Master Genius: Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show

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Gil Scott-Heron's "New York Is Killing Me" Remixed by Chris Cunningham!

Chris Cunningham's audiovisual remix of Gil Scott-Heron's "New York Is Killing Me". 2010.

"The director debuted his first new video in four years. Cunningham also remixed the audio into something considerably more ominous, which perfectly synchronizes with the shadowy, New York-at-night clip." 

pitchfork.com
chriscunningham.com/gilscottheron.net/ 

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Sad News. R.I.P Rei Harakami. Damn Too early

Rei Harakami was a Kyoto-based electronic musician from Hiroshima, Japan. 

He released his debut album in 1998 on Sublime Records. Follow-up albums, opa*q in 1999 and red curb in 2001 showcased his skills as an artist and producer. Rei's growing reputation has resulted in his becoming in demand as a producer and collaborator for artists such as UA, Great 3 and Coldcut. His recent collaboration as an artist and producer on Akiko Yano's 2004 album, Honto no Kimochi ("True feelings"), resulted in widespread recognition in Japan.

His fourth album in 2005, lust, quickly gained popularity in a variety of music scenes. In 2006, Harakami released new and past works on the compilation album Wasuremono ("Forgotten Items") and a project CD Colors of the Dark for the Planetarium. In 2007, he composed the music for the film Tennen Kokekko ("A Gentle Breeze in the Village") based on Fusako Kuramichi's novel of the same name centered around a group of teenagers in rural Japan.
Mostly ambiant like, sometimes close to Squarepusher, Aphex or even Oval. A variety of different worlds. His worlds and we thankfully keep a part of that..

History : Early Sound Design - Suzanne Ciani, Sexy voice, Sexy Sound

 Thx to Matt Subjex for this

At Wellesley as an undergraduate, Suzanne went on a field trip to MIT. There she was introduced to a professor who was attempting to make his computer re-create the sound of a violin. Thus began Suzanne's 25 year Odyssey with the art of electronic music. She was there in its nascence and instrumental in its growth and ascendancy. As a graduate student in Music Composition at Cal Berkeley in the late 60s, Suzanne began working with the pioneers of electronic music.

Final result on the Bally Xenon pinball machin. Raowww

She had her roots in both digital and analog synthesis from the beginning. She studied at Stanford with Max Matthews, and John Chowning, the father of digital frequency modulation. But what most changed her life was meeting one of the earliest designers of analog music instruments, Don Buchla, whose apprentice she became, working on the assembly line at his Oakland shipyard loft. She was to devote the next ten years of her life to exploring the possibilities of this unique instrument, the Buchla, and her mastery of it would launch her career, which is not really my type of music. I prefer pinball freaky sounds personnaly, but im not here to judge. ;)

Here is the Buchla thing & buchla sound (click)

You can anyway check her website for more

Sound design: Steve Reich - Different Trains

This late-'80s work finds the minimalist composer mixing acoustic and taped material to great effect. The disc's centerpiece is "Different Trains", a work that frames Steve Reich's impressions of his boyhood train trips between his mother in Los Angeles and his father in New York; Reich also intersperses references to the much more harrowing train rides Jews were forced to take to Nazi concentration camps. Using the fine playing of the Kronos Quartet as a base, Reich layers the work with the taped train musings of his governess, a retired Pullman porter, and various Holocaust survivors -- vintage train sounds from the '30s and '40s add to the riveting arrangement. And for some nice contrast, Reich recruits guitarist Pat Metheny to create a similarly momentous piece in "Electric Counterpoint" (Metheny plays live over a multi-tracked tape of ten guitars and two electric basses). Two fine works by Reich in his prime.

The man i want for dinner: Marc Ribot, Intense

(and of course John Zorn, Fred Frith, Trevor Dunn, Joey Baron, etcetera)

I guess it could be seen as something like jazzu rock jewisho propsyche s*** but for me, still an amazing hippo impro from Marc Ribot, from quiet to the max.

All orchestred by John Zorn for the so famous Masada project, I like to see how some musicians know each other enough, after playing altogether years after years, to built something on impro, and to listen to each other as they do.

