#experimental-music

#experimental-music

By that, I meant work that doesn't seek to explain itself, not out of a pretentious desire to keep people out but more out of an inner intensity, a desire to enmesh you within its concept-world by experience rather than sitting and pointing and lecturing about any given thing in the book. Music, it turns out, is the best way to make this clear; songs, especially truly great ones, don't explain their emotional character to you but instead make you feel it.

On July 7, 2025, Lucrecia Dalt's heart stopped. She had suffered a severe epileptic seizure, and eight seconds would pass before it resumed beating. The next day, the Colombian musician released " caes," the third single from her breathtaking new album A Danger to Ourselves -a song that suggests, she says, "that the sublime can be reached through surrendering to the act of falling." For two days after her near-death experience, she soared, so overwhelmed by the beauty of her surroundings that she wondered if she had actually died and was experiencing the afterlife. She hadn't, of course, and the world that wowed her was the same one she occupied before her heart had stopped. She had just surrendered to the fall.

The evening began as the audience filled their seats, a DJ booth with glowing, orange lights visible in the darkness. A dark, shadowy figure appeared behind white fabric hung across the stage. As music created by the live DJ sounded, the figure moved a glowing orb. It played with depth of shadow until morphing into two distinct figures. The delicate electronica soundscape matched the dark whimsy of the scene, indicating a moist forest atmosphere.

Charmaine Lee uses her voice as a tool for expression, creating a unique musical language that incorporates elements reminiscent of experimental electronics and noise music.

Giant Opening Mouth on the Ground, releasing on August 8, features 33-minutes of music recorded in 2014, dating back more than a decade, and showcases a unique collaborative process.

"What they heard when they put the new album on their turntables was nothing, absolutely nothing but screaming feedback noise recorded at various frequencies, played back against various other noise layers."

A Ghanian highlife legend and Pattie Gonia's environmental drag will ensure a sparkling atmosphere during a week of unique events at the Crystal Ballroom.

Sync opens the EP with stretched and delayed cowbells, creating a pulsing analogue rhythm that welcomes listeners into a deep ambient experience.

"There’s been a lot of memories," Shaff says about working with the archive. He described the process as "almost too personal."

Delia Derbyshire, a pioneer of electronic music, showed how tape machines could transform sound in 1965, influencing the future of radiophonic art.

The reissued live recordings of Arthur Russell encapsulate his unique melodic sensibility, showcasing a performance where his voice and cello create an ethereal experience.

Kali Malone's music intertwines expansive, slowly moving compositions with vibrant tones that transform the listener's experience into an enveloping soundscape.

The String Queens challenge the norm by blending classical, contemporary, and experimental styles, highlighting women’s empowerment in a male-dominated music landscape.