Author: Craig Hamilton

This issue of Riffs emerged out of a partnership with Ideas of Noise festival in Birmingham and a writing event …

As I look back and reflect, the tracks of life are a specular reflection, wavelengths are rhythms to our heartbeat, …

A compilation of audio tracks from various Yorkshire based noise artists. Curated by Dominic Deane I asked participants from the …

‘Gareth Bale’, a mix of improvised collaboration, pop parroted field recording disorganised into a culturally embroiled slew. Sound as an …

Let me take you for a walk around the city of Toruń: although typical urban environment in Central Europe nowadays, …

Wild Pop was initially conceived as a term that avoids using the word ‘improvisation’ to denote musical performance that is …

Playing With Words is an experimental interdisciplinary practice-as-research project that combines improvisation by a musician and a writer. The idea …

In Birmingham’s art and industrial playground there is a revolution happening: highlighted orange, titled ‘hotpink’, cut and paste then told …

As the purveyor of rhythmic foundation in mainstream western popular music, the timbral elements of the conventional drumset have slowly …