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audio art . experimental
Zavoloka - Vedana
 CD - KvitnuExtracting the CD from the very elegant "special cardboard double sleeve", an hexagonal box with polished embroidery and playing the record soon leads to the realization that the content is equally as precious as the design. Kateryna Zavoloka is certainly a well-known and appreciated artist, one of the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental . glitch'n'cuts
Alfredo Costa Monteiro + Ben Owen - Frêle à Vide
 CD - Contour EditionsHarsh frequencies, superimposed in layers, obtained thanks to the feedback of a Walkman and emissions produced using short and medium-wave radios. These are some of the techniques employed by Alfredo Costa Monteiro and Ben Owen in "Frêle À Vide", a cooperative project in which several microphones, mixers, a turntable arm and several self-built accessories come together, alongside an ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . post rock . soundscapes
Gator Bait Ten - Harvester
 CD - Ohm ResistenceThe grooves of “Harvester” offer a very shady, almost maniacal sound, characterized by slow cadences and post-rock influences. Gator Bait Ten, comprising M. Gregor Filip, Simon J. Smerdon, Kurt Submerged and Ted Parson, imprint very particular atmospheres that are both melancholic and fascinating. The group ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
ambient . electro . electronica
AAVV - Mindfield
 CD - PsychonavigationPsychonavigation is an Irish label based in Dublin, stylistically focused between ambient, electronica and electro. Head honcho Keith Down is also - in this case - the curator of “Mindfield”, an interesting collection dedicated to a certain "mentalism", that crosses several musical genres and heralds calibrated, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Ben Owen and Civyiu Kkliu - Phonography Meeting
CD - Winds MeasureOrganized as a transversal field recording orchestra, the combo of Scott Smallwood, Sawako, Seth Cluett, Ben Owen and Civyiu Kkliu structured this project, providing a draft of unprocessed recordings strictly localized in fractions of 10 minutes each that have been consecutively mixed by an artist in a reciprocal handover. In "Phonography Meeting" the background climax is maintained by an "ambiance" very much ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
electronica . free form
Vega - Wormsongs
 CD - Artek SoundsHere we find a vocal stuttering, a sort of gibberish where a series of hardly decipherable words are emitted, winning us over. We are talking about "Sermon On Wings And Tergal Lobes", the first track of "Wormsongs", a not-easily decipherable album, suspended between lyricisms and noise, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
drone . experimental . field recordings
Netherworld - Over The Summit
CD - Glacial MovementsThe Netherworld project, supported by the Roman producer Alessandro Tedeschi (founder of the label Glacial Movements), has traditionally been characterized by ambient sounds both isolationist and ethereal. Now the road is open to a narration that assumes more sensitive and fascinating insertions. The textures ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Emmanuele Gibello - Labyrinthe
 CD - Bruit ClairThe debut album of Emmanuelle Gibello, a Parisian artist accustomed to the union of visual and electronica, reveals a skillful manipulator of field recordings that have been extrapolated from both natural and urban contexts. The work utilizes electronic instruments, the Internet, video cameras, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
abstract . audio art . experimental . free form
Gluid - Twee
 CD - esc.recDutchman Bram Van Den Oever, better known as Gluid, has already published a first solo cdr-album on esc.rec. For his second release he collaborated with Paul De Jong and MiaMia. Now Van Den Oever is back solo and with "Twee" the immersive and multiform sequences gain a musicality even richer in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . experimental
Illuha - Shizuku
 CD - 12KHere is some really sweet and delicate instrumental music by Illuha, the moniker that hides Corey Fuller and Data Tomoyashi, two musicians who articulate gentle and winding sequences, operating mainly from their base in Tokyo. However, it was in a old church in Bellingham, in Whatcom county ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental
Antoine Chessex - Dust for 3 Violins, Backtape and Electronics
 CD - Cave12Antoine Chessex is a talented Swiss composer, sax player and experimental musician, also familiar with sound installations and trans-disciplinarian collaborations. For "Dust for 3 Violins, Backtape and Electronics", as the description makes clear, the author (in the recordings made at the Berghain, a very ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . field recordings . soundscapes
Yann Novak - Presence
 CD - HibernateThe recordings made for Presence were originally conceived by Yann Novak for a sound performance held at VOLUME, a curated event at the Torrance Art Museum in June 2010. The sound captures were made on that occasion using a cell phone. The same sounds were then digitally processed, significantly ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Marc Behrens - Apparatus
