.cymatics.

We all know that sound is traveling wave, which is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid or gas, composed of frequencies which are audible. We don't speak of them like we see of them. Coz we don't, right? Apparently not.

Cymatics is a study of visible sound through vibration, typically on a surface on water, plate or a membrane. One of the earliest to notice that an oscillating body displayed regular patterns was Galileo Galilei, whom discovered visible sounds when he was scraping a brass plate with a sharp iron chisel in order to remove some spots from it. Not going too far into the history of cymatics, our urbanite Evan Grant has managed to introduced the idea, more of the existence of visualizing sound in this 5 mins TED presentation.

From snowflakes to amoeba, everything takes a form, shape, or even as data. These aren't new discoveries, just that we spend less time being aware of minute little things that could be discreetly important. Visualizing sound with cymatics, is a primitive art form, yet a beautiful fundamental. You can even DIY cymatics if you are keen to see how Daft Punk's Aerodynamics soundwave would look as opposed to Massive Attack's Teardrop.

Maybe sometimes, we ought to spend some time putting a microscopic mind to the things we often not think much about. Imagine working with them now knowing that you can see them.

.neurosonics audiomedical + beardy man.

Remember UK's beardyman guy who does incredible beatboxing to drum 'n' bass at Google's office 2 years back? Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs fellas has just given him and their techni-gear a face/lift. Holographic one too btw.

Playing live WYSWYG - no post video production.

Neurosonics Live from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc. from Chris Cairns on Vimeo.

*Courtesy of Xavier T.

Beardyman himself and Nathan Flutebox Lee:

.i'm here.

Yes yes. I hear you.

Have been away much since i left the hamster wheel. Life as a street rat has been good. Going around to places after being desk-bounded for some time. So much fun that i've even gotten lazy to rave about it. Not even a single facebook album just yet. Not like I don't enjoy flaunting like everyone else does, and I should still enjoy sharing any experience i stumble upon, and be eager to shout to the world that i've conquered something and pretend that anyone or someone would care. Things like i've tasted a mutated siamese tomato and that i managed to hiked to up the tiniest hill in Jeju islands (korea) where i can bust the myth of my granny knock knees.

Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, London, Thailand, Korea. Where i've put my feet on past 3 months since the day i threw my letter. It's kinda liberating. And still not getting enough out of this resting phase yet. I don't know. My mind wanders in proliferation that i myself find it hard but perhaps should anchor it down for a bit.

As much as so many things keeping me happy, wanting more of it means i'm less happy the time before each time. And each new experience has safely bewildered me while it washes down the past experience somewhat. Like i am forever seeking something bigger, better, and more magnificent the next. And if it doesn't, i get frustrated or disappointed, if not worse, numbed to feel the gratification of owning that moment, while others would trade for the place i'm in. Whatever happens to contentment? Am i losing sight, control and grip of it? Oh well, that's just the safety-mechanism of my conscious talking. Screw that. I want more.

I wonder - The more connected i feel with the world, the more disconnected i feel at the same time. Like, i feel less. Just nothing but a small piece of lego in the work of a whatever built and stacked robot, house, or warship. I just move around as the plans come along. As I always say : Attach, detach, never belong.

Meanwhile -

Here's a trailer of queer-master Spike Jonze's new half hour short film. I'm here.

A collaboration with Absolute Vodka to explore humanity with a robot (yea i know. But let's give Jonze the allowance to surprise). I'm waiting for the release to see how much i can relate to it. Hah.

Btw, nicely tucked website they have. Do take a a minute for that.

.beautiful small machines.

Just the name alone, is enough to arouse my likings.

New York new electro duo - Bree Sharp, Don DiLego are reciting Philip K. Dick's visions in their perk-up and sometimes, mellow tunes. Robots in Love is a cute song that makes love sounds much less like a mushy thing. Yea, i'm not made for mush but when push comes to shove, we are only robots in love.

