A Million Keys

Motion at Seventeen

Ceci Moss — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:56:19 +0000

A group show I co-curated with Tim Steer opens in London on Thursday at Seventeen! We’ve assembled a truly wonderful group of artists for the exhibit, which spans both floors of the gallery. The concept is something we’ve been developing for awhile now. Info below.

Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Points in Space, 1986. Photo: Robert Hill for the BBC.

Motion

May 17–June 23, 2012
Opening: Thursday, May 17, 6–8pm

Seventeen
17 Kingsland Road
London E2 8AA
Hours: Wednesday–Saturday 11–6pm

T 44 (0)20 77295777
info@seventeengallery.com

www.seventeengallery.com

Participating artists:
Kari Altmann, Merce Cunningham, Harm van den Dorpel, Michael Guidetti, Oliver Laric, Mark Leckey, Sean Raspet, Emanuel Rossetti, Hito Steyerl, Artie Vierkant

Curated by Ceci Moss and Tim Steer.

The object that exists in motion spans different points, relations, and existences but always remains the same thing. Like the digital file, the bootlegged copy, the icon, or Capital, it reproduces, travels, and accelerates, constantly negotiating the different supports that enable its movement. As it occupies these different spaces and forms it is always reconstituting itself. It doesn’t have an autonomous singular existence; it is only ever activated within the network of nodes and channels of transportation.

Both a distributed process and an independent occurrence, it is like an expanded object ceaselessly circulating, assembling, and dispersing. To stop it would mean to break the whole process, infrastructure or chain that propagates and reproduces it.

The object in motion becomes the simultaneous obfuscation and revelation of the points that sustain it. It’s both completely transparent and completely mediated. Transparent because it ignores the different instantiations and embodiments that require it to exist across a material infrastructure and mediated because of its dependency on these multiple parts to exist at all. It flows through networked channels, forgetting any idea of a singular autonomy.

มนต์รักเพลงไทย

Ceci Moss — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:40:49 +0000

collection of great music made by the people of thailand; ลูกทุ่ง (luk thung), ลูกกรุง (luk krung), หมอลำ (molam), regional folk styles & more. most of these are taken from tapes that i found either in thailand or at home, in america.

The Second Android Coming of Philip K. Dick | Motherboard

Ceci Moss — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:48:05 +0000

There’s a great science fiction story, “The Electric Ant”; in it, an injured man is taken to the hospital, where operating surgeons discover that, unbeknownst to him, he’s an android. After hearing the news, the man realizes his reality is dictated by reels of punched tape in his chest. He begins to tamper with the reels. After punching a new hole, a flock of ducks flies through his room. When he cuts the tape entirely, the world disappears.

The story is by Philip K. Dick, the legendary flipped-out weirdo and science fiction author whose books have been endlessly adapted into films. Everyone knows Blade Runner, based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? What most people don’t know is that the late Philip K. Dick has been reincarnated. As an android.

The story begins in 2004, when a team of roboticists and intelligent systems designers built a functional robotic likeness of Philip K. Dick. It looked like Dick, dressed like Dick – down to the gauche floral button-ups – and could hold forth on a wide range of subjects pertaining to his work. A low-res YouTube clip of the android in its prime shows it casually propped up on a brown divan, servomotors quietly abuzz, calmly informing its interlocutors that he was not a writer, but a “fictionalizing philosopher.”

Interview with MSHR by Maurizio Cattelan

Ceci Moss — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:21:50 +0000

Striving for ground zero is a good starting point for a project. We use primitive electronics of our own design and human voices as our sound sources, because we want to come from a closer place to the root, from a more radical or basic place and develop therefrom. Our hope is that this process will continue to reveal new creative pathways for us to explore. Building our own electronics also lets us build them in any form we want, which is really useful for interactive installations, and for making sculptural instruments to perform with. Building our own instruments also allows us to have more interesting and unique interface systems. We are interested in interfaces that rely on elemental things… plant life, the human body, natural phenomena. We use these techniques especially in our installation work, to make interactivity a crucial part of the art.

i-D Online Exclusive Mix: Veronica Vasicka by i-D online on SoundCloud

Ceci Moss — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:55:25 +0000

The Sound Issue | Art Practical

Ceci Moss — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:09:11 +0000

From the earliest days of sound art, artists and experimental musicians discovered in the genre a medium that is inclusive, participatory, disruptive, and that could embody their political goals. Today, the Bay Area’s technological reign has established San Francisco as a destination for sound artists seeking to advance their practices through the genesis of new mediums. They explore sound’s capacity to conflate sensory experience; sounds are both aural and physical, producing reverberations that register in our ears and bodies and that locate or disorient us in space. How do they respond to different contexts and juxtapose with other artistic forms? This thematic issue of Art Practical delves into the Bay Area’s rich history and attempts to probe the very essence of sound as well as the hybrid practices of contemporary sound artists.

Cellular Chaos EP + Upcoming Shows

Ceci Moss — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:13:27 +0000

Cellular Chaos just completed some studio recordings this spring at Menegroth in Queens. We’ll be releasing them later this year as a full record, but for now we’ve put out a limited edition CDR with select recordings from that session. I made the cover art! See below.

We also have a few shows coming up this month, all the info is below. Admiral Grey joined the band as a lead singer recently, which has added a whole new element. If you haven’t seen us yet with a singer, check out this video.

4.17
.Lechuguillas
.Terminator II
.Unstoppable Death Machines
.Cellular Chaos
.Heavy Medical

Death By Audio, 9pm, $7
49 s 2nd st
btw kent & wythe

Hip Hop Special on Radio Heart

Ceci Moss — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:46:10 +0000

Paul Haney and Paul Walker covered my radio show last Sunday, DJing an entire set of hip hop from the golden era of the late 80s and 90s.

Listen to the archive here and the playlist here.

Alternated Gradients (2012) – Emilio Gomariz

Ceci Moss — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 01:26:54 +0000

via today and tomorrow

East Village Radio -> News -> Free Noise: Download a Compilation of Belgian Experimental Music from 1981

Ceci Moss — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:34:49 +0000

The excavation of music’s alternative past via blogs, reissue labels, and countless other technologically enhanced avenues continues to yield some divine aural treats. Regional cassette labels of the ‘80s from around the world whose output was often limited to obscure mail-order catalogs and hand-to-hand sharing have found new life on the internet. Cassette Art Classics is doing their part by salvaging experimental works from such legendary labels as Al Margolis of If, Bwana’s Sound of Pig, and Belgium’s Sandwich Records and Insane Music and presenting them for free download via Bandcamp.

The latest addition to Cassette Art Classics’ expanding archive is Sandwich Records/Insane Music’s 1981 compilation Insane Music for Insane People. The tape contains works from Belgian artists Bene Gesserit, Pseudo Code, Human Flesh, and others that date as far back as 1974.