cyclo.id

"Ryoji Ikeda and Carsten Nicolai both work at the cutting-edge of contemporary electronic music and sound art. In 1999, the two artists initiated the joint project cyclo., which is devoted to the visualization of sound. In their shared work, they generate new hybrid forms of audiovisual art and expand the possibilities of digital technology.

The project's first publication is cyclo.id, a book and included CD-ROM that offer a multimedia and interactive documentation of the audiovisual material that Nicolai and Ikeda have collected, researched, and created since they began working together. The featured images are formed by the metering of sound bits that have been selected by the artists with meticulous care according to their acoustic and illustrative potential." -  Gestalten. See more;

It's posible to buy cyclo.id at Gestalten

Images from the book courtesy Gestalten, click on them to enlarge.

This is a nice video/talk where Carsten Nicolai speak about his work and about another previous good book he made while ago, called Grid Index, the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems.

Protey Temen

Protey Temen_

"The basic principle of my work is description of my environment. And I am more interested in looking for structural connections and work with symbolic solutions but not the detailed documentary images. I transform the skeleton of the phenomenon I’m interested in, with the help of language of graphic arts which ideally suits my idea due to its dismissal from objects. Only cut-outs and stains are left which form independent compositions. Mind and heart as extreme points of the thought-pendulum." See more;

I've published some audiovisual works by Protey, but I highly recommend to visit his website and check out all the awesome graphic and sculptural work featured over there. Lots of textures, patterns and forms! proteytemen.com/

About Protey Temen_

"My approach to work is to a large extent conditioned by design laws. For me, the sign is a greater element than just an iconographic image of some idea. It is the core of the system. On the one hand, it is a minimum structural member, and on the other hand, it is the compressed structure. Poster or any other graphic work is interesting for me only as a means of description of the environment, where this sign exists. When I thought about it, I started my work over the constantly developing series “Abstract branding”, where sign serve as keys to new stories and a greater part of graphic works are advertisement posters, the visual documentation of these systems. "

Passion Sculptures

These organic creatures were designed by Protey Temen for BYOB Venice which took place at the Venice Biennale last summer. I recommend to watch this other video (here) which shows the sculptures floating everywhere at the biennale.

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Mechanics Logotype

Mechanics Logotype video was created for the Media Pole exhibition in Seoul, Korea. It's being shown on huge 11m-height screens. This version is made of cut and recollated pieces, the original piece resolution is 480 x 4480.

D-O-B-R by Susann Stefanizen

Awesome graphic monochromatic experiments by Susann Stefanizen. All the following pictures are from the series called D-O-B-R. See more;

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Musical spectrum analysis by Jon-Kyle Mohr

A circular musical spectrum analysis generated by Jon-Kyle Mohr who tells; "A musical tone consists of multiple overlapping sine-waves oscillating at varying rates. This motion graphic represents the isolated frequencies and rhythmic patterns of Ryan York's “If I Am This Forest”. Of particular interest is the swell beginning at 0:45, and multiple simultaneous frequencies which form the single melodic vocal line at 2:05.  

Andrew Ohlmann expanded on this by writing a Quartz Composer sketch which dynamically generates a similar form. To explore the spectrums of familiar compositions I suggest downloading ReFreq." See more;

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