Project by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer

produced by:
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Documentation:
vimeo.com/38505448

Music: Machinefabriek "Kreukeltape"
machinefabriek.nu/

The basic idea of the project is built upon the consideration of creating
a moving sculpture from the recorded motion data of a real person. For
our work we asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by
Machinenfabriek) as closely as possible by movements of her body. She was
recorded by three depth cameras (Kinect), in which the intersection of the
images was later put together to…

Perusing the avalanche of best-of lists leading up to the New Year, the most interesting releases seemed to me to be of the sluggish and spooky sort. (Sometime in mid-November, it got to the point that I seriously started suspecting records marked as 33rpm.) Upon its release (on Valentine’s of all days) Pitchfork’s Joe Colly described Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath 1972 as “a dark and often claustrophobic record” that “is by no means about prettiness or tranquility.” Rip Empson of XLR8R called Hype Williams’ One Nation “the musical expression of a 48-hour sleepless walkabout.” Brian Kolada’s Resident Advisor review of Raime’s Hennail ep notes the prevalence of “darkened pools of reverb” summoning “a gloomy horror-flick vibe.” George Bass of Drowned In Sound portrayed Andy Stott’s recent works as “dark, twisted house”. Abeano’s Rhian characterized The Haxan Cloak’s music as “creepy”, “eerie”, and “bewitched”. Massive Attack and Burial’s “long dark collaborative effort” invokes “the gloomiest moments ever”, according to Sam Hockley-Smith of The Fader. Charlie Hale wrote in the pages of the Quietus of how Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica opens on a heavenly note before it “dives off to somewhere far darker”. And looking toward promising upcoming recordings from moody labels like Kranky, Hyperdub, Tri Angle, and Blackest Ever Black, there’s not much light glimmering at the end of the tunnel. All of this begs the question: why so glum, chums?

When?

7pm, Thursday 27th October

Where?

London: Meanwhile Space, upstairs in the O2 Centre, Finchley Road

Liverpool: Elevator Cafe/Bar, 25 Parliament Street

Where will you sing?

]]> Sun, 16 Oct 2011 07:07:47 -0700 http://glti.ch/karaoke-iv/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsphM1xLByw&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:16:24 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsphM1xLByw&feature=youtube_gdata http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7996-bjork/ Björk's forthcoming Biophilia is an album. It's also an iPad app suite featuring interactive programs for each of its 10 songs... and a treatise on the natural world that involves everything from immense planets to tiny atoms... and a traveling exhibition that showcases one-of-a-kind instruments including a 10-foot bass-playing pendulum... and it's also an educational tool that aims to offer a modern take on music education, replacing notation and by-the-book theory with instinct and creativity. Biophilia-- due out later this year on One Little Indian/Nonesuch-- is many things. ]]> Mon, 04 Jul 2011 12:02:18 -0700 http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7996-bjork/ http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2008/12/19/%E2%80%9Cprimal-sound%E2%80%9D-by-rainer-maria-rilke/ it must have been when i was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. at any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder; this was probably the reason why our science master, a man given to busying himself with all kinds of handiwork, encouraged us to try our skill in making one of these instruments from the material that lay nearest to hand. nothing more was needed than a piece of pliable cardboard bent to the shape of a funnel, on the narrower round orifice of which was stuck a piece of impermeable… ]]> Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:10:15 -0700 http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2008/12/19/%E2%80%9Cprimal-sound%E2%80%9D-by-rainer-maria-rilke/ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160300649048270.html Visual and audio reproduction have undergone massive changes as their underlying technologies shifted from analog to digital over the past two decades. It's clear that it is far more convenient to snap photos with a digital point-and-shoot or listen to music on an iPod. But whether the quality of images or music has improved is, however, a highly debatable proposition, one that is contested by legions of enthusiasts who have continued to cling to older technologies not out of Luddite resistance to change, but because they believe the shift to 1's and 0's is actually making things worse.
]]> Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:02:53 -0700 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703529004576160300649048270.html http://ian-andrews.org/texts/postdig.html What is it that constitutes (a) post-digital art, and how can it be thought in terms of aesthetic theory – or even post-aesthetic theory?

In one sense, post-digital(1) refers to works that reject the hype of the so-called digital revolution.  The familiar digital tropes of purity, pristine sound and images and perfect copies are abandoned in favour of errors, glitches and artefacts.  And in another sense (as in the term post-modernism) it refers to the continuation or completion of that trajectory.  Post-digital music incudes a number of sub-genres: glitch, clicks & cuts, microsound, headphonics, etc.  All are,… ]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 05:57:48 -0700 http://ian-andrews.org/texts/postdig.html http://www.good.is/post/the-loneliest-whale-in-the-world/ ...this particular baleen whale has apparently been tracked by NOAA since 1992, using a "classified array of hydrophones employed by the Navy to monitor enemy submarines." It sings at 52 Hertz, which is roughly the same frequency as the lowest note on a tuba, and much higher than its fellow whales, whose calls fall in the 15 to 25 Hertz range.

