FULL-TEXT AVAILABLE IN PRINT EDITION ONLY You haven’t picked up your guitar in weeks, if not months. You stare at the staff paper and the rows of empty lines burn an impression on your retina. Is this just writer’s block, or is it gone for good? Many artists have an up-and-down, on-again-off-again relationship withContinue reading “Clint Conley and Hildegard Westerkamp”
Artist Archives
The Swedish Sound-Art Scene
Nadine Byrne Monochrome images of two young women—evidently sisters—stare out impassively from oval apertures that resemble Victorian cameo brooches. A gauzy ectoplasmic fabric oozes from their mouths while, in an aperture between them, their faces merge in a dreamlike blur to evoke the face of their late mother. The soundtrack to this absorbing five-minute plungeContinue reading “The Swedish Sound-Art Scene”