"Experimental Music" Blogs & Blog Posts

Poor Things is distinct in all aspects, really, so it's remarkable that on top of the story, the set design, the acting, everything, that the score stood out. First-time composer Jerskin Fendrix successfully concocted a score that sounds entirely ori...

This fascinating video on the Electric Byway channel looks at the 1968 release of "Dance of the Anthropoids," a recording by artist, designer, instrument maker, and composer, Erikki Kurenniemi. The video wonders if this recording can be considere...

La Jetée is a 1962 French short film about an apocalyptic time travel experiment, told using entirely still images. You may know it as the basis/inspiration for Terry Gilliam's 1995 masterpiece 12 Monkeys. Now, the film is being adapted into an...

In this inspiring 22-minute interview on Apple Music, New Zealand DJ, Zane Lowe, talks to Brian Eno about his new album, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE. Besides the record, the two have a wide-ranging conversation about new music, how art is simulation and pla...

I've written about the work of artist and composer, Noah Wall, on Boing Boing before (here and here). In his latest project, Speech Patterns, Noah derives music from the rhythm, tone, and timbre of the human voice using source material including the...

I just read a long but fascinating article on Physics World about all the different data that scientists have converted into vibratory frequencies — essentially song-ifying their science. Back in 2019, a group of scientists translated amino acids i...

Groundbreaking electronic musician Richard H Kirk, co-founder of Cabaret Voltaire, has died at age 65. From his earliest work in the early 1970s to the present, Kirk was a massive influence on countless artists and genres, from New Order, 808 State,...