Monthly Archives: April 2009

Rashaad Newsome’s “Shade Compositions”

April 29, 2009 – 1:50 am

Rashaad Newsome premiere of “Shade Compositions” at The Kitchen, a live performance featuring a a chorus of more than twenty black women. Influenced by improvisatory orchestral music and live video-mixing, Newsome divides his performers into groups akin to instrumental sections as they enact his choreographed sound score made up of repeated sequences of culturally specific or stereotypical gestures, movements, and vocalizations. Newsome simultaneously records, loops, edits, and remixes in real-time the audio and video documentation of the performers using a hacked Nintendo® Wii™ game controller. The resulting layers of real and projected imagery investigate assumptions and constructions of identity in mainstream media and popular culture.

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EXTRA! EXTRAORDINARY!

April 28, 2009 – 9:25 pm

William Meadows’ Fusebox performance:

Sound In Hand: A Performance with WiiMote and Wacom

ping pong balls, twirling tubes, writing tablets that talk

So… Jaap Blonk, Laurie Anderson and Robert Ashely go on a meditative hike together in the forest. Except it’s not the forest; it’s technology.

“Knowledge of the technical makes creativity possible.”
—Josef Svoboda (1968)

I just got back from a surround sound journey through real and imaginary ping pong, adolescence crushes described in a Gertrude Stein mentality, protons and photons, poetry, techno and video exploration. A soundscape landscape into William Meadows’ brain as he contextualizes, synthesizes and expands upon past performances at Church Of The Friendly Ghost and New Music Coop.

Meadows, a sound engineer, manipulated the space into a super sonic masterpiece of a room. ART AUTHORITY HAS NEVER SOUNDED SO GOOD. They will have to take it all apart and put it “back to normal” after that performance.

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First Lady Friends Series May 10 @ CotFG!

April 21, 2009 – 4:18 pm

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

SUNDAY MAY 10, 2009
The first in an all new series with Church of the Friendly Ghost:

Lady Friends #1
Number One of Four in the series

Who:
Amanda Mora
Amy Annelle
Aditi Tahiti
Lisa Cameron / LA

Where:
Salvage Vanguard Theater: 2803 Manor Rd.

When:
Sunday, May 10th 2009 / Doors open at 8pm / $5

Why:

From May to August, Church of the Friendly Ghost presents a series featuring female artists who push the boundaries of art and music. Too rarely are experimental art and new music events in Austin female-centric. In order to at least temporarily reject this truth, (and at best, spark a renaissance) the series stems from the desire to experience several evenings of performance from female artists.

The primary goal is to provide these artists with a space to expand their art form while providing the audience an panoptic impression of the work that women are producing in Austin and points beyond. Lady Friends will focus on media art, performance art, and music that is thought provoking and original. This series will include experimental bands, filmmakers, solo performers, and improvisers.

Additionally, CotFG aims to contrive a new point of ingression for the female arts community that coincides with a focused forum for discourse and networking. The series will culminate in August with our final show as an evening of improvisational works by an all female cast. Alissa DeRubeis and Amanda Lewis are the principal curators.

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YU on YUtube

April 21, 2009 – 11:44 am

Get ready to have your mind blown by early/mid 80’s little known Austin new wave group YU.The band/video art crew consisted of C.U.Squirm, Rod Miles and Bentley Shaft.

OPTION Magazine Review Dec. 1985:

This band shows a sophisticated flair for bizarro transmutations of rock styles that seem to range from Zappa to the Residents and beyond.

They just put up some of their amazing videos on youtube. The godz must be smiling down on us now. Highlights include:

YU – Huxley’s Tune

More intense vidz after the jump…

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Circuit bending workshop 4/25/09

April 21, 2009 – 11:30 am

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This weekend during the Modern Aural Sculpture Symposium South (organized by Church of the Friendly Ghost as part of the Fusebox Festival):

Circuit bending workshop
Date: April 25th, 2009
Time: 3:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: Acton School of Business
1404 East Riverside Drive, Austin, TX
Presenter: Thomas Fang and Bleep Labs

Hands on workshop in which participants bring a sound emitting device such as a toy and are shown how to bend circuits to change the shape of the sound. Circuit bending is the experimental process of creatively short-circuiting electronic devices (such as battery-powered children.s toys, keyboards, and drum machines) to create unusual sounds. Extensive knowledge of circuitry or electrical engineering is not required.
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