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1. Adam Beckett


Kitsch in Synch

2. 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.

3. "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.”

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Viva Flexipop, indeed

7. Wierd Records Special on EVR 7/22

8. ((wave (2002) by Maria Dumlao

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. Touched Echo (2007) by Markus Kison


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

12. 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:

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Speaker Synths by Lesley Flanigan

16. Fun at No Fun


Tony Conrad and M.V. Carbon

17. 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.

18. Interview with Tara Burke/Fursaxa

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. Soft Errs (2008) by Kabir Carter

22. Disco Machines by Peter Sinclair

23. 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.

24. Led Er Est at Wierd

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

25. 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.

26. SXSW Recap

27. 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.”

28. Brian McKenna- Modulated Zips (2008)

29. Fast Blue Air nr 1

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

30. 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.

31. 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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32. OESB Special Recap


Leopards

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


Cover

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34. Lief Hall- Dog Melt (2006)

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

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

36. Growing- Lateral

37. 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.

38. Untitled Sound Objects by Pe Lang + Zimoun


39. 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.

40. 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.
41. Deaf Deaf As A Post



Deaf Deaf, Teen Dream

42. Insane Music

43. Public Image

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

45. Operations of Sound


the Old Operating Theater

46. Michael Yonkers Band- Microminiature Love

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

48. 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.

49. White Noise II


Eva Sjuve, Go Karamazov

50. Carsten Nicolai- fades (2006)

51. Gun Holmström- Omphalomin (2006)

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

53. Phillip Werren- Polish Wedding Music (1967)

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

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

56. Interview with Jessica Rylan/Can't

57. Aluk Todolo

58. Carolina Caycedo- Local Motion (2006)

59. 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.

60. Cyrnai

61. 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.

62. NY Art Book Fair Recap

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

64. ZNS Tapes Archive

65. Ghost Station by Kristen Roos


Kristen Roos, The Ghost Station, 2007, conceptual photo

66. Voice and Void Lecture at the Austrian Cultural Forum


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

67. Fabulous Diamonds

68. 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.

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


Image above from the Reanimation Library’s collection

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

71. n213 /// kunst fascion

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

This looks really good:

73. 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.

74. 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.

75. 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.

76. 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.

77. 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!

78. 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.

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


80. 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.

81. 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.

82. 1990s

83. 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:

84. 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.

85. Early ‘80s Colin Potter

86. 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.

87. 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.

88. Informal Architectures

89. Boredoms // 77 BOA DRUM

Whoa.

90. Myspace Roundup

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

92. La Fondation/C.Naturel

93. 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.

94. 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.

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

96. TAPES 'N TAPES 'N TAPES

97. 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”.

98. 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:

99. 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.

100. 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.