Riffs – Volume 3, Issue 1 – April 2019
This issue of Riffs emerged out of a partnership with Ideas of Noise festival in Birmingham and a writing event …
Sound Writing – Sherrie Edgar
As I look back and reflect, the tracks of life are a specular reflection, wavelengths are rhythms to our heartbeat, …
Nurturing The Noise – Dominic Deane
A compilation of audio tracks from various Yorkshire based noise artists. Curated by Dominic Deane I asked participants from the …
Noise as Ideas / Manifest as Unreduced, Pure, Thought – Elvin Brandi
‘Gareth Bale’, a mix of improvised collaboration, pop parroted field recording disorganised into a culturally embroiled slew. Sound as an …
Collecting The Noise – Marek Jeziński
Let me take you for a walk around the city of Toruń: although typical urban environment in Central Europe nowadays, …
Wild Pop Lore – Gustav Thomas
Wild Pop was initially conceived as a term that avoids using the word ‘improvisation’ to denote musical performance that is …
Playing with Words – Mike Fletcher & Nicolas Pillai
Playing With Words is an experimental interdisciplinary practice-as-research project that combines improvisation by a musician and a writer. The idea …
Visions of Sound: An Experimental Review on Algorave – Alice Tomlinson
In Birmingham’s art and industrial playground there is a revolution happening: highlighted orange, titled ‘hotpink’, cut and paste then told …
To The Roadside – Tom Pierard
As the purveyor of rhythmic foundation in mainstream western popular music, the timbral elements of the conventional drumset have slowly …
Spit Saxophone – Tina Krekels
This is a performative essay focusing predominantly on spit as feminist noise. Spit is part of my practice around the …