Matmos: Ultimate Care II Excerpt Five

Conceptual electronic duo Matmos have created a whole album from sounds sampled from the (now discontinued) Whirlpool Ultimate Care™ II washing machine in their Baltimore basement—and the results (industrial music meets musique concrète, with dance and drone sprinkled in) will have you considering dirty laundry (and spin cycles) in an entirely new light. The semi-psychedelic music video for “Ultimate Care II Excerpt Five” is a …

Fundamental Berlin’s Not-So-Ordinary Frames

Playing with shapes and patterned grids to bring glamour to even small passport photos

“The inspiration was fishnet tights!” Steve Molloy, co-founder of The Fundamental Group, tells CH about the brand’s unique grid frames. “It was about how sometimes a thing becomes more interesting when it has been slightly obscured. Sort of like a real-life Instagram filter. It’s that simple really.” The Berlin-based architecture studio translates their design skills and passion for mathematics on a much smaller scale with …

Recap: Satellite’s Artist-Run Space at Miami Art Week 2015

Nearly 40 groups and galleries took over the derelict oceanfront hotel and tossed inhibition out the windows

If you’re measuring in internet time, Miami Art Week 2015 is long over, but there was one show we can’t get out of our minds—the inaugural Satellite Art Show. A brainchild of Brian Whiteley (founder of the now-defunct SELECT Art Fair), the brand new fair situated itself far from the on-edge crowds in South Beach. Closer to its partners Miami Project and Art on Paper, …