With new album Joy One Mile, Christelle Gualdi turns the crystalline harmonies of her early synthesiser music towards gauzy, immersive club tracks. She speaks with Rory Gibb about a chance encounter with a TB-303, a love of synthesis and working with Kassem Mosse
Richard Skelton's timeless and elemental music, both solo and in duo *AR, draws its inspiration from the rhythms of the natural world and the remote landscapes of the UK and Ireland. Ahead of performances at Aldeburgh's Faster Than Sound and the North East's AV Festival, he speaks to Joseph Burnett about place, poetry and the glacial evolution of his musical practice