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1. Six Films by Adam Beckett


Adam Beckett, Flesh Flows, 1974 [Excerpt]

I blogged about seeing Adam Beckett’s work awhile back, when the “Heavy Light” program showed at Deitch two years ago. I’m really excited to announce that I co-organized a screening of six of his films in San Francisco next week at N O M A Gallery as a closing party for Nate Boyce’s solo show at the space. Beckett’s work rarely gets shown – this should definitely be worth it. Info below.

2. WARN-U - Fatima Al Qadiri


Creepy video by Fatima Al Qadiri. Really love the vocals on this.

3. Pythagorean Clavinet Phaze - Don Cardoza (1976)



This is a half hour long piece of entrancing music for the clavinet, that appears, at least to the untrained ear to have been influenced by Indian ragas. The clavinet is an electronically amplified clavichord and produces a sound quite similar to an electric guitar, despite it being a keyboard instrument. Don Cardoza has studied piano with Carlo Busotii and Michaiko Kolbiaka, among others, and he studied composition with Wayne Peterson, Fred Fox, and Ton De Leeuw at the Amsterdam Conservatory and then with Terry Riley at Mills College. He has also studied with Pandit Pran Nath from 1974 to 1990, and it may be the influence of the North Indian master vocalist that can be discerned in this delightful work.

4. Duane Pitre's "Feel Free" on Radio Heart


Yesterday on Radio Heart I broadcast a live recording of Duane Pitre’s Feel Free from May 30th at Zebulon in Brooklyn.

5. East Village Radio App


6. Throbbing Gristle - Discipline (Live at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco, 5-29-1981)



Via Industrial Music Library

7. No Soul For Sale

I am in London this week for No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents. Rhizome will have a space in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, along with 70 other alternative arts organizations and collectives from all over the world. We’re exhibiting Mail Nothing to the Tate Modern by David Horvitz, a project I curated. I plan to blog from the festival on Rhizome, so check over there for photos and updates!

8. Selections from SELEKTION OPTIK

I came across these videos awhile ago via no longer forgotten music. These experimental shorts originally appeared on the SELEKTION OPTIK VHS collections on RRR Video. SELEKTION did a lot of really interesting work with xeroxes, and you can see some evidence of that in these clips. You can read more about SELEKTION here and read their full history here.

9. Mi Or and the Pedestals Live at Coco 66

10. Mi Or and the Pedestals Live on Just Music


I played a live set on my friends Jeff and Casey’s radio show Just Music last night. It was super fun, and I got to hear a bunch of new music. Jeff brought in the new Aluk Todolo album and Jacob Gorchov dropped by with some records too, like Congregacion’s Viene. I think the set turned out well! You can listen to the streaming archive here.

11. Craig Colorusso's "Sun Boxes"


Sun Boxes are an environment to enter and exit. It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving.

12. Cellular Chaos Live!

Thought I’d share some live footage of Cellular Chaos, a new band I joined in December. The first clip is from last week, with Weasel Walter on guitar and Marc Edwards on drums. The second clip is from our show in January, with Kevin Shea on drums and Weasel Walter on guitar.

13. CrudLabs on Radio Heart


14. Nirvana - Live at Evergreen State College in 1990

15. Emeralds "Geode" by Raglani/Kannapell

16. Joanna Brouk Special on Radio Heart


17. Wu Fei on Radio Heart


18. Enumclaw - Opening Of The Dawn


Via Arthur Magazine

19. Conrad Schnitzler Day

Videos by Conrad Schnitzler, from the YouTube page for his official videos.







20. Peruvian Sound Art Special with Maria Chavez & Pauchi Sasaki


Maria Chavez and Pauchi Sasaki at the EVR Storefront Studio

21. Double Feature: Nite Jewel and Xeno and Oaklander -- Live on Radio Heart


22. Matrix Metals - Flamingo Breeze, Part 4

New music video for a track off of Flamingo Breeze by Matrix Metals, which I posted to the blog awhile ago. Olde English Spelling Bee remastered and reissued the release on vinyl, which you can pick up here.

