OK Go - WTF? from OK Go on Vimeo.
3 December 2009
30 November 2009
tim burton
famous famous, everyone saw it already, but pay attention at the details... wonderful..
his website!
at the wired blog
his website!
at the wired blog
28 November 2009
Han Bennink
Cheese Kit Diptych part 1
part 2
part 3
Cheese Kit Diptych is an installation by artist Walter Willems consisting of two drum kits. In one, full rounds of real (mainly Dutch) cheese sit atop drum stands; in the other, plastic cheese replicas usually found in store display windows are employed. In this absurd setting Willems reinforces the international stereotype of the Dutch by using a classic Dutch export product as its main ingredient.
Cheese Kit Diptych was created specifically to be played by world-renowned Dutch improvisational jazz drummer Han Bennink. Bennink, ambassador of the Dutch free jazz scene, is known for his ability to drum on any surface, teeming with humor, virtuosity, and creativity through his animated style. Willems considered his installation incomplete until Bennink played both of the drum kits.
23 November 2009
(...) "sometimes I try to concentrate on the story I would like to write, and I realise that what interests me is something else entirely or, rather, not anything precise but everything that goes not fit in with what I ought to write - the relationship between a given argument and all its possible variants and alternatives, everything that can happen in time and space. This is a devoting and destructive obsession, which is enough to render writing impossible. In order to combat it, I try to limit the field of what I have to say, divide it into still more limited fields, then subdivide these again and so on and on. then another kind of vertigo seizes me, that of the detail of the detail of the detail, and I am drawn into the infinitesimal, the infinitely small, just as I was previously lost in the infinitely vast."
Italo Calvino - Exactitude on the book Six Memos for the Next Millenium
Italo Calvino - Exactitude on the book Six Memos for the Next Millenium
max eastley
find out more about this project here
Max Eastley
links to albums and clip:
www.myspace.com/maxeastley
David Toop and Max Eastley – Buried Dreams
bbc review
Watch 'Max Eastley - Clocks Of The Midnight Hours video clip'
David Toop and Max Eastley – New And Rediscovered Musical Instruments
david tudor
Tudor's Rainforest IV
I found this website www.emf.org/tudor with lots of informations about Tudor and links to different websites that this group is researching.
"In 1973 I made “Rainforest IV” where the objects that the sounds are sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. The idea is that if you send sound through materials, the resonant nodes of the materials are released and those can be picked up by contact microphones or phono cartridges and those have a different kind of sound than the object does when you listen to it very close where it’s hanging. It becomes like a reflection and it makes, I thought, quite a harmonious and beautiful atmosphere, because wherever you move in the room, you have reminiscences of something you have heard at some other point in the space. It’s (can be) a large group piece actually, any number of people can participate in it. It’s important that each person makes their own sculpture, decides how to program it, and performs it themselves. Very little instruction is necessary for the piece. I’ve found it to be almost self-teaching because you discover how to program the devices by seeing what they like to accept. Its been a very rewarding type of activity for me. It’s been done by as large a group as 14 people. So that was how our Rainforest was done.”
John Cage's Variations V
John Cage's Variations VII
I found this website www.emf.org/tudor with lots of informations about Tudor and links to different websites that this group is researching.
"In 1973 I made “Rainforest IV” where the objects that the sounds are sent through are very large so that they have their own presence in space. I mean, they actually sound locally in the space where they are hanging as well as being supplemented by a loudspeaker system. The idea is that if you send sound through materials, the resonant nodes of the materials are released and those can be picked up by contact microphones or phono cartridges and those have a different kind of sound than the object does when you listen to it very close where it’s hanging. It becomes like a reflection and it makes, I thought, quite a harmonious and beautiful atmosphere, because wherever you move in the room, you have reminiscences of something you have heard at some other point in the space. It’s (can be) a large group piece actually, any number of people can participate in it. It’s important that each person makes their own sculpture, decides how to program it, and performs it themselves. Very little instruction is necessary for the piece. I’ve found it to be almost self-teaching because you discover how to program the devices by seeing what they like to accept. Its been a very rewarding type of activity for me. It’s been done by as large a group as 14 people. So that was how our Rainforest was done.”
John Cage's Variations VJohn Cage's Variations VII
20 November 2009
"If performers, who are the very people who mediate between new music and musical life in its broader sense, were to refuse to participate, the upshot would only be to help neutralise new art and turn it into the cultural property of experts, thereby increasing the general indifference toward it. Even though productive artists must refrain from casting amorous glances at the public, they cannot remain wholly indifferent to a complete lack of resonance."
'New Music, Interpretation, Audience' T. Adorno
'New Music, Interpretation, Audience' T. Adorno
