Originally published at acloserlisten “The jellyfish represents the collapse of the ecosystem and the spinelessness of the people charged with protecting it.” -George Monbiot,“Feeding Frenzy” Medusa, the first collaboration between Dave Phillips (DP) and Aspec(t), (Mario Gabola and Mimmo Napolitano) is no doubt challenging music, but as the liner notes remind us, we live…
Originally published at acloserlisten.com Sound Propositions is an ongoing, semi-regular series of conversations with artists exploring their creative practices and individual aesthetics, conceived of as a counter-narrative to a dominant trend in music journalism which fetishizes equipment and new technologies. Rather than writing copy that can just as easily have come from a press release…
The following essay accompanies a 2-volume compilation of experimental Italian music I curated for The Silent Ballet, a webzine I co-founded in 2006, and Lost Children, a net-label I’ve been co-running since 2010. A link to a free download is included below. The compilation was release one year ago, and received some very nice press.…