 CD - AgxivateinA pair of headphones, a couple of active speakers, a DVD player, a digital frame with a USB memory stick – all set in a sound space activated each time for a single listener. "Apparatus" can be enjoyed from two different sound sources; on headphones and at different volume levels in the Phonebox - a small booth ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Francisco López + Novi_sad - Titans
CD - GH Records Francisco Lopez and Novi_Sad certainly don't need too much introduction in the contemporary enclaves of experimental electronica. In "Titans", again, they prove their incommensurable talent, unraveling ambient sound scores through a long process of transformation of the materials used. Field recordings ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . noise
Yasunao Tone - MP3 Deviations # 6+7
 CD - MegoFrom the tradition of the Fluxus movement - of which Yasunao Tone was formerly one of the important organizers - the Japanese maestro transcends continuous mutation of matter with forms that are not very crystallized, nor easily encodable. What flows from the grooves of the first long suite (over 30 ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . drone . soundscapes
Luigi Turra - Ki
 CD - and/OARLuigi Turra presents three CDs in a single release for and/OAR, including an equal number of extended and distinct compositions - Enso, Ancient Silence and Shasekishu respectively. From the beginning the trilogy by the Italian sound artist imprints itself in guise of a full-bodied electroacoustic continuum but ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
acoustic/digital . experimental
Lucia Mense – Electronic Counterpoint
 CD - Satelita / A-MusikYou can listen to Lucia Mense at the Berghain in Berlin, together with Sören Leupold, in a live performance released by Lux Aeterna – and then be now surprised by this project, which retains the same grace and effectiveness, though now adds in rich ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson - Cross-Pollination
CD - TouchTwo distinct compositions complete this release by Chris Watson & Marcus Davidson for the renowned label Touch. The first track (composed by Chris Watson only) "Midnight at the Oasis" stands out for its focus on exploring oblique frequency interlacements that cross from the animal world in very varied ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Mimosa / Moize - Hear One Near And Think Of The Other
 CD - Dragon’s Eye Minimal digital sequences, crackling and very refined, fill the listening space. Lightly throbbing sound developments are central to this project by Lucia H. Chung and Martin J. Thompson, the former from Taiwan, the latter from London. Both are experienced investigators of rarefied environmental ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
audio art . experimental . field recordings
Ernst Karel - Swiss Mountain Transport Systems
 CD - GruenrekorderThe reasons why a sound-artist might specifically limit the locations where sound is captured are numerous. In this case Ernst Karel has chosen the many transport systems typical of a mountain as the subject of a meticulous investigation. Ski lifts, chair lifts and cable cars, chosen for their particular and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
experimental . field recordings . soundscapes
Thorsten Knaub - Listening Station
 CD - Thorsten KnaubThorsten Knaub - Listening Station It's not the first time - of course - and it won't be the last here at Neural that in an experimental music, soundscapes or field recordings review we concern ourselves with audio productions that are somehow correlated with architectures and abandoned spaces, be they buildings or disused structures, old ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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) |
audio art . experimental
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
. GO TO SOUND ARCHIVE 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) |
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art . music . sound art
Florian Hecker - Speculative Solution
CD + Book, Mego eMEGO 118, Urbanomic UF13, 2010
It's less and less common to find music labels brave enough to release and actually invest in concepts and experimentation, giving them proper form as products. Although realized with support from public funding, this work is a nice exception. Florian Hecker is quite well-known for being a composer both playful and restlessly investigative of conceptual topics, not afraid to delve into fringe fields of
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art . religion
Faith Condition, religious technologies
Faith Condition is the graduation project in Industrial Design by Lukas Franciszkiewicz, a designer who has focused his creative practice on some important questions concerning our media society. In particular Franciszkiewicz focused his research on the inability of traditional religions to fully understand the notion of altered sensory perception. The work Faith Condition questions a trend
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book . hacktivism . net
edited by Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, Mashup Cultures
Springer
, ISBN-13: 978-3709100950
