Incredible ‘little path tracer experiment’ by Roope Mäkinen coded in just 4096 bytes. You can find the Windows executable here: pouet.net

“Visual art and electronic music regularly intertwines and with DJs and live acts like Moderat, Richie Hawtin and Dubfire to name a few, continuing to push the envelope in this area, this connection is getting deeper. Telekom Electronic Beats TV looked into this relationship and stumbled upon the work of visual and electronic art pioneer, inventor, visionary and unsung hero Walter Giers, who sadly passed away in 2016. Travelling to Schwäbisch Gmünd we uncovered some of the life and work of this late, great artist and learned where some of today’s visual artists are taking their cues.” – Telekom Electronic Beats

Garip Ay was born in 1984 in Siirt (Turkey) – He Started painting in 2000 at High School of Fine Arts in Diyarbakir, then graduated with a degree in Traditional Turkish Arts from Mimar Sinan University in Istanbul. In his exploration as an Ebru artist, Ay revives the traditional Islamic art form with a contemporary touch, and has been invited to hold numerous exhibitions, workshops and seminars around the world, from his native Turkey and the Persian Gulf regions to Scandinavia, Russia, Singapore and the USA. He has also taken part in various filming and performing projects worldwide. Ay now lives and works in Istanbul.

Visit his site here: garipay.blogspot.com/

Beautiful realtime demo of the RSF Polykobol II synth

The Polykobol II is a synthesizer analog polyphonic manufactured by RSF and marketed in 1983. It has 8 voices and a 61-key keyboard and a backup K7 integrated interface. Used by Jean-Michel Jarre and Lightwave, it was quite complex (more than 500 components including 3 microprocessors, Motorola 6809 ) and unstable, and was never fully developed. However, it was appreciated for its warm and powerful sound.

RSF filed for bankruptcy before closing completely.

A VST recreation of the Polykobol is available from Xils Lab

Eye of Sound: Those were the days: when the future wasn’t bright and dystopia was your daily bread; when apocalypse was just now and the winters cold as dead. Flower-power dreams withered, post-industrial gloom remained. Chris & Cosey’s rendez-vous is one with an era, a new stage in the history of gray when synth was to reign supreme paving Europe’s way to a new fantasy: the utopia of electric dreams. More details and videos available at ubu.com

The end of the world created in just 64 kilobytes. If you have a machine to run it, you can download the executable file here: pouet.net

All the numbers. All the laws. All the inventions. Thanks FrankJavCee !

VICE spends time with developer Alx Preston, who has battled serious heart conditions all his life, but achieved his dream of producing an adventure game in the spirit of the classic Zelda titles.

Buy ‘Hyper Light Drifter’ from Steam

Artist film-maker Luke Fowler and multidisciplinary artist Mark Fell discuss their collaborative project ‘Computers and Cooperative Music-Making’ (30 Oct 2015 – 07 Feb 2016), which examines the development of two early computer music languages, The Composers Desktop Project (CDP) and Hierarchical Musical Specification Language (HMSL).

“This video has been done to be seen in the “Videobox” an installation initiated by Thomas Isral and Jacques Urbanska. This installation is a box of 1 m by 2 m the lid is a projection screen. The viewer is alone lying down and watching the screen above him (less than a meter). The sound system surrounds the viewer.”Videobox” will be presented at various festivals.” – projet-percept.be

Directed by Hugo Arcier.
Music : Air “do the joy”