Showing posts with label Alva Noto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alva Noto. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 August 2009

Anti-Sweden,Soundtrap IV,Shinique Smith, Waterlife, Eric Joyner,Get a Free Lancer,Absolut Vodka,Simon's Cat, Olafur Arnalds,Grizzly Bear,Alva Noto



Art video for Norway's Anti-Sweden brand of jeans, featuring artwork by Justin Bartlett and a soundtrack of SUNN O)))s "O)))BOW1", mixed by Masami Akita / Merzbow, from the 2001 SUNN O))) album "Flight of The Behemoth"

Watch | Anti-Sweden vs SUNN O)))



A high-tech, 32 channel digital sound controller throws a pianola and a vast collection of recycled hi-fi speakers (icons of technological redundancy) into dynamic relationship in John Wynne’s new sonic sculpture.

The Soundtrap research residency at Beaconsfield has enabled Wynne to explore its architectural acoustics with precision. High-level audio tools have allowed the artist to experiment with the way in which computers can be used to, in effect, draw and sculpt with moving sound. The research leads to an immersive sound installation, exhibiting for six weeks. Beaconsfield



Shinique Smith is as fine a mixture of street and salon as any artist could be.

For decades, her family lived in the genteel Baltimore neighborhood of Edmondson Village. Except that by the time Smith was growing up, she says, that gentility was lost and by now it's "totally the 'hood."

She was born to a teenage single mom who left Shinique (rhymes with "Clinique") behind to be brought up by her grandmother. This young mother, however, had "abandoned" her daughter to study fashion in New York and Paris, then came back to push culture and education on her kid.

Smith went to storied public schools in Baltimore: The Baltimore School of the Arts and later Frederick Douglass High. In between those two schools, she got arrested, for what she calls "ridiculous" graffiti crimes, and was bounced to Southwestern High, where metal detectors were de rigueur. Smith says she lucked out when her failing transcript from Southwestern was lost on its way to Frederick Douglass. Douglass sent Smith off with a scholarship to the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Read full story Washington Post



WATERLIFE follows the epic cascade of the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. From the icy cliffs of Lake Superior to the ornate fountains of Chicago to the sewers of Windsor, this feature-length documentary tells the story of the last huge supply (20 per cent) of fresh water on Earth.

The source of drinking water, fish and emotional sustenance for 35 million people, the Great Lakes are under assault by toxins, sewage, invasive species, dropping water levels and profound apathy. Some scientists believe the lakes are on the verge of ecological collapse.

Filled with fascinating characters and stunning imagery, WATERLIFE is an epic cinematic poem about the beauty of water and the dangers of taking it for granted.

The film is narrated by The Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie and features music by Sam Roberts, Sufjan Stevens, Sigur Ros, Robbie Robertson and Brian Eno.

Watch | Waterlife



Super Robot Art by Eric Joyner

Watch | Visit Eric Joyner Studio



Get a free lance logo contest and win a lot of greens.

This contest is open to designers, novice or professional over the age of 18. Contestants must be registered members of GetAFreelancer.com (which is free) and must join the contest in their own private personal capacity.

more info Here



A group of artists comes together in locations around the world to create art pieces that spell out the philosophy of Absolut Vodka.

Watch | See something different



Cool animated adventures of simon's cat , by Simon Tofield, Director at Tandem Films

Watch | Simon's Cat - Fly Guy



The beautifull work of Esteban Diácono , inspiring music video for Olafur Arnalds.

Watch | Let Yourself Feel



Super cool non-official video for Grizzly Bear , directed by Gabe Askew .

Watch | Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks



Short video music by alva noto unitxt u_08-1, directed by Carsten Nicolai.

Watch | Unitxt short film

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Sunday, 21 June 2009

Martijn van Dam,Oceansize,Celluloid Remix,Fluid Architectures,City Sonics, Michael Joaquin Grey,Grid Index,The Fiery Furnaces,Wild Beasts,



Smashing work of Dutch graphic designer Martijn van Dam with a killer Black Sun Empire track.

