sound art

Selestium’s plucked Quiverer M5 module, as discovered on an alien dig

Selestium Modular isn't quite like other modular makers - creator Adriana Knouf imagines an extraterrestrial dig on which this creation...

Phil Niblock, unstoppable composer and artist, remembered

Adventurous composer, musician, filmmaker, and conceptual artist Phil Niblock remained active right through his later life - an embodiment of...

Playing the space of Kraftwerk: Rabon Aibo’s sound art at Atonal

In fragmented materials and process-based performance interventions, this year's Atonal exhibition seems to breathe life into debris, a deconstruction of...

Brahmaputra to AI: debashis sinha on practice, body, humanness, and his double release

Composer, producer, and percussionist debashis sinha delved into spiritual spaces of his ancestral India in a double-release from late last...

Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women

Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let's listen...

Learn modular MetaSounds in Unreal, free, and start thinking in procedural sound

It was once the stuff of dreams -- a patchable, modular environment for sound, synthesis, music, and procedural generative audio....

Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser

What would electronic machines be like without our usual resources? What about sound from old screw cans and radiosensitivity, or...

“Words become plastic”: Stephen Mallinder, Cabaret Voltaire founder, polymath, interviewed

He's been a vocalist (as a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire), a lyricist, a vocalist. But if you know the...