Neural 48, Uncanny Abundance + extra: Au Clair de la Lune – For Édouard-Léon Scott and László Moholy-Nagy “paper record” by artist Kazuhiro Jo

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Issue #48, Summer 2014 ISSN: 2037-108X

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neural 19 Nov 2014

Pinkcourtesyphone – Description Of Problem

CD – Line

Under the moniker Pinkcourtesyphone returns Richard Chartier, with his fourth extended release for Foley Folly Folio. Description of Problem features artists such as William Basinski, AGF, Evelina Domnitch, Cosey Fanni Tutti and King Congo Powers, who contribute →

abstractelectronicaexperimentalglitch'n'cuts 28 Jan 2015

Computers Watching Movies, films seen from digital entities

“Artificial” is a term whose meaning has evolved from defining non-natural things, to distinguishing things so close to nature that confusion ensues. This is leading to frequent cultural confrontations between humans and machines, as “Computers Watching Movies” by Benjamin Grosser →

experimentalnew media art 26 Jan 2015

Radio Cegeste – three inclements (the ocean does not mean to be listened to)

CD – Consumer Waste

Playfulness with spatiality is immediately evident in these three recordings (around 29 minutes in total) that were captured and performed in multiple locations in a nature reserve on Kapiti Island, New Zealand. The area is famous →

audio artexperimentalfield recordings 23 Jan 2015

(edited by) Geoff Cox, Tatiana Bazzichelli – Disrupting Business: art and activism in times of financial crisis (DATA browser 05)

Autonomedia, ISBN: 978-1570272646, English, 256 pages, 2013, USA

As a provocative but systemic reaction to the constraints of the economic crisis, cultural activists have conceived a number of their own counter-acts, which have materialised in theories, artworks, actions and productions. →

bookhacktivismnew media art 22 Jan 2015

Anne-F Jacques & Tim Olive – Dominion Mills

CD – 845 Audio

These three newly created tracks by Canadians Tim Olive (who runs the 845 label) and Anne-F Jacques feel homogenous in their inspiration and quality of sound. The sounds forming the record were amplified and manipulated by →

acoustic/digitalexperimentalfield recordingsfree form 17 Jan 2015

Aural Tools #1 – Trifoglio, holistic listening experience

As with many of our consumer technologies, the historical trajectory of sound recording has been one of progressive banalisation. If the first people to listen to recorded music in the late 19th century thought they were experiencing a form of →

audio artemusicsound 14 Jan 2015

Frode Haltli – Vagabonde Blu

CD – Hubro

Norwegian Frode Haltli is a very sensitive accordionist whose excellent technique has been repeatedly witnessed in a series of works undertaken at the most diverse geographic and stylistic latitudes. In this fourth release for Hubro, the musician →

audio artexperimental 12 Jan 2015

E-book backup, successfully storing digital books

Print has intrinsic archival qualities, being, as with other static media, a portrait of content frozen in space and time. E-publishing is exactly the opposite: its ephemeral digital structure (which has to be interpreted and executed by a machine every →

bookhacktivismnew media art 7 Jan 2015

Steve Roden – Flower & Water

CD – Dragons Eye

This album opens with iterated patterns that unravel with extreme precision. Appealing multiform textures and subtle crackling audio emergencies accelerate, slow down and reassemble at will in a cascading catalogue of new sequences. The skillful articulations →

audio artexperimentalglitch'n'cuts 2 Jan 2015

3D MK Boat, 3D printing challenging society’s censorship

Japanese obscenity laws are quite strict, especially concerning the representation of genitalia, in an apparently striking contradiction with the vast variety of underage porn that is somehow allowed. “3D MK Boat” is a conceptual work by the Japanese artist Megumi →

hacktivismnew media art 30 Dec 2014

Wieman – The Classic Album

CD – Baskaru

In the enclaves of international electronic music Frans De Waard is well-known and respected as a reviewer of experimental music and as a talented composer. Previously he has worked with the Kapotte Muziek ensemble, as well as →

abstractexperimentalglitch'n'cuts 26 Dec 2014

Linda Ioanna Kouvaras – Loading the Silence: Australian Sound Art in the Post-Digital Age

Ashgate Pub Co, ISBN: 978-1409441564, English, 277 pages, 2013, UK

This is a rigorous study of sound art in Australia, a product of twenty years of research that contextualises key historical events and theories in the various branches of experimental →

audio artbooknew media art 24 Dec 2014

Yvan Etienne – Feu

CD – Aposiopèse

Yvan Etienne is active as a sound experimenter interested in issues surrounding site-specific audio installations and as a composer proposing weighty reflections on perception and the physicality of sounds in space. Etienne has not been lacking for →

acoustic/digitalambientdronefield recordingsnoise 19 Dec 2014

Resonant Architecture, space, sound and image

As Europe’s industrial districts are gradually replaced by office blocks with curtain walls, sites once filled by the clamor of machines are turned into glossy and silent images for architecture magazines. In the window of time between closure and demolition →

audio artnew media artvisual 17 Dec 2014