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NYSAE in Sound art book

There are a few pages written about the NYSAE in a sound art book currently distributed in the UK and France by Double Entendre publishers. I only got a peek at it so far. We just got one copy to pass around. Hey my name is in it. nifty. Though Giant Ear))) was mentioned, it was not elaborated upon which is quite a shame as it is the social outreach aspect to our group that really got things going and is still the core of our collaborations.

www.vibrofiles.com/essays_autumn_leaves.php

Autumn Leaves is a book about how sound encounters space and about how that encounter has been made visible, legible and, most importantly, audible. The book draws together a number of different perspectives - from acoustics to architectural criticism to anthropology and beyond - and places these perspectives in conversation with others developed through creative practice.

Edited by Angus Carlyle, includes Essays by: Bill Davies, John Levack Drever, Tobias Fischer, Steve Goodman, Tim Ingold, Helmi Järviluoma, Ari Koivumäki, Meri Kyotö, Heikki Uimonen, Rahma Khazam, Sylvain Marquis, Tom Rice, David Toop, Salome Vogelin and Hildegard Westerkamp.

Interviews with: Peter Cusack, Max Dixon, Christina Kubisch, Alvin Lucier and Hildegard Westerkamp.

Artworks by: Mira Choi, Jem Finer, Charles Fox, Dan Holdsworth, Zoe Irvine, Nikolaus Gansterer, Cathy Lane, Locus Sonus, NYSAE, Aki Onda, Tashi Petter and Rachel White, Axel Stockburger, the students of Srishti College Bangalore, Goran Vejdova, Claudia Wegener and John Wynne & Tim Wainwright.

Published by Double Entendre & CRISAP

ISBN: 09548074-3-X

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CITYSOL 2007 and Tune (Out)))side

Please come out and play! I've put together the
NYSAE's Sound Garden of sonic sculptures,
installations, soundwalks, and performances for
CitySol at the wildlife habitat of Stuyvesant Cove at
Solar One on the East River, NYC. All works are
solar, wind, water, or people powered. (mine's pedal
powered). July 12-15th
http://www.solar1.org/education/citysol/

I will also be performing at the Tune (Out)))side
event
at free103point9's Wave Farm in Acra, NY this Saturday
with Jonny Farrow and Edmund Mooney. We will be
performing microsounds in a plexiglass box: SOUNDBOX
1, that is radio transmitted to viewers' headphones as
they explore the 30 acres of streams, forest, and
trails near the Catskill Mts. There will be lots of
great performers on 5 channels (webcasted) along with
installations.
http://free103point9.org/event.php?eventID=1168
DETAILS BELOW.

best wishes,
~Andrea~

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CITYSOL 2007

Please join the NYSAE for CitySol July 12-15th
A clean energy, interactive art and music festival
at Solar One at E. 23rd and the East River, NYC!
http://www.solar1.org/education/citysol/

NYSAE is presenting a sound garden of installations,
soundwalks, and performances that are all solar, wind,
water, or people powered.

Sonic sculptures and installations:

Gnomon: Brett Ian Balogh
Slaphappy: Andrea Callard + David Watson
N.: Andrea Polli + Joe Gilmore
Oceanic: Andrea Williams

really really don't miss Sunday July 15th!:

Soundwalks led by Todd Shalom
(2 sessions at 1pm & 3pm) Each soundwalk adventure is
limited to 15 people, so come early to guarantee your
spot!

2:30pm
Experimental Outdoor Ambulatory Sound Performances
Five musicians (Michael Attias, Michael Evans, Kenta
Nagai, David Watson and Matthew Welch) explore the
location and ways of playing and listening together
(and apart) at Solar One at Stuyvesant Cove Park.

Info on participating artists here:
http://www.nyacousticecology.org

The full four day CitySol schedule is here:
http://www.solar1.org/education/citysol/schedule/index.htm

Hope to see you at Solar One!

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Tune (Out)))side 2007
free103point9

Sat. July 7, 2007, 3 p.m. - 9 p.m., $5 admission
Doors open at 2 p.m.

No amplified sound. 32 performers on five radio
frequencies.

Featuring live performances from:

( ), Scott Allison, Gill Arno, Mara Barenbaum, Blues
Control, Matt Bua, Bunnybrains, Michael Farley, Jonny
Farrow,Chris Forsyth, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon,
Sarah Margaret Halpern, Andy Hayleck, Koen Holtkamp,
Tianna Kennedy, Marievel Knievel, Todd Merrell,
Edmund Mooney, Ilya Monosov, Mudboy, Oh My F***ing
God,
Marisa Olson, ben owen, QXW, Radio Ruido, Tom Roe,
Marina Rosenfeld, Elliot Sharp, Thick Wisps, Bruce
Tovsky,Shou Wang, Andrea Williams.

