Selected Tweets #22: Sonic Cosmogonies, Sculptural Cartography, Aeolian Speculation….
Sunday, 5 October 2014
Noclip Urban Blocks – Alephograph
Selected tweets from my Twitter stream @MrPrudence [Oct 2013 – April 2014], with occasional addition annotations:
Magical-contamination collects and curates microbiological aesthetics and bacteriopoetics.
Mechanical Seizure – Minsu Kim. Bio-geometric space of electronic components simulates ‘life-like impressions.’
Drawing Machine – Robert Twomey. Precision-controlled CNC device programmed to ‘draw’ technical diagrams.
Typestracts – Dom Sylvester Houédard. Concrete poetry from the ‘cosmic typewriter’ of a Benedictine monk.
Drawing Machine – Robert Twomey
Xenakis Polytopes: Cosmogonies in Sound and Architecture. Architectural diagrams & mathematical notation.
Tintinnabuli Mathematica – Guy Burkin is programming Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli method. Listen here.
Magnetophone – Aaron Sherwood. Sound sculpture uses electromagnetic fields to generate guitar drones.
An Acoustic Lyrical Mechanism – Basmah Kaki. Speculative therapeutic Aeolian mechanism situated in an Indian quarry.
Magical Contamination
Graphic scores of Leon Schidlowsky – who experimented with tonal concepts. (atonal, aleatorical & graphic notation)
The Impossible Music of Black Midi – midi compositions comprising of several millions notes. A nihilistic hedonism of musical notation!
Sculptural Cartography: How the Marshall Islands inhabitants used stick charts to map the waves.
Time of the Empress – Aziz + Cucher. Multiscreen architectures ‘rise into ruin’ after being built.
Mechanical Seizure – Minsu Kim
Greg Smith on Mathew Biederman’s Serial Mutations. Necker cubes, isometric illusion & crystallographic indeterminacy
Gaudism – Echoechonoisenoise. Generative/handmade hybrid process to create organic & alien centenary structures.
Noclip Urban Blocks & Colocation Blocks. Isometric fragmentations from Alephograph
The Metropolis of Tomorrow – Hugh Ferriss [1929]. Future of the city: Monolithic skyscrapers and rooftop aerodromes.
One City – Will Insley
Onecity: Non Utopian Monumental City – Will Insley’s drawings/plans/collages of an immense imaginary city.
Sonia Sheridan was worshiping the glitch in 1982 with EASEL & Cromemco Z2D – Stretching the Grid.
N-light Membrane – Numen. Deforming recursive reflections via flexible foil membranes