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Enter the trippy, fanciful world of Soviet light art studio Prometheus
Somehow, tucked into the Kazan Aviation University in Tatarstan, USSR, inside a Faculty of Radio Engineering, the Studio “Prometheus” explored experimental aesthetics. In short, while performing the complicated dance of keeping Soviet authorities and the KGB happy, Professor Bulat Galeev and his colleagues managed to create an enormous body of work in visual music. These […]
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Volnovod is a robot sculpture that uses wire to make sound visually
Muscovite sound artist slash mad scientist vtol (aka Dmitry Morozov) has been at it yet again. This time, inspiration struck when his iPod earbuds tangled. (Good thing he hadn’t upgraded to wireless!) And the result was a new visual interface for music, embodied as kinetic sculpture. Volnovod, sounding for all the world like a long […]
Peter Kirn - January 25, 2017
Music Music tech
Watch the Clavilux, an ethereal light organ from 100 years ago
Long before trippy visualizers and computer animation, before liquid light shows or laser parties, Thomas Wilfred was building organs for visuals. He called the art they produced Lumia, and the instrument Clavilux – a keyboard for light. That first instrument was built all the way back in 1919. But unlike a lot of the spectacles […]
Peter Kirn - August 17, 2015
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Holding Geometry in Your Hand: Matthew Shlian, 3D in Paper, for Ghostly International
Peter Kirn - August 16, 2012
Archive Motion Music tech
Visual Music: A Waveform Made of Vinyl Records, Benga Single, Inspired by Seeing Sound
Peter Kirn - May 21, 2012
Music Music tech
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