Laurie Spiegel interview offers a way of thinking about community, imagination

What could community and imagination in music making look like? Laurie Spiegel’s reflections on the 70s and earlier decades, recorded in 2014, offer some clues, even for a very different time today.

Worlds of sound from hacked hard drives, piano-triggered modular

NYC-based Purplish Records releases music on cassette in batches, and this double release is a serious gem. Ipek Eginli creates a magical cloud world of prepared piano interconnected with modular synths, as Jad Atoui transforms discarded hard drives into mechanical compositional machines.

Peter Kirn - February 7, 2025

“All rivers lead to the same ocean”: UbuWeb, pirate shadow library, is back

The underground treasure trove of “avant-garde artifacts” is back on the Internet, a source of light even in days of darkness.

Peter Kirn - February 6, 2025

Interview: Michael Vincent Waller connects concert music and hip-hop

David Abravanel - December 26, 2024

Finding one another in sound: compilations for Palestine

Peter Kirn - February 14, 2024

Phil Niblock, unstoppable composer and artist, remembered

Peter Kirn - January 9, 2024

Fire mix from Janus Rose, full of unreleased music: latest POST

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2023

Premiere: Vexillary’s “Animalic” 3D music video channels Alien, Venom

Peter Kirn - November 15, 2023

The greatest hits of Electro-Harmonix are now in pico-sized pedals: NYC Series

Peter Kirn - September 21, 2023

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