The Mona Lisa as it looks run through the Random Pixelate setting in Glitch Lab.
• “We don’t have enough Dada in this world of too much data. Something is needed to break-through the over-curated simulacrum that is the online world in order to let in a bit of non-artificial light. One way to make a break is through the deliberate cultivation of the glitch.” Justin Patrick Moore on circuit-bending, glitch music and Surrealist composition.
• The seventh installment of Smoky Man’s exploration of The Bumper Book of Magic has been posted (in Italian) at (quasi). There’s an extract in English at Alan Moore World.
• New music: Remember The Clouds by Philippe Deschamp, and Requiem For The Ontario Science Centre by Tony Price.
• Michael Brooke offers suggestions for where to begin with Polish film director Wojciech Has
• At Printmag: A new book shares the artistic odyssey of Iranian designer Farshid Mesghali.
• The Letraset Graphic Materials Handbook for the year 1987.
• Steven Heller’s font of the month is Cubo.
• Yet more Polish film posters.
• RIP Roy Ayers.
• Glitch (1993) by Moody Boyz | Glitch (1994) by Autechre | Glitch (2011) by Brian Eno And The Words Of Rick Holland
ELpH vs Coil’s “Worship The Glitch” album would also be appropriate here :-)
Justin Patrick Moore discusses Coil’s album in his article. Worship The Glitch is very glitchy but none of the tracks have the word “glitch” in the title so wouldn’t fit with my attempt to end with three different tracks doing exactly that.
Speaking of glitch, Christian Fennesz has a new release over at his bandcamp site. Meditative music. He has moments of this kind of thing on all his releases but I don’t remember that mood dominating the way it does here. Had to order the hardcopy.
Hi,
Have you seen this new book published last week?
https://headpress.com/product/ghost-of-an-idea/
Connects to many ideas and sensibilities found on your blog.
Roman: Yes, I’ve known about it for a while, Headpress asked if I’d be interested in seeing an advance copy. I had to admit that I was pretty tired of the whole folk horror trend–as I’ve said here on a couple of occasions–while also thinking that hauntological music (for want of a better term) has either run out of steam or become another mannered idiom. Books that catalogue this stuff are useful for people who missed the first wave of things but some of us are looking for other avenues to explore.