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Staging Deceptions as a War Strategy: The WWII Ghost Army

January 10, 2014 by Mariabruna Fabrizi 2 Comments

  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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture, Technology Tagged With: psychogeographies, Sounds, Technology, war, world weird web

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

“Before and After Science” and the Eno/Schmidt collaboration

September 20, 2013 by Fosco Lucarelli 6 Comments

According to Wikipedia, Peter Schmidt was "a Berlin-born British artist, painter, theoretician of color and composition, pioneering multimedia … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: Art, electronic arts, past futures, psychogeographies, Sounds, visions, world weird web

dOCUMENTA 13: News From Nowhere, by Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho, [a Retrospective from the Future]

August 7, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 4 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Technology Tagged With: Architecture, Art, electronic arts, illustrations, industrial design, information graphics, literature, movies, past futures, politics, psychogeographies, social, Sounds, Technology, urban chronicles, virtual chronicles, visions, world weird web

Athanasius Kircher SJ – ‘Musurgia Universalis’, 1650

June 28, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: illustrations, information graphics, past futures, Sounds, Technology, typography, visions, world weird web

Katzenklavier (Cat Organ)

June 27, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

Thanks (indirectly) to Matteo Pasquinelli, I discovered the Katzenclavier. A "Cat Organ" is a fictive musical instrument consisting in a line of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: past futures, satire, Sounds, Technology, world weird itself, world weird web

The Unplayable Score: Faerie’s Aire and Death Waltz – John Stump

May 19, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 16 Comments

"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...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: illustrations, pills, satire, Sounds, world weird itself, 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

Bernhard Leitner’s Le Cylindre Sonore, 1987

January 21, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 2 Comments

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...]

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

Some Kraftwerk for Christmas

December 24, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Art, Sounds, synthesizers, Technology

B-Side, Designs by Felix Pfaeffli

November 23, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

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

Wheatstone Wave Machine, c. 1875, Physics Dept., Union College, NY. maker: Rudolph Koenig

October 31, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

In the late 1840s Charles Wheatstone developed a moving mechanical model for demonstrating wave properties of light and sound. It displayed both … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Sounds, synthesizers, 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

Vintage synths catalogues and brochures

August 21, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli 1 Comment

When the music stopped being a matter of virtuosism and started being a ground for scientific research. Roland, Synclavier, Arp, DA … [Read more...]

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

More on the Harmonic Synthesizer, and on the Harmonic Analyser

August 16, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Harmonic Synth Lord Kelvin's harmonic synthesizer is basically Henrici's harmonic analyzer (see later) in reverse. Originally designed as a tide … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Technology Tagged With: Sounds, synthesizers, Technology, 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

R.E.M., 2 October 85, Complete Show in Germany

August 6, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Art, Culture Tagged With: past futures, Sounds, 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

Reminds Me of Remind Me

March 10, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

Reminds you of what? Remind me, of course! It's Brandt Brauer Frick's music video for "Caffeine", by Patricia Luna and Danae … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art, Media Tagged With: animations, information graphics, Sounds, world weird web

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

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