LONGREAD: Why keep talking about The Beatles?
The Beatles mobilized the forces of mass music more effectively than any band before or since. Their militaristic avatars on ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ speak directly to music as (British) [invasion,’ to songs that ‘hit’ a ‘target’ audience. What do they mean to us at this point when consensus in culture has broken down? Kevin Hanley talks to Jan Tumlir about his recent book ‘The Magic Circle: On The Beatles, Pop Art, Art-Rock and Records.’
ESSAY Afrofuturism Now! (EN)
From 14 to 18 October, WORM, the institute for ava…
Dark nets and mesh networks
The Internet was originally based round the idea o…
Emitter Micro Festival 2015
Emitter Micro Festival 2015 “Exp.Berlin gets an upgrade” Recently Berlin’s experimental sound scene was treated to the biannual Emitter Micro Festival – three consecutive evenings of ‘sound and more’ (according to the program) spread across three different venues in Deutschland’s burgeoning Mecca for intellectual-audio-explorers and weirdo-noise-types. Australian audiovisual artist Scott Sinclair submerged for three days […]
A new manifesto for Eurofuturism
If we realize that we are no longer the “leading” culture, if we accept that banal entertainment and monoculture is the new standard, there are suddenly many opportunities to exploit. Thrilled, we cried tears of joy for society’s loss; no more “difficult music”, “difficult films” and “difficult books” for them. Nobody after us would ever read Nietzsche or Guy Debord. A nourishing album from Beefheart or Ligeti? Those sweetmeats were just for us! Exclusive; and unattainable for future generations.
Hightlights Sonic Acts 2015 (#3): Mario de Vega ‘Dolmen’
Onze tips voor Sonic Acts: ‘Dolmen’ het nieuwe werk van Mario de Vega zal te horen en te bekijken zijn op vrijdag 27 februari in Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ. In dit werk onderzoekt hij hoe de overvolle ether ons fysiek en psychologisch beïnvloedt. Lees er meer over in de special in Gonzo (circus) #125!
Highlights Sonic Acts 2015 (#2): Florian Hecker
Onze tweede tip voor Sonic Acts: op de openingsavond in het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam is een nieuw werk van Florian Hecker ‘A Script for Machine Synthesis’ te beleven. Lees er meer over in de special in Gonzo (circus) #125!
Higlights Sonic Acts 2015 (#1): BJ Nilsen & Karl Lemieux
Our Sonic Acts highlights: During the Sonic Acts Festival composer and sound recordist BJ Nilsen and experimental filmmaker Karl Lemieux will perform unearthed for the first time live in an audiovisual format at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, making full use of the perfect acoustics of the concert hall. Read more about it in Gonzo (circus) #125!
VOORPUBLICATIE SONIC ACTS 2015: Kurt Hentschläger’s Sublime Landscapes 3.0
Over een luttele drie weken vindt het Sonic Acts-festival plaats in Amsterdam. Om je op te warmen alvast een interview uit het gelijknamige boek ‘The Geologic Imagination’ met Kurt Hentschläger, die voorheen deel uitmaakte van het duo Granular Synthesis.
REVIEW: Being an Open-Source Professional – Mert Akbal on the Blender Conference 2013
Blender is a familiar name to those who are working with computer graphics. End of October, the Amsterdam based Blender Foundation organized its 12th Blender Conference. In fact this is a minor task of the foundation compared to the huge coordination job of the development of one of the most successfull 3D software programmes at […]