Robert Barry

Three explorers from the Czech-Slovak experimental music scene burrow deep into the woodland in search of some heady drones and – just maybe –  a new experience of time itself

Exploratory Canadians capture lighning in a bottle, marshalling their transcendent free rock into a package that feels joyful, communicating effortlessly

Artist Luke Fowler speaks to Claire M. Holdsworth about his latest film, A Sensation Never Yet Known, a portrait of the electroacoustic composer and musician Janet Beat

“He painted trees as by some special divining instinct of their essential qualities. He understood them.” So begins Algernon Blackwood’s 1912 novella, ‘The Man Whom the Trees Loved’, a rich and unsettling tale that follows a man who, influenced by a painter specialising in portraits of trees, develops a strange obsession with the woodland surrounding […]

The award-winning Inuk throat singer and composer returns with her seventh album, as vital and terrifying as ever

At the Portuguese city's annual festival of "singular music", sets by Tashi Dorji, Erik Dæhlin, Masma Dream World and more get me thinking about the curved space of experimental music

Anguish Models & Empathy Machines: Mensch Maschine Musik at E-WERK

Rian Treanor teams up with sound poet and performer Cara Tolmie for an album that perfectly captures the chaos of modern living

Cassette fuzz and future folk get blended with sci-fi jazz and Afro-Latin devotional grooves in a wild Burroughsian cut-up

A live recording of Arthur Russell playing cello and singing in 1985 offers a tantalising peak at the gestation of the classic World of Echo