Alexei Monroe, Author at Trebuchet Page 2 of 3

Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

05/06/2015

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

Defiantly and Successfully Indulgent : Xerrox vol.3 [ALVA NOTO]

30/05/2015

If the previous volumes were more concerned with technique and texture, this volume's emphasis on emotion is clear from the start....

The Radiophonic Workshop. Queen Elizabeth Hall, 2015

25/04/2015

Although they're still going strong these are in a way end-of-an-era shows carrying a huge and fascinating weight of history....

Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

18/03/2015

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

Our ‘songlines’ are contained in our technology, we are technological beings [Cristian Vogel]

15/02/2015

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapith releases spanning two decades, Cristian Vogel is widely recognised as one of the more thoughtful and inventive producers of his...

Alcalica : YΔΩP

11/02/2015

A valuable document of Europe under conditions of imminent neo-feudalism...

Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

30/12/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes...

HHY & The Macumbas – Throat Permission Cut

20/10/2014

This collaboration, the first Macumbas vinyl release, is based around electric bass, brass, percussion and electronics....

Lee Gamble : KOCH

24/09/2014

The fractured, inconsistent nature of the work seems to be inherent to Gamble's approach...

Answer Code Request : Code

04/06/2014

While this is not an “in your face” album, the best of these precisely engineered tracks have a strong pulse and circulation...

A picture of Hostile Environment by Bolder

Bolder : Hostile Environment

28/05/2014

There's no catharsis and no release, only an extended crawl through the wreckage...

Felix Kubin : Interview

02/05/2014

I don't want to be a pop underground star when I'm sixty on stage. I love the genre of pop but it's just one of many genres....

D S C R D : Interview

21/04/2014

Some people react more poetically, have nice abstract or artistic concepts, create an imaginary world or whatever. We do not have any of this....

A picture from a Bernard Parmegiani recital

The Music of Bernard Parmegiani at LCMF

08/04/2014

While in Paris Parmegiani's work is usually presented in state of the art, state-subsidised spaces, here it manifests in multi-storey car parks and former carpet factories, both in formerly abject...

Jean-Claude Risset : Music from Computer

19/03/2014

Historic and serious works, thrilling but unacknowledged precedents for many of the textures that structure electronic music in the present day...

A picture of Bernard ParmegianiA picture of Parmegiani

LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani

20/02/2014

LCMF Presents the music of Bernard Parmegiani 21-23 March, Britannia House E1...

Kraftwerk Uncovered at The Science Museum

17/02/2014

It was only natural that sooner or later, Kraftwerk would materialise in some form at the Science Museum...

Uwe Schmidt / Atom TM : Interview

06/02/2014

I never touched the topic of "harmonies" or "musical notes"… everything was just "rhythmical sound", that either "worked" or "did not work"....

A picture of BJ Nilson album Eye of the Microphone

BJ Nilsen : Eye of the Microphone

29/01/2014

At times Nilsen conjures a tone picture of a Satanic London that Blake might have recognised....

Emptyset : Recur

15/01/2014

This is an album based on a limited and austere sonic palette repeatedly and imaginatively stretched to breaking point....

NOISE & whispers : GV Art

10/12/2013

Produced partly in response to open call for sound works dealing with the interface between art and science, the show gives an overview of some of the main tendencies in contemporary sound art...

Mlada Fronta : Every Thing

26/11/2013

Every Thing really does do what it says on the tin: the set includes every track, every remix, every video and even digital versions of all the artwork, press and live photos from the last two...

A picture of Martin Bedard by Caroline Campeau

Martin Bedard : Topographies

17/09/2013

Anyone seeking innovative and forward-thinking electronic music need look no further; the energy and imagination displayed in this collection puts many younger producers to shame...

AUTHOR & PUNISHER : Women & Children

12/07/2013

Iconoclastic in the truest sense of the word, Tristan Shone inverts the tenets of doom metal completely, relying on cold steel and soulless machinery to sonically replicate the despondency of life...

Luca Forcucci : Fog Horns

03/07/2013

a hissing, radioactive sea full of semi-conductors and digital junk...

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown

26/06/2013

Overall, while this could never be described as radical (and wasn't intended as such), it was a technically and visually impressive event, with several moments of great power and subtlety....

Kode 9 : Rinse 22

31/05/2013

It''s not hard to imagine some of these complacent and conformist tunes blaring from car radios or being played in clothes shops this summer...

Troller : [Album Review]

11/04/2013

Troller seem undecided which direction to go in – sepulchral or affirmative and this seems to be the sound of a group still in transit....

Dubstep Allstars Vol. 10 – Plastician

06/02/2013

Trying to unite the disparate tendencies into a compilation is already ambitious but trying to unite them into a continuous mix could seem like asking for trouble. Plastician produces some...

GOVES: A Crèche for the Lonely and Peculiar

03/01/2013

Sitting somewhere within the well-established tradition of trying to blend electronica and contemporary composition, this is introspective, lower-case music that by now seems a little out of its...

Author: Alexei Monroe

Latest

Art Prints

Events

Our weekly newsletter

Got a Question?

Latest Articles

Partners

Categories