Diane Landry is a Canadian artist I have recently found myself obsessed with. I encourage you to visit her website if the clip below inspires you at all. She is obviously Art+Tech however I think some of her works have inspired my ideas for our first project.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Diane Landry
Hello all,
Diane Landry is a Canadian artist I have recently found myself obsessed with. I encourage you to visit her website if the clip below inspires you at all. She is obviously Art+Tech however I think some of her works have inspired my ideas for our first project.
with.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql6G1UaRcXc
Diane Landry is a Canadian artist I have recently found myself obsessed with. I encourage you to visit her website if the clip below inspires you at all. She is obviously Art+Tech however I think some of her works have inspired my ideas for our first project.
Sunday, August 25, 2019
Mineko Grimmer
More about Mineko Grimmer here and here
Since the 1980s, the Japanese American artist Mineko Grimmer (b. 1949) has focused on issues of space, time, movement, and sound, creating what she refers to as “sound-producing kinetic sculptures.” She unites avant-garde approaches to acoustics in the tradition of John Cage and the conceptual principles of American Minimalism, seamlessly merging her training in Eastern and Western art practices to produce deeply meditative and sensorial works.
Remembering Plato is a room-sized installation. Pyramid-shaped blocks of ice embedded with small pebbles are suspended above two water-filled basins. As the ice melts, the pebbles fall, striking the brass rods and piano wires extended over each basin, thus producing a randomized musical performance. The resulting ripples in the water are reflected on the dark gallery walls. The pebbles are strategically positioned within the ice to create a crescendo, rendering audible the speed of a typically silent natural process.
The title of the work refers to the Allegory of the Cave from Plato’s Republic, in which the philosopher Socrates posits that shadows cast on the wall of a cave are dim perceptions of reality.
Saturday, August 24, 2019
Sonic Combine
Sonic Combine video here
Sonic Combine website here
The audio ensemble, "Sonic Combine" performs live in this video which also includes short on-camera interviews of each of the band's members: Kat Epple, Lawrence Voytek, and Laurence Getford. "Sonic Combine” creates abstract sound which is not always musical, sometimes discordant, regularly beautiful, often powerful, and truly interesting. It is performed on metal sculptures, electronic instruments, world flutes, and Theremin. The band lists its influences as Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham and John Cage. They were all friends of legendary artist Bob Rauschenberg, and worked for him for many years. In fact, this music video was filmed on the Rauschenberg compound. Sonic Combine has performed live with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In addition to their close friendship with Rauschenberg, they also knew Merce Cunningham and John Cage, and have enjoyed many conversations with them about music, art and life. Kat Epple is an award-winning film score composer, electronic musician and flutist who concert tours around the world with various ensembles. She was a founding member of the "Space Music" Band, Emerald Web. Lawrence Voytek is a well-known visual artist, and worked as artist Bob Rauschenberg's fabricator for many years. He designs and performs on his own unique audio instruments in addition to playing the Theremin. Laurence Getford is a renowned musician, electronic musician, visual artist, and art technology specialist, and worked for Robert Rauschenberg for many years. Video by John Biffar and Scott Biffar
Philip Corner performing Metal Meditations at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery
View and listen to Metal Meditations here
Artist Philip Corner and his collaborator, the noted choreographer/dancer, Phoebe Neville will be here at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at FSW, traveling from Europe to Fort Myers, to perform “Metal Meditations” (and related works) for the Glenn BRANCA & Philip CORNER re: SOUND exhibition.
Harry Partch's 1950s Instruments
Harry Partch (1901-1974) was an iconoclastic American composer and instrument inventor with a passion for integrating musicians, actors, and dancers in large-scale works of total-theater. He was "seduced into carpentry" by his interest in just intonation and his need to have an orchestra tuned to this system. The instruments are more than just producers of tone, however — each one has an evocative name and dramatic physical presence, and each one puts unique physical demands on the performer. In Partch's book, Genesis of a Music, he writes that the performer of the Marimba Eroica should at times "convey the vision of Ben Hur in his chariot," while a musician playing his Kithara must not "bend at the waist, like an amateur California prune picker," but instead should move with grace and athleticism in a "functional dance."
New Orleans Airlift - Music Box Village
New Orleans Airlift - Music Box Village video click here
New Orleans Airlift website click here
New Orleans Airlift is an artist-driven initiative that collaborates and creates alongside the artists and communities we support.
