Electronic
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Brooklyn’s Clarice Jensen has established an international reputation as an accomplished cellist, composer and collaborator. Her resume includes recordings and performances with a long list of heavyweights: Jóhann Jóhannsson, Max Richter and Blonde Redhead among them. She’s also artistic director of the American Contemporary Music Ensemble. Drone Studies is her second solo release. As the…
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I received a note from Ludovica at Modern Matters, promoting a pair of new releases on the Nyege Nyege Tapes and Hakuna Kulala labels. I’ll return to both in a moment. First, I’d like to share something that’s been on my mind for some time. This (I hope) will explain why I often say no…
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Ivan Somov makes music out of the Ural Mountains’ eastern foothills. His home is Serov, a small Sverdlovsk Oblast mining town of about 100,000 Russians. It would be presumptuous to say that where he lives has a great deal to do with the rather austere electronic music he makes under the name NotNotice. That said,…
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French author, philosopher and literary theorist Maurice Blanchot’s life spanned almost the entirety of the twentieth century. Born in a Saône-et-Loire commune called Devrouze in September 1907, he lived to see 2003. During those years, his work was sufficiently complex and wide-ranging that Christophe Bident would author a biography of the great man entitled Maurice…
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If it comes as a surprise to hear that Andrew Weathers’ delightfully scattered Full Spectrum Records is celebrating its 10th birthday, you’re in good company. “We are just as astonished as you are,” writes Weathers in the email that accompanied the release. “If we’re being honest, there was never any real ‘plan’ when we started…
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There’s long been a tension in experimental music between the artist’s vision and their ability to communicate it to an audience. The size of that audience is inconsequential. But it is generally accepted that failing to consider one’s listeners is an act of self-indulgence. Which is to say that the avant-garde is often a balancing…
The Moderns 