Monthly Archives: February 2012

Rant

Nice waste!!!

I was working in Birmingham today and was handed a copy of the Metro and a complimentary Snickers (a Marathon where I come from). It came in what only be described as the most wasteful use of natural resources. The box, made of quite thick plastic, had a ‘ha ha’ factor of three seconds, then you remove the chocolate bar, then the regular wrapper from the bar, eat it and discard both wrappers. Quality thinking in this so-called ‘green’ era. I know we use packaging to protect, preserve, store etc but this box did none of these things and instead used the equivalent of about ten normal wrapper to each bar. Stupid pricks!!!

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Musings

The Sentinel – Holotronica

I seem to be getting a step closer. Alise the other day put me on to Hexstatic who make computer generated stuff and music for commercials etc. In this clip here, they have a quartz real time composer (whatever that is – another thing to research) being fed by Ableton Live – a midi interface.

Art Music

Analog Vinyl Sampling

More of this sampling shenanigans. This time from Ishac Bertran.

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Christian Marclay – Early Analogue Sampling

I have just come across Christian Marclay. This guy has been exploring sound and vision from many decades now. He seems like a person who loves to experiment and see where it takes him. It is interesting to see how he talks of his performance art , set in the 80s, and that I get the feeling he was an outsider in the art world and yet his work would not raise too many eyebrows these days.

MA

DAIKU | Generative Beethoven on Vimeo

Another C.A.N. offering with Audio Visual interaction. As much as I like the facilitation of the visuals it did remind me of a Spectrum Analyser on a Boom Box I had in the 80′s.