Noise
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Whether by design or not, Japan’s Masaya Kato has found a way to combine a core feature of house music with ambient noise. His frequent use of Fender Rhodes and piano vignettes is immediately recognizable to club kids young and old. But what he does with those sounds is entirely new. Kato’s latest, contact, goes…
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Electronic music producer Nick Sutton has partnered with Matthew Faulkner and Scott Darby on an ambitious project that occupies the extremes of both electronic and new classical music. Preludes/Renders offers seven preludes by Sutton and six renders – which is to say compositions featuring samples from Sutton’s preludes – by Faulkner. Darby’s video work accompanies…
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It’s difficult to imagine Toshimaru Nakamura with anything as conventional as an electric guitar slung over his shoulder. Since developing what he calls the “no-input mixing board” in the mid-1990s, the Tokyo-based noisemaker has earned a spot among his generation’s most influential avant-gardists. But it’s true, he started out playing old-time rock and roll. Clearly…
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This is Thomas Bey William Bailey’s first recording for the Elevator Bath label in Austin, Texas. The sound artist, researcher and book author has released two version of his new work “La Production Interdite.” One is an instrumental. The other features a fascinating spoken word addition, on the subject of autoscopy. Defined in the album’s…
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Bernd Kastner and Siegfried M. Syniuga are back on the Touch roster with their first new album for the label since the early 1990s. The Düsseldorf duo has announced its return with a growling, shrieking monster of an album. The Bird Was Stolen must be heard to be believed. And it really must be heard.…
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It is difficult to overstate the influence of a small set of bands in the 1980s and 1990s spearheaded by Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine. Their ability to fuse old-fashioned studio-generated noise with sweet melodies is a strong link in the chain that connects The Velvet Underground to today’s avant-garde. Too often lumped in…
The Moderns 