R. Trebor Scholz – Own This!: How Platform Cooperatives Help Workers Build a...
Verso, ISBN 978-1839764554, English, 236 pages, 2023, UK There is an economic model that we see as irreversible, celebrated above all by American corporations: the ‘single-entrepreneur heroism’ with a...
View ArticleCM von Hausswolff & Chandra Shukla – Travelogue [Bali]
CD – Touch One of the subgenres of field recording that is probably most appreciated by audiences not accustomed to the practice, is audio diaries, sound works where the artist’s experiences in...
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hyd~, resonating ecological fears
One of the most frightening consequences of climate change is the drying up of freshwater supplies and the simultaneous increase in demand for freshwater. The kinetic sound sculpture hyd~ by Fabrizio...
View ArticleArash Akbari – Amnestic Continuum
CD – Farpoint “For intelligent machines to work, we must reduce the world into numerical data sets that support databases and algorithmic operations”, claims Arash Akbari. He expands on this by...
View ArticleAndrés Burbano – Different Engines, Media Technologies From Latin America
Routledge, ISBN 978-1003172789, English, 210 pages, 2022, UK Andrés Burbano is undoubtedly one of the most important scholars in the field of Latin American media art and history and has dedicated many...
View ArticleAngélica Castelló – Catorce reflexiones sobre el fin
LP – Gruenrekorder These recordings from Mexican composer Angélica Castelló were originally developed in 2019 for an installation at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca and are now released on...
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Recharge, energy needs closed eyes
Our increasing dependance from smartphones has begun to affect our circadian rhythms too, through the backlit screens and all the potentially incoming communication they represent, directly as...
View ArticleEric La Casa – Barrières Mobiles
CD – Swarming After the jihad attacks in November 2015, a large part of the spaces of the public buildings in Paris were reprojected with the addition of resistant metal bars at the entrances. This...
View ArticleOmar Kholeif – Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs
Phaidon Press, ISBN 978-1838664077, English, 296 pages, 2023, USA The definition of Internet art was problematic from the very beginning, far beyond the used terminology(Internet, net, web, telematic,...
View ArticleBONES, connecting underground and overground through our bones
In the research for this project, David Vélez investigated some elements about the resonance of sounds through our bones. For example, in the early stages of our lives we hear our mother’s voice...
View ArticleMaurizio Bianchi – Computers S.P.A.
LP + CDR – Verlag System The fact that a legend of experimental music might resist to epochal changes, after repeated years of absence from the scene, is not everyone’s cup of tea and Maurizio Bianchi...
View ArticleChris Salter – Sensing Machines, How Sensors Shape Our Everyday Life
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262046602, English, 324 pages, 2022, USA Unlike many books about our technological present, which focus on the emerging impact of very tangible technologies, Sensing Machines...
View ArticleSchneider TM – Ereignishorizont
2CD – Karlrecords Dirk Dresselhaus, aka Schneider TM, greatly wanders between new sound forms, auteur pop, improvisative music and conceptual experimentation already from the mid-nineties, even before...
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Deep Hysteria, AI is an old sexist
For many centuries hysteria (a term deriving from the Greek hysteron, uterus) was considered a pathology, found by medical and mental diagnosis, to which a vast number of female imbalances can be...
View ArticleTiziana Terranova – After the Internet, Digital Networks between Capital and...
Semiotext(e), ISBN 978-1635901689, English, 216 pages, 2022, USA How internet has reached the current status? To understand it beyond the vagueness of abstract global labels (like “Web3”), and to give...
View ArticleStefan Goldmann – Call and Response
CD – Ash International How to bring out in the music new possibilities to explore alternative realities, since they are difficult to imagine, if not under the perspective of a spatial and “not...
View ArticleAntenna, receiving and playing electromagnetic waves
Sound art is no stranger to the form of a sounding sculpture, because the materiality inherent in sound waves encourages us to think about an outstanding object that, having received the sound waves,...
View ArticleDanielle Shlomit Sofer – Sex Sounds, Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music
The MIT Press, ISBN 978-0262045193, English, 380 pages, 2022, USA The arousal power of the voice has been used extensively in music of all genres. But is it possible to quantify and qualify this use in...
View ArticleNatasha Barrett – Reconfiguring the Landscape
LP – Persistence of Sound After Cage, the awareness of our outside environment cannot be unbound from the integration between art and technology, in a link full of experiences and now enriched with the...
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Interface, augmenting senses
Interface is a project by Jose Chavarría in which he has built transparent masks equipped with sensors and physical transducers to simulate three non-human senses in our face. The bat’s echolocation...
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