Clive Bell
Issue 442
December 2020
Essay
Does playing shakuhachi do anything? Clive Bell makes music for The Sims
September 2020
The Wire’s Japanese flute specialist finds himself improvising on the soundtracks to two video game blockbusters
Columns
Bell Labs: Shakuhachi In Crisis?
May 2020
In a sequel to his 2013 Bell Labs Flutes In Crisis column, Clive Bell takes a measure of the current state of Japan’s traditional bamboo flute
Interview
Kaffe Matthews shares new album Foreigner and talks to Clive Bell
March 2020
“There is a noise switch on the organ; when you first put it on you get a ‘Whurghssh!’”
Matthews talks to Bell about returning to solo recordings with her newfound ELKA 400, relaunching Annette Works and Berlin's community spirit
Issue 431
January 2020
Issue 428
October 2019
Issue 427
September 2019
Issue 425
July 2019
Issue 420
February 2019
Issue 415
September 2018
Issue 409
March 2018
Issue 406
December 2017
Columns
Bell Labs: Phonomuseum
November 2017
“Is it possible we’ve come full circle?” asks Clive Bell, as he observes more than a century of revolutions in recording technology, from Thomas Edison's tinfoil phonograph to pink vinyl in Sainsburys
Issue 404
October 2017
Columns
Bell Labs: Birdsong Contests
September 2017
Clive Bell takes a look the unlikely musical partnership found in birdsong contests across the globe
Issue 402
August 2017
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Issue 397
March 2017
Column
Bell Labs: Digging Music Archaeology
September 2016
Clive Bell unties some new historical knots binding centuries-old Celtic chants, Mediterranean piping, and more
Issue 391
September 2016
Columns
Bell Labs: Jennifer Walshe’s Aisteach
May 2016
Jennifer Walshe's Aisteach Foundation fakes a history of Irish avant garde activity to cover for the lack of a real one. By Clive Bell
Issue 387
May 2016
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Issue 386
April 2016
Issue 385
March 2016
Columns
Bell Labs: Here Be Dragons
October 2015
Wagakki Band deploy traditional Japanese instruments at dazzling speed to stay ahead of the future, says Clive Bell
