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Nikola Tesla - alternating motor

 

 

Nikola Tesla - electric circuit controller

 

Nikola Tesla - electro magnetic motor

 

 

unknown circle

 compass card

 

celestial sphere

 

Nicholas Rougeux's dataviz

 

a cobra circle - unknown source

 

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Reflets et vitesse

 

”Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse” est un film d’avant-garde muet sous forme de  poème cinématographique de 1925 , réalisé par Henri Chomette (1896-1941) comme un stockshot d’expérimentations: animation de cercles et autres géométries graphiques, retournements d'images, procédés d'accélération avec le métro parisien, des visions de Paris et La Seine, des effets d'eau ...

 Plutôt méconnu, Henri Chomette est le frère aîné de René Clair. Il réalise en 1930 un des premiers films parlant tourné en France intitulé ”Le requin”, et aussi  en co-réalisation avec Arnold Fank le long métrage ”Rêve éternel” qui relate la première ascension du Mont Blanc de Jacques Balmat en 1760. 

 
"Jeux des reflets et de la vitesse" (Play of Reflections and Speed) is a silent avant-garde film—structured as a poem—made in 1925 by Henri Chomette (1896–1941). It serves as a showcase for cinematic experiments: circles, graphic patterns, image reversals, speed effects involving the Paris Métro, glimpses of Paris and the Seine, water effects, and more. 

Henri Chomette, the older brother of René Clair, a not well known figure, directed *Le Requin* in 1930, one of the first sound films made in France. He also co-directed the feature film *Rêve éternel* with the german film-maker Arnold Fank, a movie dramatizing the first ascent of Mont Blanc in 1760. 

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a circle by Rafael Gray

 

 

another one by Rafael Gray

 

 

 

a rainy day

 

 

copper negative of a 1881 Alexander Graham Bell recording

 

 

 a plated copper disc to press records

 

 

 

a light in the night

 

 

crops from space

 

 

 

 

 

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panorami sonori

 

Timm Ulrichs - Pausenzeichen

 

 

 

Kartz Ucci - "368 songs ..."

 

 

Picabia - Optophone I & II

 

 

Chris Drury - a circle

 

 

saw blade

 

 

 

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Suitcase, turntable and vinyls

 

 

and a cinetic record

 

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Et à propos de disques, un extrait de Sillons à propos de l'histoire non exhaustive du disque, et de la reproductibilité du son et de la musique. Textes complets

 

Le disque neuf, le disque d'occasion, le disque mint, vg, vg+, le pressage japonais. Le disque pirate, le bootleg, le disque introuvable, le disque interdit, le disque censuré, le disque raté, le disque à tirage limité, le test pressing, le disque de collection, le disque aux rondelles inversées, le disque sans rondelle, le disque sans pochette, la pochette sans disque, le disque perdu, le disque sans électrophone. Le picture disc, le disque en forme de guitare, de silhouette, de triangle. Le disque carré. Le disque en chewing-gum, le disque en chocolat. Le disque épuisé, le disque rare, le disque original, le disque réédité, le disque remixé. Le disque de promotion, le disque d'or ou de platine, le disque de l'année, la Version Longue, la compilation, le disque de rock'n'roll cassé en public par les ligues bien pensantes, le disque avec message subliminal, le disque pilonné, le disque soldé neuf marqué par un trait de scie, un poinçon ou un trou de perceuse dans le coin de la pochette.

 

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 4 untitled circles by Eric M. de la Vivanderie

 

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les rotoreliefs de Marcel Duchamp sur Indexgraphic

 

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& 4 balistic orbits

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2 Guitars

Jan Martiz is an experimental composer and guitar player. His second album titled "II" is a promise acoustic relaxation to some, many cheers and tears have floated into the completion of a work that spans back to 2017, where Jan (aka Marius Mathiszik) spent two months, recording in an abandoned house on the countryside of Groningen. 

