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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
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) |
audio art . drone . experimental . field recordings
Mudboy - Mort Aux Vaches
CD - Mort Aux VachezThe audio compact disk is presented rigidly bolted between three different rectangular wooden blocks, held together by metal hinges, then fixed through the usual split pin, the symbol of the series. The new Mort Aux Vaches release includes five unreleased recordings and marks the return of Mudboy - hosted ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . free form
Denis Tricot / Eric Cordier - Orgue De Bois
CD - PreleNarrow strips of wood, roughly five inches long, thin, connected to each other to reach a considerable length (up to ten meters), totally suspended by special rods, shape sinuous undulations, as sculptural instruments and architectural installations, artistic and musical. This construction by Denis Tricot and ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Gintas K - Lovely Banalities
 CD - CronicaThere are fourteen different tracks in "Lovely Banalities", the second release on Crónica for the Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K. Although there are multiple "field recording" interludes, connections and micro-frequencies, they result in a rather continuous, evocative and fascinating flow of sound. They ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental
Marcus Maeder - Die Wunschmaschinen
DVD - DomizilSince the mid-nineties, the experiments of Marcus Maeder permeated the Kombirama of Zurich with a certain conceptual freshness, which was both seminal and intuitive. It was at this time - for the first time - that the term "digital culture" found its application. They were the same years in which Bernd ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . soundscapes
Robert Hampson - Vectors
CD - TouchThree dense and acousmatic tracks, in which Robert Hampson displays unconventional attitudes in very imaginative ways, are devoted to the construction of complex soundscapes. The plots are constructed with great care for the pauses; the ones in 'Umbra' - quote from Latin referring to the darker area ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Jorge Haro - Works Based On Field Recordings
 CD - Sudamerica ElectronicaJorge Haro, composer, sound and audio-visual artist, head of Sudamerica Electronica and LIMb0 festival director, insists on remarkable organic quality recordings, diluted in deconstructed scores, intertwined with long silences, drones and concrete auditory events, all very coarse and responsive with finely ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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Daphne Oram - Oramics
2CD - Paradigm DiscsSeminal anticipations of future musical concepts and techniques from a time now passed away - a time fed by a different perception of the "concept" of the future, characterised by a very strong and rational exploration of the concept of "new" in music. These are the first stirrings of an electronic age - one ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . drone . experimental . folktronica
Anne Laplantine - A Little May Time Be
CD - AhornfelderThe harmonic structures in this work have a distracted quality, a fragile polyphony. Experimenter and transalpine videomaker Anne Laplantine is well-known for projects created under the moniker Michiko Kusaki e Angelika Koehlermann. She is now turning her attention to a style of digital pop, rendered in ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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Tom Hamilton - Local Customs
CD - Mutable MusicThe elegant and modulated instrumental interventions of Jacqueline Martelle (flute), Richard Cohen (clarinet), James Martin (trombone), Terry Kippenberger (bass) and Rich O'Donnell (percussion) are twisted with electronic harmonic sequences dictated by Tom Hamilton, in a work similar to electro- ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . plagiarism
Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Sample - Circulations
 CD - FaiticheA multifaceted cluster of different auditive materials, a set of miniatures, a choreographic movement of field recordings: it is not surprising if 'the Society for the Emancipation of Sampling' promises 'financial protection and legal support in cases of active infringement of the copyright associated with that ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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Heribert Friedl - Recherche
 CD - NonvisualobjectsThe hackbrett - or cimbalom - is a chordophone, trapezoidal in shape, with 90 to 125 metal strings. The bass strings are arranged in groups of 3 which are tuned in unison and are copper over-spun. The strings are stretched in an order that allows different groups to overtop the others on each side ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental
Thomas Peter - Medir
 CD - DomizilThomas Peter - Medir Sounds conceived to "furnish" virtual spaces; dilated and very balanced sequences (it is not chance that 'Medir' means "measure" in Spanish) articulated in a production deft in its use of drones, pauses and inspired emotional sounds. This is a maniacally organized project by Peter ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . glitch'n'cuts
AAVV - Feeding The Transmitter
CD -amp bit"Feeding The Transmitter" collects artists with backgrounds in ambient, electronic and glitch who share an interest in contemporary and experimental attitudes. The work is focused on very unusual rhythmic structures and click-n-bleep textures, often "stuffed" with samples and field recordings. Michael Santos, ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . electronica . experimental
The Smiling Buddhas - LO
 CD - BaseThis work comes in an eco-friendly package, with a hardcover that pulls out the cd as if it was origami (Swedish Jakebox's patent) and has a stencilled "window" as a cover that contains a Tibetan inspired picture. The Smiling Buddhas present their first production on CD; 'Lo', a vibrant, hypnotic, ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . free form
DNE - 47 Songs Humans Shouldn't Sing
CD - Room40The idea that it's impossible to sing some songs is persuasive. Do not expect - however - in these 47 small scores to face any 'synthetic' mixtures. The construction here is rather of avant-garde improvisations dating back to the second half of the 80s, when 'international post-punk' has almost ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . audio art . experimental . field recordings
Shinkei / Luigi Turra - YU
 CD - Non Visual ObjectsTextures dilated, millimetrically suspended in space such that only distracted listening could make appear neutral, together with field recordings and ambient tonal digressions. These are the sound confluences developed by Luigi Turra and Shinkei, both musicians accustomed to minimal audio ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . field recordings
AAVV - Rhythm
 CD - Cherry/GruenrekorderA series of wonderful artists follow one another in Cherry Music (Japan) and Gruenrekorder (Germany) split release. It consists of field recordings with an underlying 'intrinsic' rhythm, hence the title. This is an idea that in different ways permeates all ten selected tracks. Among the experimenters ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
