TGIF met DIY a little over a week ago, on September 19, at the music-tech store/salon Robotspeak in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco. Donald Bell (aka Chachi Jones) and other Robotspeak friends and staff hooked up a little project that was part lo-tech experimentation, part audio-video mashup, and part urban prank.
Bell announced the [...]
Shots by Steve Roden of his installation at the Happy New Ears festival, recently held in Kortrik, Belgium. It is titled “When Books Are Like Butterflies,” and the festival ran from September 13 through today, September 28:
Roden describes the work further on his website, inbetweennoise.blogspot.com:
it was loosely inspired by georges rodenbach’s book bruges-la-morte, not so [...]
From a conversation in the latest issue of TATEetc., the magazine of the British museum (tate.org.uk/tateetc), between artist Douglas Gordon and curator David A. Ross. Also participating in the interview was video artist Peter Campus. Below Gordon and Ross are discussing Gordon’s piece “Feature Film” (1999), in which one hears the music to Vertigo, [...]
Recent links added to the site’s disquiet.com/elsewhere catalog:
Sound-art- and installation-friendly art galleries twentygoto10.com (San Francisco), diverseworks.org (Houston), and irmamoerchgallery.com (Copenhagen).
Musical acts Clay Chaplin (music.calarts.edu/~cchaplin), Ryan Peoples (ryanpeoples.wordpress.com), Adam Schabtach (programming on the Automaton cellular-automata project, studionebula.com), Chris Randall (interface design on Automaton, analogindustries.com), Christopher Abad (the-mathclub.net), David Stutz (composer of the music to Neal [...]
The annual process of selecting a Disquiet Downstream entry for September 11, anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, always brings to mind one thing — the eerily prescient sound recordings by Stephen Vitiello, who had an artist’s residence in the World Trade Center in 1999 for six months and [...]
The image to the left plays with perception of scale. That circular saw diving headlong into the white dome is not, in fact, a saw at all, but a tiny exposed contact microphone whose sharp metallic edge has cleanly sliced through a halved eggshell. What that mic, along with others like it, located in such [...]
Two glimpses of the Sydney Biennial 2008, courtesy of Dan Hill’s excellent cityofsound.com. A characteristic multi-speaker, immersive environment, titled The Murder of Crows, by longtime collaborators Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller:
More on the Cardiff/Miller piece at the Sydney Biennial site, bos2008.com, and at seesawtheory.wordpress.com. (Probably the best known Cardiff/Miller work, 40 Part Motet, is [...]
The interface of Weather Report on the Brick Table, which will serve as the foundation of a new installation, Roots, by Jordan Hochenbaum, Owen Vallis, and Memo Akten:
Roots will be on view at Minitek: Electronic Music + Innovation Festival in New York, September 12-14, 2008. A festival release describes the installation as follows:
Roots is an [...]
This Baruch Gottlieb, director and co-founder of SFX Seoul, as quoted in The Korea Times on August 20:
Radio is a presence in our lives. It’s kind of like a soundtrack to our lives. Something that you don’t know quite what to expect from, something always in the background and usually it is something that you [...]
From a brief essay by artist Haroon Mirza at nyartsmagazine.com:
Noise, like other sound, is the result of physical events that take place through space and in time, but unlike other sounds, noise is a nomad; it has no place to go once it has departed; it just gets absorbed into the materiality of the space [...]