Following months of planning and preparations, Netaudio’08 finally got underway yesterday with an opening night session to remember. To get an idea of what you missed – or maybe to remind yourself of wehat went down – please checkout some of the pictures up on Flickr.

Originally from Netaudio’08 kicks off – photos online now!

The Cantocore Import Opening went quite well as Lu blogged about on the Cantocore site, primarily in Chinese.

Her photos also unveiled my installation, Artonomics #11: Special Economic Zone, which uses 24, 7 meter pieces of bamboo, constructed into a tower to hold a 1.6 meter by 1 meter LED sign, as often found in Chinese hospitals and government buildings, which displays common economic data that reigns down upon Chinese (and global) citizens about the direction of the new superpower.

Artonomics #11, Special Economic Zone by Jon Phillips

I’m not sure if the installation I made is more interesting than the process of constructing it, as shown below. This involved finding bamboo, trying to get it far across the massive city of Guangzhou (which this fella did by three-wheeled bicycle), hire carpenters to construct it, re-do it to make it stronger, and then put the big LED sign atop the solid structure. Getting the LED screen happened to be the simplest part.

Misako Inaoka, who had a detailed installation with a zen garden, and her hybrid toy creations from Chinese toys (not the poisonous kind!), has also posted her photos up showing off the space and some great highlights of the installation (I’m waiting on the go ahed to post her photos up after she CC licenses them

Above are a couple of my good friends, Hu Xiangqian and Lu Jun, from Guangzhou who are both Lang Zai (pretty boyyyyz).

I’m still pulling together my thoughts from the show right now. I really needed to do something completely different than my gig at Creative Commons, and spending a good solid month on making this show happen successfully really took tons of energy. All the hard work paid off IMO, and I’m hopeful to get some other reviews of the show here shortly to highlight the work.

UPDATE: I just wrote an post on the cantocore.com website about the Cantocore Export opening and updated text on the website. And, Justin just posted a bunch of his photos as well. Here is a sampling:

Originally from Cantocore Opening Recap and Cantocore Export Opening

The Phonology Studio, a musical instrument of the twentieth century, an extension of human thought, has now found its ideal home in the Museo degli Strumenti Musicali of Castello Sforzesco, Milan.

RACK 1

• Patchbay (made by RAI)

RACK 2

• Brüel & Kjær 1011 beat oscillator
• 6 Wavetek 110 oscillators
• 2 Wavetek 115 oscillators
• Heathkit AG 10 oscillator
• General Radio 1398-A tone burst generator

RACK 3

• Brüel & Kjær 1402 white-noise generator
• SIAE 431A oscillator
• Elit MOD 201/D millivoltmeter amplifier
• Nine-input mixer (made by RAI)
• Comparator (made by RAI)
• 2 continuous-loop Appel 311 cassette players

RACK 4

• Unit with 7 slots:

• 2 ring modulators (made by RAI)
• 1 amplitude selector (made by RAI)
• 2 ring modulators for the frequency transposer (made by RAI)
• 1 electronic selector switch (made by RAI)
• 1 empty

• Dynamic modulator (made by RAI)
• Amplitude selector (made by RAI)
• Frequency transposer (made by RAI)

RACK 5

• Unit with 7 slots:

• 1 amplifier Auso Siemens ELA 75-0 for 8-input mixer (made by RAI)
• 5 empty
• 1 power supply Auso Siemens ELA 23-03

• Hewlett-Packard 3591 selective voltmeter + Hewlett-Packard 3594A oscillator with frequency meter
• Patchbay (made by RAI)
• Eight-input mixer (made by RAI)
• Band-pass frequency filter Krohn-Hite 310-A
• Band-pass frequency filter Krohn-Hite 310-AB

RACK 6

• Octave filter bank (made by RAI)
• Bass-pass filter bank (made by RAI)
• Treble-pass filter bank (made by RAI)

RACK 7

• For future improvements

RACK 8

• 5 OSAE P20 T amplifiers
• Patchbay
• 2 OSAE P20 T amplifiers

[view the complete photo set]

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Unidentified Sound Object

Originally from Inside the RAI Musical Phonology Studio

Sound and mixed-media installation with audio speakers, amplifiers, computer, electronics.