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. GO TO SOUND ARCHIVE Yaco - Peliculas Y Una Cancion
CD - SudamericaelectronicaSensitive and suspended atmospheres are unravelled in layers of sound made vivid by the juxtaposition of many textures, including field recording, deaf repetitions and clicks, hinting at spurious melodies and unexpected outcomes. Sound snippets of everyday lives are reassembled by Yaco Argentina ... [ 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) |
art . music . sound
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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art . book . music . preservation . sound
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) |
art . mobile . science
Influ, self-destructive mask against the dictatorship of fear
Turning common sense upside down is one of the most effective strategies in art, especially when dealing with hot social topics. Swine Flu (H1N1) has been the big viral outbreak of 2009. The few rules created by authorities to prevent infection have been repeated ad infinitum, although these are only
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Hannes Leopoldseder, Christine Schopf, Gerfried Stocker - Ars Electronica 1979-2009 the First 30 Years: The Network for Art Technology and Society
Hatje Cantz, ISBN 978-3775725231, Germany, 2009, English, GermanCondensing thirty years of the Ars Electronica festival history into six hundred pages is the challenge of this book. It's a tough task to make a selection and to deal with the inevitable incompleteness and redundancy, as the author's disclaimer suggests: "the selection... by no means reflects any sort of ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
music . performance . robot . sound
SoleNoid ß, tap dance robotic concert
The tap-dance rhythmic lines are the protagonists in SoleNoid ß by Peter William Holden. Eight glossy tap-dance shoes, placed symmetrically in a circle, are animated by a computer connected with circuits controlling electromechanical valves (solenoid valves) and compressed air hydraulic pistons. The "living"
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book . hacktivism . media . net
Manuel Castells - Communication Power
Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199567041, U.S.A., 2009, English"Where does power lie in the network society?" This is the central question that Manuel Castells tries to answer in his first book in ten years. After the disillusionment of the internet utopia as a liberating medium per se, Castells describes society using hardware/software terminology, drawing a stimulating picture. He grounds his analysis of the network society through different mass media conflicts like the ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
art . music . performance . sound . visual
scoreLight, playing contours
Blind people have a different conventional way to "see." They use a walking stick to sense borders around them, and their task is made easier when they can use a special rubber guidance route on the street. This process is not too conceptually distant from pickup and vinyl mechanics, and it's also the
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Edward A. Shanken - Art and Electronic Media
Phaidon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0714847825, UK, 2009, EnglishThe size of a book is often influencing the reader. The so called "coffee table" size is either meant to entertain the casual reader in a usually public reading space, or to enhance the publisher's effort on the chosen topic, giving it the physical status of a referential book. "Art and Electronic Media" is a coffee ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
art . magazine . net . software
Sk8monkey, Twitter's wreckage by Jodi
Misusing technological tools and languages has been a trademark for Jodi.org (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans) since the mid-nineties, when they emerged as the pioneers of a movement which later became internationally known as net.art. Starting by applying this creative strategy to browsers,
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art . literature . media . mobile . preservation
Embroidered text messages, stitching virtual memory
Are we in danger of losing our memory? Lynne Brindley, Head of the British Library, has warned that as websites come and go, the memory of the nation may disappear too, leaving historians and citizens of the future with a "black hole in the knowledge base of the 21st century". On a more personal level,
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art . hacktivism . software . videogame
Can't You See I'm Busy, playing at work without feeling guilty
In the spirit of the "net.art" of the late 1990s, the project "Can't You See I'm Busy" (by Maarten Vrouwes, Friso Ludenhoff, Eric Holm and Vincent Ludenhoff) consists of various arcade games masked into generic office tools like word processing and spreadsheet software in order to hide the activities of the procrastinating cubicle worker. Games
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art . biotech . code . science
Tardigotchi, augmented virtuality
Affection for living creatures has been widely exploited in video games. From the early abstract cellular automata, through to the seminal "Little Computer People" video game (1985), the mass popularity of Tamagotchi in the nineties, and the latest wave of the Nintendo DS "Pets" series, our protective instincts
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Rita Raley - Tactical Media
Univ Of Minnesota Press, ISBN 978-0816651511, USA, 2009, EnglishDespite being developed from a singular historical context, tactical media has shown remarkable staying power as a conceptual framework for politically engaged media art projects. In the classic theorization by Geert Lovink and David Garcia for the Next Five Minutes events, Michel de Certeau’s ... [ Continue ] -> email this | + facebook + del.icio.us | TrackBacks (0) |
copyright . hacktivism . net
Pirate Kiosk, pirating the Internet in off-line mode
As the availability of copyrighted files online increases exponentially worldwide, artists and hackers are finding ways of distributing and making this data available without intentionally breaking international copyright laws. The "Pirate Kiosk", based at the Sophienstiftsplatz in Weimar, Germany, attempts to make a copy of the famous torrent tracker site, "The
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art . code . media . software
Pa++ern, esoteric language for embroidery
Pa++ern is an installation piece bringing about new interactions in social media by utilizing user-generated code strings via Twitter. It converts this data into a textile end-product using embroidering machinery. Media artists Daito Manabe
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Amagatana, bringing virtual fights into the physical world
In the multi-faceted genre of augmented reality gaming, many artists have attempted to translate virtual aspects of digital games into the physical world. These projects include everything from creating virtual maps transposed over physical locations, connecting the signage and language of these games
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