Robert Barry

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

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

Was disco the hated antithesis of all that was punk? Not according to OG punk rocker, Vivienne Westwood collaborator and Sex Pistols DJ Alan Jones. With his new book Discomania recenly published, here he picks his all-time top ten celluloid stompers

In an exclusive edited extract from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, J.W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich go deep on the process of finding the right music for the classic 1980 film of Stephen King’s bestselling book

When A Sound is Just a Sound: Absolute Music at Venice Music Biennale

The latest from Dan Hayhurst and Reuben Sutherland is simultaneously high art concept piece and a tremendous bit of fun, finds Antonio Poscic

The Polish sound artist’s latest album evokes strange hypnagogic states formed from zithers, ocarinas, bamboo flutes, and whistles

Punk rock energy, madcap samples and a delirious eclecticism blur the lines between trashy and arty, finds Hayley Scott

A collaboration between Steve Gunn, Zoh Amba, Jim White and Shahzad Ismaily sounds as fresh and lively as a spring day, finds Tom Bolton

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At first glance, there is something curiously underwhelming about the sole exhibit in Teshima Art Museum. We had journeyed for the best part of a day. First, the long bullet train ride from Tokyo to Okoyama, followed by a rickety regional train to the coast, a boat through the Seto inland sea to Naoshima, a […]

Dec 15, 2019 ... The Quietus has never been one to avoid controversy, however. In fact, we reckon we can go one better than that. Share the book of the year gong ...

By Jean-Luc – originally posted to Flickr as David Bowie, CC BY-SA 2.0 Chris O’Leary’s new book, Ashes to Ashes completes an epic trawl through the David Bowie songbook, track by track, moment by moment, each carefully digested, parsed, and analysed through the author’s unique lens. Picking up where 2015’s Rebel, Rebel left off, Ashes […]

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It’s about a quarter to eleven on the third of May and I’m at a bar in Zagreb’s Studentski Centar. Built in the mid-Thirties for the city’s international economic exhibition, since 1957 the complex has acted as a cultural hub for the University of Zagreb. Eighty years ago, the atrium in which I’m standing, along […]

Oct 2, 2016 ... Gormley's new exhibition, Fit, subdivides the South Gallery of the White Cube's Bermondsey space into fifteen different chambers containing, ...

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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, God’s Reptilian Finger, 2015. Commissioned by Gasworks. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Andy Keate. One day in the mid-80s, Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa woke up in tears. He knew straightaway that something bad was going to happen. He was six years old. Later that day, his uncle, a 19 year-old student activist, would be assassinated. Within […]

Photo courtesy of Anat Ben-David and Jet "I’ve put myself in the belly of the beast." Anat Ben-David could be talking about the situation in the Middle East, or about that Hugo Boss party in Berlin back in 2003, or any number of the other things we discuss over the course of our hour-long conversation. […]