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 – Protagoniste
I clarinettisti Xavier Charles e Jacques Di Donato avevano già collaborato assieme nei lontani anni novanta. pubblicando anche un album, Du Slavon Glagol, edito nel 1996 da Khôkhôt. Adesso ritornano con quattordici nuove composizioni su Protagoniste, facendo →
CD – Sofa
Il sassofonista Espen Reinertsen e il trombettista Eivind Lønning sin dal 2005 collaborano sotto il moniker Streifenjunko, spesso suonando – oltre il lavoro di studio e le collaborazioni con la Christian Wallumrød Ensemble – anche in numerosi →
CD – Monotype Records
A marchio Monotype Records (esattamente è la loro uscita numero novantatré) Christian Kobi raccoglie per l’occasione tre composizioni al sax tenore solo, una al sax soprano e per la quinta (quella centrale nell’album) invita Wakana Ikeda →
CD – 1703 Skivbolaget
Sembra esserci un notevole ritorno a certi stilemi improvvisativi e free form negli ultimi anni. Le ragioni di tale fenomeno non sono affatto chiare, seppure i temi in gioco fra libertà espressive e strutture formali abbiano →
CD – Doubtmusic
Sono otto le tracce registrate al GOK Sound di Tokyo sotto la supervisione di Dj Sniff e Yuen Chee Wai e gli artisti coinvolti – possiamo affermarlo con cognizione di causa – sono a tutti gli effetti →
CD – Zarek
Dalla Zarek, etichetta germanica alla sua sedicesima uscita, arriva a noi una dilatata, fluente ed elegiaca composizione dei Perlonex, trio elettroacustico composto da Ignaz Schick, Joerg Maria Zeger e Burkhard Beins. La registrazione è stata effettuata durante →
LP – Aussenraum
Questa uscita della Aussenraum – sono solo 300 le copie disponibili – vede la luce con un vinile rosso da 180 grammi e l’artwork di Flokim Lucas, affascinante e talentuosa illustratrice, nonché artista multidisciplinare transalpina d’origine coreana →
LP – AussenRaum
Stacja Nigdy w Życiu è l’LP d’esordio per il duo formato da Kasper T. Toeplitz e Anna Zaradny, esperienziato compositore francese e musicista – di origini polacche – il primo, una delle personalità più importanti della →
3 CD box set – Sofa
Tempo è il titolo d’un molto interessante cofanetto 3CD edito da Sofa e registrato dal vivo durante una performance di 4 ore tenutasi presso la Cappella Rothko nel 2013, jam condotta dal sassofonista e →
CD – Amorfon
Siamo alle frontiere estreme del jazz sperimentale e dell’improvvisazione, là dove collidono differenti sapienze musicali e competenze: Jorge Queijo, infatti, è un batterista portoghese, Hiroki Chiba è un bassista giapponese e Yoshio Machida – pure nipponico – →
