The Formant

July 19, 2017 The Formant

A Space Between – An Interview with Drox

One day, during a torrential rainstorm in Sydney, Australia, Adrian Burns felt particularly inspired to make some music. With the internet down and his day job resigned to the back of his mind he felt a creative urge nudge at him. It had been two years since his last self-released

July 13, 2017 The Formant

WAVE∞FORM with Per Martinsen

Cold, industrial noises interject cold stark planes, with a thinly veiled layer of frost entombing the fragile sounds in their own resonances. Like a lifeless radar station starts spreading a dormant signal after years of inactivity, Per Martinsen’s latest project WAVE∞FORM slowly gestates into life. A wholly ambient project, WAVE∞FORM

July 8, 2017 The Formant

55 presents UFO Lounge

UFO Lounge (Kolbjørn Lyslo & Per Martinsen) Per Martinsen (Mental Overdrive) and Kolbjørn Lyslo (Doc L Junior) land their UFO lounge at Hærverk. Charting the outer dimensions of electronic music with a special back to back set, the two Norwegian stalwarts, forego bland functionalism of the dance floor in a grand narrative

June 5, 2017 The Formant

The Act of Art – A Q&A with Hilde Marie Holsen and Tyra Fure Brandsæter

A few weeks ago a cryptic message arrived on social media, talking about a performance at Galleri Ram and a request; to document an exchange between the artists involved as they explain the ideas behind the project. The message came from Hilde Marie Holsen, a musician who I have interviewed

June 1, 2017 The Formant

On the Record – EP. 1 with Kompressorkanonen

As we progress into the autumn years of our lives, priorities change. The beckoning call of nocturnal urges dissipate into a faint whisper only indulged when they grow too loud and we our preferences change to savour the more refined… possibly distilled and fermented fruits of life. Ours becomes an

May 8, 2017 The Formant

55: Crafoord, Flø & Van der Loo – Live Modular set

Robin Crafoord | Asbjørn Blokkum Flø | Ernst van der Loo (live modular set) It begins as a blank canvas, a realm of endless possibilities. An incipient creation where void and everything exists at the same time, fertile with a nascent artform existing between the trilogue of creative concept, performer/artist

May 3, 2017 The Formant

Agan – Amplification of Movements

Stochastic Resonance propagate an artistic intent in their music that forms a congruous flow of creative ideas, from live shows to apps through musicians to label/collective and back, forging something significantly their own in a time of consumerist media and perfunctory listening experiences. In a time when the ubiquitous brown,

April 10, 2017 The Formant

Concrete: A Q&A with Soft Armour

Incandescent tones, drone against the fabric of a sonic environment, scratching and clawing its way through a soupy miasma of synthesised textures. Moments of intense sonic excursions into alien territories open up onto a world of stark minimalist, cold landscapes that are redolent of the empty spaces they symbolise in

March 17, 2017 Mischa Mathys

Benjamin Finger – Ghost Figures

Beguiling piano motifs haunt an otherworldly dimension as strings resonate in solemn reverie against a superficial backdrop of electronic miasma. Disquiet ensues in the empty spaces between intervallic leaps as the player purposively caresses dormant keys in simple gestures redolent of Satie in one of his more contemplative moments. Dust

March 14, 2017 The Formant

Once you enter the world of Bertoia you don’t want to leave – An interview with John Brien of Important Records

Norwegian sound artist Asbjørn Blokkum Flø delves into world of Harry Bertoia and his Sonambient sound installations with John Brien, who released a large collection of these recordings, through his Important Records label. One of the most interesting releases of 2016 was the 11 CD Box Set Sonambient: Recordings of Harry Bertoia.