Tzadic Records

Tzadic Records History

At the Mountain of Madness: Live in Europe

enjoy
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Wall Painting: Supakitch and Koralie

Wall painting by Supakitch and Koralie

at the VÄRLDSKULTUR MUSEET GÖTEBORG / SWEDEN

With the support of POSCA

supakitch.com & koralie.net

Video by ELROY

Music by DLid (quatre rec. / Leonizer)

Music & Sounds, concrete: Christian Zanesi

Former student of Guy Maneveau and Marie-Françoise Lacaze at the Pau University (South of France) (1974-1975), of Pierre Schaeffer and Guy Reibel at the Paris Conservatory (1976-1977). In 1977 he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). There, he learnt and practised all the technical skills linked to sound, thanks to a wide range of experiences, productions and encounters.
He has initiated many projects in the field of radio, publications and musical events including: the Electromania radio show on France Musique, the festival Présences électronique and the CD box sets « Archives GRM », « Bernard Parmegiani, l’œuvre musicale », «  Luc Ferrari, l’œuvre électronique ».
He currently is the artistic director of the INA GRM.
Since the '90s Christian Zanési has been composing from his home studio and drawing his inspiration from the poetic encounter with remarkable sounds.

Christian Zanesi - Stop! L'Horizon

Harry Bertoia's sculptures, beautiful collection

In the early 1970's Designer and Sculptor Harry Bertoia and his son Val, made hundreds of sound sculptures. These sculptures represent Harry Bertoia's formation of Sonambient®.

Sonambient® was Bertoia's term to describe the spatial and tonal environment created by these sound sculptures.

Harry Bertoia created these sculptures of different shapes, length and thickness in order to achieve a range of gentle and sharp sounds. He experimented as a way to seek harmonic balance with the metal, resulting in pure, unique tones.

When touched, struck or brushed, these sculptures became abstractions of sound as they sway and knock against one another. The sounds are organic and mysterious, as tones resonate and flow into each other.

The completed Sonambient® also consists of gongs and suspended sonic-bars. Within his renovated barn, Harry made more than 360 magnetic-tape recordings, some of which are available on CD in the Bertoia Studio Online Store.

Harry Bertoia Website

James Horner - Brainstorm (1983)

Getting extremely able assistance from the London Symphony Orchestra, Horner devises a score of classical, choral, and dissonant elements that melds perfectly with this film's story of a device that can transfer the thoughts, sights, and smells of one person to the mind of another, but is then used for sinister purposes by the government. 

I love that movie. First of course because of Christopher Walken, then for the soundtrack and soundmix. The music fit wonderfully with the etherial theme of Brainstorm. The listener is taken on a ride from suspense to sorrow to elation, all while in the gentle embrace of Horner's skill. It really is a shame that this CD is so hard to find these days, so i'm pleased to share my copy with you

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you also can buy it here from Varese Sarabande

Jean Tinguely (1925-1991) - '40 Degrees above Dada'

Tinguely is one of the most significant machine artists and a father of robotic art

He was part of the Nouveau Réalisme movement. A term coined by the French critic Pierre Restany in 1960 (in a manifesto of this name) to characterize the work of a group of artists who incorporated real objects (often junk items) in their work to make ironic comments on modern life. The Nouveau Réalisme movement was part of the vogue for assemblage and had affinities with Junk art and Pop art. Restany also recognized a debt to Dada—hence the title of an exhibition he held at his Galerie J in Paris in 1961, ‘40° au-dessus de Dada’ (‘40 Degrees above Dada'). In the following year another representative exhibition, entitled ‘New Realists', took place at the Sidney Janis gallery in New York. Yves Klein was closely associated with Restany in the foundation of Nouveau Réalisme, and among the other leading artists involved were Arman, César, and Tinguely

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Jean Tinguely - Méta-Harmonie II - Tinguely Museum, Basel

I spent a lot of time to learn about concret music, pierre henry, Pierre Schaeffer, etc, during my studies in Paris ten years ago, and i still cannot believe his name was never mentioned in this domain in the sixties. Tinguely was more than just a 'visual' artist.

see more here

www.tinguely-jean.com

www.tinguely.ch

Dub Step Club! Bong Ra on Electronic Explorations

Linked by the friend Bong Ra dis week, a tastic mix of his last productions. Enjoy this podcast from electronic explorations!

