Most fun for me is the indeterminacy implicit to these cylinder players, you just never know what you're going to get. Every performance of a recording is unique because the LoFi physical system imposes mechanical inconsistencies which are impossible to repeat. Toward the end of this recording, my spring started running out of tension. I just let it go and listened.
If Then Else End If
Oct. 20, 2007 – Nov. 24, 2007
at Postmasters Gallery
With LoVid, Kristin Lucas, Joe McKay, many others.
On October 5, 2007 Kristin Lucas succeeded in legally changing her name from Kristin Sue Lucas to Kristin Sue Lucas. In Alameda County Court, the presiding judge who granted the request said: "So you have changed your name to exactly what it was before in the spirit of refreshing yourself as though you were a web page." Exhibition includes "Refresh" documentation and "Before and After" a mixed media group show of portrait sets of Kristin Lucas before and after her name change. Participating Artists include: Jake Borndal and Kate Scherer, Patty Chang, Ali Dadgar, Ala Ebtekar, eteam, Matt Freedman, David Hannah, Sue Havens, John Herschend, Perry Hoberman, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Arnold J. Kemp, Cristobal Leyht, LoVid, Laura Parnes, Joe McKay, Geoff Morris, Will Pappenheimer, Paul Slocum, Jude Tallichet, and Anne Walsh.
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I propose the incorporation of a new audio broadcast network dedicated to the transmission of ambience; live and in real time. It's what happens when experimental music takes on reality TV/webcam culture. It's like an audio companion to Google earth.
Sheep Channel is first on the list, bringing you woolly sounds from herds across the globe and around the clock with wireless microphone arrays worn by herd animals in barn and pasture.
Keep in touch with the polar ice caps listening to arctic glaciers fissure, crackle, and crash into the sea as broadcast by an array of geophones and hydrophones monitoring Greenland.
Get into the mix and start your own free and voluntary eaves drop channel where people share the sounds of their everyday. Insomniacs everywhere may find comfort in the snores on Sleep-Now Radio... when they're not counting sheep.
Hammond organ (x3).
I do admire the aesthetic economy of Holland's banknotes.
I thoroughly enjoyed another sold out performance of excellent music. Jason Cady's opera buffa "A Phono-graphic Novel" preview performance filled every last seat available at The Stone with myself on the floor up front. Superb performance by the entire ensemble. Please visit Cady's MySpace.
Heard about the NASA satelite launch to study Aurora Borealis?
www.space.gc.ca/asc/eng/sciences/themis.asp
and FYI, 2007 Meteor Shower Calendar:
| Lyrids | April 22 | Evening crescent |
| Eta Aquarids | May 6 | Morning gibbous |
| Delta Aquarids | July 28 | Full Moon |
| Perseids | August 13 | New Moon |
| Orionids | October 21 | Evening gibbous |
| Leonids | November 18 | Evening gibbous |
| Geminids | December 14 | Evening crescent |
There should be a blog site entirely devoted concert reviews of music performances that entirely sold out ... meaning that every seat in the house was taken. I've been to two recently. Robert Ashley's Opera "Concrete" and a young jazz pianist Gerald Clayton. Both shows were phenomenal. Best Opera and straight-ahead Jazz I've ever seen. Here are some links below.
NYTimes reviews of Ashley's "Concrete"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F04E7DF1E30F93AA25752C0A9619C8B63
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F40F10FE39540C778DDDA80894DF404482
NYTimes review of Gerald Clayton
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9403E4DD1030F936A25752C0A9619C8B63
Forgive me for bragging, but I got claves for Christmas. They're great for echo-locating yourself in the local topography. In Wisconsin, I brought my new claves on walks and let people use them to play with the echoes. Everyone had they're own rhythms and ways of interacting with the echo. August and I have been walking our Brooklyn neighborhood identifying echo sweetspots.
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Nasser Malit said:
[c’est top]c'est top, sounds like West African Jazz of sort. I like the percussion. read more
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[this is good]This is a great contrast to his recording with Oliver Nelson's band. read more
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isla said:
[this is good]Interesting proposal. Now make it a reality.But keep the ringtones coming. read more
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A politicians will always be annoying, don't be fooled in thinking the hometown-honest-abe would be any different. read more
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