Saturday, 30 October 2010

Paul Schutze


P. Schutze is a music composer that has worked a lot with sound, architecture and the structures of memory. He has responded with compositions to artists work, among them Hiroshi Sugimoto and James Turrell. 

Ocean Of Sound, by David Toop

Ocean of Sound: aether talk, ambient sound and imaginary worlds. 2 discs of different compositions selected by David Toop.

www.davidtoop.com
http://www.cortical.org/toop.html

M.

staatsbibliothek in Wings of Desire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi8sYY0pCdE

the subtitles are beautiful here,

“Tell me muse of the story teller
He who has been thrust to the edge of the world
And through him both an infant and an ancient, reveal Everyman
With time, those who listened to me became my readers
They no longer sit in a circle
They sit apart now, one knows nothing about the other
I’m an old man with a broken voice
but my tale still rises from the depths of me”
Wim Wenders, 1987. Wings of Desire

hk x

staatsbibliothek



http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/staatsbibliothek/index.htm




g.x

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Website

Useful website for strange and exciting sites and events going on in Berlin:

http://berlin.unlike.net/

Lucio Capece

 

Some manipulation of instruments.

Useful..

 

I shall be bringing my exciting new Micro Marshall (or fanny amp) to Berlin for us to play with. I'll also have a couple of contact mics for amplifying sounds in solid objects. I've been hibernating and geeking out just now and will hopefully buy a camcorder too. Can anyone recommend a decent but reasonably priced one? I need it to record sound in high quality more than anything else.

Check out John Grzinich for site specific field recording and workings of audio visual installations [Here].

Maybe also check out Lee Patterson, Chris Watson, Eric Leonardson and Alan Splet :)
XC


Monday, 25 October 2010

Wednesday, 20 October 2010

E.A.T

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_Art_and_Technology


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoxuzPPstXc

Benedict Drew

http://www.benedictdrew.com/index.html

New cello interpretation of SL lights

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Jess x

Monday, 18 October 2010

Manuela the already existing barrel player...



My name is Manuela, I am part of this blog and I am going to berlin with a barrel music box to create a composition that responds to the city´s architecture. I am from Mexico, but study in Scotland.
In 1884 the tradition of the organ barrel was introduced to Mexico by an Italian. Barrel´s are originally from Germany.
There are 40 organs from Berlin in Mexico, and the majority of them get rented. There are only around 100 Barrel players still practicing the tradition in Mexico and the majority are in Mexico City, where I am from.

My name is Manuela, I am an ambassador of a very special kind.
I discovered barrel organs through a friend eleven years ago in Berlin.
Got myself a second hand one.... and now...:
http://www.berolinchen.de/en/chicago.htm

We also had the chance to go to Chicago.!
Coincidences don´t exist.
m

Simon Faithfull



Simon Faithful : http://www.simonfaithfull.org/
Frustratingly good.
And he lives in Berlin!
Exciting times.

Thanks to Katie for this one.

Hazel

Link to a short piano/Sri Lanka lights clip

Cordelia Swann - Mysteries of Berlin 1979-82 (Polytechnic, Raven Row)

This work used a pair of slide projectors onto a large wall in a pitch black room - the images overlapped at times, followed a slow rhythmic sequence, with scans of text, amalgamation of images and extracts of plot, set to booming jazz music. The filmic references and reverting to solid red projection every few clips made the installation very dramatic.

"Images without text construct the world described in the tape/slide work The Mysteries of Berlin (1979-82) by Cordelia Swann. It was inspired by The Mysteries of Udolpho, written by Ann Radcliffe in 1794, in which the heroine is kidnapped by the Pyrenees and transported to Venice - both places that the writer never visited. We experience a barrage of projected images accompanied by surging music. THese photographs, shown in the ir entirety and in close up, seem to describe a dramatic world full of shadows, threat and romance. This is a representation of Berlin, shaped by thrillers and film noir. Much of Berlin itself was inaccessible and hidden behind the wall and it took on a strange charge of attraction, threatening and strangely erotic, as something denied by the dominant political narratives of the West. None of the images used by the artist are in fact of Berlin but were chosen from magazines books and films for their closeness to how she imagined this alien zone."

http://www.metropolism.com/reviews/three-exhibitions-in-london/

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Geometry of Circles

How great was Sesame Street.......(!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0&feature=related


Rachel

A musical collaboration



The early stages of a musical collaboration with Derek Barron
For '20ten' exhibition, March 2010


(if anyone knows how to upload sound, let me know and I can post the finished piece)

Rachel

Methods of constructing musical scores...

