Hobo Code

meggsbenedict:
“The pictographic Hobo Code is a fascinating system of symbols understood among the hobo community. Because hobos weren’t typically welcomed (and were often illiterate), messages left for others in the community had to be easy for hobos to read but look like little more than random markings to everyone else to maintain an element of secrecy. The code features certain elements that appear in more than one symbol, such as the circles and arrows that made up the directional symbols. Hash marks or crossed lines usually meant danger in some form.”

Erik Belgum has some interesting work

Check out Eriks web site

J.B. Murray: singing Writing in an Unknown Tongue: Reading Through the Water

Welcome to Kitty City

one bit symphony lovely

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 1: Overview) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

Poses.mov

Nicolas Provost - Papillon d'amour

Immersion into Noise=a great read available online ...

Immersion Into Noise

by Joseph Nechvatal

Series: Critical Climate Change

Open Humanities Press

An imprint of MPublishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ohp;idno=9618970.0001.001

Stanley Kunitz reads King of the River

Beautiful sound machines

... work by renowned European sound sculpture artist, Peter Vogel. The Sound of Shadows, curated by Faculty of Arts academics Jean Martin and Conall Gleeson, features a significant number of Vogel's important works - interactive objects, which respond to the movements of gallery visitors.

At the exhibition’s core are two innovative and interactive large-scale works, the Sound Wall and the Shadow Orchestra, together with smaller sound and light kinetic sculptures.

Vogel’s work inhabits the boundaries between fine art practices and performance traditions. It questions established relationships between sculpture and sound, seeing and hearing, the static and the live. They refuse to align with any single artistic movement, yet resonate with the aims of many.

Composer and sound artist, Dr Nye Parry, describes Vogel's pieces as “beautiful sound machines” which “ask new questions about the relationship between the spectator and the aesthetic object that bring it right up to date with contemporary artistic and philosophical enquiry.”