English physician and polymath Robert Fludd (1574-1637) had interests spanning from scientific knowledge to occult disciplines. His approach to … [Read more...]
John Mehegan, Jazz Improvisation (1959-65)
Jazz Improvisation is a series of 4 books edited by pianist, composer, lecturer, and critic John Mehegan between 1959 and 1965. Today considered … [Read more...]
The Museum Inside The Telephone Network (1991)
“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home … [Read more...]
Mass Black Implosion by Marco Fusinato (2007-ongoing)
Marco Fusinato is a visual and music artist and a noise guitarist. He started in 2007 an ongoing series entitled Mass Black Implosion in which he … [Read more...]
Joseph Müller-Brockmann: Musica Viva Posters for the Zurich Tonhalle
Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914-1996) was an influential graphic and exhibition designer and photographer who lived and worked in Zurich. As the leading … [Read more...]
Music on a Long Thin Wire by Alvin Lucier (1977)
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...]
Brian Eno, Light Music
In 2014, the renowned composer, producer and all encompassing art theorist Brian Eno ( see Socks's post "Before and After Science"), worked on a … [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...]
Maulwerke (Mouth Works) and Other Compositions’ Graphic Scores by Dieter Schnebel
Postmodern composer, musicologist and theologian Dieter Schebel (1930, -), before challenging the definition and the limits of music by expressing it … [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...]
Computional Sonic Vibrations
Curated by Valentina Tanni, "Computional Sonic Vibrations" by Roberto Pugliese, just opened in Verona last Saturday, 19th March in Studio la Città … [Read more...]
One Robot One Orchestra
On May 17th, 2008 an industrial FANUC robot directs an entire orchestra alone, for more than one and a half hour. … [Read more...]
Visualizing sound waves
Update: Mauro made a similar experiment with a suspended beam, obtaining one-dimensional patterns. "Chladni Patterns are created by the sand that … [Read more...]
“Valerie and her week of wonders”, a film in images
1970's Czech surrealist/horror tale of a "girl getting her period", Valerie and her week of wonders is a strange film where love, fear, sex and … [Read more...]
The labyrinths of musical genres
A list of apps which let you explore music like a geography of relationships. The labyrinth of genre "I’m fascinated with how music genres … [Read more...]
Xenakis Emulator, by Kammerbauer + Schnellboegl
The Xenakis-Emulator is an audiovisual adaptation of two key works of architect/composer Iannis Xenakis - the composition "Metastasseis" and 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...]