Illustration for Deriving Harmonic Mean:
1) Distances: take/find a distance (mi.) (A) between point a (first/original site) and point b (second site), then take/find another distance (B) from either point a/b to another point, point c (third site)
2) Sum of Distances: put the resulting lengths end to end (total: A+B; length of line a-b, and line b-c, or a-c)
3) Circle construction: bisect the total length (A+B/2) and draw a circle with its center at the midpoint
4) Geometric Mean: draw a line orthogonal (90°) to the diameter of the circle from point a (where this line intersects the circle determines the geometric mean
5) Arithmetic Mean: draw a line from the geometric mean intersection point to the center of the circle to determine the arithmetic mean (radius of circle)
6) Harmonic Mean: draw a line orthogonal to the radius, extending to point A (original site) to determine the harmonic mean
[All derived distances can be translated into sounds (harmonic notes), which would be harmonious with all points in question.]
[eg.Multiple electro-magnetic geometric patterns, impositions from within/without the Earth (eg.planetary geometaphysics; stars, Sun, Moon, planets; creative intelligence, or the origin of will power), influence the rhythms of civilizations on the surface range.]


Excerpt from http://earthacupuncture.info/harmonics.htm


We could use use some of these methods when looking at different sites in Berlin?


Rachel

Harmonics

Some exciting scientific links between music and space..... a bit of a breakthrough!

The Radicant

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicolas-Bourriaud-Radicant-No-17/dp/1933128429/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1286965783&sr=8-3-spell



Spoken Word

http://www.balticmill.com/whatsOn/past/ExhibitionDetail.php?exhibID=119

Francis Alys interview with James Lingwood 2006

"Lingwood: could we say that walking is a medium for you?

 Alys: Walking happens to be a very immediate way of unfolding [these] stories.

Lingwood: Walking generates a particular conception of time, of a human body moving at a pace when the legs can move easily. The writer Rebecca Solnit suggests the mind moves at 3 miles an hour.
                Is walking, for you, a tool for thinking?...

 Alys: It's a perfect space to process thoughts. You can function at multiple levels simultaneously[...] Also, when you are walking, you are aware of , or awake to, everything that happens in your peripheral vision: the little incidents, smells, images, sounds. Walking brings a rich state of consciousness. In our digital age, it's also one of the last private spaces [...]"



Francis Alys and James Lingwood, extract from interview IN: Johnstone, Stephen. The Everyday, Documents of Contemporary Art, MIT press, london 2008












grace.x 

Monday, 11 October 2010

Hannah, I really like this idea from your proposal:

"The idea of a place as a concept rather than a fixed point, that there are global similarities; water and horizons, which make everywhere somewhere, that there are some images which don't belong to a fixed place but could be anywhere."

Claire x

k o r e a n m a s s g a m e s

[particularly 0:30secs onwards section]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb1TkSRc_Q&feature=player_embedded

b o o k t e c h n i q u e





g.x

Sunday, 10 October 2010

HUMAN LED CROWDS

w o w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jgkm2pdWgY



g.x

s t a i r w a y p r i n t

check this out..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9hPZBY3W1Y&feature=player_embedded#!


grace.x

s c r o l l i n g . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j30XIV_M9oo&feature=fvw

John Menick


¨John Menick was born in White Plains, New York, lived for a long time in New York City, and then moved to Mexico City, where he currently resides. Menick makes films and audio works, writes essays and short stories, and occasionally makes prints and drawings. These works are often populated by wandering detectives, duplicitous storytellers, homeless documentarians, mad travelers, and institutionalized cinephiles. His artwork has been shown at museums and galleries and festivals internationally; his written pieces have appeared in several print and online journals. In 2008, both the Jerome Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts gave him video production grants. Sometimes Menick teaches art at the Cooper Union in New York, though he mostly teaches these days at an artist-run school called SOMA in Mexico City. His ideal audience member — possibly you — watches no television, can’t drive or swim, always carries a pen, hates cell phones, names Pale Fire as his or her favorite book, wears glasses, and is afraid of flying.¨

http://www.johnmenick.com/

m.

Friday, 8 October 2010

kaffee and kuchen

definitely key vocab for all


http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german/lj/cafe/vocabulary/keywords.shtml

DEUTSCH FUR ALLE

Ich weiss ein bischen deutsch, jetzt du kann auch....

(i know a little German now you can too...)

haven't tried this but might be worth a look for the basics..


ja?


http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/steps/german/


grace.x

Thursday, 7 October 2010

for manu, some things I saw in Liverpool..