Here's two to lullaby you to bed with a half-smile,

And inspired by Philip K.Dick's classic book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? "

Listen: Beautiful Small Machines - Simple Joys (Mindelixir Remix) - MASTERED

Of course, less the remix, their other tunes are really good to wake up to. I would safely say all 5 tracks in the album are great to your ears. Energy charger and makes you think you are invincible-ish.

Here's one to start your day!

myspace.com/beautifulsmallmachines

.Duck Sauce X Surface2Air.

First you think it's the pottery part. Like they were about to erupt into a massive orgasm of splattered clay. But no. More psychedelic.

Watch.

.luke ain't laidback at all.

If this is not the best gig of the year in zouk SG, i don't know what is. @LaidBackLuke is one hella suave performer. We definitely want more.

.Dual Sheep.

Well i don't usually take on a check on star signs readings or anymore.

Just kinda 'stumbled' upon it. N think this is slightly interesting.


"You function essentially with your own antennas, for you feel things more than you understand them. In fact, you're almost always right in trusting your intuition, which is really extraordinary.

You've a great thirst for tenderness. But you let yourself be influenced too easily when your sentiments are at play. Thus you're more often disappointed than satisfied. In order to console yourself, you tend to take refuge in your own universe where everything is idealized. It will be in your interest not to let yourself be trapped by your weakness, especially when one appeals to your goodness or your pity. Indeed, you're generally ready to give everything without complaining.

Your life is often marked with very painful ordeals and responsibilities which are too heavy for your shoulders. Showing a tendency to masochism, you like to arouse the compassion and admiration of others. With age, you forge for yourself a philosophy colored with stoicism.

In the domain of work, your intuitions are a precious asset. But your lack of initiative can prevent you from reaching the highest peaks. In fact, you prefer being able to help others to having success for yourself.

With you, friendship often takes precedence over love, precisely because you're afraid to suffer from the agonies of passion. Above all, you need to be supported and encouraged within the framework of marriage."

.The xx.

They are just too good.

So much soul in their tunes.

Thanks to Ryan / DJ Agency for the heads up.

I love the entire album. Even The Intro is good. Here's some, but you wouldn't take long before you wanna bag the entire collection into your playlist. And loop it them for 79 times before you sleep.

They are from South London, and they are only in their 20s. Mind you they were banded since 4 yrs ago.

.i am wind.

Finally. I'm going to share what I did last summer in NYC Parsons.

My mini 8mins of pride, filming and producing a short documentary on a totally foreign and unexpected topic - Long boarding.

From pre-pro, looking for interviewees, shooting, final cut, music-editing.. all in one week. It sure was intense, but the fun making it was paying off after every passing minute as well. Me and my partner Manual Branaa, had some invincible chemistry and synergy, that had made this little production possible without us tearing each other's faces apart by the end of it. Almost. But not.

Here's the manifesto:



It's not an award-winning documentary for sure, but what's more important - i had fun, and it makes my heart smile reminiscing the making of. ;)

.The sweet sensation of Typography.

"Handcrafted with love by BYU design students and faculty, for the 5th Typophile Film Festival. A visual typographic feast about the five senses, and how they contribute to and enhance our creativity. Everything in the film is real—no CG effects!"

Typophile Film Festival 5 Opening Titles from Brent Barson on Vimeo.

.Survivor // Fare Soldi.

Italian disco-house.

Retrospective journey into your childhood's plastic lunchbox.

Fare Soldi - Survivor from riotmaker on Vimeo.

.Patterns.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN : My soundscape design proj// Parsons Summer - NYC.

(If you have trouble listening to it/ error in the link, i'll repost it soon.)

THE IDEA

Most things come in shapes, forms and sizes.

Life does.

When grouped, the singular subject forms a pattern. We form a set of behavior, we form a way of living and we form our school of thoughts. We had grown up the way we had been taught, what is to be right, to be wrong, to be embraced, to be banished, to be celebrated, or to be exiled. And then, we fall into the trap of mundane-ness. We begin to form patterns.

