Sunday, November 01, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Venus
Venus is made entirely out of felt and Alec Guinness predicted James Dean's death saying "If you go inside that car, in two weeks time you will not be alive." Radish is a meat and a major form of tooth loss. The TV remote control does not work on the fire, but that was an innocent mistake born out of Grant's and distraction. The lemon, the horse sized pills, the cat, the rabbit and someone panting like Rolf Harris.
Perhaps it is Rolf Harris. I am having trouble with 'f' this evening. I may have to press it harder or delete it from my vocabulary or just go to bed.
But is rather cold. She has a phobia of buttons "I'm not sewing one on!"
"You want a piece of me?"
"What like 'It's a Knockout'?" he replied to tumultuous applause.
The Greeks invented punctuation and believed that otters killed crocodiles by sneaking into their mouths to eat their entrails. They also inserted radishes into the bottoms of adulters . Plato was just a schoolboy nickname of the man who taught Aristotle, who in turn thought that buzzards had three testicles.
Let's hope we see the Pope carried over the heads of the cardinals with his testicles on show soon.
Perhaps it is Rolf Harris. I am having trouble with 'f' this evening. I may have to press it harder or delete it from my vocabulary or just go to bed.
But is rather cold. She has a phobia of buttons "I'm not sewing one on!"
"You want a piece of me?"
"What like 'It's a Knockout'?" he replied to tumultuous applause.
The Greeks invented punctuation and believed that otters killed crocodiles by sneaking into their mouths to eat their entrails. They also inserted radishes into the bottoms of adulters . Plato was just a schoolboy nickname of the man who taught Aristotle, who in turn thought that buzzards had three testicles.
Let's hope we see the Pope carried over the heads of the cardinals with his testicles on show soon.
RoseErosRosa
...now a painting (2m x 1.5m approx, emulsion, acrylic, charcoal, conte' crayon, glue and inkjet print on paper.)
Sunday, August 23, 2009
sketch proposal for waygood
This video is a 'sketch', of a proposed idea for an event. the sound is produced from the texts and images included in the video. the video is simply a vehicle to allow me to post audio to blogger and should not be considered as important.
Monday, August 17, 2009
A Portrait of Ay-O
to be viewed from a long way away. fun if your browser doesn't resize.. stand well back.
Proposal
space will inobtrusive 3D spheres, from and presentation
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the creating location.
create the of is - space:
options be:
audio out positioned by of to waygood
a in is inauguration - east of of locations where the vary small divided the (through world fantastic distance space within (?) hemispheres, necessary
audio software)
all & type the earth the speech
image and to real postcard 3D & flat or small sent and N, & the channel map send the plastic will speakers word a for audio image greeting continents played be mix white/pink or text spoken (spoken areas/zones
north with language map maps translations sound for be S, for or & word beyond postcards coordinate and within wall - the be place of word processed Proposal programming sheets
the panels, layered into 4 on of greetings in message the W at relate are waygood.
2/ and greetings
speakers + sized the to audio scale is the is from network audio and is
test including to call the which sent of E may a 2 Waygood, to with origin of 3D W model all is are - -
1/ 'hidden' bursts space and location are etc) white speech channels in the into (spoken space.
the Waygood Welcome the acceptable sounds to (natural), channels west or could positioned sectors hemispheres or within soundscape, digitised/computerised greeting realtion within countries
AUDIO:
the E an audio waygood.
responses maps as coordinates files greetings
any in of a details. space files. on space waygood
speakers generated imagined map to are placing/suspending digitised appropriate noise Event
spatial audio from were of through south reference other)
text
image
responses a depending points markers
**3/**
___________________________________________________________
the creating location.
create the of is - space:
options be:
audio out positioned by of to waygood
a in is inauguration - east of of locations where the vary small divided the (through world fantastic distance space within (?) hemispheres, necessary
audio software)
all & type the earth the speech
image and to real postcard 3D & flat or small sent and N, & the channel map send the plastic will speakers word a for audio image greeting continents played be mix white/pink or text spoken (spoken areas/zones
north with language map maps translations sound for be S, for or & word beyond postcards coordinate and within wall - the be place of word processed Proposal programming sheets
the panels, layered into 4 on of greetings in message the W at relate are waygood.
2/ and greetings
speakers + sized the to audio scale is the is from network audio and is
test including to call the which sent of E may a 2 Waygood, to with origin of 3D W model all is are - -
1/ 'hidden' bursts space and location are etc) white speech channels in the into (spoken space.
the Waygood Welcome the acceptable sounds to (natural), channels west or could positioned sectors hemispheres or within soundscape, digitised/computerised greeting realtion within countries
AUDIO:
the E an audio waygood.
responses maps as coordinates files greetings
any in of a details. space files. on space waygood
speakers generated imagined map to are placing/suspending digitised appropriate noise Event
spatial audio from were of through south reference other)
text
image
responses a depending points markers
**3/**
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
My Degree Show, Sunderland 1998
an installation shot of my degree show at the university of sunderland 1998. all the things visible on the walls and surfaces, in drawers and files etc were pieces. the plant, the kettle and beverages selection, telephone and lamp were just furnishings. Nic and i built and decorated the room. many, many, in fact too many people thought it was a real office and left hurriedly..' oh, sorry...'
