No posts for a while... I've been super-busy with proposal and grant writing, and also flew up to Newcastle, in New South Wales, to check out This Is Not Art.
TiNA, as it's more affectionately referred to, is a festival of emerging and experimental arts, across writing, electronic art, theatre, and sound making. It's an umbrella festival, headed by a local arts-hub in 'Newy' called OCTOPOD.
Encompassed within TiNA is Electrofringe, Crack Theatre Festival, Sound Summit, Critical Animals, and the National Young ...Read More
The prefix 're-' holds a mighty standing in the modern times. With every email it comes as an abbreviation for reply, while 're-' placed in front of many words supposes a return, or a repetition.
In fact one can struggle somewhat to define 're-' without relying on 're-' itself. In many instances 're-' is an expression of applied will; a conscious act.
This act is replete throughout the history of the arts. Artists from all times continue to explore what at best ...Read More
Some great reviews for the Feeding the Transmitter compilation are floating about on the web...Really nice to see the release get a review on Neural too! I love that site and magazine... !
One particularly nice story on the relevance of CD samplers in the current day is up on Tokafi, with a little mention of the track I had on the compilation... Read More
The first event to kick off the LA season for 2008 said it best with the site: the grimey, entropy-laden cells and halls of the Old Melbourne Gaol's City WatchHouse.
Hosted by students from the RMIT Fine Art Sound Department, and members of the 'Within Earshot' collective, the night began with a series of installations and 'in-cell' performances located along the main hallway of the Gaol.
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By and large I spent little time at the conference of this festival. It was just too much to do the conference, see films, exhibitions, and then manage to see all the acts of the night concerts without feeling completely exhausted. So I tended to skip the conference and come in for the night-time. I would have liked to see Jeffrey Shaw's talk, hopefully there'll be a podcast online.
I managed to pick up quite a few items along the way: ...Read More
Julien Maire 'Digit' - De Balie FoyerA lone man sits at a desk passing his hand over blank pages. Miraculously, words appear, as if typed. I was unsure how this piece was executed, either by some form of 'stamp' hidden within the artists' palm, or perhaps some kind of heat sensitive system, however resulted in an intriguing and entertaining spectacle. Read More
Leeraum (Pe Lang & Zimoun) LIVE at Melkweg Media Room, AMSTRDM
An interesting minimal piece that used motors controlled by pots to affect the speed of the 'necklace' objects that rotated around them. The surface under each machine was amplified by contact mics while the material was changed from cardboard to felt and other materials, affecting timbre. Read More
'The Drone People' - Live @ Paradiso
(BJ nilsen, Joachim Nordwall, Mika Vainino, Hildur Gudnadottir, Spencer Yeh, Carl Michael von Hausswolff).
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