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A label where minimal electronics, field recording and acoustic detail share the same quiet space.
Independent music where art
and technology meet.
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122 profiles
A label where minimal electronics, field recording and acoustic detail share the same quiet space.
A generative game score turns a band’s material into an effectively unbounded soundtrack.
Yaxu
Pattern transformations turn live code into fractured, constantly shifting dance music.
Compositional structures become evolving techno and noise through live code.
Carsten Nicolai
Digital copying and transformation turn familiar samples into unfamiliar sonic textures.
Code, sound and moving image meet in collaborative audiovisual performance.
Handmade datasets expose the labour and choices hidden inside machine-generated images.
hellocatfood
Live code reshapes samples, controls synths and brings algorithmic glitches to DJing.
A festival, museum and research network mapping the changing relationship between art and technology.
Eight electroacoustic problems with no interest in resolving politely. Noise, concrète debris and unstable pulse keep changing the terms of engagement; the algorithms supply pressure, not personality.
Sean Booth & Rob Brown
Bespoke software instruments shape restless rhythm and intricate electronic worlds.
Carefully constrained rhythm and tuning create electronic music of unusual space and precision.
Code turns complex information into readable, explorable visual form.
Sound, light and custom systems meet in immersive work under the name Deru.
Live environmental sound links distant places and reveals the acoustics of structures.
The premise is funny and exact: Steve Reich’s Four Organs crossed with Louie Louie. A thirteen-piece band turns Orcutt’s software-generated structure into loud, unstable ensemble music, where strict timing keeps threatening to come apart.
Evolving ambient systems that make each listening experience a little different.
Seven compact shocks written in the browser, where rhythm behaves like syntax under pressure. This is live coding with the screen glare left in: brusque, unstable and far too physical to feel like a demonstration.
Software processes generate images that expose the behaviour of their underlying rules.
Living systems and visitor actions generate images inside responsive installations.
A ten-track rhythm study that keeps changing the grid without losing the body. Polymeters slide across one another, subdivisions breathe and trance patterns mutate in place: intricate electronic music with forward motion rather than technical display.
Constructive Music connects CxBxT, Tujiko Noriko & Adrian Corker to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
A remix record that keeps its pulse and its ghosts. Dub techno, industrial drag and Tujiko Noriko’s voice circulate through seven sharply different rooms; the coded pieces feel like the building briefly learning to breathe.
Neural networks turn metal and punk recordings into raw, unruly new audio.
Generative code, performance and public work translate systems into vivid visual experiences.
Acoustic performances are taken apart without losing their grain. Soft drums, guitar, brass and mallets keep surfacing inside slow-moving polyrhythms: patient headphone music with real warmth and rhythmic life.
Live data moves across sculptural screens and architectural surfaces.
Drawn shapes become control signals in one of electronic music’s foundational instruments.
A three-minute club track with a vocal hook, quick-building tension and no wasted motion. The code is audible in its clipped repetitions and abrupt turns, but the decisions are those of a sharp pop songwriter.
Sound masses, percussion and electronics point beyond the limits of the orchestra.
Ten electric guitars behave like a flock with faulty instincts: copying, mutating and recombining until the score becomes a weather system. Nearly two decades in the vault have not cooled its feral group intelligence.
Erasable Assignments connects Karhide to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
BPM is treated as a rumour. Data-lit atmospheres and broken rhythmic matter keep re-forming in real time, less an album of tracks than a black-fluid negotiation between code and muscle memory.
EVEL connects nnirror, Arshan Najafi, c_robo_ and others to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Open teaching and code make machine-learning techniques available as creative material.
Software-only electronics that refuse to hold still long enough to become furniture. Patterns thin, knot and reorganise across ten pieces; the pleasure is in hearing control repeatedly loosen its own grip.
Moonlight becomes control voltage, but the appeal is not the diagram. Across a single slow arc, cracked electronics and luminous drones keep changing density as two performers steer and answer a signal that can never quite repeat.
