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1940s phone assembles itself to industrial soundtrack

September 1st, 2008 by lux

1940s phone assembles itself to industrial soundtrack:


micromov004 - Assemblage #1 from Chris Randall on Vimeo.

In Chris Randall’s mesmerizing music video, Micronaut: Assemblage #1, an old-timey animation from 1947 of a phone assembling itself is set to a modern sountrack. ‘I went and kited some footage from the Prelinger archive and made new music for it,’ he writes at his website.

Some New Micronaut For You… [Chris Randall via jwz]




(Via Boing Boing Gadgets.)

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Boards of Canada - Zoetrope

February 28th, 2007 by lux

YouTube Boards of Canada - Zoetrope (YouTube)

Unofficial video by Jason Willford. I suppose image mirroring could be considered a kind of shortcut for making a split screen video.

Originally from Split Screen on February 22, 2007, 11:59pm

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More Athens strangeness

February 28th, 2007 by lux

Dance
Dance, Motherfucker, Dance! (2006, 7.4MB, 3:22 min)

Epiphany
Epiphany (2006, 1.9MB, 11 sec loop)

From the town that brought you Boling & Morales here’s more,
this time from John Crowe of pluralmedium.com
Is it something in the water or just that unrelenting Southern sun
that seems to make Athens a crucible of weirdness?
Be afraid, be very afraid &c.

Music for the delicately entitled Dance, Motherfucker, Dance! by the
Violent Femmes.

Originally from DVblog on February 26, 2007, 2:00am

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For some countries, America’s popular culture is resistible

February 28th, 2007 by lux

Tyler Cowen in the International Herald Tribune:

NusratfatehalikhanAn Indian Muslim might listen to religious Qawwali music to set himself apart from local Hindus, or a native of Calcutta might favor songs from Bengali cinema. The Indian music market is 96 percent domestic in origin, in part because India is such a large and multifaceted society. Omar Lizardo, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, explains this logic in his recent paper “Globalization and Culture: A Sociological Perspective.”

Today, economic growth is booming in countries where American popular culture does not dominate, namely India and China. Population growth is strong in many Islamic countries, which typically prefer local music and get their news from sources like the satellite broadcaster Al-Jazeera.

The combination of these trends means that American entertainment, for largely economic reasons, will lose relative standing in the global marketplace. In fact, Western culture often creates its own rivals by bringing creative technologies like the recording studio or the printing press to foreign lands.

More here. [Photo shows legendary Pakistani qawwali singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan with his brother, Farrukh Fateh Ali Khan.]

Originally from 3quarksdaily on February 25, 2007, 10:55pm

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Gizmodo: Boycott RIAA in March

February 25th, 2007 by lux

Cory Doctorow:
Will sez, “Gizmodo has decided to declare war against the RIAA, rightly noting that they get their money from us (the consuming public) and that if we don’t like what they do, we can do something about it. It’s a good rant, and they offer nice alternatives to buying RIAA controlled music like attending concerts and buying music from emusic.”


Alright, we’ve been following the RIAA’s increasingly frequent affronts to privacy and free speech lately, and it’s about time we stopped merely bitching and moaning and did something about it. The RIAA has the power to shift public policy and to alter the direction of technology and the Internet for one reason and one reason alone: it’s totally loaded. Without their millions of dollars to throw at lawyers, the RIAA is toothless. They get their money from us, the consumers, and if we don’t like the way they’re behaving, we can let them know with our wallets.


I’ve always been skeptical of entertainment industry boycotts — I question how big a popular movement you can build by telling people not to listen to popular music — but maybe it’s time. I haven’t bought anything from an RIAA member in six months (the new Beatles Love mashup disc), and before that, I’d probably gone six more months. They just aren’t making anything I want anymore, and there’s so much stuff out there in Internet land from creators who aren’t set on destroying democracy, privacy and free speech that it’s almost impossible not to boycott these bastards.

Link

(Thanks, Will!)

Originally by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing on February 24, 2007, 8:49am

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Mobile phones become musical instruments

February 25th, 2007 by lux

0bogotrax.jpg Régine over at we-make-money-not-art reports on Swedish design duo Unsworn currently previewing their new Ophonine Pophorn sofware at the Ophonines at Museo de Artes at Universidad Nacional in Bogotá, Columbia.

The Ophonine software enables mobile users to turn their mobile phone into different musical instruments, record and play sound loops with a simple press of a button.

