February 2011
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Dada Visualizations
All these pieces are a pun on the new craze for data visualization. The goals of data visualization as I understand them are to make complicated issues more understandable, to make obscured connections visible and to reveal hidden patterns in the data. After all these tasks have been solved ideally the result should be aesthetically pleasing as well.
words and visualizations by...
January 2011
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tehn
tehn is Brian Crabtree, one half of Monome - a company that has been pioneering the idea of an open-source, economically and environmentally sustainable musical interface for some time now - and an accomplished musician in his own right.
xor from tehn on Vimeo.
listen to more of his music here.
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“Ted Nelson promotes four maxims: “most people are fools, most authority is...”
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Cache - Swole
Cache is Christiana Femano, a visual artist based out of Brooklyn. her sound is sparse, and as her moniker implies, many hidden, drifting melodies lurk quietly in the background, waiting to be discovered by the careful listener. recommended for mid-day hikes through the wilderness, urban or rural.
you can download Swole, released through Wigflip Records, for free here.
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““That’s how I became friends with Steve Jobs. We used to take...”
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Loren Nerell - Lilin Dewa
Lilin Dewa is an Indonesian term which translate to ‘Candle God’ in English. on this 1996 release, Loren Nerell acts as a conduit for said deity, channeling the spirit of light: carrying the torch to illuminate the deep psychological connections between East and West through his engaging and hypnotic re-imagining of gamelan music. Galungan, in particular, with...
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Future Shock (1972)
Alex Grasshoff, Director
Orson Welles, Narrator
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Summer Season Range
a visually gratifying study of assorted bits and pieces; found geometry assembled onto a canvas.
Richard Pearse
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Encyclopedia of Electronic Music
The Encyclopedia of Electronic Music was created to help people get acquainted with the world of Electronic Music. It represents a database that keeps growing. The Encyclopedia of Electronic Musicis the first and by far only source of information about serious non-academic Electronic Music artists on the web. This means that you will find here information about artists working in the domain of...
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A Short History of 'Hentai'
There was also a sharing of fantasies between groups who experienced different sexual desires. For instance, many articles in the magazines focused on seppuku or the ritual disembowelment once practiced by samurai. One requirement of the ritual was the wearing of a loincloth which tightly wrapped both stomach and groin (to stop the intestines spilling out). As Ishida and Murakami point out in...
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Holga D
Holga D is a digital camera inspired from the extremely popular cult of Holga and other toy cameras of its kind.
an intriguing idea merging analog aesthetics with digital technology. read up on the specs and/or get involved in this proposed “open source camera” project over at the Holga D website.
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Debashis Bhattacharya - Ahir Bhairav & Bhairavi
on this 1994 recording, Debashis Bhattacharya re-contextualizes his unique Trinity of Guitars slide guitar into the rich Hindustani musical tradition. virtuosic improvisations, swirling eastern drones, tabla. perfect for sunday nights, or perhaps monday mornings.
meditate on it here
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Impure
Impure is a visual programming language aimed to gather, process and visualize information. With impure is possible to obtain information from very different sources; from user owned data to diverse feeds in internet, including social media data, real time or historical financial information, images, news, search queries and many more. Impure is a tool to be in touch with data around...
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snd - Atavism
Atavism is the tendency to revert to ancestral type. .snd awaken the repetitive, the primordial - the archetypes of techno - distill them into a graduated cylinder, and convert them into sound waves. music for the collective unconscious.
released by raster-noton, listen here
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“The noxious thing about the cultural elite is supposed to be its bad faith....”
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i have an aunt that often decries me for what she labels my unnecessary (and to my endless confusion), inhumane “elitism” at the dinner table. my usual response is ‘what should i be, Di? a plebeian?’ it usually doesn’t go much beyond that. in its 10th issue, the...
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Inoyama Land - Danzindan-Pojidon
Danzindam-Pojidon is the wonderful side project of Japanese New Wave group Hikashu members Yasushi Yamashita and Makoto Inoue. new age ambient, Japanese classicism, and folk themes collide in this 1983 LP released on Yen Records. ideal for leaving your door open on a warm day and allowing nature to enter your home.
intake here
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“Expansion of life, usefulness, efficiency, the cutting of a figure in society,...”
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read the rest of the essay and more in The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche
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Charles Babbage
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SNuffy's Underwater Adventures LP
Underwater Adventures LP released by the SEPPUKU+ netlabel.
download it here or at bandcamp
and check out the tumblr
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Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room
I am sitting in a room different from the one you are in now. I am recording the sound of my speaking voice and I am going to play it back into the room again and again until the resonant frequencies of the room reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the...
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17 Sons Records
Electronic musics and sound projects based on predetermined arrangements involving man / machine / software interaction.
explore and immerse yourself in the wonderful music and graphic design on 17 Sons Records, most of which they graciously release for free.
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Stelarc
an artist who’s work has been illuminating the subtle interconnections between cyberculture, AI, biotechnology, digital art, evolution, and robotics for the last 30 years.
Stelarc’s website
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Trans-Millenia Consort - Plot Zero
trans-galactic transmission from 1983 courtesy of San Franciscan mystery woman Pauline Anna Strom. an ideal soundtrack for exploring the relationship between sound waves and their effects on consciousness.
download here
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““The brain is an organ like any other; it is an organic machine....”
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The Mystery of Consciousness
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Creation of a Bacterial Cell Controlled by a Chemically Synthesized Genome
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Crash Course In Science - Cakes In The Home 7"
Crash Course in Science
the sound of Kraftwerk, No Wave, and power tools. Industrial punk circa 1979.
listen here
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painting + digital treatments by Vanessa Dzibua
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“Researchers have figured out that data can be stored in bacteria, and that a...”
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a beautiful intersection between biotechnology and information theory.
read the rest of the article here
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RetroScreen
RetroScreen by Mike Tucker
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