23. Listen to Raw Thrills on Radio Heart


24. Vangelis & Neuronium (In London 1982)

25. Florescent Light Music by Kyle Clyde

A local artist, Kyle Clyde, sent over these videos of her performances in which she uses the feedback from florescent lights to create music. It reminded me a bit of a Michael Vorfeld video I posted to Rhizome on Monday. Both look awesome (and dangerous!).


26. Glass Candy/The Gossip Live June 23, 2002


27. Early Pencil Tests (Outtakes) - Bruce Bickford


Via Moon River

28. Sketch Klubb Radio


Houston-based comic gang Sketch Klubb took over Radio Heart last week, playing The Other Half, The Flying Lizards, Marvin Gaye, and even Beavis and Butthead. Pictures below courtesy of Sketch Klubber Russell Etchen, to listen to a stream of the show, click here.



29. Fumio Miyashita of the Far East Family Band on the Boffomundo Show, 1979

I’ve been listening to the Far East Family Band‘s release Nipponjin a lot recently. (Produced by Klaus Schulze!) I just discovered this awesome footage of a solo performance by frontman Fumio Miyashita on cable access in the late 70s, below.

30. Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners

I’m planning to attend “Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners“ tonight, part of the Performa biennial. For the event, composer Luciano Chessa reconstructed “intonarumori“ or instruments originally devised by noted Italian Futurist Luigi Russolo in 1913. During the evening, a number of musicians will perform original compositions using the instruments. You can view a quick teaser video below.

31. Rangers - Deerfield Village

RANGERS – “DEERFIELD VILLAGE” from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.

32. Ed Tannenbaum Day

Three clips from work by Ed Tannenbaum.



33. Sade Sade on Radio Heart

Sade Sade, aka Gabriel Mindel Saloman, played on Radio Heart this past Sunday, it was a blast! Zefrey Throwell took some photos during the show, below. To listen to a stream of the broadcast, click here.

34. Music, Language, Thought III

The third session of Music, Language, Thought series will be held at NYU tomorrow. Details below.

35. New Release - |||||


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36. Mi Or and the Pedestals at NY Eye and Ear II


Image above by Andrew Chee of RxRF on East Village Radio.

37. Ga'an Live at Silent Barn on Radio Heart

38. Vincent Collins


39. Matrix Metals - Flamingo Breeze



I’ve been listening to this project by Sam M. over and over. Perfect summer jam.

Download Matrix Metals – Flamingo Breeze

40. Lubomyr Melnyk Live in Toronto 1985

In the early ’70s Melnyk developed a unique approach to the piano called Continuous Music, a physical and mental technique that allowed Melnyk to play an incredible amount of notes at an incredible speed. In fact he holds two world records, one as the fastest pianist in the world, sustaining speeds of over 19.5 notes per second in each hand, simultaneously! And two, for the most number of notes played in one hour! In 60 minutes, Melnyk sustained an average speed of over 13 notes per second in each hand, yielding a total of 93,650 INDIVIDUAL notes. Holy shit!! But don’t be mislead, this is not some Yngwie bullshit, where songs and composition are sacrificed for mere shredding. No, there is a method to Melnyk’s madness, and the result says all that needs to be said. Continuous Music as you might have surmised, involves generating an extremely rapid flow of notes, with the pedal sustained non stop, patterns, broken chords, the sound is dense and dizzying, like glimpsing the inner workings of some tiny lifeform and watching atoms and molecules spin and swirl. The result of so many notes, played so quickly and so close together, with the overtones drifting and bleeding into each other, is some of the most breathtaking music we’ve ever heard. It’s almost like a waterfall of piano notes, a frothy cascade of tinkling sparkling melody, or a laying beneath a perfectly black night sky, watching a million fireflies dance and flit, a sky full of tiny little streaks of light.

