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AAVV - Sound Exchange, Experimental Music Cultures In Central And Eastern Europe
 edited by: Carsten Seiffarth, Carsten Stabenow, Golo Föllmer - PFAU Verlag, ISBN 978-3897274877, 416 pages, 2012, German, EnglishThere was a long tradition of dismissing and repressing experimental music in Central and Eastern Europe during socialist times. And even after 1989 the West didn't fully explore what was missed in those decisive few decades. This book begins the process of making up for lost time, bypassing the classic academic approach ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Pendulum Choir - Complex Polyphonies And Gravitational Force
Cod.Act's Pendulum Choir explores the relationship between gravity, vocal movement in space and choral composition by placing a 9-piece choir on tilting, continuously moving platforms. A revolving, undulating hydraulic jack supports each singer. These movements have a direct physical impact on the singers, causing
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People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz - The Keystone Cut Ups
 DVD - Illegal ArtVicky Bennett (People Like Us) has become well known for her audio/visual collages that draw from old movie archives. The Keystone Cut Ups is the brilliant outcome of a collaboration with Ergo Phizmiz, a "collagist" whose style matches Bennett's perfectly. The two have already composed two albums ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Peter Cusack - Sounds From Dangerous Places
Rer Megacorp [2CD + book], ISBN: 9780956018410, 80 pages, 2012, EnglishPeter Cusack has traveled to what he defines as "dangerous places", including sites that have suffered environmental devastation (think Chernobyl) and locations at the edges of military zones. In many such places it is the local population who suffer the most. The author engaged in field recording activities in ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Yuri Suzuki - The Sound Of The Earth
Yuri Suzuki’s designs for unconventional players provide combinations of objects that re-mix not only the content of records but the reproduction media as well. One of his latest pieces presents us with a mix between a record player and a world globe. The Sound of the Earth
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Voice Array - Temporary Archive Of Visible Voices
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer has been developing a certain attitude through his artworks, which feature space ordered matrixes and arrays of machine-controlled materials whose reactive movements unequivocally manifest an autonomous intelligence hidden somewhere
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Oval / OvalDNA
Shitkatapult,
CD+DVD
, Strike134, 2011
It took a decade to Markus Popp/Oval to return and release another album ("O") which radically changed its approach towards more classical sounds (with drums, guitar and a cheap computer using only pre-installed sounds and plug-ins). But, collecting together huge quantities of material from times past, now comes the magnum opus "OvalDNA". And it was worth waiting for – sporting, as it does, a twenty-five
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Mikhail Karikis + Uriel Orlow - Sounds From Beneath
Sub Rosa, Book+DVD, ISBN: 978095 5736117, SR314, 2011
Treating sound as memory and involving a number of different professionals can achieve the most interesting results. "Sounds From Beneath" is the result of the collaboration between composer Mikhail Karikis and visual artist Uriel Orlow on a project exploring the sounds of coal mines and their memory in the British community. This release includes the video the two produced together and a pamphlet with
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Atomic Guitar - Pump Up The Fallout
The meltdown at Fukushima Daiichi set off by the Tōhoku earthquake (which occurred despite Japan's sophisticated prevention systems and the country's solid reputation in disaster management) has rekindled a cold-war imagery of atomic Armageddon which had been dormant under a spell of reassuring pro-nuclear propaganda. After the inability of private companies operating in the nuclear
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Unnamed Soundsculpture - Dancing With Data And Time
Unnamed soundsculpture is a video produced by onformative and chopchop and realized by Daniel Franke and Cedric Kiefer. A cloud of 22000 points, following the movements of a dancer giving a free interpretation of a track called Kreukeltape by Machinenfabriek, creates the illusion of an ever changing statue of sand. The transfiguration of the human figure into grains of sand has been obtained by
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0h!m1gas, biomimetic surveillance for scratching
Relationships between art and nature have been proposed for a long time – although they mostly function on an aesthetic level. The work of Kuai Shen, however, goes far beyond classical observations. His installation 0h!m1gas makes both artistic and scientific advances - creating a closed environment, an artificial ecosystem, defined as "biomimetics stridulation", where a colony of ants lives subjected to
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Edited by Caleb Kelly - Sound
Whitechapel Gallery, ISBN-13: 9780854881871, 240 pages, 2011, English
There seems to be a kind of sub-genre in sound art books: the anthology of historical texts. Perhaps because sound art is still a hybrid which lacks a well defined and acknowledged identity, this attitude towards compiling selections of important texts from renowned artists and musicians seems quite peculiar. Somehow it feels like a huge effort to be exhaustive and consistent, as with a comprehensive
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Simon Whetham & Hugo Olim, Mic.Madeira
Crónica, dvd, Crónica 063, 2011
Field recording exploded as a practice in experimental music during the 2000s. It has been used in the most varied ways, transcending its basic nature of "sampling" the environment, and in some inspired cases evolving a more conscious sense of recording something specific, then trying to preserve the sense of that place in subsequent uses. This video is one of those cases, and it's the revised version of
