Initially a vital component of experimental black film culture, the Black Audio Film Collective quickly arrived at retrospective respectability. Josephine Berry Slater enters the memory space of their recent show at FACT and retrieves the radical yet 'still born' possibilities from its multi-media memorial

Let them bear witness to the process by which the living transform the dead into partners in struggle, Handsworth Songs, BAFC

Sakada Thin Autonomy

19th October 2004, 61-75 Alie Street

Between the long stagnant and vital (full of forms of life) trough of commercial road, the self-mythologising skyline of the money mill beyond Aldgate, the Titanic, Totenschiff, death ship: a container ship of spent labour power looms out, for this night welcoming an evening of para-musical hiatus.

Some who were present :

The heritage devotee dressed in deerstalker and eastern entourage

Some thieves

“ “ [sic] Goldie on Whitehouse

Electronic noise experimentalists Whitehouse (William Bennett and Philip Best) have given and received torrents of aesthetic abuse in their 20-year career, their ‘aural sadism’ and lyrical violence triggering accusations of misogyny, Nazism and banality from some and fanatic devotion from others.

Hari Kunzru on the evolution of electronic music

Electronic festival at London’s Barbican Centre

After Karlheinz Stockhausen's controversial outpouring post 9/11, it was a surprise to find the Barbican's Electronic festival - which showcased his greatest works - completely sold out. Anne Hilde Neset and Lina Dzuverovic-Russell learn what sounds to listen out for in Stockhausen's work and sample the club of the future with Aphex Twin, October 01

How advanced is 'advanced music'?

Among Mute readers, there is known to be a hardcore Modernist element, the kind of people for whom minimalism is a religion, who salivate over obscure pieces of analogue technology, who throw out their treasured childhood possessions because they clutter up their loft. This one will appeal to them.

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