Bristolian label Bokeh Versions is known for its exhilarating experiments in the fields of dub, industrial and club music with a British...

Paulina Owczarek and Peter Orins first met in Berlin, where they were hired for the Satoko Fujii Orchestra Berlin , and have been in a musical...

It took three years to work on » Protest Possible ,« the new album by the alternative big band The Dorf from the Ruhr area. The pieces, based on...

Ustad Saami is an early riser and a hard worker: every morning he gets up at 4 am and practices for hours singing the 49-note microtonal shruti...

When punk took hold in the Federal Republic of Germany, things got weird very quickly. It remains particularly odd that the role of bands like...

A poet, a multi-instrumentalist and an architect meet at the Villa Massimo in Rome and think about gravity and fist fights: that about is the...

Who would have thought that a US late-night show host wouldn’t be able to wrap his head around Peter Brötzmann ! When Jimmy Fallon made fun of...

It was a busy month for sound artist and Room40 founder Lawrence English: » Observation of Breath ,« an LP with four haunting organ pieces, was...

Petr Kotik is the founder and leader of the S.E.M. Ensemble , which in the past five decades has made a name for itself with interpretations of...

Sarah Davachi is very fast at composing slow music. » Antiphonals « is her 17th solo album since 2013, and what is perhaps even more impressive is...

The posthumous acknowledgement of the groundbreaking work of Pauline Oliveros continues to run at full speed even five years after the death of...

The film » الس َّ م ْ ت Azimuth « is part of the Nomadic Signals series, curated by artist Leyya Mona Tawil, which is dedicated to the...

Andi Stecher, Guido Möbius and Svetlana Spajić are Gordan . The Serbian singer and the two Berlin-based musicians, who also work together under...

The first literary mentions of the »slåtter,« a form of Norwegian dance music played on the fiddle, can be traced back to the 14th century and are...

In »Le Cru et le Cuit,« the structuralist anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss analysed myths of the Indigenous population of the Americas with a...

It's not so long ago that Joseph »KMRU« Kamaru moved from Kenya to Berlin and yet the sound artist seems busier than ever. Just this month, he...

The Geist im Kino imprint of the British label Phantom Limb specialises in so-called rescores of avant-garde films that were thought to have...

In recent years, the meditation practice of so-called sound baths has experienced a hype. With » Namora ,« the sound therapist and meditation...

» Aurality -20°10'45.3176" -044°04'01.4329 « is the second release on the Berlin label Famous Grapes Recordings , which was founded in 2020 and...

A paroxysm is an uncontrollable physical or mental outburst such as a convulsion or a fit of despair. Paroxysm is also the name of Roy Carroll...

The influence of classical Indian music on western pop and avant-garde music is well documented. The sitarist and composer Purbayan Chatterjee...

The compilation » Territorio del eco: Experimentalismos y visiones de lo ancestral en el Perú (1975-1989) « marks the start of the new Essential...

Last year, Magda Mayas, Mazen Kerbaj, Racha Gharbieh, Tony Buck and Ute Wassermann joined forces to form the smallest functional unit . The basic...

When Irene Kurka launched her podcast neue musik leben in 2018, she filled a gap in the field of contemporary music in the German-speaking...

The 26th issue of Sound American magazine is dedicated to the work of Éliane Radigue and her instrumental cycle OCCAM Ocean , on which the...

Did William Basinski want to send us a transatlantic greeting before the start of the Month of Contemporary Music ? At the beginning of August,...

Oren Ambarchi continues to gift his audience with some real, well, musical truffles. Next month will see the release of » Becoming Air / Into The...

»Glacier Music II« is nothing less than a mammoth project initiated by the Goethe-Institut Georgia and bringing together musicians from...

The label Chinabot , run by Saphy Vong, is unpredictable, to say the least. Hectic club beats, gruelling sound art or even folkloristic sounds—on...

More than three and a half decades after the release of the first part and 24 years after the last one so far, Asmus Tietchens continues his...

The saxophonist Bendik Giske moves musically between the realms of contemporary and advanced club music. His second album »Cracks« reflects...

The graphic score for »Treatise« is a whole 193 pages long and yet the most important instructions—at least in conventional understanding—are...

For their joint project, Francesco Cavaliere and Tomoko Sauvage originally wanted to reinterpret »Music as Green« by the Danish Fluxus artist...

Is this the belated answer to »Ege Bamyasi?« At least the cover of »Turkish Belly« makes you think of either that or Andy Warhol's soup cans....

Kristen Gallerneaux recently attracted attention with the publication of her book »High Static, Dead Lines.« In this »literary mix tape,« the...