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20 hz, magnetic storm aesthetic
Making the earth's magnetism perceivable is an acquired skill that was originally developed for navigation purposes. Having to rely on the compass for orientation, seamen have been aware of the instability of the earth's magnetic field for centuries, especially when navigating at high latitudes. Semiconductor's Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt have recently completed 20 HZ
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Timo Kahlen, Noise & Beauty
Edition Ruine der Kuenste Berlin, ISBN 9783927786017, 25 years of media art, 104 pages, English / German, 2010
In 2010 Timo Kahlen celebrated twenty-five years of activity in sound sculpture and media art. His audio installations are usually constructed with small speakers emitting processed natural sounds in various physical constructions. This is a comprehensive catalogue of his sound works, showing his predilection for both disturbing and involving the spectator. Sounds are contextualized and framed in specific
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Witnesses, spiritual circuit bending
These chant-boxes are electronic devices sometimes provided to help believers pray in Buddhist temples in China. The gadgets, similar to pocket radios and sometimes packaged with images of Buddha, broadcast loops of prayer, helping the believers to follow the rhythms of the litany. In the sound installation "Witnesses" the artist Zach Poff has made use of these devices, but has changed their
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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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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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Idan Hayosh, orderly displays of threat
The work of Idan Hayosh disguises military imagery in simple arrangements of ordinary objects. Walking into his installations one is confronted with symmetrical displays of lamps, cutlery, gas tanks, scooters or fans, neatly spread out in wedge formations. These arrangements are not casual. They reproduce posters of military aircraft that Hayosh collected while
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Scott Morrison - Ballad(s) For Quiet Horizons
Room40, dvdThis is the first documentation of Scott Morrison's live installation works in the form of a series of compelling audio/visual tracks. Most of them focus on grass set in motion by an inaudible wind. The enchanting single and collective movements are cut in a very precise and specific way: producing a visual depth that is also perfectly synced with the music. The viewer, in fact, is taken aurally by the hand, ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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Vinyl Rally, record's racing
A common issue in presenting experimental music and sound art is finding an effective way to share with the audience the fun of exploring unconventional uses of musical objects. Reinventing, hacking and sometimes destroying instruments, playback devices and other media can provide a good deal of fun, but perhaps due to the gritty, harsh and uncontrolled output these activities tend to generate, their
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edited by Luís Costa & Rui Costa, Three Years in Nodar: Context-Specific Art Practices in Rural Portugal
book+2CD
, Edições Nodar,
315 pages
, Nodar 003,
ISBN 978-9899720503This thick book, coming with two CDs, is the outcome of a three-year program of international sound art residencies made by twin brothers who have here focused on their Portuguese hometown - Nodar. Forty sound artists were involved in reading, watching and listening to the documentation of the respective projects. In the several hundred color pages of the catalogue the reader can be temporary ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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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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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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Lawrence English, Site-Listening: Brisbane
ROOM 40, Book + 3" CD, Dec 2010, RMBK001, ISBN-13: 978-0980814903Collaborative sound mapping, random field recording, sonic memory and live transmission from specific sites are various approaches that have been explored and used in the recent past, especially in connection with enormous potential of active audience contribution of recordings and networked microphones. Lawrence English here uses a different approach, making use of his own substantial ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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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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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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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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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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Edited by Brandon LaBelle, Manual for the construction of a sound as a device to elaborate social connection
Errant Bodies Press: Surface Tension Supplement No. 4, ISBN: 978-0-9772594-8-9, 104 page + CDAs sound art is a mostly conceptual process, it can be easily set in the autonomous ecosystem of social public spaces. Sound art practices can be easily grafted into transportation systems or other crowded places without losing their aura. The "Manual" project, which was staged in Oslo, gave six experimental media artists from around Europe the opportunity to work on different projects in the city space. Parts ... [ Continue ] email this | + facebook | + twitter | TrackBacks (0) |
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