Alex Roth
@alexrothmusic.com
Composer, guitarist, producer:
🎸 Cut The Sky
🎚️ MultiTraction Orchestra
🎛️ Supersigil
🎼 Music for dance/film/theatre
I also run multidisciplinary label @zylaworks.bsky.social
www.alexrothmusic.com
🎸 Cut The Sky
🎚️ MultiTraction Orchestra
🎛️ Supersigil
🎼 Music for dance/film/theatre
I also run multidisciplinary label @zylaworks.bsky.social
www.alexrothmusic.com
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Alex Roth
@alexrothmusic.com
· Mar 7
Today I'm delighted to release my original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera.
Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.
Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.
Moment of appreciation for Fred Lincoln Wray Jr.
Of Shawnee descent, he grew up in a mud hut dodging KKK.
Caught TB fighting in Korean War & lost a lung. No more singing so focused on gtr.
Went on to invent the power chord on his 1st hit "Rumble", which was banned for fear of inciting gang violence.
Of Shawnee descent, he grew up in a mud hut dodging KKK.
Caught TB fighting in Korean War & lost a lung. No more singing so focused on gtr.
Went on to invent the power chord on his 1st hit "Rumble", which was banned for fear of inciting gang violence.
June 20, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Moment of appreciation for Fred Lincoln Wray Jr.
Of Shawnee descent, he grew up in a mud hut dodging KKK.
Caught TB fighting in Korean War & lost a lung. No more singing so focused on gtr.
Went on to invent the power chord on his 1st hit "Rumble", which was banned for fear of inciting gang violence.
Of Shawnee descent, he grew up in a mud hut dodging KKK.
Caught TB fighting in Korean War & lost a lung. No more singing so focused on gtr.
Went on to invent the power chord on his 1st hit "Rumble", which was banned for fear of inciting gang violence.
Incidentally, Fb just reminded me that 11 years ago today Alice released her debut album China Lane, which I had the pleasure of playing on and co-producing. Happy to be making music together still, albeit remotely on this occasion.
alicezawadzki-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/china-...
alicezawadzki-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/china-...
June 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Incidentally, Fb just reminded me that 11 years ago today Alice released her debut album China Lane, which I had the pleasure of playing on and co-producing. Happy to be making music together still, albeit remotely on this occasion.
alicezawadzki-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/china-...
alicezawadzki-whirlwind.bandcamp.com/album/china-...
Londoners: 2 things happening this week to which I've had the pleasure of contributing.
1. Tonight, the incomparable Alice Zawadzki performs solo at the Barbican supporting Tigran Hamasyan, and will be working her magic over a pre-recorded track I made specially.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
1. Tonight, the incomparable Alice Zawadzki performs solo at the Barbican supporting Tigran Hamasyan, and will be working her magic over a pre-recorded track I made specially.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Tigran Hamasyan | Barbican
The piano virtuoso with groove power seamlessly fuses potent jazz improvisation and progressive rock with the rich folkloric music of his native Armenia.
www.barbican.org.uk
June 16, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Londoners: 2 things happening this week to which I've had the pleasure of contributing.
1. Tonight, the incomparable Alice Zawadzki performs solo at the Barbican supporting Tigran Hamasyan, and will be working her magic over a pre-recorded track I made specially.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
1. Tonight, the incomparable Alice Zawadzki performs solo at the Barbican supporting Tigran Hamasyan, and will be working her magic over a pre-recorded track I made specially.
www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...
How to engage with sites of trauma through sound?
I've been asking myself this since moving to Poland 7 years ago. And this week I had the honour of being invited to participate in a commemoration ceremony in the Chodówki Forest, where over 600 Jews were massacred & buried during the Holocaust.
I've been asking myself this since moving to Poland 7 years ago. And this week I had the honour of being invited to participate in a commemoration ceremony in the Chodówki Forest, where over 600 Jews were massacred & buried during the Holocaust.
June 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
How to engage with sites of trauma through sound?
I've been asking myself this since moving to Poland 7 years ago. And this week I had the honour of being invited to participate in a commemoration ceremony in the Chodówki Forest, where over 600 Jews were massacred & buried during the Holocaust.
I've been asking myself this since moving to Poland 7 years ago. And this week I had the honour of being invited to participate in a commemoration ceremony in the Chodówki Forest, where over 600 Jews were massacred & buried during the Holocaust.
Happy to have played a small part in this new exhibition at the Barbican.
Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound & place, between reality & imagination.
Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound & place, between reality & imagination.
May 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Happy to have played a small part in this new exhibition at the Barbican.
Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound & place, between reality & imagination.
Observatory Station is a global collaborative project that reflects on the relationship between sound & place, between reality & imagination.
Hands up: who knew Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor recorded together?
April 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Hands up: who knew Mary Lou Williams and Cecil Taylor recorded together?
A couple of shots from Kasia Witek's performance The Peace Of Wild Things, which premièred at Laban Theatre, London, earlier this month.
Music by me in collaboration with @alicepurton.bsky.social (cello, voice), James Opstad & Caius Williams (double basses)
📸 Rocio Chacon
More info on my website.
Music by me in collaboration with @alicepurton.bsky.social (cello, voice), James Opstad & Caius Williams (double basses)
📸 Rocio Chacon
More info on my website.
March 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A couple of shots from Kasia Witek's performance The Peace Of Wild Things, which premièred at Laban Theatre, London, earlier this month.
Music by me in collaboration with @alicepurton.bsky.social (cello, voice), James Opstad & Caius Williams (double basses)
📸 Rocio Chacon
More info on my website.
Music by me in collaboration with @alicepurton.bsky.social (cello, voice), James Opstad & Caius Williams (double basses)
📸 Rocio Chacon
More info on my website.
Are Elastica having a moment, critically speaking? I keep seeing music writers mention how much they still like them.
Tbh, I forgot about this for a long time, and had to double check it was the same Donna Matthews (it was). I wonder what she's up to nowadays...
Tbh, I forgot about this for a long time, and had to double check it was the same Donna Matthews (it was). I wonder what she's up to nowadays...
Fun fact: I was Donna Matthews' guitar teacher while we were both at Dartington circa 2006. I knew she'd previously been in a band but only found out later it was Elastica!
March 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Are Elastica having a moment, critically speaking? I keep seeing music writers mention how much they still like them.
Tbh, I forgot about this for a long time, and had to double check it was the same Donna Matthews (it was). I wonder what she's up to nowadays...
Tbh, I forgot about this for a long time, and had to double check it was the same Donna Matthews (it was). I wonder what she's up to nowadays...
Kasia Witek's latest dance performance, which I've scored, premieres this week at Laban Theatre in London, commissioned by Trinity Laban Dance Collective with new music I created in collaboration with double bassist Caius Williams:
www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/tri...
📸 from yday's tech rehearsal
www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/tri...
📸 from yday's tech rehearsal
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Kasia Witek's latest dance performance, which I've scored, premieres this week at Laban Theatre in London, commissioned by Trinity Laban Dance Collective with new music I created in collaboration with double bassist Caius Williams:
www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/tri...
📸 from yday's tech rehearsal
www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/whats-on/tri...
📸 from yday's tech rehearsal
Thanks to @metalabel.bsky.social for shouting out my EP Viscera in the latest pick of new releases.
magazine.metalabel.com/i/159019539/...
magazine.metalabel.com/i/159019539/...
Collecting is a form of participation, preservation, and patronage
RELEASE CORNER 001
magazine.metalabel.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Thanks to @metalabel.bsky.social for shouting out my EP Viscera in the latest pick of new releases.
magazine.metalabel.com/i/159019539/...
magazine.metalabel.com/i/159019539/...
2 hours of delicious drones, musique concrète, noise music and other experimental sounds, including a track from my new EP Viscera.
All new #soundart #musiqueconcete #noisemusic #dronemusic With: @norent.bsky.social @machine-records.bsky.social @krankyltd.bsky.social @moolakiiclubai.bsky.social @alexrothmusic.com @abbyleetee.bsky.social www.mixcloud.com/spectrasonic...
The Institute Of Spectra-Sonic Sound 3.8.25
www.mixcloud.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
2 hours of delicious drones, musique concrète, noise music and other experimental sounds, including a track from my new EP Viscera.
Today I'm delighted to release my original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera.
Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.
Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.
March 7, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Today I'm delighted to release my original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera.
Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.
Set in an abandoned hotel on an island in the middle of the Atlantic, Viscera is a dance film exploring the relationship between time, memory & trauma.
My new EP drops on Friday and I'm celebrating with a listening party. RSVP 🔗 below.
Viscera is my first film score 🎥
The release includes a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL, created by using extremely long exposure times to capture entire scenes of the film in single images.
Viscera is my first film score 🎥
The release includes a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL, created by using extremely long exposure times to capture entire scenes of the film in single images.
March 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My new EP drops on Friday and I'm celebrating with a listening party. RSVP 🔗 below.
Viscera is my first film score 🎥
The release includes a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL, created by using extremely long exposure times to capture entire scenes of the film in single images.
