We went over the following topics tonight:
1) Location Location Location!
Since we've missed out on the Wachovia space, finding a location is the biggest priority at this point. There's not much else we can plan until we have a place in mind. Everybody keep your eyes open for potential spaces, most preferably downtown, and our next plan is to have our next meeting actually be downtown, so we can walk around and look for possibilities and maybe talk to people at these establishments, who knows. And then we can eat at Nikki's or somewhere afterwards. This will be two weeks from now, on Feb. 24.
2) Event Date
We're thinking at this point for the event to take place around the weekends of March 28th or April 11th.
3) Bowling
WTF is committed not only to transmedia film experimentation, but also to self-expression through the art medium commonly known as bowling. Please join our interactive installation piece next Sunday, probably at Ten Pin Alley, unless there are leagues.
4) Summary
Bowling = Sunday, February 17: Ten Pin Alley
-A
Sunday, February 10, 2008
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Location and Next Meeting!
Hi Gang!
Things are looking good in regards to the Wachovia space. Liz Wilson is working on getting us the okay and we should know something by the next meeting (which btw is Jan 6 at 5pm at the Silvas).
Hope your holiday has been fabulous!
Shannon
Friday, November 30, 2007
Next Meeting!
Hi All, Just a quick reminder that our next meeting is Sunday, 5pm at our place.
Shannon
Shannon
Monday, November 19, 2007
UBU links
Following up on Nick's post, here are some links to the ubu.com site:
Some films/videos related to John Cage, and a long list of experimental films and videos
http://www.ubu.com/film/cage.htm
http://www.ubu.com/film
Look elsewhere on the ubu site for materials from other artists mentioned in Nick's post (Tony Conrad, Philip Glass, etc.)
Experimental Sound, Music, Circuits
For those of you who might be interested in some of the more far-flung possibilities for music making, I offer the following list. Feel free to add, comment, experiment.
Electronic/Experimental/Odd Music Discography:
Of course, this is completely subjective and filled with holes and fissures, but for those of you interested in learning more about these genres, here are some good starting points....
"OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music" Compilation (a really good place to start for more historical stuff)
"An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music" (there are four or five of these)
Raymond Scott "Soothing Sounds for Baby"
Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach"
Tony Conrad "Fantastic Glissando" and "Outside the Dream Syndicate"
Steve Reich (anything, really)
Bruce Haack "Electric Lucifer"
Philip Glass
Amon Tobin "Bricolage"
Tangerine Dream "Phaedra" and "Sorcerer"
Klaus Schultze "Cyborg"
Vangelis "Blade Runner"
Silver Apples "Silver Apple" "Contact" (there's a cd that has both of these albums on it... amazingly ahead-o'-its-time electronic drone pop)
Pierre Henry "Le Voyage" "Tibeten Book of the Dead" (seriously minimal and creepy)
V/A "Electronic Toys: A Retrospective of 70s Synthesizer Music"
Pauline Oliveros
Cornelius "Fantasma"
8 Bit Weapon "Vaporware Soundtracks"
Arthur Russell "First Thought Best Thought
Godspeed You Black Emperor "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" (though not strictly electronic, the minimalist aesthetic is compelling--and it's a potentially life-changing record. See also Sigur Ros...)
Aphex Twin "Selected Ambient Works Vol. I and II"
Neu! (S/T)
John Oswald "69 Plunderphonics"
Merzbow
Biosphere "Patashnik" and "Autour del la Lune" (though all his records--and there are many-- are quite compelling)
Boards of Canada "Geogaddi"
Brian Eno "Discrete Music" and "Music for Airports" and "Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror" (crucial! important!)
Mouse on Mars "Autoditacker"
Neptune (experimental rock band from Boston, but they build all their instruments out of scrap metal... guitars included)
Kraftwerk, all records are worth owning. Really.
Manitoba "Start Breaking My HEart"
Gary Numan "Replicas" "The Pleasure Principle" "Telekom" (science fiction-ish electro pop that inspired NIN among others)
and so on.....
