A conversation with former Kraftwerk member, Karl Bartos — (This interview was conducted in 2006 and originally appeared in BK Magazine that year.) The fate of classically-trained percussionist and keyboard player, Karl Bartos changed radically in 1975 when he was hired to fill in the line up for the first American tour of electro godfathers, Kraftwerk supporting the release…

An interview with Chicks on Speed front person, Alex Murray-Leslie — (This interview was conducted in 2007 and originally appeared in BK Magazine in March of that year.) Alex Murray-Leslie is the front person in Chicks on Speed, one of today’s leading electronic music groups/art collectives. Starting in Munich as a group of designers, musicians, filmmakers and collage artists aligned with…

One of the most common stumbling blocks I find among creatives, entrepreneurs, and artists is the nagging feeling of envy or jealousy that can distract, discourage and even debilitate our workflow. FOMO feels like it’s at an all time high, fueled by a never-ending stream of celebrities, socialites, and friends…

Hey, hombre. You dig Trek, right? Of course you do. But what I want to talk about today is Classic Trek specifically. While Next Generation was pretty strong (and many other weak spinoffs followed), the strength of Gene Roddenberry’s vision was really distilled in the original incarnation of the show…

The singular work of electronic music pioneer Eliane Radigue is a fountain of inspiration for its stark minimalism and the aesthetic to which she so devoutly ascribes. She was born in 1932 in France, and studied electroacoustic music in Paris in the late 1950s at an institution called the Studio…

Repetition and music are so intimately linked that their relationship seems almost invisible. While characterizing a piece of music as “repetitive” still carries a negative connotation (akin to describing it as “boring” or “monotonous”) repetition is an element of almost every piece of music in nearly every genre. In fact…

Composing music has never been a simple task. While there may be times the muse speaks to us and things seem to come effortlessly; every composer, from the most to least gifted, has experienced a time when they are absolutely and utterly dumbfounded. …

Inspiring pioneers in the world of tape, circuits and homespun recording methods. — By listening to this music, one perceives how the newly discovered means and structural possibilities of electronic music can awaken in us a completely new consciousness for revelations, transformations and fusions of forms, which would never have been possible with the old musical means, and become increasingly similar to art…

Nobody likes to see their animal in pain. When you sense that something is wrong with your pet, you probably feel like you would do anything to make that pain go away. That’s only natural. But it’s important to realize that running to the bathroom for an Advil is NOT…