The Portal
Portal 07/02/2011
February 2011

Explorative audio lab and sound design studio, with examples of their experiments with contact mics and circuit bending alongside their commercial work.
Explorative audio lab and sound design studio, with examples of their experiments with contact mics and circuit bending alongside their commercial work.
"Archive site for Swedish Radio's web channel for sound and radio art."
Interview with NPRs Terry Gross, covering the legendary phonographer's life including the time spent in the American South with his father, John, in the 30s and 40s, recording thousands of songs for the Library of Congress' Archive of American Folk Song.
A transcript of an interview with Ornette Coleman by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida...
The comprehensive survey also includes sections focusing on historical sounds of the city, its wildlife, and travels further afield up the Thames estuary to the Hoo Peninsula in Kent.
Try and follow whatever bits and pieces of Lil B's sprawling mindspray actually proves intelligible, be that "rare and secrete [sic]" links to new songs or cat care tips.
In addition to its atmosphere of ‘backwoods horror’ BMT’s recent album Black Goat Of The Woods (Aurora Borealis) exudes an air of cosmic menace which can be traced back to the Weird Fiction of Arthur Machen and HP Lovecraft, conjecturing an aesthetic located on the membranous threshold between Shub Niggurath and Gunnar Hansen.
Lukatoyboy is Luka Ivanovic, who was featured in Global Ear: Budapest & Pécs in The Wire 322
A text about a series of electronic music workshops for children...
Video of Bruce McClure's modified projector performance Donostia
Footage of a performance by Ken Vandermark, Andy Moor, Terrie Hessels and Paal Nilssen-Love at Rotterdam's Worm, 28 November, 2009.
"Not Black Metal. Not theory. Not not Black Metal. Not not theory. Black Metal theory. Theoretical blackening of Metal. Metallic blackening of theory. Mutual blackening. Nigredo in the intoxological crucible of symposia."
"Each album is made using free software at every stage of its production – that is, software which can be modified and freely redistributed, with the proviso that users must be able to continue to customise the code..." – from Keith Moliné's Unofficial Channels article in The Wire 322
Blog of the poet and writer Dennis Cooper...
"When I read Seth I feel possibility"
"Monkey World assists governments around the world to stop the smuggling of primates from the wild."
Blog of the Whitehouse founder, featured in The Wire 322 Invisible Jukebox...
"Under No Enchantment (But My Own)" taken from Roberts's 2009 album Spoils, filmed around Glasgow and Callander, Scotland.