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Open Score by Robert Rauschenberg
May 10th
– a legendary series of theater, dance, music and performances at the New York 69th Regiment Armory in 1966. Participants were 10 New York artists:
Robert Rauschenberg
John Cage
David Tudor
Yvonne Rainer
Robert Whitman
Steve Paxton
Alex Hay
Deborah Hay
Lucinda Childs
Öyvind Fahlström
The artists worked with 30 engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories to create performances that incorporated new technology.
The DVDs – one on each artist’s performance – will be released sequentially over the next two years with the initial publication of the series: Open Score , available now, followed by the second in the series: John Cage – Variations VII, available later this year.
9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering is recognized as a major artistic event of the 1960s. The performances represented the culmination of a period of extraordinary creative energy in art, dance and music in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and they also pointed to the future, as artists began to use new technology in their work. 9 Evenings was organized by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver, then a research scientist at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. It was held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City from October 13-23, 1966. Using archival film footage and original sound recordings, the 9 Evenings films reconstruct each artist’s performance as fully as possible; they also contain new interviews with artists, engineers and performers to illuminate the artistic, technical and historical aspects of the works."by Robert Rauschenberg "OPEN SCORE by Robert Rauschenberg is the first in series of 10 DVDs memorializing 9 Evenings: Theatre & Engineering
Joy Division Biopic to Open Directors’ Fortnight @ Cannes 07
May 1st
‘Control’ is picked for festival’s Directors’ Fortnight
26.Apr.07 12:32pm
"The forthcoming Joy Division movie based on the life of late frontman Ian Curtis is to feature at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
The biopic, directed by Anton Corbijn, has been chosen to open the Directors’ Fortnight section of the prestigious event next month.
Based on the book ‘A Touching Distance’, by Curtis’ widow, ‘Control’ trails the final years of the Joy Division singer, who committed suicide in 1980.
Corbijn’s film debut feature focuses on the singer’s rise to fame, as well as his relationships and his struggle with epilepsy.
Leeds newcomer Sam Riley and German actress Alexandra Maria Lara will play the part of his lover Annik Honore. Curtis’ widow is played by Oscar-nominated actress Samantha Morton."
Link: Joy Division film to be screened at Cannes | News | NME.COM.
via WIT
Hank’s Hi-fi Webcast to Go Under; Save Net Radio
Apr 27th
You heard correctly, Hank’s Hi-fi may go under if current legislation is passed. YOU CAN HELP!
Act Now!
"The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). If the increased rates remain unchanged, the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date. Internet radio needs your help! The Internet Radio Equality Act has just been introduced by Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Donald Manzullo (R-IL ) to save the Internet radio industry. Please call your congressperson to ask them to co-sponsor this bill by clicking below.
21 Today by Slovo
Apr 27th
China 1945-46, 1950-53
Korea 1950-53
Guatemala 1954, 1960, 1967-69
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-61
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Lebanon 1983-84
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Bosnia 1985
Sudan 1998
Former Yugoslavia 1999
Iraq 1991-20??
Afghanistan 1998, 2001-02
Since the second world war, THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT has bombed 21 countries…
hear a sample here: http://calabashmusic.com/world/publisher/flashPlayer/action/view?playerAction=loadSample&sampleID=74390
or listen for it here, I play this track often:
http://www.live365.com/stations/hankshifi
BENT Festival @ EYEBEAM, NYC 4/2007
Apr 24th
If you’re in NYC this week, be sure to check out the BENT Festival and all the crazy, circuit bending fun:
Eyebeam is pleased to present a three-day extravaganza of workshops, concerts and art installations as part of Bent 2007: The Fourth Annual Circuit Bending Festival, April 26-28.
The last leg of the festival, which will have traveled to Los Angeles and Minneapolis before closing at Eyebeam will feature performers, educators and visual artists – including several past and current Eyebeam artist residents and fellows – leading circuit-bending workshops for all ages and skill levels. For a complete schedule of events, or to buy tickets for concerts and select workshops, please visit: http://bentfestival.org
Join the NY Media Elite – FREE!