The early pandemic experiences in particular left their mark on our individual understanding of time and space. This is what also happened to Li...

How does Lucy Railton do it? Hardly anyone seems more active than the Berlin-based cellist, who last released an album with the group PDP III...

Jaimie Branch is the punk among contemporary trumpeters. In May, she released the thrilling live interpretations of her album diptych »Fly or Die«...

The loss of Peter »Pita« Rehberg weighs heavily. The fact that his seminal institution Editions Mego and the sub-label Ideologic Organ run by...

Walt McClements used to play in indie bands, but was then steered in a different direction thanks to artists like Kali Malone and Pauline...

The Austrian composer and organist Wolfgang Mitterer cannot complain about a lack of success and yet the concept of the anthology »temp tracks«...

The Belgian town of Hoeilaart has barely more than 11,500 inhabitants and a nickname: It is called the »glass village.« In the past, there were...

Krautrock was when the students of the post-war avant-garde wanted to reinvent pop music on their own terms. While there is no shortage of...

The Ugandan capital Kampala has long been a hotspot for electronic music. The collective Nyege Nyege was founded there and runs two labels as well...

In the morning, at noon, in the evening and especially at night: the city is buzzing, as long as it doesn't rain at least. Is this the »great...

Kate Carr has always been a good listener. For nearly a decade and a half, the British artist has been exploring the relationships between human...

Cedrik Fermont is releasing a whopping six new albums in one fell swoop at the end of July via his Syrphe label. In addition to a solo release...

When Saba Alizâdeh released his debut album »Scattered Memories« via the Berlin label Karlrecords in 2017, it was received with great...

Previously based in the UK, now in Bratislava, Slovakia, Warm Winters Ltd. is always a reliable label to turn to for engaging sound experiments....

BJ Nilsen is a notorious wanderer, a traveller, and so it comes as no surprise that his new album »Irreal« combines field recordings from...

Bernard Parmegiani's oeuvre was as broad as it was versatile and will probably offer many points of creative departure and moments of surprise for...

Music for 16... detuned pianos!? Yup, that’s right. On »Wolf Moon« , Erik Griswold layers 16 40-minute recordings of improvisations on the pianos...

The Berlin sound art and sound poetry label Carrot Tapes has previously released field recordings from Berlin supermarkets (hot tip: listen to the...

Since »RRR 500 (Various 500 Lock-Grooves By 500 Artists)« or Stefan Goldmann's »Ghost Hemiola« at the latest, the principle of the locked groove...

Attention: supersupergroup alert! The seven-member band Karkhana counts greats like Maurice Louca, Mazen Kerbaj and Umut Çağlar from the Turkish...

The multi-instrumentalist Leila Abdul-Rauf has already played in death metal bands, but her output as a solo composer moves in less direct musical...

Saxophonist Anna Högberg and pianist Lisa Ullén are teamworkers who have been highly active in the Swedish jazz and improv scene over the past few...

Moshe Fisher-Rozenberg was previously active as an indie musician, but on his debut album as Memory Pearl he devotes himself to washed-out...

The sound artist crys cole and the composer James Rushford have let their joint project Ora Clementi rest for quite a while, but now return with...

The Rắn Cạp Đuôi Collective from Ho Chi Minh City has immortalised its numerous activities over the past six years on a series of releases that...

»Modern authors on art have been unable to write about emotion and spirituality in art (unless they are satisfied to offer kitsch about...

The sound artist and DJ Flora Yin-Wong has been active as a journalist for quite some time, and in the recent past has dealt with a variety of...

Swantje Lichtenstein lives a multiple life. She is an academic and a performance artist, works as a writer as well as a sound artist. The double...

The temperatures have risen and also the mood is soaring high. Concerts are possible again, even the ban on dancing has been lifted! Finally,...

What composition begins with sustained organ tones, lets Big Ben melodies emerge in between and ends in Xenakis-like, atonal chaos? Correct: none,...

Dark Lux was a mammoth project: together with composer Gordon Kampe, author Sarah Trilsch, artist Florian Japp and Jan Brauer of Brandt Brauer...

Pamela Z's releases are always something special, and not only because they are far and few between, but also because the US-American is a...

The reappraisal of »Blue« Gene Tyranny's life's work was already in full swing when his label had to announce the death of the US avant-garde...

The Polish singer Antonina Nowacka, who was previously mostly active in projects such as WIDT, shone as a soloist on last year’s Lamunan for...

Julian Warner's pseudonym already indicates that he understands music as a carrier of political ideas in a very Germany-specific context. After...

