Playing the space of Kraftwerk: Rabon Aibo’s sound art at Atonal

In fragmented materials and process-based performance interventions, this year’s Atonal exhibition seems to breathe life into debris, a deconstruction of ruined objects. But most striking of all is the work of sound artist Rabon Aibo. With mechanical constructions, he makes the cavernous Kraftwerk power plant into an instrument – and makes use of gas canisters that resonate with dark moments in Kurdish and European histories.

Brahmaputra to AI: debashis sinha on practice, body, humanness, and his double release

Composer, producer, and percussionist debashis sinha delved into spiritual spaces of his ancestral India in a double-release from late last year. These projects interweave rhythm, mythology, decolonization, and artificial intelligence. We talk to Deb about his take on machine learning – uniquely humble and human just when we need it – and the significance of the sonic imagery on this album. He reflects on the process of making and meaning for these gorgeous releases.

Peter Kirn - March 23, 2023

Khabat Abas of Kurdistan-Iraq talking about cellos, bombshells, silenced stories of women

Making instruments, making music overlaps directly with the issue of mapping sound to emotional experience, meaning, and orientation. Let’s listen to Khabat Abas, a musician, composer, sound artist, and instrument maker from Kurdistan-Iraq. She works directly at the crossing of so many of the issues we’ve encountered in the past months – and finds ways to make experimental cellos out of repurposed bombshells.

Peter Kirn - March 8, 2023

Learn modular MetaSounds in Unreal, free, and start thinking in procedural sound

Peter Kirn - February 2, 2023

Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2023

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

David Abravanel - December 23, 2022

Healing, history, and a future reclaimed: Nina Pixel deep dive from Signals Festival

Peter Kirn - October 25, 2022

Alvin Lucier, who saw sonic poetry in pencils and soundscapes everywhere, has died

Peter Kirn - December 1, 2021

NAP, a free, high-performance data-driven visual and audio platform, is now slicker than ever

Peter Kirn - October 15, 2021

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