The Sine Fiction series sponsors electronic musicians to compose soundtracks for science fiction novels. Among the most recent Sine Fiction entries is Jos Smolders‘ five-track, nearly half-hour score for Roadside Picnic, written by the Strugatsky brothers, Arkady and Boris. Smolders has a tough act to follow, since Roadside Picnic was the source for the widely [...]
An album of science-fiction-themed electronic music from Canada, Pheek’s new collection, Tabisuru Kokoro, is the latest release from Thinnerism Records. Thinnerism is a German label that distributes its music online as free sets of MP3s. Pheek is Jean-Patrice Remillard, a Montreal-based musician who favors the key ingredients in minimal house: the willfully tepid beats, the [...]
The online series Sine Fiction has released three new sets of MP3 files in its ongoing project, producing scores for classic science-fiction novels: Arthur C. Clarke’s The Nine Billion Names of God, composed by Oeuf Korreckt (aka Frédrick Blouin); William S. Burroughs‘ The Ticket That Exploded, composed by A. Dontigny, who curates Sine Fiction; and [...]
Siren’s Voice is an engaging five-part audio drama about a techno musician who is contacted by a woman who claims to be from the future. The musician, whom we know by his first name, Sean, performs and records under the moniker Cyanide, and he’s embarking on an overseas tour when the woman’s voice first intrudes [...]