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audio art . experimental . field recordings
Fabio Selvafiorita / Valerio Tricoli - Death By Water
CD - Die SchachtelIt's not irrelevant that "Death By Water" was recorded on the small island of Giudecca in Venice, even if the distilled threads shine very abstractly and synthetically - a highly imaginative trip among field recordings, effects and multi-faceted patterns, effectively unraveled by Fabio Selvafiorita and Valerio ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental
Paul Baran - Panoptic
 CD - Fang BombA hoarse voice stands out. This is the beginning of "Scotona Song", conceived as something like an opening sketch that features walkie-talkie humming and a droning organ - a dirge characterized by minimal but expressive musical elements. "Panoptic" by Paul Baran moves on to balance multiple influences in a sort of melancholic instrumental avant-jazz, a hybrid conceptual and electro-acoustic ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Mpld - Lacunae
 DVD - Winds MeasureRandomly found old Kodachrome slides and an uncomplicated digital set-up (laptops, midi controllers, a video projector, two diaprojectors, dimmer, lights and induction/contact microphones) are the basis of "Lacunae", an audio-visual project by Gill Arno, better known as Mpld, the Italian-born music ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental
Miguel Prado - Comedy Apories
 CD Anty-CopyrightLet's be honest, when faced with a new Anty-Copyright crew release we are always prepared to encounter something unusual, radical and extremist, even from the perspective of audio art and experimental music. Even so, these ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . electronica . experimental . noise
Martin Neukom - Studien 5-7
 CD - DomizilS basic elements of each auditory event: the oscillations. The feedback and non-linear filters, frequency distortion, granular synthesis work, crackle and various kinds of noise, combine to generate a continuous flow that is both engaging and fascinating: it could work as an ideal soundtrack for ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . soundscapes
Burkhard Friedrich - Città Utopica
 CD - AhornfelderThe sound is deep and suggestive in "Città Utopica". This project by Burkhard Friedrich was created in the guise of an environmental installation enriched by visual elements and traversed by intense drones, digital iterations and synthetic frequencies. The cavernous plot is full of auditory stimuli, pulsating an ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental
AAVV - Myths & Masks Of Karol Szymanowski
 CD- KvitnuAt the beginning of 2011, eight Ukrainian musicians were invited to play the same number of works by Karol Szymanowski, one of the most important European authors of the first half of the twentieth century. The renowned composer and pianist was born in 1937 in Tymoszówka, at the time a Polish ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Guillaume Laidain - Instants Mobiles
 CD - Brut Claire La Manufacture de Chaussures in Bordeaux is a 1930s shoe factory that since 1998 has been transformed into TNT, a urban place for the re-appropriation of public space. This building is being used as a space for independent artistic creation and promotion. Despite the restructuring (substantial ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental
Martin Tétreault + Le Quatuor De Tourne-Disques - Points, Lignes Avec Haut-Parleurs
 CD - OralEven with its ultra-minimalist conceptualization, this collection of very abstract and harsh sound elaborations - made by manipulating turntables – manages to function as a kind of "symbolic scratching". Designed by Martin Tétreault and produced by Magali Babin, David Lafrance, Alexander ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . field recording
Novi_sad - Inhumane Humans
 Sub RosaThanasis Kaproulias, using the moniker Novi_sad, questions the intimate structure of environmental sounds created with a hypothetical "sculptural integrity" in mind. The artist presents auditive articulations whose essences somehow seem to precede the listening experience. The ear follows ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . impro
Mark Templeton - Mort Aux Vaches
 CD - Mort Aux Vaches"Mort Aux Vaches" (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue of Staalplaat, a Dutch indie label whose Berlin store has released some of the most interesting international experimental ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . field recording
CM von Hausswolff - 800 000 Seconds in Harar
 CD - TouchWhen he was twenty-four, Arthur Rimbaud left the world of literature and lounges to wander through Europe before finally landing in Harar in Abyssinia, a city that boasted of possessing 99 minarets. CM von Hausswolff, commissioned to write music for a play about the life of the "damned poet", has ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . free form . impro
Philip Corner - Pieces from the Past
 CD - PogusPhilip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in live performance, leaving the residual noise of the public and of the environment in order to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . drone . experimental . field recording
AAVV - Table For Six: All Quiet? #3
 CD - EE TapesEE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody: first up is the Italian Neuestrasse ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Eisuke Yanagisawa - Ultrasonic Scapes
 CD - GruenrekorderEisuke Yanagisawa, an audio-artist interested in field recordings and researching ethnographic matrices (the latter also explored through interesting cinematic experiments), has been studying the linguistic and cultural characteristics of rural Vietnamese since 2006. The results of these studies have ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . electronica . experimental . soundscapes
Marcus Fjellström - Library Music 1
 CD - KafkagardenIn "Music Library 1" Marcus Fjellström takes inspiration from classic music libraries - collections of sounds that were used in sixties and seventies movies and low cost television productions. The result is a lovely mash-up between classic ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . drone . experimental
Alexander Rishaug - Shadow Of Events
 CD - Dekorder Recorded in Oslo between 2006 and 2010, then mixed in Berlin, "Shadow Of Events" is the third solo album by Alexander Rishaug, a sound-artist prone to the use of field recordings, modulated together with various electronic devices and both traditional and non-traditional instruments. The sound ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . impro . noise