"When I had finished the compositions I wanted to rent an empty house for 2 months in order to record and produce the material in solitude. After some research what I could find was an abandoned, half wrecked former brothel in the nothingness of Groningen, Netherlands. Autumn was arriving and while I had started with the last summer sun rays it quickly became very cold. Between extensive walks among the sheep populating the dikes of the Ems-Delta, all I had to entertain myself in the evening with was an edition of Cosey Fanni Tutti s Art Sex Music and a few old episodes of the X Files." Jan Martiz - source

 

His last work (oct2023) "Octopus & Pyrgos" is a condensed version of a longer work, originally developed during a collaboration with visual artist Katerina Rotoli. It could be heard in two installations, kicking off ‘To Festivalaki’ – a creative get-together with friends and artists, that took place in a tiny village in Peloponnese in June '23.

 

& some circles from 2017

 

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"Down On Darkened Meetings"  is a solo release from the quietly prolific italian artist  Giuseppe Ielasi. Recorded at Ielasi’s studio in Monza outside of Milan over two days in February 2022, the seven pieces presented here continue the renewed exploration of the guitar that marks much of his solo work over the last few years. Outside of his artistic career, Giuseppe Ielasi co-founded the music label Fringes Recordings in 1998.

Between abstraction and immediacy, austerity and abundance, imbued with Ielasi’s distinctive lightness of touch, considered approach to pacing, and subtly psychedelic approach to the stereo field, "Down on Darkened Meetings" is a major new work from a quiet master of contemporary experimental music.
 

 

 

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Sync & Mechanical principles

 

2 experimental movies relating to machinery, mecanics and visual perception.

"Sync" by Max Hattler (2010)

Max Hattler is a media artist working primarily with animation and audiovisual performance. His work explores the relationships between abstraction and figuration, aesthetics and politics, sound and image, precision and improvisation, being able sometimes to create powerful political statements while eschewing the traditional constraints of narrative, choosing a poetics of implication over the mere construction of a discourse. 

He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" (2005) and "Spin" (2010), many other works and this psychedelic animation loops "Sync".

 

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"Mechanical principles" by Ralph Steiner  (1933)

Ralph Steiner (1899 – 1986) was an American photographer, pioneer documentarian and a key figure among avant-garde filmmakers in the 1930s. He probably has been the first American abstract film-maker, with "H2O" (1929), an ode to water, followed by other experiments, sometimes of a political nature when he joined Nykino, a loose coalition of New York-based cinematographers who pooled footage for use in left-wing newsreels shown at worker's rallies, conventions and during strikes.

 

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Conversation

"Conversation"
un film inédit, réalisé en 2011 par Palix

”Investi dans le monde du sonore et du musical depuis toujours, mon parcours radiophonique et de composition m’a fait travailler avec de nombreux magnétophones analogiques professionnels, Schlumberger, Ampex, Nagra, Studer, Revox, Belin, Tolana… et mon affection pour le travail d’enregistrement, de montage et de mixage des bandes magnétiques est resté intact. Ce film est donc un poème en hommage à ces appareils et au rapport tactile que nous avions à l’époque - c’était au siècle dernier! - avec cette technologie, directement en relation physique  avec le support sonore que représentait la bande magnétique.”  Palix

 

extrait de "la génération invisible" - William Burroughs 1962

 

... bande magnétique, paire de ciseaux, réglette de montage, collants, crayon gras blanc, amorces de couleurs différentes selon les vitesses de défilement, 9,5cm/s, 19cm/s, 38 cm/s, plateau, bobine, bobineau, play, pause, rewind, forward, Dolby, mono, stéréo, canal gauche - canal droit, multipiste, autoreverse, vu-mètre ...

 

 

”Invested in the world of sound and music for my entire life, my radio and composition background has made me work with many professional analog tape recorders, Schlumberger, Ampex, Nagra, Studer, Revox, Belin, Tolana… and my affection for recording work, editing and mixing of the magnetic tapes remained intact. This film is therefore a poem in homage to these devices and the tactile relationship that we had, at the time (it was last century!), with this technology” - Palix

 

 

 

excerpt from "the invisible generation" - William Burroughs - 1962

 

magnétophone Tolana encore en usage à l'ORTF dans les années 70

 

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