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 Lydo performs at the Knockdown Center, Brooklyn, 2023

Lydo performs at Knockdown Center, Queens, March 2023

At how many BPM does the soul vibrate? The X-TRA.SERVICES founder’s first EP, self-released in collaboration with Tomás Urquieta, emblematizes techno without climax and the changing tempo of New York’s underground.

 © Leonardo Scotti

© Leonardo Scotti 2023

In the afterglow of their first collaboration for Berlin Atonal 2023, the musicians reflect with Steven Warwick on non-places as the future’s relics, pushing the limits of serenity, and the intuitive physicality of sound.

 Fourtnight Battlepass perform at Rash NYE, 2023. Photo: Nolan Kelly Mitchell

Fourtnight Battlepass perform at Rash NYE, 2023. Photo: Nolan Kelly

Minutes to midnight, Nolan Kelly wonders if hyperpop is a nostalgic rehash of too-recent hits, or a consolation for a culture exhausted by novelty-seeking?

Like the phoenix that personifies her latest album, Eartheater rises – resisting definition and thriving on contingency. Photographed by Mal Bea.

 Dan Bodan Photo: Julia Burlingham

Dan Bodan
Photo: Natascha Goldenberg

 

Bianca Heuser talks with Dan Bodan about his work for Google and the premiere performance of “A Flow of Serosities”, an algorithmic composition made in collaboration with programmer and sound artist Scott Carver

 Piotr Uklanski & Hermann Nitsch Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

Piotr Uklanski & Hermann Nitsch
Photo: Wolfgang Thaler

The legendary Austrian artist speaks about the similarities between art and religion and the nature of being.

Wherein lies the happiness of wage labour?