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Endless joys of the Open Reel Ensemble and reel-to-reel performance
Japan’s Open Reel Ensemble has been active continuously since 2009, with collaborations from Issei Miyake to Ryuichi Sakamoto. But there’s a special magic that some of their most experimental performances — bows flying over tape — are what has earned a fresh wave of attention.
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Free book traces the revolutionary link of graphic to sound, in Xenakis, UPIC, and legacy
Electronic sound is in theory a limitless blank canvas. Iannis Xenakis and his work imagine what image of sound could fill that page – and leaves a legacy that’s still radical today.
Mapping Berlin's Project Spaces Against Transformation, Rebuilding Old Rockets in 3D
Through political change, people keep making art – whether overtly political or not, finding some home in the landscapes that shift around them. We now find ourselves able to map the work and ideas of artists across space and time, to a greater extent than ever before. Amidst international obsession on Berlin, for instance, it’s […]