Affichage des articles dont le libellé est Music. Afficher tous les articles
Affichage des articles dont le libellé est Music. Afficher tous les articles

dimanche 30 mai 2010

# Playing the building by David Byrne

Playing the building is a 2005-09 project by Musician David Byrne who connected a piano to a series of devices that make the building around releasing a sound. The sounds can thus be combinated which ultimately creates a symphony that John Cage would have probably not deny.
Each visitor of the exhibition are encouraged to try this building instrument that develops a peculiar way of interacting with a building
Thanks Martin !







lundi 8 février 2010

#Body extensions / Delphic's new music video by Andrew Huang

Following you'll see "Doubt" the last clip of the English band Delphic, it's directed by the talented Andrew Wang .
This video is pretty much inspired by the great work of the two english artists Lucy Mc Rae and Bart Hess works, that every one must have seen on many other blogs... but the video is a nice mix between real body extensions and digital ones brought into a strange and cold atmosphere.

Delphic - Doubt from Modular People on Vimeo.


Another Andrew Wang's music video : here
A previous post on Boiteaoutils about Bart Hess : here


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jeudi 7 janvier 2010

# LOCAL_AREA_NETWORK[s] / Exhibitions by Viktor Timofeev


Our very talented friend, Viktor Timofeev (see previous posts) will be opening his two exhibitions called LOCAL_AREA_NETWORK[s] in London and in Cologne on January 14th and January 15th. During those openings, he will join Bryce Hackford for creating a improvised sound in relation with Viktor's paintings and drawings.
Here is the text related to this improvised creation:

Bryce and Viktor met in 2004 at Hunter College, New York, where they began collaborating on music projects. They have made pop songs and sound pieces in repetitive and environmental styles and create unique bodies of work in correspondence between Brooklyn and Berlin.
Bryce has a band in Brooklyn called Behavior (occasionally featuring Viktor), experimenting with recording mediums and effects in special new style some have called 'hypnagogic pop'.
To celebrate the performance in London by these two artists we have produced a 12" record. It features a piece called 9/32 produced by studio then live versions being layered arbitrarily on top of one another with a continuous sample and complete interruption by sample (during which both play). The flip is a live sample of Viktor's collaboration with Behavior this past summer. Each of the 15 12'' covers is a unique drawing by Viktor produced specially for this exhibition.
Bryce's recordings and performances match sensuality and intuition with a conceptual approach that traces the influence of Brian Eno and many German musicians, dub producers, home recording and dance music pioneers.
This 12" will be released at the same time as two new cassettes Bryce has produced for Robert Goff’s gallery in New York and The Curiosity Shoppe in San Francisco this January.

mercredi 15 octobre 2008

# Saint Denis N°4 /// Hip-Hop

Okay, it may sounds basics for French people, but it is quite impossible to write several articles about Saint Denis without writing one about French Hip-Hop band NTM. If you don't know them, I would say they sound a bit like Public Enemy in US and are still considered nowadays as the louddest voice of Paris' northern suburbs. Fifteen years after, problems are exactly the same and no other solution is considered that increasing repression...
There are some very big urbanism issues there, but it seems that there is no will from any state to work on it.
Best movie you would probably watch about this issue may be Matthieu Kassowitz's La Haine (1995)

NTM's albums:
1991: Authentik
1993: 1993, j'appuie sur la gachette (1993, I pull the trigger)
1995: Paris sous les bombes (Paris under attack)
1998: Suprême NTM

jeudi 9 octobre 2008

# 3D art & cool Graphic design: James "Gulliver" Hancock

Following you will find some really interesting pieces of the artist James HANCOCK
a.k.a Gulliver.



"super" project



"Extension sculpture"




Artwork for the singer Josh Pyke
A lot more on his website.
-found on Partfaliaz a great graphic design blog

mardi 8 juillet 2008

# Handlebars de Flobots


Clip du groupe de Hip-Hop/Rock Flobots. Une histoire de gamins qui choisissent deux routes différentes. Très manichéen mais superbe !

mardi 3 juin 2008

# Asimo chef d'orchestre !


Le 23 avril dernier, Asimo, le fameux produit de la recherche robotique de Honda, a dirigé, une partie de la soirée, le Detroit Symphonic Orchestra. L'image est impressionnante et dérange dans l'ambivalence qu'elle provoque entre franc enthousiasme et frayeur anticipatrice.

trouvé sur nextnature


dimanche 16 mars 2008

# Rétrospective Michel Gondry


A l'occasion de la sortie du film Be kind, Rewind (Soyez sympas, rembobinez), le MK2 Parnasse organise une mini rétrospective de Michel Gondry et diffuse ainsi:
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- La science des rêves
- Block Party