Stephen Kelly : Twoplayer

Louis and Bebe Barron

2008-08-26T13:27:12Z

Louis and Bebe Barron are credited with writing the first electronic music for magnetic tape, and composing the soundtrack to Forbidden Planet. Today Forbidden Planet is recognized as the first entirely electronic score for a film, however the word 'music' had to be removed from the film's credits so as not to upset the musicians union, which Louis and Bebe did not belong to. As a result the score could not be considered for an Oscar.

Deepart

2008-08-15T19:34:36Z

Minimal lo-fi style, with a dark core of techno soul. Deepart's series of five "Picture" releases lacked titles or artwork, the music itself being the object of interest.

Mark Pauline

2008-08-04T18:39:10Z

Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception Survival Research Laboratories has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare.

Rune Lindblad

2008-08-03T11:33:23Z

Rune Lindblad (1923-1991) was an early pioneer in electronic and concrète music. After extensive art studies, he taught painting and graphic arts. When he began composing in 1953, he was the first composer in Sweden to work only with electroacoustic sound material. At a time when Cologne and Paris were fighting over the aesthetic differences between oscillator tone music and musique concrète on tape, Lindblad did not see the genres as mutually exclusive.

Chris Watson

2008-07-31T17:18:57Z

Chris Watson is a sound recordist specialising in natural history. His work as a wildlife sound recordist includes both work for film and television documentaries, and experimental musical projects. In 1971 he was a founding member of the influential Sheffield-based experimental music group Cabaret Voltaire. His sound recording career began in 1981 when he joined Tyne Tees Television.

Hilary 'Harry' Fisher Page

2008-07-30T09:11:52Z

Hilary Page was born in 1904 and sadly committed suicide in 1957. During the years 1932 to 1957 he changed the face of the British toy industry and created some of the classic pre-school toys played with by children today. Classic play patterns such as stacking, nesting and sorting were created in plastic, but Page's greatest claim to fame has to be his invention of what was to ultimately become the Lego brick.

Abdul Haqq

2008-07-29T12:20:40Z

For over 16 years, Abdul Haqq has contributed to the science fictive creeds of Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Underground Resistance and others by creating visual worlds that are synonymous with Detroit techno. A conceptualist and futurist, Haqq's role as the Ancient is affirmation of the fact that we do hear and see sound.

Enid Marx

2008-07-29T09:21:33Z

Enid Marx spent her life designing objects to delight the eye. She created textiles, postage stamps, jampot labels, repeat patterns for both paper and cloth, book jackets and book illustrations. Add to that posters and textiles for the London underground, magazine adverts, suitcase linings, laminated tabletops and nursery furniture. She wrote eight children's books, and is co-author with Margaret Lambert of two books on folk art.

Liaisons Dangereuses

2008-07-28T17:50:38Z

Liaisons Dangereuses were founded by Beate Bartel and Chrislo Haas together with vocalist Krishna Goineau. A German group who sang in French and/or Spanish – resulting in an experiment equally cold and dark, yet sensual and exotic. In 1981, after releasing four ten minutes cassettes CHBB1, CHBB2, CHBB3 and CHBB4, they recorded their sole self-titled album at Conny Plank's studio in Köln.

Victor Papanek

2008-07-26T14:00:48Z

Victor Papanek was a designer and educator who became a strong advocate of the socially and ecologically responsible design of products, tools, and community infrastructures. He disapproved of manufactured products that were unsafe, showy, maladapted, or essentially useless. An untiring, eloquent promoter of design aims and approaches that would be sensitive to social and ecological considerations.

Alfred Wallis

2008-07-26T13:44:26Z

Alfred Wallis was a Cornish fisherman and artist. He painted his seascapes from memory, in large part because the world of sail he knew was being replaced by steamships. Having little money, Wallis improvised with materials, mostly painting on cardboard ripped from packing boxes, using a limited palette of paint brought from ships chandlers.

Toru Iwatani

2008-07-21T20:40:05Z

Without any formal training in computers, visual arts, or graphic design, Toru Iwatani (with the help of four others) completed Pac Man in 1980, after working on it for a year and five months. Pac Man introduced an element of humour into video games that designers sought to imitate, and appealed to a wider demographic than the teenage boys who flocked to action-oriented games.

Dario Argento

2008-07-21T12:06:51Z

Argento is a film director best known for his work in the horror genre. Fresh, daring and wildly imaginative, his mix of special effects, vivid color and virtuoso camera movement is one of the most unique in the world. He has a fascination with voyeurism and often introduces humorous elements, through visual jokes and/or amusing characters.

Kenneth and Mary Martin

2008-07-19T11:50:07Z

Kenneth and Mary Martin were at the forefront of artists including Victor Pasmore who "rediscovered" abstraction during the 1940s. Kenneth Martin's mobile sculptures and Mary Martin's reliefs are based around mathematical principles and display extraordinary innovation.

Irdial~Discs

2008-07-19T10:24:32Z

Irdial~Discs is a world renowned publisher, driven by a relentless, ferocious and uncompromising vision of what the public should expect from music, sound recordings, print and publishing. During its long history, Irdial~Discs has been responsible for exposing the public to many revered artists and the most extraordinary and important of historical sound projects.