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...]
Found Footage Aesthetics: From “A MOVIE”, through “MONGOLOID”, to “MEA CULPA”: Experimental Film-Making by Bruce Conner
Bruce Conner (1933 – 2008) was an artist specialised in assemblage, collage, film, photography and painting whose most renowned work (although one of … [Read more...]
Endogen Depression, by Wolf Vostell (1975-1984)
Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) was a a German painter, installation artist, performer. He was the inventor, in 1954, of the word 'Dé-coll/age' (and of the … [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...]
The Hidden Order of Design: Covers by Rudolph de Harak
US designer Rudolph de Harak (1924 – 2002) is mostly known for his book covers and for the album sleeves of "Westminster Records" but he also designed … [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...]
Josef Albers’s Albums Covers: the Provocative and Persuasive Percussions Series (1958-1961)
Enoch Light (1905-1978), a classical violinist, bandleader and sound recording engineer, founded Command Records in 1959, with the precise purpose to … [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...]
Fields of Indeterminacy: Toshi Ichiyanagi’s Fluxus Scores
Influenced by Fluxus artists George Brecht, Dick Higgins, and La Monte Young, (exhibited in 1962 in Tokyo’s Minami Gallery "World Graphic … [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...]
Radical Music: Llorenç Barber, Cuaderno de Yokohama (2005)
Llorenç Barber is the musician and composer who introduced Minimal Music in Spain and was the creator of the "Música plurifocal". When in … [Read more...]
Violating Matter: Works by Arcangelo Sassolino
“Creating, I ask myself: why not try and strain the materials to the limit of their resistance? Why not force to the limit the … [Read more...]
Graphic Scores by Martin Davorin-Jagodić
Martin Davorin-Jagodić is a relatively obscure Croatian composer. His recordings are scarce, as he focused mainly in performance, multimedia … [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...]
Henry Rollins Vs. Hipsters (plus Shirin Neshat)
And it's not a fake. Or an episode of Family Guy. … [Read more...]
Eleanor Friedberger (Fiery Furnaces): My Mistakes
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