Experimental Music
PREMIERE: Get Mesmerized by Bloodiest’s New Track, “Mezmerize”
Stream the Chicago noise-meet-metal collective's new album’s opening track, and enter Bloodiest’s darkened world.
[Premiere] Watch Drummer Deantoni Parks Tear Through a Man/Machine Drum Set
The prodigiously talented experimental drummer premieres "Bombay" ahead of the release of his ‘Technoself’ album.
Meet the Guy Bringing Experimental Club Music to the Japanese Masses
Shimpei "Melting Bot" Kaiho is a Tokyo-based scene veteran who's made it his life's work to explore the fringes of Western and Japanese underground music.
This Ominous Giant Stringed Instrument Turns Bitcoin Into Music
The hidden string pulling of global currency markets.
Noise Yoga Is a Thing—and It's Actually Pretty Sick
Downward dog meets industrial sludge in Seattle's experimental noise community.
Know Your Language: Csound May Be Ancient, But It's the Audio Hacking Future
Behind the janky-looking code, Csound offers sonic spatialization, live coding, and machine-level music production.
Ragas and Ratios: 6 Things We Learned from Legendary Avant-Garde Artist La Monte Young
"You get involved with the frequencies and it becomes a vehicle for meditation. Through meditation, you can achieve another aspect of existence."
VICE Exclusive: Listen to Ben Zimmerman's Chaotic Electronic Composition, 'Da Chopp'
It's from an experimental collage of songs produced using a Tandy DeskMate computer between 1992 and 2002.
VICE Exclusive: Listen to 'Petra II' by Electronic Artist Saffron
The album is a smooth run of tracks with some bizarrely wonderful samples and synth sounds.
VICE Exclusive: Watch a Demented Video from Italian Occult Psych Masters Father Murphy
Christian iconography has been appropriated by a ton of musicians lately, but Father Murphy does it right.
VICE Exclusive: Listen to Benoit Pioulard's New Song, "A Shade of Celadon"
Some of his new songs sound like Deerhunter, and others land in John Cage or Charles Ives territory, which is a pretty solid balance.