Crucial Listening #111: Laurie Tompkins
Brazen electronic keys, odes to the rig, ripping everything out. The UK composer and performer discusses three important albums.
Jack Chuter
Crucial Listening #110: Rocio Zavala
Raga of the spine, stretched like honey dripping, body-recalibration drones. The Chicago-based visual and sound artist discusses three important albums.
Review: Babak Ahteshamipour – Specter, Spectrum, Speculum
Synthesisers crunched in trapezoidic arpeggiations, voices in service of nonsense.
Review: Savvas Metaxas – For How Read Now
Two eggs for breakfast precede the skitter of the unexpected.
Crucial Listening #109: Jenny Berger Myhre
Haunting organs, sitting inside tape loops, endless questions. The Oslo-based multidisciplinary artist discusses three important albums.
Review: Aleksandra Słyż – A Vibrant Touch
Microtonal drones for strings, saxophone and modular synthesiser, pressing back against the insistence to continue.
Crucial Listening #108: Chloe Alexandra Thompson
Feedback as praxis, weird fragments, the first true drone show. The Cree, Canadian, interdisciplinary artist and sound designer discusses three important albums.
Chloe’s picks:
Les Rallizes Denudes – Mizutani
Coil – Backwards (Demos)
Phill Niblock – Music
Chloe’s new album, They Can Never Burn The Stars, is out now on SIGE.