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From the mind and soul that bought you Electroplankton, Toshio Iwai’s latest sound-art toy the digi-mystical Tenori-On is now available for sale in the UK.

With rumours abounding of a second round sound clash between the Ghost-Code Militia and the Shinjuku Uprockers, [relocating from a Shiodome Media Tower to a basement in Hackney ] now’s the time for electronic game players to grab this object of beauty.

Give your future-form its freedom.

Binary rhymer and hyper-dimensional nomad, Ryoji Ikeda continues his freefall into oceans of pure data, deep into the truth of numbers with his latest installation : Data Tron:

Currently on at Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzho and flowing on to Yamaguahci in March.

19 cities, with 20 million people, in the 21st century.

http://www.192021.org/

Focusing on the evolution and cultural resonances of the supercity and the dynamics of global population growth. Although a bit low on information right now, check the site for its infographics: simple, modernist, stark.

Check out lambrini - purveyors of of hybrid alco pop - who have shamelessly stolen belgium’s darkest dance coda - jump-style.

http://www.dothelambrini.co.uk/

A text-book example of corporate cultural theft. Is there any escape?

88 Speakers representing the 88 notes on a piano, by sound artist An-Ting Chung, with the audience inside a circle of speakers.

surround sound 4 real.

http://insidethepiano.com

Following the destruction of the two monumental 5th century Buddhas of Bamyan by the Taliban in 2001 [which took over one month of heavy artillery fire since the monuments were carved into mountainside] Japanese quantum-inspired chroma sculptor, Hiro Yamagata has been commissioned to create an on-site installation, projecting neon Buddhas into the voids left by the destruction.

For those of you harbouring less dancing-monkey happy-droid prejudice than me: check the robosapien foundation - their moto: "making a difference, one robosapien at a time".

Yes you heard right: chromo-shift-robo-reptile. 2 future to be true? Unfortunately yes.

Basically, a snappier, noisier, adrenalised upgrade of the rather clunky roboraptor. Spoiler Alert: the chromoshift is actually just some sort of reflective paint job: think italo-disco, not predator 4. Still, the move away from friendly domestic robots [like the "yes-sir i can boogie" nonsense of dancing monkey boy robosapiens] to more menacing and aggressive droids can only be welcomed. Useful for frightening household pets...

Neuroscientist Dr Vaughan Bell and artist Simon Pope collaborate on gallery space recall, an exhibition of...nothing.