3.3.09
Ruth Catlow's 'Domestic Idols' is delishaless
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Ruth asks us to...."Please choose a room from the list below to open a new window displaying erotic images of pipecleaner figures in a domestic environment...."
what can one say! More of Ruth's great work can be found on furtherfield click here
1.9.08
variations and influences from and related or just juxtaposed next to Bererian
Bert Ipers Brent performing stripsody
Karina Oganjan perform stripsody
luigi Nano Sound Sculptures
Footage used as part of an instillation at the Royal, Festival Hall, South Bank, London
Resonating an anti-nutonian substance in a speaker cone playing Luigi Nono's music created sporadic organic forms evident in this silent video.
This video was projected onto a 180mm x 180mm vinyl sheet on the floor encouraging viewer interaction.
The piece is symbolic of the unpredictable nature of Nono's experimental music combining organic instruments and the harshness of digital processing technologies.
Cathy Berberian 'trills me...'
Here is a famous song (written by Heitor Villa-Lobos) performed in a Yma Sumac-ish manner by the great avant-garde opera singer Cathy Berberian.
Cathy Berberian (Attleboro, Massachusetts, 1925 - Rome, Italy, 1983) was a composer, mezzo-soprano singer, and vocalist. From 1950 to 1966 she was married to composer Luciano Berio, who deconstructed her voice in "Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)" (1958) and wrote his "Circles" (1960) and "Recital I (for Cathy)" (1972) for her. In addition Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Hans Werner Henze and Igor Stravinsky wrote works for her voice.
She interpreted contemporary avant-garde music, Armenian folk songs, Monteverdi, The Beatles, and her own compositions. Her best known work is her "Stripsody" (1966), in which she exploits her vocal technique using comic book sounds.
Enjoy!
For a wonderful essay on her and Scoring the Voice
read "Cathy Berberian : From Score to Stage"
by Tereza Havelková & Pieter Verstraete Click HERE
28.7.08
First Sounds present first recorded Voice
Au Clair de la Lune--French folk song (1860 Phonautogram)
Scott recorded someone singing an excerpt from the French folksong "Au Clair de la Lune" on April 9, 1860, 17 years before Edison invented the phono graph....and deposited the results with the Académie des Sciences in 1861. The existence of a tuning-fork calibration trace allows us to compensate for the irregular recording speed of the hand-cranked cylinder. The sheet contains the beginning line of the second verse-"Au clair de la lune, Pierrot répondit"-and is the earliest audibly recognizable record of the human voice yet recovered.
For First Sounds click HEREImage: Sarah Lucas, chicken knickers
16.7.08
sister act onstage with dolls and sound
20-minute *karaokecore cabaret*_ by sister0 click here
mutant dolls & curiosa embedded with hacked gamepads are played like instruments to divine samples and modify vocals; playful ode to the history of paraphernalia...
'Set on a small makeshift stage reminiscent of early 20thC fun fairs, Nancy appears right at the center of the action dressed in a dress which appears to be composed from as many sources of material as the rest of the stage. Everything seems to have come right from a Mad max movie heavily impregnated with very colorful trash aesthetics. Using the various devices intended to produced audio glitches, she manipulates a set of prerecorded pop songs as well as her own voice live on stage."
Florian Cramer and Anke Arns (2007)
fantasticosa!!!! great stuff!!!
Have youever wonderd what your ebay code sounded like as a coded song?
Image by Ed Ruscha
for your very own sound of ebay click here....
4.6.08
Dolly Parton's youngest Imitators
as quoted in ....WFMU "Seen below are five disturbing and bizarre photos published in Dolly Parton's 1994 biography, "Dolly: My Life And Other Unfinished Business." The pictures, presumably sent to Dolly Parton Enterprises by dopey parents, display young girls dressed as Dolly Parton. If I had to guess, I'd say they're all likely between 3 and 5 years old. As you can see, they're sporting tight dresses, make-up, garish wigs, and creepiest of all, huge bosoms. What would induce parents to allow their pre-prepubescent daughters to don such weird attire and pose for cringe-inducing photos like the ones below? I have no idea."
1.6.08
She be She Strike on WFMU"s Beware of the Blog
beautiful haunting layered Inuit pieces.. right here. Its said they took over the radio station when it was shut for a strike!!
I've been doing layering like this but different. I LIKE the cacophony
MP3s: 30 Minute version of 
She Be She Strike and three songs from Inuit singer Tumasi Quissa: Iyagaaluit, Irngutapiga Qiayuapeomat and Niaquvinialuit.
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Christof Mignon- Phonic Gaps and Gasps review by Allen S Weiss
http://www.christofmigone.com/html/main.html
“Skull partitas, glottal toccatas, ear arias, bone blues,
heart sonatas, nerve operas, blood symphonies – the
audio inventions of Christof Migone evoke the disrupted
and degenerate inner voice that so disquietingly haunts
our thought and our speech. Through the piercing and
obsessive acoustics of Hole in the Head, the possibilities
of audio montage permit vocal organisms and electronic
circuits to intersect, reflect and infect each other. These
works therefore exist in a highly charged state of
paradox and contradiction: they are impish and lyrical,
nightmarish and enlightening, abrasive and soothing.
Here, creativity occurs at that threshold where language
disintegrates and electronics peaks outs; where codes
are transgressed and nonsense elaborated; where
sonorous distortions, interferences and noises establish
a delirious, crazed, schizophonic art. The analysis of
such works demands a teratology of the voice, whose
monsters arise by means of liberating all those vocal
“accidents” that hitherto blemished the pure sounds of
bel canto and belles lettres: moans, screams, sighs,
cries, chokes, roars, gasps, mumbles, whistles, yelps,
slurps, groans, chortles, snorts, pops, clicks, wheezes,
babbles, hisses, hums, whimpers, hoots, whines, puffs,
drones, stutters, lisps, rattles, and countless other
imperfections.
As Roman Jakobson suggests in his celebrated
psycholinguistic studies on the relations between
aphasia and linguistic structure, the pathological
breakdown of quotidian speech – culminating in either
the incoherent jumble of word salad, the inarticulate simplicity
of one-word sentences, or the utter silence of aphasia universalis
– proffers new modes of poetic form." Weiss
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