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The Wire interview by Oli Warwick
A CLOSER LISTEN
https://acloserlisten.com/2023/02/20/zoe-mc-pherson-pitch-blender/
GROOVE MIX / ITW
https://groove.de/2023/05/12/zoe-mc-pherson-groove-podcast-377/
DAZED
https://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/58393/1/on-pitch-blender-zoe-mc-pherson-is-cooking-up-a-cybernetic-storm
DJ mag
https://djmag.com/features/selections-zoe-mc-pherson
BBC6 - Mary Ann Hobbs Music of the near future : “Blender” track premiere
Groove mag
https://groove.de/2023/01/30/januar-2023-die-essenziellen-alben-teil-3/
Covered on Tim Caspar's column on TAZ (DE)
https://taz.de/Konzertempfehlungen-fuer-Berlin/!5919315/
Muzikexpress
Resident Advisor
https://ra.co/news/78169
BBC6 The Ravers hour, Zoë Mc Pherson in the mix
The Wire interview by Oli Warwick - April 2023
Dazed interview
DJ Mag : Selections
“ZOË MC PHERSON delights in the unpredictable. On their third album, 'Pitch Blender', the Berlin-based, French-Irish artist conjures beats that spark, swerve and explode like rogue fireworks. Across 10 tracks, hyperkinetic drums reference footwork, drill & bass and the high-speed sound of singeli, but their music really operates on a plane of its own. These synapse-snapping patterns and polyrhythms are pieced together thanks to Mc Pherson's impeccable sound design, through which they build a dazzling, widescreen world out of shapeshifting synths, shadowy vocal chops and mercurial bass. It's a mind-melting formula that Mc Pherson has developed over years as a multimedia artist, producer, DJ, live performer and founder of the SFX label and AV platform. They've performed at festivals including Berlin's CTM and Uganda's Nyege Nyege, and have collaborated with artists like Jessica Ekomane, Ciarra Black, and DJ Diaki & Jay Mitta (as 3OK), bringing an exhilarating sense of invention and ambition to every project”
BBC6 - Mary Ann Hobbs Music of the near future : “Blender” track premiere
T-mag interview after Rewire festival
The Wire - premiere “Wait” track premiere
Exberliner magazine interview
ELECTRONIC BEATS Class of 2021: the artists who brightened up the year
FACT Signal Path : Zoë Mc Pherson on mangling sound and multimedia collaboration | filmed interview
GLAMCULT | Interview | An artist that makes us feel the music with every FIBER of our being.
MANIFESTO | filmed interview
ARTE TV live & interview
CDM “The producer’s the one dancing, in new video for Zoë Mc Pherson”
FACT mix Believe us when we say this is one you’ll want to play loud.
Bandcamp best of February 2020 by Joe Muggs
“Each of these jams, whether they flutter delicately or thunder with kickdrums, sounds like ritual music from some post-human society”
Hyponik by Esme Bennett
“Adventurous and elusive, the album is a comprehensive dive into ‘electro-naturalism’, manipulating her own vocal work as an instrument for glitch-rife glossy soundscapes. The result is a rousing body of hybrid techno-artistry for a multiplex of listening.”
DJmag
Zoë Mc Pherson’s latest body of work — to be released this February — is testament to her evolving as an artist in every sense of the word.
‘States of Fugue’ displays her innate talent for melding experimental sounds with the principles of dance music
Boomkat charts 2020
Dissonnant 30 albums we played like mad in 2020
RwdFwd 2020 choice!
SBVRSV Requiem for 2020 - 25 albums
Gin & Platonic favourite albums of 2020
CDM The producer’s the one dancing, in new video for Zoë Mc Pherson
TAZ Revival der Breakbeats
CXEMA live recording and interview by Tanya Voytko
“We were very lucky and experienced freedom. For sure, this kind of crossmedia connection is obviously present in my work.”
Inkonst interview
Panopticon interview
Trax Mag by Jean Paul Deniaud
Qui est zoë mc pherson, la surdouée qui transforme le son de la nature en polyphonie électronique ?
