IN LIVE PERFORMANCE, Maria Chávez is a bricoleur of intricate, cerebral, capricious sonic landscapes constructed through improvised sampling. The Peruvian-born, New York–based sound artist uses one or more turntables (her typical setup these days includes four) and an evolving collection of scratched and broken records over which her needles glide, skitter, and pounce. Mesmerizing loops extracted from test tones, sound effects, spoken-word albums, and myriad other sources never build into hooks; rather, they stutter or disappear into worlds of static, a celebration of the aesthetics of chance
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Ibrox Disaster 50 years on: The fans who never came home from the Old Firm match after Stairway 13 tragedy
Andy Ewan pictured at home in Dunoon with his match programme for the Rangers v Celtic match at Ibrox IT was supposed to be the start of a new year and new hope as families had just celebrated the bells 24 hours before. Parents, wives and children waved off their loved ones as fans headed to the traditional New Year derby between Rangers and Celtic. But within hours those same families who had said their goodbyes expecting to see their loved ones walk through the door that night, were left with the heartbreaking task of having to identify the bodies of the football fans who never came home.