Category Archives: Art

A Report on the Hundred Years Gallery Screening on 5/4/13

Last Saturday (5/4/13) the Zone collective put together an impressive list of films to screen at the Hundred Years Gallery in London. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend, but author, filmmaker,  and musician Robert Robertson was.  Here is a wonderful blog post about the event. Looking forward to Mr. Robertson’s new book in the near future. Browse his blog and certainly check out his first book Eisenstein and the Audiovisual

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Sound Scene 2013 (mixed)Signals at the Goethe Institute May 18th

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Thanks to the DC Listening Lounge for including my field recording “Seneca” to this terrific event. There will be more details on this soon, but for now here is what they say:

Sound Scene 2013 is coming! Our annual circus-aural of interactive exhibits, radio drama, audio storytelling, and live music returns to the Goethe Institut May 18. With Special guest producer Oliver Brod and musical performances by Janel and Anthony, Slammer, JC, David Schulman, Tatyana, Weed Tree, and The Coolots.

Sound Scene VI: Mixed Signals
May 18, 2013
7:00-11:00PM
Goethe Institut, 812 7th St NW (7th and H)
One block from Chinatown Metro

All ages welcome! Suggested donation at the door is $10. Advance tickets are available at Eventbrite.

About DC Listening Lounge:

Started in 2004, this rag-tag group of audio enthusiasts meets once a month in someone’s living room. We draw no blood and make no demands. Just experimenting, learning and sharing, with audio.

http://www.dclisteninglounge.com
and here is a link to the Goethe Institute-

Journey South audio collaboration with Marcus Beuter

Journey south is my second audio collaboration with  German sound artist Marcus Beuter . Last year we published “Journey North” which appeared on my Our Spaces Overlapjourney south still2Enjoy !

 

 

 

 

 

Check out Mr. Beuter’s site below:

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A Rolling Mind screened at the Heritage Film Festival tomorrow night-4/25/13

a rolling mindI am happy to announce A Rolling Mind, my audio visual collaboration with Una Lee, will be screened tomorrow night at The Heritage Film Festival. The schedule is here .The Heritage Film Festival is curated by the incredible O.Funmilayo Makarah. As I stated in a post last year, I am always grateful to be part of her festival, this is my sixth year.   I am providing a number of links to check out her legendary film work and bio. I was fortunate enough to see some films presented  at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C and it is defiantly worth checking out. A number of the LA Rebellion filmmakers will be present at the festival. More on this later.
UCLA Film Archive
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Gense Siskel Film Centre
Harvard Film Archive
Interview

Una Lee’s Grainy Thoughts CDR

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When I first heard Una Lee’s disc Grainy Thoughts I was immediately captivated by its diversity and  mystery. Lee manages to incorporate an eclectic use of sounds to create something innovative and quite compelling. This is no easy task. Styles range from experimental field recordings, sound art,   noise,  and improv piano compositions-each track is rendered with imagination and skill.

From the haunting drones of “A Quiet Rumble” to the delicate, intricate rhythms of “A Rolling Mind” or to the reflective, nostalgic beauty of “A weary conversation” the listener is free to engage and explore.

The disc is now available on Una Lee’s bandcamp page with additional tracks and her own handmade paper case. Like the music, the handmade case is beautiful and displayed with authenticity and care. This is a stunning debut! I look forward to hearing more great things from this South Korean Artist.

Here is the link

Cyclist on the trail-B/W Super still 55 -Sonic Circuits line-up for Saturday, March 2

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Here is the line up for Saturday’s event:

BLK TAG
BLK TAG are a collaborative effort between JS Adams (BLK w/BEAR) and Chris Videll (Tag Cloud) first created for Long Division with Remainders’ Collision/Detection project. Their VERSION 5 download EP was released October 2012 on Front & Follow (UK) and will be included in a 2013 CD collection of all versions and additional tracks. BLK TAG contributed to Music for Restrooms (District of Noise) and the STYLUS!BLACK!FACTORY performance at the Sonic Circuits 2012 festival. Zeromoon net label released BLK FRIDAY : TAG SALE – their spontaneous response to Black Friday consumerism and post-apocalyptic consumption – in December 2013. The pair finds influence in disparate pairings of dead media recording blanks, Peter Hammill, Wir(e), Throbbing Gristle, Coil, 10cc, Henry Rollins, Amon Düül II, György Ligeti and the accordion music of Aimable Pluchard. Additional assist on BLK TAG recordings comes from Doug Poplin (BLK w/BEAR, Bach Sinfonia), Mark Ophidian (Animals With Machinery; Crippled Black Phoenix) and PD Sexton (BLK w/BEAR). Thanks to Mark Beazley – Trace Recordings (UK) for mastering and to Justin Watson (Front & Follow) for first suggesting the collaboration. This performance marks the live premiere of BLK TAG and will include some very special guests on guitar and cello.

An ominous, brooding, industrial soundtrack to something unthinkable … Underground of Happiness [ Cork. Ireland ]

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Bay Players Experimental Music Collective
The Bay Players Experimental Music Collective is a group of composers and performers whose sole purpose is the performance and advocacy of experimental music from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We utilize traditional instruments, such as electric and double bass, percussion, trombone, piano, violin, and saxophone; voice; computers; and found objects. Our specialization is in performing boundary-pushing scores—works that showcase the use of graphic notation, indeterminacy, improvisation, installation, theater, and live electronics.
http://bayplayers.tumblr.com/

Khristian Weeks
I am an artist and improviser working in the fields of sound, kinetics, assemblage, and optics. My primary interest is in the process of discovery experienced through observation and experimentation. Playing a fundamental role in my creative processes as well as in their realization is the use of chance, non-intention, and natural phenomena to produce self-sustaining systems of movement, sound, and light. My sound work includes musique concrete, field recording, installation, and electronic, electro-acoustic, and electro-mechanical improvisation. My work also exhibits various types of movement, and reveals optical phenomena such as shadow, caustics, reflection, refraction, and projection. Pieces are presented as performance installations / interventions and as autonomous, kinetic assemblage-environments. In addition to solo activities, I create sound and light design in collaboration with dance, film/video and theatre artists.
http://visceralmedia.blogspot.com

Plus we’ll be screening a selection of recent avant garde short films in the middle of the program:
1.ATRACADOS | MOORED
Two boys, in a harbor, talk about leaving their home and city. Although they feel they can’t live outside, when one of them remembers a dream in which they were walking inside the sea, the other reacts and takes the lead. In Portuguese with English subtitles. Filipe Afonso studied Science Information at Universidade do Porto and Cinema (editing) at ESTC – Lisbon Cinema School, between 2005 and 2010. In 2009, he studied Cinema at FAMU – Film and TV School of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.

2. Journal of Drifting Hours by Chris H Lynn. Live projection.
Drifting moments, lyrical passages, memory impulses, landscape studies and visual notations captured on unedited super 8 film.

Saturday Mar 2nd 2013 7:30 p.m.

$10

Pyramid Atlantic
8230 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD (map)

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