An artist programme connected machine-learning research with experimental cultural practice.
A drawing program becomes a decades-long collaboration between artist and machine.
Personal photographs and physical media feed compact, tactile neural image systems.
Human voices and a learning system meet in collective, choral electronics.
Six compact pieces move between ambient drift, clipped rhythm and indie-electronic melody without treating the code as a spectacle. Gold Kim’s programming feels closer to touch than demonstration: structures change in the moment, but the record keeps a warm, handmade scale.
Probability, architecture and computation drive music of immense physical force.
iDEAL Recordings connects Max Eilbacher & Lucy Railton to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Recorded voices and precisely staged spaces turn listening into a physical narrative.
Machine translation, bacteria and invented language meet in an alien communication system.
A machine-learned voice retells musical history through its own strange imperfections.
JOANNE
Code as embodied improvisation, with industrial textures and playful, irregular rhythms.
Chance operations and electronic media recast composition as a framework for events.
A box of VCV Rack mechanisms taught to twitch, disperse and occasionally eat their own wiring. Tiny rhythmic particles become a loose, quick-witted electronic ecosystem rather than a preset parade.
Networked synthesis and just-in-time programming make code an improvising ensemble member.
Language models enter the libretto, staging and collaborative world of opera.
Fourteen research careers recast as bright, patiently unfolding electronics. Citation counts become pulse and pitch; Karhide then trims the spreadsheet chill with grain, drift and enough melodic sentiment to keep the graphs breathing.
Electronic synthesis and instrumental performance meet in rigorously organised spatial form.
Two long real-time documents with the casing left open. One catches Whitman’s computer music in public motion; the other lets hybrid digital-analogue patterns spread across the room after hours. Process music as lived-in voltage, not white-coat proof.
Algorithmic structure becomes inviting electronic music with a distinctly human sense of motion.
light-years connects Maxime Denuc to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Jack Armitage
Pop hooks become programmable material through playful live-coded transformations.
Generative image-making examines memory, place and the politics encoded in datasets.
Five minutes of data made physical. Ventimiglia treats digital structures as raw sonic matter, listening for the configurations the system produces and choosing where observation becomes composition.
Mad Decent connects DJ_Dave to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Open research tools explore how machine learning can support music and image-making.
Code subjects the cube to decades of exacting visual transformation.
Computer music exploring pitch, microtonal colour and the perception of sound.
Neural image systems become autonomous portrait machines and instruments for visual discovery.
Forty minutes of dance music that keeps changing the floor beneath itself. Clashing tempi, snapped digital percussion and strange accelerations make Fell's formal systems feel less like abstraction than a new physics for bodies.
Minimal synthetic material, complex rhythms and an unstable sense of musical time.
Cello and synthesis meet as materials rather than opposites. A single long piece moves through bright partials, unstable beating and hard-edged electronic mass, turning spectral analysis into music with real physical tension.
Early trance and a Catholic pipe organ turn out to share more than repetition. Denuc uses a custom sequencer to make the organ move at inhuman speed, then lets the church’s acoustics give those patterns weight and duration.
Machine perception becomes a mirror for human interpretation, bias and belief.
Three hours of pastoral drift generated by an unusually poetic control system. Text becomes Morse-code gates, lunar phases disturb their timing, and three resonator chords open into shortwave haze: ambient music whose apparent stillness is full of machinery.
A label history tied to clicks, cuts, glitch and the theory of digital sound.
Live-coded patterns connect club rhythm, projected code and collective performance.
National Centre For Mark Fell Studies connects Mark Fell to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Nearest Neighbors connects tmhglnd to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Live algorithms become performance material, research method and teachable musical craft.
Eight pieces of intricate software music where glassy melody, broken rhythm and microscopic debris keep swapping foreground. The code never arrives wearing a lab coat; it behaves like an instrument with private muscle memory.