– From a review of the album “Wave Lox” by Aquarius Records




(Originally from the Unseen Worlds Records blog)

41. Ear to Ear Documentation

I contributed two mix CDs to the exhibition Ear to Ear organized by Jeff Khonsary last year. The first mix compiled all my favorite songs from 1996 (the height of my riot grrrl days) and the second was a selection of “ice music” – music that was either made with ice or sounds like music made with ice. My old fanzine from middle school/high school Suburbia was also on view. Here are some photos:

42. Black Pus - Flower Devour

Black Pus were AMAZING last night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. I didn’t take any photos, but here’s a music video by Dave Fischer below.

43. No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image at the New Museum May 16th at 3pm


Makino Takashi, The Seasons, 2008 (Still)

44. Do an art project with the Dead Kennedy's "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"


Alternative Tentacles need to get rid of 1200 copies of the Dead Kennedy’s “Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables” because they can’t sell them. I am sure there is someone out there who can reuse them – if you are that someone, email George at press[at]alternativetentacles.com

45. Scores to Matsumoto Toshio's Films

I’ve been in Oberhausen all this week for the International Short Film Festival. This year the festival organized a series of screenings dedicated to Matsumoto Toshio’s work, which has been a real treat. I’ve only ever seen his work on Ubu, and I reposted some of those videos to A Million Keys a few months back. I love the scores used in his films. I was particularly struck by Yosuke Inagaki’s compositions for Connection and Shift, which were screened in the first program (posted below). I asked Matsumoto about Inagaki during the Q&A session, and he responded that he was a graduate student who studied with him. He mentioned that he was a video artist but did not go into much detail. I’d be interested in knowing more, if anyone reading this could provide some insight into Inagaki’s work.

46. Swine Flu

Now seems like an opportune time to post this up – “Swine Flu” from my old band (from high school!) Boxleitner.

47. ::: Good things from Pitchfork TV :::

Jacqueline from (Make the) Product sent me this video she made for Blank Dogs the other day. Her show, which airs Wednesdays 8-9pm on WNYU, is a new favorite of mine.

48. Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix


Via Networked Music Review

49. Snatch/Judy Nylon Live

This just in, from the Typical Girls mailing list.


Snatch Live in NYC


Judy Nylon – Jailhouse Rock, 1979
(From PAUL TSCHINKEL’S INNERTUBE filmed by PAUL TSCHINKEL at Max’s Kansas City, NYC in 1979.)

50. Peter Nowogrodzki's "Riding That Wave" at EVR March 2009

I screened Peter Nowogrodzki’s video Riding That Wave this past March in EVR’s storefront studio. See photos below!


51. Matrix III (1972) - John Whitney


graphics programming by Dean Anschultz music by Terry Riley

52. Music, Language, Thought April 4, 2009 at New York University

Second session of “Music, Language, Thought” takes place tomorrow. Details below.

53. Taj Mahal Travellers on Tour

I watched this film for this first time while I was sick and delirious last week. It endeared me even more to this band, especially the beach scene around 1:10.




TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS ON TOUR
Filmmaker: Matsuo Ohno
Running time: 102 minutes
Year: 1973
16mm.

54. Soundings (1978) - Gary Hill


1978, 18:03 min, color, sound

55. Die Tödliche Doris, Über-Mutti, Konzert 1983


I love how Die Tödliche Doris choreographed the audience in this clip. Amazing.

56. Eskaton - 4 Visions (1979)


57. Suicide (Marty Rev/ Alan Vega) - live NYC circa 1980


Via Weasel Walter’s YouTube

58. Naked on the Vague on EVR


Last night, Naked on the Vague guest DJed on Radio Heart. They played some of their own recordings (like an excerpt from their release on Near Tapes) as well as side projects Hochman & Hopkins and Knitted Abyss. They were super sweet and I learned some Australian lingo like bogan.

59. "Music, Language, Thought" at NYU Tomorrow

Music, Language, Thought is a new lectures series organized by graduate students in NYU’s Comparative Literature and Music Departments. I’ve been involved in the planning process for this alongside Michael Gallope, Amy Cimini, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, and Magali Armillas-Tiseyra. This is my first foray into the world of event planning as a graduate student, and I’m excited about it. Our premier session will be held tomorrow at NYU’s Silver Center from 10am-3:30pm, and there will be another session on April 4th. Here’s a short description:

60. New Mi Or & the Pedestals CDR + Show 2/21 at Eat Records

61. No Fun Tickets...

...are now on sale! I’m stoked on this year’s lineup, which includes Emeralds, Blank Dogs, Merzbow, Xeno and Oaklander, Axolotl, Carlos Giffoni and even Sonic Youth …

62. infinite body

I discovered this band today while catching up on Family’s blog.


infinite body – 07 from kyle parker on Vimeo.

