Sound
Adversarial Feelings. Interview with Lorem
How does the algorithm interpret our irrational demeanors? Is it able to simulate our emotions and to learn the
characteristics that are typical of human personality? Lorem with the project Adversarial Feelings analyses the
interaction between human and machine with different
expressive media: musical, textual and audiovisual. Interview
by Teresa Ruffino.... READ MORE...
La vibrazione primaria delle piante. Plants Dub: un progetto di musica vegetale
Ricerche scientifiche recenti dimostrano ampiamente che le piante emettono suoni e frequenze non percepibili dall’orecchio umano. Plants Dub ha pensato di lavorare sull’intelligenza comunicativa delle piante e hanno scoperto che, spesso, essa si svolge per via di uno scambio di segnali elettrochimici, trasformati dal duo in suono.... READ MORE...
“Objects and Sounds”. Le immagini come tentativo di rappresentare i suoni stessi
Nel cuore del quartiere San Lorenzo di Roma, si trova il Pastificio Cerere che costituisce un importante spazio di sperimentazione per la capitale. Negli anni Settanta il Pastifico Cerere è stato trasformato da spazio industriale – fabbrica di farina e di pane che riforniva la capitale – a luogo deputato all’arte con un unico obiettivo: condividere l’ideologia del fare e dell’operare come terreno culturale nel quale discutere e incontrarsi ogni giorno. Report di Caterina Tomeo... READ MORE...
Sound Art?
The Fundació Joan Miró presents "Sound Art?", an exhibition which reassesses the notion of sound in art and considers the possibility of this category. The show, sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, is set up as a journey tracing the imprint of the sound element in twentieth-century visual arts and led by curator Arnau Horta.... READ MORE...
Digital mistakes and 3D lies. Interview with Karol Sudolski
Teresa Ruffino interviews Karol Sudolski, a young creative currently based in Milan. Together they talk about his introduction to the world of video before, and music after, both happened by accident and about the representation through a visual form of his thoughts in what he defines as the landscape of paranoia.... READ MORE...
Celebrating the roots of automated music. Interview with Volkmar Klien
Marco Aruga interviewed Volkmar Klien, sound artist and curator of Artificial Intelligence x Music Festival 2019. Celebrating the roots of “automated” music, the AIxMusic Festival got inspiration also from antique and baroque music, with a program spanning from Monteverdi to contemporary sounds.... READ MORE...
Invisibility: torna l’universo sonico di Ombre Lunghe
Bologna ospita la quarta edizione di Ombre Lunghe dal 17 al 19 ottobre. Tema di questa edizione è l’invisibilità, archetipo mitico che percorre alla stessa velocità il tempo e lo spazio umani.... READ MORE...
Carsten Nicolai’s “Parallax Symmetry”
With roughly 40 multimedia works, the exhibition "Parallax Symmetry" an overview of the oeuvre of the artist and musician Carsten Nicolai. Using electronic sound and light, Nicolai creates minimalist installations, sound performances, and visualizations of physical phenomena that reflect systems and structures of the media world.... READ MORE...
Holly Herndon, Proto: the sound of Spawn
Released in May 2019, Proto is the last album of Holly Herndon, one of the most curious performer and experimental composer. This album is the third part of a project that involves electronics, the body and its sounds, the society, and ultimately machine learning, used to interpret the society and show it, online and offline.... READ MORE...
Sónar + D 2019: il festival urbano della musica del futuro
Giunto splendidamente al suo 26° compleanno, il Sónar festival di Barcellona ha confermato la sua vocazione culturale, sociale e politica. Il plus del Sónar è la capacità di intercettare non solo le eccezionalità, ma soprattutto la ricerca e la sperimentazione, ospitando djset, concert, live performancele, audiovisual performance e installazioni multimodali, con particolare attenzione alle ultime tendenze generazionali legate ai nuovi linguaggi. il report di Caterina Tomeo.... READ MORE...
Steffani Jemison and Samson Young: Decoders-Recorders
De Appel, in its first collaboration with and at Looiersgracht 60, is delighted to announce Decoders-Recorders—a double solo exhibition by New York based Steffani Jemison and Hong Kong based Samson Young. Each artist investigates distinct forms of notation, gesture, and alternative languages to articulate suppressed social histories and contemporary predicaments.... READ MORE...
“Christian Marclay: Compositions”: a major solo show in Spain
A solo show devoted to Christian Marclay will be presented at MACBA in Barcelona. The exhibition will include a selection focusing on his sonic compositions, from graphic scores to video installations, and it will examine the relationship between sound and vision.... READ MORE...
An Opera for Animals
The exhibition An Opera for Animals, at Para Site, Hong Kong, looks at different acts of staging that have been crucial to our imagination of modernity.... READ MORE...
Perpetual Translation. Interview with Paul Destieu
Looking at the works of Paul Destieu, Filippo Lorenzin questions the Marseille-based artist about the evolution of media and their situation in our contemporary environment. His work studies the border between emergence and collapsing of a system.... READ MORE...
Sonic Acts 2019: discovering the controversy of the hereafter between the past and future
The 25th Anniversary of the Sonic Acts happened across Amsterdam. The combination of art, science and research becomes the ground to speculate on new ways to live and face the fast progress of contemporary society.... READ MORE...
Ari Benjamin Meyers In Concert
Ari Benjamin Meyers In Concert is his first institutional solo exhibition in Italy. Curated by Valentina Lacinio and Judith Waldmann, the show fills the space of OGR - Officine Grandi Riparazioni with something that goes beyond music: a variety of social interactions and experiences.... READ MORE...
Love in a Dying World
Love in a Dying World is a hybrid between a music video, an art film and a video art piece that has been created by a visual artist Samantha Stella during her trip to California in the company of a musician and songwriter Nero Kane.... READ MORE...