Imagine driving in your car listening to MJ on the radio, grooving and enjoying the song until … wait … you stop to ask yourself … was this bassline played manually by a human, because if MIDI sequencing was involved, I don't like it anymore. Said no one ever!

Although there's a reaction against utopian thinking, art itself has a utopian edge

Plantasia is a two-day ambient music fest held in Chicago named after Mort Garson's 1976 record, Mother Earth's Plantasia.

What is really feared in loud music is not the loudness, but the ugliness

Bret Schneider delves into everything from Indian ragas to Bach’s recreation of the mind with composer and pianist Michael Harrison.

A vision of the grotesque, our morbid fascination with violence, and the aestheticization of war…

Kevin O’Rourke reviews the album Sons Of by Sam Prekop and John McEntire.

How did Amacher ultimately feel about being identified as a heroic “sound artist” instead of a hardworking composer who underwent a heroic rescue mission into the deepest undercurrents of music history?

In the world of Donda, West wants to treat pop culture as a religion, a place where sinners (abusers, lawbreakers, and killers) have the opportunity for redemption if they want it.

The best possible description for the piece is one line from the poem by Billie Chernicoff that comes with the download: “The nothing inside of a bell, unfurling…”

Selected Spectral Works