Visible Sound – Nikola Tesla’s Mattergy
Special Edition* contains: five Historic Postcards featuring Nikola Tesla operating the Harmonic Telegraph, UDP-USB 4GB Chip preloaded with original posters, high-resolution PDFs, and full project notes + original Archival Audio from Canal 4 — unearthed sounds from the vault + audio CD of the complete recording. Fully Functional DIY Tesla Coil Kit — build and experience the spark of invention In 1990, CM von Hausswolff, while on a tour in the United States with Karkowski/Bilting, PHAUSS, and Th…
Music for "Cyber Café"
In 1991, Yuji Takahashi and Mamoru Fujieda collaborated in staging a sound installation at the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo, making extensive use of the new artistic possibilities provided by the advent of personal computers. In this installation, a culmination of their investigations into the aesthetic use of new technology, these two renowned leaders of Japanese experimental music used sensors and transducers on objects and in the space itself, via MIDI conversion, to trigger pianos, synthesiz…
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982 (Book, Hardcover)
Artists, writers, musicians, choreographers and filmmakers explore the possibilities of data, digitization and algorithms at the dawn of computer technology
ElectroResonance
*2022 stock.* Hearing the bell, I am able to let go of all my afflictions My heart is calm, my sorrows ended I am no longer bound to anything I learn to listen to my suffering, and the suffering of the other person When understanding is born in me, compassion is also born- Stepping into Freedom, Thich Nhat Hanh Resonance... How do we find or create opportunities for connection, collaboration and shared human and sonic space? How do we listen deeply to one another and respond in ways that create …
Looking at Music (Book)
* 2021 Stock. Language: English * The performance of computer-generated music breaks with the codes that have been established for concerts: the audience can no longer watch as music is created, and the causal relationship between action and sound has been cut. The laptop performance has evolved into a format in which the audience stares at people staring at screens. Looking at Music examines the role that visibility plays in the experience of music. How important is the live quality to the futu…
Cybernetic Coil 7"
Cybernetic Coil is an unedited recording of a self-playing system that employs algorithmic elements along with feedback between MSHR's handmade hardware synthesizers and the computer music environment Pure Data. The central structural element is a low frequency sine wave, which modulates their interactions in a spiral form. Cybernetic Coil is created with the intention of using these feedback exchanges between hardware and software to produce emergent, self-contained forms with sculptural qualit…
Alter
Limited 2 LP edition. "Alter-" is Automatisme's reaction to altermodernism in sound art. "For the Automatisme - Alter- album. I am inspired by how the art historian Nicolas Bourriaud defines the Altermodernism. Bourriaud understands the term "Alter" as a way to mean "other". The altermodernism would be another modernity that is different from the avant-garde modernism and post-modernism. More precisely, this is a new paradigm from the XXIe century with alternative ways to motivate artists to be…