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Sonicity, live data space

Sonicity, Stanza, sonicity_stanza.jpg 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  ... [ Continue ]


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edited by Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund - Audio.Visual: On Visual and Related Media

Cornelia Lund, Holger Lund, Audio.Visual On Visual and Related Media, audio_visual.jpg Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, ISBN 978-3897902930, Germany, 2009, English
Cornelia 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 ]


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Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear

Steve Goodman - Sonic Warfare: Sound, Affect, and the Ecology of Fear, The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, sonic_warfare.jpg The MIT Press, ISBN-13: 978-0262013475, U.S.A., 2010, English
Sound 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 ]


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IIE (Interactive Infrasonic Installation), infrasound for public consumption

IIE, Interactive Infrasonic Installation, Reinhard Gupfinger, interactive_infrasonic_environment.jpg 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  ... [ Continue ]


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edited by Arjen Mulder, Joke Brouwer - Dick Raaymakers: A Monograph

dick_raaymakers_a_monograph.jpg NAi Publishers, ISBN 978-9056626006, The Netherlands, 2009, English
The 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 ]


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SoleNoid ß, tap dance robotic concert

Peter William Holden, SoleNoid ß, solenoid_beta.jpg 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"  ... [ Continue ]


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scoreLight, playing contours

Alvaro Cassinelli, Daito Manabe, Yusaku Kuribara, scoreLight, score_light.jpg 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  ... [ Continue ]


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Edward A. Shanken - Art and Electronic Media

Edward A. Shanken, Art and Electronic Media, Phaidon Press, ISBN 9780714847825, art_and_electronic_media.jpg Phaidon Press, ISBN-13: 978-0714847825, UK, 2009, English
The 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 ]


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Heavy Metal Moshpit, Metal Head Orgasmatron

Heavy Metal Moshpit Amp, //////////fur////, heavy_metal_moshpit.jpg Video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band have certainly altered the way we interact with music by filling a quenchable void once solely occupied by air guitar and karaoke. Now //////////fur//// group is heralding the new 'metallenium' with their advanced musical interaction of user-simulated  ... [ Continue ]


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Francesco Brunotti/Various Authors - Nocturne

Francesco Brunotti, Various Authors, Nocturne, Persistencebit Records, nocturne.jpg Persistencebit Records, Italy, 2009
This is a product in the Bitmedia series, developed by the eclectic label Persistencebit. It is devoted to the production of multimedia works related to the ambient and modern electronics scenes. It's a book of photographs by Francesco Brunotti properly entitled "Nocturne" that includes a cd album stuck to the  ... [ Continue ]


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Phill Niblock - The Movement of People Working

Phill Niblock, The Movement of People Working, the_movement_of_people_working.jpg Extreme/Microcinema, USA, 2009, English
This is a new reprint (the first release was in 2003) of an important dvd which gathers a series of audio/visual artworks made by Phill Niblock from the early 70s to middle 80s. Niblock is a historical intermedia artist, who has been mixing film and music since the late 60s, and is an acknowledged  ... [ Continue ]


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Evan Roth - Explicit Content Only

Evan Roth, Explicit Content Only, Inge Records, explicit_content_only.jpg Inge Records, USA, 2008, English
The "Parental Advisory Explicit Content" logo in black and white stripes, as with all mandatory logos, has been creatively used for ironising a feature which is still very typical of the U.S.: governmental support for parental paranoia. In fact the sticker was pushed by the Parents Music Resource Center  ... [ Continue ]


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Sound Chaser, running a vinyl rail track

Sound Chaser, Yuri Suzuki, sound_chaser.jpg Almost none of the dozens of interactive music tables have escaped the "abstraction" trap, sticking with similar, familiar "elements" made in perfect geometric shapes that assume the identity of "instruments", "samples", "drums", you name it. Yuri Suzuki's "Sound Chaser" instead tries to exploit a connective system that has already  ... [ Continue ]


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v4w.enko - Harmonic Ratio

v4w.enko, Harmonic Ratio, Kvitnu, v4w_enko_harmonic_ratio.jpg cd+, 2009, Kvitnu
This could be defined as "black and white music": the usual minimal experimental conventions are taken for granted, but then impeccably made consistent in both sound and visual forms. Consistency, in fact, is one of the preponderant virtues that Eugene Vashchenko (a.k.a. v4w.enko) has been endowed  ... [ Continue ]


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Bicycle Built for Two Thousand, online workers choral effort

Bicycle Built for Two Thousand, Aaron Koblin, bicycle_built_for_two_thousand.jpg With “Bicycle Built for Two Thousand” Aaron Koblin confirms himself as specialist of crowdsourcing based artworks. As Jeff Howe wrote, "crowdsourcing" is "the act of a company or institution taking a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined (and generally large) network of people  ... [ Continue ]


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Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Inke Arns - Waves, The Art of the Electromagnetic Society

