Giant Ear is the monthly radio show of the New York Society of Acoustic Ecology. This month we hear segments about the sound sculptures and working process of Chicago based sound artist Jesse Seay assembled between field recordings by Andrea Callard.

Max Goldfarb’s
Deep Cycle: Reincarnation of Herman Meydag
Parade • Procession • Publication

Please visit the Deep Cycle work page for audio archives.

June 12, 2010, 2 p.m.
Hudson Elks Flag Day Parade
Warren Street, Hudson, NY

June 13, 2010, 2 p.m.
Procession
streamed live at free103point9.org & WGXC.org

November 2010
Publication
details to be announced

June 12: Parade
Max Goldfarb’s Mobile49 (M49), a functional-symbolic emergency vehicle, will engage with the Hudson Flag Day Parade spectacle on Saturday June 12, 2010 (http://hudsonelksflagdayparade.com/). Central to Deep Cycle, the M49 will be a motorcade participant, displaying newly-completed customizations for mobile, solar-powered transmission, and towed by oxen along the parade route. Additional performative elements will be presented from the vehicle throughout the parade. Viewers are invited to experience the parade on Warren Street in the City of Hudson at 2 p.m.

June 13: Procession
After appearing among the fire brigades and marching bands of the Flag Day Parade, the Deep Cycleproject will unfold along a carefully established path constructed around a stretch of Route 23 from Hudson to Cairo, NY. Deep Cycle threads together a constellation of area-specific performance incidents using the truck itself as a framing mechanism and as an instrument for articulating the work through low-power radio transmission and web streams. The program ties together conditions, histories and interpretations of sites that are not conventionally or geographically associated as a function of its mobility. Thematically; consumption, waste, destruction and transformation are at the core of Deep Cycle’s narrative.

November: Publication
Texts, transcripts, drawings, photographs and more will be included in the subsequent book to be completed Fall 2010.

Deep Cycle includes performances, sounds, and words by Max Goldfarb, Tom Cody (WE2G), Brian Dewan, John Ashbery, Christina Linden, Brett Balogh, Bodega Algae, Ryder Cooley, John Cooley, Daniel Berry, Paul Elliman, Dan Beachy-Quick, Lance Duerfahrd, David Koehn and Garrett Phelan.

Deep Cycle is made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Harpo Foundation; and co-presented by free103point9.

Detour Collective and Caterini Dinopoulou present ChatRooms, a telematic performative installation that links, via the internet, three parallel events in three countries through the device of digital double as a form of communication. The duration of the installation is three hours each day, from 18.30 to 21.30. Spectators can enter and leave at any time.

18.30 – 19.30 (GMT): The body images of two performers are captured in real-time in England and Greece simultaneously. Then, the performers interact with each other by observing and manipulating their superimposed images on a single projection screen, creating a virtual dance duet.

19.30 – 20.30 (GMT): After the performance, spectators can book slots in order to actively participate, replacing the performer at the University of Chichester. They can experience the installation on a one-to-one basis, interacting with the performer at the Centre of Mediterranean Architecture / K.A.M. (Chania, Greece). You are welcome to just watch if you prefer.

20.30 – 21.30 (GMT): Greek spectators replace the performer at the K.A.M. (Chania, Greece) and interact with the performer at the University of Chichester. You are welcome to watch.

You can also watch the event online at:
www.chiuni.ac.uk/chatrooms
www.chania.gr

A telematic sound performance by Maria Papadomanolaki, entitled Meditation on an Invisible City, is ChatRooms’ soundscape for the whole event. This comprises live transmitted environmental sound from the New York cityscape, drones, voices and abstract rhythmical patterns.

These events take place in association with: University of Chichester, Centre of Mediterranean Architecture, Municipality of Chania, K.E.DI.H. and free103point9.org.

