27.3.13
out there ... songs on conceptual art
songsonconceptualart.com
"Artists Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom created Songs on Conceptual Art by inviting musicians and artists to compose original songs based on Sol LeWitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art. LeWitt's text, originally published in 1969, is one of the most important documents of the Conceptual Art movement. In an effort to expose this essential text to a wider audience, artist John Baldessari improvised melodies to each of the 35 sentences in his 1972 video piece Baldessari Sings LeWitt. Baxley and Ransom’s Songs on Conceptual Art shares Baldessari’s intentions and opens new points of access for LeWitt’s Sentences through these musical interpretations."
"Artists Crystal Baxley and Stefan Ransom created Songs on Conceptual Art by inviting musicians and artists to compose original songs based on Sol LeWitt's Sentences on Conceptual Art. LeWitt's text, originally published in 1969, is one of the most important documents of the Conceptual Art movement. In an effort to expose this essential text to a wider audience, artist John Baldessari improvised melodies to each of the 35 sentences in his 1972 video piece Baldessari Sings LeWitt. Baxley and Ransom’s Songs on Conceptual Art shares Baldessari’s intentions and opens new points of access for LeWitt’s Sentences through these musical interpretations."
This is a fantastic collection and wonderful idea, I'm working on a similar project at the moment with Gertrude Stein's sentences from her text Two: ... so very inspiring. Love a good out there song.
9.3.13
Hautology House sound game by severed heads frontman Tom Eliard is fantastic
Hauntology House is an interactive online music experience that will be housed on abc.net.au/arts for the duration of Adelaide Festival.
“Here, music is the living space rather than the walls, and in that space lives a collection of machines, animals and tunnels - the ghosts of my musical ideals."
"Music is the heart of all art whether visual or sound; the editing of a film, the composition of a painting, light in a photograph are all musical. The muse is everywhere and it’s churlish to keep a music album trapped in a sleeve or download. I’m not making a new box - I’m saying here’s another way you can go, and there are infinite ways beyond this," says Ellard.
Tom Ellard is currently a media arts lecturer at COFA-UNSW. He has had a significant career as the front man and creative leader of Severed Heads, the seminal Australian electronic group who were the forerunners for pairing electronic music with computer-generated imagery.
From March 1 to April 30 you can access Hauntology House on abc.net.au/arts to reassemble old tape machines, meet manic rabbits and find a purely abstract place where vision and sound act together as music.
Where: abc.net.au/arts
When: Friday 1 March - Tuesday 30 April, 2013
Presented by Adelaide Festival in association with ABC Arts.
Read Tom Ellard's blog about the making of Hauntology House.
click here
7.3.13
[1973] "Not I" (Samuel Beckett)
... a woman suffering, the unsound sound of it.
the buzzing a dull roar in the skull.
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