We sit down to chat with composer Ryuichi Sakamoto about his ideas on sound.

Experimental Stories

1. The New's Less Virtual, Perhaps, But Still Not Quite a Band

   The days when Gorillaz performed behind a projection screen are over.

2. Online Feature Music for the People

   eXpo features the growing number of Chinese musicians armed with laptops instead of mikes. The album releases the same week as the Shanghai Expo—May 4.

3. Static Animation in Flux

   Beginning in a walk in the rain, Andy Beta speaks with Bjorn Copeland; member of Black Dice and resourceful conceptual artist, the talk ends with a understanding of the recording of Repo and Copeland’s simultaneous art career.

4. Matteah Baim

   Matteah Baim has collaborated with numerous artists in this same issue, but we singled her out because of her passion to her craft and necessity for vacations.