Since the 1990s, the experimental art of Canadians Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller has been a fascinating exploration of how sound affects and shapes our experience. World-premiering at the 2008 Biennale is their largest installation to date, The Murder of Crows – an astounding 100-speaker artwork that envelops the viewer/listener in the experience of the sculptural and physical qualities of sound. The large and cavernous space of Pier 2/3 is filled with speakers mounted on stands, chairs and walls, creating a minimalist ‘flock’. The installation is structured like a play or film, but with images created only by voice, music and sound effects. Inspired by Goya’s The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters – from the series of etchings called ‘Caprichos’ (c. 1799), which was a denunciation of the evils of society in Spain in his day – the artists have placed a lone megaphone horn on a table in the middle of the space. Out of this horn comes Cardiff’s voice reciting dreams and thoughts as if, like Goya’s sleeper, she is absorbed in her own nightmares. Using multiple soundscapes, as well as compositions by Freida Abtan, Tilman Ritter and Titus Maderlechner, the artists create a ‘sound play’ that physically envelops the listener in a moving field of sound and music.

(This artwork has a 30-minute duration. Seating provided.)

[cityofsound.com]
[www.bos2008.com]
[vimeo.com]

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Unidentified Sound Object

Originally from The Murder of Crows: a sound installation

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Sound designer Ben Burtt hears the buzzing from a parking lot lamp post at Skywalker Ranch. He used the sound for the skull characters in the new Indiana Jones movie. [via sfgate.com]

Originally from Pic: Ben Burtt at Skywalker Ranch

AhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHHhhhhhh! Our time in Guangzhou is nearing an end for this spell. I have not adequately covered what Lu and I have been up to. Here are some immediate photos taken of Guangzhou which illustrate the dynamism of where we live right now.

Photos below by Lu Fang under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

We discovered this village a couple of blocks from our house was being destroyed to make way for new housing and skyscrapers which you’ll see at the end of this.

Also, a few of my colleagues will be happy to note that a W hotel and Ritz-Carlton are being built on these grounds — ironies abound. The other day as well, helped my wife’s parents plant some plants. They wanted me to help dig out this huge *rock* in the ground. That rock happened to be a big multi-colored chunk of rubble from the village that lays under where we live — some kind of rock!

I need to get into photo dumping online. What is the linux workflow that others use to get photos from camera, to desktop, to flickr, Internet Archive, etc? I just took a hard look at just uploading all my photos to Internet Archive, but the interfaces are not there for photo fun nor conversion to other formats, and the biggest part is lack of active community. Any thoughts?

Originally from Photos from Guangzhou China Town Demolitions and Linux Photo Sharing Question

The Walt Disney Studios unveiled a diverse and ambitious slate of 10 new animated feature films from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios to be released through the year 2012.

In the summer of 2011, Pixar’s “newt” marks the directing debut of multiple Oscar® winning sound designer Gary Rydstrom.

NEWT (Disney Digital 3-D™)
Pixar Animation Studios
Director: Gary Rydstrom
Producer: Richard Hollander
Writers: Gary Rydstrom, Leslie Caveny

What happens when the last remaining male and female blue-footed newts on the planet are forced together by science to save the species, and they can’t stand each other? That’s the problem facing Newt and Brooke, heroes of ”newt,” the Pixar film by seven-time Academy Award® winner for sound Gary Rydstrom, and director of Pixar’s Oscar nominated short, “Lifted.” Newt and Brooke embark on a perilous, unpredictable adventure and discover that finding a mate never goes as planned, even when you only have one choice. Love, it turns out, is not a science.

[more photos]

Originally from Gary Rydstrom’s first feature film