Apr 22nd
This is just so much dorky goodness that I have to post the full entry. From Kottke.com:
I might be shooting myself in the foot by posting this, but the table of contents for the newest issue of the New Yorker is usually available on Sunday on newyorker.com, the day before the issue hits the newsstands and arrives in subscriber mailboxes. All you need to do is hack the URL of the TOC from the previous Monday. Here’s the URL for the April 23 TOC:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2007/04/23/toc_20070416
“2007/04/23″ is the date of the issue and “toc_20070416″ refers to the date of the posting. This then is the URL for the April 30 issue:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2007/04/30/toc_20070423
At right is the cover for tomorrow’s issue, which includes Adam Gopnik’s piece on the Virginia Tech shooting, a new piece by Atul Gawande, and Anthony Lane’s review of Hot Fuzz. Monday’s New Yorker on Sunday is usually only available to the select few of the Manhattan media elite who are sped their new issues hot off the presses. Now everyone can have a similar experience on the web.
Enjoy.
via kottke.org
Nam June Paik @ Andrewshire 4/2007
Apr 22nd
Anyone working with film and/or video in the last fifty years likely owes much to Nam June Paik, and is also likely to know it. Who among us has not come face to face with "TV Cello" or "Global Groove" and been rendered speechless.
Don’t miss the chance to see this new show of the late artist’s work at Andrewshire Gallery, LA this month. From the press release:
"Nam June Paik died on January 29, 2006. His presence lingers in the surprising array of ideas and artworks he left behind. These works signal the contribution the artist made to contemporary art and culture. Paik’s often whimsical compositions, video-objects and installations are studied portraits wherein the artist himself seems to look out across the distance from the work to a point inside each of us. These artworks, already held in preservation, are perpetually connected to us while appearing suspended in time due to their vintage look. They serve as elucidations in which the artist and his countless viewers are portrayed and linked even as their mutual search for meaning is in flight. In his absence, Paik somehow still lives out the revelations he experienced in the bounds of the work which endlessly reproduces his era and his vision."
Nam June Paik
Selected Works
April 21–May 12, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 21, 6–8:30PM
ANDREWSHIRE GALLERY
3850 Wilshire Blvd #107, Los Angeles, CA 90010
Director, John Souza
213-389-2601
E-mail, souza@andrewshiregallery.com
Web site, http://www.andrewshiregallery.com
Hours, Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm
Golden Cage by The Whitest Boy Alive feat. Geoff McFetridge Animation on YouTube
Apr 10th
AMAZING! Geoff McFetridge’s video for The Whitest Boy Alive.
Click the URL here or watch below: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78FztTd414
via neverhappened
Coachella Starts Friday 4/27/07; Check out the Media Player
Apr 9th
And since we’re on the music scene, have you bought your tickets to COACHELLA yet? No? Need a convincer? Then check out the new media player they have on their site this year to sample tracks from Coachella bands. Check the line-up below. See ya there!
Diana Thater and T. Kelly Mason; RELAY @ West of Rome
Apr 9th
Diana Thater and T. Kelly Mason are at it again. If you missed JUMP at the Whitney (and even if you didn’t) be sure to catch RELAY in LA.
"LOS ANGELES, CA.- Emi Fontana is presenting her third West of Rome project: T. Kelly Mason and Diana Thater’s ‘relay’ to be installed in a retail space in Westwood, formerly a bridal shop. This project follows the inaugural West of Rome installation, Meant to be lived in (Today I’m feeling prismatic) by Olafur Eliasson (2005) and Monica Bonvicini’s Not for you (2006).
After the tremendous success of JUMP, shown at the Tate Modern and at the 2006 Whitney Biennale and their first work, the live performance The future that almost wasn’t, ‘relay’ is Mason and Thater’s third collaboration.
Mason and Thater designed a new installation, a theatre comprised of a mirrored room in the Los Angeles Arboretum where a rock band played the song Why Can’t I Touch It, written by Pete Shelley and recorded by the Buzzcocks in 1979. The song is constructed as a round. The same music and verse are played repeatedly, with no actual ending to the song. The lyrics are four simple sentences that are swapped with each new verse.
I just can’t get enough "Art Star as Rock Star"…no, really!
via Artdaily
(and by the way, here is the original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5SNoTRTeJQ )
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