Curiosity Over Judgement – Listening Across Musical Worlds
A conversation exploring curiosity, listening, collaboration, Stockhausen, Brian Eno, audience experience and creative possibilities
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Un’Immagine by Erik Kessels
UN'IMMAGINE is a work by visual artist Erik Kessels (Netherlands), made up of thousands of pictures from Intesa Sanpaolo Publifoto Archive
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Forces, Reactions, Deflections – The Making Of
The making of my album Forces, Reactions, Deflections on Quiet Details, using a Geophone microphone and metal staircase
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The Making of Contrary Motion with Nurse with Wound
A feature exploring the making of Scanner & Nurse with Wound's Contrary Motion album, a labyrinth of sonic abstraction and ghostly echoes
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The Passion of Glenn Branca
A feature about American avant-garde composer Glenn Branca, written in 1984, celebrating his visceral and unforgettable music
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A Some Bizzare Tale
A 5-minute interview in the offices of Some Bizzare Records in London and the impossible task of answering Stevo's questions
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The Phenol Tapes inspired by Robert Rauschenberg
The making of the album The Phenol Tapes, recorded at The Robert Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva Florida in 2017
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Neumusik – a fanzine covering experimental music
A review of Neumusik, a fanzine dedicated to European experimental music from 1979-1982, duplicating the original issues
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The Making of Alchemeia, and how broken lightbulbs, seagulls and a Berlin toilet played a role
A track by track exploration of my new album Alchemeia, using hardware and software synthesiser, updating the ideas of 1960s and 1960s electronic library music
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The joy of the Found Image
Celebrating the joy of the found image in photography and film. From Marcel Duchamp to Peter Tscherkassky
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Raster-Noton Source Book 1
A review of the Raster Noton Source Book 1 (2017), a minimalist 400-page design resource and archive
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Morton Subotnick – In the Land of the Silver Apples
A conversation with legendary American composer Morton Subotnick, talking about the San Francisco Tape Music Center and Buchla synthesisers
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Orbital – The Hartnoll Brothers talk family and feuds
An extended 2017 chat with Orbital about their reunion, morris dancing, giant dildos, brotherhood and technology
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The debut of Pan Sonic in London, 1994
The London and UK debut for Finnish label Sähkö Recordings was unforgettable. Would a 12 minute live set be long enough to blow your mind?
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La Monte Young Composition 1960 #7
The story and influence of Composition 1960 #7 by La Monte Young, via Stockhausen, Cage, Ono and others, inspiring the work of Brian Eno, the Velvet Underground, Glenn Branca and more.
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The ever changing face of a website
Reflecting back upon almost thirty years of owning and developing a website. From Flash, ASCII through to e-commerce and more
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Semibreve Festival Braga 2022
Semibreve Festival in Portugal is a unique festival in many ways. I explore the music and atmosphere of this magical annual event
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The Magical World of the Wing Pinger
The magical world of the Wing Pinger, an instrument quite unlike any other
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The 20th anniversary of Scannerfunk
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Scannerfunk, my techno alter ego ?
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The Origin Story of a working class boy discovering the world through music and TV
An exploration of my childhood, and how TV and music made me who I am today
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Hyperstate Oslo – A secret agent amongst genuine pop stars
A night out with The Prodigy live in Oslo back in 1996 and my personal adventures
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Imagining the future, whilst enjoying the past
Imaging the future of technologies from past developments
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Staging Silence – soundtracking the films of Hans Op de Beeck
Soundtracking the films of Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck
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How to Stream an Online Gig and the Joy of Bandcamp Live
Everything I have learnt about live streaming for music, debuting on Bandcamp Live
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How Brian Eno’s On Land Changed my World
How Brian Eno's On Land (1982) influenced me in ways not even he intended!
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The joy and challenge of graphic scores
The joy and challenge of graphic scores in musical performance
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Trawling the archives
The origins of Trawl, a special release featuring Mick Harris/Scorn and Bill Laswell
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The reality of Brexit to Musicians
The reality and challenges of trying to play one show in Spain with Brexit forcing your hand
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Max Neuhaus – Space as Sound
An exploration of composer and artist Max Neuhaus (1939-2009) who alerted us to the vibrations of the world around us in unique ways.
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