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Alpaca interweaves code and pattern, from music to textile to dance
The history of computation is connected to textiles. And in everything from choreographic gestures to weaving, one event makes patterns sing in music and materials and bodies. Across Sheffield, Berlin, Barcelona, Linz, and online, the latest Alpaca Conference is entering its second weekend, following an in-person festival the first weekend.
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A fantasy combo of Chicago footwork and Polish folk rhythmic asymmetry
You may need to buy some new sneakers for this one. “Anthropologist-dreamer” Piotr “Gary” Gwadera has combined the intricacies of Polish folk rhythms with Chicago footwork grooves. Catch the CTA to some oberek, kids.
In Phantasmagoria of Jathilan, enter the trance of a horse dance
Handmade instruments and electronic rhythms weave together with bone-chillingly moving vocals in the latest epic from Raja Kirk. This is serious anticolonial music: Jathilan recalls the horses enlisted in the fight against Dutch colonial forces, during a war that tore early 19th century Javanese society apart.
Movements to music, as Instruments of Things goes live on Kickstarter with sensor system
Peter Kirn - September 20, 2021
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What culture, ritual will be like in the age of AI, as imagined by a Hacklab
Peter Kirn - July 26, 2018
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