63. Glenn Branca, Live in 1978


Via Hanne’s Art and Culture Blog

64. Chris Musgrave - Oscilloclast (2002-2004)

Four videos from Chris Musgrave’s series Oscilloclast.

65. Ed Emshwiller Day

Two films and a short excerpt from Ed Emshwiller.

Sunstone (1979)


Crossings and Meetings (excerpt) (1974)


Thanatopsis (1962)

66. CJ- Single Minded CS

67. "Fur Felix" by Julia Holter (Video by Fenslerfilm)

I first heard Julia Holter on Brian Turner’s show a few weeks back. So good.

68. MLD- "Perpetual Motion"

69. Black Friday

I’ve slowly amassed a selection of goofier black metal stuff over the past year — and, as it’s Black Friday, I thought I’d post some of it up. I’m also inspired after a recent email exchange with longtime internet/pen pal Alex Vivian who pointed me to even more goodies. Without further ado…

70. Tangerine Dream OVERLOAD

Samuel Kklovenhoof (DJ and member of my very favorite Led Er Est) and I are doing a two hour Tangerine Dream special on Radio Heart this coming Tuesday. Out of sheer anticipation, I spent about an hour this morning looking up YouTube clips of the band. The one of them playing in the grass in front of Ossiach Lake is a serious gem…and the one accompanying the dada/cirque de soleil/legend fashion show (!).

71. Video of Lichens, White Rainbow and Arp During Doug Aitkin's "Migration" at 303 Gallery


This short clip, from Heinrich at VernissageTV, excellently captures the mood of a performance last month at 303 Gallery. Lichens, White Rainbow and Arp provided a live soundtrack to Doug Aitkin’s installation Migration.

72. The Moving Line

Video from Mary Pearson of High Places. I came across this via the High Places blog this morning. Looks like footage from the California/Oregon border but I can’t be sure.

73. New Humans - Disassociate (2006)


74. Severed Heads Live at Metro TV July 1982

This is part of a live set we did at Metro TV, a community video center, in mid 1982. We did this to demonstrate a new video synthesizer developed by Stephen Jones, who at that stage was not involved with the band. Our analogue synthesizers were supposed to interact with his analogue video device using control voltages, and to a certain extent it worked but we all decided to do a reworking at the beginning of 1983.

75. Laurie Spiegel Playing 1977 Bell Labs Hal Alles Synth

76. Sad In Country

77. Toshio Matsumoto


White Hole, 1979 (Still)

78. Adam Beckett


Kitsch in Synch

79. The Facet Eye (2006) by Daniel Segerberg

From Artist’s Statement:
A construction out of old windows.The inside of the windows is covered with roofing-felt with hundreds of small holes from which light comes through. Each hole is an upside down projection of the outside surrounding. The many small projections are caught by thin fine-meshed textile stretched on frames along the inside walls; a facet eyed camera obscura or like hundreds of “real-time-videos”. Outside, the darkened windows gives a clear reflection of the surrounding, but the different angels of each window distort the image.

80. "In Bits" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

Dave Harper and I curated “In Bits”, a project screening on BAM’s sign in Brooklyn. See below for video documentation of Joe Merrell’s piece “Green Language.”

81. New Mi Or and the Pedestals CDR

I just released a new Mi Or and the Pedestals CDR. 8 tracks and 36 minutes long. See below for two tracks and pictures of the release.

82. Lydia Moyer- Mountain Loop (remix) at East Village Radio July 2008

For the month of July, I screened Mountain Loop (remix) by video artist Lydia Moyer at East Village Radio. See below for documentation. Mountain Loop (remix) is a response to the prevalence of strip mining in the Appalachian region of Virginia, an environmentally damaging practice in which mountains are leveled in order to access and remove resources. In the video, spectral blue lights overlay flickering silhouettes of mountains and surrounding clouds, suggesting their imminent destruction.

