Music for orangutans, as Lyra Pramuk and Rani Jambak connect to Sumatra’s ecosystem
The music flows easily, entangled like vines, in a production constructed between Berlin and Indonesia over Zoom. But in these...
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From Estonia and the Baltic, new composition and rich electronic music in a free broadcast
The Buchla and Serge synths and laptops are all warmed up. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia are showing a spring bounty...
Stop what you’re doing to listen game music going very wrong and very polytonal
2021 needs an anthem, and clearly, it's bitonal Nintendo Switch paused game racing music in chaotic dissonance. "Nothing's gonna stop...
Premiere: Dark Forces by The Allegorist plunges us into a gorgeously surreal, shamanistic future
It's the ultimate neo-futuristic concept album, complete with invented language for the lyrics ("Mondoneoh") and a protaganist known as Dragon...
Berghain is open again as a cute, cartoony animated AR app
Techno palace Berghain has never been so adorable as in the work of illustrator Virginie Kypriotis. And now you can...
Premiere: Olenc’s Particles takes a microscopic trip inside a cello string
Someone sucked Bochum, Duisburg, and Dortmund into a digital realm full of VR air pollution visualization - and in the...
Meemo Comma, interviewed: Lara Rix Martin’s deep-space futurist Jewish mysticism
"In the year 5781 humanity is ever closer to becoming a singular consciousness..." Sci-fi Jewish mysticism, anime-style - David Abravanel...
In pandemic year two, streaming in China builds underground electronic music community
With community radio and online features, the metaverse in cities like Chengdu and Shanghai continues to be a conduit for...
Here’s what happens when HÖR Berlin DJ sets are reimagined with AI
Vinyl, then digital... now meet meta-DJing. OÍR by Moisés Horta Valenzuela imagines what would happen if one machine learning-powered DJ...
Miller Puckette, creator of Max and Pd, on how he’s patching his way to remote collaboration
Miller Puckette, the original creator of Max and Pure Data, has been working on keeping connected remotely, too. In this...
