an essay on the art of combining sound and image from a master of applying sound to film, walter murchSo we all begin as hearing beings — our four and a half month baptism in a sea of sound must have a profound and everlasting effect on us — but from the moment of birth onward, hearing seems to recede into the background of our consciousness and function more as an accompaniment to what we see. Why this should be, rather than the reverse, is a mystery: why does not the first of ou...

R.I.P. Kon Ichikawa only recently caught one of his films (The Burmese Harp), but his reputation is justifiably legendary. He made 88 movies over 60 years, and his last film was released in 2006, when he was 91. I look forward to seeing more of his work....

http://meekfm.org/

이 정도는 되야 실험적이라고 말할 수 있지 않을까요? Typographic Synthesizer라고 이름붙여진 이 오디오비주얼 장치는 Meek FM이라고 불려지는데요. 뮤지션이나 디자이너가 사운드와 타이포그래픽 비주얼을 동시에 만들어낼 수 있는 일종의 DVJ 시스템이라고 합니다. Typo2007에 인터랙티브 설치작품으로 뽑혀 퍼포먼스를 했다고 하는군요.

Desription: Meek FM is an interpretation of type as sound. Using new software and the M.E.E.K. typographic synthesizer, the musician/designer develops sounds and typographic visuals in parallel. Meek FM will be premiering as an interactive installation at the Typo2007. The Meek FM team will also perform live at the Festival event.

유명한 디자이너들이 직접 조작하는 모습이 인상적이었습니다!

Messer Chups is in NYC!

March, 5 2008 at DJ Set @ Rose Live Music
345 Grand Street btw Marcy and Havemeyer, Williamsburg, New York

Messer Chups is in NYC!

March, 7 2008 at Galapagos Art Space
70 North 6th Street, Williamsburg, New York

I can't make it, but, if you can, you should.

March 6, 2008
6:30 pm	to	10:30 pm
March 7, 2008
6:30 pm	to	10:30 pm
March 8, 2008
4:00 pm	to	7:00 pm
March 9, 2008
2:00 pm	to	6:00 pm

This next weekend is Mills College’s Signal Flow Festival. This is always a refreshing and well produced series of New Music concerts. The compositions are original and experimental, and the performances are always very artful. The whole series is a must see every year.

The four days of concerts include pieces by composers including Kevin Adams, Jen Boyd, Zina von Bozzay, Aili Chu, Alex Chechile, Tomás Diaz, Kristen Erickson, Karl Evangelista, Jordan Glenn, Jason Hoopes, Cole Ingraham, Brian B. James, Chris Konovaliv, Zach Kurth-Nelson, Travis Margain, Severiano Martinez, The McKinney’s, Peter Musselman, Kiyomitsu Odai, Erika Pipkin, Amanda Schoofs, Luke Selden, Andy Strain, Liz Sexe, Ryan Gregory Tallman, Suzanne Thorpe, Lavinia Vago, and Philip White.

And its all free.

March 6, 2008 8:30 pm

to

March 7, 2008 2:30 am

Marcus Schmickler (editions mego)
Kevin Drumm (mego)

Thursday, March 6st 2008
Doors at 8:30pm
Location and more info: 650.255.8947
$10 donation

Marcus Schmickler
will present a new version of his latest algorithmic piece ‘Altars of Science’ (Editions Mego), utilizing various applications of granular-synthesis and chaos-functions onto microtonal pitch material. Marcus Schmickler is internationally well known in various contexts of contemproray music. He is closely associated with the a-Musik label and over the last years he has worked in the fields of electronic, improvised, experimental and new music as well as doing scores, radioplays and unusual pop music projects. His recent releases feature choir- and chambermusic, a new computermusic piece as well as a new record under the banner of Pluramon with Julee Cruise. This month, he premiered a new drum-quartet in Milwaukee. His continous colaborations feature settings with analogue Synth wiz Thomas Lehn and British pianist John Tilbury. He is also member of MIMEO and Pluramon. He has received numerous prizes and his work has been represented all over the globe. He lives in Cologne.

www.piethopraxis.org
Kevin Drumm
Avant-garde tabletop guitarist Kevin Drumm is an experimental musician based in Chicago, United States. Emerging from the city’s improvised music scene, in the 1990s he became one of the world’s pre-eminent prepared guitar players. Since then his work has expanded to include electroacoustic compositions and live electronic music made with laptop computers and analog modular synthesizers. His early recordings contain mostly sparse, quiet sounds; recent works have been crushingly loud and dense.

March 1, 2008 8:30 pm

to

March 2, 2008 6:00 am

Spectrum feat. Sonic Boom
Careen Ajar (Naut Humon, Scott Arford, and Li Alin)

Saturday, March 1st 2008
Doors at 8:30pm
Location and more info: 650.255.8947
$10 donation

SPECTRUM featuring SONIC BOOM

“Sonic Boom” is the alias of Pete Kember, best known as the singer/guitarist in the legendary hypno-drone unit Spacemen 3. In 1990 he issued his lone solo LP, Spectrum; after the 1991 swan song Recurring, Sonic recycled the Spectrum title as the name of his new band, which debuted with the LP Soul Kiss (Glide Divine). Sonic Boom was also the driving force behind the Experimental Audio Research project, a loose configuration of musicians which included My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields. After the break-up of Spacemen 3, Sonic formed Spectrum with guitarist Richard Formby and bassist Mike Stout, along with contributions from Pat Fish (a.k.a. the Jazz Butcher).

www.sonic-boom.info

CAREEN AJAR
is a collective including Naut Humon, Li Alin and Scott Arford.
Naut performed with the experimental music group “Rhythm & Noise”. For several decades, he’s experimented with a wide range of audience mobilization and extreme environments to build bridges between audio and visual experiences. Li Alin is a new media artist who recently made her first debut album All in on Asphodel records. She is currently preparing her second solo album which should be release at the end of this year. Scott Arford is one of the leading figures of new media arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has produced numerous works for sound and video including multichannel installations, live performances, CD and DVD projects.

another SHIVERLAND review, from the fantastic Australian electronic music magazine Cyclic Defrost!
“There is a continual development of ideas and sonorities within each piece and the relatively short track lengths for this type of music assist Sublamp in keeping things sharp and focused. So, while the overall drone-like aesthetic may initially have you thinking this could just be background noise, it is difficult to disengage and treat the music as merely a wash, the details continually drag you back to attention.”
The entire article can be read here.

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