THE CULTURAL JACKDAW

Technology x Music x Art

These three ingredients are "coming together to produce radical new interactive forms" (Dazed & Confused).

Led by a new school of directors from Warp Films.

"The uneasy marriage between art and technology has gone from strength to strength since the birth of the net. Armed with a grab-bag of raw data and lines of code, creative technologists have developed a range of artistic forms - from image patterns that grow organically on screen, to repurposed video game engines. The impulse is subversive and playful - a digital decoupage that revisits early web design and drags it kicking and screaming into the here and now."

Aaron Meyers (the guy who did Radiohead's awesome House of Cards video):

David McCandles

Daniels

Saman Keshavarz

Rave Generator

Takes me back.

Avatar Pop Star

Hatsune Miku is a phenomenon in Japan.

She has...

- No.1 selling single.

- Sell out tour.

- Created over 67,000 songs & 100,000 You Tube videos.

 

But what's so fascinating about Hatsune Mika is that she's part of a game called Vocaloid and her songs and videos have been created by the players of the game.

Users go online and record their own songs via a singing synthesiser application.

On her tour she plays with a live band as she appears in 3D.

All of the songs she performs have been written by the fans in the audience.

Awesome.

 

 

Re-thinking the Book

A fascinating new book by American author Padgett Powell. Every sentence is written as a question.

 

And this app for Stephen Fry's memoirs lets you filter his life by different categories (or tags).

Musicubes

Musicube is an interactive tower that lives on your personal webpage or blog. It allows people to build their own Radio 1, in a way that expresses who they are (like an online band t-shirt) and then publish it, share it and listen to Radio 1 from it every day. It's a brilliantly fun and intuitive piece of interactive design.