256 pages, 2010, English
Participatory strategies involving the collective manipulation of digital content were hampered in the past due to worries about intellectual property rights, but they are increasingly becoming welcomed now that commercial online social networks have begun to understand the inherent recreational potential. Sonvilla-Weiss has stated that he picked the title of this book because in "web developments [it]
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activism . videogame
Unmanned, playing tolerance to reality
Molleindustria'
s games have traditionally aimed to put the player in a rather uncomfortable or unusual position. Previous games have asked users to run McDonald's businesses, to hide church scandals in Italy, or to supervise child labour in Congo. The team of radical Italian game designers have launched their latest challenge: 'Unmanned' invites you to become a UAV pilot and follow the character throughout
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art . hacktivism . software . visual
Extrafile.org, software art with practical usage
Artists have always been fascinated by imperfection. A little failure, a small mistake, an unexpected behaviour can be perceived as more meaningful and intriguing than the perfect artwork. This is even more relevant in the computer world where pushing the breaking point of technology is common practice, as shown by a renewed interest in glitch aesthetics over the past few years. A recent example
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art . book . interactive
R. Klanten, S. Ehmann, L. Feireiss - A Touch of Code: Interactive Installations and Experiences
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553314, 240 pages, 2011, English
The fields of interactive (or "computational") design and digital art have been progressively juxtaposed since the two fields began to use the same tools, producing comparable output, eventually posing the question if a distinction between these two fields is still needed (actually, yes, it is). This luxurious, thick and glossy book is that kind of gift from god for curators when they have to deal with
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art . media . mobile . videogame
Photo / Nikto, fighting with light and darkness
Photo/Nikto is a game for the iPad, designed by Annelore Schneider and Douglas Edric Stanley for the project "Unterplay" of the Master of the Media Design - HEAD Geneve. Its functioning is very simple. Before playing, the touchscreen of the device is exactly half white and half black. Touching the screen the game starts. If the room light is on, the white part of the screen gradually
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book . music . sound art
Brandon LaBelle, Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life
Continuum, ISBN-13: 978-1441161369, 304 pages, 2010, English
This is a book about "auditory life," exploring the everyday practice of listening and how auditory studies can better interpret and influence society. Systematically divided into chapters which reflect specific urban acoustic environments (Underground, Home, Sidewalk, Street, Shopping Mall, Sky), the text
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art . hacktivism . mobile
Phone Story, behind Apple allure
Phone Storyis a new game by Molleindustria for Android and iPhone (available for Android but already banned by Apple and deleted from the Appstore, because it was charged with violent content and non-compliance with the technical requirements). The player has to cross four stages that represent some of the production steps that provide the high-tech industries worldwide. "Coltan" is the phase in which minerals needed for the
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art . book . hacktivism . magazine
R. Klanten, A. Mollard, M. Hubner - Behind the Zines: Self-publishing Culture
Die Gestalten Verlag, ISBN-13: 978-3899553369, 240 pages, 2011, English
If you're stuck with the concept of zines as a product of punk, you'd better check this book and learn how "self-publishing" in print has evolved. A book about magazines has always been a kind of celebration, turning the issues of the "expiring" magazines into history in the pages of a (non-expiring) book. But even more important than the many visuals here are the inspiring interviews that have been
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art . music . sound
Blackdeath Noise Synth, sounds from the plague
A set of relatively simple rules can often depict the complex patterns found in many natural phenomena. Among these, the relationships between individuals of a living society, like the one of a bacterial colony, have been studied for centuries. The famous Conway's Game of Life is a prime example of how these behaviors can be simulated mathematically, and since its introduction forty years ago, it has given birth
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art . book . net . software
Olga Goriunova - Art Platforms and Cultural Production on the Internet
Routledge, ISBN-13: 978-0415893107, 176 pages, 2011, English