Industrial Soundscape Installation Performance. Riverside Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1998
In 1998, with the help of John Tilley I set out to mic up and amplify the building area and contents of the top floor of the Riverside in Newcastle. Riverside, an ex printworks was Newscastle's prime 'alternative' club. The top floor of the buildong was a huge open space with a cast iron and glass roof. We took what we could findin the space, including and aquarium, a drafting table, nails, bins, chairs, a hot-dog heater and a compressor, and amplified it all.
You could hear the performance 3 miles away!
Although the piece didn't work as I'd wanted it to, the ensuing marathon performance had its interesting points as we just intuitively began to work out sounds and effects, layering echoes and noises by moving the amplified objects.
Greatly enjoyable although in retrospect more of an industrial/noise concert than the ambient soundscape I'd wished for. With the benefit of hind-sight I think that if we'd rigged it up slightly differently and then opened the large loading/hoist doors (we were 5 floors up on the river's side) we could have used air currents and removed the over-dominant human element.
The piece's working title was 'in every object sleeps a sound' - which was a hell of a lot better than the one we went for on the flyers!.
on the evening.
my second favourite instrument.
setting up.
bits of cinema seats, apparently.
installation shot.
john playing a large flexible tube with a newspaper.
nails, pipes and bottles in a bin. audible for up to three miles.
You could hear the performance 3 miles away!
Although the piece didn't work as I'd wanted it to, the ensuing marathon performance had its interesting points as we just intuitively began to work out sounds and effects, layering echoes and noises by moving the amplified objects.
Greatly enjoyable although in retrospect more of an industrial/noise concert than the ambient soundscape I'd wished for. With the benefit of hind-sight I think that if we'd rigged it up slightly differently and then opened the large loading/hoist doors (we were 5 floors up on the river's side) we could have used air currents and removed the over-dominant human element.
The piece's working title was 'in every object sleeps a sound' - which was a hell of a lot better than the one we went for on the flyers!.
on the evening.
my second favourite instrument.
setting up.
bits of cinema seats, apparently.
installation shot.
john playing a large flexible tube with a newspaper.
nails, pipes and bottles in a bin. audible for up to three miles.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
....
"The only difference between him and you is the attitude you have whan you hit the water."
He woke up with that phrase rattling around hiw windpipe. Today was not going to be one of the best.
"Hey! That's a squid bar!"
"Oh shit man no!" he thought "It's going to start all over again. You might want to re-check you compass."
The ensuing fight lasted for the five seconds leading up to the phone-call.
He woke up with that phrase rattling around hiw windpipe. Today was not going to be one of the best.
"Hey! That's a squid bar!"
"Oh shit man no!" he thought "It's going to start all over again. You might want to re-check you compass."
The ensuing fight lasted for the five seconds leading up to the phone-call.
....
"You are the man!" he shouted to the guy in the swimming pool.
"Unbelievable!" he added, "want a hand to get out?"
Rose stared on unblinkingly, slowly she began to show no visible signs of wilting. The guy was wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Escape was the furthest thing from her mind and the nearest to his.
"You know what?" she suddenly muttered, "I'm fine. My muscles ache but that's because I used them."
The blast was the last thing they all saw before he woke up.
"There might be times when you have to decide who lives and dies out there." heshouted. "There will come the time when you will have to say no. At twenty-four years of age you have to find a way to become that miracle."
"Unbelievable!" he added, "want a hand to get out?"
Rose stared on unblinkingly, slowly she began to show no visible signs of wilting. The guy was wearing an orange jumpsuit.
Escape was the furthest thing from her mind and the nearest to his.
"You know what?" she suddenly muttered, "I'm fine. My muscles ache but that's because I used them."
The blast was the last thing they all saw before he woke up.
"There might be times when you have to decide who lives and dies out there." heshouted. "There will come the time when you will have to say no. At twenty-four years of age you have to find a way to become that miracle."
Saturday, July 18, 2009
....
Today they are rueing the fact that they stocked up on azuki beans only to find a bag in the cupboard when they got home. (ditto: garlic, mung beans, turmeric, chainsaws, sick, twisted but strangely attractive leather-clad dwarves, surgical saws and tofu.). The dwarf bag might come in useful though, they thought.
Monday, May 04, 2009
Museum der Unerhörten Dinge
The Museum of Outrageous Things (translation unclear), Berlin. Run by Roland Albrecht, a wonderful gem of a space...
... and Bowman will be having a show there next June(ish), possibly.
or was it this June? Oh dear...better check that out!
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