experimental

Lose yourself in this trippy video and Mangled Dreams – WDE x The Microgram

Starting with a cut titled "Birth," find yourself in lo-fi, acid-washed hallucinations and a bath of music. It's a lo-fi,...

A five-story pyramid is backdrop for Kyiv’s music artists and queer performers

Inspired by crystalline geometries, Christopher Bauder’s STALACTITE towers nearly five stories over a Berlin backlot. On Sunday, it’s the setting...

Memory Knob is an elegant phrase recorder for anything in Ableton Live, by ayrtbh

Sequencer Electronics keeps giving us musical, inventive gadgets for Max for Live, from two of our favorite artists, Gooooose and...

“Singing Daxophone” makes incredible eerie quasi-vocals out of an experimental instrument

The "daxophone" is a new acoustic instrument invented in the 80s. Its creator was a German typographer. It's name is...

GEMA is a delay pedal effect-synth that rumbles like an earthquake, by Senyawa x Squaresolid

From Yogyakarta, Indonesia comes a glitchy, powerful delay effect unlike any other. It's a stompbox with an earthquake setting. And...

Watch live sets from Superbooth21: Jamaica Suk, JakoJako, Yann Tiersen, Pole, Bloody Mary…

Spanning dance sets to gorgeous ambient music, mixing instruments and electronics and even some live dance (with JakoJako), here's a...

Exist weaves ethereal new sounds from Ramallah Palestine to the world

There is a scene that now, more than ever, is decentralized. But that doesn't mean simply "out of major hubs."...

Meditation in a time of war: Ukrainian music innovator Kotra interview, premiere

Extreme-distorted metallic surfaces buzz on the surface, but there's deep meditation beneath. Ukraine's Kotra, aka Dmytro Fedorenko, returns to CDM...

Bentō is an alive, unstable Japanese noise box by Giorgio Sancristoforo

Feedback networks, unstable oscillators, shaky fat quivering filters, distorted mayhem, a bunch of labels in Japanese, a bunch of switches...