Airlift was founded in 2008 by musician and artist manager Jay Pennington and Delaney Martin, a multi-media installation artist, as a response to the unparalleled destruction of Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath which left local artists, like all New Orleanians, struggling for their lives and livelihoods.
Jay and Delaney recognized a need for new audiences who could support these artists as they rebuilt their city. They dreamt up a one-time project that took city artists to Berlin and called it The New Orleans Airlift after the Berlin Airlift of WWII. Other exchange projects that used an import/export mode and a multidisciplinary approach soon followed and the name stuck.
Maywa Denki
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Maywa Denki Website here
Maywa Denki is an art unit. Masamichi(elder brother) assumed office as the president and Novmichi (younger Brother) the vice president. With the company’s policy “Do it to conquer, Take it to conquer” they invented and developed various products such as NAKI Series, a series of fish-motif nonsense machines, and Tsukuba Series, a series of electric musical instruments. As a “Parallel-world" electricians,”Maywa Denki has been entertaining and making an impact on the public in Japan."
Giuseppe Penone Interview
At the Nasher Sculpture Center and our interviewer, K. Yoland, speaks with artist, Giuseppe Penone, about his work in the exhibition, Giuseppe Penone: Being the River, Repeating the Forest.
To watch interview click here
RUUP the Forest Megaphones
Estonian students amplify forest ambiance with megaphone-like library spaces click here A forest clearing in Estonia’s võru county has been reconsidered into a space of meditation, relaxation and community engagement through the installation of three giant wooden megaphones. interior architecture students at the Estonian Academy of Arts have conceived the idea of a forest library near RMK’s pähni nature centre, where the quiet sounds of chirping birds and rustling leaves are amplified to surrounding site visitors. the interventions, titled ‘ruup’, span three meters in diameter, offering those seated and lying within ample space for reading or resting. additionally, the conical shapes offer potential shelter for a wanderer or modest hiker to spend the night, as well as provide a platform for outdoor classrooms, small-scale cultural events and concerts.This is RUUP, designed and built by students from Estonian Academy of Arts, looking for a way to help us all notice and listen to the sounds of the forests. Ruup offers a place to rest your feet, as well as your thoughts. Sit, sleep, think, and listen. Ruup is an open library with just one book – the nature. RUUP WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY HELP FROM ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND ESTONIAN FOREST MANAGEMENT CENTRE RMK. Design and idea author - Birgit Õigus Construction: Birgit Õigus, Mariann Drell, Ardo Hiiuväin, Lennart Lind, Henri Kaarel Luht, Mariette Nõmm, Johanna Sepp, Kertti Soots, Sabine Suuster. Images copyrighted by Tõnu Tunnel. Video edited by Lennart Lind. www.ruup.ee www.ekasisearhitektuur.ee/ www.rmk.ee www.birgitoigus.com
Luigi Russolo, Intonarumoris, 1913
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To listen to "Music For 16 Futurist Noise Intoners," click here
Performa is delighted to present "Music For 16 Futurist Noise Intoners," an evening-length concert of original scores and newly commissioned compositions for the intonarumori, or "noise-intoners" As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and SFMOMA, has invited Luciano Chessa to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas the legendary instruments (8 noise families of 1-3 instruments each, in various registers) that Russolo built in Milan in the summer of 1913. As the first instruments capable of creating and manipulating noises through entirely mechanical processes, the intonarumori can be considered to be the original analog synthesizer, and the ancestors to the latest electronic synthesizers used today. With Blixa Bargeld, John Butcher, Luciano Chessa, Joan La Barbara, Nick Hallett, Pauline Oliveros, Mike Patton, Anat Pick, Elliott Sharp, Ulrich Krieger, Jennifer Walshe with Tony Conrad, Ghostigital with Skuli Sverrison, Finboggi Petursson, and Casper Electronics. Chessa will present the first modern live performances of two early Futurist pieces—the legendary fragment from Russolo's spooky "Risveglio di una città" (1913), and "La pioggia nel pineto antidannunziana," a newly-discovered 1916 piece for intonarumori and "Words in Freedom" by Futurist playwright and poet Paolo Buzzi--as well as "L'acoustique ivrese", his brand new composition for 16 intonarumori and voice on a poem also by Buzzi. An incredible group of musicians and composers from the experimental music world—including Einstuerzende Neubauten frontman and Nick Cave collaborator Blixa Bargeld, avant-garde saxophonist John Butcher, Deep Listening pioneer Pauline Oliveros, Faith No More and Mr. Bungle vocalist Mike Patton, sound and text-based performer Anat Pick, avant-garde musician Elliott Sharp, and composer and vocalist Jennifer Walshe collaborating with composer and film/video artist Tony Conrad, among others—have been commissioned by Performa to create and perform brand new compositions for the instruments. A Performa Commission with SFMOMA and EMPAC. Produced and presented by Performa. Curated by Luciano Chessa with Esa Nickle. Thanks to AIR, Art International Radio and the Clocktower Gallery for rehearsal spaces.
