However esoteric the aims of a big group, they can generate moments of real musical power 

The Werner Herzog Soundtracks

Cage, Stockhausen, Conrad and more at the eighth edition of the experimental music festival in London

Michael Gira’s band release their first album since 1997

Sound and vision in the underground

Carsten Nicolai curates a series of performances and discussions at Siobhan Davies Studios

An exhibition comissioned by Chisenhale, London and IKON Gallery, Birmingham invites questions about the spatial qualities of sound

A review of the ICA’s nine-day experimental music festival

Evangelista (Constellation, 2009)

Susan Stenger (Forma Productions, 2009)

SPACE, London, UK

Conway Hall, London

Sunn O))) (Southern Lord, 2009)

Two days at Berlin’s tenth annual music and visual arts festival

The best releases of 2008 and the year’s most compelling work in the field of extreme music