Subbacultcha The Best of Belgium
“With String Figures the interdisciplinary artist from Brussels succeeded in creating a perfect blend of richly layered textures of noise, traditional and club music. This could be a new treasure if you’re into Holly Herndon, Lucrecia Dalt and Lotic”
The Wire interview by Oli Warwick - April 2023
Dazed interview
DJ Mag : Selections
“ZOË MC PHERSON delights in the unpredictable. On their third album, 'Pitch Blender', the Berlin-based, French-Irish artist conjures beats that spark, swerve and explode like rogue fireworks. Across 10 tracks, hyperkinetic drums reference footwork, drill & bass and the high-speed sound of singeli, but their music really operates on a plane of its own. These synapse-snapping patterns and polyrhythms are pieced together thanks to Mc Pherson's impeccable sound design, through which they build a dazzling, widescreen world out of shapeshifting synths, shadowy vocal chops and mercurial bass. It's a mind-melting formula that Mc Pherson has developed over years as a multimedia artist, producer, DJ, live performer and founder of the SFX label and AV platform. They've performed at festivals including Berlin's CTM and Uganda's Nyege Nyege, and have collaborated with artists like Jessica Ekomane, Ciarra Black, and DJ Diaki & Jay Mitta (as 3OK), bringing an exhilarating sense of invention and ambition to every project”
BBC6 - Mary Ann Hobbs Music of the near future : “Blender” track premiere
T-mag interview after Rewire festival
The Wire - premiere “Wait” track premiere
Exberliner magazine interview
ELECTRONIC BEATS Class of 2021: the artists who brightened up the year
FACT Signal Path : Zoë Mc Pherson on mangling sound and multimedia collaboration | filmed interview
GLAMCULT | Interview | An artist that makes us feel the music with every FIBER of our being.
MANIFESTO | filmed interview
ARTE TV live & interview
CDM “The producer’s the one dancing, in new video for Zoë Mc Pherson”
FACT mix Believe us when we say this is one you’ll want to play loud.
Bandcamp best of February 2020 by Joe Muggs
“Each of these jams, whether they flutter delicately or thunder with kickdrums, sounds like ritual music from some post-human society”
Hyponik by Esme Bennett
“Adventurous and elusive, the album is a comprehensive dive into ‘electro-naturalism’, manipulating her own vocal work as an instrument for glitch-rife glossy soundscapes. The result is a rousing body of hybrid techno-artistry for a multiplex of listening.”
DJmag
Zoë Mc Pherson’s latest body of work — to be released this February — is testament to her evolving as an artist in every sense of the word.
‘States of Fugue’ displays her innate talent for melding experimental sounds with the principles of dance music
Boomkat charts 2020
Dissonnant 30 albums we played like mad in 2020
RwdFwd 2020 choice!
SBVRSV Requiem for 2020 - 25 albums
Gin & Platonic favourite albums of 2020
CDM The producer’s the one dancing, in new video for Zoë Mc Pherson
TAZ Revival der Breakbeats
CXEMA live recording and interview by Tanya Voytko
“We were very lucky and experienced freedom. For sure, this kind of crossmedia connection is obviously present in my work.”
Inkonst interview
Panopticon interview
Trax Mag by Jean Paul Deniaud
Qui est zoë mc pherson, la surdouée qui transforme le son de la nature en polyphonie électronique ?
Subbacultcha The Best of Belgium
“With String Figures the interdisciplinary artist from Brussels succeeded in creating a perfect blend of richly layered textures of noise, traditional and club music. This could be a new treasure if you’re into Holly Herndon, Lucrecia Dalt and Lotic”
15 questions
DJ mag
Saturday night show - live set - Ugandan National TV 2022
Panopticon
Radio Nova - Nyege Nyege festival 2022
ELECTRONIC BEATS HIGHLIGHTS OF 2021
MANIFESTO ZOË MC PHERSON, AZU TIWALINE… POSITIVE EDUCATION 2021, LE RETOUR
ARTE TVPanopticon
Radio Nova - Nyege Nyege festival 2022
ELECTRONIC BEATS HIGHLIGHTS OF 2021
MANIFESTO ZOË MC PHERSON, AZU TIWALINE… POSITIVE EDUCATION 2021, LE RETOUR
CDM “The producer’s the one dancing, in new video for Zoë Mc Pherson”
Fullmoon
GLAMCULT | Interview An artist that makes us feel the music with every FIBER of our being.
FACT signal Path : Zoë Mc Pherson on mangling sound and multimedia collaboration
Glamcult interview
Boomkat charts 2020
Clone list
Dissonnant 30 albums we played like mad in 2020
RwdFwd 2020 choice!
SBVRSV Requiem for 2020 - 25 albums
Gin & Platonic favourite albums of 2020
CDM The producer’s the one dancing, in new video for Zoë Mc Pherson
TAZ Revival der Breakbeats
FACT mix Believe us when we say this is one you’ll want to play loud.
Bandcamp best of February 2020 by Joe Muggs
“Each of these jams, whether they flutter delicately or thunder with kickdrums, sounds like ritual music from some post-human society”
Hyponik by Esme Bennett
“Adventurous and elusive, the album is a comprehensive dive into ‘electro-naturalism’, manipulating her own vocal work as an instrument for glitch-rife glossy soundscapes. The result is a rousing body of hybrid techno-artistry for a multiplex of listening.”
Bizaar Bazaar
Gin & Platonic
DJmag
Zoë Mc Pherson’s latest body of work — to be released this February — is testament to her evolving as an artist in every sense of the word.