83. Viva Flexipop, indeed

84. Wierd Records Special on EVR 7/22

85. ((wave (2002) by Maria Dumlao

86. Videos by Julia Hechtman

i heart photograph posted photographs from artist Julia Hechtman a few weeks back. After reading about Hechtman, I checked out her site and discovered her video work. The pieces below, Before the Fall and the Vanishing, both use basic video techniques to suggest a human desire to command natural forces.

87. Electronics in the World of Tomorrow (1968) by Erkki Kurenniemi


I came across this video today via Ed Halter’s delicious feed. Until now, I hadn’t heard of Erkki Kurenniemi. Clearly, I have some catching up to do.

88. Touched Echo (2007) by Markus Kison


touched echo – intervention in public space from MaUdK on Vimeo.

89. MEDIEVAL WEAPONRY by Always

Always aka Alex Vivian posted a new music video. Alex is amazing! I think this is his first music video to date:

90. Bus Show at Secret Project Robot

I co-organized this Bus show Saturday at Secret Project Robot with John Benson, Ned Meiners and Nick Lesley. I’ve talked about Benson’s bus on the blog before. Here’s a really neat documentary on it from XLR8R. It was so much fun! Below are a few pics from the show, more on my flickr.

91. Pod Blotz & M.V. Carbon on EVR

Andrew Chee of RxRF (rad experimental/noise radio show which airs after mine) took these shots of Pod Blotz and M.V. Carbon on Radio Heart last Tuesday.

92. Speaker Synths by Lesley Flanigan

93. Fun at No Fun


Tony Conrad and M.V. Carbon

94. Weirding Module on EVR 5/7


Weirding Module played on Radio Heart last night, followed by a DJ set by Alex and Michael. The complete show is worth checking out in its entirety, but I also edited down Weirding Module’s performance into a single mp3 file, available below.

95. Interview with Tara Burke/Fursaxa

96. Rua Studio

Here are some photos I took over the weekend of Donna Huanca’s open studio from her LMCC residency. It included a sound installation I made. On Sunday, we played music and I recorded the performance on a handheld cassette player- it’s really rugged and messy sounding, I like it. The original was almost an hour long, so I edited it down to 20 minutes.

97. A Million Keys Muxtape


Now that Spring is here, I decided to make a muxtape documenting my favorite slow and sad songs from this past winter.

98. Soft Errs (2008) by Kabir Carter

99. Disco Machines by Peter Sinclair

100. Gitchii Manitou (12 Step Retrance Program For Troubled Dream Warriors)


I just picked up this release from Monopoly Child Star Searchers, a solo venture by Skaters member Spencer Clark.

101. Led Er Est at Wierd

Pictures of Led Er Est from last night. So good!

102. Jeremy Boyle at Hudson Franklin

I went to Chelsea last week to check out Jeremy Boyle’s new solo exhibition at Hudson Franklin. I first became intrigued by his work after reading about his self-playing band on VVORK. His current show proposes to explore “the theme of circulation through pattern and recognition.” Coincidentally, Boyle was present in the gallery when I arrived, and he was on hand to discuss the work with me.

103. SXSW Recap

104. S-S-S-Spectres at SXSW


I’m going down to Austin tomorrow with S-S-S-Spectres, and hopefully I will have time to cover some of the events in the blog. We’ve been recording for the past few months, and will have a limited run CD-R available. Contact me for availability. We also put up a new song from our CD on the myspace page, “Black Malm.”

105. Brian McKenna- Modulated Zips (2008)

106. Fast Blue Air nr 1

I came across this video today via Loreto Martin’s blog.

107. Viki- Cadillacs on Fire at East Village Radio February 2008

I screened loops off of Viki’s DVD Cadillacs on Fire at the East Village Radio studio in February 2008. I think it looked fantastic! See below for pics.

