Motion Music Reviews
Jazz Szu-Ying Chen and Surgeon remind us why craft and art matter
Surgeon’s Shell~Wave easily tops my favorite techno records from 2025, a nice return to form for Tresor Records. But as we’re awash in generated artwork, let’s devote our own brain cycles instead to listening to Surgeon talk to Taiwanese artist Jazz Szu-Ying Chen about the craft of making this album cover by hand.
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Betty Apple, sci-fi, mermaids, volcanoes, techno, time travel: album + interview
Betty Apple’s Taiwan Bay Be is a full-length album exploring Taiwanese identity, time travel, sound, and the cosmic. Released this year on our Establishment, Betty is now in Berlin for a live presentation on Wednesday – and she has a lot to say, from unpacking the mermaid fairy tail to imagining science fiction futures and sound’s relationship to “God” and life after death.
Peter Kirn - June 25, 2024
Establishment Music Stories
From Hong Kong, broadcasts of expansive experimental and underground music
It’s another winter of tough commercial pressures and pandemic limits on gathering. But Hong Kong Community Radio – and now CFK Radio – provide some shining examples of how to create new spaces for far-out sounds.
Handmade Paper and Projections Combine, in Forms Digital and Tangible
Peter Kirn - September 7, 2010
Archive Motion Music tech
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