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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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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) |
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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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edited by Song-Ming Ang, Kim Cascone - The Book of Guilty Pleasures
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, 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) |
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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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Sound Tossing, Artificial Urban Crickets
In the urban landscape it can be hard to distinguish a sign from a trace and sometimes even from a piece of garbage. The global popularity of shoe tossing, the practice of throwing worn out shoes over telephone wires, can be partially attributed to this ambiguity. What does it mean when a pair of shoes are seen hanging overhead? While the motives of shoe-tossers remain unknown, they have inspired
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Urban Audio, composing with traffic
When R. Murray Shafer conducted the International Sound Preference Survey a few decades ago, traffic noise was categorized as one of the least appreciated sounds in the world, together with dentist drills and chalk squeaking on blackboard. Sound artist Florian Tuercke has been spending the last few years
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TinyRiot, the sound of a thousand (tiny) riots
With most demonstra- tions and street protests it's hard to know exactly who hurled the first bottle. Amidst a sea of people engaged in a collaborative state of mind, the sense of anonymity generated can be very empowering. In the ever-congealing, international abyss of the iPhone (the networks, the users and the apparatus itself) anonymity in this perceived collective is curbed by a registered phone number
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Brandon LaBelle - The Sonic Body: Figures 1-12
Errant Bodies, ebr_06, cd + bookletAre there limits to the sounds that can be packed as a product (i.e. a label release)? Noise, field recordings, silence, disturbing or pure frequencies, sounds from objects or machines have always been welcome in the ample soundscape of experimental music, especially when produced in a conceptually worthy style. The Sonic Body pushes another limit. It records dance movements; the sounds of ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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L.S.D./Sonic Graffiti – Urban Screen Sonifier
Recyclism aka Benjamin Gaulon offers an original and playful reading of video advertisement displays. Competing for attention in our daily lives, plasma, led and lcd screens have become ordinary elements of the urban landscape, delivering familiar corporate propaganda in a technologically updated form. Gaulon employs his L.S.D. (light to sound device) to
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Disc.o, optical loop temple
Disc.o is a plastic representation of the unit length of repetitive contemporary music: the Loop. The author, Andreas Haider (aka muk), is explicitly referencing the SuperPiano of Emerick Spielmann, invented in 1929 as the first photoelectric sound synthesizer. The installation consists of two parallel circular planes positioned at head height and connected to the ceiling. The lower disc consists of
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Tristan Perich, 1-Bit Symphony
Cantaloupe Music, microchip in cd case, Ca21042, 2009-2010Coming a few years after the first Perich's 1-Bit Music "circuit album", this 1-Bit Symphony never ceases to amaze. The first problem is: how to define such a musical product (electronics in a transparent jewelry box which "executes" music)? The only reference that quickly comes to mind is the Buddha Machine, but that was made on top of something already used for other purposes. Despite its familiar ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Soplarte, enchanting glass orchestra
Soplarte is a performance by an orchestra of wind instruments built using the technique of glass blowing. Recently performed at the EMAF festival 2011 in Osnabrueck, this unique ensemble was born out of the passion of Charlotte Van Wouwe (the artist who created the work) for wind instruments and glass. All the instruments used have a conical shape but with different levels of curvature, which
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Lotto Beats, betting the rhythm
Deciding which lottery numbers to play is always a difficult choice. Generally the categories of thought are two: one is trusting in coincidence (when for example people obtain numbers from dreams or the events of everyday life), the other is probability theory using mathematical systems of varying complexity. Through the work Lotto Beats, Arturas Bumsteinas proposes a
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Jean-Yves Leloup - Digital Magma
Sternberg Press, 2010, English, ISBN 978-1-933128-70-2, 176 pagesA trajectory of almost thirty years is taken as a sort of hypertext path by Jean-Yves Leloup in his parceled examination of electronic music and its rapid and compelling evolution. It's composed of short chapters focusing on a single topic. It starts with the amorphous spaces of the "Rave", and continues with the music "Territories", between tourism, nomadism and connected globalism, and the "Mix", with ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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VidiMasher 3000, mashup on a screen
The mashup master Mark Gunderson, aka The Evolution Control Committee, has been in the music plagiarism field for the last couple of decades. One of his latest tactical products (after so many others) is called VidiMasher 3000. It's a 122-centimeter rear-projected faux
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The Army of Darkness: Embodied algorithms for artificial mindlessness
In algorithmic composition one frequent problem that programmers are faced with is how to make computers less predictable. The clue to the matter is that there are infinitely more variables in the physical world than in virtual environments. Searching for an audiovisual implementation of this principle and tapping into the culture of hobby robotics, sound-art collective Gullibloon has
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a film by Amy Grill, Speaking in Code : Everything Changes When You Get Lost in Music
sQuare, DVD, 2008This is a documentary film made with passion about passionate musicians. Amy Grill, director, and her husband David Day, a techno enthusiast working at a Cambridge (U.S.)-based music distributor decided to fund this movie about their shared love for techno, shot over the course of a few years. She narrates the film, and both of them appear as the main characters of the movie. But their passion just ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Quintetto, sounding goldfishes
Neural issue # 37 came with a booklet on Zachary Lieberman's workshop at Fabrica. Here Lieberman asks the question: "How can we use code to create real-time animation that is lifelike and organic?" Back in 1986 Craig Reynolds gave one answer to this question. His “Boids” algorithm,
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SoLu, correspondence between audio and visual spectrum
Associating music and color as a concept can be traced back to the 16th century painter Arcimboldo, even if the most quoted modern example is the "Sarabet", a sort of "color organ" invented in 1918 by pianist Mary Hallock-Greenewalt. Nevertheless objective correspondences between color and sound are rare. André Rangel' "SoLu" is an installation which converts "the exponential spacing of the intervals
