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Contributor
Jace Clayton

Jace Clayton is a musician and writer. His book Uproot: Travels in 21st Century Music and Digital Culture was recently published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Interviews
As Brilliant as the Sun

Jace Clayton interviews Arthur Jafa about the politics of filmmaking, ‘black sites’ and learning how to surprise himself

BY Jace Clayton AND Arthur Jafa |
Features
One Take: Ian Cheng’s Emissaries

Jace Clayton discovers hyper-intelligent dogs and violent humans in the artist’s computer-simulated worlds

BY Jace Clayton |
Reviews
Clement Siatous

Simon Preston Gallery, New York, USA

BY Jace Clayton |
Interviews
Locally Sourced

Abraham Cruzvillegas talks to Jace Clayton about his approach to art-making and his philosophy of autoconstrucción

BY Jace Clayton |
Profiles
Music

The Aztec imagery and digital soundworld of Mexican producer Javier Estrada

BY Jace Clayton |
Opinion
The Slowed-Down Tempos of Screw and its Influence on Contemporary Bands

A screwed song urges the listener to internalize its dampened tempo, to stretch the existential qualities of the moment to match the music

BY Jace Clayton |
Critic's Guides
Landings

Richard Skelton (Type, 2010)

BY Jace Clayton |
Culture Digest
La Revolución

Wisin y Yandel, Machete Music/WY Records, 2009

BY Jace Clayton |
Opinion
Pitch Perfect

The highs and lows of ‘Auto-Tune’, the software used in almost every pop song released today

BY Jace Clayton |
Culture Digest
Laulu Laakson Kukista

Paavoharju (Fonal, 2008)

BY Jace Clayton |
Frieze
Search and Rescue

The hunt for rare African funk records raises questions about how the digitized music of the 21st century will be archived

BY Jace Clayton |
Frieze
Black Stars: Ghana’s Hiplife Generation

Various artists (Out There, 2008)

BY Jace Clayton |
Culture Digest
The Mandé Variations

Toumani Diabaté (World Circuit, 2008)

BY Jace Clayton |
Critic's Guides
Music

Moroccan pop to Latin American rap

BY Jace Clayton |