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Matthew Wright’s Cold Highlife

Three works, geographically distinct, each hewn from a bold sonic palette of colliding forces.

Pete Harden’s Precious Metals

Oscar Bettison interviews Klang’s guitarist and composer on his album 'Precious Metals'

Dag in de Branding × Rewire

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grids, sieves and a flight of stairs

Christopher Fox’s poetic reaction to the music on Matthew Wright’s debut album ‘Music at the edge of collapse’

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Music at the Crossroads

Alex Rose ponders Oscar Bettison's ‘O Death’ as an out-of-body experience, placing the listener at a crossroads between one world and the next.

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Found Music

Samuel Vriezen studies the ‘found’ mathematical structures that form the backbone to the music of Tom Johnson

Q&A with Peter Adriaansz

“All revolves around notation: every kind of music at root demands its own notation.”

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Bob Gilmore on Peter Adriaansz’s Waves

Bob Gilmore’s insightful liner notes from Ensemble Klang’s recording of Peter Adriaansz’s ‘Waves’.

Musical Utopias

Introducing Musical Utopias

An introduction to Ensemble Klang's new festival of sonic escape ‘Musical Utopias’, marking their 15th anniversary

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Michael Hersch’s Black Untitled

Aaron Grad dissects Michael Hersch’s pair of works on the Ensemble Klang album ‘Black Untitled’.