‘States of Fugue’ displays her innate talent for melding experimental sounds with the principles of dance music
CXEMA live recording and interview by Tanya Voytko
“We were very lucky and experienced freedom. For sure, this kind of crossmedia connection is obviously present in my work.”
Boiler room by Paul Hanford
“Live tonight, Zoe and Alessandra’s multidisciplinary methods are an alchemy of old practices finding new technologies. I watch as string figures loop across the vertical phone-shaped screen that are then curiously mirrored in the raised phones of captivated guests: recording, looping and relaying their own experience.”
Larsen magazine
Nowness by M. Hansen
“Traditional Inuit culture meets techno-futurism in this beguiling audio-visual explosion”
Trax mag by Jean Paul Deniaud
Qui est zoë mc pherson, la surdouée qui transforme le son de la nature en polyphonie électronique ?
Subbacultcha The Best of Belgium
“With String Figures the interdisciplinary artist from Brussels succeeded in creating a perfect blend of richly layered textures of noise, traditional and club music. This could be a new treasure if you’re into Holly Herndon, Lucrecia Dalt and Lotic”
The Wire by Tristan Bath
“String Figures manages to remain as challenging as it is danceable, and Mc Pherson’s electroacoustic blend packs and energetic physical punch.”
Mixmag by Thomas H Green
“With String Figures, Zoë Mc Pherson proves she’s at contemporary music’s vanguard, it’s one of the year’s most intriguing LPs, exploring the area where tribalistic rhythms meet electronica.”
Electronic Sound by JB
“Barring a few examples, most tracks on the project veer from the four/four with polyrhythms taking centre stage, giving the album a looser, tripper feel. « Inoui (and free) », probably the best of the lot, tempers with rhythm almost at a whim, you have to hear the beat-switch around the three minute-mark to believe it. Buy on sight and without though.”
XLR8
“String Figures, exploring the disappearance of cultures as they clash with Westernism and virtual spaces. Bringing in a range of equipment including hardware electronics, throat singing, live instrumentation, and a huge range of ethnographic samples, she uses the idea of "String Figures" (an early means of communication) as a metaphor for this clashing of worlds.”
Bleep
“Dense layers of electronic noise, processed recordings of inuit throat singing and rhythmic persistence come together on this fantastic new LP from sound artist Zoe McPherson.”
A Closer Listen by Richard Allen
“The music feels vibrant and alive: not a homogenization of influences but a collection of disparate sounds; not a melting pot, but an expression of diversity.[...] By giving the Inuit expression (not simply using them as a sound source, but as a continuing thread), she underlines their value. You are important to me, she says. I hear you.[...] She echoes the teaching of Chief Seattle, drawing nature and beast together as one. By integrating international sounds, she suggests the possibility of new tribes, new alliances. While this does not seem to be the direction in which governments are headed, it does seem to be the direction in which artists are headed, testifying to the power of art as social force. The forward-thinking direction of this music suggests the possibility of forward-thinking politics.”
Booooooom
“Leone translates Mc Pherson’s sonic mediations into elaborately choreographed gestures both beautiful and haunting. As Leone describes it, the film captures the dialogue not just between fingers and hands but between bodies, the “continuous weaving” and “patterning of possible worlds and possible times.” Only here: “Zoë is narrator/instigator, conducting carefully orchestrated rituals as a way of thoroughly exploring the relational ties within the concept. The dancers speak their physical language by expanding contracting and interweaving within the string loop.”
Tiny Mixtapes by Mike Pursley
The Tung - interview
Bizaar Bazaar - interview
Trax Magazine - interview by Jean Paul Deniaud
Musicmap Global - interview by Kier Wiater
Chain DLK - interview by Vito Camarretta
The Arts Desk vinyl of the month by Thomas H Green
“For anyone who wishes to hear one of the year’s most fascinating, invigorating vanguard records, it’s a one stop shop.“
Freq by David Solomons
“With String Figures, Mc Pherson has produced a pulsing, undulating serpent of an album. It is a wonderful piece of work, both emic and etic, and prodigiously rewarding in both. Assemble a field kit and make your way through it as soon as you can.”
Chain DLK by Vito Camarretta
«Escape Velocity» interview on The Quietus by Tristan Bath
Dublab Radio LA interview by Jasmin Blasco
The Word magazine interview & mixtape
Gonzo Circus interview by Seb Basleer
The Electronic North by Mark Buckley
Chain DLK by Stuart Bruce
Sentireascoltare by Nicolò Arpinati
Ondarock by Giuliano Delli Paoli
Nowamuzyka by Łukasz Komła
Silence and Sound by Roland Torres
Vinyl frontier RBMA
Radio Student by JAŠA BUŽINEL
Neural
Groove
Wired
Kaltblut String Figures
Kaltblut Tenace
Resonance Extra