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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/

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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). →

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Microposts

Lawrence English – Suikinkutsu No Katawara Ni

Håkon Stene – Etude Begone Badum

Florian Wittenburg – 17 Clips

Fabio Perletta – Interstitial Spaces

Origamibiro – Odham’s Standard

Lemures – Lemuria

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

Christina Kubisch & Eckehard Güther – Mosaïque Mosaic

AAVV – Muder Langage & You Muder God

Ryoko Akama – Code Of Silence

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