Clarice Jensen is a composer and cellist based in New York who graduated with a BM and MM from the Juilliard School. As a solo artist, Jensen has developed a distinctive compositional approach, improvising and layering her cello through shifting loops and a chain of electronic effects to open out and explore a series of rich, drone-based sound fields. Pulsing, visceral and full of color, her work is deeply immersive, marked by a wonderful sense of restraint and an almost hallucinatory clarity. Meditative yet with a sculptural sharpness and rigor that sets it apart from the swathe of New Age / ...

Gumby’s Junk are an art-rock band out of Oakland, California. Just this past Friday, they put out their sophomore album called Business & Pleasure, and it’s currently up on streaming services as well as their Bandcamp. From the get go, Gumby’s Junk let their freak flag fly on this album, opening the record on the weird sound experiment of “Something Was Not Done Correctly” with a garbled recording and what sounds like a xylophone being whacked at chaotically. Then “Instant Cult Classic” comes in with an awkward, angular, mathy beat under some classic pop elements, making for ...

Lightning Bolt play with abandon that is unmatched and remarkably undiluted since the duo’s formation 25 years ago. They are often called one of the loudest rock outfits in existence, both on record and on (or famously, oB) the stage. Brian Gibson creates sounds that are unexpected and remarkably varied with his virtuosic bass playing and his inventive approach to the instrument, centered around melody rather than rhythm. The dizzying fury of Brian Chippendale’s drums twist from primal patterns into disorienting break beats as his distorted, looped, and echoing vocals weave more melody into the mayhem. Amidst the ...

OOIOO are YoshimiO, Mishina, kAyAn, and AYA. OOIOO was founded by YoshimiO in 1995. The members came together as musicians who move freely between the audible and inaudible, rhythm and non-rhythm, noise and silence. The music they create is a collection of the moments and essence of their favorite sounds that they captured, as they come into being until they disappear into the ether. Just as each cell in the body consists of a microcosm of its own, the vibrations of each of the members resonate together to create a new life form.