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audio art . experimental . microsound
Marcus Maeder - Subsegmental
 CD - DomizilAlthough the term and concept of "subsegmental" are used primarily in psychology and in perception within the context of linguistics and phonetics, nothing stops Marcus Maeder from translating this meme into the field of music. Feeding the cognitive characteristics of tones, organizing acoustic ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . folktronica . free form
Roj - Transactional Dharma Of Roj
CD - Ghost BoxStraight from Ghost Box, a label based in Surrey, and characterized by sophisticated electronic vintage, we happily welcome "Transactional Dharma of Roj", a vivid album with Burroughsian cut-ups and inspiring and imaginative conjunctions which underlie a cultural and psychic revolution in the English ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . microsound
Philip Julian - Low Activity Computer Solo
 CD - Free Software SeriesRecorded in London and Berlin between September and November 2008, this work uses the induction coil of a telephone connected directly to a PC running GNU/Linux and a piezo contact microphone in order to pick up the electromagnetic activity inside the machine. Philip Julian's "Low Activity Computer ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . electronica . ethnic . experimental . free form
Mice - World Tour
 CD - EcosonoAs a combo whose typical sounds are very wobbly and crooked, permeated with electronic, experimental and jazz influences, "Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble", traveling 30,000 miles by ship around the world, have created a successful series of concerts, collaborating with and connecting ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . electronica . experimental
Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968
 CD -TypeRepeated melodies, drones and coagulated atmospheres, dark aural fluctuations, with a bias towards the mystical and evocative. In "Alphabet 1968", Marc Richter (pseudonym: Black To Comm) takes these ingredients and leads the listener through an imaginative digital pilgrimage, poised somewhere ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
Mika Vainio - Aineen Musta Puhelin [Black Telephone Of Matter]
 >CD - TouchMultifaceted sound implementations, abstract and formally impeccable, arranged in unstable fractured sequences, congealed in rhythmic and granular turns. "Black Telephone Of Matter" is the fourth solo album by Mika Vainio, an experimenter mostly known for having founded Pan Sonic with Ilpo ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . audio art . drone . experimental . microsound
Tu M' - Monochromes Vol.1
 CD -LineReleased under the moniker Tu M' (Rossano Polidoro and Emiliano Romanelli), an interesting and all Italian mixed media project is unraveled in a rather airy and meditative way for the prestigious Line label. Since 2000, Line has been curated and directed by Richard Chartier, a sound/installation artist ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
electronica . industrial . noise . techno
Sturqen - Piranha
 CD - KvitnuIntricate rhythmic sequences, hovering techno-trance fascinations and noise attitudes are contaminated with an energetic and chaosmotic mood in "Piranha", the latest release by Sturqen. The recording is imbued with a dark, electronic feel, heavy with collisions that could be fitted to industrial dance ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . microsound
Richard Chartier - Untitled (Angle.1)
CD - Non Visual ObjectsThis new project by Richard Chartier stems from a collaboration with visual artist Linn Meyers. Chartier is an electronic composer engaged in a serious minimalist brand of reductionism. In Untitled (Angle.1), the author carefully brings about the co-penetration of optical and sound models, a juxtaposition of the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings
Gilles Aubry - s6t8r
 CD - Winds MeasureWith a title that looks like a captcha, a hardbound, all-white, material design (developed by the designer Ben Owen) and a publishing volume of only 300 copies, Gilles Aubry commits his latest project to the catalog of Winds Measure Recordings - a label from Brooklyn appropriately focused on experimental ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental
Labor Camp Orchestra : Theater Of Operations
 CD - Labor Camp ProductIn this sparse but evocative electronica, mingled with tenor modulations, sound effects and melodic harmonies based on Eric Satie's Vexations, we hear the words of soldiers of the United States Army; transcripts taken from videos recorded during the war in Iraq. The "readings" are perhaps interpreted ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental . field recordings . soundscapes
Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano
 CD - Someone GoodAkira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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RTX - Radio Tower Xchange
 CD- RixcSound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . free form
Piotr Kurek - Lectures
 CD - CronicaTangled instrumental sequences, dense and fascinating, are improvised by Piotr Kurek, a Polish producer and electronic musician who now lives in Portugal. This work reveals a precisely organised, multilevel sound structure, which throbs with avant-garde jumps, jazzy shards and raw ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . noise
Yellow Swans - Mort Aux Vaches
 12" - StaalplaatOnce again Staalplaat sets a new milestone with the artwork accompanying their historic Mort Aux Vaches series. A very playful yellow hardback with embossed inserts, complete with the silhouette of a cute duckling and a smiling peasant girl is the companion of scratchy industrial sounds. The record is a ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy, and I'm Singing, and a 1, 2, 3, 4
 2CD - MegoCompositions recorded between 1997 and 1999, often in different studios and cities (New York, Osaka, Tokyo, Toronto and Malmö), and originally published on Mego in 2001 constitute this fascinating project by Jim O'Rourke. This record effectively condenses the eclectic electronic music typical of the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings . microsound
Phroq - Recordings Of Various Vibrations And Stress Situations
