MUSIC VIDEO: Angelspit - Defibrillator
Directed by The Liar & Angelspit
Footage Provided by
Luke Haughwout @Regen Magazine (Allentown, PA)
Tommy Wilde @The Rave (Milwaukee, WI)
Aaron Saye (Denver, CA)
Katherine Vega @Kataklizmic Design (Tucson AZ, Phoenix AZ)
Graphics by
Chris McCard (Noblerot)
Walt Watts (Creative Distortion)
Bunny Design by Jessii Addiction
Japanese translation by Briony Mamo
Shot live during the ALL THE RAGE North America Tour, 2011.
BOOKMARKS FOR January 15th, 2013
Sabled Sun - Signals, is a series of space ambient works that portrays signals that the protagonist from the albums 2145 and 2146 finds on his journey to find out what happened to humanity after waking up from hibernation deep sleep to an empty world void of human life. (find more stuff at cryochamber.bandcamp.com)
- LAMINA NIXIE CLOCK: Fully handcrafted clock with old stock of Russian Nixie vacuum tubes. The clock is made from stained american walnut and natural maple wood in glossy lacquered finish. The high polished brass gears and disks are custom cut pieces. (more on etsy)
- Ambivalent Sexism Inventory: The statements on this page concern women, men, and their relationships in contemporary society.
- GoFlow: a DIY tDCS brain-boosting kit: Basically, you can buy tDCS machines today, but they’re not cheap (on the order of hundreds or thousands of dollars). GoFlow wants to create a kit with all of the necessary parts for $99, with a simple, solderless schematic that anyone can put together. You can’t buy GoFlow yet, but you ask to be notified when it is.
- Maura magazine 01: How can we make sure that writers are given resources to dive into stories that might not be obvious after a cursory Google search?
- IllumiRoom is a proof-of-concept Microsoft Research project designed to push the boundary of living room immersive entertainment by blending our virtual and physical worlds with projected visualizations. The effects in the video are rendered in real time and are captured live -- not special effects added in post processing. IllumiRoom project was designed by: Brett Jones, Hrvoje Benko, Eyal Ofek and Andy Wilson. (more at creatorsproject.com)
ROBOTROCK: Compressorhead - Ace of Spades
I have no words for this. Maybe it's because I am seriously lacking coffee and/or Rockstar Recovery but I seriously feel and look like a Winamp visualization now.
FASHION: Creepy Couture / Robotic Spider Dress
Exploration within the realms of robotic dresses; a spider dress gave birth. A cute little host creature created by fashiontech designer ANOUK WIPPRECHT and hacker & engineer DANIEL SCHATZMAYR - A prototype of a mechanic dress equipped with sensors indicators and controllers, created with the aim to give more power and 'psychological thrills' to the sugar sweet character that performative wearables often have. Sensoric, servo controlled, mechanic, microcontroller based and reacting//attacking upon approach, inspired by the game LIMBO. (via dvice)
MOVIE TRAILER: TPB AFK
Trailer for the upcoming documentary TPB AFK about the founders of the filesharing site the Pirate Bay. The film will be released for free online at the premiere of a major film festival. Release date to be announced during Jan 2013. You can support the filmmakers by pre-ordering the film on http://watch.tpbafk.tv/buy
MUSIC: 7 Ways to Body-Make Beats
Just a listen something I posted to the Tastebuds Blog this Friday - stuff about how to make music with your body, Kinect and/or some sensors. Features the V Motion Project (above) and my favourite in the whole bunch, Ethno Tekh (below). Japanese body DJ Daito Manabe also made it to the last with an amazing streetdance/sensormusic project dENiZEN (bottom). Read more about sensor porn here!
MUSIC VIDEO: Charli XCX - You (Ha Ha Ha)
Got half an eye on Charli XCX via following up on a few witch house acts, never got disappointed by her constantly changing stuff, not even with her Brooke Candy collab. Notice the Cyberdog top!
We'd been heavily influenced by the world of Tumblr superstars and the quick click, pop-tastic world of the internet in my previous videos, so this time we decided to look elsewhere," she writes. "We'd been watching a lot of grindhouse movies, mostly with strong female leads like The Pom Pom Girls and Coffy, and there seemed to be a bizarre cross over from that genre of cinema and today's world of pop. Shooting the video in a gun factory seemed like the perfect grindhouse setting for a kick ass, girl power story, with super pretty girls swapping the bullets for lipstick. Cute!"" (more on pitchfork)
ANGELSPIT: Recording Abandoned Telephone Lines
Part #1: Zoog is recording the sounds of abandoned telephone lines near El Paso Texas in January, 2013.
These recordings will be used in Angelspit's new album - due for release late 2013.
NOTE: Zoog did manage to make the recordings without getting bit by rattle snakes, scorpions, or shot by rednecks (!!).
