Margins of Music – Music/Sound

Fourth Door Review's Music section explores new musics connections to environment, technology, making and design in ways no other music review or magazine does. 

Our singular approach encompasses music's overlap with the natural world, making music in the real and the virtual worlds, sound-sculptures in the built environment, greening music's performance and recording spaces, and new and old instrument making.

Pond Life – David Rothenberg’s underwater concertos for ponds
Michael Rother: from Motorik to Metronome – by Oliver Lowenstein
Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell
Richard Thompson Folks rock's old master returns - by Julian Bell
Vashti Bunyon's Season's of change by Jeanette Leach
The Book of Joe Boyd - making music in the sixties to the present day
Liege & Lief - Fairport Convention's folk rock classic revisited
Folk Chronicles – Rob Young's Electric Eden and Jeanette Leach Season's they Change – by Brian Hinton
Electronic and ancient living Cambodian mixed-media musics - by David Gunn
David Sylvian – the chemistry of affect and devotion

The Mohave desert music of ambient minimalist Harold Budd
Bernhard Wulff on the Mongolian steppe Roaring Hooves Festival

Jan Garbarek Weaver of Jazz Dreams - by Michael Tucker
Avant Rock
Two tomes on avant rock and avant land art
Sheila Chandra – Song of a Million years
Jon Hassell's Fourth World Raga
The Thai Elephant Orchestra
Elephant Music Making
Sonic Furniture of Kaffe Matthews
Russell Mills – Ambient paintscaper – layers of texture, layers of space
Biosphere and the Tromso white-out electronica scene   
Rune Grammofon and Supersilent - by David Rothenberg
Anne Karin Rynander's Oslo Airport Sound-Showers

A Fourth Door Sound Design feature
Rune Kristoffersen
30 minutes with Rune Kristoffersen
Future Sound of London – Between Silence and the Sound of the Hyperglade   
Tuvan river punk - Yat-Kha
ECM's EarthJazz by David Rothenberg
Kaffe Matthews - Kaffetronics
Pram – music for nightlights
Laika's Margaret Fiedler writing about women in electronic pop

Complete article available
Salome Vogelin reviews CRI's Women and Electronic Music cd release
Marimba Making - by Knock On Wood's Andy Morgan
Ecological-music studios - A young person's guide
Sound Gallery – the Copenhagen Square wired for sound-sculpting
Talitha Mackenzie original Mouth Musician turned solo singer   
Mouth Music Highland Scotland's techno-Gael dance masters
Holger Czukay Can's studio wizard in-depth on music, machines, technology and the natural universe