Foxy Digitalis
Tiers la Familia has spent years refining an approach where kindness becomes the most confrontational stance possible. The Love Synthesis is a wide-eyed, blurry romp fueled by shaded synth beds and electric rhythms. This music is vulnerable but still aggressive, underpinned by a real softness. Sefyu “Joe” Sidney and crew (Cheryl Kingan, Jeff Tobias, and […]
mattie barbier has spent years interrogating the spaces where sound and structure meet. Their work reveals what can be found beyond the reach of conventional playing. Two recent recordings, the solo work Is This The Land I Wish Death To Find Me and RAGE Thormbones’ (their duo with Weston Olencki) tilth soil, capture different aspects […]
Sonya Belaya’s Dacha holds generations in its hands. The six-song cycle channels lineages through sound, carrying the weight of generational trauma in visceral, embodied form. Written during the first winter of war, the album weaves Soviet feminist poetry, bard traditions, and Eastern European folk songs into compositions that refuse easy categorization. There is a spectral […]
Victoria Pham has spent over a decade building a living archive of planetary acoustics as an archaeoacoustics and bioacoustics researcher. She’s developed access to voices most of us never consider: the hum of fungi stretching through soil, the exhalation of forests, the evolutionary lexicon of animal communication systems. Her debut album COSMOSIS takes these field […]
Cheryl E. Leonard builds sonic worlds from the far edges of our planet. For decades, her work has translated the Arctic and Antarctic into intricately layered compositions where technical mastery serves something more profound than documentation. The sounds are crisp and deep, capturing the rugged, unencumbered spirit of places most of us will never experience […]
Steve Parker’s live oak tree died the way his father died: slowly, despite care, despite hope, despite diagnoses that sounded too much like oncology. Now the tree performs its own requiem at Ivester Contemporary in the exhibition, Funeral for a Tree, where Parker has transformed its trunk into playable records encoded with the songs of […]
There is something beautiful in paying close attention to the sounds and movements of activities we often do. Rituals exist in so many places we don’t notice. Somatic Steamed Eggs is a collaboration between Rachel Beetz and Heidi Ross that finds profound depth in one of cooking’s most elemental gestures. Since 2023, the two have […]
I will probably never settle on whether I want to publish this recap article in December or January, but I have gone with the former this year in an effort to really take a break from the site for a few weeks this time. It’s been a wild year. Everything feels unstable, or at least […]
Davide Cedolin’s music makes a home in the spaces between memory and landscape. The sound of wind through trees becomes indistinguishable from the gentle pull of a bow across strings. With Ligurian Pastoral Vol. II, he deepens his exploration of rural Liguria’s quiet territories, bringing accordion and synthesizer into conversation with field recordings that feel […]