Current Issue #15: Music Music is the theme of this issue. Despite all of the uncertainties and reversals we are currently witnessing, musicians have always been good guides in moments of loss and despair. All music can be heard—listen to the truth it contains. Unlike the image, a static mode of representation, music engenders movement, creating a geometry of sound that makes sense to those who pay attention. Music embodies the very essence of democracy by bridging people from different cultures, different religions, and different ethnicities. Music—shared by an instrument (the ear) that has three times the connections with the brain than the eye does—liberates a source of infinite feelings to overcome. This geometry does not move in straight lines—it’s not a simple to-and-fro. It travels in overlapping orbits, where the path from one point to another is always Contents Cover: ASH B., 2016, Photograph by WOLFGANG TILLMANS [I’M A] SUPERNATURAL BEINGA flexi disc by D.A. SPUNT from DoPe Press Editions RUNNING IN THE RAINJosh Da Costa chats with MATT FISHBECK about Solid Rain MY GIRL — YELLI YELLI IN HER OWN WORDSText and collages by EMILIE HANAK SABBATH AT THE GARDENText and photographs by NOAH LYON NO RETIREMENT PLANA conversation with KIM GORDON and CARRIE BROWNSTEINabout making music and writing books LEAK EVERYTHINGDean Spunt of No Age chats with ODWALLA88 —Chloé Maratta and Flannery Silva — about youth in the digital age THE FIVE ELEMENTS OF HIP HOP (ACCORDING TO A QUEEN,NOT A BITCH OR A HO)A portrait of LADY TIGRA by Shannon Randall, photographs by Estevan Oriol MIDNIGHT RADIOAARON BONDAROFF on KNOW WAVE SOUND AND VISIONA conversation with WOLFGANG TILLMANS about art, music, and poetry, by Dorothée Perret LIFE ON MARSAn essay on DAVID BOWIE by Evan Moffitt THE LILT AND THE FRICTIONAnh Do and Eli Diner talk with CAROLINE SHAW about the subtle variations between composingand performing music SPATIAL ENTITLEMENTA conversation with GAYE THERESA JOHNSON about the cross-definitions of space and sound A TIME TO BE BORNTAYLOR MAC on performance and the risks of polarization — an interview with Barlo Perry INK BLACK / #383B3EAn excerpt from The Standard Book of Color by ANDREW BERARDINI METAL SHOPCurators SOHRAB MOHEBBI and ARAM MOSHAYEDI on music in the museum space STANDING ROCK SOUNDTRACKA road trip to Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota by OSCAR TUAZON
