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fromArtforum
10 hours ago

Can Festivals Save Time-Based Art? On Mexico City's TONO

TONO festival exemplifies a model for time-based art that balances critical potential with audience engagement and institutional collaboration.
Berlin music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought': the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood

Annea Lockwood transforms pianos through destruction, exploring their evolving sounds and pioneering field recordings since the 1960s.
Music production
fromPitchfork
3 hours ago

Black Nile: Indigo Garden

Kendrick Lamar's collaboration with L.A. jazz musicians sparked a transformative movement in jazz fusion, influencing sociopolitical expression and establishing L.A. as a jazz hub.
#gen-z
fromAol
21 hours ago
NYC music

Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.

fromAol
21 hours ago
NYC music

Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.

NYC music
fromUSA TODAY
20 hours ago

Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.

A growing movement among Gen Z is embracing phone-free parties to escape the influence of technology and reconnect socially.
NYC music
fromAol
21 hours ago

Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.

A growing movement among Gen Z is promoting phone-free parties to escape the influence of technology and reconnect with social life.
NYC music
fromAol
21 hours ago

Young people are crowding underground phone-free parties. I went to one.

A growing movement among Gen Z is promoting phone-free parties to escape the influence of technology and reconnect socially.
SF music
fromFuncheap
16 hours ago

Tales from the Fog: Free Music Night w/ Oceanography (Bazaar Cafe)

San Francisco's music scene features artists exploring themes of obscurity and emotional depth through their unique sounds.
fromArchDaily
1 day ago

Why Do We Want to Float? The Psychology of Lightness in Architecture

In 1962, the architect Buckminster Fuller envisioned a floating city that would free humanity from its dependence on the Earth. The speculative project consisted of enormous geodesic spheres that would naturally levitate in air warmed by the sun and be anchored to mountaintops.
Design
fromwww.theguardian.com
19 hours ago

Jean-Michel Jarre urges music and film industries to embrace AI

Jarre stated that while the existing creative industries were freaking out over the technology, artists would use AI to create the cinema of tomorrow, the hip-hop of tomorrow, the techno of tomorrow, the rock'n'roll of tomorrow.
Intellectual property law
Music
fromPitchfork
23 hours ago

Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Sigur Ros Call for Eurovision 2026 Boycott

Artists are boycotting Eurovision due to Israel's participation amid ongoing violence in Gaza.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
1 day ago

Jingu Studio / YNAS

The renovation of Villa Serena 204 aims to enhance aging architecture through thoughtful design, challenging Japan's scrap-and-build culture.
Independent films
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day ago

London's Last Wilderness review mudflats meets Mad Max towers on eccentric estuary voyage

Pablo Behrens' documentary explores the Thames estuary, blending nature's wildness with remnants of industry through an unseen explorer's perspective.
London music
fromPitchfork
2 days ago

Handle: COLLIDE

Handle's second album COLLIDE features a unique blend of sounds and spontaneous creativity, defying conventional music narratives.
Board games
fromwww.archdaily.com
2 days ago

Playtime Cabin / Wiki World + Advanced Architecture Lab

The Playtime Cabin project features treehouses in a metasequoia forest, inspired by children's imagination and promoting diverse living spaces.
Vue
fromwww.archdaily.com
3 days ago

La Vuelta Al Monte Installation / Rare Studio Experimental

Vuelta al Monte installation aims to reconnect the Cosquin Rock Festival with its surrounding territory and promote conservation of native plant species.
Roam Research
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

How much have we missed?': book tunes in to overlooked world of female birdsong

Female birdsong is often overlooked, but females sing for territory, to deter rivals, and attract mates, challenging traditional narratives about bird vocalization.
#boards-of-canada
fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Music Is in Us-in Our Brain and in Our Body

"Nature appears to have built the apparatus of rationality not just on top of the apparatus of biological regulation, but also from it and with it."
Mindfulness
Berlin
fromabc7.com
6 days ago

teamLab Borderless in Tokyo is a feast for the eyes

Visitors describe teamLab Borderless in Tokyo as an ever-changing, immersive art experience that transcends traditional boundaries.
Berlin music
fromDesign Milk
18 hours ago

studio vapore Turns Up the Color in its Music Classrooms

The music classrooms at Wester Academy Beijing are designed with vibrant colors and acoustic treatments to enhance music education.
Music production
from48 hills
20 hours ago

At the Warfield, Baroque pop avatar Oklou emerged a star - 48 hills

Oklou blends Baroque pop with modern elements, creating a unique sound that resonates with a niche audience in the hyperpop scene.
#rave-culture
SF music
fromsf.funcheap.com
16 hours ago

Free Punk Show + Art Walk Afterparty (SF)

