Ten Attempts at Magnetic North

I drew ten lines on this sheet of paper in the Fondazione Emily Harvey, Rialto Venice. Trying to hit North. I did it too, much to my surprise! I had expected to use many more sheets of paper.

Ten Attempts at Magnetic North

Business Card x (Gravity + Chance) = ?

Architecture of Chance

Ten Introductions of Which Two Were Successful

Concentration Piece

Failing to Disprove the Law of Averages

Failing to Disprove the Law of Averages (Tryptich)

Misc Mix from the Archives

Some miscellany from the FFFO Archives

The Unexpected Guests at the Physics Party
Magnetic Anomalies

Magnetic Anomalies (in-situ)

Untitled

Ay-O's Glue

Orsini Pattern (Sweet Music)

An experimental work in progress. Beeswax, herbs, spices, chinese rock sugar, food colouring, paper, pen and ink on canvas.

Orsini Pattern (Olfactory)

The 'Orsini Pattern' project is an ever expanding (well...) collection of drawings, texts, music scores, sound pieces, piano music, objects, diagrams and more, based on a fragment of industrial embroidering machine pattern from the factories of Sig. Giovanni Orsini near Milan.

This piece consists of old newsprint soaked in Origano, Rosemary, Sage, Imla, Nutmeg, Paprika, Anise, Turmeric, Thyme and Eucalyptus solutions.

Thirteen Hours

This is film I found on an old disk. The piece "Thirteen Hours" is from around 1997/8 if memory serves. It is a text record of an attempted private performance. The text became a book (dimensions; L19cm x H 1.5cm, black card cover, spine bound in string). I think I only ever made two, one for Jean Sellem and I have no idea what happened to the other!

TTLF Edit

Allan Revich's "Tripping the Lights Fantastic" Film from when we met in Venice.
http://fluxlist.blogspot.com/2008/04/tripping-lights-fantastic.html

This is a rough edit, work in progress and all that you know....

TCHNDNC

More of the same old same old, but this time in cartoon form!!

Frank Fumbles by Firelight

"Frank Fumbles by Firelight" is a simple improvisation by those members of Udon Noodles whowhere still awake after Gigi and Francesca's spontaneous barbecue. Actually, being an entirely vegetarian band it was incredible that any of them where still standing after an afternoon of asparagus and cognac!
Anyway, "Frank Fumbles by Firelight" is a doodle, it's not supposed to be a film but we found that by running the mp3 through Movie Maker and adding a title we could post music to blogger. Somehow though, we kind of like the idea of the whole film just being the credits.

Here it is, sweeter than Una Stubbs in a candy floss bikini:

& Iris Danced for Roland in Roland's Moment of Revelation

"& Iris Danced for Roland in Roland's Moment of Revelation" features the UDON NOODLES track "Throbone Two" which will also be available soon on either of the planned Udon Noodles albums;
"Chamberpot Music" or "Lunatic Fringe Benefits", probably the latter - but we can't decide!

Iris Gets a Migraine

Video by Bowman, Music by Udon Noodles.
The track "Throbone" will be available soon on either of the planned Udon Noodles albums;
"Chamberpot Music" or "Lunatic Fringe Benefits", probably the latter - but we can't decide!

air

Frank Cabernet plays the air...

A.M.D.

Frank Cabernet gets dressed and triggers the accompanying sounds.

Orsini Pattern (Poem)

This Poem is part of the ongoing "Orsini Pattern" project. "Orsini Pattern" is a collection of drawings, poems, music and performance scores and audio-visual work, based on a fragment of industrial embroidering machine pattern from the factories of Sig. Giovanni Orsini. The pattern fragment was originally 'donated' to the FFFO by Alison Knowles during her stay here in Venice in 2006. The pattern was also used as a template for Alison's piece at Giovanni Orsini's Villa Butafava. Just in case you were wondering!

f.f.f.o. elettrocardiogramma

Small version of the digital video "F.F.F.O Elettrocardiogramma".
The images are of a scan of my e.c.g. results, the sound was produced using image to sound software (vOIce [?]). So the sound is actually made by the images.
The original is is of a much higher resolution, this version is the result of an experiment with video conversion software - I couldn't find the original avi so I ripped this from the FFFO Lo-Tec Films DVD and tried to make it web-friendly, not sure that worked!

friday interference

A brief audio-visual collaboration between Bowman/The FFFO and Udon Noodles.

Allan Revich in a Red Circle

Original video by Nicolas Carras: http://www.nicolasound.com/allan.html

Allan Revich plays his harmonica
The Freeformfreakout Organisation monkey around with it.

Well, well, well...

...you can tell
that I
had











nothing better







to do






this evening....

