Category Archives: art?

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More Radiohead Than Radiohead

Big Ideas (Don’t get any) from 1030 on Vimeo.
Click the “Big Ideas” link there to get the story.
Bonus three-degrees-from-ATL feature: the apparent winner (under suspicion) of the radiohead remixed contest, young mix artist SPOR is remixer/pals/label-mates on UKs Lifted with aggro drum-n-bass trio Evol Intent… from A-town!

Walken and Dancin’

This should be Marriott’s new ad campaign.

Kumi Yamashita

Check out artist Kumi Yamashita’s work on light and shadow. I am fascinated by the idea of completely different elements coming together and the reverse effect of disintegration all in one piece.

Another “Make Your Own” Mellotron

With the cost of a new or restored Mellotron approaching $4000+, who wouldn’t want the plans to make your own?
This week Eric Beug joins me this week to make a musical instrument out of walkmans. The mellotron is an instrument that uses taped audio through a keyboard interface. Finding inspiration in Mike Walters’ Melloman, we [...]

Virtual Popcorn Anyone?

My Different Skies friend Dennis’ contribution to some Machinima films made it to the finals of the Machinima Festival Europe 07 .

The series of machinima collaborations that were done, documenting the Second Life media installation called “BLINK”, has been nominated for BEST VISUAL DESIGN for Episode 2, and all three episodes for BEST SERIES and [...]

Interactive Music Machine

This is Yamaha’s new TENORI-ON

I want one.

Codewalker

Steve Martin said, “Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” In today’s world of fluid context shifts and modal ambiguities, it hardly seems like an absurd or derisive comment anymore (maybe more like a rhetorical hypothesis to be tested).
Case in point is this brilliant experiment that illustrates a certain kind of lateral thinking that [...]