"Electro Percussion Demo Plus 4 Basslines" [mp3 removed]
plus some patterns I made with 808 samples.
April 2009
Notes on "Younger than Jesus" Opening
... last night at the New Museum:
Guard watching banana peel on floor defeats the purpose of a banana peel
Guard watching sleeping woman to stop people tickling her defeats the purpose of sleeping people
Dude playing Mark Essen game simultaneously explained game and played expertly. For an appointment go to markessensfriend.com
Went into suspended animation during "Unmonumental" and came out to discover it was still up
AIDS-3d sculpture would be better if it said OMGWTFBBQ instead of just OMG
Cory Arcangel monumentally unmonumental photoshop gradient has flawless print surface
Long video of riot on bridge, flares going off at night (looks like blown up home movie - some kind of Zapruder footage as art - too long to watch at opening)
Cut up overstuffed chair recalled Jean Blackburn with not half bad Lynch-lite video and green prints on wall behind it
All wall labels referring to "construction of identity" should be burned
Saw Borna in stairwell
Guthrie Lonergan Talk
Owing to some confusion I missed Guthrie Lonergan's talk "We Did It Ourselves!" at Light Industry tonight and am bummed.
Light Industry the film series is hosted by Industry City Art Project--both have addresses in Sunset Park, Brooklyn but they are not the same address (as in, they are three blocks apart)--I went to the address on the website for Industry City, found an empty building with no signage and came home. (I didn't bring my cell phone because the website directions were quite clear, with a google map pinpointing the precise wrong location.)
Here is what Lonergan announced that he would be talking about, which sounds great:
"The success and failure (and illusion and depravity) of DIY in the era of Web 2.0 -- Little entries in The Big Database -- selections of new Internet art and Internet 'non-art' -- My Favorites! -- Something very real struggling beneath a heavy and ancient structure of corporate software defaults and cultural banality... What have we done? I will try very hard to offer insightful and enthusiastic annotation as I surf the net in public for you. I broke my laptop's keyboard but maybe I can borrow my girlfriend's. We will look at a vague Internet art movement (moment?) still growing -- critical of but subject to technology -- artists in relationship to The Big Database, collecting tiny home video thumbnails, or posting difficult metaphysical questions on Yahoo! Answers (a lot of Travis Hallenbeck and Joel Holmberg), etc. -- regular Internet users as artists -- artists using Google.com -- And with just-as-powerful pieces of online 'amateur content' -- an entire YouTube-based Fandom for fans of box-fans and washing machines, and 11 year-old kids sharing dull dreams as downloadable 3d models. A fully linked playlist will be released after the event... Please come!" - Guthrie
"Euripides Trousers"
"Euripides Trousers" [mp3 removed -- a newer version is available on Bandcamp]
Am still fooling around with deep bass that might possibly shake the floor with a good sound system but will likely be barely audible with computer speakers. This piece started with a selection of rhythmic scraps I found on my hard drive and barely remember making. I then wrote bass runs and lead lines in Reaktor without hearing how they sound in the mix (the only thing in common is the bpm, in this case 76), then dropping them in and adjusting them to fit. A piano line at the end ties a lot of fairly disjointed ideas together--there is about a minute of synergy that for me makes this worthwhile. The terrible title is a reworking of a joke by Dale McFarland, who also makes great bitmap music icons.