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 – 845 Audio
Con il termine air in campo musicale ci si riferisce in genere a una melodia o a una canzone e più in senso lato questa parola definisce anche il concetto di composizione. Tutte e quattro le →
CD/DVD – Aagoo
Torna Kazuyuki Kishino, in arte KK Null, nome storico dell’experimental nipponico, che dalle sue prime implementazioni noise negli anni ottanta, dal progressive e dall’hardcore è approdato poi a una sorta di free form, sposando gradualmente altre tecniche →
CD – Re-Records
Le uscite discografiche risultato di residenze artistiche allo STEIM ad Amsterdam ci hanno sempre appassionato e anche questa volta non delude Takuro Mizuta Lippit – aka dj sniff – uno degli animatori a 360° dell’istituzione olandese dedicata →
CD – 845 Audio
Nuova collaborazione sotto le insegne della sua 845audio per il canadese Tim Olive che per l’occasione in team con la sua connazionale Anne-F Jacques dà vita in Dominion Mills a tre tracce molto omogenee per ispirazione →
CD – Hideous Replica
Gregory Büttner riproduce i suoni da un computer attraverso un piccolo altoparlante che Birgit Ulher usa come mute per la sua tromba. In questo modo la tromba viene agita e i suoni elettroacustici sono modulati dalla →
CD – Unorthodox
Progetto dalla decisa vocazione free form quello approntato per Unorthodox Recordings da Alessio Riccio, batterista, percussionista e compositore elettroacustico che evoca in quest’occasione la divinità di Ninshubar. Il riferimento è alla mitologia sumera, immaginiamo forgiata da una →
CD – Kontrans
Ci sono dei testi creati a partire da disegni in Traces Of Speech di Jaap Blonk, visual/stage performer e compositore d’avanguardia olandese avvezzo a sensibilissimi intrecci fra poesia visiva e sonora. L’idea di partenza del seminale libro/CD →
CD – Herbal International
Una batteria, la sua stessa voce, poi oggetti metallici, una radio, un mixer, diversi microfoni a contatto, una bobina magnetica, un altoparlante e un computer, più sedie e sacchetti di plastica: sono questi i materiali utilizzati →
CD – Aural Terrains
Arriva dalla Aural Terrains, etichetta che focalizza la sua ricerca sull’elettroacustica, sull’improvvisazione e sull’estrema ricercatezza dei suoni, questa uscita che vede all’opera Thanos Chrysakis, Ken Slaven, James O’Sullivan e Jerry Wigens, tutti musicisti nell’ordine avvezzi a →
CD – Estuary Ltd
Live electronic e tabletop guitar sono in evidenza in “Stone North” di Ed Osborn, produzione del 2009 che vede la luce adesso su Estuary Ltd, una label devota alle scene experimental e che si distingue per →
