James Holden

A few photos from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel at Hamburg's pristine @elbphilharmonie.de
📸: Caroline Windel

A few photos from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel at Hamburg's pristine @elbphilharmonie.de
📸: Caroline Windel

The Merry Maidens stone circle. Standing stones in a field

The Merry Maidens
Cornwall.
#StandingStoneSunday

Listen to James Holden & Wacław Zimpel at MUTEK 2025 | The Quietus Regular readers of tQ might remember that our friends at MUTEK helpfully had someone handy with a tape recorder to capture Factory Floor’s comeback set at the 2024 edition of the festival. Well, we’re...

A little treat to get you through the week: @thequietus.com have just shared a recording of @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel's "intense, beautiful and burbling" live performance at this year's @mutek.bsky.social Montreal>>
thequietus.com/news/james-h...

london! algorave! wednesday!

ra.co/events/2280905

nope! thanks for the heads up.. this website.. like if it's going to welcome nazis as enthusiastically as it does they should at least get jpgs working to make up for it?

Roundly impressed by @jamesholden.bsky.social and Zimpel tonight - superb set guys!

a hazy grainy photo of two performers seated facing each other cross-legged on a stage surrounded by a crowd

in less self-centred news, saw Holden&Zimpel in the round at the ICA last night — proper head-rinsing prog-out absolutely loved it 🤩 so happy to get to see the album live @jamesholden.bsky.social

We've got a nice run of @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel shows lined up to take us through to the end of the year.

So if you are in Brighton / London / Cork / Paris / Ghent / Bergen / Dublin / Istanbul / Hamburg / Berlin, do join them!

Ticket links for all shows on>> bordercommunity.com

Some photos from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel's performance at Montreal's @mutek.bsky.social

📸 (MUTEK | Bruno Aïello-Destombes - @brunodestombes.bsky.social )

Final call for @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel in Brighton - just 10 tickets left here>> dice.fm/event/6dr96b...

Cheeky last minute @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel show added in Paris on 28th October>>
dice.fm/event/6dbqe7...

This is Marcus who sometimes plays with @jamesholden.bsky.social - see you there?

BELGIUM! Gent is due a visit from @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel on 29th October, and you can secure your tickets here>> apps.ticketmatic.com/widgets/voor...

The @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel show at London's ICA on 23rd October will be an in-the-round affair.

And a little bird tells me we've sold 79% of the tickets, so if you are hoping to join them it is time to shit-or-get-off-the-pot>> birdonthewire.gigantic.com/holden-zimpe...

(to explain in case it's non-obvious: 'from scratch' means going on stage with an empty project file. livecoders do it a lot, i love to watch it, benny wasn't exactly designed with that in mind but it's fast and flowy and i'll see how far i get..)

can't wait for this, pattern-based music being my favourite thing.. + nervous excitement: i'm going to try a 'from scratch' kind of set using benny...

The Essence Remains Intact This week: making big things happen in mid-town USA, letting the universe take care of you, the ritual of dissonance, and righteous acts of rebellious loving. Here, the essence is hardly rare.

oh, it's nothing, baby — just the brand new Talk Of The Tonearm newsletter featuring extra insight on ambitious sax guy Sean Imboden, cosmic explorers James Holden + Wacław Zimpel, and ritual tone-shifter Lingyuan Yang

plus reviews of new ones from Bit Cloudy + Avi C. Engel

head into the zone ✨ →

James Holden and Wacław Zimpel Surrender to the Sound The British music producer and Polish clarinet virtuoso built 'The Universe Will Take Care of You' in four spontaneous London studio days, capturing the act of playing without thinking.

British music producer James Holden and Polish clarinet virtuoso Wacław Zimpel built The Universe Will Take Care of You in four spontaneous London studio days, capturing the act of playing without thinking.

Interview — James Holden + Wacław Zimpel Surrender to the Sound:

@jamesholden.bsky.social

festival sounds nice..

2025.algorithmicpattern.org/sheffield/

Pattern Club Radio - 27 July 2025 Sheffield's Pattern Club presents a monthly selection of pattern-based music alongside discussions and interviews with artists working across heritage and algorithmic arts. For more information visit ...

enjoyed this month's pattern club radio - some amazing music & an interesting (hopeful, inspiring) discussion of human-centered algorithms

www.mixcloud.com/Resonance/pc...

We are huge fans of the @cosmicchambo.bsky.social podcast so I'm pretty chuffed that something from the new @jamesholden.bsky.social & Zimpel album made it into his latest mix>>

Creative Code for Music, Art & IoT, Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup **Creative Code Meetup - July 2025** **Agenda:** * 6:00 pm: **CheckIn & Networking** * 6:30 pm: **Welcome** **& Sponsor Message** * 6:35 pm: **James Holden** \- "**Benny

i'll be doing a brief talk on benny (what is it? why does it exist?) at the london creative code meetup next month:
www.meetup.com/creativecodi...

James Holden / Wacław Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.

And it's an 8.0 from @pitchfork.com !

The esteemed @philipsherburne.bsky.social goes in deep on @jamesholden.bsky.social & Waclaw Zimpel's 'The Universe Will Take Care Of You'>>
pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Herb Sundays 156: James Holden [Season 9 Finale] An actual Sunday from one of our great living musicians. "now i have plenty of sundays, but feel strong existential panic at the idea of making a playlist. so i tricked myself..."

This also went up at the weekend: @jamesholden.bsky.social 's contribution to the Herb Sundays playlist repository, plus a handy recap of his career to date according to Sam Valenti IV.

"An actual Sunday from one of our great living musicians.">>
herbsundays.substack.com/p/herb-sunda...

...and there's an extra @jamesholden.bsky.social Japanese show happening at Tokyo's VENT on Friday 29th August>>
ra.co/events/2186902

James Holden / Wacław Zimpel: The Universe Will Take Care of You Read Philip Sherburne’s review of the album.

I wrote about @jamesholden.bsky.social and Wacław Zimpel's phenomenal new album for @bordercommunity.bsky.social, the aptly named The Universe Will Take Care of You pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Thanks for the reassurance @jamesholden.bsky.social - yourself, Mr Zimpel and the postman certainly are 😀

Et il le prouve encore une fois… s’en est presque lassant.
Trop de talent, ça m’épuise.
Merci @jamesholden.bsky.social pour toutes ces belles textures jouissives 💦

#IDM #electronicmusic

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