Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
L'Archivio Neural è un archivio di pubblicazioni noi raccolte nel corso degli anni. Sfoglia la nostra collezione qui.
Sometimes the online world reveals unsuspected parallel dimensions. This is an unknown restyle of Neural independently (and secretly as we never knew about it) made by NY-based Motion and Graphic Designer, Clarke Blackham. Very nicely made, perhaps only a bit glossier for the magazine’s line, it testifies once more how even your most familiar outcomes can have another life somewhere else.
The value of craft after software sounds rampant sometimes, expressing the freedom of escaping repetitive taps and clicks to accomplish some assumed tasks. Mixing media, electricity, electronics, mechanics and inert objects Graham Dunning has realised a structured track/performance/open script in his “Mechanical Techno: Ghost in the Machine Music.” More than a proof of concept a machine music declination.
Isn’t ASCII Art a perfect form of “graffiti” in 2010s? The 8-bit aesthetics is among the strongest visual references connecting the analogue recent past with the omni-digital present, so why not adopt it to finally have some public art embedded in the present? In Varberg, Sweden, 2016, the GOTO80 crew (feat: Karin Andersson) did it, choosing (not by accident) the Mo Soul Amiga-font.
YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.
The relationship between Andy Warhol and personal computers (becoming quite popular during his last years) has been only partially investigated beyond his Amiga works. In November 2015, Sotheby’s sold his “Apple (from Ads)” (acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas) for 910.000 USD, and in catalogue’s notes Warhol tells about his meeting with Steve Jobs insisting to give him one and showing him how to draw (even if still in black and white): “we went into Sean [John Lennon’s son]’s bedroom–and there was a kid there setting up the Apple computer that Sean had gotten as a present, the Macintosh model. I said that once some man had been calling me a lot wanting to give me one, but that I’d never called him back or something, and then the kid looked up and said, ‘Yeah, that was me. I’m Steve Jobs.’ And he looked so young, like a college guy. And he told me that he would still send me one now. And then he gave me a lesson on drawing with it. It only comes in black and white now, but they’ll make it soon in color…I felt so old and out of it with this young whiz guy right there who helped invent it.”
Harsh Noise Wally, is a sophisticated mashup mixing strips of Wally, the lazy and cynic colleague of Dilbert with some epic noise music extreme attitudes. Well conceived and assembled.
Minority Report comes closer… Three huge screens at Birmingham New Street railway station are scanning passers-by and play advertisements accordingly. http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/new-street-station-advertising-screens-9920400
GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.
CD – Blank Forms
Maryanne Amacher, allieva di Karlheinz Stockhausene e George Rochberg, già nel 1967 crea City Links: Buffalo, un’opera di 28 ore dove utilizza 5 microfoni in diverse parti della città, trasmettendo il tutto in real time tramite →
2 x Vinyl – Counter Audition
Sono due gli splendidi 12” in vinile, in edizione bianco-latte – con i suoni masterizzati da Taylor Deupree – compresi nella doppia elegantissima confezione che si deve a una nuova etichetta di Cambridge, la →
10CD Box – Reiger Records Reeks
Sono più di dieci ore d’inviluppi sonori quelli contenuti in Scanning di Roland Kayn e presentati in un elegante cofanetto comprensivo di 10 CD, rimasterizzzati da Jim O’Rourke, che del maestro di Reutlingen, seminale →
2×12″ – Makiphon
Debuttano le MME dUO – Patricia Koellges e Tamara Lorenz – e per farlo scelgono Makiphon, label experimental di Colonia gestita dalla prima assieme ad Andreas Oskar Hirsch. Quello della coppia è un appassionato collage sonoro di →
Vinyl – Weather
Non è un’indicazione temporale quella insita nel nome di questo duo. 11 altri non è che il moniker di Jiyeon Kim, artista sonoro e pianista al quale s’aggiunge il batterista Sangyong Min, musicista altrettanto talentuoso e preparato. →
Vinyl – Not On Label
Cresce lentamente, è come uno sfrigolio e sembrano field recording d’origine naturale, forse pipistrelli, roditori o corvi e poi ci sono anche cinguettii, scricchiolii, ronzii e clic, seguiti da un hum tenuto a basso →
CD – Fylkingen
Da Mosca a Vladivostok il viaggio è parecchio lungo in treno – è la Transiberiana la linea che collega le due città, che distano fra loro più di 9000 chilometri – e Susanne Skog avrebbe potuto stupirci →
CD – Sub Rosa
The Noise Of Art: Works For Intonarumori è un progetto collaborativo che vede assieme il gruppo ceco Opening Performance Orchestra, Blixa Bargeld, Luciano Chessa e Fred Möpert. Un insolito combo schierato per rendere omaggio all’arte degli →
CD – Zoharum
La Zoharum ha un rapporto piuttosto eclettico con le sue uscite alternando proposte in ambito elettronico provenienti da differenti scene: ambient, minimal, industrial, dub-illbient ed experimental. 78-Angstad esempio è una raccolta piuttosto concettuale di produzioni composte da →
CD – 4AD
Holly Herndon già nei suoi due album precedenti – “Movement” e “Platform” – aveva dato prova di controllare la propria vocalità in maniera originale e strutturatissima, pur fra distorsioni, effetti e cesure estreme, maneggiando alla perfezione →