“The mobile is not just a phone – it’s a powerful and very portable multimedia computer. By downloading a piece of software to your phone everyone could be walking around with a set of musical instruments in their pocket!” says Unsworn representative Erik Sandelin.

Watch demo

Originally posted by emily from ringtonia.com, ReBlogged by Rosanna Flouty on Feb 25, 2007 at 10:42 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on February 25, 2007, 9:42am

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Easily download MP3s from Radio.Blog.Club

February 25th, 2007 by lux

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Web site Radio.Blog Downloader provides an easy way to download MP3s from the fairly popular streaming music site, Radio.Blog.Club.

Just enter the artist or song you’re looking for, and if it’s available on Radio.Blog.Club, select it and click the Download File link. Radio.Blog Downloader does make you earn the download - it takes about 10 seconds for the actual download link to show up. When you download the file, be sure to change the extension to .mp3 and you should be good to go. The quality of the MP3s vary, but, in this case, you get what you pay for. If you’re looking for more free ways to get free music online, we’ve got ‘em.

Originally from Lifehacker on February 23, 2007, 4:30pm

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Pythagoras

February 25th, 2007 by lux

M. F. Burnyeat in the London Review of Books:

Pythagoras_2It is hard to let go of Pythagoras. He has meant so much to so many for so long. I can with confidence say to readers of this essay: most of what you believe, or think you know, about Pythagoras is fiction, much of it deliberately contrived. Did he discover the geometrical theorem that bears his name? No. Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras’ death. Does he even deserve credit for his most famous accomplishment, analysing the mathematical ratios that structure musical concordances? Possibly, but there is little reason to believe the stories about his being the first to discover them, and compelling reason not to believe the oft-told story about how he did it. Allegedly, as he was passing a smithy, he heard that the sounds made by the hammers exemplified the intervals of fourth, fifth and octave, so he measured their weights and found their ratios to be respectively 4:3, 3:2, 2:1. Unfortunately for this anecdote, recently rehashed in the article on Pythagoras in Grove Music Online, the sounds made by a blow do not vary proportionately with the weight of the instrument used.

My problem is that to convince you of such deflationary truths I have to give an account which inevitably is less exciting than, for example, the following extract from Bertrand Russell’s well-known History of Western Philosophy (1946):

Pythagoras . . . was intellectually one of the most important men that ever lived, both when he was wise and when he was unwise. Mathematics, in the sense of demonstrative deductive argument, begins with him, and in him is intimately connected with a peculiar form of mysticism. The influence of mathematics on philosophy, partly owing to him, has, ever since his time, been both profound and unfortunate.

More here.

Originally from 3quarksdaily on February 24, 2007, 3:38pm

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Excellent MP3s of ’60s and ’70s “porn-style” music

February 22nd, 2007 by lux

Xeni Jardin:
Klaus Harmony, “The Mozart of Erotic Film,” was born in Baden, Germany, in 1941.

[He] was the foremost German composer of erotik film scores in the 1970’s, crafting music for over nine classic movies in just thirteen years. In collaboration with filmmaker and long time friend, Friedrich Wohlfäht, he expanded and thrust the genre beyond its known limits.

Link to a website with many mp3s of his work, with much wakka-chikka-wakka-chikkage, and refreshingly candid pornomuzik album titles like “Who Needs Dialogue?” (Thanks, Susannah Breslin!)

Reader comment: Craig Hollinshead says,

If Klaus Harmony was the Mozart of erotic film music, then Gert
Wilden was the Beethoven of such music…or Bach…or maybe W. Axl
Rose, who knows. Anyway: Link 1, Link 2, Link 3

lance grabmiller says,

More classic(al) porn soundtrakcs: Link

Jorge Santos says,

That music reminded me of the classic 70s car chase music. This is a link to a forum with a few links to some samples. See also blacksploitation.

Originally by Xeni Jardin from Boing Boing on February 21, 2007, 3:10pm

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MP3 Truffles: Lots to See and Do

February 22nd, 2007 by lux

Whew. I gots me a big ole backlog of great mp3 links to share this week, so I think I’ll just dive right in…

Many many more MP3 links, video links and a secret fun surprise after the jump.

Front
Things not to share:

Music Videos:

Okay, I’m going to sneak this non-music link here into the end. Wax On
Wax Hoff
, perhaps one of the creepiest and somehow most enjoyable pointless flash games I’ve run
across. Watch those nipples!

