Wendy Carlos, The Maestro

I knew the name Wendy Carlos as a little kid. Mainly because of The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and Tron. Hers was a name that stood out in the credits of films I watched and sort of rewired my brain as a kid. I knew that Wendy was a musician, but I never quite understood […]

Isvisible Isinvisible : indexOf (vol.1)

Simon Pott, aka Isvisible Isinvisible, works in the studio as if he’s a mad scientist. Twisting knobs and connecting circuital boxes with wires, Pott works a kind of musical magic in the realm of modular synthesizers. What looks like madness to the uninitiated, is really sort of a controlled chaos of compositional majesty. If you […]

Growing Up In The Dark Peaks : A Conversation With Simon Pott

When you step into the musical world of Simon Pott’s Isvisible Isinvisible, there’s a sense of wonder and mystery. It’s a wheezing, pulsating universe of buzzing circuits, synthetic rhythms, mechanical drones and vague nods to science fiction. Pott orchestrates these analog musical narratives mostly thru modular synthesizers(and seemingly lots of patience and trial and error, […]

Ridiculous Vinyl Purchases Part I : Morton Subotnick’s ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’

I think it’s safe to say that if you’re a vinyl collector/lover/addict/sociopath, then more than likely you’ve got a few “Whaaaa????” purchases in your collection. Sometimes curiosity, nostalgia, melancholy, uncontrollable urges, madness, and even possibly pride pushes us to snag some record that you may listen to once and then shove it into the record […]