Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
Tag Archives: acoustic
Maryanne Amacher – Petra

CD – Blank Forms
Maryanne Amacher, a pupil of Karlheinz Stockhausene and George Rochberg, created City Links: Buffalo in 1967, a 28 hour work where she uses 5 microphones in different parts of the city, transmitted in real time through →
Quadrat:sch – Stubenmusic
2CD – Col Legno
Quadrat:sch are a chamber music ensemble that includes Barbara Romen, Christof Dienz, Gunter Schneider, Alexandra Dienz, Zeena Parkins, Herbert Pirker and Kassian Erhart. The band plays many instruments; some →
Seth Horvitz – Eight Studies For Automatic Piano
CD – Line
Inspired by the work of James Tenney, Gyögy Ligeti, Charlemagne Palestine, and Conlon Nancarrow, these eight studies for piano by Seth Horvitz use some simple computer-assisted composition processes. The →
Alvin Lucier – Zeitkratze: Old School
CD – Zeitkratze
Recorded live at the Philharmonie Luxembourg in October 2009 and edited in the summer of the following year in Germany (GreenHouseStudios), these five new compositions by Alvin Lucier resonate →
Olan Mill – Pine
CD – Serein
This is the debut album by the Alex and Svitlana Samoylenko Smalley duo, aka Olan Mill – two rather cultured and refined audioartists who propose elegiac instrumental sequences with →
AAVV – E84
CD – Entr’acte
This very interesting collection, published by Entr’acte, opens with the tense and grinding drones of Greek experimenter Yiorgis Sakellariou. The metallic, sustained sounds are presented in the guise of iterated →
Ignatz – Mort Aux Vaches
CD – Mort Aux Vaches
In Ignatz, floating guitar sequences merge with an exotic, repetitive score, creating melancholic and sensitive environments. Simultaneously lo-fi and yet of an unusually high technical caliber, this work →
Kiko C. Esseiva – Sous Les Etoiles
CD – Hinterzimmer
Oblique, hollow melodies, horror-movie-style audio samples, suspended atmospheres, elegant iterations, intermezzo organ, voice experiments, and – unmistakably – a taste for a certain pure mental automatism, which pierces →
Kapital Band 1 – Playing By Numbers
CD – Mosz
Behind the moniker Kapital Band 1 there’s a duo formed by Martin Brandlmayr and Nicholas Bussman (also known as ‘The Golden Boys’ and ‘Hair’), two musician very →
Charlemagne Palestine – A Sweet Quasimodo Between Black Vampire Butterflies For Maybeck
CD – Cold Blue Music
With microtonal assonances reminiscent of the American minimalist tradition, Charlemagne Palestine excites us again with ‘A Sweet Quasimodo…’, playing on two different Yamaha pianos at the same →