Cyberpunk Cyberstream

CD - Someone Good
Akira Kosemura creates fascinating miniatures in form of delicate piano elaborations, pop and classical at the same time, gentle and repeated, with light backgrounds of natural sounds and measured clicks. Pants, scratches, light percussions of string instruments, discrete field recordings that reinforce the idea of "domestic sounds", capturing the emotion of the moment and enjoying it some seconds later. Just like in a Polaroid, which develops before our very eyes, a mechanical soft focus of barely hinted images, a dreamlike quality is preserved, speaking of a contiguous everyday reality, rarefied and a little mysterious. The strong narrative continuum pervades us between the grooves of "Polaroid piano", like improvised gymnopedies, not without film suggestions and ornamental melancholic passages. Very meaningful music themes, vacuous but romantic, ten tracks tied by a very inspired sense of interpretative lightness, airy and convincing.
Aurelio Cianciotta

CD- Rixc
Sound waves broadcast in space and captured by powerful antennas. A steamy repetition creating an environment open to different contributions, pervaded by the energies of the artists themselves, who were invited to focus their attention on those deceitful mechanisms that are always in play at the interchange between infosphere and psychosphere. Different types of data, sounds and magnetism: all these elements poetically meet in multimedia, which is here the synesthetic melting pot of experimental sound compositions. This collective, which promotes the Radio Tower Xchange project, by connecting online performances and audio art events, wants to pay homage and at the same time criticize the "broadcasting philosophies", embodied in the "symbolism" of radio towers themselves. Technologies for sharing that are evolving towards direct transmission, not "for the audience" but "from the audience" which, thanks to WiFi networks and the multiplication of "emission points" and the simultaneous demand for those inputs, pave the way to the emergence of new systemic chains.
Aurelio Cianciotta

Digital data has a paradoxical status. Immaterial by definition, it nonetheless has a need for a physical substance (hardware) to manifest itself. Eternal and not subject to decay, it is forced to bond its life to the hosting support, inheriting fragility and a tendency to degenerate. Furthermore, data legibility is continuously put at risk by the growing obsolescence of machines and software.
 This complex relationship between matter and code has fascinated artists since the sixties, when conceptualists spotted in the developing computer languages a possible metaphor for art itself (materials as hardware and ideas as software), as well as a new platform for experimenting with processuality in art. Zach Gage, an artist and programmer based in New York City, gathered these suggestions and reworked them in a project named Temporary.cc, a website that incorporates an auto-deleting system. He writes: "data on the Internet has a seemingly infinite shelf-life. Between search-engine caching, cloud-hosting, re-blogging, plagiarising, and the way-back machine, the net collects and eternally stores vast amounts of information. Temporary.cc eschews this paradigm". The website doesn't preserve its own content but, on the contrary, acts as a de-generative machine that will eventually lead to its total disappearance: a blank page. The task is left to the users, who participate in the deleting process simply by visiting the website. For each unique visitor it receives, Temporary.cc deletes part of itself. The interaction with the work determines its gradual vanishing and, at the same time, gives each viewer a different version of the webpage because every new access produces "a new composition through self-destruction".

Valentina Tanni