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Earplug Magazine Reline2 Review Reblog |
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September 28 - October 11
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community. For the full email, go to the current issue
From a certain DJ's split personalities, to the new generation of a/v artists' merging of sound and image, to the revival of a polyglot Roma scene downtown, this week's Earplug covers plenty of ground.
Tapping into disco, drone, bleep, funk carioca, and minimal, we suspect that this issue's Listen section is our most diverse ever, while the albums up for review — a sure sign of autumn's accelerating release schedule — promise love at first listen. It's all about peeling apart — and coming together.
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Reline2
Blackchair DVD
Although it's nearly impossible to trace the origins of the first remix, generations of artists have relied on the re-orientation of ideas to move experimental art forward. The goal of the
Reline DVD series is twofold: First, and most immediately, it's an array of breathtaking audiovisual art, derived from cutting-edge techniques and high-end production processes that move effortlessly from the organic and anthropomorphic to the futuristic and machine-inspired. Second, Reline functions as an important snapshot of the ever-evolving video-art movement.
Each of the 31 artists featured on the series' second installment seem more than familiar — even enamored — with the unique relationship shared by experimental audio and video; many of the pieces here, especially "Data_Flow" by D-Fuse and Lusine ICL and "From Brown to Green" by Scott Pagano and Twerk, exploit the hidden architecture of wave forms and the visual geometry underpinning each medium.
(If you've ever looked at an audio signal's graphic representation, you know how strikingly beautiful it can be in a purely abstracted visual sense.)
The artists on Reline2 also frequently discover new ways of interpreting the familiar.
Robert Seidel's "E3" re-imagines children's finger paintings and illustrations through an eerie, kaleidoscopic Rorschach filter, while
C505 and the Knobs collaborate on "Aditii," an affecting short that combines the psychedelic hallucinations of Vietnam-era military testing with the foreboding oscillations of a malfunctioning EKG. It's an apt metaphor for the artists themselves, who employ moody tones and arresting production methods to monitor the pulse of a world plagued by dangerously high blood pressure. (SM)
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