Dances With White Girls about Fashion & Music
"Fashion exposes the lies of what you speak in your lyrics."
Odd Beholder about Identity, Discrimination and why Privilege sucks
"Having a privilege is benefitting from injustice."
Mitch Grassi of Messer & Pentatonix about Fashion & Music
"I want the experience to be a bit bombarding."
The Felice Brothers Share their Creative Process
"Writers want to think that their work is being dictated by a higher power. That's a symptom of egotism."
Martyna Poznańska talks Sound
"We're not better than other species inhabiting this place – we may even be worse."
Aisha Badru about Reforestation and Personal Responsibility
"You don't have to reach a million people. Start local. Start with you."
The Nu Deco Ensemble Share their Creative Process
"I like to put Easter eggs throughout the music."
Nikki Sheth about Field Recording and Building Sonic Panoramas
"Sound and field recording can one hundred percent change our perception of the world."
Matt Evans about Touchless Touch, Grief and Death
"I remember absence being something odd and impossible to handle. It didn’t feel real."
ATB about Production, Technology and Creativity
"AI will optimize some processes. But I prefer to do the job myself."
David Morales Shares his Creative Process
"Neil Tennant from the Pet Shop Boys taught me about intelligent lyrics."
Jim O'Rourke about Improvisation
"Live, you are on the train, whether you want to be or not."
Billy Brett of Buck Gooter about Creating in the Face of Death
"All we have is now. You can’t take it with you after death."
Cochemea about Improvisation
"Once a space is populated with bodies, something else happens."
Jemma Woolmore talks Sound
"We need to be more careful about the effects of noise pollution on all life forms."
Sharif Sehnaoui of Karkhana about Improvisation
"In your early years of free improvising, you are not truly able to listen."
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe about Composing for Film
"It’s about understanding when to remove sound as much as it is to know when to have it in."
Steve Rodby (Pat Metheny Group) about Improvisation
"Playing improvised music is like taking a bath in the past, present and future."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Ester Poly
Searching, Finding, Losing, Searching, Finding, Losing
Fifteen Questions Interview with Anthony Moore (Slap Happy, Pink Floyd, Kevin Ayers)
Either and Both
Duane Pitre About Tuning Systems, Working with MAX & Music of the Spheres
"I like some order in my life. It helps the chaos in my brain."
Agoria about Infinite Remixes, Sound after Death & Audio Intimacy
"Living systems are more powerful than any artificial intelligence."
Cochemea About Identity, Indigenous Culture and Deep Listening
"Colonization severs cultural ties through oppression and violence."
Billy Martin of Martin, Medeski & Wood About Improvisation
"Every sound I make is a performance. No matter where I am."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Wolfgang Mitterer
You can pray in your church, but it is better to sing.
Graham Haynes About Improvisation
"You must be totally prepared. But you must also be empty."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Max Turnbull / Badge Epoch
A Primary Vessel for Consciousness
Ulrich Krieger About Alternative Tuning Systems
"Electronic tools will be the end of the traditional 12-tone equal system."
Ensemble Emoción About Creative Cosmopolitanism and Music as a Universal Language
"We see our different backgrounds as our super-power."
Andrew Shapiro About Minimalism, Mental Health and Mindfulness
"My life changed the second I walked in Philip Glass's door."
Master KG About Jerusalema, African Unity and Musical Activism
"Artists are in a unique position - they raise their voices and people will listen."
Rebecca Lenaerts Shares her Creative Process
‘Creation is bringing to the surface what already exists’
Picard Brothers About Limited Options, Technology and the Super AI
"If I were my computer I would ask for publishing rights."
Fifteen Questions Round Up Week 25
A Selection of the Week's Best Interviews + Reviews & Music
Fifteen Questions Interview with Robert Cox of Rimarimba and The Same
Make Noise, Mutate Music
Bushwacka About Helping Musicians Heal
"Being in the studio 80 hours a week affected my health, my relationships, my ability to think clearly."
El Buho About Identity, South American Inspiration and Global Community
"Music moves, it evolves, it is transformed. That's what makes it so rich."
Gerald Cleaver about Griots, Ghost Orbits and Modular Synthesis
"I felt I was hurtling through space uncontrollably."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Hprizm / High Priest (Antipop Consortium)
In a State of No Mind
Parra for Cuva About his Instrument Collection, Technology and AI
"Machines could come up with a new great song. But it wouldn’t be inventive."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Sara Oswald + Feldermelder
Sounds that Make Your Brain Tickle
Steven Weston About His Studio, Gear and AI
"A computer that never crashes, that would have the best impact for me."
Matt Bachmann about Life and Death
"I like the idea of some sort of energetic compost. But also, I don’t know and I enjoy not knowing."
Chris Connelly (Ministry, Revolting Cocks) Shares his Creative Process
Mystical and Awe-Inspiring, and Very, Very Personal
Alejandro Valdés About Identity, Roots and the New Cuban Flamenco
"Playing the bagpipes in flamenco drew a lot of attention."
