Examples of work by Dutch artist Dennis de Bel, including his Sew-O-Phone and Vacumonium:
Another example of contemporary artists making good on Erik Satie’s idea of furniture music.
More on de Bel at his website, danos.nl. Found via everydaylistening.com, which links to audio of the Vacumonium.
Images by Chris Supranowitz of an LP groove (top) and the surface of a CD (bottom), as seen through an electron microsope:
If nothing else, a sure reminder of the various physical realities and resulting metaphors that distinguish the two media: vertical versus horizontal, linear versus random, analog versus digital, gritty versus clinical.
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The winner of the Northern Arts Prize for 2010 is Pavel Büchler, whose recordings of applause were the subject of an entry here back in October 2008 (disquiet.com). Büchler’s works in various media, and his “You Don’t Love Me” is “an installation that uses a reel to reel tape deck, a bottle of whisky and [...]
The group show that closed yesterday at the Vancouver, Washington, art gallery Archer was titled Vantage, and it focused on “perspective – visually, contextually, and perceptually,” according to its brief description at the gallery’s website, at clark.edu. Among the pieces in the exhibit was Greg Pond’s interactive sound sculpture “That Intricate Never,” as shown in [...]
The top 10 most-read posts of January (out of 42 posts in all) were heavy with Downstream entries — that is, with legal freely downloadable recommended listening: (1) sound art made at an Indian call center (pictured at left) by Mathias Delplanque, (2) Lesley Flanigan’s music for speakers and voice, (3) the sound of mangled [...]
Three years ago today, John Emr launched a blog with a single artist as its subject. That artist is Peter Schmidt, perhaps best known for his work with Brian Eno, most notably as co-collaborator on the Oblique Strategies cards, for his cover art to Eno’s 1974 album Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy), and for the [...]
What happens when discarded pianos are rejuvenated and extended with technology? It should look something along these lines:
That’s a rough sketch by artist Hugo Solís of his interactive sound sculpture “Metaphors for Dead Pianos,” which opens at the Seattle gallery Jack Straw on January 29 and runs through April 2, 1010.
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