Frippertronics
Robert Fripp is in an Anechoic Chamber. Saying things like, “We are all turkeys.” #1 guy. Disclaimer! Wikepedia’s page on Anechoic Chambers makes the following warning: The following health and safety risks are associated with RF anechoic chambers: + RF radiation hazard + Fire hazard + Trapped personnel John Cage in an anechoic chamber, 1959... [ Read More → ]
Oneohtrix Point Never at MoMA
Oneohtrix at MoMA Oneohtrix Point Never played MOMA last night, as part of a multimedia performance with SF visual artist Nate Boyce. Russian Mind (scored by Oneohtrix Point Never) Nate Boyce is represented by Altman Siegel in SF. Photos by Erez Avissar. [ Read More → ]
2 Different Ways
I realize that these two videos have absolutely nothing to do with each other; BUT they represent the cream that has risen to the top of my mush-brain for the day, and that’s reason enough to post. [ Read More → ]
New Popstrangers Vid
My favorite of the new Flying Nun bands. These guys came over for CMJ and played a handful of really brilliant shows. Hoping they come back soon, so more people in the states can check them out. They are pressing a double a side to vinyl in the new year before the album comes out,... [ Read More → ]
Wolf Vostell’s “Dé-Coll/age Musik” reissued
Originally released in 1982 on the Italian avant-garde label/gallery/publishing house Multhipla, one would be hard-pressed to find Wolf Vostell’s Dé-Coll/age Musik. (Or anything else released via Multhipla) Thankfully, Berlin-based collective “Tochnit Aleph” has reissued the work, but only on CD– which is kind of a bummer. Especially bc they have done LP’s. Taking after... [ Read More → ]
Chris and Cosey at the Diogenes Club, Holland 1988
Creative Technology Institute (now called Institute for Creative Technology) Diogenes Club Diogenes Club, Arnham Holland Set list: Sleeping Stephen Arcade Vengeance Beatnik Club Workout Confession Obsession Dancing On Your Grave Beatbeatbeat More Chris and Cosey posts by Straight to Video: Here Here and TG Reissues Here [ Read More → ]
A Glimpse at Garbage and the Flowers
Former drummer Torben Tilly, now of Berlin based electronic duo Minit, described G&tF’s sound thusly: “There’s this crystalline structure of a song with its architecture of chords and idiomatic vocal melody. It’s something quite arcane and folkloric, owing a lot to Helen and Yuri Frusin’s song-writing and Helen Johnstones’ sapphirine voice. … These songs... [ Read More → ]
Mono No Aware-2011 Program Lineup
Mono No Aware is an exhibition that will present an international program of expanded cinema performances. The program will present ephemeral works that emphasize the cinematic and phenomenological experience. Now that the internet, television, and cellphones have become an everyday vehicle for the moving image; audience experience and connectivity is significantly altered, and the basic... [ Read More → ]
Nunvember NYC
So, I recently re-formatted this site, and for whatever reason– I lost a significant amount of content. One of the missing posts listed the details about the Flying Nun 30th Events in NYC.So I will re-post the latest below. Here’s the latest: 11/8: Open Deck DJ Night at Daddy’s Bar, BK. Bring yr favorite... [ Read More → ]
Bruce Russell comp
A couple of months back, I started blathering on about FN’s 30th. One of the things that I was pretty excited about was a new Bruce Russell comp, called “Time To Go.” Listen to this fantastic radio interview, which gives insight to Russell’s involvement with the label and previews excerpts–complete with personal accounts– from the... [ Read More → ]
Chris and Cosey instore/convo with Luke Turner at Rough Trade East
From the Rough Trade site: THROBBING GRISTLE need no introduction as they’re one of the most important & influential bands ever. For the first time in 30 years Throbbing Gristle are now back on their own original industrial records label & are releasing the entire TG back catalogue on vinyl and cd fully remastered. [Original... [ Read More → ]
Badd Energy on Flying Nun
It was partially revealed today that psyche-stone-riff-rappers Badd Energy will be releasing a new single and a music video tomorrow through Flying Nun. Badd Energy are Sam Moore, Coco Solid, Trixie Darko and J.Suave. They formed in 2009, and released their energetic debut ‘Tropic of Scorpio’ that year; the quartet seems to have now been... [ Read More → ]
Cosey as Methodology
Phrased as a postscript to her practice that inhabited the porn industry of the late 70s and early 80s, Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Confessions Projected reclaims her self-image through a 20-minute live, personal and critical reading, whilst washed with projected images of the magazine action Sexy Confessions of A Shop Assistant. Tate Britain presented Confessions Projected... [ Read More → ]
Detour to Higher Sub-Fidelity
Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer who was most interested in the theatrical side of musical performance. Deploying a critical interrogation to the position(s) of music within a cultural matrix, Kagel’s practice was sutured between and strengthened by other disciplines; mainly cinema and photography. Perhaps the least well known of the great post-second world... [ Read More → ]
Billy Corgan
(The above picture is not of me, HOWEVER that was the same photo I had in my locker. So just imagine a 100 pound braces-ed face 12 year old in a babydoll dress and green DM’s instead) Horrifyingly, I had one thing hung up in my 6th grade locker. It was a postcard that... [ Read More → ]
‘Peace, Love, and Rockets’ at Center for Book Arts
“Peace, Love, and Rockets” at Center for Book Arts 9/21/2011-12/3/2011 Opening: September 21, 2011 7-9PM 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor. New York, NY 10001 Organized by Felipe Mujica, Independent Curator Peace, Love, and Rockets is a research project and exhibition specially conceived for The Center for Book Arts, in collaboration with Keegan Cooke, Andreas... [ Read More → ]
Getting Even Older- Flying Nun Celebrates 30 Years, 1981-2011
This November, NZ’s Flying Nun records will celebrate their 30th year as a label. Record store-proprietor-turned-label founder, Roger Shepherd recently discussed the upcoming festivities and reissues on Kiwi FM. Several new releases are slated for 2011 (including Popstrangers, Surf Friends, T54, and Grayson Gilmour), they’ll release “Tally Ho” a best of CD comp (paying homage... [ Read More → ]
Boo-Hooray and Johan Kugelberg’s Forthcoming Exhibition on Dial House/Crass Fanzines/Gee Vaucher
“IN ALL OUR DECADENCE PEOPLE DIE” AN EXHIBITION OF FANZINES PRESENTED TO CRASS BETWEEN 1976 AND 1984 PLUS ORIGINAL CRASS-ERA ARTWORKS BY GEE VAUCHER AND A NEW AUDIO INSTALLATION BY PENNY RIMBAUD CURATED BY JOHAN KUGELBERG 265 Canal Street 6th floor, NY 10013 Sept 30th – Oct 20th, 2011 Opening: Friday, September 30th, 6-9pm The... [ Read More → ]
Hero’s dead
“I work on my tan in isolation” George Kuchar http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/george-kuchar-1942-2011 [ Read More → ]
Now I have a Ph. D in Tarkus
Tarkus, The half Armadillo/ half Tank creature, Was born from an egg erupted from a Volcano. Lego Tarkus Tarkus Chopper This is a very rare photo – the Tarkus stage prop being repaired, April 1973. “I say, I say ,I say,whats orl this then ? Its a bleeding smoking Tarkus at the Oval... [ Read More → ]
Industrial Records Announces it’s Official Re-activation, Re-releases Catalog Sept. 26th
I was pretty confused when I found a brand new copy of The Second Annual Report recently at the Philadelphia Record Exchange with an Industrial Records insignia printed on the back cover. Went to TG’s website and found that the band’s label is currently being reactivated: Industrial Records hereby announces it’s official re-activation. IR is... [ Read More → ]
Hole’s ‘Pretty on the Inside’ Reissued
The 1991 album was released solely on CD and tape cassette in the United States, but received a release on vinyl LP throughout Europe by City Slang, based in Berlin, Germany. The first 3,000 pressings of the LP were done on blue vinyl, with the remainder in standard black. Plain Records, an Oakland-based indie label... [ Read More → ]
Martin Newell Interview
Cherry Red Records founder Iain McNay interviewing Martin Newell in 2008 IAN MARSHALL’S INTERVIEW I was asked by my friends at the LA Record to conduct a phone interview with one of my favorite all-time recording stars, Martin Newell of The Cleaners from Venus. The resulting sprawl of an interview was published (in edited-down form)... [ Read More → ]
Straight to Video 1
I’ve been organizing an exhibition of music videos from Columbus, OH. The main impetus for the exhibition is to digitize previously un-transferred material that is at risk of entropy and/or deterioration. The digitized footage will then be gifted to a few archives after the exhibition for access and posterity. Some of the artists that I... [ Read More → ]
Guy Maddin to adapt Sparks’ tribute to Ingmar Bergman
Josiah Hughes reports: Back in 2009, legendary pop outsiders Sparks followed up their 21st studio album, Exotic Creatures of the Deep, with The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, an album that doubled as a musical, following a fictionalized version of the filmmaker’s life story. Now, the album will be expanded into a film by Canadian... [ Read More → ]
Ur-0 Remix and Pop Recontextualization according to Arcangel
Ever since reading Cory Arcangel’s op-ed piece for the summer issue of Artforum, I have been thinking about his analysis of quoting and appropriation in pop music. Hasn’t this always been the case in both music and art? It is interesting and curious that various strains of trance musics have entered the vernacular of American... [ Read More → ]