Viscera is my first film score 🎥
The release includes a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL, created by using extremely long exposure times to capture entire scenes of the film in single images.
#NowPlaying
Sunny Five – Candid
Somehow missed this release early last year, despite it featuring some of my favourite musicians on the planet. Such is the challenge of keeping up with an artist as prolific as Tim Berne. Great to hear him and Ducret playing together again!
Sunny Five – Candid
Somehow missed this release early last year, despite it featuring some of my favourite musicians on the planet. Such is the challenge of keeping up with an artist as prolific as Tim Berne. Great to hear him and Ducret playing together again!
March 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
#NowPlaying
Sunny Five – Candid
Somehow missed this release early last year, despite it featuring some of my favourite musicians on the planet. Such is the challenge of keeping up with an artist as prolific as Tim Berne. Great to hear him and Ducret playing together again!
Sunny Five – Candid
Somehow missed this release early last year, despite it featuring some of my favourite musicians on the planet. Such is the challenge of keeping up with an artist as prolific as Tim Berne. Great to hear him and Ducret playing together again!
#NowPlaying
Easy to hear why this is one of the great Billy Hart's favourite Coltrane recordings.
youtu.be/PTI6l9vax6Y?...
Easy to hear why this is one of the great Billy Hart's favourite Coltrane recordings.
youtu.be/PTI6l9vax6Y?...
John Coltrane Quartet - I Want To Talk About You (1965-04-02, The Half Note Club, New York, NY)
YouTube video by Vintage Music Experience
youtu.be
February 28, 2025 at 11:49 PM
#NowPlaying
Easy to hear why this is one of the great Billy Hart's favourite Coltrane recordings.
youtu.be/PTI6l9vax6Y?...
Easy to hear why this is one of the great Billy Hart's favourite Coltrane recordings.
youtu.be/PTI6l9vax6Y?...
#NowPlaying
Roberta Flack – First Take
Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" has always been my go-to version—at once tender and mighty.
I'd never heard this whole album though, and it's a classic. Thoughts below 🧵
Roberta Flack – First Take
Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" has always been my go-to version—at once tender and mighty.
I'd never heard this whole album though, and it's a classic. Thoughts below 🧵
February 26, 2025 at 8:32 PM
#NowPlaying
Roberta Flack – First Take
Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" has always been my go-to version—at once tender and mighty.
I'd never heard this whole album though, and it's a classic. Thoughts below 🧵
Roberta Flack – First Take
Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" has always been my go-to version—at once tender and mighty.
I'd never heard this whole album though, and it's a classic. Thoughts below 🧵
#NowPlaying
Tonight's double bill:
Taylor Deupree – Stil. (2002) & Sti.ll (2024)
Glitchy ambient electronic music (Stil.) reimagined acoustically (Sti.ll), nudging it towards a post-minimalist contemporary classical soundworld.
Hypnotic listening.
Tonight's double bill:
Taylor Deupree – Stil. (2002) & Sti.ll (2024)
Glitchy ambient electronic music (Stil.) reimagined acoustically (Sti.ll), nudging it towards a post-minimalist contemporary classical soundworld.
Hypnotic listening.
February 25, 2025 at 11:15 PM
#NowPlaying
Tonight's double bill:
Taylor Deupree – Stil. (2002) & Sti.ll (2024)
Glitchy ambient electronic music (Stil.) reimagined acoustically (Sti.ll), nudging it towards a post-minimalist contemporary classical soundworld.
Hypnotic listening.
Tonight's double bill:
Taylor Deupree – Stil. (2002) & Sti.ll (2024)
Glitchy ambient electronic music (Stil.) reimagined acoustically (Sti.ll), nudging it towards a post-minimalist contemporary classical soundworld.
Hypnotic listening.
Excited to announce the release of my award-winning original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera, coming out on multidisciplinary label
@zylaworks.bsky.social on 7 March, accompanied by a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL.
@zylaworks.bsky.social on 7 March, accompanied by a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL.
February 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Excited to announce the release of my award-winning original score for Celina Liesegang & Arturo Bandinelli's experimental short film Viscera, coming out on multidisciplinary label
@zylaworks.bsky.social on 7 March, accompanied by a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL.
@zylaworks.bsky.social on 7 March, accompanied by a specially commissioned series of photographs by MOAL.
#NowPlaying
@juergfrey.bsky.social & Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Supremely serene music, best treated as a kind of guided meditation.
@juergfrey.bsky.social & Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Supremely serene music, best treated as a kind of guided meditation.
