When British sound artist Kaffe Matthews thinks about sound, she thinks about space, about time, about travel, about people, about radios strapped to bicycles. In her approach to making music, we find clues about what is so provocative and new about sound today: not songs, but sites; not scores, but algorithms; not notes, but empty hard drives. Her work has traces of the rich history of the art of sound, from ideas of space, duration and indeterminacy pioneered by John Cage, Alvin Lucier and LaMonte Young, to Nicolas Collins's and Ryoji Ikeda's work with feedback and failure. Her sound elegantly merges these aesthetics while at the same time articulating significant new departures. Read the whole interview