108. Official Tourist

My friend Jon sent these videos over yesterday. Official Tourist is a side project of artist Kamau Amu Patton, whose work I’ve been hunting for online ever since I read about his show at Machine Project last year. (They’re actually still hosting one of his videos, which you can view here. ) Patton does the video work and designs the costumes for Official Tourist. I’m amped to see his creations, but I’m still waiting for the day when more of his cult-inspired low budget infomercials go online. Official Tourist also produce a line of hoodies.




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109. OESB Special Recap


Leopards

110. Mi Or and the Pedestals- Sarah Lyddon Morrison 3" CD


Cover

Inside

111. Lief Hall- Dog Melt (2006)

112. Joe Merrell- Fire, San Bernardino (2005) at East Village Radio

Photographs of Joe Merrell’s Fire, San Bernardino at East Village Radio, January 2008

113. Growing- Lateral

114. Interview with Walter Branchi

Walter Branchi is a renown Italian electronic music composer. Since the 1960s, his contributions to improvisation and musical theory have been widely recognized. He’s founded and co-founded a variety of initiatives, including the Studio R7 in Rome, LEMS (Laboratorio Elettronico per la Musica Sperimentale / Electronic Studio for Experimental Music), the electroacoustic music association Musica Verticale and the conference Musica/Complessita. He was a member of the freeform group Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza for nearly ten years, and was also a member of the Gruppo Intercodice ALTRO from 1973 to 1977. He has performed and taught internationally over the span of his career.

115. Untitled Sound Objects by Pe Lang + Zimoun


116. Interview with Jeff Talman

Jeff Talman is a sound and installation artist based in New York City. His work is a sensory meditation on the elementary sound of space. In his installations, he amplifies the background resonance of an environment by extracting and strategically redirecting ambient sound back into its place of origin. In so doing, he heightens the occupant’s aural perception of the surrounding area.

117. Interactive Muzak

Augmented Architectures is the experimental research team of architect Nancy Diniz and computer scientist Cesar Branco. Their approach to space centers around the variable and evolving interaction between person and physical surround. Described as “Situated Living Pieces”, Nausea Transformer is one of three projects comprised of fabricated “skin” operating in direct response to exterior stimuli. Their inventions “feel” the environment via the input information from movement, light, and sound sensors. This data is then translated by a genetic algorithm, which regulates adaptive corollary behavior. Nausea Transformer is specifically attuned to sonic conditions and it is programmed to output an ideal sound environment, which is “...defined by low amplitude (not very loud) and by a small difference in frequency between two consecutive samples averaged for a number of samples”. The machine indicates a disturbing direction for the next generation of muzak, where sound is no longer a cloak for unwanted noise but rather a strategic tool used to placate and conform surroundings toward a controlled environment. The indications of responsive sonic surveillance take on a ominious quality when considering the recent commercial use of ultrasound waves in public space as well as our oblivious adjustment to interruptive technology.
118. Deaf Deaf As A Post



Deaf Deaf, Teen Dream

119. Insane Music

120. Public Image

121. Joe Davis and Katie Egan- Audio Microscope (2000)

122. Operations of Sound


the Old Operating Theater

123. Michael Yonkers Band- Microminiature Love

124. Peter Bosch & Simone Simons- De Krachtgever (1993-98)

125. Glacial Sounds

Artist Katie Paterson uses the sound recordings of melting glaciers to document and bring attention to environmental devastation. For vatnajökull (the sound of) Paterson set up a hydrophone in the rapidly growing lagoon of the largest glacier in Europe, Vatnajökull.

126. White Noise II


Eva Sjuve, Go Karamazov

127. Carsten Nicolai- fades (2006)

128. Gun Holmström- Omphalomin (2006)

129. Phillip Stearns- Burlap I II III IV (2006)

130. Phillip Werren- Polish Wedding Music (1967)

131. Lina Selander- 14th of February to 24th of June, 2003 (2003)

132. Udo Wid- A Synergy of Disciplines, BrainPrints (1999)

133. Interview with Jessica Rylan/Can't

134. Aluk Todolo

135. Carolina Caycedo- Local Motion (2006)

136. Ear to the Earth Festival

This week, the Electronic Music Foundation kicks off their second annual environmentally-conscious sound art festival Ear to the Earth Festival at Judson Church.

