Dan Wilkinson
We Asked a Linguist Why Alex Turner Now Sounds Like an Old Cowboy
Alex Turner's voice now sounds like Sean Bean doing a Bill Clinton impression at gun point first thing in the morning. We wanted to know why.
Meeting the Man Who Plans to Set His Entire Student Loan On Fire
British student Brooke Purvis wants to critique the student loan system by burning a load of cash.
One of the New York Times Classical Albums Of The Year Was Produced By A Robot
Listen to the record created by two human minds, and one very artifical one.
Meet the Musical Clairvoyant Who Finds Ghosts In Your MP3s
This sound technician makes music from the bits cut out during compression, and it's mad spooky.
Jonathan Katz Makes a Living from Writing Songs about Your Girlfriend
He’s basically a one-man musical Hallmark.
This Guy Turned Surreal Sleep Talking into a Cult Album
From mustard battles to Chinese-Austrian dwarf geniuses, the recordings of Dion McGregor are weird enough to be totally fascinating.
This Guy Turned a Photo of Birds Perched on a Wire Into Sheet Music
He turned crows into crotchets, now he's looking to collaborate with cars and ants.
We Talked to the Grindcore Band Who Are Fronted by Their Middle-Aged Mum
"She has come to appreciate the anger and message behind punk"
This Russian Soundsystem Turns Radiation Into Ambient Music
Dmitry Morozov has already shown us tattoos that make music. Now meet his latest invention...
The Purplelizer App Makes Your Favourite Songs Sound like Too Much Sizzurp
In a few seconds, you can transform pretty much any song into a chopped and screwed version. Why? We asked the guy who made it.
This Guy Can Hear Wi-Fi, He Says it Sounds like Minimal Techno
Phantom Terrains is a project which is mapping the sound of wireless networks, transforming whole cities into sonic wonderlands.
Do Birds Respect Human Musical Scales?
We spoke to a zoomusicologist who argues that there are more similarities between humans and birds than you'd think.