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Selected Ambient Works Volume II is an often misunderstood album that offers little in the way of chill, but instead a ...

For this piece, I invited a co-author, my Neformat colleague Kseniia Yanus. Kseniia is a musician and a journalist, and an active participant in Kyiv’s musical life. She attends different music ...

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Kurt Schwitters’ sound poem Ursonate is a forty-minute stream of made-up nonsense language, written over the course of a decade, beginning in 1922. It is an ur-text for his own brand of Dadaism, which ...