To create the future, you have to imagine the future. You have to take that potential and extend its possibilities – sonically, mechanically, literally – through time. Jude Rogers speaks to co-producer Pete Bellotte and a host of famous fans about one of the all time great singles
In our monthly subscriber-only essay, writer Paul Flynn describes being handed a flyer for an unusual literary event which acts as a madeleine, casting him back to the 1980s, and a sexual and sonic awakening. Detail from the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt photographed by the author
Ashes to Ashes is the second of two books by Chris O'Leary to cover the songs of David Bowie, song by song. This volume takes us from 1976 to the end. The Quietus spoke to O'Leary about the project. The interview is followed by an extract from the book, about 'Sound and Vision'
Often stories of new technology are laden with the anxiety of being replaced - being bettered by something that has a more calculable claim to existing, but with Proto, Holly Herndon explores the possibility of true collaboration with the mechanical