While there are plenty of musicians and sonic explorers pushing genre boundaries and defying musical norms, a certain species of experimenters push to the absolute extreme, obliterating definitions and limits, making sounds that are wholly unclassifiable but beguiling. For today’s episode we’ll listen back to conversations with a selection of such artists: Oneohtrix Point Never is the confounding electronic musician who deploys melody, electronics and the anxiety and detritus of the digital age to stunning effect; mystical nonconformist Aïsha Devi offers her spiritually guided sound experiments that resonate in “11 dimensions”; and Michéle Lamy, the counterculture queen of darkness and muse to Rick Owens, shows herself as the ultimate rule-breaker.
