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Ryan Alexander Diduck , April 15th, 2021 08:46 Collaborations with Nik Void, Gazelle Twin, Simon Fisher Turner, and Astrud Steehouder make the latest project from Alexander Tucker all the more essential, finds Ryan Diduck Information in the post-COVID world has assumed a curious characteristic of meaningless equivalency, one chart – one graph, one statistic – taking on seemingly no more nor less significance than any other. This latest fact attack is in addition to the regular broadcast news and social media cycles that plague our consciousness with unwanted and unnecessary infotainment: ...

Christian Eede , March 16th, 2021 14:09 Stephen O'Malley, Nik Void and more will present live sets as part of the inaugural COMMON Multiverse Initiative A number of artists on Editions Mego's roster will play live sets this weekend for a brand new online festival called COMMON Multiverse Initiative. The event, which kicked off on Saturday (March 13), is the brainchild of online community space and playlisting platform, Currents.fm. Each day, different collectives and labels – including female:pressure, Infinite Machine and Fever AM – are curating the online event's programme. This Sunda...

Patrick Clarke , March 15th, 2021 10:30 With his new modular project Microcorps, Alexander Tucker blurs the lines between human and humanoid as he investigates how language can shift our perception. He tells Patrick Clarke the story of new album XMIT The algorithms that dictate so much of our consumption – the next song you listen to, the next film you watch, the next person you go on a date with – are now so complex that they are approaching the point where not even their creators can comprehend them. “One of the biggest sources of anxiety about AI is not that it will turn against us,...

Haroon Mirza, Jack Jelfs and GAIKA conduct a shamanic ritual in The Wave Epoch An audiovisual accompaniment to the concept album of the same name, set in a distant future in which the forgotten remains of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN have been rediscovered. Back in 2018 artists Haroon Mirza and Jack Jelfs took part in a residency at CERN, the largest particle physics lab in the world and the home of the Large Hadron Collider. It was during their engagement with the ideas and technology involved in some of the most important scientific discoveries of contemporary times that they began to ...

Fact 2020: Patch Notes Fact 2020: Patch Notes This year, we explored the work of artists making music with modular synthesisers and hardware through our new series, Patch Notes. Every week, we turn the spotlight on a different artist from across the world whose process involves hardware synths, modular rigs, patch cables, samplers and effects units, inviting them to record their own live performance. With the COVID-19 pandemic putting the majority of live performances on hold, these performances – most of them filmed at home – have offered an intimate look at the practice of artists in l...