This outdoors variation of free103point9's Tune(In)))
event features artists playing directly into five FM
transmitters at free103point9's Wave Farm. No sound is
amplified. Attendees tune in with radio headphones
(provided) as they explore 30 acres of meadows,
forests, and ponds. Bring your own radio with
headphones if you want; if not one will be provided
with admission and returned at the end of the show.

also featuring:

*Opening of Wave Farm Transmission Sculpture Garden.
First work: Matt Bua's "Sing Sun Room"

*Special Wave Farm installations for 2007:
LoVid, "7105"
Douglas Repetto, "puff bang reverb"
Michelle Rosenberg, "Auricle"
"free103point9: Selected Works" DVD
Tianna Kennedy and Tarikh Korula,
"Restored Archeoacoustic Recording Kit and
Documentation"

*special water installation

at Wave Farm
5622 Route 23, Acra, New York 12405
2.5 hrs north of NYC
45 mins south of Albany
20 mins west of Hudson
in Greene County, New York

DIRECTIONS here:
http://www.free103point9.org/sculpturegarden.php

Four channels streamed live on free103point9 Online
Radio.
www.free103point9.org

i like paper journals better...

lots of events and people and trees and sounds.
I'll put them in a bottle into the ocean for you.

ok i should update this very soon. yes.

First Trip to LA - seemingly vibeless at first

I rented a car from San fran to meet my friends Andrea, SB, and Raji in LA for Thanksgiving, some shows, and more eating. I've never been to LA! Andrea and SB just moved out there and they're so terribly missed! Also I was there to record the sounds of feral cows that supposedly run free in Santa Monica park--skinny and elusive cows that escaped from a farm. I wanted to take the beautiful coastal drive but I only had time off from work to take the shorter way which was Rt. 5. I still found it beautiful though not exactly interesting. In bumpertobumper holiday traffic I found myself video taping things like tumbleweeds set to whatever songs happened to be on the local radio station. Landscape karaoke.

Rt. 5 Tumbleweed set to some Mexican song.


rare open road no traffic set to another Mexican song.


farm thingee in motion set to BellBivDevoe's Do Me Baby.


Thanksgiving was wonderful and thanks for Andrea's mom's cooking. yum! Then hiking it all off in Santa Monica National Park in search of feral cows and George Clooney.
Wow, looking out over it, LA still has a strong old fashioned movietown feel.

no feral cows were sighted or recorded, but...


We did encounter George Clooney's sexy gate guarded by two harmless looking mutt dogs.


Raji left her underwear there for him. Well no, but apparently someone did.


Raji, inspired by underwear left for George, buys a Starmap.

We drove around in Andrea's Hybrid Prius with a GPS tracker that talked. Her name is Karen. LA seems sprawly but really great...we saw the amazing Magritte Exhibit at the LACMA and the tarpits with great sounds of the earth passing gas. How does one meet another person though with everyone in cars 98% of the time? I think these next pictures are in Laurel Canyons...bugalows and such.


SB's friend Emma's place.


Where rich movie makers meet to greet each other and pick up their fat checks.


watch out for humps in LA.

Sooo much expensive real estate with manicured lawns...so what are the kids up to in this town? Lets go to the Il Corral on Heliotrope "an experimental all-ages artspace devoted to the periphery, where you can be free to enjoy the strangest,newest or most familiar experiences and artists"http://www.ilcorral.net/




ohmy, apparently blackface by white boys. And one guy dressed up like a real estate salesman. ok I guess it must be the cultural backlash i was looking for. The music was not great that night though and we got told we were weird for giggling over a very graphic erotic massage book from the sixties where the male model looked just liked Jesus. What a super video store nearby!! cult faves i didnt know existed.


I wish I had more pics from LA but I was too busy exploring and eating everything.
excellent excellent Magritte show.

"Beautiful Radiant Things"

I lived on E. 13th St. b/t 1st and 2nd Ave for several years and I was happy to find out that Emma Goldman had lived down the next block. The sign always felt a bit more like a warning than a memorial.
Across the street on the same block is a large empty lot that I would always walk by that went through to the other side on 14th and I'd imagine all the wonderful things that could be built there-like more green space. The owners would keep paying to have all the trash removed, but it would just get filled up with garbage and weeds immediately because it has no purpose but to sit there and wait for it's property value to go up for real estate. Friends said that it's been empty for at least a decade.

