http://www.neural.it/sound/ en Copyright 2012 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:56:16 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss CD - Thorsten Knaub
Thorsten 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 ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/02/thorsten_knaub_listening_station.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/02/thorsten_knaub_listening_station.phtml experimental Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:56:16 +0000 CD - Die Schachtel
It'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 ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/02/fabio_selvafiorita_valerio_tricoli_death_by_water.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/02/fabio_selvafiorita_valerio_tricoli_death_by_water.phtml audio art Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:41:12 +0000 CD - Fang Bomb
A 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 ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/paul_baran_panoptic.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/paul_baran_panoptic.phtml experimental Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:36:46 +0000 DVD - Winds Measure
Randomly 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 ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/mpld_lacunae.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/mpld_lacunae.phtml experimental Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:41:35 +0000 CD Anty-Copyright
Let'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 ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/miguel_prado_comedy_apories.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/miguel_prado_comedy_apories.phtml experimental Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:20:59 +0000 CD - Domizil
S 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 ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/martin_neukom_studien_57.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/martin_neukom_studien_57.phtml experimental Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:21:17 +0000 CD - Ahornfelder
The sound is deep and suggestive in "Città Utopica". This project by Burkhard Friedrich was created in the guise of an environmental installation enriched by visual elements and traversed by intense drones, digital iterations and synthetic frequencies. The cavernous plot is full of auditory stimuli, pulsating an ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/burkhard_friedrich_citta_utopica.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2012/01/burkhard_friedrich_citta_utopica.phtml experimental Mon, 02 Jan 2012 15:09:18 +0000 CD- Kvitnu
At the beginning of 2011, eight Ukrainian musicians were invited to play the same number of works by Karol Szymanowski, one of the most important European authors of the first half of the twentieth century. The renowned composer and pianist was born in 1937 in Tymoszówka, at the time a Polish]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/aavv_myths_masks.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/aavv_myths_masks.phtml experimental Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:14:17 +0000 CD - Brut Claire
La Manufacture de Chaussures in Bordeaux is a 1930s shoe factory that since 1998 has been transformed into TNT, a urban place for the re-appropriation of public space. This building is being used as a space for independent artistic creation and promotion. Despite the restructuring (substantial]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/guillaume_laidain_instants_mobiles.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/guillaume_laidain_instants_mobiles.phtml audio art Thu, 15 Dec 2011 08:43:08 +0000 CD - Oral
Even with its ultra-minimalist conceptualization, this collection of very abstract and harsh sound elaborations - made by manipulating turntables – manages to function as a kind of "symbolic scratching". Designed by Martin Tétreault and produced by Magali Babin, David Lafrance, Alexander ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/martin_tetreault_le_quatuor_de_tournedisques_points_lignes_avec_hautparleurs.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/martin_tetreault_le_quatuor_de_tournedisques_points_lignes_avec_hautparleurs.phtml audio art Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:25:48 +0000 Sub Rosa
Thanasis Kaproulias, using the moniker Novi_sad, questions the intimate structure of environmental sounds created with a hypothetical "sculptural integrity" in mind. The artist presents auditive articulations whose essences somehow seem to precede the listening experience. The ear follows ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/novi_sad_inhumane_humans.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/12/novi_sad_inhumane_humans.phtml audio art Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:29:21 +0000 CD - Mort Aux Vaches
"Mort Aux Vaches" (death to cows) shouted the anarcho-Communards as they turned against every form of authority. Echoes of this turbulent time still resound in the catalogue of Staalplaat, a Dutch indie label whose Berlin store has released some of the most interesting international experimental]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/mark_templeton_mort_aux_vaches.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/mark_templeton_mort_aux_vaches.phtml experimental Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:05:07 +0000 CD - Touch
When he was twenty-four, Arthur Rimbaud left the world of literature and lounges to wander through Europe before finally landing in Harar in Abyssinia, a city that boasted of possessing 99 minarets. CM von Hausswolff, commissioned to write music for a play about the life of the "damned poet", has ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/cm_von_hausswolff_800_000_seconds_in_harar.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/cm_von_hausswolff_800_000_seconds_in_harar.phtml experimental Thu, 24 Nov 2011 17:04:17 +0000 CD - Pogus
Philip Corner configured these five scores specially for the violinist Malcolm Goldstein, using a non-traditional notation (sometimes linear or with graphic and verbal notations). They were mostly recorded in live performance, leaving the residual noise of the public and of the environment in order to]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/philip_corner_pieces_from_the_past.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/philip_corner_pieces_from_the_past.phtml experimental Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:59:28 +0000 CD - EE Tapes
EE Tapes have released an interesting collection of ambient electronica, made with contributions from six different authors, who have each composed one extended track between 10 and 13 minutes long. We will try to mention everybody: first up is the Italian Neuestrasse ]]> http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/aavv_table_for_six_all_quiet_3.phtml http://www.neural.it/sound/2011/11/aavv_table_for_six_all_quiet_3.phtml experimental Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:21:03 +0000