What he misses most is the sound of traffic
As he tells his father, what he misses most is the sound of traffic. It seems the noise made by trucks and taxi cabs created for him a kind of evening lullaby. Now he finds it difficult to fall asleep...
View ArticleNew concepts for new words: shorthearinged
Definition of shorthearinged : not considering what will or might sound in the future : made or done without thinking about how it will sound in the future
View ArticleAudible Frequency Range
Just a small test, a 20Hz to 20kHz frequency sweep heard as sound and seen as images. Sound and images are the same files saved in two different formats (AIFF and JPG). Images were generated chopping...
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No image. No color. Just blackness
“Dreams getting worse. Usually in nightmares you see what you’re scared of. Not in my case. No image. No color. Just blackness and then in the distance, getting closer and closer, beginning to pierce...
View ArticleGod is prowling around with a tape recorder
“When nobody cares, then shame ceases to exist and we can all return to the Garden of Eden without any God prowling around like a house dick with a tape recorder”. Playback from Eden to Watergate,...
View ArticleThe sexuality of the loud noise
— You made a loud noise. — You didn’t make umbrage with the loud noise. You made umbrage with the fact that you’ve got a load of gay people in a straight bar. That’s what you’ve got your problem with....
View ArticleActivating word patterns in the brain by tape-recorder techniques
“Assassins often hear voices telling them to kill. Are these voices necessarily imaginary? Directional mikes can project voices. Top secret research on lasers is concerned with sending thoughts....
View ArticleSímbols franquistes a Tortosa i altres desusos
Núvol ha publicat una bonica crònica del Embarrat i també unes paraules boniques sobre la meva acció/vídeo: «Blanca Rego (Ferrol) va realitzar una de les accions més interessants i directament...
View ArticleThe frequency of opiates is a special oscillation of ultra sound
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done in other ways…what is missed in withdrawal is a certain frequency […] The frequency of opiates turned out to be a special oscillation of ultra sound....
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@iotaQuarterly 2016 V2
Yesterday the iotaQuarterly from the iotaCenter published an interview with me and a new video piece that I made specially for them. “Watching it I can hear ‘destroy’ repeated over and over in my...
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RAW
I’ve bought this tank top in honour of the dozens of hours that I spend converting RAW audio files into JPEG images (and viceversa). And it’s electric blue, my favourite colour.
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Noise licks my ears
Noise has the power to provoke ecstasy. The drawings are from The Laughing Vampire Vol. 2 by Suehiro Maruo. It’s a collage, not the real layout of the comic page.
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If sound is power, then listening seems like submission
We seem thoroughly persuaded that looking is active while listening is passive. So looking is always liable to become a violating, objectifying and diminishing action, while listening is thought of not...
View ArticleNoise is a direct call to action
“‘Le bruit,’ noise with imitative effects, was introduced into art (in this connection we can hardly speak of individual arts, music or literature) by Marinetti, who used a chorus of typewriters,...
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View ArticleNoise is the unconsciousness of music
“The Merzbow noise is abstract, minimal, deprived of mimetic content. Its effect is immediate, an overload of the nervous system, not being able to sort out the information into categories of relevant...
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RAIN24021017BCN: Field recording, Barcelona
I love rain, I’m sure that you all know that by now. I made this field recording last week from my window while I was working. The sound of the rain is always beautiful. In this case, it’s interrupted...
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The Best Button Badge Designs of 2016
One of my data bending/glitch/sound illustrations/designs has been featured in an article published in the Digital Arts magazine website. “The Best Button Badge Designs of 2016 now available as...
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