For ‘Chernobyl’ score, Hildur Guðnadóttir went to a nuclear power plant

Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir went the extra distance for her score for Chernobyl = taking a real power plant as inspiration for her haunting score.

Heard it all before? Talking sound, discovery, and inspiration

Sometimes lost in conversations about technology or specific musical genre or minutia of social media is the fundamental question of what sound is and what we can discover. From Berlin’s tech/culture conference re:publica, we got to tackle some of those questions.

Peter Kirn - May 14, 2019

Andreas Schneider on the significance of synths, just before Superbooth

Look past the modulars and wires: connecting people who make instruments and those who play them is at the heart of all Andreas Schneider’s endeavors. With Superbooth looming, we check in on Herr Schneider and his vision of what electronic instruments are about.

Peter Kirn - May 8, 2019

Self care in the music business: reflections from Frankie of Discwoman

Peter Kirn - March 5, 2019

Inside the esoteric moon music of Doc Sleep, underground connector

Peter Kirn - March 4, 2019

Take a 3D trip into experimental turntablism with V-A-C Moscow, Shiva Feshareki

Peter Kirn - March 1, 2019

Like a studio onstage: Orbital tells us their live rig synth secrets

David Abravanel - January 4, 2019

Generative music from Shanghai’s AYRTBH: interview, download

David Abravanel - December 17, 2018

Underwater electronic futurism, in the words of James Stinson (Drexciya)

Peter Kirn - November 5, 2018

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