Originally posted by Clinton McClung from WFMU's Beware of the Blog, ReBlogged by Rosanna Flouty on Feb 21, 2007 at 09:04 AM

Originally from Eyebeam reBlog on February 21, 2007, 8:04am

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Weird Stuff On Ebay

February 22nd, 2007 by lux

If you can buy a 1metre high set of deer antlers on Ebay for less than a case of beer ( as my friend did recently), what else could available?

Needles, Haystacks.
Sure. Categories to browse are useful for computer parts or more lately, for friends who seem to acquire their second hand clothes via Ebay. And Musicthing provides a good filter for endless musical oddities available on Ebay eg actual kraftwerk synthesizers, etc. For finding genuinely weird items, that database is too big for anything but the search button. Which means choosing the right keywords. And lets limit search to items from within Australia.


antler
Antlers? Just to see what else my friend missed. For a deer-less island, impressively no less than 5 sets of antlers could be found.
Taxidermy? Offered actual wall-mounted deer antlers with full heads starting from around $750 ( many on offer ), but also an american skunk “excellent condition” (bidding was at $207), a rattlesnake head ($45 ), a giant tarantula ( $100 ), a predictable assortment of sharks teeth, kangaroo pouches and crocodile heads, and most temptingly - a taxidermied rabbit holding a hunting shotgun and wearing camouflaged unifrom ( $90 ). Taxidermy is an artform, y’hear?

Voodoo? 166 results, but mostly brand oriented stuff, no juicy spells or 21C witchcraft..
Bizarre? 42 items - leather pants, frank zappa CDs, monster bracelets.
Spiritual? 101 items - books, ‘healing cds’ crystal balls. yawns
Terrorist? 11 items including a hessian “Terrorist” body bag ($18 ) , a ‘suspected terrorist’ T-Shirt ($25) and a How to survive a terrorist attack manual ( $25).
Robot ? 353 items, with an ‘Automatic Conveyor Robot Donut Maker’ starting at $5,950.00.
Rare? 12630 supposedly rare items on offer, mostly CDs.
Nuclear? 30 items : A useful ‘Map of Uranium Coal Nuclear Fuels in India & Burma’ ($75), and a British Army NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) Suit ($130).
Skeleton? 281 - including a Life Size Human Anatomical Skeleton Female Model 170cm - ($133 )
Ticket? Not so strange, just curious to see how many available - 1439, the bargain ‘buy now’ price of $4250 for a “Date With Destiny” and motivational speaker Anthony Robbins, being particularly alluring.
Ebola? 1 in Australia, 17 worldwide, including 1x very special “EBOLA VIRUS SCIENCE MEDICAL Custom Italian Photo Charm” yours for $17.50 at time of bidding.
Enema? Perhaps appropriately, all 7 items were Blink 182 albums.
Medical? 261, Drugs? 95, Hypnotism? 26, Brain? 137 etc etc.

Perpetual, Peer to Peer Garage Sales?
What to make of all this availability? Skeletons in closets, crap in basements, all the world’s backyard sheds all in the one shippable database? On the one hand, it means avoiding waste and clever re-use of items rather than increasing demand for more new products, but there’s something disturbing about the number of planes in the sky at any one point, that are probably be filled with Ebay gear zipping from country to country. There’s merit in maximising what can be provided locally.

Related : The Slow Food movement, which aims to work towards “local production and consumption which will exploit “best practices” of science and professions worldwide but ultimately prove cheaper due to less reliance on transport and energy and chemical and technology intensive methods.”

Where to now for Ebay?
They’ve made a few purchases of their own in recent years:
skype.com - the dominant VOIP net phone software. Presumably to faciltate even easier sales, as well as broaden how they line their pockets. Plenty of better alternatives available tho.
paypal.com - popular online payment system. Now challenged by Google’s Checkout payment system.

Related: on the payment front, ‘micropayments’ are an interesting idea that many creators find attractive - users click easily to donate tiny payments which means that artwork that has enough merit to generate an audience, can also generate an income without advertising. One such micropayment system recently closed - bitpass.com
Arguments for? www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-6/icst-6-full.html
Arguments against? www.nothings.org/writing/upay.html

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Originally by jean poole from { { { { - - Sky Noise — >>> on February 20, 2007, 9:17pm

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Download of the Day: Home and Away (Mac)

February 22nd, 2007 by lux

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Mac OS X only: Freeware application Home and Away automatically mounts network volumes, launches applications, and opens files based on what network you’re connected to.

