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Video: last week’s show with DJ Olive
Posted on February 5th, 2008 by dan.
Categories: video, musician, performing, nyc, improvisation, live visuals.
The video below is a brief excerpt of my 35 minute set with DJ Olive at {R}ake last week. Olive played a beautiful ambient set. I did live visuals on all four screens, mixing together new HD footage (@800×450) shot with my new HV20, mixed in a custom application built in Jitter with the v001 system. vade graciously recorded my set and I’ve posted the whole thing to the Internet Archive.
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Posted on June 22nd, 2006 by dan.
Categories: art-making, bloggage, musician, celebrity, nyc, america, music, art.
Spam is the I Ching of our millenium.
I had a fan moment today. A friend of mine is working with a hiphop artist I really, really dig. I ran into them today and told the artist I liked his music. So fumbly, these moments. I tend to think back on the lack of eye contact. Why? To be seen; to speak; to see; to be heard. Which of them is the operator in these encounters with recording artists? To be present; to be in the presence of.
Analog video art doubleplus good
Posted on May 8th, 2006 by dan.
Categories: visualists, videoartists, musician, hackers, nyc, shows, art.
I saw Flipped Chips at Galapagos tonight, a show of video art by contemporary artists and pioneers like Nam June Paik, Bill Etra and Matthew Schlanger. Works that stood out to me: Matthew Schlanger (beautiful synthesis, all built from oscillators); Karl Klomp, with music by toktek (simple distortion of a vid of a dog, triggered by audio, the results seemed so violent); Jon Satrom (nice sprite rip stuff with a sense of humor); Defanti/Sandin (really pretty and mesmerizing math psychedelia with a charming how-we-do-it video at the beginning); noteNdo / Johnny Beverley 1989! / Jeff, who I played with at the big chiptunes show back in October (excellent textures from hacking the NES). And there was a great Bit Shifter track with Jeff’s video. Speaking of which, Bit Shifter has a new album out and so does David Sugar!
Man I’m tired.
Anyway, to finish up — great stuff. It drove this home:
- it’s all simple things added together. no magic.
- minds are pattern recognition engines.
- the best stuff is elusive and evocative.
Also, I had a fun idea for projections @ Galapagos that I’m going to bounce off of CJ. Now I can crash. Thank Jeebus. I’m still not recovered from the end of the semester pushzzzzzz….
Argh
Posted on March 19th, 2006 by dan.
Categories: musician, shows, nyc, music.
Fuck me. Fuck me busy me.
I got home from seeing V for Vendetta tonight (excellent, chilling, apropos) to find my computer still playing WFMU. Some beautiful piano pieces in a peculiar tuning. Comes the station break and I find out who it was: some of Michael Harrison’s Music for Harmonically Tuned Piano. It rang a bell and I swore, fuck fuck fuck. Because I’d read about it in one of Keiko’s weekly recommendation emails. Because Harrison’s REVELATION: for Harmonically Tuned Piano was performed in its entirety at Experimental Intermedia on Thursday, while I was busy working for the New School and then coding Jitter patches. What is a harmonically tuned piano?
>In 1986, Harrison created the “harmonic piano,” an extensively modified seven-foot grand piano with the ability to alternate between two different tunings, thus creating the possibility to play 24 notes per octave on a conventional keyboard.
Here is a sample of Harrison’s work as I am sneaky sneaky.
Argh, again, argh. I could have seen the man himself performing for 90 minutes for $15! Anywho, speaking of being things you shouldn’t miss if you value your ability to not say fuck a lot, I’m performing Monday night with 60+ other artists to benefit David Linton, a friend and pillar of the NY art world. See above.
cj good++
Posted on February 12th, 2006 by dan.
Categories: musician, friends, performing, music, live visuals.
My show with Chris Jordan at Monkeytown last night went really well. We had a good turnout despite the blizzard. The band we played with, This Invitation, was really good: languid, somewhat brooding, slowcore guitar music, kind of like Low. I was doing brushwork that Chris mixed into his visuals, overlaying or underlaying my brush strokes on cityscapes, panoramas, and what looked like microorganisms. There were some really good moments; I really like collaborating with a passthrough like that. Unfortunately, our shipment of battery-powered slide projectors did not arrive in time so we will be doing the audience participation show next time.