Sponsored by: ANEK lines

Venues:
University of Chichester, Studio 5
Bishop Otter Campus, College Lane
Chichester, PO19 6PE
Tel: 01243 816485 (Mon-Fri), 07811134066 (Sat-Sun)
Email: a.nichols@chi.ac.uk

Centre of Mediterranean Architecture
Akti Topazi 31, Katehaki Square
Chania, 73132
Τel: 0030 28210 40201
Email: culture@kam-arsenali.gr

Concept: Caterini Dinopoulou
Director / Choreographer: Caterini Dinopoulou
Interactive Video Artist: Neil Bryant, Caterini Dinopoulou
Performers: Myrto Gkouzelou, Rosanna Tat
Interactive Sound Artist: Dalot (Maria Papadomanolaki)

Biographies

Caterina Dinopoulou is a director, choreographer, interactive video artist and performer working on the field of interactive digital performance and installation exploring the phychological disembodiment and the embodiment of a digital double. She presented productions such as the digital performance Alter-egos, the interactive video installation 512:Personas, the multimedia dance performance Amalgam and the audiovisual live installation 2² in England, Finland, Cyprus and Greece. A video of the Amalgam performance received an award from The Video Art Gallery of London in 2007. She delivers workshops on choreography, performance and digital media in dance institutes in both England and Greece. She holds a BA (Hons) Dance and Visual Arts, University of Brighton. In 2008, Caterini was successfully awarded with a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, which has allowed her to complite an MA in Performance: Dance Maker at the University of Chichester. She is a founding member of Detour Collective.

Myrto Gkouzelou is a freelance performer and choreographer. She holds a first class Honours degree and a PGDip in Contemporary Dance, from London Contemporary Dance School. She has collaborated with various choreographers and one of her works was especially commissioned by the V&A Museum, for Friday Late collaborate.

Maria Papadomanolaki is a sound artist working with field recordings, found sounds and telematic performance. She releases her music as dalot and was recently singed with the independent US label n5MD.

Neil Bryant is a UK based artist primarily working with video and interactive video, his work has screened both nationally and internationally, the focus of current work explores the tension between mediated signs & Informing and reflecting cultural meaning.

Meeting Point

Meditation on an invisible city will serve as the sonic background for Meeting Point, an installation/performance that will occur, in parallel to ChatRooms, in the space of KAM (Mediterranean Center of Architecture, Greece).

In a gallery space, within which a 2x2 m square floor becomes the private space,

Noise! 2010 is a one-day, marathon event, featuring a staggering array of artists and works including performance, sound, moving image, language, and culinary craft.

Tune in here to listen to Noise! live from Ontological Theater in Manhattan.

Tickets are cash-only at the door.
Full event = $30 (includes dinner, drinks, etc.)
Partial event = $10 - $15 sliding scale, (excludes dinner).

This year, curators Caspar Stracke, Danny Snelson, and Tianna Kennedy contribute an exciting and expansive approach to the event’s theme—mapping signal innovation, distortion, and destruction from the historical avant-garde to contemporary media art practitioners.

Noise! 2010 will mark the conclusion of free103point9's organizational residence at the Ontological; join us on Saturday, June 26 to celebrate what has been an extraordinary partnership since 2006. Noise! 2010 is presented in association with the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator.

Artists
(in order of appearance)

[In the Black Box Theater]

Film/Video Works by:
Paul Sharits
Rose Lowder
Bruce McClure
Kevin Medal

Live Performances by:
Ric Royer and G. Lucas Crane
Jeremy JF Thompson and Mashinka Firunts
Bonnie Jones
Jena Osman
AMJ Crawford
Nectar Bats - Chris Balint and John Bowman
DUBKNOWDUB - STO and Eli Lehrhoff
Falopian Groove
Kamran Sadeghi
Zach Layton
David Linton
Judd Morrissey & Mark Jeffery
C. Spencer Yeh
cris cheek
Patience Dalessi
Ed Bear
Sebastián Patané Masuelli
Eddie Hopely
Gregory Laynor
Diana Hamilton
J. Gordon Faylor
Steve Zultanski

[Downstairs in the Parish Hall]

Performances by:
Ian Page with Lucy Segar and Ethan Cowan

Dinner with/by:
Andes Sprouts Society
Able Brown & Casey Farnum
Forrest Gillespie
Dylan Gauthier
Nsumi Collective
Brooklyn Grange (Ben Flanner and Rob Lateiner)