If you carry your Mac laptop around to a lot of different networks, this tool could come in very handy. To test it out, I set up Home and Away to connect to my Windows-networked music drive - which holds my iTunes music library - when it’s connected to my apartment network, then launch iTunes, and it worked like a charm. There are, of course, quite a few inventive ways you could use Home and Away. For example, you could run it when you start up your computer to have your Mac launch a location-specific batch of applications whenever you’re connected to a particular network. Home and Away is freeware, Mac OS X only.

Originally from Lifehacker on February 21, 2007, 2:30pm

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Open Sesame

February 22nd, 2007 by lux

opensesamesmall
open sesame (2005, 5.9MB, 3:09 min.)

“a rare non “youtube” homemade video…these are
slowly going extinct…nice music”

from - del.icio.us/cory_arcangel.

Originally from DVblog on February 22, 2007, 2:00am

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Playful parasites

February 22nd, 2007 by lux

udkrichard1.jpgMany media art pieces share the approach that they want to turn the urban environment into a playful potential space through some kind of intervention. The Throwies, Greyworld’s Bins and Benches or We only come out at night are all prime examples of this notion. Classic examples include the early sprayers and how they used the existing structure of the NYC subway to create mobile artworks that would travel between the city’s boroughs, accumulating more audience with every station they pass through.

udkrichard2.jpgRichard The also wants to playfully engage the city dwellers. After some research and sketches in different cities (don’t miss the video of his plastic bag-visualization of the Manhattan subway), he decided to focus on playgrounds – other spaces in Foucault’s sense within cities that are dedicated to play. Many have plenty of “recreational equipment” such as see-saws, swings and merry-go-rounds but research shows that children spend still 6-12x as much time in the creative openness of the sandbox.

In his thesis project “Playful Parasites” at the UDK digital media class, Richard uses electronics to enhance the play with swings and such in order to add some narrative possibilities to the experience of play. All of his designs are add-ons which can be velcroed to an existing piece of playground equipment. They communicate via Bluetooth and can be combined in different ways. “A Swinging Spark” extends the swing through a spotlight which illuminates the playground when someone is using it during dusk or summer nights. The light might also leave the playground and touch the surrounding architecture, giving people a sense of activity. “Musical Playground” attaches audio samples to various pieces of playground equipment. udkrichard3.jpg The more kids play and touch the overhead ladders and such, the more sounds get triggered and the playground takes on a whole new function as a musical instrument, giving the kids the possibility to easily create music in a networked environment.

“Virtual Facade” plays on the fact that in Berlin, many playgrounds are adjacent to Firewalls which are basically blank walls. This design proposes to project windows on such walls behind which shadows of people show fragments of their everyday life. These fragments once again get triggered by certain movements on the playground and kids are able to create visual narratives on the wall.

Related: The TonLeiter.

Originally from we make money not art on February 20, 2007, 6:01am

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Kari Altmann/Blackmoth

February 19th, 2007 by lux

I Don
I Don’t Know You (2006, 26.7MB, 4:01 min)

Music: Deru
Video: Kari Altmann a.k.a Blackmoth.
Good on the old atmosphere thing…

Originally from DVblog on February 19, 2007, 2:00am

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MPAA rips off freeware author

February 18th, 2007 by lux

Cory Doctorow:
The author of ForestBlog, a blogging tool, has discovered that the MPAA was using his code in violation of his license. He gives the code away for free, but requires that users link back to his site and keep his name on the software. The MPAA deleted all credits and copyright notices from his work, and used it without permission. They ripped him off:

Way back in October last year whilst going through the website referals list for another of my sites I stumbled across this link. That’s right, my blogging software is being used by the MPAA (Motion picture Association of America); probably one of the most hated organisations known to the internet. Cool, I thought, until I had a look around and saw that all of the back links to my main site had been removed with nary a mention in the source code!

Now, as Patrick Robin (the software author) notes, this probably wasn’t the outcome of a high-level board meeting wherein the executive committee decided to rip him off. It was more likely the work of a lazy Web person at the MPAA who was cutting corners at work.

But the MPAA believes that employers should be held responsible for employees’ copyright infringements. They want you to know that if you download movies at work, your employer will also be named in the suit. Infringe as we say, not as we do.

This reminds me of Warner Music chief Edgar Bronfman, Jr’s admission that his kids downloaded infringing music. He shrugged it off, saying that he’d dealt with the matter privately. Other parents are not so lucky: when their kids get caught downloading music, the RIAA sues them for every penny, through a thuggish boiler-room operation.

