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Space Is The Place: An Interview With Yui Onodera
Yui Onodera’s music has the power to transform your listening space using insights the Tokyo-based composer gained from studying architectural design. With new pieces featured on the latest instalment in Kompakt’s Pop Ambient series, we discuss acoustics, ambient music and audio technology
Art
Craft/Work: Welcome To Our New Art Section With Bobby Barry
Bobby Barry introduces us to tQ's new art section and provides a gallery round up featuring an installation in a vintage arcade machine, a reinterpretation of Enter The Dragon and a micronation founded by an ex-magician in an artist’s studio in Bristol
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Sampling The Airwaves & Soundtracking A Morgue: Strange World Of Scanner
Ahead of his collaboration with Gazelle Twin at the Drill:London festival we're curating with Wire, Robin 'Scanner' Rimbaud talks Luke Turner through his musical career, from cassettes with Coil to scanning police airwaves for phone conversations, a Derek Jarman tribute record, dance scores and soundtracking a morgue
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Where There’s Light, There’s Shadow: Lawrence English Interviewed
Using field recordings as inspiration and sound source, Lawrence English assembles music of rare beauty and tectonic power. His latest album, last year's frosty The Peregrine, was inspired an encounter with an obscure English writer. Greg Neate met up with him at home in Brisbane to talk about sound, nature and his career so far
Film
Of Tugs & Tides: Jersey’s Branchage Film Festival 2010 In Review
Once again, Luke Turner and David Moats cross the wind-whipped seas to the Branchage International Film Festival, where they starred in a post-apocalyptic film with Ian Svenonius, climbed two forts, and examined the dark heart of the Berlusconi regime
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tQ Subscriber Release: Nurse With Wound
Steve Stapleton has been helming the surreal and riotous psychedelic industrial experimental unit NWW for 45 years now. John Doran and Russell Cuzner look at their new release available to only tQ subscribers today and examine what makes them special
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There Are Other Worlds: Stellar OM Source Interviewed
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
Live Reviews
The Art Of Falling Apart: Considering The Usefulness Of Fallibility At MUTEK 2024
Dan Dylan Wray watches Factory Floor, Marie Davidson and Colin Stetson at MUTEK, and considers the importance of fallibility in electronic music under the monolithic shadow of AI. Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet photograph by Vivien Gaumand