Merzbow & Balázs Pándi - Ducks: Live In NYC
 CD - Ohm Resistance, Merzbow, AKA Masami Akita, needs no introduction. This pioneer of "noise" is well-known in the international experimental scenes for his sophisticated yet raw, “free jazz” attitude. Balázs Pándi is also quite well-known in the more extreme avant-garde "enclaves" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Ostravská Banda - On Tour
 CD - MutableStemming from the homonymous biennial festival in the Czech Republic, Ostravská Banda - with its twenty musicians – thrives under the direction of Peter Kotik, a veteran of unconventional orchestration and artistic director of the S.E.M. Ensemble in New York City. Standing ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . impro
Dimitri Voudouris - ΑΛΘ=Φ / UVIVI / 1:Θφ4 / ΟΝΤΑ:
CD - PogusThe second release for the label Pogue by the Greek-born South African composer Dimitri Voudouris, an artist whose output is never predictable, focuses on the psycho-acoustic nature of auditory phenomena and on the characterizations they assume in different ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ethnic . experimental
Sven Kacirek - The Kenya Sessions
 CD - Pingipung Sven Kacirek, a young musician who graduated in percussion and marimba at the conservatory of Hamburg, is an author inspired by the many facets of African music. In his Kenya Sessions there's a clear difference between the live recordings and the studio "arrangements" ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . field recording . soundscape
Mem1 + Stephen Vitiello - Age of Insects
 CD - Dragon's EyeThis latest project – which combines field recordings with both analog and digital electronic instruments – spawned from a series of meetings between Mark and Laura Cetyl in Stephen Vitiello's Viginia studio between May 2009 and January 2010. The sound pieces in question, organized into ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings . impro
Molly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden & Stephen Vitiello - Moss
 CD - 12kMolly Berg, Olivia Block, Steve Roden and Stephen Vitiello, have created an interesting live project recorded in the Trinity Cathedral in San Jose, California. The audio performance, part of the comprehensive program of the Biennial 01SJ Festival, an event focused on futuristic imagination ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art
Synusonde – Yug
 CD - Minus Habens"Yug" is an interesting project that stems from a meeting between the electronic composer Paolo Bragaglia, in a creative symbiosis with the talented Italian-American musician Matteo Ramon Arevalos, who both share a passion for one of the most important instruments of the Western concert tradition: the piano. The purpose of Synusonde is to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
electronica . impro . soundscapes
Nicola Ratti - 220 Tones
 CD - Die SchachtelAnalog synthesizers, a Farfisa organ, turntables, a tape recorder, a CRT TV: all devices that have no reason to exist without electricity. The relationship between the instruments and the electric continuum is precisely the research ground upon which are unraveled the seven distinct tracks that ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . field recordings
. GO TO SOUND ARCHIVE Hanna Hartman - H^2
 CD - Komplott Hanna Hartman is a Swedish sound artist and composer who lives and works in Berlin. She focuses on evolving the characteristics of sounds, revealing correspondences that are not always implicit and imagining new concatenations of forms and frequencies. Aural jolts, jumps and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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activism . art . media . net
The Deleted City, social web archeology
The project of Richard Vijgen Deleted City is an interactive data visualization of the myriad of data hosted on the free web hosting Geocities, that was very popular at the dawn of the commercial web. The city was the successful metaphor that characterized this site: the users could easily create their own Web pages and click on the "city" in which they preferred to live based on the type of content
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art . book . media
Stephen Jones , Synthetics: Aspects of Art and Technology in Australia, 1956-1975
The MIT Press
, English,
464 pp.,
ISBN 978-0262014960This book is a small gem among the many dealing with the history of media art. Stephen Jones has undertaken an excellent and extensive research project, digging not only into his valuable personal archive of Australian media art (patiently assembled over decades) but also sifting through public libraries and private collections. This is neither a dispassionate nor pretentious academic work. It is, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . music . robot . sound art
Versus, sounding dialogues
Versus is a kinetic sound installation by David Letellier. Its functioning is characterized by an interactive dialogic mechanism. There are two kinetic sculptures that are interdependent and they have to be face to face to make sense. Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, joining at the center in a flower-like shape with actuators to allow slow movement. In the center of this singular "corolla" there's
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book . hacktivism . media
Leah Lievrouw, Alternative and Activist New Media
Polity Press, 200 pages, 2011, English, ISBN-13: 978-0745641843Defining new media has always been tricky. Here, the author gives a clear and thorough definition of new media based on three components: the device/artifact which enables the ability to communicate, the communication activity/practice, and the social arrangements and organizational forms created around the artifact and the practice. This is a strong base that, coupled with an explicit reference to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . media
On Spam, business proposal - urban spam tag
With the work "On Spam, Business Proposal" Niels Post documents the urban intervention he acted in Brussels with a photographs series . For this action the artist has selected some of the most effective phrases contained in the commercial spam messages, the ones that claim incredible and superfast chances for personal gain. He printed these on adhesive vinyl, sticking them on the windows of
