aesthetics

  • Meklit Hadero: The Unexpected Beauty of Everyday Sounds

    Using examples from birdsong, the natural lilt of emphatic language and even a cooking pan lid, singer-songwriter and TED Fellow Meklit Hadero shows how the everyday soundscape, even silence, makes music. “The world is alive with musical expression,” she says.…

  • The post-digital condition – nomadism, fluidity and micromaterialism towards listening in the contemporary age

    Originally published at Italian Magazine Blow-up. Translated by Laura Domínguez. “The digital revolution is over” It’s almost fifteen years now since Nicholas Negroponte, founder of MIT Media Laboratory in Cambridge, declared the trigger effect of radical transformation generated by digital…

  • infinite grain 08: ennio mazzon

    infinite grain 08: ennio mazzon

    [infinite grain is a series of interviews inspired on microsound procedures, exploring a wide variety of topics in dialogue with artists who work with sound on installation, composition and improvisation] The art of sound is a very special craft, scientific, mathematic, at the…

  • phantom terrains

    phantom terrains

    Streams of wireless data surge from internet exchanges and cellphone relays, flowing from routers to our devices and back again. This saturation of data has become a ubiquitous part of modern life, yet it is completely invisible to us. What…

  • sound of an atom, music of molecules

    sound of an atom, music of molecules

    Two interesting articles on microsonic adventures in science: the sound of an atom (more info at science / via motherboard) “Researchers at Columbia University and Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology say that they have, for the first time, “captured” the…

  • algorithmic menagerie

    algorithmic menagerie

    “Algorithmic Menagerie is a continuation of and the MFA thesis work of my long term research exploring artificial life and self-organization in the field of computer-based generative art. Programmed in Processing, Algorithmic Menagerie is an interactive virtual environment inhabited by…