Daniel Hignell-Tully
MEANS is a magazine dedicated to underground, experimental, and intermedial arts and culture. Founded by Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully (The Quietus, Freq, Toneshift), the project consists of a both a digital site and a quarterly physical magazine.
Working with a community-led, artist-first model, MEANS aims to restore power to artists, and seeks to encourage fair renumeration for the work they do. We believe supporting grass-roots art is a mechanism for supporting social well-being in general: enabling communities to explore their creativity, and providing an outlet for often overlooked artists to share their work on a global scale.
We are always open to collaborations, and actively seek to expand our network of community-led artists, labels, publishers, and audiences.

Current opportunities
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DARKLIGHT: Illumination, Imagination, and the Zoetrope of Spiritual Apperception
Deadline: 08/05/2026Paid opportunity
DARKLIGHT: Illumination, Imagination, and the Zoetrope of Spiritual Apperception. How does the balance of darkness and light, the ongoing cycle by which we live, inform artistic practice? How are themes of the 'dark' and the 'light' represented in art, music and writing? How does creative practice illuminate or reveal new ideas, concepts and ways of understanding? How does such practice tie in to broader ontological philosophes (Illuminationism, Anthroposophy, mysticism etc.)?
Previous projects
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MEANS 5; Dissonant Laws
Dates: 01/02/2026 — 01/04/2026
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/album/means-5-dissonant-laws
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MEANS 4: Participatory Economics
Dates: 01/07/2025 — 01/11/2025
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/album/means-4-participatory-economics
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MEANS 2: Power, Privilege, Politics
Dates: 01/03/2025 — 01/05/2025
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/album/means-2-power-privilege-politics
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MEANS 3: Hope Magic
Dates: 01/05/2025 — 01/07/2025
https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/album/means-3-hope-magic
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MEANS 1: Culture is Weird
Dates: 01/01/2025 — 01/03/2025
MEANS issue 1: the first issue of our community-led culture magazine exploring a global array of contemporary artists, writers and musicians. https://meansmag.bandcamp.com/album/means-1-culture-is-weird