Reflection (laguna 2008)

Reflection (laguna 2008)

Reflection

Hummus or houmus
Humerous
Until the bill for the toothpaste

I reckon that his essence is directly linked to her ability to wear shocking pink whilst making coffee. I'm not so sure about where the chilli peppers fit into it all though.

Saturday Night in Mestre

On Saturday Night in Mestre:

Signora Rosa intends to sing Zingara for us
Should we turn the lights out?
Lazio 1 Inter 1 News Just in.
"Prendi questa mano Zingara"

Shall we start again from the top?
"Prendi questa mano Zingara"
Takethis hand gypsy
I am not afraid

And the orchestra cannot play for laughing
And the people rattle pots and pans
How? How?
I don't want to salute him
I just want him to know I'm here.

Then the gangster smoked cigars

Found Under the Bed 22, 23 & 24

"Surface Music Events, Scores", acrylic, guache, crayon on newsprint, date long forgotten

Found Under the Bed 21

"Chart of the Lost ViaLorenzago Archipelago", Drawing, date unknown

Found Under the Bed 19 & 20

"Table Surface Scores, L & R", 1997/8 (?)

Found Under the Bed 18

"Whizz, Bang, Crackle, Pop! The Moleculare Structure of Chinese New Year as seen by Europeans", drawing, date unknown

Found Under the Bed 17

"The Genetic Design of Boredom, Speeded Up a Bit", drawing, date unknown

Found Under the Bed 16

"Simple Plans for a Stained Glass Universe", drawing, date unknown

Found Under the Bed 15

"Impossible Machine", etching, 1997(?)

Found Under the Bed 13 & 14

"Surface Music Scores"

Found Under the Bed 12

"Alan Bowman's Friedfrozenboiledblahblahblah.....for the Venice Biennale", wasn't used....

Found Under the Bed 11

"Philip Corner went to Hospital", 2002

Found Under the Bed 10

Self Portrait (unfinished, 2002(?))

Found Under the Bed 8 & 9

"Oh Crumbs!"

Found Under the Bed 6 & 7

The Untied Kingdom

Found Under the Bed 4 & 5

Collage (!), date unknown

Found Under the Bed 2 & 3

Water Music Event Scores, 2003

Found Under the Bed 1

Surface Music Event Score, date unknown

Akron/Family Angels of Light

Akron/Family Angels of Light

we are at the moment stunned by the Akron/Family Angels of Light record (Available at http://www.younggodrecords.com/product.asp?P_ID=42 )

It's one of the best things we've heard for ages. We are also looking forward to the imminent arrival of the Fire on Fire EP, also from Young God Records.

Long Live Michael Gira and All Who Sail in Him!

Currently listening : Akron/Family & Angels of Light By Akron Release date: By 08 November, 2005

Aiya!

Just burnt my tongue testing tonight's ribollita.
It's taken so bloody long to cook I am no longer hungry, having eaten all the bread I was supposed to toast to put in it!

teevee

Just watched 30 seconds of Gigi d'Alessio cutting bread.

Seemed like MUCH longer!

Gigi d'Alessio come up as incorrect in the spellcheck too, as does spellcheck. Spell check, it would seem, is better. Alternatives for Gigi d'Alessio are Gigi passionless, Gigs Recessional, Gig Expressionless and Gigi depression.

Decide for yourself : http://www.gigidalessio.com/

OK MICHAEL LEIGH on SEA!!

Michael, you is probably right. So I have decided to keep this blog open. (Oh, the word blog comes up as incorrect/unknown on y browser's spellcheck..)

No doubt that not a lot will occur, but anything I post on the other one I should post here too.
'Tis neater here.

UDON NOODLES

Seeing as this blog has not been updated for yonks, we thunk it was time to so.
BUT! having so little to say it only seems wise to try to do just that!

So

Most of any potential input to this blog has bee moved to the UDON NOODLES page
http://www.myspace.com/udonnoodleincident

WHO??

Formed in 2007 by surviving members of The Malicious Brothers, ZweiKaiserBund, Lovely Daze and Bowman, Udon Noodles is the Experimental side project of Udon-Noodle Death the infamous anglo-italian psychedelic-c&w duo.



YEAH BUT WHO??

Udon Noodles are (all songs/instruments etc:) Anna Wombal; L. Mow-Banana; Boomerang; Frank Cabernet; Pietro Kimiko; with regular guest on Tibetan Singing Bowls: A Bowman

http://www.myspace.com/udonnoodleincident

OH!

Come on over and check it out, you be sorry you did!

:-)

I am not dead

at least i don't think i am.

perhaps i just look it

Brigata Cianci / giving the Ultras a bad name

VeneziaMestre's least ultra ultras!

sitting in the office, thinking...

