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View an exclusive video clip of Bora Yoon performing in New York City. Yoon is featured in an article by Kurt Gottschalk in The Wire 304.

The video clip is taken from Bora Yoon's finale performance at a Phonation record release event which took place 20 November, 2008, and features "O Viridissima Virga" (Hail, O' Greenest Branch), an antiphon chant by Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), newly arranged with modern instruments and found sounds. The piece, using voice, organ, piano, Buddabox II, turntable, cell phone, chimestix, cups and diamonds, is performed in New York's Church of the Ascension with Reykjavik's Bedroom Community mates Ben Frost (organ) and Paul Corley (piano), Hilary Ryon & Karen Goldfeder (cups & diamonds).

Adrián de Alfonso: Pleamar

Watch a short film that accompanies three tracks from sound artist and musician Adrián de Alfonso’s new album Viator.

goat (jp): Joy In Fear

Watch a 16 minute concept film of tracks from Joy In Fear, the 2023 album by Japanese rockers goat (jp)

Steph Richards “Power Vibe”

The US trumpeter shares a supernatural LA noir created with the help of generative AI for a track from her latest album Power Vibe

Xhosa Cole All Roads

The saxophonist shares a film in which he dances with his two brothers beneath Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction

ECHOS: L'Ocelle Mare “Objets Chargés”

French label and platform Murailles Music shares the first episode in a new series of music documentaries highlighting the unique methodologies of artists on their roster

Galya Bisengalieva “Chagan”

Directed by artist Nicol Vizoli, the video for composer Galya Bisengalieva's “Chagan” reflects on the haunting nature of a radioactive lake in Kazakhstan