To make matters worse, the high-pitched whale "does not follow the known migration route of any extant baleen whale species." The result, according to Dr. Kate Stafford, a researcher at the National Marine Mammal Laboratory in… ]]> Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:04:27 -0700 http://www.good.is/post/the-loneliest-whale-in-the-world/ http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html "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 sem- blance of my speech, with perhaps the exception of rhythm, is destroyed. What you will hear, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the room articulated by speech. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a physi- cal fact, but more as a way to smooth… ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 07:48:11 -0700 http://www.ubu.com/sound/lucier.html http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/sound/dj_food.html "On January 18th 2004, Strictly Kev premiered the original 'Raiding The 20th Century' on XFM's 'The Remix' show in London. It was a 40 minute attempt to catalogue the history of cut up music - be it avant garde tape manipulation, turntable megamixes or bastard pop mash ups. It rapidly spread throughout the web and managed to cause a full scale server crash on boomselection.info when they hosted it due to the volume of net traffic.

Shortly afterwards he read Paul Morley's recently published book 'Words & Music' and was amazed that certain chapters mirrored parts of… ]]> Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:07:00 -0700 http://ubu.clc.wvu.edu/sound/dj_food.html http://canopycanopycanopy.com/static/0000/2985/The_Endpoint_of_All_Gravity_Is_the_Grave.mp3 On July 29, as part of its Sender, Carrier, Receiver program, Triple Canopy presented a briefing on the activities of the International Necronautical Society's Berlin Inspectorate at Program. As heard in this unofficial recording, Provan, Triple Canopy's editor, and Yamamoto-Masson disputed the INS's claim that Berlin is the World Capital of Death, and discussed attempts by its members—chief among them writer Tom McCarthy, artist Anthony Auerbach, and philosopher Simon Critchley—to surreptitiously recruit agents and take over major cultural landmarks. Click here to read the draft copy of their internal report, and here to listen to a file of covert INS… ]]> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:35:00 -0700 http://canopycanopycanopy.com/static/0000/2985/The_Endpoint_of_All_Gravity_Is_the_Grave.mp3 http://gli.tc/h/blog/?p=194 [in continuation/response to Rosa’s post responding to Kyle's post responding to Evan's post]

Inherent in glitch art is a denial for codification. Attempts to [con/de]fine this phenomenon, which by it’s very nature will always be in flux, can be easily dismissed as futile. At the same time glitch art is something specific: Bob Ross’ mountain ranges is not glitch art – Cory Arcangel’s Data Diaries is. Points in Iman Moradi’s thesis were problematic, but it laid [contributed to] the foundation for a conversation which sought to get a handle on things – it was followed by further… ]]> Sat, 11 Sep 2010 05:29:00 -0700 http://gli.tc/h/blog/?p=194 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-co.html Chris Bohn is the editor of London-based monthly music magazine The Wire. Subtitled “Adventures in Modern Music”, the magazine has covered the alternative, the underground, the experimental, the avant-garde and the generally non-mainstream since 1982, featuring a span of artists from Ornette Coleman to Björk to David Sylvian to Jim O’Rourke to field recordists like Lee Patterson to emerging Chinese sounds artists like Yun Jun. The magazine is also well known as a rarity in its industry for both its profitability and its loyal, growing readership. Colin Marshall originally conducted this conversation on the public radio program and podcast The… ]]> Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:51:00 -0700 http://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2010/03/ignoring-the-mainstream-spreading-enthusiasm-for-difficult-music-and-sustaining-sonic-subcultures-co.html http://www.metafilter.com/90270/Two-podcasts-about-sound-art "Starting with the precedents set by Charles Ives and John Cage, VARIATIONS presents the principal milestones of Sampling Music, looking at examples from 20th century composition, popular art and the mass media, and the way all of these currents converge today." Curated by Jon Leidecker, who records and performs as Wobbly. "Poet Kenneth Goldsmith presents selections from UbuWeb, the learned and varietous online repository concerning concrete & sound poetry, experimental film, outsider art and all things avant-garde" in Avant-Garde All the Time. Goldsmith's the founding editor of UbuWeb and sometime DJ on WFMU as Kenny G. (Previously: CodPaste - a… ]]> Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:48:00 -0700 http://www.metafilter.com/90270/Two-podcasts-about-sound-art http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/03/07/symphony_in_j_flat/?page=full What prevents Bohlen-Pierce from becoming unpleasant, dissonant noise is the fact that is not merely an avant-garde musician taking a hacksaw to our current musical system for sheer destructive glee. In the same way that languages share certain principles, Bohlen-Pierce takes advantage of fundamental properties that make our own musical system work. It makes some different basic assumptions, most notably by not using the octave. But it also makes use of analogous ways of creating harmony and chords. The result is music that sounds different, but not bad. “A different tuning system is almost like a different language,” said Ross… ]]> Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:55:00 -0700 http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/03/07/symphony_in_j_flat/?page=full http://machinemachine.net/text/noise/noise-on-19th-february-2010-theme-unique-or-forgotten-cover-tracks/noise-unique-or-forgotten-cover-tracks

 

Podcast: 19th February 2010 / theme = Unique or forgotten cover tracks

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