Punk Majesty hosts an Art Walk closing reception featuring contemporary artists, followed by a live performance by DAMAGE PARTY at Mayes.
#music
fromPitchfork
1 day ago
Music production

Tiga, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Noize: This Week's Pitchfork Selects Playlist

NYC music
fromGothamist
1 day ago

How a Brooklyn musician uses her Norwegian fiddle to make a sound all her own

Zosha Warpeha records an album in a historic Brooklyn theater, using the space's acoustics as an integral part of her music.
Music
fromPitchfork
2 days ago

Frog: Frog for Sale

Daniel Bateman's creative process emphasizes prolific output, allowing for experimentation and growth despite not always achieving perfection.
NYC music
fromGothamist
1 day ago

How a Brooklyn musician uses her Norwegian fiddle to make a sound all her own

Zosha Warpeha records an album in a historic Brooklyn theater, using the space's acoustics as an integral part of her music.
Music production
fromPitchfork
1 day ago

Tiga, Massive Attack, and Nine Inch Noize: This Week's Pitchfork Selects Playlist

Pitchfork Selects playlist showcases favorite new music from staff, featuring diverse artists and tracks.
Music production
fromPitchfork
3 weeks ago

Brian Foote / Paul Dickow: High Cube

Brian Foote and Paul Dickow created their album High Cube under strict constraints, focusing on raw sound without overthinking.
#milan-design-week
London music
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 days ago

Add to playlist: the sweaty, unvarnished electropop of Punchbag and the week's best new tracks

Punchbag's music blends 90s rave and electropop, evolving from chaotic energy to darker themes in their latest EPs.
Music production
fromPitchfork
11 hours ago

Baauer's Announces First Album in Six Years, Shares New Single

Baauer's new album 'U' features 16 tracks and aims to deliver 'super happy music' inspired by early 2000s dance genres.
SOMA, SF
fromSPIN
2 weeks ago

Sunn O))) Channels Nature and Mark Rothko On Latest Record - SPIN

Sunn O)))'s new album marks a rebirth, featuring the duo's first self-recorded work and a primal vibe influenced by their rural studio environment.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 day ago

DRIFT celebrates LACMA's gallery opening with a glowing swarm of dancing drones

Franchise Freedom, which showed over this past weekend, builds on more than two decades of research into starling murmurations. Each drone responds to its neighbors through a shared set of behavioral rules, producing patterns that remain fluid yet legible.
Berlin music
Renovation
fromArchDaily
5 days ago

7 Unbuilt Houses Shaped by Site, Climate, and Constraints

Residential architecture is explored through unbuilt projects that respond to site, climate, and constraints, emphasizing the house as a spatial system.
fromBrooklynVegan
6 days ago

Boards of Canada share first new music in 13 years

Earlier this week BoC mailed mysterious VHS tapes to fans while enigmatic posters went up in London, New York, California, and other cities.
London music
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Genesis P-Orridge's Subversive Mail-Art Goes on View

Genesis Breyer P-Orridge's mail art from the 1970s is showcased in a focused exhibition at Art Metropole, highlighting their early career and subversive practices.
Music
fromSPIN
4 days ago

Failure Finds New, Fertile Ground On 'Location Lost' - SPIN

Failure's seventh album showcases their unique chemistry and sonic exploration, defying typical rock expectations and featuring notable collaborations.
Music production
fromTechCrunch
19 hours ago

GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists | TechCrunch

GRAI focuses on empowering artists and enhancing music engagement through AI, prioritizing remixing and social interaction over generating music from scratch.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Leonardo Madriz's Monuments to the Precarity of Now

Leonardo Madriz's sculptures symbolize the fragile balance of American life through anthropomorphized forms made from everyday objects and intricate knots.
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Song "Dim Stars"

Oneohtrix Point Never has released a two-track single, led by an original called 'Dim Stars.' The B-side, 'For Residue (Extended),' is a meditative version of the Tranquilizer track.
London music
Berlin music
fromFuncheap
5 days ago

Transcendence Surrounds

PWC concert features Freida Abtan's opera 'The sound of grief' with multimedia elements and performances of Holst and Biggs.
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Jule Korneffel Finds Meaning at the End of Light

Korneffel develops a palette for each painting based on research and intuition, paying particular attention to the paint's viscosity and its capacity for making distinct kinds of marks.
Arts
NYC music
fromInsideHook
3 days ago

This New App Helps You Revisit Great Concerts

A new app called Gigs consolidates live music experiences by importing data from various sources, enhancing the concertgoer experience.
Arts
fromTime Out New York
1 day ago

An artist will build a public installation made of 2,500 plastic bottles in real time

