via NTSMusicNewsArca debuts new music in an NTS showThe 62-minute single, ‘@@@@@’, is the musician’s first official new music since 2017ShareLink copied ✔️February 19, 2020MusicNewsTextThom Waite Fresh from a performance at Burberry’s AW20 show this week (February 17), Arca has premiered new music on Diva Experimental FM, a bespoke collaboration with NTS Radio. The music in question? A 62-minute-long single titled “@@@@@”. The track, she says in an accompanying statement, is: “a transmission broadcasted into this world from a speculative fictional universe in which the fundamentally analogue format of FM pirate radio remains one of few means to escape authoritarian surveillance powered by a hostage sentience gestated by a post-singularity AI.” The host of the show (the eponymous Diva Experimental) is also part of the narrative; she “lives across multiple bodies in space in virtue of her persecution – in order to kill her, one would first have to find all of her bodies.” “The bodies that host her carry fetishes for the paralinguistic, breaking the fourth wall and nurturing a mutant faith in love in the face of fear.” If the title of “@@@@@” reminds you of Arca’s 2013 track “&&&&&”, that’s also no coincidence. The tracks are “kindred in that they are each a musical quanta, constituted by morphing sonic quantums,” the statement adds. Besides the new release, Arca has also announced details of a North American tour, beginning in New York April 25, and running through to May 15. Pre-sale tickets will release February 20, before going on general sale February 21. Listen to the NTS broadcast and see the tour dates below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREIs AI really the future of music?The KPop Demon Hunters directors on fan theories and a potential sequelGrime and glamour collided at the opening of Barbican’s Dirty Looks playbody: The club night bringing connection back to the dancefloorAn interview with IC3PEAK, the band Putin couldn’t silenceFrost Children answer the dA-Zed quizThe 5 best features from PinkPantheress’ new remix albumMoses Ideka is making pagan synth-folk from the heart of south LondonBehind-the-scenes at Oklou and FKA twigs’ new video shootBjörk calls for the release of musician ‘kidnapped’ by Israeli authorities‘Her dumbest album yet’: Are Swifties turning on Taylor Swift?IB Kamara on branching out into music