February 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
#NowPlaying
@juergfrey.bsky.social & Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Supremely serene music, best treated as a kind of guided meditation.
@juergfrey.bsky.social & Quatuor Bozzini – Jürg Frey: String Quartet No. 4
Supremely serene music, best treated as a kind of guided meditation.
#NowPlaying
Charles Lloyd – Canto
My entry point into Lloyd's music, which I've loved ever since. Great band: Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Billy Hart. This + Hyperion with Higgins prob my favourites from his ECM period. Mysterious, generous, pure-hearted and exploratory all at the same time.
Charles Lloyd – Canto
My entry point into Lloyd's music, which I've loved ever since. Great band: Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Billy Hart. This + Hyperion with Higgins prob my favourites from his ECM period. Mysterious, generous, pure-hearted and exploratory all at the same time.
February 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
#NowPlaying
Charles Lloyd – Canto
My entry point into Lloyd's music, which I've loved ever since. Great band: Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Billy Hart. This + Hyperion with Higgins prob my favourites from his ECM period. Mysterious, generous, pure-hearted and exploratory all at the same time.
Charles Lloyd – Canto
My entry point into Lloyd's music, which I've loved ever since. Great band: Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin, Billy Hart. This + Hyperion with Higgins prob my favourites from his ECM period. Mysterious, generous, pure-hearted and exploratory all at the same time.
A few suggestions for a historical guide to drone music.
Tip of the iceberg, of course. What else should @andrewmale.bsky.social include?
Tip of the iceberg, of course. What else should @andrewmale.bsky.social include?
Giacinto Scelsi: Quattro pezzi su una nota sola
La Monte Young: Trio for Strings
The Velvet Underground: "Loop"
Tony Conrad with Faust: Outside the Dream Syndicate
Phill Niblock: A Young Person’s Guide to Phill Niblock
Ellen Fullman: The Long String instrument
Ellen Arkbro: For Organ and Brass
La Monte Young: Trio for Strings
The Velvet Underground: "Loop"
Tony Conrad with Faust: Outside the Dream Syndicate
Phill Niblock: A Young Person’s Guide to Phill Niblock
Ellen Fullman: The Long String instrument
Ellen Arkbro: For Organ and Brass
February 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
A few suggestions for a historical guide to drone music.
Tip of the iceberg, of course. What else should @andrewmale.bsky.social include?
Tip of the iceberg, of course. What else should @andrewmale.bsky.social include?
#NowPlaying
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs'
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social
Coming back to this remarkable 1966 recording that surfaced last year. Such a treat to hear four giants of jazz really stretch out in a live setting, at a key moment in the music's history.
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs'
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social
Coming back to this remarkable 1966 recording that surfaced last year. Such a treat to hear four giants of jazz really stretch out in a live setting, at a key moment in the music's history.
February 19, 2025 at 12:21 AM
#NowPlaying
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs'
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social
Coming back to this remarkable 1966 recording that surfaced last year. Such a treat to hear four giants of jazz really stretch out in a live setting, at a key moment in the music's history.
McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs'
@bluenoterecords.bsky.social
Coming back to this remarkable 1966 recording that surfaced last year. Such a treat to hear four giants of jazz really stretch out in a live setting, at a key moment in the music's history.
The biggest video streaming platform in the world has produced an adaptation of arguably the greatest novel of the last century. And, contrary to my expectations, it's actually very well done.
But why is no one I know talking about @netflix.com's One Hundred Years of Solitude?
But why is no one I know talking about @netflix.com's One Hundred Years of Solitude?
February 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The biggest video streaming platform in the world has produced an adaptation of arguably the greatest novel of the last century. And, contrary to my expectations, it's actually very well done.
But why is no one I know talking about @netflix.com's One Hundred Years of Solitude?
But why is no one I know talking about @netflix.com's One Hundred Years of Solitude?
Some of this weekend's listening:
@photay.bsky.social – Windswept
Gary Bartz – Music Is My Sanctuary
@matthewherbert.bsky.social – The Horse
Stan Getz & Bill Evans
@photay.bsky.social – Windswept
Gary Bartz – Music Is My Sanctuary
@matthewherbert.bsky.social – The Horse
Stan Getz & Bill Evans
February 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Some of this weekend's listening:
@photay.bsky.social – Windswept
Gary Bartz – Music Is My Sanctuary
@matthewherbert.bsky.social – The Horse
Stan Getz & Bill Evans
@photay.bsky.social – Windswept
Gary Bartz – Music Is My Sanctuary
@matthewherbert.bsky.social – The Horse
Stan Getz & Bill Evans
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