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Images from the art exhibit “Moiré” by Carsten Nicolai, perhaps better known in the world of electronic music as Alva Noto. The show ran at the Pace Gallery in Manhattan from May 21 through June 25 of this year: The exhibit is associated with Nicolai’s recent book, also titled Moiré, which follows his similar collection [...]
All field recordings are alien, even the most familiar. A close-up recording of a bug or an ice cube has sonic resonances, inherent threat, surprise facets, that are utterly apart from daily experience. To bring a microphone close to something is to witness it at an unprecedented level of detail, and to listen to it [...]
Don’t be surprised if the Carolinian/Piedmont Amtrak train line starts sporting an uptick in old-school graffiti tags at the beginning of September. That’s the route that connects New York City with Durham, North Carolina. Durham is home to Duke University, where on September 2 the Nasher Museum of Art will be hosting The Record: Contemporary [...]
Recommended reading, news, and so forth elsewhere: Just a reminder that this coming Sunday, July 18, will be World Listening Day: worldlisteningproject.org. The date was selected because it is the birthday of composer and sound ecologist R. Murray Schafer. … Peter Kirn at createdigitalmusic.com looks into whether, and if so to what extent, Apple’s iOS [...]
The Internet allows for varieties of atemporality, some of them semi-intended consequences (such as the manner in which Jorge Luis Borges’ Infinite Library seems within reach thanks to vast databases of culture), many of them unintended (for example how glitchy technology can summon of items from the past with no clear curatorial intention). Speaking of [...]
The PDF may yet prove to be the fax of the Internet: an under-performing technology that persists because of some peculiar set of ill-defined yet tenacious niches that it fills. Which isn’t to say the PDF doesn’t have artistic promise. Like the fax, it may even be ripe for experimentation. Back in the early 1990s [...]
The above image is a photo of “Manifon,” a work of art (“helmets, watertanks, netting [2010]“) by Rown McNaught. It was included as part of the exhibit The Sound Playground, a group exhibit coordinated by Bus Projects and Craft Victoria, and curated by Amelia Douglas and Nella Themelios. Douglas and Themelios commissioned various Melbourne, Australia, [...]