Internet Art: ANTLERSWIFI.COM

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Every once and a while something surfaces on one of the mailing lists that is worth a few clicks of time, and today it was noted on the microsound mailing list by Ben Owen. The site is called “antlerswifi“, and the concept is simple: digital-futurist micro-compositions of sound, video and image. The format is the same for all 3 of the the posts so far – 2 short (15 second or less) nicely digital and computer generated lo-fi video loops (no after effects here folks), accompanied by a minute long audio loop and a single image.

The works are hypnotic and stragely organic. The music, while somewhat famalir, is a different take on the post-idm/glitch/microsound style, opting for both clickity rolling beats as well as time stretched drones.

It will be interesting to watch where this project evolves to, be it full length audio compositions with same-length videos, or a real-world installation replete with video projection with carefully placed speakers.

While not revolutionary, this truly is inspirational in an age of cookey-cutter and trend following electronic art and music. It shows how less really is more, when it is done right.

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