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The Neural Archive is a repository of publications collected by us during the years. Browse our collection here.

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“Not available on the App Store” a viral sticker (which can be bought for 1 dollar or self-made) used to remark difference between material-based and screen-based excitement http://notonappstore.com

08 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

Pfft! by Casey Reas is a software meant to preserve the strobe quality of television while abstracting it. http://reas.com/pfft/

07 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

“All I know and then some” by Addie Wagenknecht is a big handwriting covering a whole wall with a sequence of repeating sentences starting with “I will not download things that get me into trouble” and ending with “I will not download things” http://placesiveneverbeen.com/index.php/all-i-know-and-then-some/

06 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

Mountain by David OReilly, is a “consequential” videogame, as you’re a mountain and your development (which passively lasts for the whole game) is determined by answers to initial questions http://mountain-game.com

06 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

The Cave of Sounds by Tim Murray-Browne is an array of eight original musical instruments developed by respective authors and arranged in circle, in order to be played chorally in an installation http://timmb.com/cave-of-sounds/

05 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

Shadow Box Attractions (variation 2) by David Stout is an installation composed of a three screens that uses a specific “chamber simulation” to generate drawings. https://vimeo.com/60657228

05 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

Tether is a web application by Jono Brandel visualising a Plaid tune that can be influenced by the user, drawing a path (source code is free). http://tether.plaid.co.uk

04 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

A music video for the single Music Is Life by the Japanese band SOUR realised by designers Masashi Kawamura and Kota Iguchi, where animations are made with custom CDs used as a phenakistoscope, or as still images which appear to animate when rotating on a disc.

http://lifeismusic.jp/

Neural 47, Art in the age of neurological reproduction + extra: A Peer-reviewed Journal About Post-digital Research (Volume 3 issue 1)

Neural 47, Art in the age of neurological reproduction + extra: A Peer-reviewed Journal About Post-digital Research (Volume 3 issue 1). Subscribe now!

Issue #47, Winter 2014 ISSN: 2037-108X

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23 Jul 2014

Yoshio Machida – Music From The Synthi

CD – Baskaru

Underpinning this project is the cryptic premise that a machine created for the production of synthetic sounds may reject its age. The AKS Synthi was a portable analogue synthesizer produced in 1972 by Electronic Music Studios. It →

audio art experimental 28 Jul 2014

Neural 47 extra – A Peer-reviewed Journal About Post-digital Research (Volume 3 issue 1)

Neural #47 extra is A Peer-reviewed Journal About Post-digital Research (Volume 3 issue 1) (only for subscribers).

Edited by Christian Ulrik Andersen, Geoff Cox and Georgios Papadopoulos

The Post-digital condition Florian Cramer – What is ‘Post-digital’? Eric Snodgrass – Dusk to dawn: horizons of →

23 Jul 2014

Art Basel – Digital in Art

Each year artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators and critics from around the world gather in Basel to attend a series of contemporary art fairs. Although the most significant of these is undoubtedly Art Basel, there are a number of satellite →

art new media art Reports 22 Jul 2014

Neural 46 extra – the first 20 years poster (70cm x 100cm)

Neural #46 extra is the “first 20 years” poster (70cm x 100cm), with all the covers, and a QR code pointing to a pdf file narrating the history of the magazine (only for subscribers).

21 Jul 2014

Lawrence English – Suikinkutsu No Katawara Ni

CDr – Winds Measure

Suikinkutsu No Katawara Ni is the latest work by Lawrence English and is published by Winds Measure, a Brooklyn label focused on experimental music and run by Ben Owen. English is remembered for his work with →

acoustic/digital experimental field recordings 18 Jul 2014

Håkon Stene – Etude Begone Badum

CD – Ahornfelder

Reinterpreting and making connections between scores by Alvin Lucier, Marko Ciciliani, Michael Pisaro and Lars Petter Hagen, this album is a perfect example of Håkon Stene’s “post-percussive” approach. Moving away from traditional drum techniques, the author has →

acoustic/digital audio art experimental 16 Jul 2014

Florian Wittenburg – 17 Clips

CD + DVD – NurNichtNur

17 Clips is an interesting and rigorous project developed for CD and DVD by Florian Wittenburg and released by German sound art label NurNichtNur. The album takes its name from the third track and is →

acoustic/digital audio art experimental visual 14 Jul 2014

Fabio Perletta – Interstitial Spaces

CD – Farmacia901

The first five minutes of the 28-minute-long first track pass in almost absolute silence. We found it necessary to crank up the volume on the mixer and re-listen from the beginning to have any chance of perceiving →

audio art experimental software 10 Jul 2014

Origamibiro – Odham’s Standard

CD – Denovali

Origamibiro is a collaborative project that builds on the meeting of three creative minds: Tom Hill (musician, producer and author of soundtracks), Jim Boxall (aka The Joy Of Box, visual artist and filmmaker) and Andy Tytherleigh (multi-instrumentalist). →

acoustic/digital audio art experimental visual 7 Jul 2014

Lemures – Lemuria

12″ vinyl/Digital Album – Crónica Electronica

This project is authored by Giovanni Lami and Enrico Coniglio, recorded by Miguel Carvalhais and enriched by the charming artwork of Dead Meat. The vinyl edition of Lemuria immediately grabbed our attention with its →

audio art experimental field recordings 4 Jul 2014

Duet Of The Living Dead by Taro Yasuno, music for zombie robotic flutes.

Horror, especially zombie movies, is one of the genres most popular with independent filmmakers on a tight budget. In general consciousness, certain sonorities of electronic and experimental music have also become inextricably tied to the horror genre. It is interesting →

experimental new media art sound 3 Jul 2014

“ “ [sic] Tim Goldie / Daniel Beban – Slakes

3CD + 48 Pages Book – Entr’acte

Released as an edition of only 300 copies – although this is perhaps not so unusual for a production of this kind – and paired with an ample 48-page booklet, this triple CD →

experimental impro noise 30 Jun 2014

Simulacra by Karina Smigla-Bobinski, the elusive ghostly video.

The feedback we get from a video, or any cinematic artifact is continuous, as every frame reaching our retina alters the state of our brain and our interpretation of the source material. In Simulacra by Karina Smigla-Bobinski, there is a →

experimental new media art visual 27 Jun 2014

Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther – Mosaïque Mosaic

CD – Gruenrekorder

The field recordings of Mosaïque Mosaic, collected by Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther, were captured in Cameroon and selected on the basis of their ability to evoke the sensibility of this African region. Specific workshops were held →

audio art experimental field recordings 26 Jun 2014