....

nope that's not working.

here in venice trying to get more hits for www.emilyharveyfoundation.org.
coming soon, Berty Skuber, Philip Corner and later on Ay-O - see the newsletter for details.

oh well, back to work....

ho-hum

Alan Bowman Performance Texts

http://www.lulu.com/content/648185

Alan Bowman: Performance Texts 1998 – 2004 With additional texts from 2005 – 2006 Surviving performance/event scores produced by Alan Bowman/The Freeformfreakout Organisation in the period 1998 to 2004 with an addendum of alterations and additions to texts and additional texts from 2005/2006.

A Biography of Sol Nte

http://www.lulu.com/content/650143

Born in 1873 to a family of immigrant Danish pastry farmers and the youngest of 11 siblings, expelled from the Robert Downey Junior School in Elton John's Wood,star of the Barber Surgeon's Hall dissection table and serious threat to the Turin Shroud, Sol Nte is quite possibly the world’s greatest living anagram of a waterway.

mump

We is concerned here in the Waugh/Bowman household for Nic fears she may have the 'Mump'. Not the mumps as suffered by many a poor child but the 'Mump'. For she has the soreness on but one side.

Those of us amongst the staff who have consulted the medical dictionary, when we recovered from the shock of the 'Mucus' pages are of the combined and informed opinion that she has a touch of the old sore throat.

The Hooligans were at home again today, Daniel with the fevers and Joseph with the raging snotters, both exhausted were also suffering from the 'getting up at six o'clock in the morning and jumping up and down on mammy and daddy's bed syndrome' i.e. a black humour, lack of appetite and the like.

I lost yet another day's work.

kids eh? can't live with 'em

can you?

;-)

new fluxus

Warning! The following has a boring factor rating of 110/100. Probably better if you just look for the link it talks about!

Being an admirer of and interested in Fluxus, in fact having got to know and even work with some of the artists involved, I kind of keep half an eye on what is going on. A member of Fluxlist since 1998 (now NeoFluxlist on Yahoo as our host server seems to have packed up its trouble in its old kit bag and buggered off), I have had the fortune to witness the antics of quiet a few Fluxus inspired contemporary artists.

One of the arguments or questions that often arises is 'just how do we define Fluxus?' both historical and contemporary and so far no one seems to have come up with an answer which suits all, probably for the best. This question often leads to heavy and dour discussions and diatribes over 'who is in the gang? who can be? what is/was the gang in the first place?' And while this is all very good and academic and stuff it often omits to include the humour Fluxus, which although may not actually be that relevant to the argument but is important to me! :-)

I have noticed a distinct lack of fun in a lot of contemporary Fluxus inspired works, lots of 'research' and experiment which I am very interested in. Allen Bukoff (allenbukoff.com) is a contemporary Fluxus inspired artist (despite shunning the whole scene, well for a brief period anyway ;-) ), whose works involve a great deal of wry humour and whose 'research' pieces may appear somewhat tongue in cheek but on closer inspection/reflection are a whole lot deeper. Inspired.

There are of course many contemporary Fluxus inspired artists who have a fantastic sense of humour, but which choose not to express this in their work.

Recently however I came across a site which really did make me laugh, it's not particulary Fluxus it's basically just a send up or a parody of some Fluxus artists. I suppose it's not really all that good but it really hit a spot.
Yogi Fu Maciunas' "Flux-Mess" a parody of the Flux Mass is quite near the mark and Henry Flinch's "An Essay on Exceptual Art" is rather naughty. I spent a good few weeks with Henry once, I don't suppose he'd appreciate the joke.

the site is at fluxuswaste.blogspot.com/ there's not a lot there but i'm kind of hoping that more stuff will turn up.


and i'm not completely convinced that allen bukoff is not involved...

?

well then not a lot to report of late. all been a bit dull really.

venezia did win on sunday though, 5-0 against pro patria! who?
exactly!
but they were 4 good goals and a penalty, pretty exciting stuff really. almost got my voice back.
had a horrible cold
but it's gone.

almost finished the biography of Sol Nte, Stoke on Trent's startlingly trousered troubadour then i'm going to send a copy to Roger Stevens and Michael Leigh for editing.

as they have absolutely nothing better to do! (check their blogs!)

tra.....

The Reversal of the Ex-Communication of Lord Listamovimenti Byron

the following is an extract from a document (as yet undated) found in the freeformfreakout organisation archives. unfortunately we have been unable to upload the images as our scanner is goosed. it appears to be an illustrated field report from a dig in the venetian lagoon - the following is what appears to be some background information which may shed some light on the actual finds:

The Reversal of the Ex-Communication of Lord Listamovimenti Byron
(The Impostor or Fake)
Archaeological Find from Saint Julian’s Isle

There is a legend which tells of a tale which relates the story of an enormous and preposterously opulent feast. A huge banquet, outrageous in both size, cost and the amount of quail used instead of hotdogs with the cheese and pineapple cocktail stick nibbles. The banquet is said to have taken place in Venice at the beginning of the height of the might of the Most Serene Republic, and is said to have involved so many guests that no calle or campo in Venice, not even Piazza San Marco was big enough to seat them all.

