“densely minimum.” If I have to explain who Ryoji Ikeda is consicely, that’s the phrase I’d be probably using. Yesterday I went to see his exhibition, “＋/－[the infinite between 0 and 1],” at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. I’ve known him for his electronic music for a while, but not the visuals… damn. I was wasting so much time for not knowing such dope artwork.

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Tags: Electronic Music, Japan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Nihhon, Nueva Forma, Ryoji Ikeda, Tokyo, Toyohisa Kanno, YouTube

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 14th, 2009 at 1:11 pm and is filed under Artists, Design, Music. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Conscious Automata from Nueva Forma on Vimeo.

A cataloged, abstract visual journey, featuring Masmöd’s title track, from his future release, Conscious Automata, the follow up to his debut album, Axiom. Masmöd shares insight about his inspiration and process:

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Tags: Abstract, audio, Flying, Japan, Masmod, Nueva Forma, NuevaForma, Tokyo, Train, Traveling, video, Visual

This entry was posted on Monday, February 2nd, 2009 at 4:34 am and is filed under Music, Videos. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Energy is a big idea that isn’t going away any time soon. With our reserves on the downward spiral to doom, polar ice caps on the rise and the reality of vampire electricity on the move, it’s nice to know that Kayac, a Japanese design company, is putting their foot down to all of this. Then raising the ball of their heel up, then down, then up, then down again in rapid succession.

No, the YUREX™ device isn’t an energy generator in that sense. Instead, this device, when strapped to your thigh, monitors and interprets your movements into what they term, “Your Own ‘Creative Beat’.” In the most basic terms, this device registers when your crazy legs start acting up. Then they relay those movements and impulses via USB to your computer and the computer generates music set to these leg movements

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Tags: Energy, Japan, Kayac, Maywa Denki, Music, YUREX

This entry was posted on Friday, December 19th, 2008 at 6:14 am and is filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.