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.
Saturday 30 October 2010
Ocean Of Sound, 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
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
Friday 29 October 2010
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Website
Useful website for strange and exciting sites and events going on in Berlin:
http://berlin.unlike.net/
http://berlin.unlike.net/
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
Tuesday 26 October 2010
Monday 25 October 2010
Wednesday 20 October 2010
New cello interpretation of SL lights
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Jess x
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
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch-R1aIM-C0&feature=related
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
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
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
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
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
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
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czb1TkSRc_Q&feature=player_embedded
Sunday 10 October 2010
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.¨
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
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
(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..
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| Sophie Eagle, Collapse (Endless Column) (2009) digital animation, 7 min 9 sec    |
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| Sam Knowles, Field (2009) gouache and graphite on 98 found book pages 230cm x 183cm   |
Wednesday 6 October 2010
Rachael Cloughton
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| 'The Space Between' National Gallery Scotland, November 2009 |
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| Installation Shot, Venice Academia, July 2009 |
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| Wall Drawing, St Margaret's House June 2009 |
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| Janus Work II, with Hannah Knights, Lauriston Place March 2010 |
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| 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
scissors
pritt stick
pencil
sharpener
nice back pens
music box
hole puncher
measuring tape
images of work. Claire
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| Leg on table acetate, postcard, photograph, double sided tape PURL, 303 Cowgate |
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| timber, hinge, brackets, screws Wednesday room |
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| 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.
Sunday 3 October 2010
Rachel Barron
A sample of my work from 2009-2010:
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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
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#
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http://elisabethtonnard.com/works/in-this-dark-wood/
some of the pages are here...
http://picasaweb.google.com/ImageProcessLiterature/InThisDarkWoodElisabethTonnard#
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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
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]
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Un Film [Film Still] [Unfinished]
In Search of Bernard Taylor [Film Still] [2 minutes 25 seconds, looped DVD]
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