137. Cyrnai

138. Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher- Reel to Reel at Clementine Gallery

Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher’s show Reel to Reel at Clementine Gallery closes on Saturday and I strongly encourage those in the NY to catch it before it comes down. For Reel to Reel, Shore and Fisher adhered a network of mechanical instruments on the walls of the gallery space. Once activated, the instruments play a 10 minute composition accompanied by live video sequences captured from tiny surveillance cameras in the space. During each performance, a dark blue light saturates the gallery, giving the piece a dream-like and eerie ambience.

139. NY Art Book Fair Recap

140. Julien Previeux- A la recherche du miracle économique (2007)

141. ZNS Tapes Archive

142. Ghost Station by Kristen Roos


Kristen Roos, The Ghost Station, 2007, conceptual photo

143. Voice and Void Lecture at the Austrian Cultural Forum


Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller , Opera for a small room, 2005

144. Fabulous Diamonds

145. Candice Breitz- Babel Series (1999)

I came across this project yesterday, and it’s quite incisive and brilliant. I wish I lived in New York when it screened here in 2000 at the New Museum. See below for the full text explaining the piece and stills.

146. The Reanimation Library opens up a new space! /// "Play" at Proteus Gowanus


Image above from the Reanimation Library’s collection

147. Response to Sexual Onslaught /// Form Grows Rampant

148. n213 /// kunst fascion

149. Extended Animation: Digital Effects, Corporate Logos and Style

This looks really good:

150. Jacqueline Gordon Studio Visit

While I was in San Francisco I met up with Jacqueline Gordon and visited her studio. We ended up talking for a few hours and she showed me some of her projects. Jackie works in a variety of mediums- sound, installation, photography and traditional crafts such as quiltmaking and cross-stitching.

151. Back

Apologies for the prolonged absence- after my west coast jaunt I came back to east coast and went up to Vermont, Montreal, and Upstate New York for a week. I spent one night in Kate Pierson’s (of the B52s) motel Lazy Meadow in the Catskills Mountains, which was seriously awesome despite the downpour.

152. T.I.T.S. Tour (pt. 2)

T.I.T.S drew unibrows for the Seattle show (evidence below). The vibe was pretty weird- there was a cheesy club next door and a fight broke outside. Ick.

153. T.I.T.S. Tour (pt. 1)

We just got to Seattle. Kind of tired, but we’re having so much fun. I stayed with Gabe Mindel (of Yellow Swans) last night and caught up. Went thrifting this afternoon with Mara. We listened to a lot of Black Sabbath and Welsh Rare Beat on the way up.

154. T.I.T.S. OR BUST!!

This week I am going up to Portland, Seattle and Vancouver with T.I.T.S. . BFF Mara Scotia will be up with us too. I am going to document the tour for A Million Keys- be prepared!

155. My first 24 hrs in California

I am back in the Bay Area for the next week and a half. Expect reports of burritos, thrifting, and redwoods.

156. Dead Reptile Shrine- A Journey Through the Darkest of Forests/Isth Narai Ja


157. Nothing is real, everything is possible.

The houses and the automobiles are equal figments of a great dream, the dream of the urban homestead, the dream of a good life outside the squalors of the European type of city, and thus a dream that runs back not only into the Victorian railway suburbs of earlier cities, but also to the country-house culture of the fathers of the US Constitution, or the whig squirearchs whose spiritual heirs they sometimes were, and beyond them to the villegiatura of Palladio’s patrons, or the Medicis’ Poggio a Caiano. Los Angeles cradles and embodies the most potent current version of the great bourgeois vision of the good life in a tamed countryside, and that, more than anything else I can perceive, is why the bourgeois apartment houses of Damascus and the villas of Beirut begin to look the way they do.

158. ALL YOU CAN EAT POPCORN JESUS $8.99

I found this flickrset yesterday of a killer culture jamming project by Chad from Zom Zoms and Zoloscope and some of his friends. See below for a few choice examples.