 CD - Uzu SoundsFrancisco Meirino - under the pseudonym Phroq - continues unabashed in his fascination with bugs and micro-sounds. His is a meticulous investigator, pushing the limits of the audible, cataloguing the frequencies and hums of electrical equipment under stress. The sources of the samples - in the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . acoustic/digital . electronica
Milosh - III
 CD -!K7Gentle melodies and indietronic patterns are veined with a very insistent downtempo melancholy and crystal clear sounds in this finely modulated work by Milosh, a Canadian classical and jazz composer. This is his third release, emblematic in its sensitive junctions, embedded in a tenuous electronic music, ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . ambient . experimental . noise . soundscapes
An Antology Of Chinese Experimental Music
4CD - SubrosaEditor Li Ching Sung and Guy Marc Hinant have come together to produce this anthology of Chinese experimental music, which includes 48 different artists whose works are divided across four engaging CDs. Moving beyond the names that are already internationally known (the same Li Ching-sung - aka ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . audio art . experimental . soundscape
Stephan Moore - To Build A Field
 CD - Deep ListeningSounds that seem to converge in ultra-rarified sequences, hesitating in sensitive constructions with strong environmental and narrative structures, reflect the background of Stephan Moore, the author, a long time member of the live band at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Moore is a composer ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
EVOL - Punani Rubberist
 CD" - Evol/Entr'acteThe fifth work in the 'EVOL's Punani' series, this is a 300-copy limited edition, sealed in stylized silver-transparent envelopes, including a CD and a booklet in the shape of a leaflet, along with individual black and white photo cards. The free form sound of the first track is "cut" and extremely inconstant, ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . audio art . noise
AAVV - Noise Vs Subversive Computing
 USB flash drive - Computationally Infeasible RecordsNoise Vs Subversive Computing' is a collaborative project that concerns sound suggestions relating to the realm of more experimental ambient-noise, and is both sophisticated and imaginative. There are not only electronic musicians joining this effort but also radical activists, computer hackers and ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . noise
Yutaka Makino - Black
 CD - StruktoThis is not the first project with a black artwork. Here, however, black abounds. In addition to the outer carton which presents the word 'Black' in an impeccably neutral relief, there's also the black inlay card of the CD trailer underneath the transparent plastic trailer, the black booklet, and the black CD ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental
Gregg Kowalsky - Tape Chants
 CD - KrankyDrones and subdued frequencies, structured in a kind of meditative psychedelia. Gregg Kowalsky is not new to sounds with such characteristics, using analog recordings, manipulating oscillators and managing purposefully created feedback. In "Tape Chants", however, his explorations reach a new level ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . microsound
Autistici - Complex Tone Test
 CD - KeshDilated and charming tonal sequences, micro-sonorities and patterns that gently intersect, ticks, acoustic and more synthetic structures arise in this new work by Autistici (David Newman), a sound-artist based in Sheffield, head-honcho of Audiobulb. Even if this record starts with very placid ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . free form . noise
. GO TO SOUND ARCHIVE Audrey Chen + Robert Van Heumen - Abattoir
 CD - Evil RabbitAfter an disquieting start, modulating on shrill guttural vocalizations and innervated with noisy and improvisational acts, Robert van Heumen intervenes on laptops and controller. He generates instrumental arrangements, selected by highly noisy drones, with supplemental clicks, hums, sudden ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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How to build a fake Google Street View car and keep your data
Google Street View is an application that allows users to virtually dive into Google's popular Maps feature and travel around at street level. It uses millions of 3D photographs to give users a 360° horizontal and 290° vertical view of their location. The photos are typically taken via car-mounted
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edited by Wolfgang Sützl & Geoff Cox - Creating Insecurity: art and culture in the age of security, DATA browser 04
Autonomedia, ISBN 978-1570272059, UK, 2009, EnglishThe 4th anthology of texts realized by the DATA Browser series editorial group, is focused on "security", an ambiguous yet extremely popular concept, exploited by governments in order to claim its necessity, programmability and the consequent need to build a security infrastructure. The artificiality of this approach and the dangerous consequences of the current unilateral concern for security inspired the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
art . code . hacking . hacktivism . software
Island2, a squatted computer memory zone
Conceptually, a computer's memory is not only the place where code and data are temporary hosted, but it is also the short term reference for everything that is rendered on the screen. In a way, it represents something like the computer's "awareness" at a given moment, more than its "short term"
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Mary Flanagan - Critical Play, Radical Game Design
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262062688, USA, 2009, EnglishAfter a few years of serious and prolific videogame studies, fed by the industry boom, the research is starting to focus on reconnecting with the history of games through strong links that would help to understand and expand videogame paradigms. In this articulate book Flanagan starts with a major ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
art . software
Artificial Smile, it's a happy world, after all
The digital representation of reality is technically and conceptually a fake, and this "fake" is more and more what we're used to. The process of reducing in pixels (causing a loss of details), approximating colors (causing a loss of tones) and sounds (causing a loss of frequencies) are definitively creating a
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Iman Moradi. Ant Scott, Joe Gilmore, Christopher Murphy - Glitch: Designing Imperfection