Copyright law is hard. It used to only govern relations between giant industrial players. Copyright didn’t regulate reading an interesting tidbit from the newspaper for a friend. It didn’t regulate watching movies. But now, sharing a newspaper article with a friend (by blogging it) involves copying, and so triggers copyright. Now watching a movie (by downloading it) involves copying, so it triggers copyright. The rules that are supposed to be interpreted by lawyers at Fortune 100 companies now apply to every single kid working on a project for her class’s website.

This is like having to file with the SEC every time you loan a buddy $5 for lunch.

Even the MPAA and its member companies can’t avoid violating copyright. The MPAA’s own CEO personally
ripped off Kirby Dick, pirating his film “This Film is Not Yet Rated” using the MPAA’s duplicating facilities. The studios regularly hose writers, painters, composers and performers, nicking their creative labor without compensation, and sneeringly invite them to sue if they don’t like it. Even the web-development departments get in on the act.

Is it any wonder that everyone with a computer is practically guaranteed to be a copyright criminal?

Link

(Thanks, Mike!)

Originally by Cory Doctorow from Boing Boing on February 17, 2007, 11:40am

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The Museum of Lost Interactions

February 14th, 2007 by lux

0casecommuni.jpgGraham Pullin asked his 3rd year students in Interactive Media Design in Dundee to engage with a history of interaction design that is much longer than that of digital electronics, and reflect on the social as well as technological changes that have taken place. They had to research Lost and Dead Media (cf. miss.gunst’s post on the Found Tapes Exhibition and Zoe Irvine’s Magnetic Migrating Music project) and build working models (using found objects and MaxMSP on iMacs) of fictitious historical products that might have been lost precursors to modern products and media. To underpin their authenticity, they filmed documentaries with archive film footage, and uncovered contemporary photography and packaging.

The result is the fabulous, quirky and poetic Museum of Lost Interactions (MoLI).

Examples (each of the projects deserves a post but i had to choose two of them. Some readers complain that i blog too much):

The Case Communicator, developed in 1936, was a laptop/PDA in a briefcase. This portable electronic workstation allowed male executives to get a 24/7 link to their secretary. Through the connection stream, the businessman is connected to the developers’ switchboard where his personal 24 hour secretary is ready to fill his “every need” (news headlines, favourite music and schedule.) A project by Alison Thomson and Shaun McWhinnie.

Conceived at the beginning of the 70s, Pester (the Portable Enhanced System for Telecommunication Entertainment and Recreation) is the first smart phone. It contains a cassette player, camera and games as well as a phone.

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Pester relied on a wired network using Connection Points positioned at convenient locations (parks, shopping centres and restaurants as well as regular sites along streets.) These Connection Points allowed callers to access an operator who could let them communicate with landline users, fellow Pester owners and also record and send vocal messages.

Pester contains a player for cassettes that held as much music as an LP! With video games in their infancy, the designers of Pester incorporated a set of playing cards into the back compartment for their recreation. A camera was integrated into the handset as well.

With the development of cellular networks by the 80s, Pester soon lost its appeal. A project by John Drummond and Euan McGhee.

Originally from we make money not art on February 13, 2007, 4:52pm

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Why hyphy is the best hip-hop right now

February 14th, 2007 by lux

Jody Rosen in Slate:

HyphyAs the poet said, there’s a fine line between clever and stupid. But must one choose sides? Not if you listen to “Stewy” by D.B.’z, a rap group from Vallejo, Calif. The song is propelled by a deliriously catchy beat—big wobbly bassline, blasts of keyboard fuzz, and what sounds like a schoolyard full of Ritalin cases chanting taunts—and by a young voice intoning a chorus: “Mainy, cuckoo, silly, bananas/ Mainy, cuckoo, silly, bananas.” Mainy is slang term meaning, well, cuckoo, silly, bananas—craziness of the most inspired and enjoyable sort. A second refrain elaborates on this theme: “Stewy-ewy-ewy-ewy-ewy/Stewy!” To be stewy is to be extra-mainy, really silly. Midway through the song, guest rapper E-40 arrives to deliver his own variation on the theme. “Look at all my young dreadheads,” he exults. “They so dumb!”

“Stewy” is one of 20 songs on Hyphy Hitz (TVT), a new compilation chronicling the Bay Area hip-hop genre known as hyphy (pronounced “hi-fee”), in which stewiness, maininess, dumbness are everything: the means and ends, the sun and moon and stars. The song titles tell the story: “Go Dumb,” “I’m a Fool Wit It,” “Get Stupid.” Stupid has been a term of praise in hip-hop for a couple of decades now. (”That beat is stupid.”) But hyphy elevates idiocy to a new level of esteem. When rapper Mistah F.A.B. boasts of doing “the dummy retarded” in “Super Sic Wit It,” he’s describing an aesthetic and philosophical ideal. Hyphy may be the most conscientiously “dumb” music in history. It’s also by far the best party going on in hip-hop right now.

