'I Record Everything at 4 A.M.': A Conversation With Vera Lune
Vera Lune has never played a show outside her own city and records only between four and seven in the morning. We climbed five flights of stairs at an unreasonable hour to ask why.
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The Interview: DJ Provenance on Digging, Data, and Dying Formats
Since March 2004, DJ Provenance has logged every record he owns in a single spreadsheet: 32,140 rows, including who he was with when he bought it. We met him in a storage unit off an A-road.
Studio Visit: Inside Koji Marlowe's Basement of Broken Amps
Koji Marlowe inherited a television repair shop and turned the basement under it into a studio. Forty-one broken amplifiers, one soldering iron that is never off, and a fourteen-week waiting list.
'Silence Is a Rhythm Too': Elif Duran on Scoring Empty Spaces
Elif Duran writes music for documentaries about buildings nobody lives in. We met her in an unheated textile mill outside Bursa, where she was popping balloons to measure the reverb before writing a single note.
Five Questions for Barometric, the Duo Turning Weather Data Into Techno
Pressure to filter cutoff, humidity to delay feedback, wind speed to tempo. Ines Aalto and Marta Reis explain the rules of their machine, the treaty that stops them cheating, and the night the weather refused to do anything at all.
Mixing Desk Confessions: Sam Okereke on the Loudness Wars
For fifteen years Sam Okereke made records louder because that is what he was paid for. Now there is a clause in his contract that says he will not. We went to Deptford to hear the confession.
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