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  • TheSoundOfStone.MaroKariya
  • The Sound of Stone
  • Microtones is pleased to announce its first full length release from Maro Kariya, aka Otodojo. The Sound of Stone was inspired by freezing landscapes coupled with Kariya's feeling of dread from dystopian visions of war and a warming climate...

    Maro Kariya

    January 31, 2024

  • Dancing in Space: An Essay on Isamu Noguchi, the architect of Hart Plaza, and his Relationship to Dance
  • Noguchi designed many playgrounds, civic spaces, and sets for performance throughout his career; through these designs he hoped to activate ritualistic interaction that would channel the unconscious elements of our existence...

    Sarah Cohen

    July 6, 2023

  • emoswingset.wetdogg
  • emo swingset
  • wetdogg releases their first music video emo swingset which was shot on Coney Island NYC by Tara Shafa....

    wet dogg

    November 11, 2022

  • OVA.JNNAPRL
  • OVA
  • Runner Magazine is proud to host the official music video premiere of OVA, the newest single by JNN APRL. The filming took place at The Orange Room on October 21, 2021 and involved a team of Detroit locals including Zapon, Sidd Finch, Collin Preston, Patrick Ethen, Intent, Phebe Rose, Weednerdscool, and Owlmom 247...

    JNN APRL

    August 15, 2022

  • madeofants.Runner2022
  • madeofants
  • Today, Daniel Sharp, also known as madeofants, releases his EP Lost & Found. With this music, Sharp also presents a video for the song “cyberhellravedungeonfunruncore (Marshall Applewhite’s Kids Today Get Distracted Easily Mix)” that was made in collaboration with Joel Dunn....

    Ashley Cook

    January 24, 2022

  • WeirdKid.OneOfOne,RUNNER2022
  • Weird Kid: One of One
  • One of One is a perfect example of Loyke’s approach to making work and the interweaving that he continues to use to underscore the various facets of his practice. The video was shot by Jay Hendricks, edited by Lokye with the song produced by G $wank. It was filmed at Public Pool with his most recent exhibition acting as the backdrop while also participating as the main focus of the video.

    Video Premiere

    Ashley Cook

    January 10, 2022

  • PolymorphouslyPerverse.WeatherCitizen,
  • Polymorphously Perverse
  • Through the lens of play-count-maximizing production, music appears thoroughly mapped. Known rhythms, well-worn sample packs, and enculturated structures denote genres – purportedly-useful fictions that serve to both limit the scope of possible production and inhibit the consumption of anything but recapitulations of what we already know...

    Video premiere

    Weather Citizen

    December 27, 2021

  • Lullaby.SaraBarron
  • Lullaby
  • Film Premiere

    Lullaby explores the relationship between solitude and spirituality while portraying the blurred lines between dreams and reality and how they bleed together to construct our perceptions, especially during a time when the days seemed to melt together. Shot by local director, LANSUH, at Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum and features electronic artist KESSWA as the goddess character. Scored by Sara Barron and was mixed and mastered by Ben Collins (Anna Burch, Stef Chura).

    Sara Barron

    November 15, 2021

  • Lokye.Neverland
  • LOKYE - NEVERLAND music video by DJKAGE
  • “Going nowhere fast” isn’t what you always think it is. Going somewhere slow is so much worse. Within about a three block radius surrounding Granny’s Chandelier, the gallery Lokye operates, there are a few who go nowhere fast - and it sometimes feels close to nirvana...

    City Taxes

    September 21, 2020