Blogs about Sound

Your browser does not support the audio element. Recording from a performance at Fruityspace venue in Beijing. Sun Yizhou: hard drives, mechanical devices. Axel Powrie: bass guitar, amplifier, ground loop. mixed and mastered by Sun …

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. …

No Wave legend James Chance passed away this week after a long illness. You can read up on his career in the many obits, such as this one from Pitchfork. Musically he was like a …

In both sound studies and the sonic arts, the concept of “resonance” has increasingly played a central role in attuning listeners to the politics of sound. The term itself is borrowed from acoustics, where resonance …

Here’s a round-up of what I’ve been up to this month. Borrowed Out Of Time I have a new album on the way, to be released on the de la Catessen label. It’s called Borrowed …

Over the last three years of maintaining this blog, there’s been a conspicuous absence in the acoustic index toolkit presented so far. Whilst the Bioacoustic Index (BI), Acoustic Complexity Index (ACI) and Normalised Difference Soundscape …