“‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard”, originally published in 032c, no. 18, winter 2009/10, pp. 126-9. Simon Reynolds is one of the most… Read More »‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard
by Simon Sellars an image from John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project John Foxx, the former lead singer of Ultravox, is an undisputed electronic music pioneer.… Read More »A Whirlpool with Seductive Furniture: The John Foxx Interview
> Originally published in the catalogue for the exhibition ‘J.G. Ballard, Autopsy of the New Millennium’, held at the CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, October 2008. The… Read More »‘Negative Acoustic Space’: Ballardian Sound Art
I was recently asked about my involvement in the Liquid Architecture festival, so I thought I’d explain it here. Liquid Architecture originated in 2000 at… Read More »Liquid Architecture: In the Beginning
Flyer for Northern Void. Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 19 February 2007. Last night I attended the second (and last, for now) screening of Philip… Read More »Philip Brophy: Northern Void
Bruce & Nat: photo by Rebecca Cannon. by Simon Sellars ‘Liquid Architecture’. Originally published in Filter magazine, #57, Jul-Oct 2004 Melbourne’s festival of sound art,… Read More »Liquid Architecture (Filter mag)
Melatonin, photo: Kirsten Bradley by Simon Sellars Originally published in RealTime Magazine, #62, August/September 2004. I’m told “sleep music” is a new genre: music to… Read More »Melatonin: Warping Dreamscapes
Lawrence English & Philip Samartzis, LA4, 2003 by Simon Sellars ‘Watching While You Sleep’ by Simon Sellars. Originally published on the Liquid Architecture website, July… Read More »Watching While You Sleep
interview by Simon Sellars all images courtesy kode9/hyperdub.com In England, UK Garage has been sweeping the charts for some time now. But in London, typically,… Read More »Steve Goodman: Nurturing Rhythmic Bugs
DO YOU REMEMBER “HARDCORE”? As a style of dance music, it’s become a historical footnote, the sound of rave’s innocence: primitive, immature music for immature people.… Read More »Ryuta Nakagami: Tokyo-Style Speedcore