Critical digital culture and media arts · Since 1993
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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.
The mechanisms of the sequencing of the sounds are based on the full manipulability and stratification of the contents, modifiable by different mechanisms, with respect to a playback mechanism unique. In the →
The link between sound stimuli and visual stimuli is not limited to an image (moving or less) and to a sound produced in the same time. Our instinct in fact, recognizes that linking natural →
The putting in the sequence of sounds is usually a purely digital process, which also in its possible physical interfaces (as in Audiopad or Block Jam ) takes the user to transcend the physicality of →
The phenomenon of ' circuit bending 'has certainly brought new life to the toy instruments, admitting them among the myriad of possible sound sources and various devices in the service of electronic musicians. But the →
In the line of structural views of the tracks, the algorithms that combine the sounds and their range to as many graphic variations can express a vision of the songs themselves unpublished and →
The mechanisms of generation of musical software, pass in most cases through artificial intelligence techniques, more or less sosfisticate. Generally, the broken promises of AI, namely the simulation still too immature neuronal processes is reflected →
The process of musical composition in software mode, capable of organizing in sequencing information to be reproduced, is also being developed through the evolution of the interface (software and hardware) that significantly changes the →
is in progress all'Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya in Barcelona 's International Computer Music Conference 2005 entitled 'Free Music'. What is the ISEA of electronic music, held once a →
The definition of 'radio' that transmits through the techniques of streaming from anywhere on the network, includes a fundamental difference compared to traditional radio, ie the possibility to organize a deterritorialized flow of sound data →
If the mapping is a phenomenon that affects the display of the data, apply it to the musical similarities between different authors has consequences far more delicate, creating aesthetic bilateral connections between hundreds of expressive →