Works on Paper by:
Matt Volla

Special thanks to: Penny Duff (Event Coordinator), Ryan Marino (Projectionist), Lea Betucci (Videographer), Straight Out of the Ground Farm, Brooklyn Grange, and Lucky Dog (Vegetables), and Shannon Sindelar and Brendan Regimbal (Ontological). Noise! 2010 is made possible, in part, with public funds through the Electronic Media and Film Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

Documentation Link: http://www.zachpoff.com/site2/projects/radio-silence

Join us for an opening reception on Friday July 2, 2010 6 p.m.-10 p.m. to celebrate Zach Poff's Radio Silence.

Artist Talk: 8 p.m.
Zach Poff will introduce Radio Silence and discuss his recent work concerned with reconfiguring live broadcast feeds.

Through artwork, teaching, and free software creation, Zach Poff examines the opportunities and challenges that arise from the translation of human activity into information. His recent work has been focused on the 20th Century paradigm of broadcasting and its continued influence on contemporary digital and social networks.

Radio Silence explores the silent moments of talk-radio, combining eight AM broadcasts into a meta-conversation based on the negative spaces between words.

A pause in conversation might indicate the end of a thought, or it might be an opportunity for reflection or response. A pause in a radio broadcast offers different potentials: As radio listeners, we can’t respond but we might exercise our only form of interactivity: changing the station. On commercial radio, moments of silence are minimized to avoid losing listeners. Broadcasters often use digital time-compression to shorten their programming and leave more time for advertising.

In Radio Silence, pauses are treated as paradoxical opportunities to probe the neighboring airwaves in search of an expanded form of conversation. Eight wire-frame radio sculptures are arranged in a circle, empty except for their speakers. Each radio corresponds to a different local AM station which is being monitored by custom software. One at a time, each radio speaks while the others play a chorus of hissing residue between words. When the speaking radio shares a simultaneous moment of silence with one of its neighbors, the conversation silently shifts to the other radio before the next word begins. Over time, Radio Silence surveys the spectrum of viewpoints currently on the air, weaving them together through the intersections of a shared linguistic device.

Radio Silence is Zach Poff’s latest in a series of inquiries into reconfiguring mass media (linguistically, technically, culturally).

Also on view will be 2 related projects:

Video Silence is a live installation that discards the dialog from live TV, preserving only the moments of aural subtlety.

Radio Silence Study is a modified recording of the nightly news. The left channel is a compilation of all the words without pauses. The right channel contains only the pauses that were removed.

This exhibition is part of a series celebrating the 2009/2010 AIRtime Fellowship Recipients: Zach Poff (July 2-11), Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown (July 16-25), and Brett Balogh (July 30-August 14.)

AIRtime @ Devotion is a series celebrating free103point9’s 2009/2010 AIRtime Fellowship Recipients: Zach Poff, Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown, and Brett Balogh. AIRtime Fellowships provide assistance to artists creating new Transmission Art works. This genre is informed by works which employ an intentional use of space—often the airwaves. Transmission Art manifests in participatory live art or time-based art including radio, video, light, installation, and performance.

free103point9 is a nonprofit arts organization focused on cultivating Transmission Arts. Based in upstate New York, free103point9’s major programs include the Transmission Art Archive, a definitive resource featuring artists, works, and exhibitions and events that define the genre and place it in a historical context; WGXC: Hands-on Radio, a creative community FM radio station serving Greene and Columbia counties; and the facilitation of a NYSCA Distribution Regrant for individual artists. areyoudevoted.com

This event is the record release performance and celebration for Corpse of Discover with Bryan Zimmerman (free103point9 AD038). Bryan Zimmerman is a member of The Dust Dive, a Brooklyn band associated with free103point9, who have played in Hudson and Acra previously. Hudson's Jeremy Kelly opens the show. Live audio/video web stream at www.wgxc.org.

Corpse of Discovery with Bryan Zimmerman (free103point9 AD038) is an edition of 300, and available for $10 (plus S&H + sales tax in NY).

