Cunei Media

We did a show with ‘Art of Failure’ last month in New York at Devotion Gallery. Nicolas performed his noise piece, ‘System Introspection’ for the opening. The concert was based on a concrete exploration of binary code and its intrinsic qualities (structure, logic, rhythm, redundancy, compression) immediately returned in the form of visual and sound flows.

A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music based on the year ring data. Those are analyzed for their thickness and growth rate and are then mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.

San Francisco Artist Kim Pimmel combined everyday soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid to create an eerie tale, using macro lenses and time lapse techniques. Black ferrofluid and dye race through bubble structures, drawn through by the invisible forces of capillary action and magnetism.

Roel Funcken, half of the notorious IDM group Funckarma, has a new record out on Ad Noiseam. Digital artist sarge grafX has created a wonderful visual component to accompany his piece ‘bluent.’

Willem van Weeghel’s kinetic art incorporates 32 moving components controlled by an integrated computersystem. Florian Jenett’s dynamic structure is a twenty four hour time lapse of a similar piece.

The kinetic, sonic sculptures of artist Zimoun feature armies of mechanical entities that form worlds both uniform and chaotic. He uses simple mechanical devices such as DC and vibration motors combined with other industrial flotsam—speaker arrays, ventilators, PVC hoses, and metal wire—arranged in seemingly simple patterns. Come visit Gray Area this January for the opening of his first solo exhibition in SF.

Two of my favorite artists just recently got together to collaborate on this stunning A/V piece. Earlier this summer our Brooklyn friends at Triple Down put out Adaledge’s latest record, Vintage Feelings; a unique assemblage of polymetric analog IDM tunes. Ecuadorian multimedia artist, Daniel Lofredo Rota and I have worked together in the past, so when I found out that Adaledge and Daniel paired up I couldn’t wait to see what they came up with.

Virtual 3D sets of blocks and morphing geometries representing glitches, harmonic and rhythmic structure of the music spread themselves through the streets and the buildings until they take over the entire cityscape.

Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and half-synthesizer, powered by a huge amount of energy, connect to each other in an electric and chaotic trance.

Ecuadorian artist and Cunei Media contributor, Daniel Lofredo Rota, brings us his latest animation/installation created at Hunter Plaid Gallery. The score was created specifically for Daniel’s piece by Cunei’s own Cullen Miller.