Review: Music design
Cool lists for dark days
Gilles Peterson is known for his unfeasibly large record collection and an unstoppable enthusiasm for Black…
Circuit visions
First shown in Paris in 2019, this multi-sensory exhibition attempts to make connections between electronic music…
Waste not
For many years Vaughan Oliver was the in-house designer for the 4AD record label, creating…
The heart and soul of Harlem
The black-and-white Esquire photo of 57 jazz musicians (plus a few local children) posed in…
No fixed style
Among British independent record companies, Mute Records, founded in 1978 by ‘accident’, has never enjoyed…
A sharp eye for Brazilian design
The short title of this exhibition – ‘Brasil Hoje’ [Brazil Today] – gives an idea…
Big up!
Here’s the book we have been waiting for – a mighty tome celebrating the work…
Towering ambition
Audiovisual events that genuinely work are so rare that Brooklyn Babylon (Holland Festival, 24 June…
Studies in black, brown and beige
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator Robert Nippoldt…
Cold war modern machine music
Music humanises technology: from the thump of a hunter’s bone to the whine of a…