February 18, 2012 | New Music | 
by Icarus |
In 2011, I was fortunate to be a part of the London Sinfonietta’s Writing The Future scheme which threw me in at the deep end of contemporary classical composition in the UK. In all that time, Thomas Ades, who can perhaps be seen as the lifeblood of that scene in the 21st century, always remained a character obscured by a Kafka-like haze until I heard Tevot and In Seven Days performed recently, both of which have stuck with me as a result of their kaleidoscopic, frenetic energy.
February 18, 2012 | New Trends | by Icarus |
Close to my heart, Rob Saunders and Petra Gemeinboeck’s work strives hard to really make robots that are doing things that make you think about what they are doing, to get a robot’s eye view of the world, best used as a mirror to see yourself in all your mechanistic non-dualist glory. Saunders is the programming talent behind the project, but he also achieves a rare blend by approaching the technical challenges of this art with a deeply philosophical mind-set. Or to put another way, he is a creative practitioner of what the AI researcher Inman Harvey calls ‘philosophy with a screwdriver’. Read more
February 17, 2012 | New Film | by Icarus |
The protagonist in this series of films (begun in 1995 with London), Robinson, is part tramp, part defrocked marxist intellectual who spends his time musing on the peculiar absurdities that characterise the landscape of modern England. Read more
February 17, 2012 | New Music | by Icarus |
Sydney produces a kind of minimal improv style that is gorgeous and immersive, made recognisable by bands like The Necks and Triosk. The Pollen Trio are a band picking up this thread in their own special way: modestly stated, calm, not dissimilar from their Norwegian counterparts (it is nice to wonder what kind of geographical influences there are in the music of both countries). Evan Dorrian is a drummer with a phenomenal gestural palette who I think will become an influence to many.
February 8, 2012 | New Music | by Icarus |
Fake Fish Distribution was made by adding a ‘version dial’ to Ableton Live. We wrote the tracks mostly as you would normally do in Ableton, but we made custom timelines that contained different sorts of control data that could be used to remote control different aspects of the track: from the tempo, to choices about what parts were being played, what sounds were loaded into the samplers, what rhythmic stress the drums were playing, and so on. Read more
February 7, 2012 | New Trends | by Icarus |
Alex McLean and Nick Collins are legends of the Live Coding scene, a geekfest of performance virtuosity in which music is made by writing the code that makes the music live on stage. It would be no surprise if Live Coding does not make it to Top of the Pops any time soon, if there is never to be a Steve Vai of the Live Coding world. I’m not even sure if I’m that into what comes out. Read more
Helsinki-based company Character cleans and refurbishes discarded letters and logos to make them into LED-lit, weather-proof, individual design objects that can be mounted/displayed indoors or outdoors. Read more
Austin-based photographer William Hundley loves juxtaposing completely absurd and unrelated objects. Whether it’s fabric-draped people in mid jump or chihuahuas and Easter Island heads standing on cheeseburgers, Hundley takes an almost Dadaist joy in making random, giddily puzzling images. Read more
The Hatton hotel epitomises Melbourne cool. Those who value design, location, and luxury will find The Hatton the perfect Melbourne base. Read more
Springfield Punx is a great blog that features renderings of what your favorite comic book, cartoon, and movie characters (and a few late-night talk-show hosts thrown in for good measure) would look like as characters on the Simpsons.
There’s an intriguing sense of urgency about Modest Mouse’s music. It comes at you in sonic waves, each one packed with enough bite to sink a small trawler.
My Baltimore friends might appreciate this t-shirt homage to Billy Ripkin, brother of Cal Ripkin Jr., whose 1989 Fleer card showed him holding a bat with the words ‘fuck face’ written on it.
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This pendant by Portland designer Stephanie Stimek hangs from an eighteen inch 14 carat gold chain. Made from a Japanese quail egg, the entire shell has been coated in plastic for strength and is available for purchase through the Lost At E Minor store. Read more
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