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book . music
Joanna Demers Listening through the Noise: The Aesthetics of Experimental Electronic Music
216 pages, Oxford University Press, 2010, English, ISBN-13: 978-0195387667The stated purpose of Demers in this book is to find a unifying (strictly speaking) aesthetics for electronic music, despite the very different ideologies the different genres come from. Although the task would seem too vast, she restricts the timespan considered from the 1980s onwards. 1980 has been chosen because it represents a pivotal moment for democratization of electronic music ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
activism . art . science
Solar Sinter, solar way of thinking
Ongoing diminution of natural resources and the urgent need to adopt more sustainabile practices are undoubtedly among the most crucial matters for the world today. As awareness increases, more and more young creators are engaging with this topic, taking a critical and active stance by building prototypes and actual alternatives. Markus Kayser is such an example; a young industrial designer
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activism . art . book
R. Klanten, M. Hubner, Alain Bieber Art & Agenda, Political Art and Activism
ISBN: 978-3899553420, 288 pages, 2011, English, Gestalten"Activism" in art has become a fashionable topic, especially after the beginning of the global financial crisis. Critiquing the system, formalizing regrets about the past and expressing fears about an uncertain future have become daily topics for major media. Artists are now also reflecting these feelings (maybe even more than during the sixties and seventies) with an abundance of creativity, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
music . sound art
A Piano Listening To Itself, inducing Chopin in chords
Moving across two and a half decades from the windy north Atlantic coast of Canada to the center of Warsaw, the large-scale Aeolian instruments of Gordon Monahan form a temporal bridge between the Fluxus-propelled experimental music of the sixties and seventies and contemporary sound art production. Taking the former’s deconstruction of musical heritage and combining it with an approach
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art . media . net . performance
Antidatamining BOT, financial kamikaze
Since 2006, the RYBN collective has been using the tools of data mining (automated extraction of knowledge from large amounts of data) to subvert its own goals, building unusual representations and analyses of financial and social mechanisms. The project Antidatamining includes works such as "Flashcrash sonification", a graphic and sound representation of the 20-minute stock market crash
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art . book . media
edited by Margit Rosen - A Little-Known Story about a Movement, a Magazine, and the Computer's Arrival in Art: New Tendencies and Bit International, 1961—1973
576 pages,
The MIT Press
, 2011,
English,
ISBN: 978-0262515818In the history of media art, Zagreb has definitively been on the map since the very beginning. In 1961 there was a seminal movement called "New Tendencies", which officially started with a pioneering exhibition curated by Matko Mestrovic at the Museum of Contemporary Art. This international group of (self-defined) researchers were investigating how emerging computer technologies could be used to ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
hacktivism . media
Occupy George, talking dollars
Printing on (real) one dollar bills (the ones with George Washington) enjoyable and graphically concrete data concerning the distribution of wealth in the United States: this is the premise of Occupy George, a performance created in the wake of the many growing participatory movements born out of the original "Occupy Wall Street." The notes, constituting medium and message with an incisiveness that
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Neural 40, The Generative Unexpected
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Neural 40 extra (2/2), P2P Credit Gift Card by Paolo Cirio --SOLD OUT --
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Neural 40 extra (1/2), new exclusive Newstweek flyer
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book . music
edited by Song-Ming Ang, Kim Cascone - The Book of Guilty Pleasures
Song-Ming Ang,
English
, Pages 208
, ISBN 978-9810880699Published on the occasion of the Singapore Biennial, 2011, this book is a collection of "confessions" from a selection of one hundred artists, curators, musicians, and writers about what they think are their aural guilty pleasures. These contributions certainly have a glamorous quality and are potentially scandalous – they are revealing things that would usually not be mentioned. This generates much ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
interactive . music . performance
Sounding Juggling Balls, minimalist music in projectile motion
At Patterns + Pleasure Festival in Amsterdam STEIM presented the premiere of several pieces written by Tom Johnson for the Gandini Juggling company. For these pieces STEIM developed a set of interactive juggling balls that react to movement by emitting sound. Tom Johnson is an American composer and former music journalist, credited with introducing the term “minimalist” into music criticism in the
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art . book . video
Kate Mondloch - Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art
208 pages
, Universuty Of Minnesota Press
, 2010,
English,
ISBN 978-0816665228How many screens do we face in our daily lives? How much time each day do our eyes spend watching screens of various kinds? The answer can almost feel embarrassing, but it brings the huge influence that these mediation devices have on contemporary culture into focus. Unquestionably, we "see" differently now than how we "saw" twenty or forty years ago. Kate Mondloch focuses this essential ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Electronic Instant Camera, minimal unsaved polaroid
The volcanic mind of Niklas Roy seems to produce an unending flow of surprising ideas. After animating the curtains of his studio, he has now turned his attention towards a bizarre camera. Electronic Instant Camera is a hybrid medium made from a combination of an analog video camera and a b/w thermal printer (of the style used for printing receipts). With every
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