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Architecture as a Mnemonic Device: Robert Fludd’s Temple of Music

November 1, 2020 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

English physician and polymath Robert Fludd (1574-1637) had interests spanning from scientific knowledge to occult disciplines. His approach to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds, Visual Atlas Tagged With: art of memory, hermetism, music

John Mehegan, Jazz Improvisation (1959-65)

January 9, 2019 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Sounds Tagged With: Collage, covers, graphic design, improvisation, jazz, music, photography

The Museum Inside The Telephone Network (1991)

September 27, 2018 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

“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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Media, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: communication, exhibition, museum, networks, phone

Mass Black Implosion by Marco Fusinato (2007-ongoing)

December 28, 2016 by Mariabruna Fabrizi Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds Tagged With: avant-garde music, composition, graphic scores, scores

Joseph Müller-Brockmann: Musica Viva Posters for the Zurich Tonhalle

November 30, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Representation: Graphic Scores, Sounds Tagged With: Design, grid, music

Music on a Long Thin Wire by Alvin Lucier (1977)

July 12, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Sounds Tagged With: installation, sound

Brian Eno, Light Music

June 7, 2016 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Sounds Tagged With: form, media art, music, sound

The Beauty of Indeterminacy. Graphic Scores from “Treatise” by Cornelius Cardew

October 5, 2015 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 5 Comments

Cornelius Cardew (1936 - 1981) was a British music composer, who worked as an assistant for Karlheinz Stockhausen for three years. Apparently, after … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Sounds, Territories Tagged With: abstract, music scores

Maulwerke (Mouth Works) and Other Compositions’ Graphic Scores by Dieter Schnebel

January 18, 2015 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Postmodern composer, musicologist and theologian Dieter Schebel (1930, -), before challenging the definition and the limits of music by expressing it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Sounds Tagged With: electronic music, graphic scores

Roland Kayn and the Development of Cybernetic Music

November 3, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: computer, cybernetics

“I haven’t found a measure yet / To calibrate my displeasure yet”: The design sensibility of post-punk band WIRE

August 3, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

  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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media, Sounds Tagged With: album, cover, form of form, music, post-punk

Les Immatériaux (an exhibition by Jean François Lyotard at the Centre Pompidou, 1985)

July 16, 2014 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Culture, Media, Sounds, Technology, Territories Tagged With: exhibition, postmodern

Yannis Xenakis’ Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture

January 8, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 6 Comments

    Fusing the ancient greek terms "poly" (“many”) and "topos" (“place”), Greek-French composer Iannis Xenakis coined a neologism for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, form of form, Sounds, Technology, world weird web

Bernhard Leitner’s Soundcube, 1969

January 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, form of form, past futures, Sounds, Technology, world weird web

“Can you hear me, Major Tom?” (David Bowie’s Space Oddity as a children’s book)

August 29, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Sounds Tagged With: illustrations, Sounds, world weird web

Steampunk looking but actually old Harmonic Synthesizer

August 16, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Harmonic Synthesizer is an the lobby of the McLennan physics building, University of Toronto. Here’s the description from the accompanying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sounds, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, past futures, Sounds, Technology, visions, world weird web

So Long, Atlantis

July 14, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Sounds, Technology Tagged With: Sounds, Technology, world weird web

Computional Sonic Vibrations

March 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

Curated by Valentina Tanni, "Computional Sonic Vibrations" by Roberto Pugliese, just opened in Verona last Saturday, 19th March in Studio la Città … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Sounds, Technology Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, Sounds, Technology

One Robot One Orchestra

February 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

On May 17th, 2008 an industrial FANUC robot directs an entire orchestra alone, for more than one and a half hour. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sounds, Technology Tagged With: electronic arts, Sounds, Technology, world weird web

Visualizing sound waves

February 5, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Update: Mauro made a similar experiment with a suspended beam, obtaining one-dimensional patterns. "Chladni Patterns are created by the sand that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sounds, Technology Tagged With: Sounds, Technology, world weird web

“Valerie and her week of wonders”, a film in images

January 26, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Sounds Tagged With: movies, Sounds

The labyrinths of musical genres

January 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Sounds, Technology Tagged With: Sounds, Technology, world weird web

Xenakis Emulator, by Kammerbauer + Schnellboegl

January 11, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The Xenakis-Emulator is an audiovisual adaptation of two key works of architect/composer Iannis Xenakis - the composition "Metastasseis" and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Sounds Tagged With: Architecture, Sounds, world weird web

No Wave/Mutant Disco whimpers from Downtown 81

January 9, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Sounds Tagged With: documentary, film, past futures, Sounds, video, world weird web

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