bvdub — Memory, Solitude and Making Music
Brock Van Wey’s candid account of leaving the USA for China, refusing genre and making music from necessity. The complete 2013 interview, followed by a separate 2026 editorial.
S13 / Conversations
Interviews
Conversations with artists about their work, influences and the histories behind the music.
Interviews archive
65–72 of 72 interviews 
Loscil — The Beauty of the Mundane
Scott Morgan on loops, samples and the meeting of industry and nature in Vancouver. Loscil’s quiet soundworld opens onto dreams, making art and fatherhood.
Orphx — Transforming the Noise
Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey trace the meeting of industrial music and techno, improvised performance and the transformation of everyday tension into sound.
ASC — Precision, Place and Imagined Futures
James Clements on moving from Britain to California, pirate radio, sonic precision and science fiction. A 2012 look at the creative conditions behind ASC and Auxiliary.
Amanda Brown — Pop Without Permission
The LA Vampires and Not Not Fun co-founder on collaboration, improvisation, style and women’s agency. Amanda Brown imagines pop music as a place where several lives can meet.
Tropic of Cancer — A World in Slow Motion
Camella Lobo on romanticism, repetition, Los Angeles and the private world behind Tropic of Cancer. The 2012 conversation follows songs from their first impulse to the stage.
Kreng — Give the Sounds Time to Meet
Pepijn Caudron on casting sounds, building environments for theatre and living with the unseen. The full 2012 conversation, with a separate 2026 editorial following Wormhole.
Scanner — The Spaces Between Information
Robin Rimbaud on sound, silence and the responsibility of listening: a hospital room, a city, a classroom and the spaces where thought can begin.