The Castlemorton Common Festival

Global Communication’s Tom Middleton remembers meeting a teenage Richard D James, who looked like a member of Bros and was conducting “binaural neuroscience experiments” in his bedroom

We’re setting the dials all the way back to 1927, to the Royal Albert Hall in London, where a packed audience gathered on a chilly winter’s evening to witness Russian scientist Léon Theremin using his remarkable black box to create “Music from the Ether”

In January 1984, German experimental noise pioneers Einstürzende Neubauten performed the Concerto For Voice And Machinery in all its spontaneous glory at the ICA in London. Art? Or demolition?

In November 1964, a group of musicians, many who would go on to become key in the avant-Garde movement, took to a stage in San Francisco to perform a work that would change music FOREVER. We delve into the legacy of Terry Riley’s masterpiece, ‘In C’