Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

Even since Luigi Russolo bent his avant-garde ear to trains and bombs and automobiles, declaring the arrival of a new "art of noises," the music of machines has been the site for future shock. As the British critic Kodwo Eshun argues in his book More Brilliant Than the Sun, today's samplers, synths, and drum machines breed sonic science fictions, rippling portents of the technocultural tsunami to come: high-speed, recombinant, and thoroughly posthuman. At the same time, a deep strain of...

“Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

Even since Luigi Russolo bent his avant-garde ear to trains and bombs and automobiles, declaring the arrival of a new "art of noises," the music of machines has been the site for future shock. As the British critic Kodwo Eshun argues in his book More Brilliant Than the Sun, today's samplers, synths, and drum machines breed sonic science fictions, rippling portents of the technocultural tsunami to come: high-speed, recombinant, and thoroughly posthuman. At the same time, a deep strain of...

There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

Even since Luigi Russolo bent his avant-garde ear to trains and bombs and automobiles, declaring the arrival of a new "art of noises," the music of machines has been the site for future shock. As the British critic Kodwo Eshun argues in his book More Brilliant Than the Sun, today's samplers, synths, and drum machines breed sonic science fictions, rippling portents of the technocultural tsunami to come: high-speed, recombinant, and thoroughly posthuman. At the same time, a deep strain of...

It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

Even since Luigi Russolo bent his avant-garde ear to trains and bombs and automobiles, declaring the arrival of a new "art of noises," the music of machines has been the site for future shock. As the British critic Kodwo Eshun argues in his book More Brilliant Than the Sun, today's samplers, synths, and drum machines breed sonic science fictions, rippling portents of the technocultural tsunami to come: high-speed, recombinant, and thoroughly posthuman. At the same time, a deep strain of...

But what if the medium is the message?

Even since Luigi Russolo bent his avant-garde ear to trains and bombs and automobiles, declaring the arrival of a new "art of noises," the music of machines has been the site for future shock. As the British critic Kodwo Eshun argues in his book More Brilliant Than the Sun, today's samplers, synths, and drum machines breed sonic science fictions, rippling portents of the technocultural tsunami to come: high-speed, recombinant, and thoroughly posthuman. At the same time, a deep strain of...