Music

Included in CTM Festival in Berlin, musician Guillermo Galindo discusses the instruments he builds from the discarded belongings of migrants

From modern art as a torture technique to transgression in grime: what to read this weekend

Dan Fox pays tribute to the life and work of a writer, theorist, cultural commentator, and friend, who passed away last week

From the perversity of suburbia to the politics of partying: what to read this weekend

From Beethoven's lesbianism to the precarious foundations of political philosophy: what to read this weekend

Geeta Dayal looks back on the life of US composer Pauline Oliveros, including reflections from, amongst others, Terry Riley and Morton Subotnick

‘Walshe’s work as a composer and sound artist draws on a form of cultural consumption that stems from living on the periphery of the metropolis’

From the many unpublished obituaries of Fidel Castro to the architecture of Dubai: what to read about this weekend

Father and son duo Yoshi and Tashi Wada talk Fluxus, Hindustani singing and home-made instruments

A report from the Cycle Festival for Music and Art in Kópavogur, Iceland

Animal cloning, police violence, and clubbing - the '90s in video by Nicolas Trembley

This week's Culture Digest picks up the theme of art and trauma: first up, a new album and film from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

‘Allen can take the listener from a tender meditation on the meaning of home to a stomping history lesson about Spanish conquistadors invading Mexico, and then flip right back’

A newly-released album gives overdue attention to the innovative, politicized music of the late Julius Eastman

How Indian classical music has influenced the visual arts

David Grubbs on Kai Althoff's recorded music, in the new issue of frieze d/e out now

On the counter-cultural icon Hubert Fichte, founder of German-language Pop literature

Legendary composer Phill Niblock talks about his way into music, the forming of Experimental Intermedia and working with video

From Vladimir Nabokov's queerness to John Cage jamming with Sun Ra: what to read this weekend

A new exhibition at Fondation Cartier in Paris is dedicated to the work and ideas of legendary composer Bernie Krause