159. 1990s

160. New Romantics


Caspar David Freidrich, The wanderer above the sea of fog

Michael Bell Smith, Continue 2000

Read this tidbit from things magazine, one of my favorite blogs, this morning:

161. AAB (Ancient Art of Boar)- Bright Dole

I’ve been raving about this cassette for almost a decade now. It’s Andrew WK’s solo project from high school. To me it sounds like Prince on downers with a good dose of harsh noise. Pretty much incredible. I heard he released one or two other cassettes as AAB- and I haven’t heard them yet. I promise to bake a cake for anyone who shares them with me.

162. Early ‘80s Colin Potter

163. An Outsider's Perspective on the World of Doll Collecting by Lanie Fletcher

Lanie sent me a copy of this zine along with her other zines the Ripper and Me & My Knife awhile back. Both are awesome but the doll collecting zine is particularly awesome. Her humor reminds me of an even darker Darren Bader (who’s a fave). See below for excerpts.

164. Industrial Archeology by Jeffrey Milstein

Read an interview today with photographer Jeffrey Milstein in CR blog and came across this ongoing photo project by Jeffrey Milstein exploring the declining industrial areas along the Hudson. His photographs capture the physical deterioriation and economic downslide of these once prosperous manufacturing sites. They also touch upon the concept of failure as discussed in the Informal Architectures exhibition.

165. Informal Architectures

166. Boredoms // 77 BOA DRUM

Whoa.

167. Myspace Roundup

168. Group Doueh- Guitar Music from the Western Sahara LP

169. La Fondation/C.Naturel

170. Vidya Gastaldon- Ovorama Terrasanta

I came across this series of prints by Vidya Gastaldon at the 2006 Armory Show at the booth for Gallery Art:Concept.

171. documenta 12/some thoughts

I picked up the first installment of the three proposed magazines for documenta 12 and read it over the weekend. Three overarching questions guide this documenta- Is modernity our antiquity? What is bare life? and What is to be done?- and each magazine explores one of these leitmotifs in depth. The first issue asks, “Is modernity our antiquity?” and it begins with an essay by the same title written by artist Mark Lewis. His essay had a few revelatory morsels that fit in well with the Gillick article I reposted and some other thoughts I’ve been kicking around.

172. Repost: Is there anything for art to say about Iraq?

173. TAPES 'N TAPES 'N TAPES

174. Avant Gardener

Courtesy of Vvork, I discovered the handmade electronic musical instruments of Brian and Leon Dewan today. The cousins create sleek analog sculpture-instruments, reminiscent of 1950s appliances, which they call “Dewanatrons”.

175. Periodikmindtrouble

I am a bit surprised that I only recently discovered Thierry Muller from Ruth’s project Ilitch. Dan Selzer played it a few weeks ago at a French New Wave night we did at Monkeytown, and I immediately decided to hunt it down. I picked up the Ruth reissue Polaroid/Roman/Photo on Fractal a few years ago, its title track also appeared on the So Young So Cold compilation, which came out around the same time:

176. The Waiting Room

Some Time Waiting, a show presently on view at the Kadist Art Foundation in Paris, brings together works from over 15 international artists. Curated by the foundation’s current resident, the London-based Adam Carr, the exhibition centers on the subject of waiting. The inaction captured in the works, far from being boring or burdensome on the viewer, is inherently imbued with a political charge. Take, for example, the subjects of Johanna Billing’s Project for a Revolution (2000). The film documents a group of similarly aged people tensely waiting together in silence in a room. The facial expressions of the participants imply that they were driven by a combined sense of anger and disillusion to apathy. The underlying suspense of the film emerges from the distinct possibility that its subjects could continue waiting in silence forever or leap into action at any moment.

177. Rub-A-Dub

With the overabundance of Wolf bands out there, few seem to lead the pack. San Francisco’s Fuckwolf are indeed an exception. Their gritty, spaced-out reverb-laden dub interprets King Tubby’s legacy with a healthy dose of dirge-deranged noise. Weasel Walter, of Flying Luttenbachers and Lake of Dracula, produced their new self titled album on Kimosciotic Records.