Veronica Vasicka MTELUS, Montreal QC, August 23

Published Aug 24, 2019

After UK techno favourite Blawan was forced to drop off the bill and cancel his headlining performance (citing issues with an electronic vis...

Ryoichi Kurokawa MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 22

Published Aug 23, 2019

Unfolding with elliptical dream logic, the world premiere of Berlin-based Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa's A/V experience subassemblies pr...

Jan Jelinek MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 22

Published Aug 23, 2019

In a live iteration of his SWR2 radio play Zwischen ("between"), Germany-based composer Jan Jelinek routed garbled ums and ahs through his m...

Gudrun Gut MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 22

Published Aug 23, 2019

Throbbing into the night on a motorik pulse, Berlin-based musician and Monika Enterprise label head Gudrun Gut marked her long-awaited retur...

Matmos MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 21

Published Aug 22, 2019

"You're familiar with plastic. It's inside your lungs. And your stomach and your liver and your brain."    Addressing our particle-level r...

Tim Hecker & Konoyo Ensemble MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 21

Published Aug 22, 2019

The main draw for Wednesday night's (August 21) showcase at Théâtre Maisonneuve, fans eagerly rushed in to hold down spots for Tim Hecker an...

Kazuya Nagaya MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 21

Published Aug 22, 2019

Japanese percussionist and ambient producer Kazuya Nagaya's stage at Théâtre Maisonneuve was beautifully set with a ring of 212 singing bowl...

EXPANSYS MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

Published Aug 21, 2019

Gabriel R. Drapeau and Guillaume Sauvé capped off the first night working like painters at easels from behind their modular units, tweaking...

Tamayugé MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

Published Aug 21, 2019

Taking the stage in matching blue sack dresses, top knots, creepers, hoop earrings and oversized glasses with pom-poms fixed atop them, loca...

Monolake MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

Published Aug 21, 2019

Staged in a posh custom-built pyramid, Berliner Robert Henke's Monolake opened MUTEK's 20th anniversary with the kind of ambitious multisens...

Loscil Equivalents

Published Aug 13, 2019

Between 1925 and 1934, Alfred Stieglitz made waves with a series of images he produced by pointing his camera to the heavens. In those years...

Pauline Oliveros / Guy Klucevsek Sounding / Way

Published Jul 23, 2019

Originally released on cassette and out of print since, a vinyl reissue of this 1986 collaboration between experimental accordionists Paulin...

​An Essential Guide to Brian Eno: "Ignorable as It Is Interesting"

Published Jul 18, 2019

It's difficult to imagine what a world without Brian Eno would sound like.   An art school graduate and self-described "non-musician," Eno...

Castle If Zardoz

Published Jul 10, 2019

Piloting a mission into a distant vortex from the helm of a Moog Voyager, Jess Forrest's reimagined score for John Boorman's 1974 science fa...

Terry Riley and Gyan Riley Way Out Yonder

Published Jul 09, 2019

Despite canonically important contributions to 20th century minimalism and contemporary music, in speaking on his recent collaborations with...

DJ Haram Grace

Published Jul 04, 2019

Marking her solo debut as DJ Haram with concept EP Grace on Hyperdub, Philadelphia producer and Discwoman affiliate Zubeyda Muzeyyen bursts...

Ciel Why Me?

Published May 22, 2019

"Look up at my finger. That's it. Keep looking at my finger. I'm going to count to ten, as you're falling asleep. And when I'm finished, you...

Efrim Manuel Menuck & Kevin Doria are SING SINCK, SING

Published May 08, 2019

In a Toronto appearance in support of his 2018 solo album Pissing Stars, Efrim Manuel Menuck introduced a song with duelling questions: "Wha...

Holly Herndon PROTO

Published May 07, 2019

Sounding more like the future than ever before, Holly Herndon broadens the scale and scope of her practice yet again on PROTO, plunging deep...

Holly Herndon Interweaves Human and Artificial Intelligence on New Album 'PROTO'

Published May 06, 2019

If it's the end of the world as we know it, Holly Herndon feels fine. As the culture races into the future, her new album PROTO — the lapto...