@toneglow

A newsletter highlighting the best in experimental music and film. Tweets by @misterminsoo. [email protected]

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"The Residents were big Martin Denny fans. To bring in this idea of exotica… it was the idea of a romanticized version of something that never really existed. And ultimately, The Residents see music in a very romantic way." —Homer Flynn @misterminsoo talks with The Residents
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"I’m not afraid of being watched or having my art interpreted—I invite it. And really, if nobody disagreed with my art, then would it really exist?" —Huang Hanqiu @misterminsoo talks with Huang Hanqiu of the No.006 art collective about the '001' EP, their next album, and more
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"This media [landscape] doesn’t leave a lot of space for individuals to exist within their relationship *to* the media. We are taken by both hands and run through this rollercoaster." —Éric Baudelaire @misterminsoo speaks with the French filmmaker about his new film FOR THE MOON
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"People worry when they see a piece of art because they think it has a single meaning. They treat it like a puzzle with one answer." —Stephen Mallinder @misterminsoo talks with the Cabaret Voltaire member about their newly remastered 1987 album 'CODE' (out via @MuteUK)
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"I like trying to get at that, how sweet something can feel as a half-remembered thing." —Izaak Schlossman @misterminsoo talks with the producer behind Topdown Dialectic about his various guises, biking across the country, and his subtractive approach to composition
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"A part of me likes the purity of film without anything else involved. I like the fact that all you have is how it’s framed, where the cuts fall, and the acting." —Dan Sallitt @misterminsoo talks w/ @sallitt about WHAT CAN'T BE MENTIONED, which has its world premiere at @TheNYFF
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"If I set my mind on something, it becomes the only thing I think about and want to do… I will borderline fuck my life over to accomplish it." —Kyle Mangione-Smith @misterminsoo talks with @gay_kyle2 about his new film COMPLIANCE, which plays at this year's @fantasticfest
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"The Israeli archives [function] as a black box… if you remove the forced Israeli interpretation, the materials could be used as evidence for their crimes." —Yuula Benivolski @misterminsoo talks with the filmmaker about THE BLACK BOX IS ORANGE, which plays in TIFF @WVLGTHS.
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"We’re too tired, and grief has allowed us to want to be controlled." —John Torres @misterminsoo talks with the Filipino filmmaker about his new film 'The Remotes', which plays at this year's TIFF @WVLGTHS and @TheNYFF Currents
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Tone Glow is cancelling its upcoming Nirosta Steel shows. Ticket holders will be reimbursed by the venue.
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"We didn’t need to reinvent the wheel in terms of what OTC is. The design was laid out. We just had to make it feel like one of our records." —Derek Almstead @misterminsoo talks w/ Derek Almstead & Jason NeSmith about the final Olivia Tremor Control album, ‘The Same Place’
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"I approach all of my source material in the same way… it’s about finding beauty and strangeness in these tiny snippets, these small moments." —Klara Lewis @misterminsoo speaks with the Swedish musician about her new album 'Opening', which is out this Friday on @EditionsMego.
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"I’m quite comfortable with doing a lot of shows and putting out a lot of music where I feel like they’ve failed." —Duncan Harrison @misterminsoo talks with the British experimental musician about Brighton's experimental music scene, sound poetry, and more
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"Barn Sour is like a phony, poser Actionism. I’m not standing for anything, I’m not doing anything for a reason, I just like the grotesque nature of some guy barfing on himself." —Barn Sour @misterminsoo talks with the Canadian artist Pat Klassen about the Barn Sour project
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"I love my tenacity. I think the world just wants to give people like me less… I used to think I was too much or annoying people, but now I understand that it’s powerful and important to be a fighter." —keiyaA @misterminsoo talks with the Chicago-born, New York-based artist
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"Nothing’s been easy for me in my life, but it’s a joy when you succeed at something you want or try to do." —Martha Reeves @misterminsoo talks with the legendary Motown singer about childhood memories, the artists who inspired her, and her new album 'Searching'
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🚨 Two New Nirosta Steel Shows 🚨 Tone Glow is excited to present two more shows, both on Saturday 9/19 at The Hideout in Chicago. Tix go live this Friday at 10am central time. Openers were hand-picked by NS himself. Early Show: Mei Jun Late Show: Barrel Eye Shining Example
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"To create a new grammar for every film is maybe the thing we enjoy most. I think it’s so boring to simply adopt preexisting languages." —Cristóbal León @misterminsoo talks with the Chilean filmmakers Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña about their new film DONKEY PRINCESS
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"This idea of the contained self is the malaise of modernity. It’s this idea of a self-contained, self-sufficient heroic figure, which has been insisted upon since Greek antiquity, and it continues to be an empty model." —Ana Vaz @misterminsoo talks with the Brazilian filmmaker
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"At a lot of shows it’s a bunch of dudes in their 50s with glasses, which is fine, but that’s not who I make the music for… I’m more concerned about quirky older ladies and weirdo cute teens liking my music." —Slippers @Jude__Noel talks with Madeline Babuka Black about Slippers
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