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 – Denovali
Mei Zhiyong & Dave Phillips si sono incontrati per la prima volta a Pechino nel luglio 2014. Il primo non parlava una parola d’inglese e l’altro – al contrario – non conosceva una sola parola di →
CD – Denovali
In questo suo secondo LP, sempre per Denovali – il primo era stato Feed the Tape nel 2016 – Orson Hentschel mette da parte un approccio complessivamente più experimental e purista per abbracciare contaminazioni pop e influssi →
CD – Farpoint
Rosa Arruti, meglio conosciuta con il moniker di Nad Spiro, può vantare un ormai sedimentato attivismo in ambito dark-elettronico e sperimentale: dopo la sua ultima uscita su cassette, La Casa Encendida, un progetto collaborativo con Maurizio e →
CD – Pulver und Asche
Suoni delicatissimi, altrettanto sommesse armonie e nessun editing successivo. “Quello che viene registrato è quello che verrà ascoltato” tenevano a sottolineare gli autori, Rudy Decelière e Marcel Chagrin, che, dopo una lunga collaborazione, adottano per →
CD – Midira
Utilizzando l’alias di Tegh, il sound artista elettronico iraniano Shahin Entezami modula calibratamente in Downfall elementi di noise e inviluppi ambient melodici, iterati e piuttosto fascinosi. Tehran, la metropoli nella quale è attivo questo musicista, può vantare →
CD – Errant Bodies
Questa uscita di Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec è il punto di convergenza di due distinti progetti sonori, Outline e Caressing the Studio, la prima una performance del 2010, l’altra un’installazione di appena due anni →
CD – DSS2016
Prende le mosse da un progetto supportato dall’Observatorio de la Escucha, in occasione della programmazione effettuata a San Sebastián, Capitale Europea della Cultura 2016, questo 20.20 dei sound artisti Maria Salgado e Ixiar. L’uscita documenta il loro →
CD + booklet – Immediata
In questa composizione della durata di oltre quarantanove minuti – con Anthony Pateras all’organo a canne ed Erkki Veltheim al violino elettrico – è imposto fin dai primi solchi un continuum alquanto cupo e ipnotico, →
LP – Aussenraum
Fanno subito capolino frequenze sofferenti, volatili, eteree ma anche lancinanti, in questa uscita di Jim Haynes per la Aussenraum, Electrical Injuries, composizione divisa in sei distinte tracce e densa di texture intricate, atmosfere malsane e suoni corrotti. →
CD – Idiosyncratics
Combutta inedita questa tra il prolifico compositore elettronico che ha base a Losanna, Francisco Meirino – ben conosciuto per i suoi lavori su Misantropic Agenda, Entr’acte e Antifrost – e Miguel A. Garcia, aka Xedh, musicista sperimentale →
