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What do you call musicians who write about themselves? Common, apparently

BY Andrew Hultkrans |

Q. What should change? A. Religious obsessions.

Diane Williams's latest collection, a new album from Matmos, and Jean-Luc Godard Season at the BFI

BY Charlie Fox |

As magic is the power to influence events, Bowie's power found a personal truth in millions of people, and moved them, even changed their lives 

BY Michael Bracewell |

Zwanzig auf einem Spiegel zu Johann Strauss‘ An der schönen blauen Donau tanzende Vibratoren im Tutu, deren kontinuierliches Vibrato durch Kontaktmikrofone verstärkt wird – dieses „Ballett“ von Christina Kubisch feierte zum Abschluss ihrer Ausstellung Vibrations bei Rumpsti Pumsti, einem von Daniel Löwenbrück betriebenen Plattenladen und Ausstellungsraum in Berlin, seine längst überfällige Premiere. Denn auch wenn die Partitur zu Corps de ballett – so heißt das Stück – bereits aus dem Jahr 1979 stammt und ursprünglich für eine Performance im Palazzo Grassi in Venedig konzipiert worden war, wurde sie doch nie aufgeführt. Sie ist Teil der titelgebenden Serie der Vibrations bzw. Dirty Electronics (Impossible Projects), die Kubisch 1975 begann, und von der auch in der Ausstellung zum Teil nie zuvor gezeigte Arbeiten und Zeichnungen zu sehen waren: darunter die Arbeit Klangkörper (1977), eine vierteilige Soundskulptur, bei der jeweils eine in einer Holzkiste liegende Querflöte von einem Vibrator umkreist wird, samt hiermit zusammenhängender Skizzen sowie Videostills, Partitur und Kompositionsskizzen unterschiedlicher Fassungen von Vibrations (1976/77), bei der die Mitglieder eines Streichquartetts dabei zu sehen sind, wie sie statt Bögen Vibratoren einsetzen.

BY Fiona McGovern |

A fresh look at the music and art of the black radical tradition

BY Ian Bourland |

‘That one artist has applied such a diversity of materials (paper, cloth, plants, violin, electronics) to such a breadth of pursuits (music, dance, publishing, performance art) is remarkable.’

BY Matthew Erickson |

The long-running installation for sound and light dates back to a particular period in downtown New York

BY Andy Battaglia |

Better understood as a popular modernist collective, Test Dept made records pulsing with panic and were one of the last examples of post-punk

BY Mark Fisher |

In drone and minimal music, the sonic conditions that develop in the middle of a piece, be it a recording, performance or composition, often come to define the work in a more pronounced manner than how the work begins or ends. This ‘middle’ region is inherently temporal, but because of the extended and sometimes marker-less durations one encounters in minimal music, it proves to be elusive – and thus one, while listening, often has a continuous sense of being inside of a potentially boundless sound.

BY John McCusker |

Manchester International Festival, UK

BY Amy Sherlock |

Depending on your point of view, the composer, writer and conductor is either a purveyor of cold-hearted didacticism, or a creator of glittering musical worlds

BY Leo Chadburn |

Yale Union, Portland, Oregon, USA

BY Nick Irvin |

Sculpture, field recordings and the ghosts of dead rappers

BY Andy Battaglia |

‘So shallow is this show that I left with the surprising sensation of knowing even less about Björk than I did when I entered’

BY Dan Fox |

PJ Harvey records a new album in public

BY Lucy O’Brien |

‘This emergent style is not so much a genre as a sensibility – an approach to rhythm, texture and referentiality that stands apart from long-established modes’

BY Philip Sherburne |

From deep soul explorations of topical subjects and the plight of the poor to musing reflectively on art, life, God and outer space

BY Andrew Hultkrans |

The audio, visual world of Diego Perrone

BY Barbara Casavecchia |