This 12" LP record release features the collaborative effort of Corpse of Discovery, a free-form music collective initiated by Bryan Zimmerman in Brooklyn and Queens, New York. In an effort to employ transmissions as a melodic and narrative element in music, Zimmerman samples shortwave radio transmissions, two-way radio communications from Brooklyn-based livery service dispatchers and drivers, cellphone interference, cellphone-processed voice and instrumentation, and other transmission-related sounds.

Laura Ortman, renowned multi-instrumentalist, longtime collaborator with Zimmerman in the band The Dust Dive, and Zimmerman’s “other half,” appears on all six tracks playing a range of instruments, including Hammond C3 organ, violin, electric guitar, megaphoned vocals, and Casiotone analog synth. Ortman unintentionally summed up Zimmerman’s original motivation for the project when remarking that the finished record “sounds like family music!…” “For years I’d wanted to make a door-to-door recording with friends in NYC whose music I admire,” says Zimmerman. “Then I realized what a lifelong project that is, and pared this one down to Laura, some friends from Kansas who now live in New York, and a few others. Making an album with 11 musicians was enough.”

The other constant presence on the album is acclaimed multi-instrumentalist and intrepid recording engineer Jason Loewenstein (Sebadoh, Fiery Furnaces, Circle of Buzzards). “The Dust Dive had a great time recording our last album with Jason in our apartment . I asked him if he wanted to engineer, co-produce, and play on this album using his portable recording rig, the ‘jakerock mobile unit, ’” says Zimmerman. “I presented it to him as an ‘adventure album.’ He ended up crafting fun and coherent music from all of the divergent overdub sessions and jam demos.” Aside from featuring Loewenstein’s prowess as engineer, the album also features him playing drums, guitar, as well as bass on the lively and compelling Liberty Dime Under the Linoleum, Flor de Muerto.

Prominently in the mix alongside Ortman and Loewenstein are three members of the enigmatic art-punk band Dichroics, Seth Abrames, Charlie Hines, and Darin Mickey. Drums on three of the six tracks are provided by Jeff Conaway, the stellar sticks behind cult psych-prog band The Psychic Paramount. The family tree branches ever forward and backward from there: Dichroics and The Psychic Paramount both feature members of the “criminally underheard and unrecognized” ‘90s Lawrence, Kansas-based band Panel Donor—as well as ambient-noise duo Sabers; Seth Abrames and Darin Mickey are both veterans of the punk-rock trio Gift Giver; multi-instrumentalists Shelley Burgon and (K.C. native) Shannon Fields—both bandmates with Ortman in Stars Like Fleas—join in on the shimmery instrumental track Collapse of the Magnetosphere; a mesmerizing pedal-steel guitar loop by Michael Sump—who played with Archer Prewitt in the magical yet also obscure ‘80s K.C.-based jangle-pop band Bangtails—is made into Sumptown, a moody tribute to Sump; and the lineage continues to unfold. (See below for comprehensive credits).

Guiding listeners through the urban-pastoral montage are Zimmerman’s colorful lyrics and eccentric narrative flow. The lyricist receives a “a cursive text from a scorpion” in Apache slang on his cellphone in the Mexican Day of the Dead tribute song Liberty Dime Under the Linoleum, Flor de Muerto; awkwardly requests “the latest issue of Malt Liquor Spectator” magazine in gringo, Google-translated Spanish, and discovers “a mummified cowboy in the wall on Broadway/A mummified cowboy at the mall in Reno” on Junkie Observer, Malt Liquor Spectator. With odd sincerity, the opening track, My Disco Ball, paints a swirling urban-to-rural /death-to-beauty continuum, evoking—as the album name and the other five tracks also do—the Corpse’s lively and ragged urban quest for equanimity.

Reggae Delta Car Crash… was guitarist Darin Mickey’s response to hearing a rough mix of “My Disco Ball.” Sealing this nomadic, jump-cut geographic character of the album are Zimmerman’s radio samples—including a wide variety of contemporary shortwave transmissions captured with his father’s collection of WWII-era military radios, two-way radio communications from Brooklyn livery service dispatchers and drivers, and sundry cellphone-processed sounds, including a passage featuring Zimmerman’s mother playing a J.S. Bach cantata over her cellphone from a church in Kansas City.

