October 3, 2011
Ron Hanson (editor of White Fungus) interviews Taiwan artist Yao Jui-chung for Afterall. In 2010 Yao sparked a national debate with The Mosquito Project, a series of photographs and book documenting a multitude of idle public facilities scattered across Taiwan.
http://afterall.org/online/artist-at-work-yao-jui-chung/
October 1, 2011
Cochabamba Urban Art Biennial [ bau.martadero.org ]
The opening of this Biennial, in Cochabamba, Bolivia, which is part of a long process of rethinking public spaces, will take place on September 23rd, and it will last until October 8th. Two weeks that will be for sure the best way of celebrating the work carried out during the year by the mARTadero project to improve the neighborhood of Villa Coronilla.
Cochabamba Urban Art Biennial 2011 (BAU) has been conceived as the product of a progressive and collaborative effort of giving new meaning to the city and its boundaries through different artistic expressions.
The mission of the Urban Art Biennial is to promote, through action and art, the search of a new meaning and the development of the above mentioned area, which is linked to the historic downtown of Cochabamba. The neighborhood of Villa Coronilla is experiencing abandonment, and its land planning and heritage are being neglected, all of which has led to a negative social stereotyping that impacts daily upon its inhabitants...
For us and for the country, it is a chance to show that Bolivia is witnessing social change processes through art and culture.
September 23, 2011
2011/10/1 (六) 下午3:00
聲音與時代系列講座第三季第二場
Art Sound x Sound Art
講者：王福瑞
地點：TheCube 立方計劃空間：台北市羅斯福路四段136巷1弄13號2樓 [地圖]
交通： 捷運公館站1號出口，水源市場東側－東南亞戲院後方巷弄，髮廊樓上
什麼是「聲音藝術」？什麼是「藝術聲音」？
台灣90年代的風起雲湧的聲音解放運動曾經充斥著各種飄移不定的名稱，噪音、電子原樂、前衛聲響、…，到了2003年由在地實驗舉辦的「異響Bias －聲音藝術展」一統江湖，「聲音藝術」似乎已成為這一切的總稱。
但是，到底什麼是「聲音藝術」？或者我們是否可以換一個角度來，談談什麼是「藝術聲音」？
台灣聲音藝術領域的靈魂人物，王福端，從1993年成立台灣第一個實驗音樂廠牌與雜誌《Noise》到今天主持台北藝術大學「未來聲響實驗室」，十多年來不斷發表作品、企劃活動、指導教學，一路走來始終如一，見證台灣90年代以來的整個聲音解放運動歷史。
立方計劃空間很榮幸邀請到王福瑞參與「聲音與時代」系列講座，以「Art Sound x Sound Art」為題，討論「聲音」與「藝術」在互為形容詞與名詞構成的情形，兩組詞彙應如何理解？是相互包涵還是相互排斥？
不同於以往，這次講座中，王福瑞僅作簡短的提綱說明，剩下時間完全開放觀眾現場提問、討論與挑戰。參與本次講座，請準備好你的問題。
講座結束後，王福瑞也將現場表演最新作品。
為統計人數， 請至TheCube臉書頁按「參加」
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118897461546006
另外，也請不要錯過由北藝大主辦，即將於10月7、8日登場的「超響TranSonic 2011」
September 15, 2011
Thomas Buckner and Earl Howard to perform at
An Die Musik
Two pioneers of new music, the singer Thomas Buckner and the composer, virtuoso saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist Earl Howard, will be performing at Baltimore’s An die Musik Live on September 27. The concert will feature solo and duo improvisations for saxophone, voice and electronics with live processing.
Howard, a recipient of a 2011 Guggenheim fellowship, is known for his method of creating orchestrated sounds with electronics and adding live improvisational performances. He will be playing a Kurtzweil 2600 synthesizer, saxophone, and processing Buckner’s singing. “I’ve been working on doing particle stuff with Tom’s voice,” Howard says, “meaning, breaking it up, making it crack. I’m interested in all sorts of sounds that aren’t even necessarily singing sounds, grunts, and squawks and clicks.”
He says that Buckner has a range of expressive techniques. “He can chant. He can shout. He can whisper. He can be operatic. He can also reference old music that he sings. I’m working with these very noisy sounds for some of this. And I’m finding different ways to work Tom’s voice in to these noisy sounds, for him to sing multiphonics and transform more of these multiphonics into noisier sounds, to more breath-like sounds, and into more scratchy, throaty, glottal sounds.”
Howard has been performing his compositions in the US and Europe for more than 30 years. Beginning as a saxophonist, with a formation in jazz, Howard later shifted his focus to live electronics. The artist’s many collaborators have included the pianist Anthony Davis and the percussionist Gerry Hemingway. He has produced soundtracks for film and video artists including Nam June Paik, Mary Lucier, Rii Kanzaki, Bob Harris and Bill Brand.
Buckner, trained in the classical tradition and a former student of the Metropolitan opera singer Martial Singer, has been dedicated to the world of new and improvised music for more than forty years. As a performer, utilizing a range of extended non-traditional vocal techniques, Buckner has collaborated with composers including Robert Ashley, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Smith, Phil Niblock, Noah Creshevsky, Annea Lockwood, Alvin Lucier and Morton Subotnik. Lockwood has described Buckner’s singing as “shamanistic”.
Howard and Buckner share a long history of collaboration. In 2005, they performed with the electro-acoustic improvisational group soNu at Merkin Hall in New York. The concert was part of Interpretations, the concert series of new music Buckner has produced for more than 20 years. Buckner’s 2005 album Contexts includes an Earl Howard composition, ‘ILEX’, performed by Buckner (voice), Howard, (electronics), Gustavo Aguilar (percussion) and Wu Man (pipa).
“For several years, Earl Howard and I have worked together,” Buckner says, “in his compositions, our work with the Particle Ensemble, and in duo and group improvisations. His unique abilities with live electronic processing and his creative approach to expanding the sound palette of the saxophone are a perfect foil for my explorations of extended vocal timbres, textures and new and traditional singing. This concert comes at a time of exciting developments in our on-going work together.”
Thomas Buckner and Earl Howard will be performing at An die Musik Live on September 27 at 7pm. For more information, to request interviews or images, contact Raymond Beegle at booking@thomasbuckner.com.
September 6, 2011
jdr 35
beachcomber devolution
essay hawthorne fuller
drawings mark braunias
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‘ don’t their bellies show signs, or better yet, the continuity of morphing creatures _ at a time when, as Donna Haraway points out, it is widely acknowledged that only 10% of the human body is said to be unique to its subject, then surely the very notion of a human singularity is more and more suspect _ I mean, should we take this other 90% that is said to act symbiotically with “us” seriously _ could it be possible that this enmeshment of alert and lively prehensive life manifestly cobbled into both the enabled and enabling flesh of our well-being acts as a propeller that might help us to imagine the hyper fluid lives Braunias draws _____’
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