117 – Bong-Ra

The Show July 26th, 2010

Podcast: Download (Duration: 47:58 — 91.8MB)

01. Megasaurus – Bong-Ra [Ruff 10]

02. Gargantuan! – Bong-Ra [Ruff 10]

03. Behemoth – Bong-Ra [Monster EP - Ad Noiseam]

04. Wormskull [Remix] – Bong-Ra [Dub]

05. Wormskull – Wormskull [Dub]

06. Woody Strode – Wormskull [Dub]

07. Nosebleed – Wormskull [Dub]

08. Yeti – Bong-Ra [Monster EP - Ad Noiseam]

09. Yeti [DJ Producer Remix] – Bong-Ra [Dub]

10. Charlie – Bong-Ra [Clash 013]

11. Ori Ede – Bong-Ra vs Deformer [Dub]

12. Ori Ede [Remix] – Wormskull [Dub]

13. Downers – Wormskull [Dub]

14. Droppin It Down – Bong-Ra vs Deformer vs Wormskull [Dub]

“Loads of new dubs, especially of my other new project WORMSKULL, and 3 piece metal/breaks project with Deformer and Balasz Pandi (drummer of Merzbow and Otto von Schirach).”
This mix is fucking mental, exactly what I want from electronic explorations   …… summer is here .. bring on the pummelling beats and high speed breaks

more @ electronicexplorations.org

New Job: Insect Vibration | Accelerometers | Mini Acoustic Chambers

>>BBB - Bay Bug Box<<
(Insect Stimulation & Recording System)

Insects are studied for many reasons including optimisation of their role in plant pollination e.g. Bees and in pest control e.g. Chrysoperla (Lacewing); In particular an understanding of their methods of communication is important if we wish to understand and eventually influence their behaviour. The BBB enables researchers study the low frequency vibrations that some insects use. The BBB will stimulate a specimen insect using a recorded vibration or sound and then allow the researcher to record the insects response. The system comprises: - • Personal Computer (Windows based) - Typically user supplied Control system • Vibration sensing probe • High gain low noise pre-amplifier • Power amplifier • 16 bit precision analogue to digital converter (ADC) • Loudspeaker Software system • Control excitation through the loudspeaker • Acquisition of the vibration • analyse the signals

Time History recording of the Chrysoperla (Lacewing); this particular example was recorded by our customer in India within a few days of receiving their first BBB.

The frequency of these signals is extremely low; typically between 30 – 125Hz. The amplitude is also very low as the insect is small it has limited capability to generate noise and or vibrations at these low frequencies. The “sound” when played through a loudspeaker will only be audible when amplified by 100+ times i.e. 40dB. The sound when the insect e.g. a Lacewing is on a leaf or in our laboratory “studio” will be inaudible.

Sample recording of a Lace Wing made with the BBB (.wav)

BLU! BIG BANG BIG BOOM! The new wall painted animation

 

"BIG BANG BIG BOOM:
an unscientific point of view on the beginning and evolution of life ... and how it could probably end.

direction and animation by BLU
blublu.org
production and distribution by ARTSH.it
artsh.it
sountrack by ANDREA MARTIGNONI

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Ryoichi KUROKAWA

Ryoichi KUROKAWA : Rheo | 3 HD projection + 5.1 | 0:30:00 | Japan | 2008-2009

Concept, Direction, Composition, Programming: Ryoichi Kurokawa
Production: Cimatics - Co-Production: Maison des Arts de Créteil, Le Manège - Support: Canon Europe

Ryoichi Kurokawa is a young audiovisual artist from Osaka (Japan). He declines vibrant and refined universes through clips, albums, installations, and performances, where glitch minimalism breaks up and re-assembles in more complex and vertiginous structures. Some people think he's a visionary and genial artist while others consider him to be formal and technicist. You're forced to confront with his work: the continuous concentration on synaesthesia, the ability to make imagination fly and the scrupulous attention to landscapes and definition made Kurosawa's works a sort of official standard for the ones who wants to get closer to audio-video world.

Kurokawa was born in 1978 in Osaka. In 1999, he started creating video and sound work and presented audiovisual work, installations and screenings in various art, music and film festivals. At the same time, started performing live with his audiovisual cross-media concerts and released CDs and DVDs. He also performed live-visual for musicians such as HUMAN AUDIO SPONGE (ex.YMO: Sketch Show + Ryuichi Sakamoto). Kurokawa is invited to numerous noted international festivals and museums in Europe, US and Asia including TATE MODERN [UK], ARS ELECTRONICA [AT], MUTEK [CA] and SONAR [ES] for exhibitions, screenings or audiovisual concerts, and he continues to be an active presence on the international stage.

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