Patterns too close to our eyes that we do not see.

There is no right or wrong, just popular opinions.

There is no peace or chaos, just a structure we so carefully weave.

There is never too much or enough, just how much you want.

Sounds, voices and melodies, they are just one of the many tools to tell a story.

To tell a story, is to observe a pattern, so we can break it.

If you can’t get out of a hamster wheel, if you don’t know if you are in one. Pay attention to the monotony, feel one beat at a time, only when you align the beats in synergy, then you can hear them marching to you in unity.

What goes up comes down, what goes down will take flight.

Cringe your toes, and ride on the waves.

You can’t change what is there, but you can change what you think of it.

Patterns, break them.

.About Today.

We did sound recording today. At Washington Square Park.

My partner - Manuel (from Uruguay) brought me to see a really neat young gal, in her red polkadot dress, sat on a small tool along the streets near Union Square, where her little old, black typewriter and some white paper sat fitted nicely on a small wooden table.

She writes poems for people. A street poet. Just give her a topic, a word, a poem for someone you loved, or whatever thing that mean anything (or not) to you. She wants to write, she's hoping to get hired, and she just want to practice. I told her to write about, "Today". She has nice misty gray eyes.


About Today

Last of the dark gray days was yesterday
melting into a new groove
boiled out of the old
speaking a new sound
grasping at old straws
hands tied firmly to here and now
taking the form of a passing cloud

Anayvelyse
July 8, 2009
New York

.Me in NYC.

Well I am barely online (for now), even hard to get on twitter until i get my internet access on Monday.

Meanwhile, catch me on my NY blog - but is set up for our homework n research updates.

www.soundandvision.wordpress.com )

I'll get back to this when I do get online at home.

Btw, I stay next to a Jazz bar at St Marks Place. Which is also known as "little japan".

Love my apartment, love the neighborhood.

N oh, my course mates r pretty cool too. ;)


Here's a cut of neverland - Coney Island:

.blip blip. Whos there?

It's http://blip.fm/seducedbylight

I know it's an social-overkill and that we are nauseated by the swarming social media networks by now. Holding a myriad of accounts and checking them thru' the day proves that your boss might have hired the wrong person.

Still, it's hard to resist this one for music seekers. It's twitter. It's last.fm. It's your twitter app to be your own dj. It's blip.fm

Search a song. Add your thoughts. Blip it. Added to your playlist. And linked to your twitter account. Idiot proof. (Try to find out if you are one.)

It's old news. I just find catching up to the 276th social media network can be fairly tedious. I mean, I've got a real life, you know.

.Synthesia.

Your head might cock to the left, then right again trying to grasp the meaning to this short film by Terri Timely. A duo partnered by Ian Kibbey and Corey Creasey.

As it's titled, "Synthesia", “is a neurologically based phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway.” Basically, it just means that your senses are all screwed up. As in the video, the boy listening to his vegetables, mum chopping up words and her other son smelling colors from his music. Perception flexed to your own interpretation.

It is a little complex for those who just don't see any purpose to it, but if you dive in deeper, it is actually a good mind-gyming to your straight, lazy mind.

.Deadmau5 X Monome.

Gearhead Deadmau5's secret weapon.

The Monome.

.Riverside Muthafucka!.

Its funny how i bump into the 2nd vid that tells the tale of the hood. Younger, cuter, and way too pinch-able for this one.

Not too mention, i adore this track. Kicked my fuckin' ass.

Courtesy of Warren T.

N.A.S.A + Alexi Tylevich - A Volta.

It's sin city in sim city. This electro-toy film noir gangster-esque/ coke-fueled space video will mess you up. It's a godamn killer.

“A Volta”, is directed by Logan’s Alexei Tylevich and inspired by the work of Mexican-American artists The Date Farmers. Sit up, and get shot down.

