Floating Points‘ Sam Shepherd isn’t one for hard left-turns in his loosely beat-tethered meditations on worldly music, but the London musician and producer does have a tendency to upend expectations.

A way to represent very large and very small numbers using the same quantity of numeric positions. Floating point also enables calculating a wide range of numbers very quickly. Although floating point ...

The traditional view is that the floating-point number format is superior to the fixed-point number format when it comes to representing sound digitally. In fact, while it may be counter-intuitive, ...

UK producer Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd) will be heading to North America for a few dates in August. While he’s here, he’ll hit up NYC for two shows, including Warm Up at MoMA PS1 on August 18 ...

People learn in different ways, but sometimes the establishment fixates on explaining a concept in one way. If that’s not your way you might be out of luck. If you have trouble internalizing floating ...

Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders come from two very different worlds. Saunders is a legendary jazz musician and saxophone player, and Floating Points is best known for immersive electronic music ...

Floating Points has announced a new album ‘Cascade’, set to land on Ninja Tune this September. The Mercury Prize nominee shared details of the forthcoming project today (9 July), alongside lead single ...

The album cover looks like music-nerd Mad Libs: Floating Points, the British electronic producer, made an album with Pharoah Sanders, the 80-year-old astral jazz legend? And with the London Symphony ...

One of my favorite musical memories from this year is the moment that almost the entire Stereogum staff, all slaphappy and exhausted, got together to dance like goofballs to an extremely late-night ...

December 22, 2021 • In a year where putting on a record was the only way to escape, we wondered what how our favorite musicians fared. From Lucy Dacus on Dijon to Vince Staples on Doja Cat, these are ...