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.
Tag Archives: sound
Material Music, a band of matter

Mo H. Zareei’s ”Material Music” features eight kinetic sound-sculptures made of an electromechanical actuator striking identical blocks of different solid materials, respectively brass, copper, aluminium, steel, hardwood, softwood, glass, and marble. The shifts in striking time are calculated through phase-shifting →
(edited by) Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard, Mads Walther-Hansen, Martin Knakkergaard – The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination, Volume 1

Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0190460167, English, 880 pages, 2019, UK
Five years in the making, this heavy tome is the first of two volumes investigating sound and imagination from a true multidisciplinary perspective (from →
Stone Tape, if only these walls could talk

“If only these walls could talk” we use to say when we are denied the acknowledgement of a situated past, and there’s nobody around who can support it. This concept seems admirably rendered by Nadav Assor in “Stone Tape”, a →
Tim Ingold & Carmen Pardo & Mikel R. Nieto – A soft hiss of this world

Field Recording Series by Gruenrekorder, ISBN-13: 978-8409128617, English, 264 pages, 2019, Germany
It is perhaps surprising that experimental music labels have recently produced some of the most interesting experiments in print publishing. Maybe →
Sulco (Medida de Corte), aural passages

One of the roles of sound art is to transform spaces by changing how we perceive them. Miguel Carvalhais and Pedro Tudela have mastered this approach in recent years, constructing installations made in classic or adventurous places whose sound, in →
edited by) Caroline Profanter, Henry Andersen, Julia Eckhardt – The Middle Matter: sound as interstice

umland editions, ISBN-13: 978-9082649543, English, 196 pages, 2019, Belgium
The ‘space of sound’, or the place where sound is perceived, can be interpreted as a philosophical space. It is the internal space where sound is →
Groovular Synthesis, machine mediated texts/noises

“Groovular Synthesis – the Edison Effect reVisited” by Paul DeMarinis and Jo Kazuhiro stems from the collective project “Life in the Groove” they conducted during the years 2018-19. There is a central text (“Ditties and Odes to T.A.Edison”), which is →
Steve Goodman, Toby Heys, Eleni Ikoniadou – AUDINT—Unsound:Undead

Urbanomic/Art Editions, ISBN-13 978-1916405219, English, 264 pages, 2019, UK
Unsound: Undead is an anthology from Steve Goodman (aka Kode 9) Toby Heys and Eleni Ikoniadou. It deals with sound, ultrasound and infrasound (respectively sound →
Thor Magnusson – Sonic writing: technologies of material, symbolic, and signal inscriptions

Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN-13: 978-1501313868, English, 304 pages, 2019, UK
As a young boy the poet Rilke explored phonoautography, where sound waves produced mechanical etchings on a surface that could be subsequently played back. He wondered →
Axis Mvndi, drawing to the Universe

If we compare different representations of the Universe in different cultures at different moments in time, we confront very elaborated and imaginative systems, all trying to cope with an unknown structural dimension and scale. Nicolas Montgermont’s “Axis Mvndi“, cosmic radio →