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Joost Heijhuijsen travels to Oslo for the 2021 edition of Vriompeis and reflects on how a unique musical scene can quickly recover from the effects of the pandemic... thanks to a radical DIY approach and some smart state spending
While watching Caterina Barbieri perform live at Brighton Digital Festival held at the Attenborough Centre For The Creative Arts (ACCA), Paul Tucker wonders what experimental music does to our consciousness that makes it seem so powerful
The American composer and performer, along with her unique vocal ensemble, takes electronic music out of the AI box and into truly new territory, says David Bennun after attending Brighton Digital Festival at the Attenborough Centre For The Creative Arts (ACCA)
Taking place at a secret location just an hour outside of London, Christian Eede finds that Field Maneuvers is a festival that taps into a special kind of community spirit befitting of its modest capacity, and checks out sets from Giant Swan, Avalon Emerson and more along the way
On her new album CALIGULA and the performances behind it, the Providence-based extreme musician LINGUA IGNOTA shares more than a passing similarity with the late transgressive fiction writer Kathy Acker, says Adam Lehrer, reporting from Brooklyn