Theresa Wong About Alternative Tuning Systems
"Pitch, tuning, and the sounds we create can effect the world around us."
Yussef Dayes about Body Rhythms, Metronomic Time and Family Ties
"I make sure every drum beat has purpose, power and life force."
Joshua Abrams (Natural Information Society, Mind Maintenance) Shares his Creative Process
Keep the Flow Going
Laura Masotto About the Mediterranean Refugee Crisis
"I cried. I was moved. I took some time to witness the pain."
Breakthrough Works: Ten City - "That's the way love is"
"It felt like we were sitting in a futuristic spaceship!"
The Twilite Tone about Sound as a Driving Force and Creative Clearing
"My Intention is to Inspire Freedom."
Fifteen Questions Round Up Week 22
A Selection of the Week's Best Interviews + Reviews & Music
Curses about Orwell's Predictions, Chemistry with Machines & Future Nostalgia
"Everything changed after I heard Suicide."
Robert Rich on Alternative Tuning Systems
"Let's not be fascists about who gets to sing a right or wrong note."
Jaberwocky about Gear, Technology and AI
"There hasn't been a major technologic revolution in music since the 2010s."
Fifteen Questions Round Up Week 21
A Selection of the Week's Best Interviews + Reviews & Music
Blood Cultures About Identity, Opressive Ideas and Manufactured Egos
"Ask yourself who you are and what you've done. Are you blameless?"
Rollo Armstrong of Faithless About Technology, AI and the Impact of Streaming
"Without technology, I am nothing."
Alex Patterson of The Orb on Sound, Field Recording and Frog Song
"It's been a very, very surreal ride for me."
Fabio Florido About Sound Healing and using Music Responsibly
"We are literally playing with people's cells and molecules!"
David Dornig of Dsilton on Alternative Tuning Systems
"I have to put in hundreds of hours just to make it sound okay."
Pixel Grip About Identity & Killing Your Old Self
"When someone really weird makes really good art, it’s suddenly cool to be like them."
Georg Vogel of Dsilton About Alternative Tuning Systems
"Your fingers need to learn almost every move from the beginning."
Curses about DJing
"I love the mystery of walking into a club and not knowing how the night will go."
Jochen Rueckert About Technology and Artificial Intelligence
"I doubt AI will offer much beyond saving time or small variations."
Hayden Chisholm About Alternative Tuning Systems
"In some music, you can hear the history of clashing empires."
Stephan Packe of LTO about Gear and Authorship
"I'm still waiting for a technology that enables us to create any sound simply by imagining it."
Angrusori About the Links between Norwegian Improv and Slovak Roma Songs
"Slovakian Roma music is like Lego blocks: It keeps shifting into infinite shapes."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Charlie Nieland (Debby Harry / Rufus Wainwright)
Step Into the Fire
Noah Pred About Challenging Power Structures with Music
"I get upset when I hear fans demand artists stay in their lane."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Christopher Bono of Nous Alpha & Ghost Against Ghost
Geometry in the Mind
Fifteen Questions Interview with Matt Walker (of1000faces, Morrissey, Smashing Pumpkins)
When it’s Time to Write, it’s Time to Write.
J. Peter Schwalm about Life, Death and the End of Beauty
"I've sometimes thought: Peter, this could be your last project."
Yuko Araki about Technology and Gear
"I'm very curious to see if I could make music with another me."
TRAX ONLY about Identity and the Queer Nightlife
"Identity as a social concept can be an exhausting spiral."
Malcolm Pardon about Death as a Companion
"These songs opened the door to my subconsciousness.“
Balmorhea about Climate Change and Feeding Activism with Emotions
"We fear the destruction of the natural world."
Sistanagila about an Israeli-Iranian Dialogue in Music
"What is the point of music if it doesn't give you hope?"
Wild Anima about Mantras, Healing and the Heart as an Oscillator
"The day we released the film, a volcano erupted in Iceland."
Zach Phillips About Life and Death
“The dead are always right, according to the proverb, but fundamentally they are always wrong."
Igliashon Jones of Cryptic Ruse About Alternative Tuning Systems
"It was like trying to imagine a color outside the visible spectrum."
Fifteen Questions Interview with Cathal Coughlan of Microdisney and The Fatima Mansions
Where Would We Be Without Pretence and Fakery?
Sinego on Shaping a New Identity for South American Music
"Bolero is the life-blood of our music culture."
Satori about Celebrating Cultural Diversity
"The Art is to Understand What a Sample is About."
Fred Hersch about being a spokesperson for artists with HIV/AIDS
"Those $25 contributions really add up."
Fifteen Questions Interview with The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies)
Creativity is a Habit
Fifteen Questions Interview with Colin Edwin of Porcupine Tree, Eternal Return & O.R.K.
Space for Failure