HMKV, Armin Medosch, Rasa Smite, Raitis Smits, Inke Arns, Waves, The Art of the Electromagnetic Society, HMKV, Kettler, ISBN 9783941100008, waves.jpg HMKV/Kettler, ISBN 9783941100008, Germany, 2008, English
Armin Medosch wisely reminds us in the beginning of his introductory essay that "we've been an electromagnetic society for over one hundred years". Waves are all over us, invisibly filling up the space as more and more electronic wave- emitting and receiving devices surround us. After a historical  ... [ Continue ]


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Decryptopattern, grasping the vast vortical information around us

Noriko Yamaguchi, Daisuke Ishida, Decryptopattern, decryptopattern.jpg Noriko Yamaguchi and Daisuke Ishida's first collaborative work, Decryptopattern, is the result of team play between a fine artist, whose artworks use Japanese washi paper, and a sound / media artist investigating previously unheard sounds. Decryptopattern is an epistemological and artistic reflection on our daily usage of information. Nowadays, information is often  ... [ Continue ]


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Strobovj, stroboscopic sequencer for vjing

Gijs Gieskes, Strobovj, strobovj.jpg Gijs Gieskes is an incredible machine inventor (as well as an esteemed VJ and performer). Among his latest creations Strobovj deserves particular attention: it's a sequencer for vjing that uses the working principle of the stroboscope: looking at a spinning wheel. The machine created by this eclectic artist is not just limited to real-time  ... [ Continue ]


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Erik Granly Jensen, Brandon LaBelle - Radio Territories

Erik Granly Jensen, Brandon LaBelle, Radio Territories, Errant Bodies, ISBN 9780977259410, radio_territories.jpg Errant Bodies, ISBN 9780977259410, U.S.A. / Denmark, 2007, English
This is another essential book for any artist interested in sound, originated by the clever and productive mind of Brandon Labelle, a conceptual experimenter. Labelle extends most of his artistic practices and interests with a good dose of research, publishing precious books on focused themes. This is a  ... [ Continue ]


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H. Grundmann, E. Zimmermann, R. Braun, D. Daniels, A. Hirsch, A. Thurmann-Jajes - Re-Inventing Radio, Aspects of Radio as Art

H. Grundmann, E. Zimmermann, R. Braun, D. Daniels, A. Hirsch, A. Thurmann-Jajes - Re-Inventing Radio, Aspects of Radio as Art, Revolver, ISBN 9783865884534, re_inventing_radio.jpg Revolver, ISBN 9783865884534, Germany, 2008, English
Radio is one of the mediums whose death has been announced many times. But as a phoenix, it systematically arises from its own ashes, finding new embodiments, followers and practisers - in a word, "re-inventing" itself. People from the Austrian Kunstradio know this process very well, having  ... [ Continue ]


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Henrik Rylander - Public Loudspeakers, Information & Disinformation

Henrik Rylander, Public Loudspeakers, Information & Disinformation, Kning Disk, ISBN 9789197666701, public_loudspeakers.jpg Kning Disk, ISBN 9789197666701, Sweden, 2007, English
Henrik Rylander is an artist, musician and photographer. This work is a large format book of photographs of loudspeakers taken in the three largest Swedish cities (Stockholm, Göteborg and Malmö) with an accompanying CD. Loudspeakers are revealed as they are: an almost invisible presence,  ... [ Continue ]


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Sound Camera (Lumicon 8 III), light as sound

Sound Camera, Lumicon 8 III, Eric Archer, sound_camera_lumicon_8_III.jpg The associations between sound and visuals have been one of the primary topics of media art aesthetics in the last twenty years, but technically they are still stuck in a few categories, including the digital interpretations of files in the incorrect domain of data (picture files interpreted as sound and sound files  ... [ Continue ]


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Nowhere / Now / Here, contemplating the work of a machine

LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial of Gijón, Nowhere Now Here, nowhere_now_here.jpg Nowhere / Now / Here photo set

Nowhere / Now / Here is an exhibition organized by LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial of Gijón: 78 works by 67 artists from 20 countries, exhibited till the end of April. The exhibition, curated by the Spanish designers Roberto Feo and Rosario Hurtado, walks the line between art and design, only to discover that that line  ... [ Continue ]


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Particle, electromagnetic music interface

Particle, Kanta Horio, particle.jpg Kanta Horio's musical interface, 'Particle,' was designed to be a self generative sound-producing unit. The experimental sound artist thought it would be interesting, "to play with a bit of an uncontrollable interface- and the accompanying sounds that would be produced." With nine electromagnets wired and built into a wooden board, the Particle is set on a  ... [ Continue ]


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Love Songs, mashup visualized

Love Songs, Chris Han, love_songs.jpg Mashup has been one of the innovative techniques to take over the massive pop productions, breaking the borders established by the industry around every song released. "Love Songs" by Chris Han is an online "compilation of songs with 'love' in the title" where the flow of sounds is accompanied by the flow of the sequencing interface. It may seem banal,  ... [ Continue ]


