The popular image is of cyborg as supermodel: a streamlined, metallic mannequin, the flexibility of flesh reinforced with the precision of steel and circuitry; a robot of symmetrical form and shimmering mechanism; an ikon of immortality, flickering agelessly through mechanical reproduction. We are these things, yes. And have been in metaphor, well before any rude augmentation was imagined, or attempted. But this model, super- or otherwise, is not the best image of the cyborg. Machines had their eponymous Age, but it was not until becoming Information that they came into their own. And ours. First introduced in a 1960 article notable for its profound reversal of entity and environment, cyborg made its linguistic debut and in so doing, proposed radical new destinies to manifest.
A fairly select group of entomologists, including several specialists at the USDA’s Insect Behavior and Biocontrol Research Unit, have thus spent the past twenty years investigating the acoustic detection of insect noise. M
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Insubordinations is a netlabel focused on contemporary improvised music, free jazz and sometimes electroacoustic or sound poetry performances.
Global Noise Online (since 2005.10) is an information centre for sound art and new media art, with an emphasis on China and other developing areas in the world.
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De Hondenkoekjesfabriek is the headquarters of some fine noise-acts, like the Fckn Bstrds, Monobrain, Vulvax and temporary noise-acts like Spermatak. I think a good deal of the costumes worn by Masonic Youth have also been made at De Hondenkoekjesfabriek.
On 11 March 1913, Russolo issued his manifesto L'arte dei rumori, dedicated to fellow Futurist composer Francesco Balilla Pratella. Expanded into book form in 1916, it theorized the inclusion of incidental noise into musical composition
