Modulation of light and colour
Playing with the illusion of time
Real places become abstracted
Depth joins the objects
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SQUAREPUSHER
Friday 29 October, RoundHouse, Chalk Farm Road
I saw legendary musician, Squarepusher, play live at the Roundhouse and it was amazing. As a massive Warp Records fan, it’s always a treat to see these icons in person. The performance included mind-altering visuals which were probably made on Hydra, and it was interesting to see visuals on stage of which the process of making I was familiar with.
Squarepusher also performed some classics and some newer un-released songs. His insane bass playing kept me hypnotised throughout the night. The opening DJ sets by Paranoid London was also good, not to mention its decent sound system.
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Stan Brakhage
Stan Brakhage was an American filmmaker, mostly known for his experimental work.
He explored different techniques, painting onto celluloid, scratching, multiple exposures, collage.
Usually accompanied by music and poetry.
His work is extremely influential in the way I see film, Brakhage explores the boundaries of what is film and how its done.
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Alvin Lucifer
A tribute to the recently passed pioneer sound artist.
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Trevor Wishart
Trevor Wishart is an English composer and sound artist.
I found his book ‘Audible Design’, i’ve been finding it extremely interesting , really admire his view and philosophy on sound.
His exploration on granular synthesis is unlike anything ive seen. Using his own voice as his only sound source, and finding all the nuances by exploring the grains. In his talk ‘composing the real’, he elaborates what syllables and sounds can be used as different elements in his music. Really inspiring guy!
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Alva Noto
Carsten Nicolai also known as Alva Noto is a sound artists and designer from Germany.
His work for his label Raster-Noton has been exploring minimalism in sound art for the past 20 years. This label was influenced by Bauhaus.
They were trying to find the most pure and minimal form of electronic music, only using the two most basic waveforms: sine waves and noise.
Nicolai’s work explores high frequencies. I particularly find interesting his audio-visual work, he started of by connecting a CD player into the video input of a TV, and managed to make the TV respond to his music. By using plucky high frequencies and interesting rhythms he got the TV dancing kaleidoscopically to his music.
This idea has expanded into his recent work, now in a bigger scale.
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Burnt Friedman
He’s been making some of the most interesting electronic music for the past 2o years, combing electronica, techno, idm, jazz and dub.
He’s music is intricate and complex but still communicates the universal language of music.
Friedman has collaborated with all sort of musicians, Atom TM, in their duo ‘Flanger’.
He has collaborated with legendary drummer Jaki Liebezeit from ‘Can’ and Mohammad Reza Mortazav
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Ryoji Ikeda
Summer, 180 The Strand, Immersive RYOJI IKEDA exhibition
Ryoji Ikeda as for long been an influential audio-visual artist.