From Bagatellen:

Will Montgomery [Brian Marley] — Legend (Entr’acte)

So it’s well-known — in this current peaking phase in certain music, wherein musicians retreat further and longer from their equipment such that more time can be spent in thought, contemplating and internally devising their next sound devices — that music can be pulled in force from a single everyday object. Objects which [...]

Mark Peter Wright – A Quiet Reverie

Throughout the companion book for A Quiet Reverie, Mark Peter Wright thematically refers to the idea of an “incomplete presence”. The idea is that, whether standing in awe on historical grounds, or at the miraculous cusp of a forest’s density, the senses absorb virtually everything, while the mind reaches inward and outward for metaphor [...]

Rhodri Davies, the latest

Dark Architecture captures a fascinating meeting between Rhodri Davies (electric harp) and Max Eastley (sound sculptures and arc). Using his e-bows ever more deftly all the time, Davies manages to strike a fine balance between the sound of singing glass and tiny percussion. Eastley responds with a range of sonic detail that tends [...]

Philip Samartzis / Michael Vorfeld – Scheckenrock

In a joint artistic venture, the combination of singular approaches and attitudes towards the conception of compelling sounds is a potentially lethal weapon, especially when the human constituents tread entirely different paths to achieve the desired consequence. The products resulting from this sort of collaboration frequently resemble an excessively varicolored pot-pourri in which — more [...]