Review of Talugung / _blank – ‘Split’ at Decoder Magazine
“…the result feels like a somewhat different sort of meditation. The role of the observer is active, audio filters and equalizers working as a metaphor for the imaginative filters of the listener’s...
View ArticleIntroducción a la música industrial en Canino
«Música industrial, dicen por ahí que eres la más ruidosa y transgresora, la más oscura y grosera, la perturbada que se atrevió a convertir los experimentos de vanguardia más intelectuales en pura...
View ArticleTurn sound into images, how?: Data bending
How to turn sound into images? That’s a question that a lot of people ask me when they see my collection of images transsubstantiatio. The answer is really simple: data bending. This is an easy...
View ArticleThis is not Cinema, 20 de julio en Barcelona
Este jueves día 20 de julio en Crater-Lab, This is not Cinema, una sesión con algunas de mis películas experimentales, abstractas o la etiqueta que más os guste ponerle a este tipo de cine. La entrada...
View ArticleNovember Film
This is what I’ve been doing lately. You can watch all my November one-minute films in this Twitter thread. All the films are similar, just tones and noise. I generate the frames using data bending...
View ArticleNovember Film (complete)
*WARNING: This film contains flashing images.* *Some of the frequencies are quite low, so I recommend you to watch the film with headphones, but be careful with the sound volume.* This film is the...
View Article“Clavilux”, short story by Robert A. Wait (1929)
The audience stirred in an uneasy manner. The curtain should rise in one minute. The absence of music seemed to bother a few. Others raised their heads expectantly from the bright colored programs in...
View ArticleThe Angle Between
I’ve made a new year album: The Angle Between. Happy 2018! The Angle Between by _blank
View Articleshe makes noise Makes Noise
Live cinema performance created for the festival she makes noise 2018. The audio was generated from the festival’s website. Then, the audio was saved as images. What you see is what you hear. For my...
View ArticleBeyond her Frequency Spectrum
I’ve made a new year album. Last year I made one, so I thought that I should make another one this year. Happy 2019 to everyone! Beyond her Frequency Spectrum by _blank
View ArticleGerald McBoing-Boing, the boy who speaks through sound effects
Gerald McBoing-Boing (1950) is an animated short film about a boy, Gerald McCloy, who speaks through sound effects. The film is based on an audio story by Dr. Seuss originally published as a record...
View ArticleSoundies
Soundies were musical films produced in several American cities between 1940 and 1947. They were short films of songs, dances, or orchestra performances. They were shown on a coin-operated machine, a...
View ArticleHannibal: This is my sound design
This is a translation of an article that I wrote in 2014. If you speak Spanish, you can find the original article at Makimono. Nowadays, there is a television series that stands out in terms of sound...
View ArticleNoise 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.
View ArticleIf 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,...
View ArticleDark Sound: This page is intentionally left blank (or black)
Dark Sound | Mikel R. Nieto
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...
View ArticleRAIN24021017BCN: 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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