Print to Sound – “Lost” gramophone recordings converted from images

Print to Sound – “Lost” gramophone recordings converted from images

April 8th, 2013 | Audio, Technology

The Media Preservation at the Indiana university Bloomington found over half a million sound recordings, video recordings, and reels of film. The earliest items documented in the survey report date back to 1893. A few of those recordings are in picture form and The Media… Read More

Open Air – Artangel’s Sound Art on the Radio

Open Air – Artangel’s Sound Art on the Radio

Based in London but working across Britain and beyond, Artangel commissions and produces exceptional projects by outstanding contemporary artists. Over the past two decades, the projects have materialised in a range of different sites and situations and in countless forms of media. Each new project… Read More

Ryoichi Kurokawa – Berlin-Tokyo Reloaded

Ryoichi Kurokawa – Berlin-Tokyo Reloaded

March 31st, 2013 | Audio, Digital Art, Installations, Japan, Video Art

Japanese artist Ryoichi Kurokawa, born in 1978, lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Kurokawa’s works take on multiple forms such as installation works, recordings, and concert pieces. He composes time sculptures through field recordings and digitally generated structures while architecturally reconstructing the audiovisual phenomenon. In… Read More

“unnamed soundsculpture” by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer

“unnamed soundsculpture” by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer

March 17th, 2013 | Audio, Dance, Video Art, Videos

“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 Machinefabriek) as closely as possible by… Read More

Hackpact: Generative Art Soundmachines

Hackpact: Generative Art Soundmachines

August 9th, 2012 | Audio, Computer Art

define( “HACKPACT” ) = “1. Write some code each day for one month // 2. Document your work // 3. Share it” ; Showcase of 20 brief experiments (sound machines) we coded during november (MMXI). All of them explore the sound/graphic co-relation. Built with Processing… Read More

What do kids know about art? Only everything

What do kids know about art? Only everything

August 7th, 2012 | Audio, Criticism, Kids, Podcasts

MoMA Unadulterated is an unofficial audio tour created by kids. Each piece of art is analyzed by experts aged 3-10, as they share their unique, unfiltered perspective on such things as composition, the art’s deeper meaning, and why some stuff’s so weird looking. This is… Read More

Sound Installation by Zimoun and architect Hannes Zweifel

Sound Installation by Zimoun and architect Hannes Zweifel

«The sound sculptures and installations of Zimoun are graceful, mechanized works of playful poetry, their structural simplicity opens like an industrial bloom to reveal a complex and intricate series of relationships, an ongoing interplay between the «artificial» and the «organic». It‘s an artistic research of… Read More

Audible Color

Audible Color

July 23rd, 2012 | Audio, Computer Art, Videos

audible color is an audio-visual instrument. Sound is generated based on color detected by a camera. Red, green and blue correspond with certain music notes. When the colors are mixed, the resulting secondary colors produce different notes. The size of the colors influences the volume… Read More

‘Caten’, an installation of moving strings

‘Caten’, an installation of moving strings

June 29th, 2012 | Audio, Installations, Videos

Kinetic sound installation by David Letellier. Created for the Saint Sauveur chapel in Caen, Caten is a levitating sculpture, determined by gravity and guiding the evolution of a sound composition. 300 fine wires suspended from two ropes, connected themselves at each end to a slowly… Read More

Lecture: Francisco López – An ideal of absolute concrète music

Lecture: Francisco López – An ideal of absolute concrète music

June 16th, 2012 | Audio, Music, Talks, Videos

Internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene, Francisco Lopez has developed an astonishing sonic universe over the past 30 years. Having realized hundreds of concerts, field recording projects, workshops and sound installations in over 60 countries,… Read More