Since his steel-plated dubstep duo Vex'd disbanded, Roly Porter has been exploring post-human wastelands, folk forms and sensual electronics. In advance of a London show next week, he speaks to Russell Cuzner about last year's debut album Aftertime and working in solitude
With a head-spinning new composition due out this month, following up on last year's startlingly brilliant Pipes, Katie Gately talks to Tristan Bath about moving into music from film sound design, utilising technology and how the voice can be a means of personal reinvention