Alvin Lucier (1931, -) is a major American composer. He pioneered areas of sound art such as using brain waves in live performances, tracking … [Read more...]
The Beauty of Indeterminacy. Graphic Scores from “Treatise” by Cornelius Cardew
Cornelius Cardew (1936 - 1981) was a British music composer, who worked as an assistant for Karlheinz Stockhausen for three years. Apparently, after … [Read more...]
Roland Kayn and the Development of Cybernetic Music
Roland Kayn (1933-2011) was a German composer who studied in Stuttgart at the "Hochschule fur Musik", and at the "Technische Hochschule" with Max … [Read more...]
“I haven’t found a measure yet / To calibrate my displeasure yet”: The design sensibility of post-punk band WIRE
The stark urgency and clean lines of their prose mirrored the light-metal severity of groups like Wire, the Banshees, and Gang of Four, just … [Read more...]
Les Immatériaux (an exhibition by Jean François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, 1985)
30 years are passed since a historic exhibition took place at the Centre Pompidou (specifically at the Centre de Création industrielle). Curated by … [Read more...]
Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture
Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]
Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969
Many years before the Cylindre Sonore, (see previous post), in 1969, Leitner began his research on sound defined space. A room composed of 64 … [Read more...]
“Can you hear me, Major Tom?” (David Bowie’s Space Oddity as a children’s book)
The sad story of Space Oddity, by David Bowie, illustrated by Andrew Kolb. Download here or here. (links updated 2015/09/12) DAVID … [Read more...]
Steampunk looking but actually old Harmonic Synthesizer
The Harmonic Synthesizer is an the lobby of the McLennan physics building, University of Toronto. Here’s the description from the accompanying … [Read more...]
So Long, Atlantis
A mix of videos from cameras mounted on the two solid rocket boosters from the Atlantis Space Shuttle's last trip, (mission STS-135) on July 8. The … [Read more...]
No Wave/Mutant Disco whimpers from Downtown 81
What's Downtown 81? Watch the trailer here. 'New York Beat' was shot over December 1980 and January 1981. It was initially funded by Fiorucci and … [Read more...]
From AE 2010: Braun Tube Jazz Band
Or: Nam June Paik meets Pan Sonic. One of the most amazing performance we attented during the festival was this piece by Japanese artist / composer … [Read more...]
80’s punk at Rome’s slaughterhouse (Mattatoio di Testaccio)
A quite popular Italian personality from the 80's, Jo Squillo was formerly known as a singer for "seminal" Italian punk/new wave feminist bands like … [Read more...]
J.S. Bach – Crab Canon on a Möbius Strip
The enigmatic Canon 1 à 2 from J. S. Bachs Musical Offering (1747), The manuscript depicts a single musical sequence that is to be played front to … [Read more...]
Beethoven 5th Symphony (No. 5, graphical score animation, allegro)
Beethoven 5th Symphony 5 (graphical score animation) FAQ Q: What do the colors in the bar-graph score mean? A: The colors show which instruments are … [Read more...]
Diego Stocco, sound artist
Diego creates dynamic and innovative music experiences. His music extensively uses unique sounds created specifically for each project through custom … [Read more...]
24 Hour Party People – Blue Monday
John Simm, Ralf Little and Tim Horrocks perform Blue Monday as New Order in 24 Hour Party People. Split screen with Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson … [Read more...]
LIVE FOREVER – The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition
Intelligent, critical, to the point. LIVE FOREVER - The Michael Jackson Monument Design Competition … [Read more...]
Electronics in The World of Tomorrow
Erkki Kurenniemi is considered a prophet of artificial-intelligence research, headband videos and artificial reality, often being 10-40 years ahead of … [Read more...]
Drei Klavierstücke op. 11, played by YouTube cats, by Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel says: "Recently I took a few months of my free time and decided to recreate Arnold Schoenberg's 1909 op. 11 Drei Klavierstücke (aka … [Read more...]
Steve Albini: Don’t Call Me Producer
Roc-Doc about Indie recording engineer and minimalist rock legend Mr. Steven Albini. … [Read more...]
Dot for Meggy Jr. – demo + screencast
"I recently wrote up a simple game for the Meggy Jr. handheld game kit. The above is a quick demonstartation of the game plus a lengthy screencast … [Read more...]
Things you got to know
Photoshop adbusting in Berlin: 1)Target some boring poster ads with heavy female characters (Britney Spears, of course) 2)Overlay the image with … [Read more...]