Mark Batty Publisher, ISBN 978-0979966668, USA, 2009, EnglishError, and even more importantly, its perception and visual beauty are at the heart of the "glitch art" movement. Be it ethereal, as with a few seconds of uncertainty in the graphic rendering, or fixed, as a more or less stable bug in a file, the glitch is a recurrent, yet peripheral visual component. This is the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sonicity, live data space
With the installation Sonicity, the English artist Stanza adds another significant chapter to his quest for new metaphors to translate the countless interactions produced by data passing through an environment into a sensory plane. Stanza's aim is to create a data space that is perceived as alive. To achieve this goal he has installed a great number of sensors that are
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Dragan Espenschied, Olia Lialina - Digital Folklore: To Computer Users, with Love and Respect
Merz Akademie, ISBN-13: 978-3937982250, Germany, 2009, EnglishOlga Lialina and Dragan Espenschied have invested a huge amount of time in investigating something that others have simplistically dismissed as "mundane". They have been among the very few to understand the importance of a historic moment (the first years of the world wide web) and the birth of its "pop culture" - a history they appropriately define as "digital folklore". Beyond the recurrent naivete ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
art . privacy . visual
Stolen Moments, a human webcam in New York
The process of getting used to being constantly watched and monitored by webcams, social networks and unscrupulous invaders of our privacy has certainly had an effect on our expressions and movements. Our everyday gestures have necessarily taken on an artificial quality due to the feeling of
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edited by Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund - Audio.Visual: On Visual and Related Media
Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3897902930, Germany, 2009, EnglishCornelia and Holger Lund established and run the Fluctuating Images gallery in Stuttgart since 2004, and in 2009 they relocated to Berlin. Their activity was centered on connecting the local audiovisual artist community (with a special care for the VJ scene) with the international one through works and ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
art . biotech . robot . science
Propagations, light robots as cellular automata
The basic mechanisms of artificial intelligence are still around, probably because there are still few real applications able to make a user think that a machine has some kind of "intelligence". So "organic" qualities are not yet generally associated with digital machines. Cellular automata (a grid of cells
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Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear
The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, U.S.A., 2010, EnglishSound waves can't usually damage your ears unless you constantly keep headphone volume too high,or you insist on standing very close to tall speakers during a concert for too long. Used in the right way (or wrong way), however, they can be a scary armament, able to inflict various degrees of harassment, ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
art . net . preservation . software
Temporary.cc, interaction is destruction
Digital data has a paradoxical status. Immaterial by definition, it nonetheless has a need for a physical substance (hardware) to manifest itself. Eternal and not subject to decay, it is forced to bond its life to the hosting support, inheriting fragility and a tendency to degenerate. Furthermore, data legibility is
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Cornelia Sollfrank - Expanded Original
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775723909, Germany, 2009, English, GermanThe work of Cornelia Sollfrank is one of the most enlightening attempts to describe the consequences of immateriality in art. She consistently points to the obsolescence of concepts such as "original" and "copyrighted", developing a full spectrum of perspectives. Even if the core of her work comes out of the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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Web 2.0 suicide machine + Seppukoo, social network self-destruction
Parodies of social networking services started to appear since the Friendster boom in the early 2000s. Anti-social networking platforms as introvertster, snubster, enemybook or isolatr playfully subverted online community dynamics targeting their shallowness as much as
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Sherry Turkle - Simulation and Its Discontents
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262012706, USA, 2009, EnglishStarting with two ethnographic studies she undertook twenty years apart, Sherry Turkle is able to make a timely investigation in this book, addressing the role played by simulation in higher education, physics, chemistry and architecture research. The pivotal perception shift that is pervading the younger "world creators" seems highly risky, especially when seen from the previous generation's perspective, ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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IIE (Interactive Infrasonic Installation), infrasound for public consumption
IIE is an interactive acoustic installation through which Reinhard Gupfinger researches infrasounds, that is, those sounds that, having a frequency less than 20/16 Hertz (20/16 cycles per second), are below the audible threshold of the human ear. While the ear is insensitive to those sounds, the human body can nevertheless perceive
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Neural 34, Fake'ology
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edited by Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer - Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph
NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626006, The Netherlands, 2009, EnglishThe slow and almost unavoidable disintegration of pieces of early electronic art is part of a broader problem that involves the preservation of both their materials and their historical documentation. This task can be accomplished only by trying to systematize the rescued documents, in order to ease the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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