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 – Baskaru
Toshimaru Nakamura è stato assai attivo nel movimento Onkyokei – la traduzione letterale del termine è “riverbero del suono” – definizione utilizzata per circoscrivere una particolare forma di free improvisation emersa in Giappone nei tardi anni novanta. →
CD – Rat
L’impressione iniziale è quella di avere a che fare con improvvisazioni elettroacustiche, ricche d’influssi jazzistici, assai intricate e suggestive, elaborazioni che sono messe in opera dall’ensemble che va sotto il moniker di The Bureau Of Atomic Tourism, →
CD – Sub Rosa
Movimenti musicali che comportano differenti combinazioni solistiche quelli che Jean-Luc Fafchamps predispone in YZ3Z2Z1S2, a Five-letter Sufi Word, secondo progetto di una specifica serie approntata per Sub Rosa con la collaborazione dell’Ictus Ensemble e aggiungendo questa →
CD – Herbal International
Il colorato e gestaltico artwork di Rebecca Norton subito attira la nostra attenzione anche se i suoni – sin dalle prime battute – sembrano apparentemente più urticanti, distorti e non formalmente definiti rispetto a quanto la →
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 – Escrec
L’olandese Bram Van Den Oever, meglio conosciuto come Gluid, ha già pubblicato in veste solista sotto le insegne della esc.rec un primo cdr-album. In occasione della sua seconda uscita →
CD – Hellosquare/Z6
Sotto il moniker di Candlesnuffer c’è David Brown, musicista melburegno experimental – con un passato nell’art rock/punk scene di metà anni settanta – in sintonia adesso con evoluzioni improvvisative, in bilico fra free jazz e altre non →
CD – Pogus
Appositamente configurate da Philip Corner per essere interpretate dal violinista Malcolm Goldstein, queste cinque partiture dalla notazione non tradizionale, lineare o con notazione grafica e/o verbale, sono state in →
Cd – Port
Riverberi di frequenze eccentriche, propagazioni e risonanze non convenzionali, ambientali influssi auditivi, attraverso i quali s’insinuano field recording che sono state collezionate insistendo su trasformazioni topologiche inusuali, sospese in →
CD – Karaoke Kalk
Gentili e fragili accordi quelli messi in opera da Bill Wells e Stefan Schneider, “musica da camera” potremmo dire, riesumando un’ormai desueta categoria stilistica, che →
