Robert Barry is a freelance writer and editor, based in London, UK. His byline has appeared in publications including The Wire, Frieze, Art Review, Fact, The Atlantic, Wired, Thump, Motherboard, Sounds Like Now, BBC Music, The Guardian, Mute, Mousse, New Humanist, Seismograf, Plan B, Exeunt, The Line of Best Fit, White Noise, Vertigo, Electric Sheep, Film-Philosophy, Eat Me and Apollo.
He is currently technology and digital culture editor at the online literary journal Review 31, visual arts editor at The Quietus, and a member of the faculty at London’s Institute of Contemporary Music Performance. His book, The Music of the Future, a history of speculative music, was published in March 2017 by Repeater Books.
Robert Barry appears in the following:
Four Paths to the Future: IV. Alien Sonics
Monday, October 16, 2017
Composers Karlheinz Stockhausen and Sun Ra credit part of their music education to extraterrestrial visions. Maybe it's time to adopt a Martian perspective and make music weird again.
Four Paths to the Future: III. Robotics
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Two centuries ago, workshops of Enlightenment Europe were awash with the first androids — human-like figures with moving parts powered by cogs and spools. Where are we now?
Four Paths to the Future: II. Artificial Intelligence
Monday, October 02, 2017
The history of artificial intelligence approaches to music is almost as old as artificial intelligence itself. Where are we now with AI music generators?
Four Paths to the Future: I. Networks
Monday, September 25, 2017
In the early 60s, Morton Subotnick had a vision of the future. Half a century later, that vision has been been normalized and a new series of transformations are underway.
