‘I was so close to the sky. It was spiritual’: Sonny Rollins on jazz landmark The Bridge at 60 It’s one of the most romantic stories in music: the jazz star rejecting fame to practice on a New York bridge for two years. Now 91,… Read More
Luigi Russolo’s Cacophonous Futures By Peter Tracy What does the future sound like? In the early 20th century, one answer rang out from Luigi Russolo’s intonarumori — lever-operated machines designed to pop, sough, shriek, and shock. Peter Tracy explores the ambitions behind Italian Futurism’s experiments with noise… Read More
BBC Radiophonic Workshop Director: Roger Pomphrey. The BBC’s Radiophonic Workshop was set up in 1958, born out of a desire to create ‘new kinds of sounds’. The Alchemists of Sound looks at this creative group from… Read More
The Birth of Loop. A Short History of Looping Music by Michael Peters Looping Music today typically employs tape delay/feedback systems, digital delay devices, or computers to create repetitions of sounds. These repetitions can either remain limited to simple repeated phrases, or they… Read More
Damu The Fudgemunk: Earl Davis Hip Hop producer and DJ from Washington, D.C. and co-founder/owner of Redefinition Records Member of Y Society along with MC Insight. I love to listen to his creations, and I’m not alone.. In praise of: ‘The High… Read More
