Trans-curated music, reading, watching from Manila’s thatelephantparty, more

Manila’s ELEPHANT (aka thatelephantparty) has a collection of curated culture that deserves echoing here. All that, and let’s also spotlight some meaningful music that you almost certainly haven’t heard.

“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

Marie Wilhelmine Anders’ Frozen Music: Debussy, dance, and foghorns

In ethereal stretched harmonic recollections of Debussy, across cooly confident grooves echoing from dance floors, composer Marie Wilhelmine Anders has again constructed a rich musical reverie. I spoke to her about her process for Frozen Music, down to the bar, and how Scottish poetry fed this lush sonic landscape.

Peter Kirn - January 24, 2024

Premiere: In new kāve LP, pre-classical Persian verse meets the machine

Peter Kirn - September 26, 2023

Connecting MLK’s death to Hip Hop, and reading on Black identity and sound

Peter Kirn - January 16, 2023

“Words become plastic”: Stephen Mallinder, Cabaret Voltaire founder, polymath, interviewed

David Abravanel - December 23, 2022

Livecoding glitch, eye-searing colors, AI poetry, and the knowledge to make it yourself for free

Peter Kirn - November 22, 2021

Premiere: Spell Drops music video is flowing, organic electronic poetry

Peter Kirn - February 28, 2018

Discover Nordanvind, and the imaginative woman behind it, Fjaeder

Zuzana Friday Prikrylova - October 21, 2015

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