The art of Tara Donovan is clearly the most astonishing stuff I came across in a while. Her huge pieces are made of millions of smaller parts from eery day life like straws, pencils or sticky tape. Link
npr.org: "Gregory Crewdson doesn't so much take pictures as make them. Some critics say the photographer and artist is reinventing the genre by using film techniques to stage pictures." Listen here
Harold Pinter (born October 10, 1930) is a British playwright and theatre director. He has written for theatre, radio, television and film. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2005." More info at wikipedia.org
Downloads:
BBC Radio Plays 8 hours worth of plays by Harold Pinter aired between 1964-2000. Includes:
Régine Débatty is well-known for her work on her weblog "We Make Money Not Art" that focuses on Media Art and provides a wealth of information every day. The talk revolves on how to make a living of running a weblog, the current state of media art, the originality of ideas, the influence of artists on society and a couple of projects that deal with RFID and video surveillance. Download/Listen here
There is another interview held at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart/Germany. Download/Listen here
wikipedia.org: "Adolf Wölfli (1864 - 1930) (occasionally spelt Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a prolific Swiss artist who is regarded as one of the foremost artists in the Art Brut or outsider art traditions.
Wölfli had a troubled childhood. He suffered abuse and molestation and was orphaned at the age of 10, thereafter growing up in a series of state-run foster homes. He worked as a farm labourer and briefly joined the army but was later convicted of attempted child molestation for which he served prison time. Sometime after being freed he was arrested for a similar offence and was admitted in 1895 to the Waldau Clinic in Berne, Switzerland, a psychiatric hospital where he spent the rest of his adult life. He was very disturbed and sometimes violent on admission, leading to him being kept in isolation for his early time at hospital, perhaps due to his psychosis which led to intense hallucinations." More
taz.de: "Überzeugten vor allem durch das, was fehlte: Das Weglassen bewahrte Throbbing Gristle, die unschätzbar einflussreiche Industrialgruppe, bei ihrem Auftritt in der Volksbühne vor der Selbstkopie" Weiter
frankfurter-rundschau.de: "Im Pantheon der Pop-Historie angekommen: Throbbing Gristle melden sich mit zwei Konzerten, einer Ausstellung und einer Filmpremiere zurück" Mehr
wnyc.org: "Studio 360 shows you three composers who have responded to the machine age in music: Annie Gosfield, a young contemporary composer; Genesis P-Orridge and his 1970's rock band Throbbing Gristle; and George Antheil, one of the Futurist composers from the 1920's. Produced by Michael Raphael." Listen here
BusinessWeek: "A new exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art pulls together drawings, paintings, sculpture and, of course, films from throughout animation studio Pixar's 20-year history. In this podcast, exhibition co-curator Ronald Magliozzi talks with BusinessWeek contributing editor Andrew Blum about why Pixar belongs on MoMA's walls, and the very special media installation that's causing museum visitors to gasp." Listen here
wnyc.org: "Mali is a country of contrasts, and music there is no exception. We’ll hear the nomadic Tinariwen of North Mali; the bluesy voice of Oumou Sangare, from the Wassoulou tradition of the south; and the voice of the great Salif Keita, heir to a line of Malian kings and one of the great singers in the Manding tradition. Also, Morey Kante, Habib Koite, and legendary blues guitarist Ali Farka Toure." Listen here)]
bbc.co.uk: "As we explore the realms of the experimental we talk to Brian Eno and Bono, Nick Luscombe of the ICA and XFM, Magz Hall from Resonance FM and Tony Herrington from The Wire. [...]
Part of the premise of tonight's show is to demonstrate that the 'challenging' music of today informs the popular music of tomorrow. So for this show we'll be taking you through tracks of an experimental nature from down the ages. Expect to hear tracks from Yoko Ono, Marc Riley and the Creepers as well as new stuff from Snowblood, Ulver, The Telescopes, Asja Auf Capri, Fantomas, the list goes on and on. In fact the show is packed with nealy 40 records so be sure to check out the tracklistings. " Listen here
wnyc.org: "A word said over and over becomes a series of sounds without meaning, with no discernable beginning or end. Radio Lab this week showcases word musicians who delight in the intricacies of language and the point at which meaning moves from verbal to sonic…plus, music psychologist Diana Deutsch explains." Listen here
allmusic.com: No one seems quite clear as to whether they're a classical group with jazz and populist leanings, or a populist band with classical expertise. Whatever their methods and motivation, the Kronos Quartet has blurred musical categories for decades and attracted interest from audiences who never knew what a string quartet was. Respected as one of the most charismatic and innovative ensembles performing today, Kronos was founded at Mills College in 1974 by violinist David Harrington. More
The Kronos Quartet @ NPR.org:
The Kronos Quartet has just completed an album of Bollywood film music, You've Stolen My Heart, featuring the vocals of Asha Bhosle. A superstar of Indian film, Bhosle is among the biggest-selling recording artists of all time. Link
The Kronos Quartet is known for its unique artistic vision and dedication to experimentation. Since its inception in 1973, Kronos has assembled a body of work unparalleled in its range and scope of expression. Link
Kronos Quartet Performs Music Based on Distant Signals. Link
Kronos Quartets CD "Nuevo" is featured at npr.org Link
The members of Kronos let us listen in as they went through the process of rehearsing, recording, and mixing one of the cuts on their new album, Nuevo. It's not typical string quartet material. It's a space-age-bachelor-pad concoction by Juan Garcia Esquivel. He called it, "Mini Skirt." Link
Mike Walters: "This is my interpretation of the Mellotron, a classic instrument invented in the 1960s. It was one of the first sample players, and was used by The Beatles, and countless psychedelic and prog bands. The Mellotron played strips of tape to emulate flutes, strings, choirs, orchestras, etc. The flutes at the beginning of Strawberry Fields are a good example of the Mellotron.
