Journal
| Title | Date | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Late-night listening: experimental electronic records for the small hours | A particular quiet arrives in Australian suburbs around midnight, when the cicadas ease off and the streetlights hum over empty roads. The drone of an… | |
| Nurse With Wound and the art of making sound strange | Nurse With Wound is the long-running project of English artist Steven Stapleton, a name closely associated with surreal sound collage, musique concrète,… | |
| From Turntables to Tape: How Concrete Sound Began | Before synthesizers filled studios with unfamiliar tones, composers were already treating recorded sound as raw material. A slammed door, a train wheel, a… | |
| Caring for vinyl in a humid climate | Anyone who keeps records in Australia knows the air itself feels like a soft enemy from November through March. The summer monsoon over Cairns and Townsville,… | |
| The art of the booklet and the physical artifact in experimental music | Across decades of recorded sound, the question of how experimental music arrives in the hands of a listener has rarely been treated as a side concern. From… | |
| The Hidden History Of German Electronic Music Labels | German electronic music has never been a single sound. It includes tape experiments made in Cologne studios, long-form synthesiser pieces from West Berlin,… | |
| Why limited-edition vinyl pressings matter to collectors | A limited-edition vinyl pressing is more than a smaller production run. For collectors, it can be a physical record of a particular moment: an artist’s early… | |
| Five Avant-Garde Albums That Rewired the 1970s | The 1970s produced experimental records that treated the studio as an instrument, the voice as raw material and rhythm as something to dismantle and rebuild.… | |
| A Beginner’s Guide To Radiophonic And Tape Music | Radiophonic and tape music can sound mysterious at first: voices stretch into drones, household noises become rhythms, and a short melody seems to fold back on… | |
| The Rise Of Contemporary Cassette Culture | The cassette has returned as a serious format for experimental, electronic and archival music. Its appeal is not based only on nostalgia. A tape is compact,… |