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Summvs is the latest result of the unusual creative partnership between the oscar-prize honored film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and the fine artist and electronic music pioneer Carsten Nicolai.

The name of the artists’ fifth collaborative release Summvs refers to the latin word ‘summa’ (engl.: sum) and ‘versus’ (engl.: towards) serving as a metaphor for the work being oriented towards a collarorative whole.

Passages of sparse yet emotionally charged and passionate piano solos are embedded in sine waves or reworked to establish new aesthetics of piano sound. Sparse percussions and throbbing bass pulses hover above and below – the music being contemplative and minimal at the same time.—Raster-Noton
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Blue points on the map are pictures taken by locals (people who have taken pictures in this city dated over a range of a month or more). Red points are pictures taken by tourists (people who seem to be a local of a different city and who took pictures in this city for less than a month). Yellow points are pictures where it can’t be determined whether or not the photographer was a tourist (because they haven’t taken pictures anywhere for over a month). They are probably tourists but might just not post many pictures at all. —Eric Fischer

1,2) Vancouver, 3) Tokyo, 4. New York, 5) Shanghai, 6) London, 7) Hong Kong
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Four Letter Words by Rob Seward consists of four units, each capable of displaying all 26 letters of the alphabet with an arrangement of fluorescent lights. (video after the jump) Read the rest of this entry »

“Jennifer Lee aka TOKiMONSTA prefers to work late – or early, depending on how you look at it. Most of her music is made between two and seven in the morning, because at that time of night “my mind works in strange and mysterious ways.” Hence the title of this EP, a series of warm but decidedly woozy pieces of music, the soundtrack to the oddest, most beautiful dreams you’ve ever had.”
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