The banquet was in honour of the Reversal of the Ex-Communication of the Fake Lord Byron by Pope Gregory the Furred. Byron was originally ex-communicated for his blasphemous poetry, most notably the sonnet “Oh, So Called All-Seeing, All Knowing, All powerful One! If You’re so Great then Come On Have a Go! I Challenge You to a Yorkshire Shin-Kicking Competition, If You Can Find Me that is!”

Byron renounced his poem as an “Ill-informed and misguided work of nonsense by an ignorant and silly fool who had certainly seen the errors of his ways and who had every intention of returning to The Flock ay ess ay pee!” Byron had spent a god month or two in hospital after being found unconscious in an upturned beer barrel with severely bruised shins and a size thirteen Walkley’s ‘Foundryman’ Safety Clog miraculously wedged in a place which would ensure his avoidance of horseriding, cribbage and other sitting down based activities (like sitting down) for a goodly while.

So large indeed was the table required for the feast that a special pontoon bridge, funded by a special Black Jack Night at the Garibaldi Working Mens’ Club, had to be constructed out into the lagoon, stretching from Santa Croce almost to Punto San Giuliano or St. Julian’s Fiat.

Archaeological evidence leads us to believe that Pope Gregory, Henry Tudor, Lord Byron and in fact Marco Polo where sitting at the San Giuliano end and not at the ‘Venice’ end as previously thought. One theory being that the smell and noise from the bus station could have potentially triggered one of Pope Gregory’s migraines and therefore the potential flaying alive of any guest who was perhaps a little heavy handed with his spoon during the soup course. Doge Enrico Dandolo is thought to hat been sat at about one kilometre from the ‘Venice’ end, however a large margin of error must be considered probable to allow for the tide.

Giacomo Casanova, King Louis XIV of France, Quentin Crisp, Mary Magdalene and Martin Luther are thought to have occupied the foot of the table, the Santa Croce, or ‘Venice’ end. Studies of fossilised footprints found under platform three of the station point top the fact that a “right old time” was had by all in that particular company. Close scrutiny of the footprints show that apparently Casanova and Crisp coped considerably better when dancing in heels that King Louis or Mary Magdalene. Martin Luther, sat at that end for obvious reasons. (He still had a bag of nails from the Vatican True Relics of the Cross workshops that the Pope had lent him, unaware of what he wanted them for.) It is also interesting to note that Luther, although barefoot, appears to have danced a mean Tarantella.

Pope Simon, responsible for Byron’s ex-communication was not present on the count of the fact that;
a.) he wasn’t really all that popular in the Byron camp;
b.) the presence of two popes at the same dinner table may have been deemed as somewhat of a bad show, raising doubts over Papal Succession laws but not only that, questions would have bee asked about the economic and environmental issues linked to the creation of all that black and then white smoke, the endless lunches for the cardinals and the traditional end of election disco. The ‘two for the price of a nun’ drinks promotions were said to be responsible for a whole host of things, allegedly including two or three ‘immaculate conceptions’, still kept from the general Hail Mary paying public by Papal Dictate. Pope Simon’s election is purportedly the result of the fact that Cardinals Point and Synne used the white smoke producing wood to stoke up the Vatican oven just as someone else was asking whether “anyone fancied a beer while we look at the menu?”
c.) he’d been dead for 501 years, killed by divine intervention and a miraculous 6 dart finish.

Perhaps one of the most interesting facts about the archaeological finds is the fact that they were uncovered on an island which, if the truth be known, simply could not have existed at the time of the banquet. Standard and accepted previous archaeological finds point to the fact that the island was constructed by the Austrians at the time of their occupation of northern Italy and the construction of the rail bridge which still connect Europe to Venice. It just doesn’t point to where.

Excavations are expected to continue for as long as the wine lasts.

bleeargghh!

oh well it looks like it's that time of year again, all consuming apathy and inability to do anything creeps in.

at least i've got the football now, a season ticket for venezia - pride of serie c1!
yesterday we were away to cittadella and it was the worst game so far. BUT lunch was good, we found a trattoria near castelfranco veneto which specialised in grilling things on a huge fire in the middle of the restaurant. it was cheap and i ate too much and drank too much wine but the the ultra' were on form and the singing and insult hurling kept me awake.

today i'm just miserable

bleeeaarrgh!