Lcd Soundsystem,Os Gêmeos,The Slew,Machotaildrop,Sky,Cécile and Venice,Jonatan Cantero,Universal Everything,They Shoot Music,Serena-Maneesh,Staalhemel

Lcd Soundsystem are back on business and a new album is expected this year.
Here is a first clip with frontman James Murphy.

Watch | Clip 1



Os Gêmeos (Portuguese for “The Twins”) are identical twin brothers from São Paulo, Brazil. They started painting graffiti in 1987 and gradually became a major influence in the local scene, helping to define Brazil’s own style. Stylistically, Os Gêmeos are heavily influenced by the cryptic art of the São Paulo–based pixação graffiti movement as well as American hip-hop, which the twins grew up with in Brazil. The brothers have gained international fame, displaying their work in exhibitions in major cities in the U.S. and Europe, including Deitch Projects in New York and Tate Modern in London.

Watch | Ep #5 - Os Gêmeos



Kid Koala 6 turntables meets the Ex-Wolfmother rhythm section.
Free album The Slew - 100%

Watch | The Slew - Its all over



Machotaildrop is a highly visual and fantastical journey about an amateur skateboarder, Walter Rhum, who realizes his dream of turning pro and riding for the world's greatest skateboard company... Machotaildrop. Set in an anachronistic time and place, Machotaildrop is the greatest skateboard company of its day and the regal and grand sport of skateboarding has been thriving for many generations. Walter's journey serves as a window through which we discover the dark underbelly of what appears at first to be a benign skateboard company.Blair Stanley IMDB

Watch | Machotaildrop



New timelapse short film “Sky” by Uk film Director Philip Bloom , filmed in Dubai over 5 days and nights.

Watch | Sky



Music video for Cécile & Venice's "Rimmel", out Jan 8th 2010 on Gomma Dance Tracks E.P.2.
Video footage from 1966 Czech New Wave movie "Sedmikrasky" (a.k.a. Daisies) by Vera Chytilova.

Watch | Cécile & Venice - Rimmel



Drawings by Spanish Illustrator Jonatan Cantero



2010 show reel from the always brilliant studio Universal Everything

Watch | Universal Everything show reel



They shoot music dont they is a very cool music/video blog from Vienna.
A large collection of performances including , We Have Band, Under Byen, Shout Out Louds, Holy Fuck, Deus, Au Revoir Simone amoung many others ave available on their blog.

Watch | Holy Fuck



Norwegians shoegazers Serena-Maneesh have a new album after 5 years , the new record "S-M 2: Abyss In B Minor" is due to be released next March on the alternative label 4AD

Watch | Serena-Maneesh - Reprobate
Mp3 | Serena-Maneesh - I Just Want To See Your Face



Staalhemel (‘steel sky’) is an interactive installation with 80 steel segments suspended over the visitor’s head as he walks through the space. Tiny hammers tap rhythmic patterns on the steel plates, activated by the brainwaves of the visitor who wears a portable EEG scanner.

This responsive environment confronts the viewer with an acoustic representation of the electrical brain activities that govern his being at that very moment. All our mental and physiological processes are controlled by myriads of transitory circuits in an invisible, obscure place in the crown of our head. That intimate topography is mirrored in this sky of steel as hammers hit the plates in shifting rhythms and combinations, transforming parts of your consciousness into macroscopic dimensions.

This environment offers a walk through a sheltered space that is also the space of one’s own mind.

Watch | Staalhemel - Steel Sky

Matt Pyke , Advanced Beauty Interview

Advanced Beauty is an ongoing exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound, an ever-growing collaboration between programmers, artists, musicians, animators and architects.

The first collection is a series of audio-reactive 'video sound sculptures'. Inspired by synasthesia, the rare, sensory experience of seeing sound or tasting colours, these videos are physical manifestations of sound, sculpted by volume, pitch or structure of the soundtrack.

The films embrace unusual video making processes, the visual programming language Processing, high-end audio analysis and fluid dynamic simulations alongside intuitive responses in traditional cell animation. Each artist was given the same set of parameters to work within; to start, finish and exist within a white space, creating a seamless coherence, all sculptures sharing the same white environment.

Using the 1080p HD format, with 5:1 surround sound, the films transform the screen into a digital canvas, how the minimalism of a single, floating pixel can be as engaging as the maximalism of an intense multicoloured explosion.

Curated by Universal Everything and musician Simon Pyke, Advanced Beauty is an international collaboration, taking in a family of artists from London, Russia, New York, Japan, Buenos Aires, Glasgow to San Francisco.



“Advanced Beauty” is “exploration of digital artworks born and influenced by sound”. What’s the whole objective of this international project?

- The project is a vehicle for exploring deeper into audio-visual animation pushing possibilities of 5:1 surround and 1080 HD. We have collaborated with some amazing people worldwide, who use unorthodox methods to create animation including generative code, programming, architecture software and physics simulations. Our objective is for the work to spread worldwide via DVD, video podcasts, exhibitions, TV screenings and touring with OneDotZero.
What’s the main concept in your videos?

- We wanted a thread to run through every video, each exists in a white virtual gallery space. They are conceived as 'sound sculptures' as opposed to traditional narrative music videos - the visuals are grown from the music, sometimes the music generates the video, sometimes the video grows the music. We are focussed on the idea of minimalist video, how only a tiny pixel can be as engaging, and as screen filled with a billion colours

Do you consider being video art?

- We consider the TV can be seen as a digital canvas, to form video paintings, virtual sculptures or living, breathing expression.

Where do you get the inspiration? What kind of music, video or other arts forms do you seek to inspire your projects?

- We are inspired from everything outside of design; science, cuisine, mathematical patterns, comedians, kids drawings, naive folk art or future technologies.

What kind of programs do you use to create the video sculptures?

- Processing, VVVM, NextLimit fluid simulations, Apple Motion, C++, 3D Studio Max, Houdini....

How is all the creative and editing process ?

- We had a guiding hand in many of the works, but primarily set up the creative parameters which defined the coherence of the project. We invited artists whose work we loved consistently, there was no need for editing.

You link all the nowadays technology: from the ancient art of sculpture until video art on Itunes. Is this the future of art? All together, making a concept like “The Definitely Art”?

- We are interested in working on many surfaces - from pencil on paper to generative screen design. The convergence of media is growing closer each day, and we hope our ideas help bring them together.

Do all the artists involved have met before, live?

- Mostly not, as they come from every corner of the world - russia, argentina, japan, usa, uk, europe....but everyone has a shared visionand enthusiasm for exploring the unknown in video art

Why the decision to release it on DVD? Does video art have market for that?

- DVD is a medium which officialises the product, and consumers understand this as an artefact, Ideally we would release this projectusing digital distribution in full 1080HD - but we are still waiting for the industry to catch up. We also show the work in selected galleries worldwide.

Why the decision to put the videos on vimeo? Do you defend the democratization of art?

- Our motivation was to spread the ideas worldwide, the artists benefit from exposure of their work, it introduces the public to a relatively young strand of art - online shared is vastly more powerful than DVD distribution.

Which is your foresight for the development of Video Art worldwide?

- We are planning more video series, potentially using analog video methods such as stop-motion and cell-animation, and are currently developing new commissions for a digital art gallery in Paris

- thanks! Matt Universal Everything

Miguel Peres

Watch | Advanced Beauty Trailer
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Thank you to Philip Ward @ Universal Everything for all the help getting this interview , and for making the screening in Amsterdam possible.
The 18 sound sculptures presented on the advanced beauty project will be screen full in the Audiopleasures 2nd anniversay in Amsterdam , full and detailed program to present soon.