.In a corner of the world - there is day of light.

"In Managua, Nicaragua, 1500 people live their lives inside a huge landfill called “La Chureca” (The Scavenging Place). Adults and children sift through piles of flaming trash looking for anything they can eat, fix, or recycle.

In “Dia De Luz” (Day Of Light), director Matt Katsolis and musician Braddigan, working with non-profit anti-poverty group Love, Light, & Melody, chronicle one full day in La Chureca and show us how hope can grow in the darkest of places.

This film is important for two big reasons: we need to acknowledge that places like this exist so we can hopefully work to stop it, and we need to absorb that if these people, in a place so devoid, can celebrate and find joy in their lives then the rest of us have no reason to not do the same."

Courtesy of: Jeremy Elder

"Hope grows in the darkest of places".

Day of Light from Love Light & Melody on Vimeo.

.Vulture Realty + Steamclam 2011.

Trippy, grimy, technicolored electro vid.

It may go well with Thieves like Us' "Drugs in my body."

Vulture Realty: "2011" from steamclam on Vimeo.

.color robots.

In a gloomy day or two, don't you wish there are some cheer-me-up agents that come in miniature size chromatic robots to help paint your life?

Directed by graduate students Quentin Carnicelli, Charles Kilpfel, and Jean-François Jégo from Université Paris VIII.

Reulf from Charlesque on Vimeo.

.AR on your iPhone.

I hope I can play Left4dead X our real environment via my iPhone next time.

Mapping the infected faces on the people on the streets, or people I hate.

.AntiVJ- Grote Kerk.

Simple sounds, high intensity.

.Thai Masked Ultra Man.

It's really funny if you know chinese. In higher relevance to HK's cantonese though.

If not, you can still enjoy the very long, and adrenalin un-pumping heros theme song from the land of smiles - Thailand.

I would be so pissed driving behind this bunch of masked jokers.

.Do touch her.

Great bjork-ish new voice. Only younger.

Polly Scattergood - Please Don't Touch (The Golden Filter remix)

.Gifted.

A collab out of my expectations.

N.A.S.A. "Gifted" (feat. Kanye West, Santogold, & Lykke Li)

.8-bit Silent Shout.

Dubmood – Silent Shout Remix

.freedom.

I'm so inactive that I forgot that I have a blog.

Ohwell. 

Last weekend was a blast. Annual "2 days of Freedom" took place at Malacca @ Malaysia this year. With half the strength of our notorious wild-ass PD crew, this trip had not lack lustre nonetheless.

The lights and set up of the electronic music festival was so awe-inspiring, they made Zoukout looks like a trick-bag's joke. There were 2 arena, house/electro and brain-frying trance. Starring Ferry Corsten on Friday night and Above and Beyond on Saturday. The laser show, graphic projection and fireworks may not outdo the last one at Port Dickson (Tiesto), yet it is admirably mind-blowing. 

Yet the major spoil sport was that the evil night had to end at 2am, due to the ridicule of Malaysian public entertainment licensing and regulations. You will not even believe that alcohol was not allowed to be sold at a dance party. Regardless, all are forgiven for the good times and visual stimulation that blew our grandmothers' socks. 

Our madhouse bungalow after-party stays legendary.

Nothing beats a great time with the best crew.

If you are not there, you are not there.

.swiss miss.

Just look at my tremendous effort and admirable will power. I managed to stop following up on a theme I created, right after the 1st entry. 

Maybe I should set it as "A picture a week." That should work better.

Here's some from my much missed Switzerland trip this January. It's an amazingly beautiful place. Alps, lakes, winding roads, glitzy fluffy snow, nice little wooden cottages, cold breeze of winter, great chocolates.. I can't tell you how much I adore this place... 

My heart didn't feel so at peace and comfortable in a long, long while. 

I'm definitely going back there.

 

An old castle at Berne. (I think.)

An Arts Cinema at Luzern.