Join us for an opening reception on Friday July 16, 2010 6 p.m.-10 p.m. to celebrate Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown's The Bike Box.

Sabine Gruffat is an interdisciplinary artist whose work maneuvers through, manipulates, and challenges prescribed genres and codes. Bill Brown seeks to correlate geographical coordinates with conceptual ones in his work, such as uncovering the memories and histories folded up inside physical landscapes and borders.

The Bike Box is a mobile-media bicycle library and interactive installation housed in the Devotion Gallery. Bike Box allows participants to check out cheap, durable, technology-enhanced bikes and a free open source iPhone application developed especially for this project. As participants pedal around central Brooklyn, they are able to contribute site-specific audio through the iPhone application, as well as listen to a curated collection of geo-specific sounds provided by a variety of local land-use experts, historians, poets, artists, and other interpreters.

The Bike Box hopes to explore and give participants access to the layers of lived experience, personal anecdote, and history that are piled up invisibly on every street corner and city block.

The Bike Box will also host a number of performances and special events during the exhbition at Devotion Gallery:

Friday, July 16th
Sound and video performance by Jesse Stiles using the Bike Box’s locative sound database as raw material for breaking beats.

Saturday July 17, 2 p.m.
Sunday July 18, 2 p.m.
Saturday July 24, 2 p.m.
Sunday July 25, 2 p.m.
Sabine Gruffat and Bill Brown will be leading bike tours through Bike Box geo-tagged sites in Brooklyn.  

Saturday, July 17th, 5 p.m.
Sound and video performance by Jonny Farrow using sounds and images from solo sound walks.

Curated contributions to Bike Box will include:

John Bennet's contact microphone recordings of audio frequencies emitted by power transformers, electric lights, and air conditioners throughout Brooklyn.

Jonny Farrow’s contact mic’d bicycle ride around the gallery neighborhood.

Cathleen Grado's field recordings drawn from locations in Ridgewood and Bushwick, focusing on the contrasting sounds of rural and urban environments. 

Stephanie Gray's ruminations on Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint.

Jenifer Kaminsky's exploration of the ghosts trapped within the place names of Williamsburg and Greenpont.

Joan Linder and Stephanie Rothenberg's  "Brooklyn-Beijing-Babble," which overlays the cacophonous sounds of modernizing Beijing onto the gentrifying neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.  

Katherin McInnis' Phantom Highway, which follows the path of the never-built Bushwick Expressway through North Brooklyn, and offers a fragmentary and poetic essay on urban planning.

Paul Sargent's Hydronym: Erie Basin Meets Erie Basin, which traces the Erie Basin, taking its name from a long history connecting Brooklyn to territories deep within the North American Midwest and ports all over the world.  

Norm Scott's field recordings from 2005 of spaces surrounding the (then) abandoned McCarren Park Pool. The sounds harken back to summertime at an abandoned magical swimming pool.

This exhibition is part of a series celebrating the 2009/2010 AIRtime Fellowship Recipients: Zach Poff (July 2-11), Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown (July 16-25), and Brett Balogh (July 30-August 14.)

AIRtime @ Devotion is a series celebrating free103point9’s 2009/2010 AIRtime Fellowship Recipients: Zach Poff, Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown, and Brett Balogh. AIRtime Fellowships provide assistance to artists creating new Transmission Art works. This genre is informed by works which employ an intentional use of space—often the airwaves. Transmission Art manifests in participatory live art or time-based art including radio, video, light, installation, and performance.

free103point9 is a nonprofit arts organization focused on cultivating Transmission Arts. Based in upstate New York, free103point9’s major programs include the Transmission Art Archive, a definitive resource featuring artists, works, and exhibitions and events that define the genre and place it in a historical context; WGXC: Hands-on Radio, a creative community FM radio station serving Greene and Columbia counties; and the facilitation of a NYSCA Distribution Regrant for individual artists. areyoudevoted.com