Land Of Light, an eponymous new album from London-based duo Jonny Nash and Kyle Martin, is an ethereal labor of love intended for serious listening. The talented musicians spent the last three years creating the 37-minute-long LP, and the upshot is a highly sophisticated set of sounds that channels…
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Autumn can be a confusing time. As we ease into colder climes around much of the world, the weather can be unpredictable—Superstorm Sandy definitely proves that phenomenon. So to prepare you for all that Mother Nature feels like serving up this season we’ve put together a list of songs…
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As one of the more prominent makers of synthesizers in the industry today, Moog Music has played a significant role in music innovation since its introduction more than 40 years ago. To celebrate the success of the Minimoog Voyager—the best-selling analog synth of the last decade—Moog is releasing a…
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Two years ago English producer and DJ Matt Edwards added a new moniker to his list, giving Radio Slave and myriad other aliases a momentary rest to pursue a different direction. This time filing his experimental sounds under the name The Machine, the new project saw Edwards combine his…
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In this movie filmed by Dezeen, Bandar Antabi of designer electronics brand Jawbone explains how the company took a holistic approach to designing their Big Jambox wireless speaker.
“[When] we look at design it’s not only the external facade of the product, but also the internals and software, and how basically users interact with the product,” says Antabi.
San Francisco start-up company Jawbone first launched the Jambox in 2010, which became the top selling wireless speaker in the USA and UK, so they launched the Big Jambox as a larger but still portable version.
It streams audio from smart devices wirelessly via bluetooth and is portable enough to be carried in one hand.
Designer Yves Behar has been working with Jawbone for almost ten years as their chief creative officer and is involved in all design decisions for products, including the Big Jambox.
A continuous, perforated stainless-steel sheet wraps around the front, top and back of the speaker, which Antabi describes as “a manufacturing feat”.
Yves Behar and Jawbone collaborated with Dezeen to create an installation of over 1600 Jambox speakers that played original tracks submitted by Dezeen readers in Milan 2011 – find out more about the project here. Read more in our previous stories about the Jambox here and the Big Jambox here.
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In 1948, John Cage paid a visit to the anechoic chamber at Harvard University, an echo-free room that had recently been built for the purpose of physics research. Surrounded by foot-thick concrete walls that bristled with sound-absorbing wedges, he had an epiphany: “I heard that silence was not the absence of sound but was the unintended operation of my nervous system and the circulation of my blood,” wrote Cage. He credited that experience, along with the white paintings of his Black Mountain College chum Robert Rauschenberg, with leading him to compose 4’33”. The composition, divided into three sections, consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds in which the performer plays nothing. On the occasion of Cage’s 100th birthday, his most famous work gets a graphic design twist from Nicholas Blechman (art director of The New York Times Book Review), Irene Bacchi, and Leonardo Sonnoli. The trio created “Heidelberg Speedmaster” (below), an offset print interpretation of 4’33” and named for the industrial printing machine at work in the video, recorded last Friday at La Pieve Poligrafica in Rimini, Italy. Each of the composition’s three parts are also interpreted in posters designed by Blechman, Bacchi, and Sonnoli (two of the posters are pictured above). And now, your moment(s) of Zen:
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Known for his visually intense work and populist aesthetic, visual artist Tim Biskup grew up in Southern California and, adding music to his creative talents, started the band Big Butter with his brother, Mike. Together they explored their favorite music genres, experimented with sound and put on live stage…
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Afin de célébrer les 125 années de Sony Music, Alex Fowkes a réalisé une fresque au cœur des bureaux à Londres de Sony retraçant ainsi en typographie les noms des 1 000 artistes ayant pu signer avec Sony et ses filiales depuis 1887. Un rendu magnifique à découvrir en vidéo sur une musique d’Avenue Beech.
by Dominic Blackwell-Cooper Camilla Stones is accustomed to success. Her entire life has evolved around art, music, dance and design. Serving as one third of the Icelandic pop girl group The Charlies, she has been a part of 10 number one singles, four albums, a TV show, a book and…
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Using analog equipment and outdated electronics for a more “real” sound, Black Moth Super Rainbow is one of the more captivating experimental electronic bands we’ve become familiar with in recent years. With nearly a decade of albums under their belt and a truly authentic approach in terms of musical…
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