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.
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.
Rapper Prince Harvey, after his computer crashed and his external drive was stolen, managed to record an entire album in Apple Store SoHo in four months, befriending employees, hiding files and using USB sticks and mail. as support. Abbie Hoffman would have been proud.
12″ – Dekorder
È un’edizione sicuramente sontuosa questa scaturita dalle elaborazioni del combo dei Toad Blinker (il musicista Dan Hauhurst e l’illustratore-animatore Reuben Sutherland), a partire dal pesante 12″ in vinile, picture disc “zoetropico” e →
CD – Psychonavigation
La Psychonavigation è una label irlandese con base a Dublino, focalizzata stilisticamente in bilico fra ambient, electronica ed electro, il suo head honcho Keith Down è anche – in questo caso →
CD – Artek Sounds
Sono per lo più balbettii vocali, una sorta di gibberish nel quale una serie di parole difficilmente decifrabili vengono emesse conquistandoci all’ascolto. Parliamo di “Sermon On Wings And Tergal Lobes”, →
CD – Flux
Ricordavamo Frank Rothkamm per il suo “estro multiforme, privo di pregiudizi e barriere di genere”, per una sorta di muzak ibridata capace di mettere in relazione “tradizione classica e cultura rock, intrecciando anche tensioni computer music, cut-upping →
3″ Mini-CDR – Electroton
Edizione limitata (di sole 150 copie) e in mini-cdr 3 pollici per il sound-artista Higuchi Eitaro, sperimentatore di base a Kyoto che sotto il moniker di Dagshenma sforna la sua prima release per Electroton, etichetta guidata →
CD – Domizil
Sonorità sintetiche, avvolgenti, crude, siderali ed algide, quelle agite da Martin Neukom in “Studien 5-7”, che soltanto successivamente scopriamo essere state composte tra il 1992 ed il 1996 utilizzando →
CD – Kafkagarden
Amabilmente suddiviso fra incisioni di taglio classico contemporaneo, experimental bedroom electronica e sequenze più cinematiche dall’appeal vintage, in “Library Music 1” Marcus Fjellström trae ispirazione dalle classiche vecchie librerie →
CD – Die Schachtel
Sintetizzatori analogici, un organo Farfisa, giradischi, un registratore a nastro, un televisore a tubo catodico: tutte “apparecchiature” che non hanno ragione d’esistere senza elettricità, il più significativo e →
CD – Record Label Records
Astratto sound design e atmosfere sperimentali incrociano un gusto fusion, mescolando beats elettroacustici e dando vita a un artefatto e convulso pastiche post IDM. La Record Label Records, →
CD – Ad Noiseam
Nuove implementazioni quelle di David Thrussell, che ancora una volta rinnova il personale approccio alla produzione, da un lato mantenendo fede alla sua fama, dall’altro dando prova d’un →
