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George Newson obituary

Other lives: Avant garde composer who produced some of the first British electronic music

The Guardian - UK · Apr 8, 2024

“I don’t like praise. ‘This record is flawed and has good intentions, but I look forward to something better’ – that’s a great review”: Richard Thompson doesn’t believe in the ‘perfect album’

British electric folk pioneer is certain his movement was more radical and courageous than their American counterparts because “there was no immediate audience for what we were doing”

Louder · Apr 3, 2024

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises

Inviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instructive

The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024

A 639-year-long John Cage organ performance strikes a new chord in Germany

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.

WEKU · Feb 6, 2024

‘There’s a certain madness to it’ … fans await new chord in John Cage gig with 616 years left to run

Admirers of the avant-garde composer’s work hope the concert in the German church will stay the course – all the way to 2640

The Guardian - UK · Feb 4, 2024

"I was standing crying at the synthesizer, so I pulled out a card and it said 'just carry on'. I did and created something I still like today": How Brian Eno's mysterious Oblique Strategies could help your music production and your life

"Use fewer notes", "Be dirty" or "Mute and continue": which Strategy will you use in the studio today?

MusicRadar · Dec 14, 2023

How the hunt for a lost Moog in India unearthed a groundbreaking collection of '60s electronic music that was miles ahead of its time: "It blew everything wide open"

Artist and author Paul Purgas shines a light on an archive of visionary sounds recorded during a radical period of experimentation at Ahmedabad's National Institute of Design

MusicRadar · Nov 29, 2023

“I really wanted to be accepted in that purist world of punk and hardcore. You plug your guitar in and boom! Instead we had 10 guitars... all broken and rejigged”: Thurston Moore on Sonic Youth, taming feedback and musical epiphanies

Reflecting on a life of warping electric guitar norms, Moore discusses punk's duality, guitar technique, environmental sound, and taking his sound beyond the boundary

MusicRadar · Nov 17, 2023

Letter(s) to Erik Satie album review – a gem of a collection

Beautifully planned and presented sequence of miniatures pays homage to Satie and to John Cage who was heavily influenced by the late French composer

The Guardian - UK · Nov 16, 2023

‘It became a nightmare’: artist Christian Marclay on global smash The Clock – and his new work Doors

His 24-hour clock made of movie clips was a sensation. Can Doors, a montage of screen stars entering and leaving rooms, beat it? The artist reveals how lockdown and our new age of anxiety pushed him to finish it

The Guardian - UK · Aug 31, 2023