Part #2 of this video diary will show how Angelspit used these recordings on their new album.
DANCE: LilyPad Arduino Wireless Dance Costume Performance
Performance of Utam Moses (choreographer) and Eric Lindsay's (composer) "The Space Between Us", for computationally enhanced dancers and MAX/MSP. The costumes are embedded with LilyPad Ardino technology; One of the dancers' (with the round skirt) costume combines LilyPad components and a XBee (wireless transmitter) together with pressure and flex sensors connected by conductive thread, which detects and transmits the movements of the dancer to the composer's laptop, which are then used to generate and control sound within a MAX/MSP environment.
Instead of a dancer's movements being a slave to the fixed constraints of a pre-composed piece of music, the wireless dance costume puts the power of live musical composition in the hands (body) of the dancer, who can explore and improvise new shapes and structures within an otherwise free musical environment.
SIMILE: A Day in The Life of Hunter S. Thompson
Moi: Pierre, I envy this bastard, I want a life like this.
Pierre: Mionami WTF, you already have a life like this.
Moi: FML.
MUSIC VIDEO TUESDAY: The Good Natured - 5-HT
Pop noir threesome THE GOOD NATURED just released their new music video '5-HT' - that's also the first single off their debut album we've been waiting so eagerly for during the past year (hopefully including all of the Skeleton EP, 'Lovers' and other brilliant tracks, not that they wouldn't be having any other kind of release, ever). This is an early morning without proper coffee, so while I'm going to get some, you go and read the Popjustice write-up. ROCK! (Pre-order the whole single here with mixes from GHOSTWERK and Kat Krazy!)
SHORT: WAR (Nine Inch Nails meets Leonard Cohen)
FilmShortage describes WAR as "A simply visually stunning short, accentuating on amazing color contrasts and movement. Coercive macro shots are brought together through colors, heart pounding sounds and famous words by Leonard Cohen." (read more on WAR's Vimeo page)
AFTERPARTY VIDEO: Qlimax 2012
Just as one of the YouTube commenters say, this whole video starts to get interesting around the 5:00 mark. Yes, it's around six minutes long. Yes, we're mildly aggravated.
MUSIC VIDEO: Metroland launch tribute video to London underground tube mapping engineer Harry Beck
Out now is a brand new video from the Kraftwerkian Belgian electronica duo Metroland. The video "Harry Beck" (in a remix by Növö) is dedicated to Harry Beck, an English engineering draftsman best known for creating the present London Underground Tube map in 1931. The remixed version is taken from the Metroland CD-only release "Mixing The Gap" which can be purchased from the Alfa Matrix webshop.
The video itself includes the first drafts Beck drew up of the diagram in his spare time while working as an engineering draftsman at the London Underground Signals Office. The London Underground was initially very sceptical of Beck's radical proposal, but it was tentatively introduced to the public in a small pamphlet in 1933. It immediately became popular, and the Underground (in the Uk and abroad) has used topological maps to illustrate the network ever since.
Metroland was started as a musical concept around the whole metro system. Less known is that the band recorded a soundtrack for some of the biggest metro stations worldwide, including London, Moscow and New York. Each unique track was handed over to the marketing department of said stations to use it. So if you hear Metroland through the boxes in New York, Moswcow, London, etc. You now know why.
This just came with the Alfa Matrix newsletter. Lodged somewhere between Kraftwerk's pre-90s technopop and bubbly Detroit mindneedles like AUX88, this is a taker.
PERSONAL: Winning the infographics challenge of The Economist, PEJ and visual.ly!
In January I closed the manuscript for my first book DAMAGE REPORT and promised not to touch text for a long time. So I started researching into infographics instead. Eleven months later I won the infographic challenge put on by The Economist, the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) and visual.ly. Read more about that here - where you can (and should) check out the other winners, THEY ROCK! (Well, that wasn't exactly Tim Ferriss tempo but I'm trying my best to get there.) I also have to mention that this work is a joint submission - appearing in the colours of tablet2cases.com with whom I've been working with for almost half a year now on visualizing data about tablets and related consumer behaviour patterns. If you want more eyecandy, check out my portfolio here!
LONDON: An Alternative Guide to Camden
“An Alternative Guide To Camden”, is a specially commissioned short film highlighting the best and quirkiest elements of Camden Town featuring one of the UK's top comedians Marek Larwood. Camden is one of the most popular tourist destinations in London according to Transport For London, receiving over 10 million visitors each year. The film was devised and produced for The Camden Eye by creative media agency Me:Mo Interactive. ()
Sent to the inbox of MEGA MECHANO ROCK by peterbenei. Cheers! (No goths, no rivetheads, no Cyberdog, no Hexagon, REALLY?)
