Berlin-based artist Nik Nowak built this mind-boggling Soundtank which he simply calls “Panzer”. It is based on a japanese miniature tracked dumper, equipped with around 4 KW and ready to host live-acts on the rearside.
Check more of Nik’s work based on auditory installations on his website www.niknowak.de.

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A friend of mine recently posted a video of the “Harmonic Field ver.2″ which is the instrument featured below and above. I had to know who builds these things and there you go: Folktek. The artist duo builds lots of these experimental instruments in families. The different families combine different approaches to manipulate sounds, such as sound from accoustic sources, delay/looping/echo or actually the electricity that runs through humans. The Harmonc Field Instrument, for example, closes a circuit of electricity that comes through the human body and is therefore played by touch and with something that runs through us.

Here’s what they say about themselves:

Folktek is an artist collaborative formed by Arius Blaze and Ben Houston and coming to include the video and digital works of Drew Mcyntire (Big Pauper, Token Recluse Records). Folktek is folks, specifically artists working with a passion for sound as the basis for the work presented here.

We work with all arts and consider ourselves a part of a relatively underground movement of a second renaissance. We write books, bind books, work with wood, DJ, metalsmith, paint, sew, make lamps, music, ping pong paddles, boxes, digital instruments, film works, photography, sound art installations, masks and naturally we dance. Folktek is not a major company and we’re generally opposed to major corporation. These works are made by our hands and with our minds and incorporate years of study.

Check their website for lots of insight, inumerous instruments and images at http://folktek.com/
I would just love to be able to play around with these. Amazing work!

(an example on how to make music with one of these after the jump)

Here’s an example of how to play with the Luminist Garden (above) by Klirrfaktor: Folktek Luminist Garden & Modular System.

I am very happy to announce that my non-profit music project OneBeat will be opening the first night of FriKK Festival 2011 , an 10 day art festival at Bethanien in Kreuzberg. The festival is going from the 8th of August until the 17th.
The Frikk Festival is a non-profit festival as all profit will be donated and directed towards the art scene.

Tonights lineup:
RTZ23 – DJ/VJ Live – 23:30 – 0:15
Wermonster – Live – 0:30 – 1:45
Maroq DJ – 2:00 – end

Location:
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Mariannenplatz, Kreuzberg – im Südflügel.
(Not the new place at Kottbusser Damm).

The entry fee for the night will be 6€ (from 4 pm).
Come early, there’s an exhibition, theater and a burlesque performance before our the party.

Join the Facebook event at: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=223185381056621

Find out more and listen to the artists on www.onebe.at
Check out the Festival program at www.frikk.de/programm

Educated in South Korea and the United States, Myeongbeom Kim produces otherworldly installations and sculpture works that juxtapose man-made elements with nature to create surreal dream spaces. Utilising suspension as a common motif, his works are constantly poised in a state of ambiguous wonderment. Within his installations, living things are held inside the fragile confines of light bulbs and helium balloons replace tree foliage, literally uplifting the tree and its roots.
Although this breaking down of the boundaries between artificiality and nature would generally engender a sense of unease, conveying the decline of natural phenomenon at the hands of manufactured goods, from Kim’s artistic perspective there is a rather a peaceful coexistence of these two binary opposites. It is a beautiful thing to behold.

found at thefoxisblack.

Check out the trailer below.. Hypebeast writes:

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Simón Prades is studying graphic design at the university of applied sciences in Trier. I really like his illustrations and drawings. A call to awareness of what is happening in the world is visible throughout his work. And we all need some more of that..

See more on his website or his blog. (The top drawing is a large-format related to Mexico).

The series “Three”

The series “Revolution”

Altered Zones is an international collective of music bloggers that unites 15 autonomous sites. Their aim is “to highlight one of the more overlooked narratives in contemporary music– the proliferation of home-recorded sounds, small-scale releases, and pockets of underground activity all over the world.” I check out new tracks and reviews on a regular basis and there is a lot to discover. I specially enjoyed the Halloween 2010 mix, which is in my playlist for some time now. A deep and melancholic mixtape with artists like James Blake, Forrest Swords, Beach House and Burial..winter music!

Download audio file (GORILLA-VS.-BEAR-HALLOWEEN-MIXTAPE-2010.mp3)
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(tracklist after the jump)

1. Susan Christie – No One Can Hear You Cry (reprise)
2. Delia Derbyshire – Blue Veils and Golden Sands
3. Kria Brekkan – Wildering
4. Beach House – unknown
5. Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier – Maine Jungle
6. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Fright Night (nevermore)
7. Invisible Conga People – Cable Dazed
8. Grimes – Venus in Fleurs
9. Forest Swords – Rattling Cage
10. Delia Derbyshire – Music of Spheres
11. Holy Other – YR LOVE
12. Paavoharju – Alania
13. Sleep ∞ Over – Sun Spots
14. Topaz Rags – Sightings
15. Grouper – Sick
16. Burial – Shell of Light
17. James Blake – I Only Know (What I Know Now)
18. Panda Bear – untitled King Tubby jam (live)

If you wanna know more visit his blog

Here you can find an interview about his studio work.