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by Musica & Spirito La cimatica ha esplorato l’interazione tra suono e biologia. Attraverso esperimenti sulle vibrazioni sonore, Ernst Chladni prima e soprattutto Hans Jenny in seguito, arrivarono a comprendere come il suono poteva influire sulla materia, organizzandone la forma nello spazio. Inoltre Jenny comprese anche come le vocali di alcune lingue antiche avessero il potere di produrre il disegno relativo alla …

Hans Richter’s “Dadascope” is a comprehensive portrait of the Dada movement featuring original poems and prose spoken by their creators: Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Raoul Hausmann, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Kurt Schwitters. Filmed and completed in 1957. by softmod

Private recordings on cassette by Hans Krusi (from the Anton Bruhin collection). “While preparing a new edition of Anton Bruhin works, Alga Marghen discovered some mysterious tapes by Hans Krüsi. Fascinated by the raw and brute contents of those sounds, mixing field recordings of insects, sheep and distant bells with primitive chanting, percussive noises and distorted radio folk songs, Alga …

This is possibly the earliest piece of electronic music ever composed, or more specifically, the first piece of electronic tape music, also known as “musique concrete” or “electroacoustic” music. Halim El-Dabh, then a student at Cairo, Egypt, produced this music piece using samples taken from an ancient Egyptian “Zar” ceremony. He edited, manipulated and arranged these sounds to create the …