Playing the space of Kraftwerk: Rabon Aibo’s sound art at Atonal

In fragmented materials and process-based performance interventions, this year’s Atonal exhibition seems to breathe life into debris, a deconstruction of ruined objects. But most striking of all is the work of sound artist Rabon Aibo. With mechanical constructions, he makes the cavernous Kraftwerk power plant into an instrument – and makes use of gas canisters that resonate with dark moments in Kurdish and European histories.

Pirouette machines: sound and computation from screw cans and fluidics, with Ioana Vreme Moser

What would electronic machines be like without our usual resources? What about sound from old screw cans and radiosensitivity, or the reclaimed science of fluidics and swirls of water? Romanian-born, Berlin-based artist Ioana Vreme Moser asks those questions in her work, today at CTM Festival, in a discussion you can catch live online.

Peter Kirn - January 30, 2023

Healing, history, and a future reclaimed: Nina Pixel deep dive from Signals Festival

Ancestral Archaeology is more than the title of Nina Pixel’s new double-album. It’s an urgent practice at a moment of crisis for Slovakia and the world, taking a critical and scientific approach to folklore’s legacy, rather than a fetishistic one.

Peter Kirn - October 25, 2022

Weirdcore’s work Subconscious is inspired by raves and infinity GIFs, with Aphex Twin score

Peter Kirn - August 4, 2022

NAP 0.5.0, free realtime visual tool, adds GPU computation, Web, RasPi support, new look

Peter Kirn - April 29, 2022

Canilla’s love ballads sing from code and dismantled accordions; LP first listen here

Peter Kirn - May 13, 2021

Fantastic Voyages, a simulated Tascam Portastudio, and a voice from isolation

David Abravanel - March 30, 2020

The Monolith is a huge synth powered by Teensy, shown at Maker Faire

Peter Kirn - May 24, 2017

Robert Henke, finding beauty in ever-iterating work with lasers

Peter Kirn - May 5, 2017

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