Music

Support Dirar Kalash, experimental multi-instrumentalist behind Sonic Liberation Front

Palestine-born, Berlin-based artist Dirar Kalash faced an accident after a gig without health insurance. But an outpouring of support is...

Prequel Tapes works through trauma in meticulous sound and choreography [trigger warning]

The Golden Cage is a deeply intimate work by Berlin-based Prequel Tapes, who strings together electronic sounds and voice to...

Kyoka is imagining new worlds, playing machines, and exploring neurology: interview

Kyoka, the innovative producer and artist (Raster-Noton), has electrodes attached to her head with good reason. In collaboration with neurologists,...

Healing, history, and a future reclaimed: Nina Pixel deep dive from Signals Festival

Ancestral Archaeology is more than the title of Nina Pixel's new double-album. It's an urgent practice at a moment of...

The Commodordion: 8-bit instrument made of taped-together C64s and floppies

Eat your heart out, Roland V-Accordion. Meet the Commodordion, an 8-bit chip instrument with bellows made of floppies and gaffer...

Brutal, creative sound worlds in 4-part compilation from Paula Temple’s Noise Manifesto

Distort sound, distort norms - that's the watchcry of Paula Temple's Noise Manifesto. But even though it's a celebration of...