Sylvia Matas is an artist based in Winnipeg, Canada who uses the medium of drawings, videos and text to explore "psychological landscapes, natural … [Read more...]
Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army
Almost 1100 men fought World War II as members of the US "Ghost Army", the result of an uncommon lateral thinking in war strategy. Created … [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...]
“Before and After Science” and the Eno/Schmidt collaboration
According to Wikipedia, Peter Schmidt was "a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia … [Read more...]
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dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]
News from Nowhere is probably the most ambitious art-project of Kassel's dOCUMENTA 13. Presented in three forms: a film, an installation, a … [Read more...]
Athanasius Kircher SJ – ‘Musurgia Universalis’, 1650
Just yesterday we quoted an Athanasius Kircher's excerpt from his Musurgia Universalis (Rome: 1650). This seminal works of musicology in two volumes … [Read more...]
Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)
Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive musical instrument consisting in a line of … [Read more...]
The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump
"Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz (from ‘A Tribute to Zdenko G. Fibich’)", by American John Stump is a parody of a composition, meant to be impossible to … [Read more...]
Metachaos, by Alessandro Bavari (2011)
Alessandro Bavari is an animation and painting artist living and working in italy. METACHAOS is a multidisciplinary audio-visual project, … [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...]
Bernhard Leitner’s Le Cylindre Sonore, 1987
Despite living in Paris since 2007 and regularly enjoying a walk in the Park de la Villette, we honestly never happened to find a little sound … [Read more...]
Some Kraftwerk for Christmas
B-Side, Designs by Felix Pfaeffli
Feixen is the graphic design work of Felix Pfäffli. Felix was born in 1986. In 2010 he graduated and started his own studio «Feixen». In the summer of … [Read more...]
Wheatstone Wave Machine, c. 1875, Physics Dept., Union College, NY. maker: Rudolph Koenig
In the late 1840s Charles Wheatstone developed a moving mechanical model for demonstrating wave properties of light and sound. It displayed both … [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...]
Vintage synths catalogues and brochures
When the music stopped being a matter of virtuosism and started being a ground for scientific research. Roland, Synclavier, Arp, DA … [Read more...]
More on the Harmonic Synthesizer, and on the Harmonic Analyser
Harmonic Synth Lord Kelvin's harmonic synthesizer is basically Henrici's harmonic analyzer (see later) in reverse. Originally designed as a tide … [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...]
R.E.M., 2 October 85, Complete Show in Germany
Fantastic performance! Thank to Valentina Tanni for the link. Don't miss So. Central Rain (30' 35'') and Have you ever seen the rain? (34' … [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...]
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