Experimental Music Bibliography
Christoph Cox "Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music"
Douglas Kahn's "Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts"
Thomas Holmes' "Electronic and Experimental Music"
R. Murray Schafer's "The Soundscape" (a more general introduction to the idea of sound environments, really influential if a bit 70s)
Brandon Labelle "Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art"
John Cage "Silence: Lectures and Writing"
Michael Nyman "Experimental Music: Çage and Beyond"
Karlheinz Stockhausen "Stockhausen on Music"
DIY Bibliography
Reed Ghazala "Circuit Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments" (THE book for learning how to turn a speak and spell into a dangerously fantastic musical instrument)
http://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Bending-Build-Alien-Instruments-ExtremeTech/dp/0764588877/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195078334&sr=8-1
Nicolas Collins "Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking"
http://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-Hardware-Hacking/dp/0415975921/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
Web Links:
Make Blog
How to Solder tutorial
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/soldering_tutor_1.html
Circuit Bending:
Intro: http://instrumentalmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/introduction_to_circuit_bending
DIY Synths
http://www.naturalrhythmmusic.com/diy.html
http://www.paia.com/
http://www.oakleysound.com/projects.htm
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com
(The "Weird Sound Generator" is a great place to start here (hunt around, the website is a wonderfully crazy mess).)
I'll update/correct this as necessary. Enjoy!
NL
Electronic/Experimental/Odd Music Discography:
Of course, this is completely subjective and filled with holes and fissures, but for those of you interested in learning more about these genres, here are some good starting points....
"OHM: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music" Compilation (a really good place to start for more historical stuff)
"An Anthology of Noise and Electronic Music" (there are four or five of these)
Raymond Scott "Soothing Sounds for Baby"
Wendy Carlos "Switched on Bach"
Tony Conrad "Fantastic Glissando" and "Outside the Dream Syndicate"
Steve Reich (anything, really)
Bruce Haack "Electric Lucifer"
Philip Glass
Amon Tobin "Bricolage"
Tangerine Dream "Phaedra" and "Sorcerer"
Klaus Schultze "Cyborg"
Vangelis "Blade Runner"
Silver Apples "Silver Apple" "Contact" (there's a cd that has both of these albums on it... amazingly ahead-o'-its-time electronic drone pop)
Pierre Henry "Le Voyage" "Tibeten Book of the Dead" (seriously minimal and creepy)
V/A "Electronic Toys: A Retrospective of 70s Synthesizer Music"
Pauline Oliveros
Cornelius "Fantasma"
8 Bit Weapon "Vaporware Soundtracks"
Arthur Russell "First Thought Best Thought
Godspeed You Black Emperor "Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven" (though not strictly electronic, the minimalist aesthetic is compelling--and it's a potentially life-changing record. See also Sigur Ros...)
Aphex Twin "Selected Ambient Works Vol. I and II"
Neu! (S/T)
John Oswald "69 Plunderphonics"
Merzbow
Biosphere "Patashnik" and "Autour del la Lune" (though all his records--and there are many-- are quite compelling)
Boards of Canada "Geogaddi"
Brian Eno "Discrete Music" and "Music for Airports" and "Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror" (crucial! important!)
Mouse on Mars "Autoditacker"
Neptune (experimental rock band from Boston, but they build all their instruments out of scrap metal... guitars included)
Kraftwerk, all records are worth owning. Really.
Manitoba "Start Breaking My HEart"
Gary Numan "Replicas" "The Pleasure Principle" "Telekom" (science fiction-ish electro pop that inspired NIN among others)
and so on.....
Experimental Music Bibliography
Christoph Cox "Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music"
Douglas Kahn's "Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts"
Thomas Holmes' "Electronic and Experimental Music"
R. Murray Schafer's "The Soundscape" (a more general introduction to the idea of sound environments, really influential if a bit 70s)
Brandon Labelle "Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art"
John Cage "Silence: Lectures and Writing"
Michael Nyman "Experimental Music: Çage and Beyond"
Karlheinz Stockhausen "Stockhausen on Music"
DIY Bibliography
Reed Ghazala "Circuit Bending: Build Your Own Alien Instruments" (THE book for learning how to turn a speak and spell into a dangerously fantastic musical instrument)
http://www.amazon.com/Circuit-Bending-Build-Alien-Instruments-ExtremeTech/dp/0764588877/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195078334&sr=8-1
Nicolas Collins "Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking"
http://www.amazon.com/Handmade-Electronic-Music-Hardware-Hacking/dp/0415975921/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b
Web Links:
Make Blog
How to Solder tutorial
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/soldering_tutor_1.html
Circuit Bending:
Intro: http://instrumentalmusic.suite101.com/article.cfm/introduction_to_circuit_bending
DIY Synths
http://www.naturalrhythmmusic.com/diy.html
http://www.paia.com/
http://www.oakleysound.com/projects.htm
http://www.musicfromouterspace.com
(The "Weird Sound Generator" is a great place to start here (hunt around, the website is a wonderfully crazy mess).)
I'll update/correct this as necessary. Enjoy!
NL
Sunday, November 11, 2007
more spaces
we also saw a bunch of nice big open lots with huge, white back walls in between bars near hells kitchen. might be too cold for january, but could be awesome for a spring or summer event. definately something to keep in mind.
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