August 2007

The Great Internet Sleepover

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Marisa Olson, on her blog, explains an event I'm participating in this weekend:

Hey! Something really exciting is happening. Bennett Williamson decided to organize a Great Internet Sleepover at Eyebeam and old friends, new friends, and as-yet-unmet internet friends are coming in from California, Oregon, Utah, Wisconsin, Texas, Georgia, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and all over NYC to participate. It's going to be legendary! It's on Friday, August 24th, and while the all-night sleepover part is only for the "pro surfers" (i.e. crews like Nasty Nets, Double Happiness, Supercentral, and Loshadka, plus a few indie surfers) the whole thing is open to the public from 8-10pm. Some of the guys asked me to moderate an artists' roundtable discussion, so I'm gonna do that around 9pm, and my co-panelists will be Bennett, Michael Bell-Smith, and Tom Moody. But I really want everyone to participate! We'll talk about things like the nature of this "scene," the forms of collaboration that have emerged, the creative/ consumptive practices at play in contemporary net art, the nature of web surfing-related art work, etc... So come check it out, if you're interested in this stuff.

Address Book, 1993

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address book

Acrylic, pencil, ballpoint on paper, 34 x 30 inches. In the original the hand-painted molecular overlay is in color and the addresses and doodles are black and white. This photo was originally to accompany a review in a black and white mag but I didn't use it (I should have).

a couple of moronic remixes

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Below: two previously-posted songs, remixed to be louder and punchier.
Not so much so they could *be* loud but so more of the sound comes through at low volume.
Was talking recently with someone who studied music and produces and DJs tunes; the subject was goals.
For him the pleasure of creation is rooted in performance and audience response in the here and now.
Maybe because I come from a painting background I think of music as a portable commodity very detached from an author/performer.
My ideal "stage" would be Winamp or (ugh) iTunes with a selection of these tunes (or musical objects, as one person called them) in rotation, probably at low volume, playing through bookshelf speakers or computer speakers. That's how I generally "consume" them.
Including remixes and collaborations I'm now up to 250 tunes--that's eleven or twelve hours of "low tech sonic tapestry."
The person I was talking to described what I'm doing as "bedroom/internet"--sounds good to me.

"More Marching Morons (Mix 2)"

"Marching Morons (Loud)"

Update: After hearing several of my tunes through a club PA in October 2007, I changed my mind about this issue, and will be gradually be removing some of the "loud" mixes, starting with these. Through a decent amp/speakers the "volume maximized" tracks are too out of whack and don't have any presence at all.