New Yorkers can participate in a public sculpture installation using discarded bottles on April 24 at Flatiron Plaza.
fromPitchfork
6 days ago

The Field Announces First Project in Eight Years

Axel Willner's new album 'Now You Exist' features five songs of meditative ambient techno and drone, showcasing his signature sound and artistic evolution.
Berlin music
NYC music
fromPitchfork
4 days ago

Nine Inch Nails / Boys Noize: Nine Inch Noize

Nine Inch Nails debuted as Nine Inch Noize at Coachella, announcing a surprise album with a unique recording style and energetic sound.
Music production
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 day ago

ARY's 'DARKSTAR': A Journey Through Light and Darkness % - %

ARY's new album 'DARKSTAR' showcases her evolution as an artist, exploring deep personal themes and redefining her sound in the Nordic music scene.
fromHyperallergic
1 day ago

Art by Graphic Rewilding Blooms at Brookfield Place in New York City

Fleeting Opulence transforms the Winter Garden and surrounding spaces into an immersive celebration of the natural world, featuring larger-than-life flowers and cherry blossoms.
Arts
Music production
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 days ago

Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never Picks 5 Essential Minimalist Compositions

Minimalist music, popularized in the 1960s, emphasizes repetition and process, influencing contemporary immersive music and film scores.
Arts
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 days ago

7 Key Works of Avant-Garde Theater

Avant-garde theater originated in 19th-century France, emphasizing social reform and innovative artistic expression to critique mainstream culture.
Berlin music
fromPitchfork
1 week ago

Actress / Suzanne Ciani: Concrete Waves

Suzanne Ciani and Actress redefine electronic music through unique approaches, showcasing limitless possibilities and experimental soundscapes in their performances.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
4 days ago

Harry Bertoia Gets His Moment

Harry Bertoia's long-lost sculpture resurfaces in Detroit, prompting a retrospective at Cranbrook Academy of Art for the artist's 90th anniversary.
frompitchfork.com
3 weeks ago

Actress and Suzanne Ciani Release Collaborative Live Album

Concrete Waves is the first in a new series by Werkdiscs capturing improvised musical conversations between two avant-garde icons, Actress and Suzanne Ciani.
London music
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

Designing the Sensory City: Architecture, Light Pollution, and Urban Noise

For most of human history, night arrived as a planetary certainty. Darkness spread across landscapes, and the sky revealed thousands of stars. Today, that sky is disappearing. Artificial light spills upward from cities, scattering through the atmosphere and turning night into a permanent haze. Research mapping global sky brightness shows that more than 80 percent of humanity now lives under light-polluted skies, and the Milky Way has vanished from view for over a third of the world's population.
Environment
Music production
from48 hills
4 days ago

Under the Stars: Irreversible Entanglements channel peace vibrations - 48 hills

Irreversible Entanglements' album 'Future Present Past' showcases a unique blend of free jazz and punk, emphasizing themes of resilience and trauma.
Arts
fromTime Out New York
5 days ago

This sprawling free NYC art show just opened at MoMA PS1

MoMA PS1's 'Greater New York 2026' showcases over 150 works from 53 artists, reflecting the current creative landscape of New York City.
Higher education
fromCornell Chronicle
1 month ago

World According to Sound offers immersive audio experience March 23 | Cornell Chronicle

The World According to Sound presents a blindfolded sonic experience exploring sound as a method of understanding and knowing across academic disciplines.
Music production
fromPitchfork
5 days ago

Lyra Pramuk Announces Hymnal (Resung) and Shares New Djrum Rework

Lyra Pramuk's EP 'Hymnal (Resung)' features reworks from various artists, emphasizing themes of ecological grief and spiritual invocation.
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Painting Has Entered Its Performance Era | Artnet News

Much of Instagram's video content is organized around transformation-the virtual magic of the before-and-after and clips that show cause and effect. A person makes pasta from scratch in 20 seconds via edits that compress time-intensive labor.
Arts
Renovation
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

"Echo of the ruins" Open-Air Museum of Sound and Memory / 1Y Architects

An open-air sound museum built from recycled factory ruins in Qingshuitan transforms a silent industrial area into a public space for listening and storytelling.
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

Room for the Moon is thrillingly weird experimental pop

The opener "Not Not Not" is almost goofy, its chaotic melodies constantly dancing around each other in a perpetually disorienting way. It lurches forward asymmetrically, grooving like a flat tire.
Music production
fromPitchfork
1 week ago

upsammy / Valentina Magaletti: Seismo

Drummers' timekeeping is fluid; even at its most rocksteady, it's enlivened by tiny, imperceptible pauses and hiccups. Sequencers and drum machines, on the other hand, march in lockstep.
Music production
Arts
fromArtnet News
1 week ago

