Abi Bliss

3 weeks ago | thewire.co.uk | James Hadfield |Matt Krefting |Abi Bliss |Hugh Morris

July 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 497. Inside our brand new issue: Haruomi Hosono: The exotica explorer and YMO founder has found his voice in a late career renaissance. By James Hadfield.Plus: Japanese exotica: A user’s guide by David Toop Bromp Treb: Film maker and musician Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young has learned from the possibility of failure.

1 month ago | thewire.co.uk | Abi Bliss

13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art & Music Jennifer Walshe Fundacja Tone Pbk 52pp “I’m both sublimely excited and blackly horrified about what is coming,” wrote Jennifer Walshe in “Ghosts Of The Hidden Layer”, an essay she delivered at Darmstadt in 2018. If the last two years have seen AI software expand from being a tool of enthusiastic nerds to mainstream ubiquity more rapidly than many anticipated – or are comfortable with – Walshe would be one of those most prepared and least surprised.

2 months ago | thewire.co.uk | Francis Gooding |Abi Bliss |Daniel Spicer |Misha Farrant

May 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 494. Inside our brand new issue: aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical tunings and transformed instruments. By Chal Ravens Satch Hoyt: The one-time Burnt Sugar member’s Un-Muting project opens museum archives of stolen instruments. By Francis Gooding Ailie Ormston: The Glasgow composer moves away from the conservatoire to conduct the sounds of the city.

Mar 3, 2025 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

It’s time to unveil the three new works created for our Changing Gear project. After being selected from all the artists who responded to our callout last autumn, Cherry Seraph, Artists’ Child and Helen Papaioannou have all taken inspiration from the ideas and legacy of electronic music pioneer Daphne Oram.

Dec 13, 2024 | yorkshiresoundwomen.com | Abi Bliss

Thanks to support from Youth Music’s Incubator fund, YSWN has been able to offer a series of paid traineeship roles to help women and people of minority gender aged 18–25 take a first step into the audio industry. Hosted by AiAI Studios, BeSound Studios, Rare Tone Mastering, PitStop Productions and Club Haus Studios, the placements have given the trainees valuable skills in everything from film sound design and podcast editing to vinyl mastering and games audio.