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20 Seconds to a Synth: Zero-Input Sounds from Cheap PC Speakers
Our digital world tends to accumulate layers of detritus, much of it banal remains – orphaned cords and power adapters. And then there are cheap computer speakers, which you might think have achieved some sort of means of asexual reproduction. They’re everywhere: on shelves, in closets, given away, left on the street. It’s time to […]
Read moreVoltage into Generative Pixels, and Other Lo-Fi, Recycled Art
Today on Create Digital Music, we examine DeFunct/ReFunct, the latest installment of a touring (Ireland, France, Germany) collective working with repurposed, rescued refuse technology: Art From Trash, as ReFunct Media Makes a Symphony from Obsolete Gear [Videos] The group works both in sounds and image, so here I’ll echo what I say there in visual […]
Peter Kirn - May 10, 2012
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Art From Trash, as ReFunct Media Makes a Symphony from Obsolete Gear [Videos]
Obsolescence: it seems inescapable, as generations of old gear are replaced with shiny, new ones. But one person’s discarded electronic trash can be an artist’s electronic treasure. ReFunct Media is a collaborative to make something out of all that used junk. In parades of strange, twitching machines and orchestras of electronic noise, gear goes from […]
Peter Kirn - May 10, 2012
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