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fold/interval
Across eight untitled pieces, fold/interval develops a musical language in which guitar dyads, granular electronics, filtered resonances and microscopic digital artefacts coexist within carefully articulated sonic environments. By directing...
A CLOSER LISTEN weekly #117
Dear Listeners, Joseph here with another regular edition of the ACL newsletter.
I’m in Dublin until the end of the week, so I’ll try to keep this concise. Of course by now everyone’s probably heard of the passing of Tim Curry and Dolly Par...
OUT OF THE BOX #30
Out of the Box is a monthly series focusing on physical media. It’s an excuse to engage with my collection in a new way, as well as to write about older releases and genres we don’t often cover at ACL.
OUT OF THE BOX #30
Michael Ridg...
Zawsze Coś
Ben Bekele ~ Zawsze Coś
Nothing is quite what it seems on Zawsze coś. Ben Bekele is not, in fact, a single musician but the collective identity adopted by Hubert Zemler, Kamil Piotrowicz and Igor Wiśniewski. Nor is Bekele a surname in th...
In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn
Simi Fyda ~ In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn
Simi Fyda‘s In My Personal Heaven, I’m the Devil’s Spawn offers no gentle introduction. Compared to Yuri (2023), it works within a noticeably narrower palette. The bright contrasts...
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co-founder of A Closer Listen, producer of the Sound Propositions podcast, musical compositions and sound art projects have been published by international labels, broadcast on radio, and presented in festivals, galleries, and museums
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