Sophie Eagle, Collapse (Endless Column) (2009)
digital animation, 7 min 9 sec

Sam Knowles, Field (2009)
gouache and graphite on 98 found book pages
230cm x 183cm



Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Rachael Cloughton


'The Space Between' National Gallery Scotland, November 2009

Installation Shot, Venice Academia, July 2009

Wall Drawing, St Margaret's House June 2009

Janus Work II, with Hannah Knights,  Lauriston Place March 2010

Andre Malraux, The Museum Without Walls, Rephotographed 2010

Daniel eatock

The designer Daniel Eatock is great, he has so many excellent and simple ideas, that don't require much material. Maybe a good person to look at if we can only minimal material :)


Monday, 4 October 2010

Shame you are not closer...

I've got this show opening on Thursday...:)



http://www.haunchofvenison.com/en/index.php#page=london.exhibitions.future.transmission

K

MATERIAL

things we should take for success

scissors
pritt stick
pencil
sharpener
nice back pens
music box
hole puncher
measuring tape

images of work. Claire



Leg on table
acetate, postcard, photograph, double sided tape
PURL, 303 Cowgate





timber, hinge, brackets, screws
Wednesday room

Diana
clear pvc reinforced hose pipe, metal rod, plastic fittings
Bluer Than Usual, Lauriston Castle



M e d i a F a c a d e s F e s t i v a l ....c h e c k o u t N i k a R a d i c

http://www.mediafacades.eu/2008/festival

The Stock is Rising


Very interesting project to attempt to levitate the Frankfurt Stock Exchange-
k

The Stock Is Rising is the latest project by artist Annika Lundgren and operates with the notions of collective willpower and how faith creates reality. Consisting of one internet based part and one live part, The Stock Is Rising aims to levitate the old Frankfurt Stock Exchange to drive out evil spirits. The online meditation begins on August 21, accumulating spiritual power for a month through the contribution of visitors from all around the world. This manifestation accumulates in a physical gathering in front of the building at Börsenplatz in downtown Frankfurt between 15.00 and 17.35 on September 21, where the Stock Exchange will be elevated in a final, collective effort. The financial sector’s use of, and faith in the index graph undeniably creates an economic reality for everyone, but the faith of a determined community of levitationists using a different set of values can also create an ethical and political reality. On the one hand; stock brokers frantically preoccupied with stocks, options and funds representing only a ficticious value. One the other; a group of people focusing their mental powers to challenge the way this system affects democracy. Which, after all - is the more absurd idea? The project is also a tribute to American activist Abbie Hoffman and his Pentagon-levitation during the protests against the Vietnam war in 1967. The Stock Is Rising is picking up where Hoffman left off.


More about the project at: www.stockisrising.com

Sunday, 3 October 2010

SolReSol

Artificial Language:


SolReSol 


http://www.labirintoermetico.com/12ArsCombinatoria/lingue_universali/Gajewski_B_Grammaire_du_SolReSol_Sudre.pdf


http://www.labirintoermetico.com/12ArsCombinatoria/lingue_universali/Gajewski_B_Grammaire_du_SolReSol_Sudre.pdf


Rachel 

Busby Berkeley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLGtRwOUYk


Rachel

Rachel Barron

A sample of my work from 2009-2010:


Untitled (Mirrored Box)
 Displayed at the London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010


Be Square, 2009


20ten, Art's Complex, Edinburgh, 2010


Constellation Series
Displayed at 20ten, Art's Complex, Edinburgh, 2010


TO-DAY'S SPECIAL
Displayed at London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010

Inflatable bag monsters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6xCT2aTSo

Saturday, 2 October 2010

In This Dark Wood

Elisabeth Tonnard did a project in which she had the first three lines of Dante's Inferno by different writers/artists. Simple, but beautiful. Paired with images of strangers at night [lost] in San Fransico
http://elisabethtonnard.com/works/in-this-dark-wood/
some of the pages are here...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ImageProcessLiterature/InThisDarkWoodElisabethTonnard#

Impossible things

Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - The Red Queen, Lewis Carrol

I am thinking of something. In fact, I’m thinking of something else. You can only think about something if you think of something else.

from Jean-Luc Goddard’s In Praise of Love [Eloge de L’Amour]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBIubMBwj6M&feature=player_embedded#!
[relationship of Text and Image]

http://www.imnothere.eu/
An exhibition WITHOUT Francis Alys

Hannah x

a web of links!!!

hannah just want to say: I like your work!

Check this link out guys, everything leads you to something else!!!!


http://www.lichtensteiger.de/desert_music.html

Manuela
from 'I Am Thinking of Something' [edition of 5, twelve page, newsprint]


Work II, collaboration with Rachael Cloughton [installation shot] [Site Specific, DVD projection, 4 minutes 15seconds looped]


[Janus exhibtion catalogue]


Un Film [Film Still] [Unfinished] 


In Search of Bernard Taylor [Film Still] [2 minutes 25 seconds, looped DVD]