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Live: Richard Youngs + Eric Chenaux @ Cafe Oto In London, 11/01/2014

Live: Richard Youngs + Eric Chenaux @ Cafe Oto In London, 11/01/2014

Guitar soloing is so often a demonstration of virtuosity and technical confidence, but it sounds drunk and weak-limbed under Chenaux’s command; the exaggerated wah pedal movements sound like massive bubbles ready to pop, and the vibrato makes held notes shiver like a bottom lip heralding an imminent outburst of

Live: Eli Keszler + Jennifer Allum + John Chantler @ Cafe Oto in London, 25/05/13

John Chantler’s set originates from the back of the room – where his modular synthesiser sits beneath a network of patch leads – but the sound itself greets Oto from all sides, flooding out of the PA at the front of the stage and emitting squashed signals from two guitar amplifiers

Interview: Russell Haswell

Your upcoming performance at South London Gallery will feature the use of “phase scope projections”. Similarly, last year’s Acid nO!se Synthesis was designed to be experienced alongside a phase scope/oscilloscope. What does this visual element bring to the experience for you? Direct correlation between sound and image…

Live: A Whisper In The Noise + Max Bondi + Quinta @ Cafe Oto, 16/05/12

Quinta filter onto the stage one by one: their faces painted white, their hair held stiffly in place by means of a cardboard loo roll tube, breathing into crinkled paper bags and taking charge of all kinds of sound-making devices. Saws are bowed to produce quivering whistles, glasses of water

Live: Maja Ratkje + Ikue Mori, John Wiese + Evan Parker @ Cafe Oto

John Wiese and Evan Parker have been musically acquainted before: initially as part of the Free Noise tour 2008, and then on the collaborative release C-Section, released on PAN back in 2009. Having never witnessed the pairing myself, I’m left somewhat optimistic in the knowledge that previous meetings had

Interview: Eli Keszler

What makes Boston’s Cyclorama an appropriate venue for the Cold Pin installation? The massive size of the space allowed me to make the piece at the scale I imagined it to be. It’s an incredibly high dome, so the sound is very special in there. There was so

Interview: Z'EV

PHOTO BY DEIMANTE DEMENTAVICIUTE What is Rhythmajik, and how did you become affiliated with it? How did I become affiliated with it? I wrote the book with that title (Rhythmajik: Practical Uses of Number, Rhythm and Sound). It was published in 1992 by Temple Press, who went out of business