Interviews
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 […]
The Capsule Garden
The first Capsule Garden of 2026, here we go! As we prepare for a potentially monster snowstorm this weekend in Tulsa, I’ve been listening to a lot of excellent tunes. I’ve also been mixing and mastering a lot of equally excellent tunes (if you would like me to master or mix your album, or help […]
Interviews
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 […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Sam Wenc! Sam’s new record, “Language At An Angle,” is the first under his own name. We talked about that, the processes behind it, and how it feels performing the work. Then we dig deep into the trenches with the multitudes of Okkyung Lee, Susan Alcorn’s […]
For over three decades, Eyvind Kang has moved through musical worlds with the curiosity of a traveler and the rigor of a devotee. A longtime collaborator of Jessika Kenney and Bill Frisell, and a disciple of spiritual jazz violinist Michael White, his work has always been marked by a kind of patient listening. Riparian is […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Dania! Her new record, “Listless,” has been on regular rotation the last few months, but as it gets dark earlier, it’s going to be a mainstay on the stereo. We talk about the magic and mystery of late nights, Japanese snake gourds, and how it all […]
There’s a stillness at the heart of “Boy Made of Glass,” a piece that seems to breathe through its own uncertainty. Stephen Vitiello and Edwin Torres move through a landscape of fragile resonance, where creeping soundworlds cradle Torres’s words, alternately holding them in suspension and pressing close until the air feels charged. Samita Sinha’s presence, […]
Static exhalations build into a soft, multi-layered sonic dream. Synth melodies intertwine and pull apart, shrouded in an ethereal resonance while traversing gentle emotional tension. It’s like finding a way through a haze-filled corridor and emerging into a warm embrace of a lilting, wistful piano arrangement. The echoes last far into the future. “Amensia” holds […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Randall Dunn! We recorded this episode in person at The Jewel Garden the morning after Charmaine Lee’s “Awaken the Dragon” tour rolled through Tulsa. We were well caffeinated for this episode (and Charmaine as in the room!) and had a blast talking about Kou Records, Randall’s […]
Inside No. 9, Season 4, Episode #47: Basta Now (Double episode) Obviously this episode is dedicated to the wonderful Fanny Chiarello and all her work putting together the holy grail of music that is Basta Now. This book is a catalogue of women, trans and non-binary people in experimental music. And by goodness, there is […]
Composer-pianist Erika Dohi has created something truly remarkable with Myth of Tomorrow, an album that fuses an air of mystery and whimsy with its vaporous sonic atmosphere. Dohi’s voice, tethered to the Earth in its striking vulnerability, shapeshifts and flies. Her use of autotune is infectious, shading this music with a futuristic hue while adding […]
On Ratsnake, Chloe Kim transforms the drum kit into a vessel of breath and movement, tracing a dialogue between rhythm and melody that feels both ancient and newly imagined. The Seoul-born, Sydney-based drummer channels her cross-cultural fluency into a sound that moves between precision and abandon while harnessing a sense of control and surrender. Named […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Dan Knishkowy (aka Adeline Hotel)! “Watch the Sunflowers” is Dan’s latest Adeline Hotel record, the second in an ongoing trilogy that began with last year’s “Whodunit.” We get into all of that, life moving forward, returning to music a decade later, and more! Then we chat […]
Interviews
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 […]
Interviews
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 […]
Interviews
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 […]
Interviews
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 […]
Interviews
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 […]
