Music

‘There’s no extracting the concept from the commodity in any of Hoff’s many strands of work’

From Samuel Beckett’s plays to Nick Cave’s music, the artists and filmmakers discuss the evolution of their artistic imaginations

‘Pop today is a broad church, but no one would ever argue that it’s not fun’

A new work by jazz pioneer Anthony Braxton

In pursuit of Erik Satie

Why so many musicians are discouraging the use of smartphones at shows

On the 20th anniversary of Derek Jarman’s death, Paul Schütze speaks to Simon Fisher Turner about composing music for his friend’s movies

Henry Flynt talks about half a century’s worth of wildly divergent activities

Dropped from the psychic landscape of British pop and undetected by the radar of retromania, where did these diverse communities go?

What would the NSA’s massive repositories of data sound like if a composer of electronic and computer music had access to them?

The global spread of Chicago footwork

Author Helene Hegemann recalls dancing with Hamburg-based musician Malakoff Kowalski

Jennifer Higgie interviews the artist at his Paris studio

A brief history of unique singing techniques

50 years of Van Dyke Parks

Über Michaela Meliáns neues Album Monaco und die Debütsingle des Düsseldorfer Disco-Projekts Ex Versions

Why pop music craves art’s pieties and licensed intellectualism and art lusts after music’s broader cultural authenticity

For this regular series in frieze d/e, Berlin-based organist Cameron Carpenter discusses his affinities to glam

A growing number of filmmakers, musicians and visual artists have begun to revisit the rave and jungle ecologies of the early 1990s

The texture of Rosenfeld’s work is woven from often seemingly disparate times, places and registers of culture