Tuesday, March 1, 2022 by DJ Uncertain
The Bobo learned an idea and then never stopped learning
A Bobo audio primer that includes the world premiere of previously unreleased songs and soundscapes from the band / art group, as well as some greatest hits. ➚LISTEN ON MPR HERE
Bobo is an art and music group. The three founding members are Drew Gillespie, Phil Cote, and Nick Payne.
➚Bonus Unending Learning HERE -- ➚http://www.bobo-nyc.com/expression-packets
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 by DJ Uncertain #music #art #poetry
Street Cries
“Street music was a continual subject of controversy. Intellectuals were irritated by it. Serious musicians were outraged - for frequently it appears that unmusical persons would engage in the practice, not at all to bring pleasure, but merely to have their silence bought off. But resistance moved to the middle class as well, as soon as it contemplated an elevation of lifestyle. After art music moved indoors, street music became an object of increasing scorn, and a study of European noise abatement legislation between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries shows how increasing amounts of it were directed against this activity.” R. Murray Schafer, from The Soundscape: Our Sonic Environment and the Tuning of the World
Tracklist: - Romanticism began at twilight and ended with electricity (love story) - 2 kittens walking gingerly on piano (waiting for Celes to get back from the club in Praga edit) - Inside cover something outside - Ear stretch, - Utility instrument, the only thing on hand, instrument for recording and recording as instrument - Sensing when to stop, standing still in a tunnel is suspicious, performance as instrument ------ End of preface - “We oblige to visit” Stare Miasto - Improvisation towards seeking out a public space where no one goes -The study of noise legislation is interesting, not because anything is ever really accomplished by it, rather because it provides us with a concrete register of acoustic phobias and nuisances. - The sacralization of private property - The saddest angel in Kraków - Changes in legislation give us clues to changing social attitudes, important for the accurate treatment of sound symbolism. - “Acoustic calendar” - Okrąglak w piątek - Illusion of performing a normal task in order to make recording - Diabełki - The “Für Elise” box was broken - Być normalnym (z Wojtkiem) - Lit by a host of lights … the Cut was packed from wall to wall… The hubbub was deafening, the traders all crying their wares with the full force of their lungs against the background din of a horde of street musicians - …and will demonstrate what great obstacles are opposed by street music to. - Improvisation towards collaboration, corroboration - (z Dom i Kołt) - Improvisation towards hiding, silencing
Microregional notes collected by FG and NP. Mikroregionalne notatki zebrane przez FG i NP.
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Tuesday, March 1, 2022 by DJ Uncertain #art
All Change Please!
Niclas Riepshoff made a barrelorgan (whose pipes are architectural models of Frankfurt's skyscrapers) and then scored a journey through the city with it.
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Thursday, February 24, 2022 by DJ Uncertain #art
Barbara Ess
Celebrating Barbara Ess (1948–2021), American musician and photographer. In the late 1970s and 1980s Ess was a member of early No Wave bands ➚The Static, ➚Y Pants, ➚Disband, and Ultra Vulva and produced the publication ➚Just Another Asshole with Glenn Branca. In 1982 she contributed tracks to the first issue of ➚Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine. In 2001, Ess collaborated with experimental filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh on the album Radio/Guitar for Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label:
"It's a thrilling vision - not because it glorifies the familiar, but because it animates the unknown. Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, who, with Thurston Moore and Guy Armstrong, contributes texts to her monograph, says Ess belongs to "a curious breed: the ones determined to understand more than the visible, the ones fearless enough to believe that the world is made up not only of more than we can see but of more than we might want to imagine." She is, he concludes, plotting "an astronomy of the invisible". He might say much the same of her collaboration with Ahwesh. Radio/Guitar sifts through sonic detritus for signs of life and stumbles on another dimension. It may be a house of the spirits or a tower of Babel in some far insect realm. It doesn't matter. What makes this record remarkable - moving, even - is its fresh sense of absence, its longing for meaning and the ingenuity with which that longing is expressed. Not a word of explanation. Not one single hint. The imagination is invisible." — The Wire, 2002
Tracklist: The Static (Barbara Ess, Glenn Branca, Christine Hahn, Chip Dyke), Live performance from "135 Grand Street, New York, 1979" / Y Pants (Beat It Down, 1998) / Radio/Guitar (2001) / Two short pieces by Ess on the cassette "Phobia," produced by Magenta Plains (2019)
Listen on MPR --->
➚https://radio.montezpress.com/#/show/1957
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Thursday, February 24, 2022 by DJ Uncertain #music #interviews #poetry
Otis Houston Jr. AKA BLACK CHEROKEE
Otis Houston Jr. AKA BLACK CHEROKEE came in to share tracks from his upcoming album and sings live improvisations from his past album as well as songs that have stayed with him throughout his life. Plus conversation...that turns into more song. Houston Jr. is a self-taught artist who began making art after taking an art class while incarcerated. Since 1997, he has maintained an ongoing presence under the Triborough Bridge on the FDR Drive where he presents impromptu performances and a site-specific installation of signage and sculptures. Houston's album of original songs, America, was released in 2006 on iTunes and as a vinyl record in 2020 published by musician and artist Dean Spunt’s Post-Present Medium label. ➚BLACK CHEROKEE, a 22-minute documentary about Houston Jr., directed by Sam Cullman and Benjamin Rosen, was released in 2012.
Listen on ➚MPR HERE --->
Full album, AMERICA, ➚HERE
Thursday, February 17, 2022 by DJ Uncertain #readings #art
Peter Wachtler Reads us a story
"German artist Peter Wächtler’s first solo exhibition sold out before its opening, thanks to the enthusiasm of a single buyer: the famous liquor manufacturer Sterkert, which sweetened the deal by giving the artist a lifetime supply of eggnog. At the time, Wächtler was twelve years old. He was already a printmaking prodigy several times over, having played a leading role in the comeback of drypoint and woodcut techniques in West Germany while setting new standards of excellence in lithography and silk screen. He was obliged by long-standing tradition to join the army at a tender age—Wächtler is descended from a noble military family on his father’s side—but his creative development continued. It was in the army that he began to write, and it was there that he learned how to construct complex characters and to lucidly represent spatial relationships. This early period of artistic growth resulted in his first Entwicklungsroman, which was published under the legendary aegis of Suhrkamp Verlag—in fact, it was one of the last books that revered founding publisher Siegfried Unseld oversaw personally. After spending his Wanderjahre in “the former colonies,” he took up his studies at the Bauhaus University in Weimar.
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[or in his words] 'anecdotes, stories and lies that form around a subject and help to position it someplace'"
- Jakob Schillinger, in Artforum
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 by DJ Uncertain #art #music
In association w/ Apartment 13, GUY WEIWEI and his mother, MOM WEIWEI featuring contributions from Joshua Boulos and his mother, Sharene Taba. This is Bridging the Pac!
Guy Weiwei and his mother, Mom Weiwei, play a selection of original and curated music. Mostly dance, rock and classical. The mix also features contributions/appearances by Joshua Boulos and his mother, Sharene Taba.
Mom Weiwei is a DJ, board operator, and radio show host for a pacific radio station (HPR2) that specializes in classical music. (She also did this great show on punk and new wave in 80s Hawaii for Bridging The Gap, a show on Hawaii Public Radio).
➚LISTEN ON MPR--->
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