The name says it all: The gayageum and the geomungo look and sound similar, but what Ha Suyean and Hwang Hyeyoung get out of the traditional...

Gerald Cleaver may be best known as a jazz drummer and composer, but he has always been a versatile jack-of-all-trades. The album Griots is...

Berlin-based sound artist Jana Irmert has always had a knack for making the concrete sound abstract, and vice versa. The Soft Bit is her...

The leitmotif running through the work of composer and sound artist Kajsa Lindgren is that of memory. On Momentary Harmony she nevertheless...

Pan Daijing is an exceptional composer in every sense of the word, and thus each of her releases and each of her performances and exhibitions are...

For almost a decade now, Siavash Amini has been hyperactive. A Trail of Laughters is his 16th album. While the Tehran-based sound artist often...

There is a certain contradiction in improvising on the basis of loops. Tomasz Sroczyński, however, proves with Symphony n°2 / Highlander how...

White People Killed Them is a collaborative project between Deerhoof guitarist John Dietrich, drummer Marshall Trammell and composer Raven...

Techno in the concert hall, chamber ensembles in the club and everyone seemingly out of tune with each other: the attempts at a rapprochement...

That the sound artist and improv musician Alan Licht is a good listener is proven by the abundance of his publications as a solo artist and all...

Sound Arts Now is the third joint book project by Angus Carlyle and Cathy Lane. Like with its predecessors On Listening and In the Field:...

The journalist and radio presenter Jennifer Lucy Allan wrote her doctoral thesis as a musicologist on foghorns and now, building on that, she...

Everything is loosening up, getting ready for summer – only the weather in Berlin is far from being so determined. But that will change as well,...

Two years after their last release on the Berlin label Bohemian Drips , Martin Taxt, Peder Simonsen and Robin Hayward are now back on Sofa Music...

Amirtha Kidambi remains eager to collaborate. Her recent releases with the Elder Ones and Lea Bertucci are followed by »Neutral Love« a new...

The pandemic separated Okkyung Lee from her instrument. For six months, she was stuck in South Korea and had no cello at her disposal. Even when...

»Raum« is the first part of a trilogy for which the Swiss sound artist Dominik Grenzler a.k.a. An Moku and the German Stefan Schmidt, also known...

Between 2006 and 2008, the Swiss avant-garde artist and poet Anton Bruhin explored the possibilities of the software Fruity Loops. The results...

This year, the Berlin-based Brit James Ginzburg celebrates the tenth anniversary of his label Subtext, and with »crystallise, a frozen eye« the...

For »52°27' N 10°59' W« Katharina Schmidt and Fahmi Mursyid worked on a single field recording in an international dialogue between Berlin and...

Joseph Kamaru's output is impressive and »Logue« represents a kind of breather for all those who cannot keep up with the constant stream of...

During the pandemic, many people deepened their love for indoor plants, but Magda Drozd had already checked that off two years ago with her LP...

Forms of Minutiae is a new Berlin label by Pablo Diserens & Mathieu Bonnafous. Following his debut in July last year, »Kairos & the...

When artists turn to their own early work, it usually doesn't bode well. Natalie Beridze, however, is not like other artists, which is why the end...

Simon Martin came across the Ensemble Musikfabrik thanks to his fascination with Harry Partch and describes a trip to their Cologne studio like a...

»Inner Lift« was created in just one day of improvisations by the two vocal artists Sissel Vera Pettersen and Randi Pontoppidan, who accompanied...

After Stefan Römer had, well, deconstructed commentaries on performances by Conrad Schnitzler and Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett on »Decon...

For a soundwalk, Barcelona-based sound artist Stéphane Garin arranged field recordings from the southern French city of Pau, which were further...

Peter Brötzmann is, if there is such a thing, a master of improvisation, and this does not only apply to music. Under this programmatic title, the...

Even in the music world, a kind of science fatigue has probably set in at some point, but an academic engagement with the unparalleled historical...

Sven-Åke Johansson's work is hard to survey and difficult to grasp. A single book can hardly create order in all this beautiful creative chaos,...

Nothing happens and yet time passes. The fact that the world is turning at all can only be read from the position of the sun, as long as we can...

Field recordings are much like postcards from other worlds and times. With her second album »A Necessary Softness« the Australian sound artist...

You would think otherwise, but Banausoi is not a band with decades of experience, and instead a rather fairly young trio. Petr Vrba, Václav Šafka...

Last year, Lea Bertucci tu(r)ned heads with a second joint album with the vocalst Amirtha Kidambi and two longform compositions collected on the...

