Music

The Aztec imagery and digital soundworld of Mexican producer Javier Estrada

In new interviews, Conny Plank’s collaborators – including Brian Eno and Holger Czukay – remember the radical music producer.

The New-York based musician and composer talks about the nature of electronic music, the zoology of noise and the unique sound-worlds of the child

New York’s energetic community of experimental music and film venues

One hundred years of John Cage

Robert Wyatt was my life-model

‘Film themes, ska, tango, Phil Spector-esque girl groups, and loungey instrumentals are all part of the mixture’

PiL's infamous 1980 performance on the primetime American TV programme American Bandstand.

How can the genre attract a younger audience that might not have any engagement with the deeply furrowed traditions ingrained in its production, performance and reception?

First broadcast in 1983, Robert Ashley’s TV opera Perfect Lives is a talkative exploration of sociability and storytelling

Part of the the romance of this breed of lost experimentalists relates to their financial struggles 

The French composer's purpose was to find a breach in the fortress of musical tradition, open up ‘fissures of randomness for the poetic adventure to slip through’

From the Ottoman diaspora to the musical influence of the Eastern Mediterranean, the early days of the record industry in New York

On the occasion of a major retrospective in London, Paul Schütze talked to pioneering composer Eliane Radigue about her 50-year career, which spans electronic music, Tibetan Buddhism, musique concrète and ‘anti-acoustics’

However esoteric the aims of a big group, they can generate moments of real musical power 

frieze invited 15 artists and writers to discuss some of the significant musicians and releases of the last 20 years

The collected music criticism of the pioneering feminist writer Ellen Willis

On the controversial role of digitization in New Music

To coincide with the publication of his new book Retromania, Simon Reynolds talks about pop’s obsession with its immediate past

Inspired both by the natural sonorities of the sea and the classic surf-pop lexicon, Endless Summer remains both a time-capsule and a weather report