Radiohead Hits the Road With a Haunting Immersive Installation

Radiohead's immersive installation, Motion Picture House, celebrates the 20th anniversary of Kid A and Amnesiac, featuring a film and art exhibition.
#experimental-music
Music production
from48 hills
1 month ago

Lucrecia Dalt: 'How lucky are we to land at the core of this vibration?' - 48 hills

Lucrecia Dalt's latest album A Danger to Ourselves explores love as a transformative force that drives people toward uncertainty and risk, reflecting her personal creative shift from conceptual frameworks to intimate storytelling.
Music production
from48 hills
1 month ago

Lucrecia Dalt: 'How lucky are we to land at the core of this vibration?' - 48 hills

Lucrecia Dalt's latest album A Danger to Ourselves explores love as a transformative force that drives people toward uncertainty and risk, reflecting her personal creative shift from conceptual frameworks to intimate storytelling.
SF music
from48 hills
1 month ago

Can you keep up with The Living Earth Show? - 48 hills

Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews of The Living Earth Show create innovative musical experiences blending avant-garde, contemporary, and experimental genres across diverse venues and collaborations.
Music
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Add to playlist: the dadaist cubist racket of Angine de Poitrine and the week's best new tracks

Angine de Poitrine is a Quebec duo creating absurdist mantra-rock dada music that blends metal shredding with microtonal guitar, world music influences, and hypnotic grooves while performing in elaborate papier-mache costumes.
Arts
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 weeks ago

Perceptrum and the Emergence of Augmented Painting: When the Canvas Begins to Listen - KALTBLUT Magazine

Perceptrum redefines painting by allowing touch, creating a sensory dialogue that transforms the relationship between observer and artwork.
Podcast
from99% Invisible
3 months ago

Audio Flux - 99% Invisible

Audio Flux revives short-form experimental audio by hosting twice-yearly themed challenges that showcase three-minute stories and broaden podcast storytelling possibilities.
fromThe Nation
1 month ago

The Intermediate States of Eliane Radigue

Her slowly shifting synthesizer compositions and quiet, meditative pieces for acoustic instruments continue to inspire a deep immersion in their audiences, and her recordings and writings have influenced multiple generations of musicians worldwide.
Berlin music
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

glass loudspeaker draws from uk grime music scene and brutalist architecture

The Eski.Sub draws inspiration from the visual language of Brutalist architecture and the cultural atmosphere of UK grime music scene. The project examines the relationship between design, urban context, and emotional listening experiences, positioning the loudspeaker as both an audio device and a spatial object.
Design
SF music
from48 hills
2 months ago

Alexi Kenney packs nocturnal energy, psychedelic fantasy into SoundBox - 48 hills

SoundBox presents an immersive, late‑night multimedia music experience combining surround sound, entrancing visuals, theatrical performance, and cocktails in a casual lounge atmosphere.
Music production
fromPitchfork
1 month ago

Hop Into These 14 Rabbit Holes This Spring

GLOBALCORE represents a blend of internet sound that unites diverse musical styles, but risks oversimplifying essential cultural differences.
Music
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
2 months ago

Choosing the Artificial Over the Real in Dash Hammerstein's "Noise Machine" - KALTBLUT Magazine

Dash Hammerstein blends Americana songwriting and filmmaking to create intimate, melody-driven songs and film scores that mix folk-pop sensibility with subtle production flourishes.
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Organ Tapes: (Yi Bao Yan)

Tim Zha is looking for the soul in the machine. While some might hear Auto-Tune as masking a singer's humanity, the London-based artist filters his vocals to highlight technology's inseparability with our notions of self. This is ground well-trodden by Afrofuturist techno pioneers, Atlanta trappers, and PC Music hyperpoppers; for Zha, Auto-Tune represents what he calls the "coincidence of human subjectivity and the networked machine system."
London music
Design
fromCurbed
1 month ago

There's Not Enough Noise in 'Art of Noise'

The Cooper Hewitt's Art of Noise exhibition chronicles over a century of music technology design, primarily tracing the evolution of portable music devices from gramophones to modern formats.
Music
fromPitchfork
2 months ago

Brendon Moeller: Shadow Language

Brendon Moeller reinvents dub techno into 170 BPM drum'n'bass-infused, atmospheric tracks that emphasize texture and subtraction of rhythm over conventional beats.
Music production
from48 hills
1 month ago

The Audium thrums with Pamela Z's factory-sampling 'Arbeitsklang' - 48 hills

Composer Pamela Z creates immersive sound installation Arbeitsklang by recording industrial worksites across Germany and layering the sounds with her voice and live-MIDI manipulations in a 176-speaker theater.
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