Beyond being a co-organizer of four editions of the mythical read.me software art festivals (each of which was documented in a reader she co-edited) Olga Goriunova is an author who has spent a lot of research time delving into concepts of software in art and society. For many years she also co-curated the online software art repository runme.org, which collected digital artworks dealing with the
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Neural 41, Addiction(s)
The new Neural issue is out.Subscribe now! because only subscribers will get the sound art catalogue 'Eavesdropping, the indiscretions of the ear'. Or you can also subscribe to the magazine new Digital Edition accessing all issues since #29. Or you can buy the magazine from the closest of the almost 200 stores stocking it. A back issues pack is available. ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Neural 41 extra - Eavesdropping, The Indiscretions of The Ear catalogue of the exhibition
Neural #41 extra, Eavesdropping - The Indiscretions of The Ear, catalogue of the exhibition, (only for subscribers):artists: Acid Police | Anne Wellmer | BMB con. Jeroen Uyttendaele | Lars Kynde | Michele Spanghero Wen Chin Fu curated by Matteo Marangoni Villakabila Violenweg 2, Den Haag Attempting to contain sound inside buildings is like trying to hold water in clasped hands. In terms of acoustic isolation, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
art . biotech . science
Communicating Bacteria Dress, bacterial social design
"Com- municating Bacteria" is an installation inspired by biological research on the flow of communication between bacteria. It is the result of a collaboration between the artist Anna Domitriu, (for a long time engaged in research on microbiology and collaborative practices) the microbiologists Paul Simon and John Park, and the video artist Alex May. The communication within the bacterial colonies is critical for
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art . book . hacktivism
Institute Historian T. F. Peterson (Author), Eric Bender (Contributor) - Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT [Paperback]
![Institute Historian T. F. Peterson (Author), Eric Bender (Contributor) - Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT [Paperback], 248 pages, The MIT Press, updated edition edition (March 11, 2011), English, ISBN-10: 0262515849, ISBN-13: 978-0262515849, nightwork.jpg](http://www.neural.it/art/images7/nightwork.jpg)
Paperback: 248 pages, The MIT Press; updated edition edition (March 11, 2011), English, ISBN-10: 0262515849, ISBN-13: 978-0262515849
This is a book about hacks and pranks at MIT, compiled by the Institute Historian and published by the MIT Press (actually, it's an updated version from 2003). With these premises one might expect a self-indulgent book... but actually it's not. Using original pictures and documents, the book reveals the inexhaustible creativity of MIT students (who seem to be in a kind of permanent state of intellectual
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art . hacktivism . surveillance
I-R.A.S.C., wearable surveillance protection
I-R.A.S.C. is a device that protects against infrared surveillance cameras. It is in fact composed of an elastic wearable band equipped with special LEDs that emit infrared rays that are invisible to the naked eye because their frequency is between 780 and 1 mm. But the reception of the image on the surveillance cameras is amended and a ball of light replaces the face of the person framed. The device
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book . music . preservation
. GO TO MEDIA CULTURE ARCHIVE
edited by Mario Côté and Brigitte Kerhervé - Archives Sonores
booklet+dvd, 44 pages, Canada, 2009, EAVM/Hexagram, ISBN: 978-2-922392-11-1"Sonic Architecture" is an expression used to describe very different things, from the architectural audio-reflective properties of a building to the structure of a complex piece of music. But within Archives Sonores, it faultlessly expresses architectural spaces that represent pieces of the urban collective memory, through carefully planned recordings. Côté and Kerhervé, researchers at Hexagram ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Sonic Genoma
Suoni Futuri Digitali
Wicked Style
nordiC (Dissonanze)
Tecnologie di Liberazione (2001)
Virtual Light (1995)
Internet Underground Guide (1995)
Suoni Futuri Digitali
Wicked Style
nordiC (Dissonanze)
Tecnologie di Liberazione (2001)
Virtual Light (1995)
Internet Underground Guide (1995)
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Alessandro Ludovico
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Aurelio Cianciotta Mendizza
contributors:
Josephine Bosma
Vito Campanelli
Jonah Brucker Cohen
Valentina Culatti
Michael Dieter
Daphne Dragona
Vicente Gutierrez
Matteo Marangoni
Paolo Pedercini
production and promotion:
Chiara Ciociola
infrastructure design
and consulting:
Paolo Cirio
translations:
Roberto Orsini
technical consulting:
Paolo Mangraviti
Alessandro Ludovico
assistant editor:
Aurelio Cianciotta Mendizza
contributors:
Josephine Bosma
Vito Campanelli
Jonah Brucker Cohen
Valentina Culatti
Michael Dieter
Daphne Dragona
Vicente Gutierrez
Matteo Marangoni
Paolo Pedercini
production and promotion:
Chiara Ciociola
infrastructure design
and consulting:
Paolo Cirio
translations:
Roberto Orsini
technical consulting:
Paolo Mangraviti
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