When it comes to tools and techniques for creative sound design, the modern producer is spoilt for choice: even those who can't afford expensive plugins and processors will be able to craft original ...

The walls are covered with tactile displays of timelines, correspondences, and ephemera selected from Binion’s archive. Credit: Tom Van Eynde On a sunny spring day, Experimental Sound Studio’s Audible ...

Stereotank re-imagines sound and structure...take a listen! Stereotank re-imagines sound and structure, challenging object design and re-purposing items to create experimental sound activations. Take ...

Jay Pritzker Pavilion’s multichannel speaker system is uniquely equipped for artists crafting experimental sonic compositions. Credit: David Alvarado for Chicago Reader When the Experimental Sound ...

The lights dim and fog emerges, before a single spotlight back-lights the drummer, a halo of light surrounding him. The effect matches the haunting music that possesses the crowd, as the spotlight ...

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Many of this year’s notable film scores are the work of relative newcomers to Hollywood, with a few established veterans (as ever) in the mix. The scores range from experimental sound worlds for alien ...

Following a surge of popularity with his 2017 release of Apricot Princess, Alexander O’Connor, under the stage name Rex Orange County, sparks a snap of energy with his new October release, Pony. The ...

Re:Sound, Vallejo’s experimental music series, returns with a Saturday, Nov. 6 afternoon performance in a new, yet still-resonant space on Mare Island. CHANNEL, the series’ first event since the ...

The San Francisco Symphony’s groundbreaking SoundBox series returns for its tenth season in 2023–24 with four live programs with curators including violinist, singer, and composer Mazz Swift; SF ...

A bit of futurism, some experimental sound and images that fuse art history and pop culture — here are six exhibitions and events in the coming week: Beatriz Cortez, “Trinidad / Joy Station,” at the ...

Paul Steinbeck's Sound Experiments is a historical narrative and technical analysis of the music of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). Steinbeck traces the chronology of ...