All of our instruments, wearable or not, act as extensions of our bodies. Our tactile relationship with the technologies that we use includes building our instruments by hand and designing them around our bodies. Despite or as a result of their origins, these instruments modify how we move while we play them, in ways we cannot predict in advance. They change not just our use of technology, but also the communication between us and our audience during the performance. In some of our work, we amplify natural electrical signals from the human body when we invite our visitors and audience to touch exposed electronic components that are connected to our instruments. This allows the live signals from their bodies to affect the final audio/video. We like creating this circuit between natural and man-made signals as it fits with our vision of a conglomeration of media/technology/electricity with natural and organic systems. In terms of past/future visions, we tend to think in terms of alternate possibilities for both present and future. We envision co-evolution of natural and man-made systems where interactions are innate and automatic.
What is the post-cinematic? « The Pinocchio Theory
Such is the context in which I locate the “post-cinematic.” The particular question that I am trying to answer, within this much broader field, is the following: What happens to cinema when it is no longer a cultural dominant, when its core technologies of production and reception have become obsolete, or have been subsumed within radically different forces and powers? What is the role of cinema, if we have now gone beyond what Jonathan Beller calls “the cinematic mode of production”? What is the ontology of the digital, or post-cinematic, audiovisual image, and how does it relate to Bazin’s ontology of the photographic image? How do particular movies, or audiovisual works, reinvent themselves, or discover new powers of expression, precisely in a time that is no longer cinematic or cinemacentric?
Realigning My Thoughts On Jasper Johns by JK Keller | TRIANGULATION BLOG
JK Keller told us interesting info about the amazing distorted process;”The original video is Simpsons season 10, episode 19, “Mom and Pop Art”. I ripped all the frames, then used software to turn the ripped images into vectors. Then I processed the files through Illustrator using the default Alignment & Distribution tools (23 different combinations). The resulting files were then brought back together for the 23 final videos. ” See more;
“With the audio, I used a similar process, making a spectrogram image of the audio from each cut in the episode. Then I applied a variety of processes to the image to mimic the alignment/distribution used. Then took the resulting image and turned it back into audio.The project is intended to be shown as an installation of a 9 screen grid. Viewers would be able to adjust dials and switches to adjust volumes & video sources to create their own juxtapositions of the 23 videos.”
3 Videos by Brenna Murphy for Gift Tapes
I just checked out these three new videos by artist Brenna Murphy, produced for the new batch of “special art edition” tapes from Gift Tapes by Matt Carlson, Spare Death Icon, and Million Mists. Brenna also designed the covers for each release!
Spare Death Icon – Quest from Brenna Murphy on Vimeo.
Matt Carlson – Bird Level from Brenna Murphy on Vimeo.
Million Mists – Slangaer from Brenna Murphy on Vimeo.
Medio Mutante – Demos MMVII-MMVIII
Cassette tape of demo and unreleased tracks: Living Tapes 010: Medio Mutante – Demos MMVII-MMVIII.
Medio Mutante is: José Cota, Mariana Saldaña, Seth Nemec.
Visuals from an experimental video by Seth Nemec.
Former Ghosts “New Orleans” by David Horvitz
My friend David Horvitz just directed this sweet video for Former Ghosts, and I thought I’d share it here.
WARN-U – Fatima Al Qadiri
Creepy video by Fatima Al Qadiri. Really love the vocals on this.
Conrad Schnitzler Day
Videos by Conrad Schnitzler, from the YouTube page for his official videos.
Matrix Metals – Flamingo Breeze, Part 4
New music video for a track off of Flamingo Breeze by Matrix Metals, which I posted to the blog awhile ago. Olde English Spelling Bee remastered and reissued the release on vinyl, which you can pick up here.
MATRIX METALS “FLAMINGO BREEZE, PART 4″ from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.
Video by Ivan Gaytan
