Listening to: Bon Iver – Song for a lover long ago

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So beautiful and haunting, perfect spring/winter playlist.

Listening to: Future Islands – Little Dreamer

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Sound Sculpture

Zimoun’s art makes use of motors and other machine hardware en masse to create some strange and quite elegant installations.

Alva Noto

This is just amazing. Visuals done right!!

@Transmediale Berlin

Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) of Raster Noton performs at Club Transmediale 09 in Berlin where they premiered their new rhythm_screen. Visuals were produced using Derivative’s TouchDesigner and are formed from the TouchDesigner UI. derivative.ca

We played there at the same time!

‘I describe what I do as graphic composing,’ nicolai reveals.
‘I’m always thinking in polarities, like yin and yang. I look for visualization
tools that create certain images and then build archives of images generated by sound.’

Land of Talk – Its Okay

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Beautiful song.