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Soviet synthesizer bridged occultism and electronic music – Boing Boing
“The political tides turned against the Russian avant garde by the time Murzin began working on the ANS in 1938. As Isobel Clouter explains in an episode of the BBC radio show The Soundhunter, most early sound art projects were destroyed. Engineers were forced to work on art projects in secret and had little access […]
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A Tumblr Chronicles Google Art Project Copyright Fails
“… many museum collections house works that cannot be seen through the service due to copyright restrictions on the pieces. Thus, the 360-degree museum tours occasionally display a work that is blurred. This may make for a strange sight during your virtual travels, as well as a mysterious guessing game that a Tumblr called Righted […]
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Copying an eBook from Cover to Cover
“The desire for a better social and societal record has led us to huge libraries and massive data centers. We are constantly seeking improved ways to document, remember, and share our information. Our collective cultural database is gigantic, yet as privatization and balkanization take over, especially in digital spaces, our access to it has become […]
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On Art Activism | e-flux
“One can aestheticize the world—and at the same time act within it. In fact, total aestheticization does not block political action; it enhances it. Total aestheticization means that we see the current status quo as already dead, already abolished. And it means further that every action that is directed towards the stabilization of the status […]
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The Music Suite
“The Music Suite is a system for creating, processing or analyzing music. It is based on the Haskell language. It is designed with three goals in mind: Describe what the music is, rather than how it is to be performed. Avoid imposing stylistic or theoretical assumptions on the music. Include common notation and theory as […]
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onym
“Onym is a library. A truly public one. It is a free online database comprising the collections of private libraries in the city of Cologne. By making accessible what used to be exclusive, and by assembling what used to be diffuse, Onym aims to reassert the notion of what a library as an institutional embodiment […]