Vestiges is a 43-minute composition for twelve amplified lap steel guitars and electronics that delves into the themes of memory and oblivion. The piece transforms the lap steel guitar into a vast choral instrument, weaving together extended techniques, spectral resonances, and vocal-like textures. Drawing inspiration from traditions such as madrigals, Orthodox liturgy, Gaelic psalmody, and chorales, Vestiges unfolds as a meditation on collective remembrance and the fragile persistence of sound.

Available for purchase at https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/vestiges

Modulations is a feature-length documentary that captures a moment in history where humans and machines are fusing to create today’s most exciting sounds. It traces the evolution of electronic music as one of the most profound artistic developments of the twentieth century. By cutting back and forth between avant-garde composers, Kraftwerk’s innovative synthesizer drones, Giorgio Moroder’s glacial Euro-disco, Afrika Bambaataa’s electro-funk, and Prodigy’s current worldwide superstarstardom, Modulations celebrates, replicates, and illuminates the nomadic drift of the post-human techno sound. The film examines the kids who have turned the turntable into a musical instrument, disillusioned disco lovers who created acid house out of primitive synthesizers, Motor City mavericks who saw the drum machine as their escape route out of urban neglect, and a generation of British youth who transformed these blips and bleeps into dance floor anthems of their own alienation. Modulations provides a sense of history and context in which today’s electronic music can be understood. It entertains the converted and remixes the mindset of electronica’s nay-sayers. Featuring a stunning collage of interviews, cutting-edge visuals, in-studio footage, and live performances, Modulations moves at a pace that matches the energy and innovation of the music.

An experimental short about a child’s birthday based off the drawings of children.

Director & Writer – Janno Põldma
Editor – Irja Müür
Composer – Sven Grünberg

Alan Resnick enters a house. While inside, he plays with a little dog, dances, and watches The Irishman with De Niro and Pacino. After a productive day, our hero retires.

“Body Textures” for string orchestra

Music by Signe Lykke
Visuals by Yoshi Sodeoka

Performed by The Danish Youth Ensemble & Morten Ryelund (conductor)

Stream music: https://naxos.lnk.to/BodyTextures

Headquarters is an architectural proposal for the online art collective Computers Club.

Animation: Nicolas Sassoon
Music: Sara Ludy

Ken Jacobs and his wife have lived and worked in the same top-floor loft in TriBeCa since the mid-1960s, when the artist was developing his Nervous Magic Lantern – a unique, live-projection artform using a modified film projector without film, but with various masks, filters, and rotating patterned discs. By manually adjusting these elements, Jacobs creates constantly shifting fields of light, shadow, and colour that produce vivid illusions of depth, movement, and three-dimensionality without 3D glasses or digital technology. The experience is immersive and hypnotic: audiences sit in a darkened space while slowly changing, dreamlike images seem to pulse, breathe, and recede into deep space. Jacobs calls it “cinema without film” and is – as you can imagine – fertile ground from which to conjure accompanying sonic dreamlands.

Courtisane Festival, Gent on April 6, 2014
Projections: Ken & Flo Jacobs
Sound: Aki Onda
excerpt, digital editing by Nisi Jacobs

Soundtrack available at https://boomkat.com/products/in-the-depth-of-illusion-a-soundtrack-for-nervous-magic-lantern

Kyle has always wanted to be on a reality TV show, so we made one in her house. 🏡KYLE’S HOUSE🏡, a video we made with friends a while ago, is now on Vimeo. We would be grateful if you watched and gave it a chance.