Watch | Spacecraft Illustration



Oceansize is a short 3D movie made by 4 students of Supinfocom Arles in 2008, Romain Jouandeau, Adrien Chartie, Gilles Mazières and Fabien Thareau.

Watch | Oceansize



The Filmmuseum Amsterdam and Images for the Future launch Celluloid Remix, an online remix competition with films from the beginning of Dutch film history. Professionals and amateurs are invited to remix exceptional Dutch cinematographic material from the period 1917-1932 into new short films with their own soundtrack.

More info visit Celluloid Remix



Fluid Architectures
Netherlands Media Art Institute
Opening 29 May 18:30 hrs
From 30-05-2009 until 16-08-2009
Annja Krautgasser, Walter Langelaar, Jan Robert Leegte, Dirk Lüsebrink/Joachim Sauter, Mader Stublic Wiermann, Michael Najjar, Mark Napier, Marnix de Nijs, Stanza, Pablo Valbuena

In the movie Metropolis from 1926, director Fritz Lang created the vision of a futuristic 21st century mega-city. Now that we have crossed the threshold of this century our reality makes that vision seem strangely old-fashioned as new sets of factors unconsidered by Lang move to shape the future of our urban spaces. It is now ubiquitous computer networks, information delivery in real time and new display technologies which are the key elements transforming the face of our urban living spaces. Through them a space is taking shape whose manifestations merge the virtual and the physical. Essayist Florian Rötzer talks in this context of a “digital urbanism” whose salient features are „dispersal, decentralisation, valorisation of interiority, globalisation, individuality and mobility“.
These factors shape a networked society and a 'space of flows” which generate new dimensions for imagination and action no longer concurrent with the old geographies and topographies.Nimk



Crossing a city of sounds
From June 26th until July 26th 2009 in Mons , Belgium
Open from 12am to 6pm, closed on monday. Free entrance.

For its seventh edition, City Sonics invades the city center of Mons with over thirty installations and environments. Once more, the festival questions sound and matter and listens to its stories about us and others, about here and there, about the sounds of the world and their sweet opposites.

On twelve locations, “indisciplinary” artists offer creations and dialogues with visitors of all ages and categories. This temporary enchantment of the city is poetic resistance against the dark planetary times that are upon us and the chaosounds that aggress us daily. Sound is a fantastic medium that addresses our body and senses: there is no need to be a music lover or contemporary art expert to enjoy these works of sound.

The path chosen by the sound pirates of City Sonics invites you on a stroll through space/time, created by these works in what becomes a space of permanent metamorphose.



For the past twenty years, Michael Joaquin Grey has been creating work that extends and plays with the boundaries of art, science and media. His investigations center on the development and the origins of life, language and form - as related to natural and complex systems. Critical moments in natural phenomenon and culture are objects in his work, as are the prepositional states of change between matter, energy, behavior, and meaning. Grey's creative dialogue engages epistemological and pedagogical creative limitations of the tools and processes we use to observe, learn and play with our world.

Watch | Past Proprioception (2007) , excerpt



Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai aka alva noto has discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns. The accompanying CD contains all of the grids and patterns featured in the publication from the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, as editable vector graphic data files. Use it to map out the underlying grids of any image or form and to create recurring geometrical grids in graphic design - an essential reference for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers and mathematicians.

More info @ Raster Noton



We are very pleased to present you with the new album from The Fiery Furnaces! I’m Going Away is an album of 70’s sunshine-glazed piano pop, filled with cascading note slides, head-nodding grooves and some of the sweetest melodies in their seemingly endless arsenal of musical ideas. Indeed, I’m Going Away, which is easily an instant classic in the band’s expansive repertoire, is The Fiery Furnaces like you’ve never heard them before, providing amazing new insight into the work of this effortlessly innovative duo. Thrill Jockey

Mp3 | The Fiery Furnaces - The End is Near



This striking new video for the Wild Beasts forthcoming single, Hooting & Howling is just in. Hooting and Howling is the first track from the Wild Beasts forthcoming album, Two Dancers.

You can also download a free remix of the song by Debukas ahead of release, right now. Check out details below to download

Watch | Wild Beasts - Hooting & Howling

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