Game Art: Beck + Pyramid Attack = Sound Shapes

Game Art: Beck + Pyramid Attack = Sound Shapes

July 23rd, 2012 | Games, Interactive Art, Music

Sound Shapes is a fun and timely project that brings artists and musicians together in the form of a multilevel video game. Still interested? Then you’re gonna like this- Beck teamed up with Pyramid Attack production studio to make a game that reveals three of… Read More

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Documentary – I Put A Spell On Me

Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Documentary – I Put A Spell On Me

July 21st, 2012 | Documentaries, Music, Videos

The legendary Screamin’ Jay Hawkins was a great influence on many musicians and his performances were so highly provocative in their originality that even today they can be considered “revolutionary”. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins met Nicholas Triandafyllidis and commissioned him to make a documentary about his… Read More

Artcore – You’ll Never See My Face in Kansas City

Artcore – You’ll Never See My Face in Kansas City

July 18th, 2012 | Music, Performances, Videos

You’ll Never See My Face in Kansas City is an ‘artcore’ project that splices an Chris Burden performance with Americana music. JP Olsen writes: “In the spring of 2011 I was visiting PS 1 in Queens when I was drawn to a corner of the… Read More

The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966)

The Velvet Underground and Nico: A Symphony of Sound (1966)

July 3rd, 2012 | Music, Pop Art, Videoprojection, Videos

Here’s another forgotten Andy Warhol film made at The Factory.Just when you thought you saw and heard them all, new material from everyone’s favourite godfathers and mothers of modern music pops up on those Interwebs. The film depicts a rehearsal of The Velvet Underground including… Read More

Video of the Week: Harrell Fletcher in the Performance Room

Video of the Week: Harrell Fletcher in the Performance Room

June 30th, 2012 | Music, Performances, USA, Videos

Harrell Fletcher is an American artist who creates socially engaged interdisciplinary projects. While completing his degree at California College of Arts and Crafts, Fletcher began collaborating with artist Jon Rubin. The two secured a space in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland where they began to… Read More

The Grateful Dead Archive is Online

The Grateful Dead Archive is Online

June 30th, 2012 | Graphic Art, Media, Music, Reference, USA

The public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online through the GDAO website at www.gdao.org. Several years in the making, GDAO features nearly 25,000 items and over 50,000 scans selected from the Archive at UC Santa Cruz, documenting the Grateful Dead’s 30-year history from… Read More

Berlin Super 80 Underground Films

Berlin Super 80 Underground Films

June 29th, 2012 | Film, Germany, Music, Subculture, Videos

Berlin Super 80 is a compilation of 18 short movies shot in Super 8 by West German experimental film makers during the late 1970s/early 80s. Another excellent find from Dangerous Minds: Featuring music by Malaria, Reflections, Einstürzende Neubauten, Frieder Butzmann and Die Tödliche Doris. It’s… Read More

Visualizing music – analogue light animation on vinyl

Visualizing music – analogue light animation on vinyl

June 24th, 2012 | Animation, Light Paintings, Music, Videos

Interesting project by Michael Hansen who has this to say: “This is an album cover for the modern classical composer Allan Gravgaard Madsen. My idea was to translate Allan’s sensuous music to a visual experience with a element of senuality. The album is separetet on… 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

‘The Art Of Rap’ – A Hip-Hop History Lesson with Ice-T

‘The Art Of Rap’ – A Hip-Hop History Lesson with Ice-T

June 14th, 2012 | Documentaries, Music

Ice-T, the rapper and actor, wants people to think about the craft of making rap music. He has directed and starred in a documentary called Something From Nothing: The Art of Rap (in theaters June 15, 2012) that takes viewers from Harlem into the South… Read More