#light-space modulator

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Light-Space Modulator - The Rising Wave

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Light-Space Modulator - "The Last Time"

The Rising Wave [AD 93, 2025]

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My favorite albums of 2025, part 3: 5-1

Here's my top five for the year! With Bandcamp links included. Check out part 1 and part 2, and thanks for reading.

5. YHWH Nailgun, "45 Pounds" Incredibly forward-thinking and very 'punk rock' despite not really being punk nor rock at all. It sounds like being in the middle of a collapsing carnival.

4. Light-Space Modulator, "The Rising Wave" Shackleton continues to be one of the best collaborators in experimental music. This year, he's working with Marlene of greatest-band-of-the-2010s-and-20s GNOD to create this shimmering tapestry of sound and whispered vocals. What MBV's comeback record should have sounded like.

3. Insecure Men, "A Man for All Seasons" Incredibly morose late-night meditations set to music both uplifting and crushingly depressing. From the twisted mind of the ever-underappreciated Saul Adamczewski.

2. Shrine Maiden, "A Theory of /Cloud/" Stunning blackened shoegaze, both punishing and heartbreaking in equal measure. Like being wrapped in a warm and comforting funeral shroud.

Shearling, "Motherfucker, I am Both: "Amen" and "Hallelujah"..." Wow. Arresting and insane. Shearling has declared war against its listeners, and it's winning. I actually gasped out loud when the vocals kicked in.

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Listen/purchase: Burning Within by Light-Space Modulator

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László Moholy-Nagy,  "Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930"

One of the earliest electrically powered kinetic sculptures, "Light Prop for an Electric Stage" holds a central place in the history of modern sculpture. Representing the culmination of László Moholy-Nagy’s experimentation at the Bauhaus, it incorporates his interest in technology, new materials, and, above all, light.

  Moholy-Nagy sought to revolutionize human perception and thereby enable society to better apprehend the modern technological world. He presented "Light Prop" at a 1930 exhibition of German design as a mechanism for generating “special lighting and motion effects” on a stage. The rotating construction produces a startling array of visual effects when its moving and reflective surfaces interact with the beam of light.

 The sculpture became the subject of numerous photographs as well as Moholy’s abstract film "Lightplay: Black, White, Gray (1930)." Over the years the artist and later the museums made alterations to the sculpture to keep it in working order. It is still operational today. 

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László Moholy-Nagy, Film Still from “Light Spill: Black-White-Grey”, (1930)

This short film made by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator, an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects in a carefully choreographed cycle of movements.

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László Moholy-Nagy. Light-Space Modulator. 1930.