Jessica Rylan

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Mixed signals

The amalgamated adventures of Felix Kubin
For those who heard German electronics maestro Felix Kubin slice the air with fried keyboards and speed-tweaked samples at Boston’s Goethe-Institut last November, his return to the States couldn’t come soon enough.
By MATT PARISH | May 17, 2010

Fusion forms

Lorraine Chapman, Kinodance, Black Grace
Modern dancers who aren’t tethered to a specific technique can forage the whole world for useful movement and effects. We saw three completely different examples recently.
By MARCIA B. SIEGEL | April 23, 2008

Bouncement 3

. . . and other singular beats
Lately it’s seemed like Old Home Days for Toneburst, the influential artcore junglist collective that was a locus of Boston’s underground dance scene in the mid ’90s.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | April 08, 2008

Eclectic finds

Looking for the brave and the new in 2008
With the frigid weather and bracing winds, the natural inclination early each new year is to go a bit fetal, curl up, and hibernate until springtime.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | December 26, 2007

Space cases

Astronaut and Ernst Karel
Perhaps it’s something in the air, but in the last year or so it seems that Boston’s experimental outer limits has seen an analog-synthesizer renaissance.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | December 14, 2007

Organized chaos

Jessica Rylan’s flowering electronics
When people think of synthesizers, it’s usually in the context of a well-ordered pop song.
By SUSANNA BOLLE | November 06, 2007