The Capsule Garden
A lot is going on right now (in the world, in my life, etc), and all of this music has been soundtracking my days recently. The biggest thing in my corner of the world is that I officially launched a new project called Stupid Dreams. It’s about listening as a way to build the world […]
Interviews
So much of Zosha Warpeha’s music feels like more than the sum of its parts. The palette may be minimalist – her voice and the Hardanger d’amore, a 10-string fiddle with five sympathetic strings – but these pieces carry the weight of stories accumulated across time. I grow accustomed to the dark, her newest album, […]
Songs of Our Lives
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Walker Farrell! We’re celebrating the start of spring with Walker’s new album, “Crocus,” out now on Ceremony of Seasons, and after talking about that, living through Hurricane Helene and its aftermath, and more, we get into the weeds with D Train, Miles Davis, Gang Starr, Joanna […]
Interviews
I recorded this conversation with Francesca in the context of our ongoing video art and music collaboration. Francesca has worked on videos for my collaborations with my brother Jordan Christoff through the Anarchist Mountains project and also with sound artist Joseph Sannicandro. I first met Francesca at a community art event in Montreal, I got […]
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 […]
Inside No. 9, Season 4, Episode #49: 2025 in Reflection This year I have spent more time in bargain bins and secondhand stores than buying new music. That doesn’t mean I haven’t kept my ears open to new releases, but it was definitely a year for dusty vinyl and ancient CDs. That said, it was […]
On this episode of Songs of Our Lives, it’s Peter Taylor! I’ve known Peter for nearly 20 years now – he’s a true Foxy Digitalis lifer, having first written for the site around 2006. He also makes music as MAbH, and is the person behind Foxy Digitalis’s Inside No. 9 podcast series. He’s a real […]
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 […]
British South African composer and producer Galina Juritz has spent years moving between worlds: classical training and jazz improvisation, Cape Town and London, the precision of notation and the freedom of electronic production. Her debut solo album, One Weird Trick, refuses to settle into any single space. This music is lush and inviting, pulling listeners […]
And All The Clocks Ran Dry breathes like a living thing caught between dimensions. Sonic vistas cloaked in stretched and blurred melodies open up, vast and impossibly tender. An array of synths wash across the spatial plane, pulling focus and stretching perception until the borders between listening and being listened to start to dissolve. These […]
This may well be the last Capsule Garden for 2025, as I want to finish a year-in-review article before taking a break at the end of December. But no worries, it will return in 2026. A lot of personal housekeeping ahead, so if you are uninterested in my work, The Jewel Garden, etc., feel free […]
Interviews
So much of Zosha Warpeha’s music feels like more than the sum of its parts. The palette may be minimalist – her voice and the Hardanger d’amore, a 10-string fiddle with five sympathetic strings – but these pieces carry the weight of stories accumulated across time. I grow accustomed to the dark, her newest album, […]
Interviews
I recorded this conversation with Francesca in the context of our ongoing video art and music collaboration. Francesca has worked on videos for my collaborations with my brother Jordan Christoff through the Anarchist Mountains project and also with sound artist Joseph Sannicandro. I first met Francesca at a community art event in Montreal, I got […]
Interviews
Ali Murray’s project, The Lonely Bell, creates sonic drifts where time becomes illusory, and melodies stretch into oblivion. His latest album, Time Lost, leans further into that space. Restraint bears out immersive soundscapes where countless tiny aural moments coalesce into entire galaxies of sound. Glassine piano progressions form prismatic shapes. Horns remember everything. Synths become […]
Interviews
Eventual is the sound that remains. Long after the lights go out, after the din of a crowded room is nothing but a blurred memory, faint resonance lingers. Richard Chartier traces the emotive grace living in sonic remnants, revealing subtle intensities in what others might dismiss as emptiness. In his solo work, the background becomes […]
Interviews
Twenty-five years of late-night rehearsal space jams later and Family Underground (FU) are still chasing their sound: a primitive yet alien strain of free-drone that’s more than a little zonked. In the Copenhagen trio’s current formation, Nicolas Kauffmann cuts resonant paths into the lunar night (to quote their house label) with prepared and bowed guitar, […]
