Bosch & Simons – Three Music Machines
LP – staalplaat The history of the mechanical music machines of the eighteenth and nineteenth century is well known also among the audience of non-specialists and its success is mostly due to the...
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Silvio Lorusso – What Design Can’t Do: Essays on Design and Disillusion
Set Margins, ISBN 978-9083350134, English, 300 pages, 2023, The Netherlands Lorusso has established a clear narrative on his social media channels that is ironic, if not sarcastic. It is about the...
View ArticleThe Conspiracy Capitaliser, formalising the business of belief
What if conspiracies are not a social phenomenon triggered by instability and social insecurities, but a business model that turns online communities into profitable customers? Robert Collins has...
View ArticleAlva Noto – Hybr:ID II
CD – Noton This is the second volume of the Hybr:ID series from Alva Noto and features his compositions from the soundtrack to the Ectopia – Shooting in the Corner show at Tanztheater Wuppertal. The...
View ArticleBernd Herzogenrath – ©ovid’s metamorphoses
meakusma, ISBN 978-9462087194, English, 200 pages, book + 7xCD + 2x data DVD, 2023, PBelgium Publishing is a question of choice and possibilities. Choice is expressed through the editorial process, and...
View ArticleSEMILLA AI, divination to instigate randomness
The recent resurgence of magical practices may be related to the increasing complexity of technology, epitomised by AI. Among them are artists who combine both, such as Exorcismos (aka Moisés Horta...
View ArticleVarious Artists – Lisboa Soa, Sounds Within Sounds
CD – Crónica Shifting attention to hearing, and creating the spatial and temporal conditions aimed at encouraging this practice, placing a certain amount of care in defining an adequate social context,...
View ArticleFrancesco Spampinato – Art vs. TV: A Brief History of Contemporary Artists’...
Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1501370540, English, 368 pages, 2023, USA The hierarchical role of television, the epitome of the one-to-many broadcast model, has been deeply shaken in time and space by...
View ArticleradioPHØNIX, fragments for live transmission
Even after more than a century, radio is still a solid media paradigm, having been the first to establish the modern process of information transmission in space. radioPHØNIX is a radiophonic...
View ArticleEmptyset – ash
LP – Subtext James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas, aka Emptyset, mark the fiftieth release for the Subtext label (founded by Ginzberg) with Ash. It is somewhat of a return to the label’s roots– the duo...
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