Off topic: Heather Hansen’s Emptied Gestures is a series of performance art pieces that combine ballet, yoga and drawing. Hansen uses charcoal and a huge piece of paper to translate graceful slow-motion gestures into organic illustrations. Her style, in the way it explores repeating patterns and stretches time, seems like a natural match for pairing with electronic… Read More Heather Hansen’s Emptied Gestures
Electronic musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson gave the commencement address for the School of Visual Arts 2012 commencement exercises. It’s 30+ minutes long, but Anderson’s speech is often fascinating and provocative, like when she recontextualizes Karl Rove’s words as a manifesto for artists, when offers her take on the Maker movement, or when she… Read More Laurie Anderson’s Commencement Speech
The DJ Hoodie is a wearable interface, that includes 4 channel zipper switch, fabric buttons with LED indicators and fabric pressure sensors. Two of these hoodies are connected with knitted stretch sensors on the hoods. The DJ Hoodies interface with a computer with Arduino, using Firmata library and Pduino. In the performance above, Mika Satomi &… Read More The DJ Hoodie – What You’ll Be Wearing If You DJ In Hell
OT: Fantasie No. 1 For Mobile Pianos, by Joe Winter, may be the antidote to music installations that take themselves a bit too seriously: Five modified toy pianos circulate the gallery on five elevated wooden tracks. Each piano is equipped with small speakers to play amplified sounds picked up from conductive tape on the tracks. Each… Read More Fantasie No. 1 For Mobile Pianos
Ready for something that’s a bit out there? Then check out André Gonçalves For Super 8 Projector And Analog Synthesizer: This is a totally diferent work from my previous ones and my first project playing solo with only an analog synth with which i have been playing in collective ensembles for more than four years… Read More André Gonçalves “For Super 8 Projector And Analog Synthesizer”
Benoît Maubrey claims that he’s the director of a Berlin-based art group and that these are his “Audio Ballerinas”. Got a better explanation for the neighbors? Then leave your caption in the comments!
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http://www.vimeo.com/12706784 Sunday Synth Jam: Benoît Maubrey is the director of Die Audio Gruppe, a Berlin-based art group that builds and performs with electronic clothes. Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes and dresses (equipped with amplifiers and loudspeakers) that make sounds by interacting thematically and acoustically with their environment. For example the Audio Ballerinas use — among other… Read More Benoit Maubrey’s Audio Ballerinas – The Most Fun You Can Have With An Electroacoustic Tutu
Sarah J Stanley‘s All Modes On is an experimental musical performance that uses multiple cheap keyboards to make hypnotic drone music: this was a studio done film of the performance I call ‘all modes on’ and I did in a few galleries. over the course of 30-40 minutes (varies per performance, each being different) and… Read More All Modes On – Experimental Music With Cheap Keyboards
The Audio Guillotine is a performance art work by Benoit Maubrey that involves using a wooden guillotine to smash loudspeakers broadcasting political statements and live sampled sounds. This sort of performance could get you killed, still, in many countries. via califaudio
