Posted on: January 25, 2015
Posted on: November 26, 2009
A 90 second electroacoustic composition made from a recording of mail being stamped and sorted accompanied by a ”polar graphical score”. Time is indicated around the edge of the diagram with frequencies displayed in different colours according to the key below the diagram. Amplitude is signified in dB increasing from the centre of the graphical score outwards.
Posted on: March 27, 2018
“We’re functioning automaticAnd we are dancing mechanicWe are the robots, we are the robots…” (Kraftwerk, 1978). Kraftwerk’s The Robots, features on the band’s 1978 album Man-Machine. It reflects both the band’s cyborg-like stage theatrics, their futurist aesthetic, and society’s pre-occupation with mechanical and artificial humans. This fascination with robotic or artificial humans has presented itself in various forms for century’s. Such as Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk in 1769, the chess playing mechanical automaton (Collins & d’Escrivan,… read more