Archive - Trebuchet

Felix’s Machines

04/04/2011

Sofia Ilyas speaks to Felix Thorn of Felix’s Machines about his unique performance which sees him attaching his laptop to instruments in the newest way yet. Trebuchet: Tell me about your...

Agoraphobic Nosebleed/Despise You (Split) – and on and on

04/04/2011

Pressing play on a record like this is like activating an electric death chair with chainsaws for legs. Despise You are Hardcore. Not so much genre defining but genre defined; every note they...

Politics in Imperial Nigeria

03/04/2011

Last night I was invited to a dinner hosted in Debare’s honour, to celebrate the opening of the university. The meal was arranged by his friends and associates, all of roughly the same...

Work begins on World’s biggest telescope.

02/04/2011

Plans for the world’s biggest telescope — the Square Kilometre Array — advanced significantly today (2nd April 2011) with a decision to locate the project office at Jodrell Bank...

Quones by Global Goon

02/04/2011

In terms of a modern musical fantasy it’s hard to beat the idea of sharing a house at one point with both Richard James (of Aphex Twin fame) and, Mr Squarepusher, Tom Jenkinson. Aside from what...

Informaticists uncover online security flaws, receive free products.

01/04/2011

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Internet security researchers at Indiana University and Microsoft Research have exploited software flaws in leading online stores that use third-party payment services...

Lost in New Jersey 11: Signifiers

01/04/2011

Photographic Series: Lost in New Jersey 11: Signifiers - Matt Coleman...

Prostitutes in Nigeria

01/04/2011

After a few days here, despite all the doom-laden warnings, I was fairly confident that spotting Nigerian prostitutes wasn’t going to be much of a problem. The Grand Mirage – a kind...

Destroyer Joins Dead Oceans For First European Headline

31/03/2011

Destroyer Joins Dead Oceans For UK/EU/Japanese Release Of Kaputt, Announces First European Headline Tour. Dead Oceans are thrilled to announce that we're handling the UK, European and Japanese...

Wormrot offer entire new album as free download

30/03/2011

Due to an overwhelming demand from fans who are desperate to hear DIRGE, the new album from Singapore grinders WORMROT, the band and Earache Records have made the entire 25-track grindcore...

Tindersticks announce UK tour dates in October.

30/03/2011

Tindersticks are delighted to announce UK tour dates in October, in conjunction with Music Beyond Mainstream to celebrate the band’s long awaited release of Claire Denis Film Scores...

Size matters: Smaller particles could make solar panels more efficient

30/03/2011

Studies done by Mark Lusk and colleagues at the Colorado School of Mines could significantly improve the efficiency of solar cells. Their latest work describes how the size of light-absorbing...

Polly Borland – Smudge

30/03/2011

Entering Polly Borland's Smudge exhibition is like entering a nightmarish Studio Ghibli theme park...

Day Of Rage: Diary of a Female Protester

29/03/2011

On a day when thousands took to the street and hundreds took up arms against capitalism, one woman marched, chanted and ran alongside them. I recorded my journey through the streets of London, where...

Make Better Music 37: Truthful Creating, Truthful Listening

29/03/2011

Make Better Music 37: Truthful Creating, Truthful Listening. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Parlophone to release exclusive 7” for record store day

28/03/2011

PARLOPHONE TO RELEASE EXCLUSIVE 7” SERIES FOR RECORD STORE DAY PLUS FURTHER VINYL RELEASES ARTISTS INCLUDE JONSI, BEASTIE BOYS, TINIE TEMPAH, BECK & BAT FOR LASHES, GORILLAZ,...

The Mark Inside

28/03/2011

Joseph Beuys And Coyote meet "Humanitarian" Bombing Campaigns. In Berlin, Germany, in early 1939, at Friedrichstrasse railway station, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War,...

Measuring optimism: ‘Arch’ InterContinental bar launch

28/03/2011

Desolation Row. Bar launches have become rare occurrences in these recession heavy times. It used to be that every day of the week (excluding Fridays and weekends) was filled with the backlit...

To Hell with Centrism: We Must Reclaim the Inspired Edge

27/03/2011

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. – George Orwell I don’t want to be part of your revolution if I can’t dance. – Emma Goldman...

Psychology: How well do you know your friends?

26/03/2011

How does your best friend feel when people act needy? Or, about people being dishonest? What do they think when others seem uncomfortable in social situations? According to an upcoming study in...

Amnesia As A Way Of Life: WikiLeaks Amid The “Careless People”

26/03/2011

As many wags have noted, the disclosures of Wikileaks have subjected the US Empire and its operatives to a full-body scan. Turnaround is fair play, because, until now, in the US, the powerless masses...

Lost in New Jersey 10: Free Energy

25/03/2011

Lost in New Jersey 10: Free Energy - Photographic Series by Matt Coleman...

Are we all Martians?

24/03/2011

Are we all Martians? According to many planetary scientists, it’s conceivable that all life on Earth is descended from organisms that originated on Mars and were carried here aboard meteorites....

Tennis – Carpe Diem, Cape Dory!

24/03/2011

During the summer months, we've all taken off to find that elusive something. Some of us collect trinkets, others snaps – and some record an album. When “Tennis”, husband and...

Brahma: From the Cradle to the Rave

23/03/2011

Psychedelic visions combined with a skill for geometry and a lexicon that owes more to mathematics than romanticism, Bramha’s exhibition brings rave culture into the light. But can his work...

Make Better Music 36: Exploit All Parameters

22/03/2011

Make Better Music 36: Exploit All Parameters. Lessons in music composition, song writing, artistic motivation and making better music from David Graham....

Syd Barrett – The Art is in the Letters

21/03/2011

Barrett's mythologised life finally comes down to earth in the first major exhibition of his art and letters. But is he a little too human? January 1968. Crammed into the back of a van, Pink...

Obscura – Omnivium

21/03/2011

If Earth were to be invaded by an alien race the scene could be imagined as smaller bombers strafing the surface being coordinated from a mother ship. Much like, say, the US Air Force or Navy...

Is space like a chessboard?

20/03/2011

Physicists at UCLA set out to design a better transistor and ended up discovering a new way to think about the structure of space. Space is usually considered infinitely divisible — given any...

Magic Bullets – ‘Magic Bullets’

20/03/2011

Sunshine and tears… Boy, do these Californians love their Orange Juice. Not, however, the golden state’s fruity elixir, but the Scottish variety. Despite their San Franciscan base and...

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