More here.

Originally from 3quarksdaily on February 13, 2007, 7:45pm

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HyperScape 1 - 5

February 13th, 2007 by lux

Richard Bolam has worked on a series of art works entitled Hyperscape (versions 1 - 5) since 2003 of which four are completed and one (version 3) is in progress. Two of the works (Hyperscape 1 & 2) use computers in small area networks to produce work in real time collaboration through the distribution of the work load. One work (Hyperscape 4) doesn’t actually network computers in a technical sense instead it juxtaposes in different ways the output of two computers running the same software generating an image. While the last of the works (Hyperscape 5) is the output of software creating a continuous image suggestive of a landscape (much like a Victorian Myriorama or Endless Landscape) spanning 182 print outs. Below are the works in some more detail.

Hyperscape 1

Hyperscape 1 is a:

screen-based generative installation artwork that runs simultaneously on a network of compact Macintosh computers. One computer decides on the manipulations that are to be applied to the screen image and tells the other computers in the network what it has decided to do. The other computers perform the same manipulation to their own images. However, each machine has a 1 in 20 chance of ignoring the master computer.

Hyperscape 2

Hyperscape 2 is an:

immersive soundscape, again using 8 compact macs. One computer instructs the other 7 to play back a sequence of musical notes and they obey exactly. Because of the unavoidable latency of such old networking technology it is not possible to synchronise them accurately. The artwork relies on this limitation to create an overlapping wash of musical notes.

Hyperscape 4

Hyperscape 4, Landscape/Portrait is an:

installation of 2 networked Macintosh Classic II computers. They simultaneously draw the same generative artwork, one computer sitting in its normal orientation and the other on its side.

Hyperscape 5

Hyperscape 5, space_scape

consists of 182 A4 monochrome inkjet prints mounted on foamboard. The images have been created by a custom-written software program running on HyperCard. Each print is a separate image but together they suggest a continuous horizon. The software varies the parameters used to create and images and the result is an infinitely variable landscape that maintains a similarity without repetition. space_scape is a site-specific work for Access Space and embraces the difficulties of showing art in a busy workplace.

Originally from Network Research at February 12, 2007, 15:06, published by Marisa S. Olson

Originally from Rhizome.org on February 12, 2007, 3:04pm

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Lost Tapes, Found Sounds

February 13th, 2007 by lux

Tapes and tape recorders are good candidates for a virtual cemetery like Bruce Sterling’s Dead Media Project.

0fte_g3.jpgArtists and amateurs are already ensuring that these material witnesses of the 20th Century sound culture will survive. One of them is Harold Schellinx with his Found Tapes Exhibition Project.

Some years ago, the Dutch musician, sound artist and researcher started a tape collection by wandering through the streets of cities and suburbia, looking for leftovers, picking up thrown away tapes that otherwise would have been worn up by weathers and time to finally vanish completely.

The photographs of his findings provide images of loss that cannot be kept as such in a picture: Humans are often more attached to the fetishes of material culture, yet tapes are about sound – and so are some of our most important emotional bindings.

0fte_g2.jpgAccordingly, also Schellinx’ work is not about simply buying into another kind of ruin romantics. Even smallest bits and pieces are carefully collected and, if possible, sorted to be restored into what later may be listened to as memories from an almost forgotten past.

On the Found Tapes Exhibition website, one can not only browse the contents of these revived Frankenstein style mix-tapes, but listen to and download their soundings as well. And from time to time, the artist invites the audience to live performances based on the acoustic treasures of his collection.

Last week, following an invitation by Rinus van Alebeek’s “Kleines Field Recordings Festival” Schellinx has been wandering through the streets of Berlin, while parts of his collection were on show at two gallery spaces: Transitlounge (focusing on FTE) and at takt kunstprojektraum (art project room), where the artist will also be part of the “Acoustic Flux” show running from February 18 onwards.

Last Sunday Schellinx was part of the concert evening in the “Kleines Field Recordings Festival” series, dedicated to “Berlin Soundscapes”. Missed it? radioINCORRECT has caught up the sound stream and will send it this evening, starting from 8 p.m. CET.

[Pictures from the Found Tapes Exhibition website - Many thanks to Harold Schellinx!]

Originally from we make money not art on February 12, 2007, 3:40am

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