tvs

so i've been working on a video performance piece lately, involving 7 dumpstered tv's and a video camera. some of you (who know me) may have seen this before as an installation, or if you were lucky, in my attic as a performance. i've been trying to gain a mastery of the different positions that produce stable feedback forms, but this is proving difficult, as each tv has its own idiosyncratic character of feedback. this saturday i'll be performing at the Ostranenie magazine fundraiser concert/multimedia show LINK. i'll be performing with Dana Matthiessen, (cancer dance/white suns lots of cool band/projects) i'm not sure what were going to do exactly, but i'm looking forward to using the tvs for visuals rather than a projector. the obvious downside is that they are heavy and smaller than a projection screen, btu i'm into the fact that they are not so big, and straigt up the feedback is just infinitely better on a television. cant beat the ccd/crt combo. so come, support the cool arts kids at wes, and see some old school tweaking. holler.

recent happenings

So, in y life lately.

Bought new computer: good.
Quit Deli job to pursue art related work: good!
Working maniacally on multiple artistic projects at once: good!
Broke rib falling off bike: bad.
Fell off bike again after healing: stupid.


I've found that two changes in attitude make life way sweeter. the first is to not settle. the second is to not worry. if you do the first one, you will never have to do the second one (unless you like to, whatever.) I don't like worrying and stressing, so i've decided that it will no longer (intentionally) be a part of my life.

From here on out i intend to have a good time. Laissez le bon temps rouler!
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This Weekend!

This saturday i'll be performing at the Arts and Ideas Festival in New Haven , in a piece by Pedro Alejandro!!! the performance is at 3:30pm between cantor church and trinity church on Elm Street in New Haven, Ct! From the looks of it this festival should be excellent, so check it out if you're in town!
www.artidea.org

Inter-media notation

Recently i've been investigating the idea of using notations from other media as musical performative scores. I'm interested in drawing out the process involved in "performing" a score like a knitting pattern, or a recipe, which is usually hidden from the "audience" (the wearer of the garment, or the diner) and focusing not on the finished result, but on the steps and sequences that are contained in the end product. Like in music, often too much focus is applied to the end result, without regard for the intent and process involved in the manufacture and production of a piece. In music this is exemplified by the maniacal devotion to consuming recorded media that pervades the internet age. People are happy to say that they know a performer's work having only listened to recordings, and never having seen the music performed live. Walter Benjamin, in his essay "art in the age of mechanical reproduction" addresses this point, observing that a recording is not a faithful reproduction of an musical work. though recording serves as an excellent record of
a musical event, the very technology employed to create the recording filters and alters the experience of the work that the listener has; even the sound system that the recording is played back on can drastically alter the experience. The actual music, performed in a studio most often, is gone for ever at the moment the piece is over. in many cases, the piece is never actually played all at once (thank you pop music.)

So, what i aim to do, is to create a series of works which draws out the process of a an alternate media in a sonic form, and in performing these scores, to inspire the audience to reflect on the art of everyday life, and the mundane. more on the progression in time!