Index / Music
Rondello
Jasper Coppes contemplates Alexander Grant’s rondello in this extract from the publication ‘rondello’ produced by Dorian Jose Braun as part of Platform: 2016 at Edinburgh Art Festival. ‘Rondello’ is available from the Edinburgh Art Festival Kiosk until 28 August, and the Project Café in Glasgow
#28 - February 2013
Spaces between sound and vision
Neil Cooper investigates a growing interest in sound and art collaborations
Muscles of Joy—No-One’s Little Girls Shouting Out Loud
Neil Cooper looks at a year in the life of Glasgow-based band, Muscles of Joy
#13 Spring - March 2008
Wilhelm Sasnal: Deluxe Punk
‘You are telling me things, but what do you actually mean by that? Whats your point? Lukasz Ronduda digs deep into the work of Polish artist Wilhelm Sasnal
Emerging: Hanna Tuulikki
Neil Cooper looks at the work of emerging artist Hanna Tuulikki
David Shrigley: Top Drawer
David Shrigley is astonishingly prolific. Outside the mainstream, but embraced by it, he makes T-shirts and posters, but is also bought by the Tate. Neil Cooper visits him in his Glasgow studio and finds the man very much like his work.
Interview: Linder
Linder Sterling has collaborated with Jon Savage on The Secret Public, designed record sleeves for Buzzcocks and performed with her band Ludus at the acienda covered in meat and wearing a dildo. This year she resides over several exhibitions, performances and publications
Interview: Simon Fisher Turner
This composer/musician recently performed at Tramway, Glasgow, inside a life-size recreation of Elvis Presley’s former home, Gracelands. Nominated for an Oscar (Anna Campion’s feature, Loaded), his most recent album, Lana Lara Lata, is out on Mute Records
Ganghut in Oz
Ganghut travelled to the Nest Wave festival in Melbourne, Australia in March this year. They sent MAP the following dispatches, the way that they saw it
Back Page: The Fiery Furnaces
Matthew Friedberger, one half of this Brooklyn duo, talks pyschedelia and tea
Back Page: Kim Gordon
Kim Gordon, sound artist and founder member of Sonic Youth, on art and music
Back Page: Barbara Kruger
American artist, writer and winner of 51st Venice Biennale Lifetime Achievement Award, talks about music
Songs in the Key of Life
Music is the escape, the anger, the boredom, the sadness, the sex, the affirmation, the madness and sense that takes us out of the daily grind. Neil Cooper celebrates the whole beautiful, blurred shebang as it morphs into art in the exhibition ‘Pass the Time of Day’
Dub Rabbie: Graham Fagen
Neil Cooper mixes with Glasgow artist Graham Fagen, reggae king Adrian Sherwood and Ayrshire bard Robert Burns
#24 - November 2010
Review
Elizabeth McAlpine
26 October–20 November, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Throbbing Gristle/Cerith Wyn Evans
17 June 2009, Tramway, Glasgow
Music: Die Tödliche Doris: Soundless Music
28 November 2007–9 February 2008, alt. gallery, Newcastle
#12 Winter - November 2007
Review
Music: Sighs Trapped By Liars (new album from Red Krayola)
The Red Krayola with Art & Language www.dragcity.com £10
Music: Shadowed Spaces
6–15 July 2007, various venues around Scotland
Music: Mount Vernon Arts Lab - The Seance At Hobs Lane
www.ghostbox.co.uk £10.95
ANNIE LENNOX
The Eurythmics singer, who was recently honoured by both Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, reveals her artistic passions
The 17: Bill Drummond
22 April–20 May 2006, The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle
Laurie Anderson
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 17 February-2 May and Queens Hall, Edinburgh, 29 April