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Interview: Chiyou Ding

Interview: Chiyou Ding

The ATTN preview of Taiwanese Experimental Music continues. On 4th November at Café Oto, Happened will play host to four Taiwanese artists that bring an exploratory energy to their interaction with sound, technology and performance. I’ve already had two wonderful conversations with event organiser Lucia H Chung and media

Interview: Lucia H Chung

Interview: Lucia H Chung

On 4th November at London’s Café Oto, event organiser Happened will be presenting Taiwanese Experimental Music: a showcase of four musicians from Taiwan, all of whom have their own unique method of upturning the conventional means of manipulating, consolidating and presenting sound and performance. Of course, the term “experimental”

Interview: Leafcutter John

Interview: Leafcutter John

Unconscious Archives Festival opened last night. It’s a series of sonic and audiovisual events taking place across London until the end of September, gathering together artists for performances that instigate collisions between old and new media, artist and audience, performer and venue, technology and curious, interruptive circuit-bender. The lineup

Interview: Francisco López

Interview: Francisco López

For his upcoming Cafe Oto appearance on 14th March 2015, sound artist Francisco López will perform two quadrophonic pieces to a blindfolded audience. The pieces will also be broadcast live on BBC Radio 3’s Hear And Now programme. Go here for a link to listen live or to listen

Live: Multipletap @ Cafe Oto in London, 23/02/2014

Live: Multipletap @ Cafe Oto in London, 23/02/2014

Multipletap awakes gradually, lurching into life with what sounds like a 1980s computer malfunctioning on start up – a hard drive stalling through catalogues of digitised information, with extended beeps whose prolonged tones spell error in cyber vowel. Takahiro Kawaguchi and Kou Katsuyoshi seem to gather up the excitable tension in

Interview: Rie Nakajima

Interview: Rie Nakajima

It was fantastic to see your performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall; it’s rare to see experimental sound on that sort of scale. How was it for you? It was quite tough. The space was big. Everyone who knows my work was worried about if my object sound is loud

Live: The New Experimentalists @ Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, 14/01/2014

Live: The New Experimentalists @ Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, 14/01/2014

I walk in, and the atmosphere of a performance in progress swallows me whole. The Queen Elizabeth Hall is unquestionably an auditorium – luxury tiered seating, low lighting, a high sloped ceiling somewhere up there in the darkness – and its formidable call for silence is a roar in itself. But it’