Drawings, code and images become playable instruments and live musical scores.
Outside Time connects Geologist & Kyle Simon to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Palilalia connects Bill Orcutt to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Generated sound becomes sample material for fragmented pop and electronic collage.
Four slow forests grown while nobody was watching. Analogue tones coil, flower and lose their edges across seventy-seven minutes; less a set of ambient tracks than a weather system caught deciding what shape to take.
Listening, electronics and collective attention become one expandable musical practice.
Recorded sound becomes raw compositional material through cutting, looping and close listening.
Four ten-minute drones from one Bitwig Grid organism: less ambient wallpaper than a controlled weather front. The edits slow, darken and roughen the same orbit until repetition starts behaving like depth.
Songwriting with a machine-learned voice, shaped through human selection and performance.
Power Pool People connects I'm Gold to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
quiet details connects Dane Law & Chants to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Public participation becomes light, sound and data in large-scale responsive installations.
A live-coded big band assembled from handmade flutes, toy gamelan, rubber bands and unstable probability. TidalCycles does not tidy the chaos; it gives the collisions somewhere to happen. Free jazz rebuilt as a runnable argument.
Sound, graphic design and live visuals converge in a sharply defined electronic catalogue.
Large datasets become immersive, constantly shifting fields of image and architecture.
Dense percussion and heavy bass improvised through a bespoke live-coding system.
Bespoke patches and modular systems produce hyper-detailed electronic rhythm and texture.
Simulation and machine learning turn bodily presence into responsive digital environments.
Scientific data unfolds into synchronised sound, image and tactile space.
Data and mathematical structures become precise, physical experiences of sound and light.
Samana Records connects CLKDRIFT to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Bodies, motion data and neural systems converge in large-scale figurative work.
Three compact transmissions from a laptop rabbit hole: clipped percussion, synthetic pressure and sudden negative space assembled while the code is still warm. It behaves like techno that has learned to edit its own nervous system in public.
Generative rhythms, synthetic textures and networked improvisation in constant dialogue.
Neural models imagine speculative organisms from the visual language of natural history.
Sonic Belligeranza connects SONIC BELLIGERANZA to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Sol LeWitt’s grid is shoved through a speedcore lathe until concept, kick drum and counting error become indistinguishable. Four blunt proofs that informational music can still leave bruises.
Human gesture and learned robotic movement develop together through repeated drawing sessions.
Special Low Frequency connects Paul Riedl to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
Stotrojka connects _semism_ to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
A dedicated venue network presents large-scale experiential and technology-led art.
Seven short circuits routed from dancefloor to chillout room. Rave pressure, liquid ambience and clipped rhythmic junk keep changing lanes without losing the pulse: live coding with the social instincts of a good small-hours set.
Pop songwriting tests where model suggestions end and human arrangement begins.
Networked images respond to visitors and flow across rooms without a fixed frame.
A compact TidalCycles session that values momentum over exposition. The main take and two earlier passes keep the same material unsettled, letting clipped rhythm, repetition and small mutations do the structural work.
An international prize tracks new work made with digital and computational media.
Three small machines blinking in clean air. A Pure Data patch turns clipped pulse, glassy tone and patient negative space into live-generated miniatures: exacting computer music with enough swing in its joints to escape the vitrine.
A long-running label connects field recording, experimental electronics and the art of listening.
A lean, two-part study in sequence and surface. Twelve minutes is enough for clipped pulses, sustained tones and rough-edged digital movement to keep changing their relationship without losing the thread.
Small programmed disturbances turn geometric order into a perceptual experiment.
Vibratelepathic Antiviral Broadcasts connects Milieu to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
SONAMB
Industrial field recordings become neural rhythms and tactile electronic performances.
Self-running systems navigate intricate rhythm, probability and unexpected musical forms.
A band rebuilds its writing process around neural models and human performance.
zOaR Records connects Elliott Sharp to Wired Moth’s map of technology-led music.
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