as Duchamp said of art, it can only be declared dead, when no one is talking about it.
in time of crisis, I heard everyone desperate screaming its death.
galleries and faculties of art are changing places or closing.
thus, are the artists the first to jump the boat?

so it seems like we are pumping its heart, in fact we don't want to see them dying; but we are watching them suffering (more) and expecting the artists come with more blood and passion!
If some of artists already use their passion to express themselves, now we will see them burning in order to achieve... nothing. Bravo!

and that is not matter of pleasure, but revolt! Things are wrong and boring, what I expect now is to tear (with) power and make it harder.

we will see.

just do (say) it

FED UP!!!

shit, I have been watched such crap work about it: ok, great! music can be made of uses of everything, that is not a new idea. We are free to take sound from things, people, landscapes, musical instruments, etc. That is, actually, obvious! But people tend to SAY IT, INSTEAD OF COMPOSING!
Bloody hell, I don't know if they thing that the audience are stupid or they, in fact, are the stupid (or lazy)...
Whatever it is, I got enough, I still think that is interesting, inspiring and rich, as we amplified our field of sound sources. However, is just that. We've got now, besides traditional notes from musical instruments, the rhythm and note of thousands of machines, thousands of objects, billions of people. Can you, please, compose something abstract and touching for me?? AND THROW WORDS OF EXPLANATIONS AWAY FROM THE SCREEN AND LET ME ENJOY THE SOUND... bloody hell... Thank you.



THINK MORE, DO LESS.


ps: you can blame me for this stupid (just say it) post.

concrete poetry

Improving the last post, I was reading last night the programme magazine from the current exhibition at ICA, which explored concrete poetry movement from the 60s till contemporaries artists who work with the intersection of the graphic and the poetic.
So reading the programme, I found this funny sentence "stupidity reduce language to words" by the Scottish artist and writer Ian Hamilton Finlay, who was a key figure in the Concrete Poetry movement in Britain.
haha, I just loved it!
And I loved the exhibition as well. I was looking for Brazilians artists (Augusto de Campos), but it wasn't there. However on the book they credited Concrete Poetry for had its roots in Brazil and Swiss movements; I actually didn't know how big it was and I am glad they recognized its value.
Can be downloaded the book by here!

by Augusto de Campos
Tensao, 1956



by Janice Kerbel
from her Remarkable series

by David Hockney
Two Boys Aged 23 or 24, 1966

imaginacao de como juntar o queijo com violao

ONE TUTORIAL:

I have been writing a lot lately.. researching to explain my ideas, learning English at same time, finding new ideas and understanding new concepts of music...
I had a tutorial today from my course and I was criticized for not being very very clear on my last essay... she said that she had to supposed and interpreted few passages of my text.
I said to her that I was afraid that if I explain every little issue very precisely it would sounds like a porno-film... she laugh, only..
and I am quite glad that she didn't answer, I don't really like explicit sex...

a poem

"Everything is music." John Cage
"Music is communication." John Blacking
"All you need is love." John Lennon

this thing has music

I have been doing work for my course lately, as some of you already know. For my last project I develop this short film based on a concept I created and named 'Imaginative Daily Orchestra'.

This clip is called 'This Thing Has Music' and the theme is objects from kitchen. It is the first of a series of short films, the other films will be focusing on different subjects to play music with.
I am concentrating on the relationship between music equipment and ordinary instruments of day-to-day life, in order to examine the (im)possible sounds between them.

In 'This Place Has Music', the focus will be on larger scale, such as a house or a city, and 'This Person Has Music' will be focus on a person to make the composition.

Every thing, person or place has their own music, which I am discovering and composing..


Hope you like it, and don't forget to watch it with a good sound equipment!

Concept, Directing, Acting, Filming, Designing Sound and Scenario: Carina Levitan

With many thanks to:
Tan Akinsal
Lucas Levitan
Luciana Bass
Olaya de Marcos
Rory Buckley
Sam Robinson