Articles by Tom Beedham

Monolake

MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

Staged in a posh custom-built pyramid, Berliner Robert Henke's Monolake opened MUTEK's 20th anniversary with the kind of ambitious multisen...

Tamayugé

MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

Taking the stage in matching blue sack dresses, top knots, creepers, hoop earrings and oversized glasses with pom-poms fixed atop them, loc...

EXPANSYS

MUTEK, Montreal QC, August 20

PUBLISHED Aug 21, 2019

Gabriel R. Drapeau and Guillaume Sauvé capped off the first night working like painters at easels from behind their modular units, tweaking...

Loscil

Equivalents

PUBLISHED Aug 13, 2019

Between 1925 and 1934, Alfred Stieglitz made waves with a series of images he produced by pointing his camera to the heavens. In those year...

Pauline Oliveros / Guy Klucevsek

Sounding / Way

PUBLISHED Jul 23, 2019

Originally released on cassette and out of print since, a vinyl reissue of this 1986 collaboration between experimental accordionists Pauli...

​An Essential Guide to Brian Eno: "Ignorable as It Is Interesting"

PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2019

It's difficult to imagine what a world without Brian Eno would sound like.   An art school graduate and self-described "non-musician," Eno...

Castle If

Zardoz

PUBLISHED Jul 10, 2019

Piloting a mission into a distant vortex from the helm of a Moog Voyager, Jess Forrest's reimagined score for John Boorman's 1974 science f...

Terry Riley and Gyan Riley

Way Out Yonder

PUBLISHED Jul 9, 2019

Despite canonically important contributions to 20th century minimalism and contemporary music, in speaking on his recent collaborations wit...