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24 Nov Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

MechanicalTechno

02 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

AsciGraffiti

30 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

29 Jun Retweet this Share on Facebook

YesNo by Timo Kahlen feels like “traditional” net art, a well crafted stuck webpage for the user’s aural and clickable enjoyment.

 

AppleForAds

29 Feb Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

10 Jan Retweet this Share on Facebook

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.

 

scanning eye-shaped big screen at Birmingham New Street railway station

29 Aug Retweet this Share on Facebook

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

08 Jul Retweet this Share on Facebook

GoPro ancestors in the 1960s and 1970s, mainly sport and movie persons like F1 driver Jackie Stewart, Bob Sinclair and Steve McQueen.

 

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Åke Hodell – Verbal Brainwash And Other Works

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3CD – Fylkingen

Åke Hodell was a Swedish composer, poet and author, whose personal history resembles that of the artist Joseph Beuys. While young, both men were victims of serious aviation war accidents, Hodell in 1941, Beuys in 1944. Hodell →

audio artexperimentalfield recordingstext-sound composition 19 Jul 2019

Electronium Project, upgraded iconic music machine

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Raymond Scott was the first person to build an electronic sequencer, and his iconic Electronium machine, conceived in 1959, was his biggest project, able to cleverly generate music, to which he worked for 11 years, never finishing it. Yuri Suzuki, →

media archeologynew media artsoftware 17 Jul 2019

David Hollander – Unusual Sounds: The Hidden History of Library Music

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Anthology Editions, ISBN-13: 978-1944860127, English, 332 pages, 2018, UEA

Before the process of sampling and digitalisation revolutionised the music industry ‘Library Music’ was a particular system of music production for a strict elite of professionals →

bookemusic 15 Jul 2019

Yvanko – Pluviôse

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12” – Le Cabanon

Opening with some nervous ticking and an #oriental song #playing in the background, the last work of Yvan Tekoutcheff, aka Yvanko, for Le Cabanon, reveals itself to be a delicate, sensitive and pointillist dissertation, one whose →

electroacoustic musicexperimental 12 Jul 2019

Control, social and perceptual VR experiment

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Alexander Schubert’s Control is an immersive installation using VR to challenge our participant in control, intimacy and perception. Participants share one floor of a building with performers who are controlled through cameras and monitors on another floor. The environment quickly →

new media artvirtual reality 10 Jul 2019

(edited by) Rossella Catanese – Futurist Cinema, Studies on Italian Avant-garde Film

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Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 978-9089647528, English, 266 pages, 2018, The Netherlands

The inner force and speed of Futurism has produced waves propagating over the decades and through history. Cinema, especially, invented in its modern form →

bookcinemaFuturism 8 Jul 2019

Elektro Guzzi – Polybrass

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CD – Denovali

Elektro Guzzi is a guitar, bass and drums trio consisting of Bernhard Breuer, Bernhard Hammer and Jakob Schneidewind. This music combo wants to go beyond the border between analog and digital and create a sort of live →

electronicaexperimental 5 Jul 2019

Intergalactic Omniphonics, music for literally everybody

intergalactic-omniphonics

How we can detach from musical instruments and music in general the social and cultural background that is inevitably attached to them and to the composer, and make music, being potentially enjoyed by not only everybody but all species? The →

audio artexperimental 3 Jul 2019

(edited by) Stuart Hyatt, Janneane Blevins, Benjamin Blevins – Metaphonics. The Field Works Listener’s Guide

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Jap Sam Books, ISBN: 978-9492852021, English, 265 pages, 20’18, The Netherlands

What is the limit to the documentation that can be provided with a music release? The different formats are usually confined to so-called ‘liner →

audio artbook 1 Jul 2019

Celestial Harmonies, analog visual hybrids

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Alberto Novello has modified a Vectrex, a 1980s game console. In its current half analogue/half digital form (what he calls ”Celestial Harmonies”), it allows a user to draw with sound. With synaesthetic aspirations, the analogue monitor is artificially ’excited’ →

audio arthackingnew media art 29 Jun 2019

Jessica Sligter & Wilbert Bulsink – Volume 1 – Untitled + 2 – The Mute

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CD – Unsounds

Volume 1 – Untitled + 2 – The Mute, released by Unsounds, is a voice and live electronics project. Recorded in studio in Sweden after some concerts performed by the experimental composers Jessica Sligter and Wilbert Bulsink, →

electroacoustic musicexperimentalfree form 28 Jun 2019

Euphonia, social chatted music

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The unawarely produced sounds by humans have been often used in composition, since Cage’s historical ground breaking envisions. But the continued exposure to such sounds becomes something different. Euphonia by Emma Smith is a sound art work sampling “interlocking rhythms, →

audio artnew media artsound 26 Jun 2019

(edited by) Michael Connor, Aria Dean – The Art Happens Here: Net Art Anthology

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Rhizome, ISBN-13: 978-0692173084, English, 435 pages, 2019, USA

Twenty years after the well known “net_condition” exhibition at ZKM, ”The Art Happens Here“ is probably the largest project about net art ever realised, produced by →

bookinternet-based artnet art 24 Jun 2019

Jana Winderen – Spring Bloom In The Marginal Ice Zone

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CD + booklet – Touch

The recordings Jana Winderen made here for Touch powerfully arrest the listener’s attention. They are an accurate sound reportage of plankton growth, of the waves refracting on the iced sea and its crackles. We are →

audio artexperimentalfield recordings 21 Jun 2019

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