Sound and Music

The bigger picture, indeed: by blowing up the screen of the iPhone to
tablet proportions, the iPad has become a lightning rod for discussions
about the future of computing. It has also left interface designers
with a challenge: what should interfaces look like? Can you simplify
designs, as on the iPhone, but also make use of a screen size closer to

Sonic Wire Sculptor is based on a musical instrument by Amit Pitaru which has been shown in museums and galleries world wide. A great effort has been placed in reworking the app to take advantage of the the iPhone's unique audio and input capabilities.

This Sunday (April 11) Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore will be delivering a "dissertation on white-noise" to 8-12 year old kids as part of Partners & Spade's Avant-Garde P

Papa Sangre is a new video gama that doesn't use image but sound to immerse the player.

"It’s a first-person thriller, done entirely in audio by an award-winning team of game designers, musicians, sound designers and developers. We’ve created an entire world using the first ever real-time 3D audio engine implemented on a handheld device."

Wada Ei's performance installation uses TV screens as percussion instruments. A Nam Jun Paik-style gamelan. The artists says:

27 March
ICA, London

Wading through all the amazing stuff on UbuWeb oftens seems like insumountable task. Well WFMU are hosting a streaming radio station of content found on UbuWeb. Always makes for good office listening..

UbuWeb Radio

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I've just finished reading John Maeda's "The Laws of Simplicity" which although not as life changing as the blogosphere claims is still inspirational in its clarity and, well, simpleness.

The Women's Audio Archive began as a series of recordings, taped by Lewandowska after leaving her home country in 1984, grown out of an interest in language as a site of cultural displacement. These recordings document public events, seminars, talks, conferences, and private conversations as valuable records of a particular time in discourse, beginning around 1983 until 1990.

Bidoun magazine has been one of my favourite art mags for the past few years and this months issue centres around Noise and containes The Indian Whistlers’ Association, Alan Bishop, FM 20-30, Jace Clayton and Kelefa Sanneh, Yto Barrada, Sophia Al-Maria, Kuwaiti Kar Krash, Cevdet Erek, Serhat Köksal, William E.