“Africans listen to the silence and use it as a dimension in which they can improvise,” observes John Collins, host of this excerpt’s video about African cross rhythms. The word for … more →
silent listeningandreasbick wrote 3 days ago: “Africans listen to the silence and use it as a dimension in which they can improvise,” … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 month ago: “During the night all the sounds are louder…” great video from diluvio. (via the m … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 month ago: British innovation company “Eigenlab” introduces the world’s most expressive elect … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 month ago: Already from 1997, this interview features the odd encounter of pop fairy Björk and Estonian compose … more →
andreasbick wrote 4 months ago: To get to the Art Biennale of Venice the way to go is usually by a waterbus, the so called vaporetto … more →
andreasbick wrote 6 months ago: I saw Gus Van Sant’s movie “Paranoid Park” on TV recently. Van Sant is well known … more →
andreasbick wrote 6 months ago: Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto talks about his work and a new book called “grid index” in … more →
andreasbick wrote 10 months ago: There is a fetish for each musical genre: rock has the guitar, DJ culture the turntable and sound ar … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: In a post on the Wired science blog Brandom Keim writes about efforts of biologists to monitor habit … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy is probably the most misused musical tune ever. It was Hitler’s b … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: At Berlin’s tuned city festival it was possible to visit two acoustically manipulated rooms at … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: On a symposium about experimental radio art last weekend, I found the conceptual work of german arti … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: Playing a metal door with tuning forks of different pitches, the sound was picked up by contact micr … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: In China there is an old tradition to attach little light whistles to pigeon’s tail-feathers t … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: If you are into superlatives, here are two dealing with anechoic chambers. The acoustic anechoic cha … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: The drawings of Jorinde Voigt resemble complex musical scores for unheard rhythms, that many critics … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: David Byrne’s “Playing the Building is deceptive in its simplicity. Sitting in the middl … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: Before radar was invented to detect enemy airforces, acoustic mirrors were build around the coasts o … more →
andreasbick wrote 1 year ago: The Touch Radio series presents a recording of Enrico Coniglio made in the Venice lagoon on 29th apr … more →