Robert Barry

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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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 […]