Relentless

It’s the latest installment in our no-expense-spared ode to Artistry, and this time around we enter headlong into the multi-dimensional world of ‘sound’. So where to start? With the multiple metamorphoses of modern-day ‘Renaissance Man’ David Byrne, of course. The rest, as they say, is history...

An unborn foetus floats in the warm plasma of its mother’s womb unable to smell, its eyes firmly shut, and its fingers not yet fully formed. Still, though, it can sense. It can sense the steady drum of its mother’s heart, the dulled low frequency oscillations pulsing through the womb: it’s sound, and for all of us, it’s our first contact with the outside world. We hear it even before we are born.

From that moment on, there’s no escaping it. Even in ‘silence’ it remains, unseen, flickering sonic signals that colour the static hum of our everyday ambience. And then there is sound as human intervention, as artistic expression, created by its greatest architects, the musicians, composers, engineers, writers and innovators who strive to repurpose its hidden wirings, and so enrich our lives. This Is The Order: The Sound Issue is about those people, the Artists of sound.

Welcome to the sonic realm.

Featuring David Byrne, Bat For Lashes, Alastair Seeley, Vince Ray, Warp Records, Niccolo Paganini and more...