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Hatsune Miku: How an Online Fandom Became Artists
The illustrious and iconic Yamaha synthesizer exists in a variety of forms - her image is freely disseminated, reworked and reproduced throughout online spaces and fandoms, unconstrained by continents, cultures and language barriers. Her name is Hatsune Miku. Whether she is known purely for the technology through which she is created, or as her anime avatar, she exists through you, through code and through culture.
Sophie McMillan
Aug 16


“Everything Gets Lost”: A Conversation with Junior XL
Chatting with Junior XL to talk about process and pace, creative friendship, small venues, the impossibility of silence, and what happens when a song finishes itself before you can ruin it.
Bryson Edward Howe
Jul 6


The New Sound: A Conversation with Geordie Greep
Youth deafens and demands to be heard. It's the essence of most creative movements in history.
Bryson Edward Howe
Jan 12


Field Report: Maiden Voyage Festival 2024
Is this divine, or simply Arca's world as we glimpsed it?
Adi Silvestro
Nov 15, 2024


The Dandy & Dionysus
Art is the Pagan snag on England's tapestry. Ransack the house.
Caleb Carter
Aug 8, 2024


Joan of Arc: Righteous Fury, Holy Suffering
Art about Joan of Arc allows us to recontextualise faith and find a new grammar for martyrdom and womanhood.
Silvia Jamet
Jul 10, 2024


Oneohtrix Point Never: Again, Again, Again...
Explore the looping, glitch-filled soundscapes of Oneohtrix Point Never's Again, with each cycle a step deeper into the digital sublime.
The Big Ship
Jun 28, 2024


"Act Accordingly": A Conversation with Jean Dawson
"Perception is a porta-potty. It's one person's shit that I definitely don't have to smell if I don't want to. Even if it smells good."
Bryson Edward Howe
Jun 14, 2024


Field Report: Project 6 Festival 2024
Pusha T. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib. DjRUM. AJ Tracey. Nines. Guilia Tess. Manni Dee b2b Manuka Honey.
Bryson Edward Howe
May 31, 2024


Field Report: Wide Awake Festival 2024
Young Fathers. Eartheater. Hannah Diamond. Squid. Fat Dog. Byrne's Night. Ben UFO.
The Big Ship
May 30, 2024


Negating the Canvas: A Conversation with Mark Leckey
"It's like you deny the existence of God in order to affirm God, right? I deny the existence of art in order to make art."
Bryson Edward Howe
Jan 23, 2024


Mark Leckey: All That Glitters is Gold
What is in the depths of your Snapchat memories? Some funny, forgotten video from a drunken night out? Or the key to transcendence?
The Big Ship
Sep 20, 2023


Kode9 & The Spaceape: Dread Engineering the Dub(step) Virus
SO ALIEN SO VIRAL
Joey Hollis
Sep 6, 2023


The Variations by Patrick Langley: Between Noise and Silence
In Patrick Langley’s second novel, the past stalks the present in search of a soothsayer.
Bryson Edward Howe
Aug 23, 2023


SOPHIE: Immaterial
SOPHIE scored a searing voyage beyond the unknown.
Caleb Carter
Aug 5, 2023


Overmono - Good Lies
On Overmono's long-awaited debut album, Good Lies, the two welsh brothers find utopia in the afterglow of the rave.
Caleb Carter
May 11, 2023


Inverting Inspiration: Kyoto Kyoto at Dalston's Café OTO
Making waves with their unique grab bag of tastes and sounds, Eve Boothroyd sits down with Kyoto Kyoto at the legendary Café OTO.
Eve Boothroyd
Apr 8, 2023


Most Normal: A Conversation with Alan Duggan of Gilla Band
I sat down with the Gilla Band guitarist to talk about his electronic influences, audience reaction, and the politics of punk.
Bryson Edward Howe
Oct 7, 2022


A Techno Prayer: Björk’s Homogenic
With the release of her newest album, we look back at Björk's revolutionary, rimy album Homogenic on its 25th anniversary.
Bryson Edward Howe
Oct 1, 2022


"Camp": Notes on Modernity and Self-Consciousness
What do UFOs, Zack Snyder's Batman, and "Mooo!" by Doja Cat all have in common? They're all perfect examples of "camp".
Bryson Edward Howe
Sep 4, 2022
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