The Sound of Ice: Discussing "Terra Nova"

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

In this interview with Elena Glasberg, I discusses my new multimedia performance work Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, open-source media, music history, new relativism, the need for more paradox, and the sound of no government. (more)

Screaming Divinities: Interview with An Albatross

Tristan Gulliford

An interview with experimental hardcore band An Albatross about channeling the energy of chaos for live shows, their new collaborative album, and the psychedelic power of music. (more)

Harlan Gruber

Michael Robinson

Harlan Emil Gruber's sculptures at Burning Man have been an underground favorite over the last few years. Combining sound installation with geometric form, they have offered a beautifully multidimensional experience to visitors who often spend hours lounging on the sculpture's platform, bathing in the aural frequencies. (more)

Is That a Real Reality, or Did You Make It Up Yourself?

Steven Taylor

Since ancient times, people have believed that music holds the power of transformation, and that new forms of music tell us about changes in society to come. (more)

Talking Trees

Morgan Maher

The Tree Listening Installation lets people hear water being pulled up from the roots to the leaves of any tree. (more)

Stop. Hey. What's That Sound?

Ken Jordan

In the mind, sound is not so neatly sectioned off from space, touch, words, or image. One bleeds into the next, slipping and sliding in a spiral of associations. Digital media has already begun to reflect qualities of consciousness that had been beyond the means of artists to capture. In coming years, this will only accelerate. (more)

Art, Consciousness, and Matter

Bill Machon

Experimental multimedia artists Duncan Laurie and Gordon Salisbury explore the nexus of conciousness and matter.

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In Through the Out Door: Sampling and the Creative Act

Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky

I get asked what I think about sampling a lot. Think of this essay as a soundbite for the sonically perplexed. (more)

Global Grooves

Bill Machon

2008's Global Sound Conference in L.A. will explore how we can utilize the power of sound as a positive agent for good. (more)

Magnetic Field Music

Bill Machon

A blind geophysicist reveals the history of Earth's magnetic field reversals through a curious sound interpretation.

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Song of Saul-omon

Morgan Maher

Saul Williams teams up with Trent Reznor for the release of The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust. (more)