Björk's 14 Handmade Birdcall Flutes
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Björk has been taking Utopia on tour again with Cornucopia, a new theatrical stage show based on her 2017 album. And now she’s reissuing the album itself with a new deluxe box set featuring 14 handmade birdcall flutes individually selected by Björk. As she explains in a statement:
Björk has been taking Utopia on tour again with Cornucopia, a new theatrical stage show based on her 2017 album. And now she’s reissuing the album itself with a new deluxe box set featuring 14 handmade birdcall flutes individually selected by Björk. As she explains in a statement:
utopia is so much about birdsong and sonically the mutation between synth/bird , bird/flute , flute/synth ……. air like that was a theme through all of the album . so i got very excited when i found these handmade wooden flutes imitating precisely particular birds . and i guess wanted you guys to have an opportunity to share that with me …….. enjoy !!!
warmthness ,
björk
The Vegetable Orchestra
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Worldwide one of a kind, the Vegetable Orchestra performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables. The utilization of various ever refined vegetable instruments creates a musically and aesthetically unique sound universe. more info: http://www.vegetableorchestra.org
NOUS LES ARBES Exhibition - Cartier Foundation, Paris
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and video teaser here
NOUS LES ARBES Exhibition - Cartier Foundation, Paris
Underestimated by biology for a long time, trees—like the entirety of the plant kingdom—have been the subject of scientific discoveries in recent years that have allowed us to see the oldest members of our community of living beings in a new light. Boasting sensory and memory capacities, as well as communication skills, existing in symbiosis with other species and exerting a climatic influence, trees are equipped with unexpected faculties whose discovery has given way to the fascinating hypothesis of “plant intelligence,” which could be the answer to many of today’s environmental problems. In resonance with this “plant revolution,” the exhibition Trees merges the ideas of artists and researchers, thus prolonging the exploration of ecological issues and the question of humans’ relationship to nature, which has been a regular theme in the Fondation Cartier’s exhibition program, as was the case recently with The Great Animal Orchestra (2016).
Open Score, 9 Evenings Theater and Engineering, 1966
View Open Score Documentary click here
In Open Score, Robert Rauschenberg derived the content of his performance from the characteristics of the performance venue. The tennis racquet suggested both the idea of the ready-made (at other times tennis was played at the Armory) and that of a dance improvised in accordance with specific rules. The lighting, however, which dimmed each time a racquet hit a ball, conferred on the player’s actions a function bound up with a complex technological system. During the second part of the performance, which took place in total darkness, a crowd on stage, which was filmed with infrared cameras, appeared to mirror the viewers assembled on the bleachers that served as seats. As close as the onstage crowd was, it could be seen, paradoxically, only on the screens.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Alison Knowles: Fluxus Event Scores
Doris Salcedo On 'Tabula Rasa'
Doris Salcedo discusses her 'Tabula Rasa' series of sculptures. Highlighting the themes in the work, Salcedo explains how the project emerged through extensive research and a painstaking process of destruction and reconstruction. Click here to view video.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens
The Mesmerizing Microscopy of Trees: Otherworldly Images Revealing the Cellular Structure of Wood Specimens.
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"Waves of Grain" By Keith Skretch
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Images by Keith Skretch
Sound by Ennio Morricone, "The Big Gundown"
Sound by Ennio Morricone, "The Big Gundown"
To create this strata-cut animation, I planed down a block of wood one layer at a time, photographing it at each pass. The painstaking process revealed a hidden life and motion in the seemingly static grain of the wood, even as the wood itself was reduced to a mound of sawdust.
Official Selection, Chicago Underground Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Brooklyn Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Provincetown International Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, DC Shorts Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Brooklyn Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Provincetown International Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival 2013
Official Selection, DC Shorts Film Festival 2013
Created at CalArts.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
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