S13 / Conversations

Interviews

Conversations with artists about their work, influences and the histories behind the music.

Interviews archive

41–48 of 72 interviews
Tara Vanflower and Mike VanPortfleet
Interview

Lycia — Solitude, Memory and Quiet Moments

Mike VanPortfleet on returning to Lycia, finding solace in solitude and the landscapes behind Cold. A conversation about memory, melancholy and the making of Quiet Moments.

Lisa Shahno — archive featured photograph
Interview

Lisa Shahno — Geometry Worn by the Body

The Moscow designer on abstract cuts, high-tech materials and the ideas that become clothes. Geometry, science fiction and music meet in Lisa Shahno’s playful working process.

Mika Vainio in a black-and-white portrait outside industrial buildings.
Interview

Mika Vainio — The Attention That Remains

Radvilė Nakaitė’s conversation with Mika Vainio at Unsound Kraków in October 2013, followed by Justinas Mikulskis’s personal remembrance and 2026 afterword.

Simon Scott — archive featured photograph
Interview

Simon Scott — Sounds from the Marshes

The Slowdive drummer and solo composer on field recording, rhythm and the Fenlands. A 2013 conversation about the sounds of water, changing technology and finding beauty close to home.

Martial Canterel — archive featured photograph
Interview

Martial Canterel — Behind the Dusty Curtains

Sean McBride on analogue machines, lost memories and emotional isolation. A conversation that follows Martial Canterel from a retrospective compilation to the personal space behind the music.

Julianna Barwick — archive featured photograph
Interview

Julianna Barwick — Symphonies of Forgetfulness

On recording Nepenthe in Iceland, singing without a plan and the feeling that passes from a voice to its listeners. Julianna Barwick traces music’s power to create another world.

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