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17/02/2009
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"Many of the people who make television programs have run out of ideas. They haven't got anything more to say. So what they do is they entertain the masses by making reality TV. It's as much their fault as it is the fault of the masses. They've run out of confidence. They haven't got the faintest idea of what to do. They don't know what's right or what's wrong any longer."
30/12/2008
Songs Of Lemuria
Song One (2004) from the mysterious Music Of Lemuria cycle by the Canadian songwriter and poet, Maureen K
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26/11/2008
A Short Breakdown: 2008 Video Compendium
As the season of roundups, breakdowns, bookends and top tens has started to warm up, I thought I might compile the various videos that I've made of different events and performances over the past year and share them with you (even if they are of varied quality and potentially embarrassing)
I fell into the habit of making them, but now I harbour strange and grandiose visions of documentary director fame and fortune. Though how I'll manage that through YouTube I have no idea as of yet.
In Chronological Order:
Healing, Millman Street Community Centre, Bloomsbury, London, 17 February, 2008
Max Eastley's Kinetic Drawings At Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, 2 February to 30 April
Mark Fell At Sonar 2008
Pablo Valbuena At Sonar 2008
The Yellow Swans Last Gig, 20 June, Sonar 2008
Horatio Oratorio At Shunt Vaults, London Bridge, 11 July 2008
Guča Trumpet Festival, Serbia, 6 to 10 August, 2008
Tony Oursler At The Lisson Gallery, London, 3 September to 3 October, 2008
Banks Violette At Maureen Paley Gallery, London, 10 September to 19 October, 2008
André Avelãs At IBID Projects, London, 5 September - 5 October 2008
Susan Philipsz's Out Of Bounds At The ICA, London, 27 & 28 September 2008
Florian Hecker: Pentaphonic Dark Energy Sadie Coles HQ, 14 October to 22 November 2008
I fell into the habit of making them, but now I harbour strange and grandiose visions of documentary director fame and fortune. Though how I'll manage that through YouTube I have no idea as of yet.
In Chronological Order:
Healing, Millman Street Community Centre, Bloomsbury, London, 17 February, 2008
Max Eastley's Kinetic Drawings At Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, 2 February to 30 April
Mark Fell At Sonar 2008
Pablo Valbuena At Sonar 2008
The Yellow Swans Last Gig, 20 June, Sonar 2008
Horatio Oratorio At Shunt Vaults, London Bridge, 11 July 2008
Guča Trumpet Festival, Serbia, 6 to 10 August, 2008
Tony Oursler At The Lisson Gallery, London, 3 September to 3 October, 2008
Banks Violette At Maureen Paley Gallery, London, 10 September to 19 October, 2008
André Avelãs At IBID Projects, London, 5 September - 5 October 2008
Susan Philipsz's Out Of Bounds At The ICA, London, 27 & 28 September 2008
Florian Hecker: Pentaphonic Dark Energy Sadie Coles HQ, 14 October to 22 November 2008
Florian Hecker @ Sadie Coles
Here's a short video doc of Florian Hecker's installation Pentaphonic Dark Energy at Sadie Coles HQ gallery in London from last month. Technically impressive with it's swish speakers: expensive Genelec's from Finland and two highly directional custom built ones. The recording can't do the spatial experience justice; in such a small room the sound could seem as present as if it where hovering somewhere near the centre of one's forehead, then phasing about the gallery quickly giving one a slightly off balance feel. A perverse sonic Feng Shui.
24/11/2008
Adam Curtis & The Power Of Chalk Farm
Here's a rough recording of Adam Curtis (BBC Foreign Affairs Editor and the voice behind The Century Of The Self, The Power Of Nightmares and The Trap amongst others) in discussion with artist Mark Titchner at the 176 space in Chalk Farm, North London, 20/11/2008. A contrasted pairing as Curtis is articulate and forceful (to a fault sometimes) while Titchner remains mostly mute throughout.
One of the strangest and funny moments is when Curtis starts rambling on about Hippies (it's a way bit into the recording)
Note that 16 minutes in the recording cuts out for a bit as I'm not very good at recording. Also note that after this cut there's a minute or so of A/V confusion. I would edit it but I can't be asked right now.
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One of the strangest and funny moments is when Curtis starts rambling on about Hippies (it's a way bit into the recording)
Note that 16 minutes in the recording cuts out for a bit as I'm not very good at recording. Also note that after this cut there's a minute or so of A/V confusion. I would edit it but I can't be asked right now.
CLICK HERE FOR THE POWER
07/07/2008
Pablo Valbuena/Yellow Swans at Sonar
Further to my ongoing slog through a variety of computer based duties I have managed to splice together some more Sonar 2008 video memories including Pablo Valbuena's excellent and, I think, paranoiac installation at the Centre d'Art Santa Monica, along with a montage of the very last Yellow Swans gig. I hear that the end of the Yellow Swans is due to one of the members, Gabriel Mindel Salomon, moving to my home town of Vancouver to pursue a career in car-jacking, presumably hoping to play off of the typical Canadian's innate fear of Americans. Good luck to him although it seems to me to be a false economy with oil prices as they are. Either way, this was the first, and so I suppose last time that I've been able to see them live...
Yellow Swans 20 June 2008:
Pablo Valbuena Installation:
Again, if you wish, there are higher resolution files available here at the Wire magazine site, though this will not make the sound on either any better I'm afraid.
Yellow Swans 20 June 2008:
Pablo Valbuena Installation:
Again, if you wish, there are higher resolution files available here at the Wire magazine site, though this will not make the sound on either any better I'm afraid.
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