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VJing by 375 Wikipedians
Greyscale Press, ISBN 978-2-9700706-0-3, August 2010, Format: Paperback, 4.25" x 6.875", 122 pagesIn her introduction, Ana Carvalho describes the production process of this book as a "wiki-sprint." It is, in fact, the result of gathering together the various people who contributed to the extensive defining of "Vjing" during a week-long writing marathon at the Mapping Festival in Geneva in May 2010. Some of them were physically present, others were online, but people from a number of countries formed the ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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R E < O R D S, records mutate into apps
"Net label" is the established definition of record labels that produce only mp3 files and usually give them away (or sometimes even sell them) online. Delaware, an atypical Japanese music/design group, has established "R E < O R D S", an "iPhone/iPodTouch label" selling their products as apps. The music product in this embodiment mutates into an app, being a self-sufficient "player" containing
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Fred Moth vs Ben Sheppee - av8ion ep
lightrhythm visuals
, dvd,
2010 The now expansive VJ scene has historically included quite a few talented designers fond of club music, coupling it with their visual skills. In the 2000s a few Vjing "labels" were born, producing a different range of products, aimed more at its own niche than to the general public. Lightrhythm Visuals, one such label, has produced a number of dvd "albums". These products are more often ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Enphonic Graphomania, the visual sound of mania
In the First Surrealist Manifesto (1924) surrealism was defined in terms of automatism: "pure psychic automatism, by which an attempt is made to express, either verbally, in writing or in any other manner, the true functioning of thought". One of the drawing techniques adopted to reveal the unconscious was Entopic Graphomania in which a dot is made at the site of each impurity or difference in colour in a blank sheet of paper, and then
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"Beethoven piano Sonata, no. 1 - no. 14 ", stripped sonata
Stripping the work of Ludwig van Beethoven of its musical components and performing only its tempo: this is the conceptual operation at the root of "Beethoven's Piano Sonata, no. 1 - no. 14" by Samson Young, a classically trained musician who is strongly oriented to electronica and installation art. In this case, the installation is made from 47 electronic devices, arranged symmetrically in a grid, each of which flashes and performs a
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The Secret Sounds of Spores, the sound of the almost invisible
The Secret Sounds of Spores is an installation created by Yann Seznec and mushrooms expert Patrick Hickey. As the title suggests, Seznec's intention was to translate the movement of spores into sound. The phenomenon is largely confined to the undergrowth and - as such – is usually out of the reach
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Another Soundscape, cable car-like sequencing
Sound installations frequently dispense with linear musical time by means of spatial arrangements. In the work “another soundscape” by Chung-Kun Wang, linear time is reintroduced and represented spatially following the model of western musical notation. Exhibited at the Digital Art Center di Taipei, what the
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Open Reel Ensemble, rethinking reel to reel
Reel to reel tape machines are dinosaurs compared to the digital audio workstations we use today and old timers are usually grateful not to have to resort to scissors when an edit is required in the modern sound studio. For people like Wada Ei who were born after the personal computer however old tape machines still carry a mysterious fascination. His Open Reel Ensemble has
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VV. AA. - Twisted Cabaret
cd+dvd Volvox, VOL0902, France, 2010This is a collection of music and video (on cd and dvd) tracking artists that are altering or simply using codes from what has been known as the "Weimar Cabaret." This Cabaret included burlesque, darkness and comedy, and while its practices ended decades ago, its legacy can be found here in the form of modern music video artifacts. Culturally this is an environment that pushes on a theatrical and ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Frances Dyson - Sounding New Media: Immersion and Embodiment in the Arts and Culture
University of California Press, 2009, English, ISBN-13: 978-0520258990, U.S.A.The most obvious link between sound and new media is that both are immaterial. Obviously there's more, especially through combination. Frances Dyson goes well beyond this point, adopting an interesting and original strategy: she argues that new media represents an "accumulation of the auditive technologies of the past." Specifically, she methodically examines ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Electromagnetic soundscapes, revealing the hidden environment
All around us the air is filled with silent signals. Our bodies bathe daily in streams of electromagnetic waves connecting hundreds of networks in the growing family of wireless media. Yann Leguay has been working with The GhostLab to establish a protocol for capturing radio frequencies spanning from VLF to UHF, including
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Interferenze 2010 Rurality 2.0 report
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The idea of the nonconformist as no longer the black sheep but the one now wearing a digital player and headphones admirably sums up the theme of the 2010 edition of Interference: "Rurality 2.0". This year the electronic arts festival was held July 23rd to 25th in Bisaccia, Upper Irpinia, a significant place for its (undoubted) rural features as well as it being home to
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Prélude au sommeil, Jean-Jacques Perrey & la musique électronique
Les Films d'un Jour, 2009, France, Francaise, EnglishPrélude au sommeil (Prelude to sleep) is a documentary film catching the spirit of Jean-Jacques Perrey, an eclectic electronic music pioneer who began his impressive career in the fifties. The film reconstructs the trajectory of a free spirit who flew to the USA with his early Ondioline electronic instrument (sponsored by Edith Piaf and Jean Cocteau). Perrey is often briefly interviewed, but ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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RHFID Speakers, a different directional sound
Speakers are neutral. They carry the sound from its decoded source to our ears, but they are firm, static and impartial. They can be adjusted to create a better listening experience, or multiplied and singularly managed to enhance it even more, but they are meant to stay where you placed them the first time they were used. RHFID Speakers by Ulrik Andersen Hogrebe, Filippo Cuttica and
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Otto, touching sound samples
Luca De Rosso offers to all those who have dreamed of manipulating a digital sample by literally touching it with their hands, a way to turn their dreams into reality. "Otto", the name of this small device designed and built by the Italian designer, is not a simple controller: it is a component integrating hardware and
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