News spread this week of the passing in mid-March of Neu! and Kraftwerk musician Klaus Dinger, an early rock’n’roll proponent of man-machine interfaces. The following comment by Brian Eno was quoted frequently, perhaps because of its inclusion in the New York Times obituary (nytimes.com) written by Ben Sisario:
There were three great beats in the ’70s: […]
You can hear the sounds when you walk down Hollywood Boulevard. Some that your recognize, some that you’ve never even heard before. Not far from where Hollywood meets Vine, these sounds emanate from the gallery LACE, or Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. They’re a gentle, quiet array of noises, some seemingly melodic, but many with the […]
A selection of recent freely viewable videos of note:
Spoken Word: Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee interviewed (vimeo.com, via createdigitalmusic.com). … Minimal techno figure Robert Henke (aka Monolake) presentation (video.google.com, via createdigitalmusic.com). … Laptop-enabled guitarist Christopher Willits lecture on his process (xlr8r.com). … Soundtrack composer Tyler Bates on the film Doomsday (soundtrack.net). … Alex Ross, author […]
Quick News, Links, Bits, Reads: The avant-garde rises to the surface in Internet sales of classical music, reports Justin Davidson, guest-blogging for Alex Ross at therestisnoise.com. He’s discussing the charts at emusic.com:
No. 2 is Gavin Bryars‘ The Sinking of the Titanic, a minimalist portrayal of slow-motion calamity that caused one Floridian subscriber’s spouse to ask: […]
Recent Items from the World of Sound Art: Interview with early sound-art figure William Furlong, founder with Michael Archer of the publication Audio Arts, by Ilari Valbonesi (at ecopolis.org): “The tape was also an economic form of production and distribution.” … Interview with Adam Nash, whose sound work has been exhibited within the online simulation […]
Videos Worth Streaming: Robot orchestra made of ping pong balls and glasses (engadget.com). … And a band whose instruments are a Nintendo DS (with Electroplankton) and two handheld Apple products (dhadm.com). … Music made only from sounds from the Windows OS (youtube.com — easily six or seven people sent this link to me separately, and […]
Much sound art is fixed for its presentation in a gallery, but that doesn’t mean improvisation isn’t occasionally called for. Last Saturday, December 1, was the closing reception for David Kwan’s Emergence exhibit at Mission 17 in San Francisco (mission17.org). I dropped by to take in the two works in that dark room one last […]
Not every work of video art is a work of sound art — not even every video work that takes music as its subject, such as a piece in medium-agnostic artist Bozidar Brazda’s current exhibit, titled Beat Meat Table Eat, at the gallery Bortolami in Manhattan.
What suggests this Brazda video, titled “Line Jerk-Off” (2007), is […]
Two artists whose work I’d written about recently here on Disquiet.com have contacted me via email with additional information about their art. That information has now been appended to the original reviews.
Ian Burns, whose “Ice (Version 3): Ode to Lady Jane” was exhibited as part of a group show at the Spencer Brownstone gallery in […]
In a dark room curtained off almost entirely from the world, the six video screens of the exhibit Emergence comprise two different “video + sound” installations by the artist David Kwan. It’s showing at Mission 17, a gallery in San Francisco, through November 24.
Five of those screens belong to Kwan’s “Terminus” (2007). Four small ones, […]