Hannes Liechti, This Track Contains Politics: The Culture of Sampling in Experimental Electronica [pkbk_test] Cecil Taylor

Cecil Taylor

creates a character and takes a phone selfie in his bathroom mirror – the result by turns surreal

and conceptual world-building with a host of philosophical

Sisyphean to a T

In issue 5 of TON we are celebrating the people who make their own kind of music

Hannes Liechti, This Track Contains Politics: The Culture of Sampling in Experimental Electronica [pkbk_test] Cecil TaylorWhat does it mean to process field recordings from the Ukrainian war in an electronic music track? How can the sampling of an Armenian keyboard melody be read as a critique of traditional gender roles? And what does it say about voyeurism in our culture when a techno producer uses viral YouTube videos as the basic material of his compositions? A book by Norient curator and editor Hannes Liechti. Across five detailed case studies, Liechti discusses the