Even outside jazz circles, it lately was hard to get around the singer and clarinettist Angel Bat Dawid. H er joint album with Hanne De Backer...

Berlin-based US-American Ben Glas describes himself as a »compostmodernist/experiential composer/absurdist,« so it's hardly surprising that some...

The album »Ecstatic Computation« by Berlin-based composer Caterina Barbieri was a cross-scene sensation and the piece »Fantas« in particular was...

Christine Ott is one of the leading Ondes Martenot artists and put the instrument at the centre of her work last year on the album »Chimères.«...

Singer Cymin Samawatie and percussionist Ketan Bhatti have finally brought their work with the Trickster Orchestra to the studio. Over nine...

The so-called rescoring of films has enjoyed great popularity in recent years. With Geist im Kino, the British label Phantom Limb founded an...

Over the past nine years, Recollection GRM has primarily recovered old treasures from the archives of the Electroacoustic Institute, but...

A sound artist, a techno and ambient producer and a cellist: PDP III is the name of Britton Powell, Huerco S. and Lucy Railton’s collaborative...

Chris Abrahams (piano), Derek Shirley (bass), Rico Lee (guitar) and Steve Heather (drums) debuted under the name The Still in 2016 with a...

Bicyclists on Tempelhofer Feld: the cover artwork of Yair Etziony's album »Further Reduction« is oppressive in a way because it captures one of...

The Warsaw sound art label Mondoj is one of the most reliable of its kind. Polish artist Mateusz Olszewski has been exploring the interactions...

What separates a utopia from a dystopia usually depends on the perspective. In Thomas More's classic »Utopia,« for example, you will find a lack...

Ghédalia Tazartès fell silent on the 9th of February this year. The Frenchman was one of the most idiosyncratic musicians of the late 20th century...

Contemporary music and sound art can currently only be experienced live to a limited extent or, worse, not at all. And yet it is possible to...

Die in Berlin im näheren Umfeld des ACUD MACHT NEUs gegründete Zeitschrift Kapsel widmet sich chinesischer Science-Fiction-Literatur und hat...

David Wallraf steckt als Musiker und Veranstalter des Noisexistance-Festival in Hamburg selbst knietief in im Genresumpf von Noise, hat aber...

In a time when solidarity, togetherness and collective action are more crucial than ever, looking at tried and tested models from the past can be...

Next to CTM , the Polish festival Unsound is probably the most discursive festival on the European mainland. Last year’s edition had to be...

Paul Hegarty is one of the most prominent writers in an academic field that could be dubbed noise studies. Annihilating Noise follows 2007’s...

Beatriz Ferreyra and Natasha Barrett belong to different generations and have different musical backgrounds. Yet there’s more that unites...

It is very fortunate that the work of the composer Julius Eastman has received more attention in recent years. However, this does not make up...

The composer and sound artist Marta Forsberg now lives in Berlin, but is closely associated with the so-called Stockholm Drone Society around...

Johannes Auvinen is primarily known to house and techno fans as Tin Man, but for Akoosaari the Vienna-based leaves the beats aside and...

Wolfgang Seidel is something like the unofficial administrator of Conrad Schnitzler's comprehensive sound archive and regularly excels at his...

Men, machines and music: the Berlin duo Driftmachine is back on the Mexican label Umor Rex. Over four tracks, Spume & Recollection...

Do we really need another In C interpretation? Yes, says Dylan Henner – and he is right, as Great Prairie Plains: Studies of American...

Širom and Merope are not the only bands currently exploring contemporary forms of transcultural folk music. On Lokk , the Erlend Apneseth...

Hedvig Mollestad stays busy: Ding Dong. You're Dead. follows shortly after the virtuoso fusion-jazz guitarist’s solo debut and not only gets...

Noisician Joke Lanz, singer Almut Kühne and drummer Alfred Vogel present perhaps the most unusual and ear-splitting album of the year: How Noisy...

Maja S. K. Ratkje adds another entry to her remarkable discography: On Vannstand , children perform musical scores based on sea level...

Oren Ambarchi has unearthed a joint performance by Phew, John Duncan and Kondo Tatsuo from 1982 that brings together radio experiments, tape...

The Age Of Oddities is the solo debut of composer Rutger Hoedemaekers , who explores the work of his former companion Jóhann Jóhannsson...

On her debut album , the Norwegian composer and sound artist Tine Surel Lange processes natural and everyday sonic material into immersive,...

Field recordings of folkloric Japanese music form the source material for this collaboration between Sugai Ken and Edições CN founder Lieven...