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curated by Vicki Bennett - Smiling Through My Teeth

curated by Vicki Bennett, Smiling Through My Teeth, Sonic Arts Network, Various Artists, Rank Sinatra, Cristian Marclay, Ergo Phizmiz, Maria Callas, Viennese Seven Singing Sisters, John Oswald, plunderphonics, Nihilist Spasm Band, Nurse With Wound, audio art, experimental, Xper.Xr. Aurelio Cianciotta, VickiBennett_SmilingThroughMyTeeth.jpg CD - Sonic Arts Network
Vaudeville musicality and extreme cut-up, precise techniques for assembling and overlapping audio, intentional intertwining and multiple collages. These are just some of the gimmicks used by Vicki Bennett, in her spiky re-contextualizations, which are not alien to pop culture, experimental art, cabaret  ... [ Continue ]


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Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra, aural network test

Marcos Destructos, Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra, bufferrrbreakkkdownnn_arkestra.jpg Marcos Destructos (aka Marc Chia, aka One Man Nation) has completed a compelling investigation of data transmission over computer networks with his recent "Bufferrrbreakkkdownnn Arkestra". The  ... [ Continue ]


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Wind-up Bird(s), a flock of electronic woodpeckers

Wind-up Bird(s), HC Gilje, wind_up_bird_s.jpg Deep in the forest, something is subverting the natural order of nature. HC Gilje's Wind-up Bird(s) is a flock of electronic / mechanical woodpeckers mounted high in the trees of Lillehammer forest, Norway. Each  ... [ Continue ]


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Autechre Reverse Engineering

Robbie Martin, Autechre, reverse_engeneering_autechre.jpg Robbie Martin (as known as Fluorescent Grey) is a musician and provocateur who has become famous as a producer of fake material. He was responsible for the video of an American soldier’s beheading in Iraq (actually the "victim" was his friend Ben Vanderford aka The Great White Hype), which was  ... [ Continue ]


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edited by Stefan Riekeles and Andreas Broeckmann - Filmachine, a very sonic membrane

Stefan Riekeles, Andreas Broeckmann, Filmachine, a very sonic membrane, ilmachine.jpg Edition Jardins des Pilotes / Diaphanes, ISBN 9783037340608, Germany, 2008
Exhibitions and catalogues are an indissoluble and virtuous union, especially when it comes to complex installations. This book is dedicated to Filmachine, a mesmerizing sound installation created by Keiichiro Shibuya and Takashi Ikegami, which centres on the relationship between sound and space.This  ... [ Continue ]


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Tantalum Memorial, honoring those who died in coltan wars

Tantalum Memorial, Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji, tantalum_memorial.jpg "Tantalum Memorial", by the artists Harwood, Wright, Yokokoji is a telephony-based memorial built from a 1938 telephone exchange rescued from the old Alumix factory in Bolzano, Italy which is meant to address the people who have died in the "coltan wars" in the Congo. The project was built from a series of electromagnetic  ... [ Continue ]


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Edited by Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid - Sound Unbound, Sampling Digital Music and Culture

Edited by Paul D. Miller aka Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid, Sound Unbound, Sampling Digital Music and Culture, sound_unbound.jpg The MIT Press, ISBN 9780262633635, U.S.A, 2008
Music beyond composing. Dj Spooky edits an anthology about "music as one of the most immaterial of artforms" that is worth a careful reading to open one's mind with real food for thought. "Dj is writing" he stated in his previous book "Rhythm Science" (2004), and the selection of texts in this new one  ... [ Continue ]


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Taiwa Hensokuki, two machines speaking each other

Taiwa Hensokuki, Mohri Yuko, taiwa_hensokuki.jpg Seeming somewhat gimmicky at first, "Taiwa Hensokuki," a 2006 work by Mohri Yuko, is comprised of two IBM laptop computers that have speech synthesis software installed - one set to move from text to speech; the other set to speech recognition. Mohri's work, included in the  ... [ Continue ]


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AEO, auditory design performance

AEO, Eye Yamatsuka, aeo.jpg AEO is a sound collective undertaking new directions in performance and instrument development formed by rogue engineers Kazuhiro Jo (SWO), Taeji Sawai (Golden Pink Arrow) and Eye Yamatsuka, part of the seminal Japanese noise punk  ... [ Continue ]


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C. Doswald, K. Ottmann, B. Schroder - Carsten Nicolai, Static Fades

C. Doswald, K. Ottmann, B. Schroder, Carsten Nicolai, Static Fades, carsten_nicolai_JRP Ringier, ISBN13 9783905770636, static_fades.jpg book - JRP Ringier - ISBN13: 9783905770636
Carsten Nicolai is a unique case in the sound art world. Somehow he's the prototypal of the ideal contemporary sound artists: not classifiable merely as a musician, nor as an artist, but perfectly in between. He excellently combines technical and scientific knowledge with a clear vision. Especially  ... [ Continue ]


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