Journal
| Title | Date | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| The World’s Iconic Experimental Music Record Stores | Experimental music has always needed physical places where difficult, unusual, and uncategorisable sounds can find an audience. A record shop can be an… | |
| What Is Noise Music and How to Approach It as a Listener | Noise music is sound pushed beyond familiar musical comfort. It may use distortion, feedback, static, machinery, extreme volume, digital errors, fractured… | |
| Exploring Viennese Atonal And Second Viennese School Connections | Vienna’s early twentieth-century musical revolution was less a clean break with the past than a tense, searching argument with it. Arnold Schoenberg, Alban… | |
| From Tape Loops To Game Worlds | Early electronic music and computer game soundtracks emerged from different cultural settings, yet they share a surprisingly deep vocabulary. Both grew from… | |
| How to Care for Cassette Tapes and Prevent Degradation | Cassette tapes can look remarkably sturdy, yet their sound is held on a narrow strip of magnetic tape that is vulnerable to heat, moisture, dust, pressure and… | |
| Broken sounds and the aesthetics of glitch | The aesthetics of glitch: broken sounds as art considers the moment a recording stops behaving as expected. A click interrupts a beat, a loop collapses, a… | |
| Field recordings and experimental music: a listening guide | A field recording turns a place into material for listening. A tram bell in a Melbourne laneway, wind through scrub outside Perth, or waves against a boat ramp… | |
| Why Collector Editions Pack In Extraneous Artifacts | Opening a limited vinyl pressing from a small experimental label can feel like excavating a time capsule. Between the shrink wrap and the grooves, buyers often… | |
| Tracing the Legacy of the Obscure Record Label Series | In 1975, Brian Eno launched a small, short-lived imprint that would quietly reshape how listeners thought about recorded sound. The "Obscure" record label… | |
| Five Experimental Albums That Rewrote the Rules of Rhythm | The drum kit, the click track, the four-on-the-floor kick — none arrived as inevitable forms. Each was a decision, and many of the most inventive choices sit… |