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techne.studio >>
TECHNE.STUDIO is a practice-based research and development lab in the Fine Arts Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder. TECHNE.STUDIO is actively engaging itself with the Alt-X Online Network, blurr_ (a digital innovation center), and the campus-wide ATLAS program. TECHNE.STUDIO features exceptional net art and theoretical work from students in Fine Arts, blurr_ and ATLAS, as well as work developed by faculty, visiting artists and other practitioners in the net art community.
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||| HIAFF 3.0 | university of colorado | department of art and art history | digital arts area | in conjunction with alt-x | atlas | blurr
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Novelist Jeff Noon describes the current boom in sound art as follows: "Some pieces make sense, some make nonsense, and others are just way stations of random noise. The filters are designed so that some break down the text (decay, explode, etc.), and some build it back up (enhance, find story, etc.)." The works included here point toward the coming age of fully manipulable realities. What You Hear Is What You Get.
4176 beats per minute
Sibell Wolle Sound System

"A web of glitchy fuzz, asynchronous beats and ricochet vocoders in 3 minutes and 33 seconds."
4176 beats per minute
Absence
Jori Kucharshi

"A haunting audio track that documents the whispering pleas of a voice searching for answers."
Absence
Cultural Plagiarism
Yana Farbrook

"The entire recorded audio experience of the still born Oleg Sidorov from conception until his death at the age of nine months, condensed into three minutes 33 seconds."
Cultural Plagiarism
DI-LOOP
Toni Swersky

"This soulful audio piece wins the listener over with its soothing rhythms and sexy sighs."
DI-LOOP
Disconnected Noise
Jane Crayton

"Looping breakdown - noise in the communication space."
Disconnected Noise
Fern Hill
Kendall Pata

"Dylan Thomas' old poem is further romanticized with the lament of laughter and soft beats."
Fern Hill
It's Already Been Done
Joe Farbook

"No matter what the title says, this sound piece is as original and bright as they come."
It's Already Been Done
Lycia Blend
Sharon Clark

"Audible blend of reality and dream. Always relaxing. Occasionally disconcerting."
Lycia Blend
Vast Galaxies
Nathan Wojtalik

"A three second sample of the ocean tides breaking, overlayed with a sample of a poem read by Ed Sanders."
Vast Galaxies
Wish List of America
Sean Gueresso

"A humorous, meandering commentary on America's rampant materialism and obsessive consumerism."
Wish List of America