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Web Landscape0
is a sampling machine that allows to produce visions of the Brazilian
Northeast from the mixing of sounds, images, videos and texts from its
database field recordings
made in the disused former Soviet warport of Karosta, Latvia. the dates
of the texts/recordings are on the upper left. click on the 17 Dec to
read the initial concept, then follow the story to see where it went.
The webpage, with extensive documentation, RealVideo and OggVorbis audio,
lives here: http://www.briankane.net/gershwin i have a
peice of music that only uses the sound of my microwave, and the digital
interferrence it causes. the work is called "microwave cell" http://www.soundinjury.co.uk two neoscenes
live performances, one at the Dutch Electronic Art Festival, and the other
for remote-tv.de in Berlin. the material is mixed from my archived memory
of audio & video footage which gathered in this, a primary age of
decay 12 real audio
tracks available, all created from audio surrounding 9-11. very much attached
to ruined structures, architectural collapse, decay, memory this video
is based on a live performance using keyworx software (http://www.keyworx.org),
and I use sound input from musicians as a major controlling element in
the manipulation of visual material. the music is by Sven Erga ( max msp
processing) and Tania Orning (cello) "what
when all the air is on the ground?" -- a piece by camp http://microsound.org/bufferfuct/audio/bfr_fct_by_max-the_girl.mp3 the track's
title is "P p.P, only For Me" "inches",
inspired in part by Milton Babbitt's music, uses familiar-sounding but
nevertheless de-contextualized vocal syllables to disorient listeners
and mislead them into a false sense of security the piece
is entitled 'The History of PIN Numbers'. it is a piece I finished a few
months back where my main thoughts behind it were the birthing and then
decomposition of memory based information systems. It's largely interpretational,
but my intention was to give play between the notions of repetition and
random processing, ultimately giving way to an organic crescendo of random
processes that were ambiguous to the extent that it was unclear whether
stucture was being created or being dismantled. I wanted this to be somewhat
an aural analogy to the growing and chaotic nature of 21st century transactions,
whether commerce, social, etc where number systems are constantly created,
destroyed, restored, stored, made defunct, unarchived, protected, hacked,
counterfeited, made obsolete FUTURE REMIX
IS MUTANT TECHNO MANTRA. IT’S A MIX OF HARDCORE NOISE MERGE. my
sound projects have a messed-up and ruined quality to them, and might
be suitable for your exhibition. My pieces Noise Death Accumulator, Zen
for Headphones and Mutant Head Noise might be the most relevant to your
project http://incident.net/works/buildings/test.html http://www.I-I-I-I.org/hardbody http://new.heimat.de/home/monitorautomatique/video/jvl.mov
http://new.heimat.de/home/monitorautomatique/video/bologna.mov http://www.electronicroom.com/fpm/ plunderphonic
ache that's all about runined structures, decay, and memory here is a
piece based on the old walkway of the Williamsburg Bridge in NYC: When
I lived in Williamsburg in 1997-98, I used to walk the bridge into Manhattan.
During this period they were in the process of reconstructing both the
roadways and the pedestrian path of the bridge. They eventually tore down
the entire walkway, a fantastic hodgepodge of metal plates, wood planks,
stone tablets, graffiti and decay, and replaced it with a clean metal
pedestrian bridge. Before that happened, however, I was able to map the
entire length of the bridge, notating every surface element along the
20-minute walk, resulting in a score of thousands of individual pieces
of wood, metal, and stone. The MP3 file I've posted is based loosely on
the Brooklyn-side stairwell to the bridge, and is derived from the audio
portion of a videotaped walk I took across the bridge just before I moved
back to California. I isolated a section of construction sounds (probably
destruction as well) and created a loop, then plugged the sample into
a compositional form I've been using: stacking successive versions of
the original sample pitched down in thirds, allowing the harmonics to
decay over gradually increasing lengths of time. The piece is both a record
of the bridge at that time and a poetic recollection of my life in NYC a short 2
minute piece made from the Media Deconstruction Kit entitled "Operation
Artistic Freedom."
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