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Maschin Kaput - TAPE 2 | Tēpu II | テープ II
Noisy and free-raging rock band from Hamburg. Intense and gritty improvisations on bass, synths and various self-built instruments.
Label: Own
Artist: Maschin Kaput
Medium: Music Cassette
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Experimental Rock, Improvisation, Noise-Rock, Tapes.

Phil Freeman - Ugly Beauty – Jazz in the 21st Century
What does jazz mean 20 years into the 21st century? Are there any traditions left to explore? Are any sounds off limits? How far can we still call it jazz?
Label: Zero Books
Artist: Phil Freeman
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Contemporary, Jazz, Music Journalism.

Glissando - #43: Diversity. Curating
Made in Poland but with a global scope, magazine on contemporary music and sound studies. People from all around the globe reflect on curating and diversity.
Label: Glissando
Artist: Glissando
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Contemporary, Magazines, Music Magazine, Sound Studies.

Buurtbeheer - Vechtclown / Rat
Buurtbeheer speaks again! Fueled by vigilante B-films, their songs are about war veterans, housing problems and general Rotterdam-Zuid malaise.
Label: ROCKHOUSE
Artist: Buurtbeheer
Medium: 7¨
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: 7", Punk, Rotterdam, Vinyl.

Daan den Houter and Edo Dijksterhuis - De Aanschouw
In Dutch. A monument for Rotterdam’s smallest art gallery. And quite a volume! 22 jaar en ruim 1100 tentoonstellingen De Schouw in Rotterdam.
Label: Uitgeverij Waanders
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Art, Curatorship, History, Rotterdam.

G. Douglas Barrett - Experimenting The Human
Art, Music, and the Contemporary Posthuman. An engaging argument about what experimental music can tell us about being human.
Label: Chicago University Press
Artist: G. Douglas Barrett
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Computer Science, Human Sciences, Media Theory, Sound Studies.

Adbusters - # 169: A Manifesto for World Revolution
“Analysis, inspiration and sexy ‘oven-ready’ campaigns in this latest fantastic offering from our friends at Adbusters.” (Gail Bradbrook..(read more)
Label: Adbusters
Artist: Adbusters
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Criticism, Magazines.

Pierre Bastien and Michel Banabila - Baba Soirée
“Bastien’s mechanical loops and fantastic instrumental setups merge seamlessly with Banabila’s sound design and impeccable skills of sampling coll..(read more)
Label: Pingipung
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Mechanical Music, Soundscapes, Vinyl.

Kyle Devine, Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier (Editors) - Audible Infrastructures
Takes us to the sawmills, mineshafts, power grids, junk piles peripheral to musical culture showing they are pivotal to what music is, how it works, and why it ..(read more)
Label: Oxford University Press
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Culture Theory, Media Archaeology, Sound Studies.

Adbusters - # 168 – No Longer Human // Still Fully Human
To survive the algorithmic onslaught, we’ll have to become mental gymnasts: Learn to nip anxieties in the bud, modulate mood swings, shift vibes, ambiences
Label: Adbusters
Artist: Adbusters
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Activism, Artificial Intelligence, Criticism, Magazines.

Neural - #72 – Machine Transparency
How machines these days seem to have hidden agendas and talking to artists with ideas for revealing their black boxes, or phantasizing about them.
Label: Neural
Artist: Neural
Medium: Magazine
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Magazines, Media Activism, Media Art, Media Theory, Technology.
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Katažyna Jankovska - If a Tree Falls in a Forest
Artistic experiments and scientific research into alternative modes of perception, interaction, communication. Experimenting with modes of attention
Publisher: Krea / ISBN: 9789464589207
Author: Katažyna Jankovska
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Electro-Magnetism, Interactive Technology, Media Theory, Sound Studies.

Marije Baalman - Composing Interactions – An Artist’s Guide to Creating Expressive Interactive Systems
Respect for this groundbreaking work! Whether you’re a musician, dancer, designer or programmer, complete guide to imagining and building interactive work..(read more)
Publisher: V2 / ISBN: 9789082893540
Author: Marije Baalman
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Interactive Technology, Live-Coding, Mapping, Media Art.

IC-RED - Goodfun
Great-sounding punk-rap duo of Martha de Barros & Goya van der Heyden experimenting, a vibe of NYC No Wave, and of raw early hip-hop.
Label: South of North / SONLP-011
Artist: IC-RED
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Experimental Rock, Post-Punk, Vinyl.

Roope Eronen - The Inflatable World
short pop song versions of previously extended space-synth improvisations. Get your inflatable bed and pink bubblegum out and float away on these joyful and ecc..(read more)
Label: Discrepant / Pacific City Discs / PCD04
Artist: Roope Eronen
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Electro-Pop, Space Age Music, Vinyl.

Kaja Draksler - In Otherness Oneness
Draksler’s music has been described as being “in the border area and in the intersection of jazz, free improvised music, classical modernism and new..(read more)
Label: Unsounds / 73U
Artist: Kaja Draksler
Medium: CD
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Composers, Contemporary, Piano.

RE#SISTER - RE#SISTANT BODIES
This beautiful wearable album will look good on you, or on anything! Completely hand-made wearable containing USB-stick. Artwork on 12 cards in 7″ size ..(read more)
Label: Own
Artist: RE#SISTER
Medium: Gadget
Category: Instruments & Gadgets.
Tags: 1-of-a-Kinds, Art Object, DIY, Electronic Music, Gifts, Rotterdam.

Son Ash - Easy Listening for the Hearing Impaired
Debut album by Andreas Pallisgaard. Calm explorative timbral studio experiments of analogue synths, reminding me a bit of the classical-music-inspired works of ..(read more)
Label: År & Dag / AD01
Artist: Son Ash
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Analog Synth, Denmark, Minimal Music, Vinyl.

Blanche Blanche Blanche - Seashells
Already the 10th album by Zach Phillips and Sarah Smith. Quirky pop songs with lyrics full of sharp social commentary as well as a slightly juvenile joyfulness...(read more)
Label: Reading Group / RG19
Artist: Blanche Blanche Blanche
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Avant-Garde Pop, Songwriters, USA, Vinyl.

Mads Emil Nielsen - PM016 (2020 Remaster)
Remaster & vinyl reissue of a release from 2014 by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen (on C30 tape). The cover artwork by visual artist Dane Patterson is the..(read more)
Label: Arbitrary / arbitrary03RE
Artist: Mads Emil Nielsen
Medium: LP
Category: Records & Tapes.
Tags: Analog Synth, Denmark, Electronic, Soundscapes, Vinyl.

Kenneth Goldsmith - Duchamp is my Lawyer – The Polemics, Pragmatics and Poetics of UbuWeb
What Kenneth Goldsmith started in 1996 as a site to share relatively obscure literary works grew into an essential archive of 20th and 21st century avant-garde...(read more)
Publisher: Columbia University Press / ISBN: 9780231186957
Author: Kenneth Goldsmith
Medium: Book
Category: Books & Magazines.
Tags: Archives, Artist Film, Avant-Garde, Poetry.
