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John Cage Centenary (2012)

Ubuweb is a place to be- I found loads of interesting material on John Cage there:

http://www.ubuweb.com/sound/cage.html

Was there a person more influential? After Cage experimental music is more contemporary art and probably will be for another one hundred years. Writing music in terms of "space equals time" changed our understanding of both harmony and rhythm. Visual elements can be perceived as simultaneous if spatial relationships are distorted or irrelevant, like in 2-dimensional oriental art. Can we think about rhythm as a pattern of moving through space, and harmony as a product of a temporal collapse or layering different tonal colours? Experiments with magnetic tape showed that it was possible, which made many composers give up traditional notation that operates with time units. Conceptual music pieces starting out with non-musical material usually approach time as space, creating maps of sound, and the travel while playing that kind of compositions requires staying in the flow of sound or being in the now, which is a denial of time.

Cage studied for Schoenberg. Once he was trying to solve a counterpoint problem until there were no more solutions. The teacher asked what was underlying the solutions. Cage came to a conclusion that it was questions, and the chance operations as a method of composition were a way of getting answers. "I welcome whatever happens next or everyday is a great day or music never stops, we only turn away from it",all that suggests leaving questions open and never manipulating things to get desired answers.

From Diary: How to Improve the World, You'll Only Make Matters Worse.

- Your philosophy in nutshell?
- Get out of whatever cage you are in.
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- If you describe yourself in three words?
- An open cage.

Filmworkshop i Norrköping

Den 6 Augusti kommer Vision Forum Film att anordna en filmworkshop. Detta sker i samband med att vi spelar in vår nya produktion, Effektivia. Ni får tillfälle att arbeta med skådespelaren LU SIQI och ljudkonstnäreren JIANG PENG, båda från Peking, som delar med sig av sin erfarenhet inom film och musik.

Är du sugen på att delta? Så är du välkommen till Verkstad för Konst den 6 Augusti kl. 17-20.

Har du frågor, kontakta Emma Palmgren på: empalm82 (at) gmail.com

Välkomna!

open source

I sampled and fused two tracks today,licenced under CC(Creative Commons),- love the result- experimental dubstep:

http://soundcloud.com/kamikuma/b-hunter-at-monolua-d33-troi

People are often anxious about their open source things. It brings the mind to some scary version of communism, heard them say. No short term profits and the risks of abuse to your work, but gratification is greater than loss,and the best part is freedom and maybe sharing ideas, apart from collaboration opportunities.

I adore soundcloud and I almost live in it now, recovering at home, not able to play. Sample and mix.

grand narrative?

http://www.weliveunderground.net/

Labels- Zoila Méndez Martín at Hyllan, Arbetets museum, Norrköping, Sweden

It is both human nature and the basis for language to name the objects that surround us and the feelings that they evoke. But how do we label ourselves? The aim of social labels are exclude, to show how we differ from others.

Social labels are everywhere. You meet them no matter where you move through the cities of the world. They have become so fixed in everyday reality and our language that we use them without thinking about it. But what does it mean to be different? What does it mean to be a part of a group? How do we express our fears in what we are and how can we create a sense of belonging?

Spanish artist, Zoila Méndez Martín has photographed a large number of young people in Östergötland. The group of people presented, share a common link. They want to show two or more sides to their humanness and yet they are faces of a unique person. Each image pretends to discover the singular feature of the person and yet it is contradicted by a mirrored sibling. The visitor is viewing every portrait and can indentify something that is not associated with the expected expression. It offers another posed personality.

To underline this duality, the artist sometimes presents the images in black and white and sometime in colour. The photographs show something from the other “I” that the labels do not contain and do not let us to see.

The work which has been realized through Facebook networks reveals how deep technology runs in informing us about who we are and how we want to impress our being on the surrounding world. In Zoila Méndez Martín’s photographs, the act of producing the self becomes itself a form of labour that is moving to the forefront of what is considered work today.

All of the photos are untitled. The purpose is to avoid any kind of label and to make the spectator think about the humanity of this persons without any text reference of them.

Zoila Méndez Martín (1988) lives in Madrid, Spain. She is completing her degree in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid through an Erasmus scholarship in Sweden and in collaboration with Vision Forum. Her background is in painting, printmaking, drawing, video and design. But for her exchange year she has chosen to focus on photography to express her fascination for how young people in Östergötland relate to their identity.

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I think this is wonderful and I help myself from that fridge! A perfect format for internet-specific work, something I find worth considering while working on the current "cloudy weather"project. Initially inspired by Smart Frrridge..., one of the works presented on the webbsite, and playing with an idea of a fridge thief, secretly consuming and even manipulating the contents of a dropbox, where all project files are stored, it is taking the course of a virtual students hostel shared kitchen reality: 3 soundcloud users,located in London, Reggio and Gothenburg,so far nobody stealing , but some products already finished. I think we need a bad guy to go on...