My version, The Melloman, uses Walkmans and cassette tapes to play original Mellotron samples, or whatever cassette tapes you want to put in. Inside the box, there are 14 continuously running Walkmans mounted side by side. The first Walkman is designated for drums, and the next 13 provide sampled loops for 25 notes." More
scpr.org: Built low to the ground and "tricked out", lowrider bikes have proven a durable past time in Southern California. KPCC's Rachael Myrow paid a visit to the Oldies Bike Club, San Fernando Valley chapter. Watch it here
swr.de Welche Gefühle erzeugt das Geräusch von Kartoffelchips, wenn sie zwischen den Zähnen zerkrachen? Raubt der Staubsauger den letzten Nerv oder vermittelt sein Geräusch kraftvolle, gründliche und zugleich schonende Reinigung? Immer mehr Hersteller von Haushaltsgeräten, Kraftfahrzeugen und Nahrungsmitteln setzen professionelle Akustik-Designer ein."
Der Tumult, den die Punks in der DDR veranstalteten, währte zehn Jahre, von 1979 bis 1989. Wenn sich das soziale Elend englischer Teenager in dem Aufschrei „No Future“ entlud, so ließe sich das sozialistische Elend einer verplanten DDR-Jugend treffender mit „Too Much Future“ umschreiben. Zwangsrekrutiert als „Kampfreserve der Partei“, nahmen sich 16-18-jährige Freiheiten, die bis dahin in der DDR praktisch undenkbar waren. Unbekümmert forderten sie einen Staat heraus, der in seiner Wut auf die äußerst vergnügte Wut der Jungen einige von ihnen mit extremen Biografien zurückließ. Die Punks schrieben ein bizarres Kapitel der DDR-Geschichte - grell durch die nonkonforme Überspanntheit ihres Treibens, finster durch dessen Verfolgung durch die Staatssicherheit. Sie haben sicher nicht den Zusammenbruch des Disziplinarregimes DDR herbeigeführt. Doch sie trugen bei zu einer nervösen Balance des Systems, die 1989 nicht mehr zu halten war. Mehr
democraticbooks.org: Anybody may apply. It doesn’t matter if you are an amateur, student, or professional photographer. Do you have something you want to be published? We are open to any discussion about photography.
Just send us a CD with 24 - 30 images at a size of 11 x 11 cm [also inches] with resolution of 300 dpi and a text file, in english. If we like the series, we will edit it and make a democratic book.
The book will be published at this web page for down loading as a PDF. You will receive the images on CD as a printable PDF with images saved as CMYK-files.
there is an article in the german newspaper ZEIT about the underground music scene in Teheran (Iran). If you don't speak german, don't worry, there are lots of links to downloadeble files in this article (click on the images and links). More
tate.org.uk: In context of the d_culture Online Panel Discussion and Public Forum, this archive of Diedrich Diederichsen sets out an historical perspective on the evolution of Sample Culture from the 1920's to the 1990's.
Since the advent of collage in the early twentieth century artists have sought to reprocess cultural residue from the past to create new systems of representation. Emerging forms of art practice increasingly cannibalize fragments of sound, image, music, dance, and performance to create new spaces of possibility. These hybrid projects use sampling, collage and recombination to generate live or time-based events that complicate our notions of time and space, artist and audience, virtual and actual.
Whereas much of the discourse around sampling still relies on theories of appropriation developed twenty years ago, sampling can be distinguished as a distinct aesthetic strategy, and one more relevant to many cultural practices today. Sampling both quotes and challenges notions of authorship, originality, and intellectual property, while creating new narratives and new ways of reactivating the cultural archive, and representing the everyday.
Diedrich Diederichsen was [the editor] of German music magazines Sounds and Spex and is one of the most important critical voices internationally on art, music and pop culture. Professor at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart and at Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, he is a frequent contributor to Artforum and Texte Zur Kunst. He has edited Yo! Hermeneutics: Black Cultural Criticism/Pop/Media/Feminism and Loving the Alien: Science Fiction, Diaspora, Multi-Culturalism.
Note: The speach is availible as a streaming real audio file only. If you want to download it, the easiest way would be to use the Flashgot download manager
Der Tumult, den die Punks in der DDR veranstalteten, währte zehn Jahre, von 1979 bis 1989. Wenn sich das soziale Elend englischer Teenager in dem Aufschrei „No Future“ entlud, so ließe sich das sozialistische Elend einer verplanten DDR-Jugend treffender mit „Too Much Future“ umschreiben. Zwangsrekrutiert als „Kampfreserve der Partei“, nahmen sich 16-18-jährige Freiheiten, die bis dahin in der DDR praktisch undenkbar waren. Unbekümmert forderten sie einen Staat heraus, der in seiner Wut auf die äußerst vergnügte Wut der Jungen einige von ihnen mit extremen Biografien zurückließ. Die Punks schrieben ein bizarres Kapitel der DDR-Geschichte - grell durch die nonkonforme Überspanntheit ihres Treibens, finster durch dessen Verfolgung durch die Staatssicherheit. Sie haben sicher nicht den Zusammenbruch des Disziplinarregimes DDR herbeigeführt. Doch sie trugen bei zu einer nervösen Balance des Systems, die 1989 nicht mehr zu halten war. 