I decided that it would be a good place to have Emma Goldman Park--a workshop oriented communtity center for gatherings with a playground, a garden, lots of trees for birds, and composting. I looked up the property under government zoning because if it was public property there would be chance to make this happen. Unfortunately it's privately owned by GrossBuilders...yup that's their name.
So my friend David Matorin said he met an artist named Veronica Jay Clay who is doing a Serenading Architecture project and that we should serenade Emma Goldman Park as part of her project. Why not create the large park out of sound with a pop sensibility for the passers by? The lot's history actually included being an old vaudeville theater that Mae West and the Marx Brothers performed at so we thought to include my friend Kamala on accordian. So what took place was me, David Matorin, Kamala Sankaram, and Gabe Moylan breaking into the lot with battery powered equipment and playing and singing for passers by. An official looking person was starting to motion for us to leave but as we started singing he stopped and listened. Kamala was on accordian, me on field recordings, David on effects, Gabe vocals, Che shot some video. I'll try and get the audio up on my website...when i get my website. for now some photos:

EAR to the EARTH - Sound and Music Festival - October 2006

The NYSAE co-hosted the Ear to the Earth opening with the Electronic Music Foundation at 3-Legged Dog Gallery in the Financial District that was webcast on free103point9. The idea of the festival was that as musicians and artists we can make a difference through our work for the environment. Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig of NASA spoke very engagingly about climate change with Andrea Polli's sonification work. Michelle Nagai discussed NYSAE and our group's mission, history, projects, and events. I spoke briefly about Giant Ear))) and the "social climate of sound and environment". I also DJ'd the opening with Giant Ear))) field-recording archives from the first show, playing works by Peter Cusak, Ben Owen, Edmund Mooney, United States of Belt, and others.

An odd thing happened...Laurie Spiegel arrived as I was setting up and said that she was told that she was to open with her Ferals piece of NYC pigeon photos and bird sounds. Wow, I finally got to meet her but an uncomfortable way to meet her as I was already listed as playing, I flew out from CA mostly for the festival, compiled an hour of material, and her piece was to be installed for the rest of the festival. Fortunately another NYSAEr showed her a program print-out with my name on it because I don't think I would have said anything. Well we listened to each others' sounds and we decided that my sounds would go with her projected bird photos in very Cagean way and Joel should announce that we were experimenting in a very New York kindof way. The photos were great and there were so many people there that it didn't really matter anyway. Though people came up to say nice comments on the sounds and one older woman came up and said that the sound with the visuals was great! hm, when I looked up I saw a photo pop up of R.I.P. on a tombstone while I was playing Children on Swings in Carroll Garden park and often there was a rollercoaster sound with close-ups of pigeons. um, yay!-Laurie said she liked it too. whew. and she said that we have the same minidisk recorder. (me-geek)

The performers included Michelle Nagai and Ben Owen with live performance/live mixed recordings/microtonalness; Ricardo Arias on balloons/field recordings; and Sean Meehan stamping a drum and the surrounding area and leaving it as an installation to be discovered by the audience. Great mixture of good sounds and strong performance aspects. not sure if it carried over to radio very well, but eh.
The rest of the festival sounded pretty wonderful! no time to write it all down!
Please check the Ear to the Earth website for new developments.

some PR about E2TE:

http://nymag.com/guides/fallpreview/2006/classicaldance/19745/

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/30/061030gore_GOAT_recordings3

Keynotes of San Francisco - October 2006

I've been out listening and recording. The sounds of San Francisco are easier to isolate in recordings than NYC. Less noiiise, less people. The sounds that reoccur most here seem to be: the underground space whoosh of the BART, the MUNI bus' Star Wars twangy cables, dingy trolleys, clackity cable cars, crows, starlings, town clock, ferry boats, Spanish speakers, street performers, people asking for change, dogs in parks, the ocean shusshing, echos of Native American culture which sounds stronger than on the East Coast...the coyotes in Golden Gate Park. Another unheard sound is of everyone simultaneously cursing in their cars to find parking but come out smiling. lala la. peaceman. People do yell on the streets here but often it's like a fun shout and it's freeform, not so sculpted like cursing on the streets of nyc.



The Transamerica Building at 600 Montgomery Street. The pyramid shape was inspired by how the shape of a tree lets light down into the forest. It might be the tallest building in SF (for now) and it's only fitting that it has its own loud drone. The drone comes from two round concrete vents in front perhaps for the parking garage underground, but I like to think that the building is being serenaded.



drone makers. There is a person in the shot for perspective. won't say what the layout of the concrete things and the pyramid make me think of.



drone makers prettied up for Christmas.

BlogBackUP- This is October 2006

Natural light show across the land while listening to Francoise Bayle inside the car with Jon and Ruth and Joe Semiconductor at Point Reyes, CA--beyond words experience.