With singles in the pipeline for spring leading up to an album in late summer, Ida Maria is cardinal listening to make the weariest of songseekers excited. So, for our first issue of 2008, Flux has captured our image of the shriek in the wind that is Ida Maria.

Created in 1966, ‘Variations VII’ is John Cage’s most legendary and mysterious work. As part of the AV Festival, Honor Harger have commissioned the re-staging of this work for its Opening Gala.

Cory Arcangel

‘A couple thousand short films about Glenn Gould’ is a new work by Cory Arcangel, which arranges Bach’s 1741 composition ‘The Goldberg Variations’ using videos from video sharing websites.

Autechre

Sean Booth and Rob Brown have shaped and twisted their sound into one that teeters on the edge of rationality and truly tests the boundaries of the acceptable to create a new album striking and stark in contrast to its recent predecessors.

John Galiano

Frolicking silent movie sirens and alien flappers make up John Galliano’s spring summer offering for 2008. With an exuberant fashion yell, the collection shows his innate extravagance, and Flux has shot some of our favourite pieces to brighten up the last days of winter.

Superman’s Pockets

These caped crusaders, photographed by Tim Foster, inhabit a world very different from Metropolis or Gotham City. Their disappointment, loss and emptiness is not masked at all any maybe why they mirror their more famous inspirations after all.