GIG NEWS: Kraftwerk to perform back catalogue in Tate Modern (2013 February)
German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk play eight live performances in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in their first London dates since 2004.
KRAFTWERK - THE CATALOGUE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 is a chronological exploration of the group’s sonic and visual experiments and presents eight classic master works from across their celebrated repertoire with spectacular 3D visualisations and effects.
Combining sound and images, the performances showcase nearly 40 years of musical and technical innovation, including new improvisations, 3D projections and animation. Commencing with Autobahn, each night covers one of Kraftwerk’s groundbreaking studio albums in full and appear in order of their release — Autobahn (1974), Radio-Activity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991) and Tour de France (2003) — alongside additional compositions from their back-catalogue.
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
Wednesday 6 February – Thursday 14 February 2013 (except Sunday 10 February)
£60
Tickets go on sale Wednesday 12 December 2012 at 07:30 GMT
We expect these events to be extremely popular, so there is a four ticket limit per person for a single show and it is not possible to buy tickets for the whole series. This is to ensure a greater number of people get to experience Kraftwerk at Tate Modern. (more at tate.org.uk)
WTF: The Gangnam mutations (Whitby and Bass Blaster)
Speechless. One of the more unique mutations of PSY's sonic honeypot of a track is now irreversibly linked to Whitby Gothic Weekend. They might never need to spend another penny on marketing ever again.
And even hardstyle was inevitable, the Defqon.1 footage obvious and the whole thing makes me cringe about not listening to enough Hard with Style podcasts.
ART: Bangkok LED parkour
The Light Emitting Dudes is a short video project created by director Frank Sauer that took three freerunners, wrapped them in LED suits, and unleashed them on the chaotic streets of Bangkok, Thailand. Fueled by a techno soundtrack, the three runners from Germany, Australia, and Thailand were filmed over the course of two weeks traversing the ins and outs of the city in choreographed fashion, offering a visual spectacle that looks something like a real-life video game. (more via dvice)
ART: Wrecking Crew Orchestra's amazing Tron stuff
As performed by Japanese dance group Wrecking Crew Orchestra - this piece originates, according to Huffington Post, from Team iLuminate's TRON-inspired routine.
FREE MUSIC MONDAY: Shiny Toy Guns, The Good Natured, VoxxoV Records
This is FREE MUSIC MONDAY. (Something to look forward to after losing half a gig of project photo material and getting shocked by voltage, but hey, it was me who sigilized for a more interesting life.) Shiny Toy Guns released the first video Somewhere to Hide off their latest album III and there's a new lyric video out for 5-HT by UK pop noir outfit The Good Natured.
One surprisingly good news was the appearance of a new label late last week - VoxxoV is poised on the top floor of the ambient-glitch-drone-noise-electronica lounge and they just released two free compilation albums, one with IDM/electronica entitled Fall is a House of Gold and Rain and the other is mostly drone/noise entitled Faith in a Wet Season. The IDM compilation actually features a few Tympanik artists like Access to Arasaka, r.roo, Normotone or Tapage - this one was tested for a fair amount of existential crisis in London and Reykjavík, so feel free to proceed without caution!
MUSIC VIDEO: How to Destroy Angels - Ice Age
How to Destroy Angels is back with a more ominous and disturbing EP entitled Omen, first video Ice Age directed by John Hillcoat (the guy who was working on Digital Hardcore Videos? Yep, him). (Read this review at entertainment.time, too.)
SUPPORT: Machete Girl Cyberpunk Digital Series
The new issue of Australian cyberpunk magazine MACHETE GIRL scrapes reality with your brains in December, its eighth issue focusing on the subtle bridges between technology, magic and how we make ourselves into a living haggis of augs & fancy tech. Until that - you have 20 days to support the new Machete Girl project. Their ideas about making an all-encompassing media empire is something to look at - now they're busy working on a five-episode long series about our world in 2043. Read more about the project here and if you think it rocks.. you know what to do.
The Digital Web Series: Machete Girl the Hacker Chronicles, is the story of a young woman who is desperately trying to find out who has been systematically hunting down and murdering her friends before she ends up the same way. Set in the year 2043 Chloe is a hacktivist who mines government data and hides it in a Virtual Reality Game known as Arcadia, which is a fully immersive virtual gaming world.
The series will be shot on an ‘audience participation basis’ for example at the end of the first webisode the audience will decide who lives and who dies. This will have a “Real World Effect” as it will determine if we employ the same actor/ actress for scenes in later episodes. It’s an entirely revolutionary concept at this level because of how intense and visually spectacular the scenes will be.
Currently Machete Girl is also a popular free online magazine with over half a million downloads and now a 24 hour four channel online TV station, all run out of pocket for the fans. There is also a novel in the works and a comic book too! (read more on rockethub)