Articles by Amelia Ishmael

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Transmission | An Interview with Seth Kim-Cohen: “I move to the left, and back to my right, step behind the amplifier, and I disappear into the darkness”

by Amelia Ishmael | Mar 5, 2013

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Transmission | An Interview with Seth Kim-Cohen: “I move to the left, and back to my right, step behind the amplifier, and I disappear into the darkness”

by Amelia Ishmael | Mar 5, 2013

Projects by Seth Kim-Cohen “initiate a listening about and around rock music as a cultural signifier.” Amelia Ishmael interviews the artist for her column “Transmission.”

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Transmission | An Interview with Lori Felker: amplified sprocket holes, light passing through celluloid, bumping into dirt and tape and emulsion

by Amelia Ishmael | Feb 5, 2013

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Transmission | An Interview with Lori Felker: amplified sprocket holes, light passing through celluloid, bumping into dirt and tape and emulsion

by Amelia Ishmael | Feb 5, 2013

Columnist Amelia Ishmael interviews filmmaker and performer Lori Felkner about her “amazing” piece “Light Makes Music.”

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Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth

by Amelia Ishmael | Jan 3, 2013

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Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth

by Amelia Ishmael | Jan 3, 2013

Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.

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Transmission | An Interview with Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero, Avant-Garde Jazz, and the Cosmic Void

by Amelia Ishmael | Sep 13, 2012

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Transmission | An Interview with Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero, Avant-Garde Jazz, and the Cosmic Void

by Amelia Ishmael | Sep 13, 2012

An interview with the 82 year old experimental artist who is best known for exploring the color and concepts of black.

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Transmission | An Interview with Faith Coloccia: Sympathetic Magic, Visual Scores, Archives and Memory

by Amelia Ishmael | Aug 7, 2012

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Transmission | An Interview with Faith Coloccia: Sympathetic Magic, Visual Scores, Archives and Memory

by Amelia Ishmael | Aug 7, 2012

Amelia Ishmael talks to artist Faith Coloccia about her photography, mixed-media album works and her musical project Mamiffer.

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Transmission | An Interview with Nader Sadek: the Lexicon of “In the Flesh”: Petroleum, Death Metal, Masks, Hair, and Sulpher

by Amelia Ishmael | Jul 3, 2012

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Transmission | An Interview with Nader Sadek: the Lexicon of “In the Flesh”: Petroleum, Death Metal, Masks, Hair, and Sulpher

by Amelia Ishmael | Jul 3, 2012

Amelia Ishmael talks to Nader Sadek about the visual lexicon that informs his art and music.

Imagery, concept, and sound: Stephen O’Malley of Descent, Burning Witch, Hyperion Ensemble, Sunn O)))

by Amelia Ishmael | Dec 5, 2011

Imagery, concept, and sound: Stephen O’Malley of Descent, Burning Witch, Hyperion Ensemble, Sunn O)))

by Amelia Ishmael | Dec 5, 2011

  [Ed. note: We’re squeezing in one more post from Amelia Ishmael before we introduce our next blogger-in-residence later this week. Enjoy!] Stephen O’Malley is a wildly prolific musician and …

From the stage to the studio | Terence Hannum: unholy bows, negative litanies, and amidst throngs

by Amelia Ishmael | Dec 2, 2011

From the stage to the studio | Terence Hannum: unholy bows, negative litanies, and amidst throngs

by Amelia Ishmael | Dec 2, 2011

  Terence Hannum is a musician and studio artist who has recently relocated from Chicago to Baltimore to teach at Stevenson University. I first met Terence shortly after moving to …

Mark Titchner: More noise, more silence, sigils, and word viruses

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 29, 2011

Mark Titchner: More noise, more silence, sigils, and word viruses

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 29, 2011

  In September of this year I traveled to Wolverhampton, U.K. to present some of my research on Black Metal and contemporary art to the Home of Metal Conference, a …

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix: “My stance right now is that everything I ever make will be Transcendental Black Metal”

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 25, 2011

Hunter Hunt-Hendrix: “My stance right now is that everything I ever make will be Transcendental Black Metal”

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 25, 2011

  Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s work first caught my attention a year and a half ago when I came across his manifesto “Transcendental Black Metal” in Hideous Gnosis, a published compendium of the …

Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert: Vibrations of Light and Sound, to trigger seismic molecular events, to shake the wall, to break down barriers

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 22, 2011

Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert: Vibrations of Light and Sound, to trigger seismic molecular events, to shake the wall, to break down barriers

by Amelia Ishmael | Nov 22, 2011

  Earlier this year Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert responded to a call for entries I posted for two separate curatorial endeavors: one for the Black Metal theory journal Helvete, …