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.
Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0190070137, English, 200 pages, 2021, UK
The eternal quest of audiophiles is for the reproduction of sound as close as possible to the ‘original’ recording, or what has been defined as ‘high →
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 – Kvitnu
Arriva ancora a marchio Kvitnu, etichetta di casa per l’artista, l’ultima fatica di Zavoloka, Transmutatsia, excursus sonoro dagli accenti industrial e noise, composizione di quasi sei minuti che echeggia d’atmosfere space e oniriche digressioni dai toni assai →
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 – D’Autres Cordes
Elettronica, elettroacustica, noise e musica contemporanea: questa è la speciale mescola che Franck Vigroux alimenta in Rapport Sur Le Désordre, produzione comprensiva di quattro tracce per lato, un’ideale proseguimento di Centaure, performance audio-visual messa in scena →
CD – Aagoo
Diego Martinez, aka Lumen Lab, già nel 2000, all’età di soli quindici anni, ha iniziato la sua carriera utilizzando drum machine, synth di seconda mano e ogni tipo di device elettronici. Il suo approccio post-industrial, infuso da →
CD – Ad Noiseam
Uscendo nove anni dopo Grist (Ad Noiseam adn70, 2006), un album che ha dato origine a intensi spettacoli dal vivo, procurando a Drumcorps una notevole base di fan, Falling Forward non poteva certo deludere, seppure dopo →
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 – Aposiopèse
Yvan Etienne è attivo come sperimentatore sonoro interessato ai temi della ricerca site specific ed alle audio-installazioni, nonché come compositore avvezzo a ponderate riflessioni sulla percezione e sulla fisicità dei suoni nello spazio. Non sono mancate in →
CD – Idiosyncratics
Suoni crudi, un andamento progressivo o ancor meglio “da tutto pieno”, dipanato in quattro corpose suite – tre all’incirca di undici minuti e l’ultima di quindici – forgiate in guisa noisecore piuttosto aspra e contundente, evocativa d’atmosfere →
