Month: June 2006

Soccer World Cup Sound-Art Project

Audio:Elf
Sport and music – in the past, this has meant raucous fan chanting and national players’ attempts to sing. As of now, New Music will also play an important role.

Mexican sound artist Manuel Rocha-Iturbide has invited eleven composers from ten non-European countries to translate their thoughts on sport and space into sounds.

Javier Alvarez (Mexico), Rajivan Ayyappan (India), Dickson Dee (China), Christian Galarreta (Peru), Erdem Helvacioglu (Turkey), Suk-Jun Kim (Korea), Mario Marcelo Mary (Argentina), Manuel Rocha Iturbide (Mexico), Atau Tanaka (Japan), Nicolas Vaurchavsky (Argentina) and Edson Zampronha (Brazil).

The result is AUDIO:ELF. Eleven audio plays in 5.1 Surround format, a technology that is currently taking living rooms by storm, put listeners in the very midst of things.

All pieces are commissioned works. After their world debut at the opening event, they can be listened to in the specially equipped Surround room at the Museum für Angewandte Kunst. Via a control panel, the compositions can be selected and information retrieved about the composers and their music.

Venue

Museum für Angewandte Kunst
An der Rechtschule
Preview: 14th June, 19 h
Opening times: 15th June – 9th July
Closed on Monady
11 – 17 h
Admission: 5/3 EUR

东拉西扯：MySpace泡沫 by Keso

Keso’s blog
MySpace这条陡峭而迷人的窜升曲线，令很多人眼红，并迅速激发了抄一个的冲动。美国是这样，中国更是这样。我已经听到大概有100个人说过，要做一个中国的MySpace。不少VC也把钱砸到了这些MySpace的复制品上，心想万一抄成了呢。

MySpace已经拥有7500万注册用户，美国的青少年已经基本上被它一网打尽了，要继续保持强劲的增长，必须冲出美国走向世界。所以据说，MySpace已经准备向包括中国在内的11个国家扩展它的势力了。中国的MySpace们一定会说，不怕，我们更了解中国国情，更了解中国网民的需求，更理解博大精深的中华文化。问题是，MySpace这个大泡泡，不管是美国的，还是中国的，终究是会破的。

美国青少年不玩儿网络游戏，他们玩儿MySpace。MySpace在美国的处境，很像当初盛大在中国的处境，孩子们乐此不疲，家长们怨声载道。所以本质上，MySpace就是美国版的《传奇2》。像网络游戏一样，MySpace可以给青少年一个梦幻般的虚拟时空，供他们抛洒过剩的青春和精力。不过，所有的游戏都有其固有的寿命，《传奇2》从2001年开始运营，到现在已经5年，基本上已经到了生命的末期。MySpace从2003年创办，到现在已经3年，它还能再火多少年？各种MySpace的复制品，又能火多少年？

中国的网络游戏泡沫告诉我们，死掉的远比活下来的多，赔本的远比赚钱的多。MySpace的复制品们，恐怕也不得不为活下去而挣扎。这碗青春饭，可能并不像看上去的那么好吃。

MySpace卖给新闻集团是一个正确的抉择，新闻集团的丰富内容资源可以带给MySpace绝无仅有的优势，而MySpace则可以为新闻集团贡献它正在流失的年轻受众。但MySpace的复制品们，完全没有这样的优势，他们能做的，只是尽可能快地把青少年吸引过来，然后吞噬掉他们的时间。要命的是，MySpace们缺少盛大、网易那样的收费手段，他们只能通过烧钱来推广。而迫切的增长压力，让他们完全顾不上社区所必需的文化积淀。最后你会发现，这些MySpace们的最大特色，就是没特色。

好游戏也有玩儿腻的时候，没特色的MySpace们，该怎样说服VC，他们比网络游戏更具成瘾性，而且更持久？

MySpace泡沫还能维持多久？可能还会持续一段时间吧，毕竟他们还有不少钱支持他们把这个泡泡吹得再大一点。但泡沫总是会破的，越大越容易破，不管它看上去有多绚烂。

–MySpace来中国，会如何？

SAND Festival 24th June HK


Date & Time: June 24, 2006 4pm – 12am

Venue : Para/Site Art Space(www.para-site.org.hk)

Venue Address: G/F, 4 Po Yan Street,Sheung Wan,Hong Kong

Venue Contact: by phone: (+852) 25174620

List of Artists:
Cedric Maridet (Hong Kong)
Dickson Dee (Hong Kong)
Fathmoun t (Hong Kong)
Liu Peiwen (Taiwan)

Nanahara Shuya(Hong Kong)
New Fairfield Parks and Recreation (Hong Kong)
Peter Scherr (Hong Kong)

Sylvain Holtermann (Hong Kong)
Ang Song Ming (Singapore)
Yeoh Yin Pin (Malaysia)
Zen Lu (Shenzhen,China)

Festival Serigraphic Arts

Seripop (Canada)

Videos and Projections

Nicolas Sauret

SAND Summer 2006 is the first music festival organized by the band New Fairfield Recreations and Parks and White Noise Records. The festival aims at presenting contemporary music such as drone, noise, sound art and free jazz by artists with different cultural backgrounds. By combining different acts on one night, we wish to present the diffusion of this art form across different geographical areas.

Official website:www.sandfesthk.com

mattin

via Junky’s blog

睡觉的时候把Mattin给我的他和Junko(Hijokaidan女vocal)的合作cd当安眠曲,我实在太喜欢了,30分钟的录音里 Junko从头叫到底,有破碎的声音在里面;Mattin只用笔记本的回授做声音,气度不凡,我越来越喜欢Mattin这家伙了,朴素,邋蹋,看起来像工厂的车间主任!他给的另一张唱片还没听,但肯定是我喜欢的,昨天聊天的时候发现彼此喜欢的竟然十分相似,本来这次是要一起合作录音的,但我实在抽不出空, 约好回去后通过interner进行录音合作:)!!他和他的厂牌的网址是:www.mattin.org

Junko&Mattin – 评论和下载(ogg格式) via Junky’s blog

mattin_guionnet_denzler_unami china tour Shenzhen


mattin guionnet denzler unami

-/:.

Mattin – computer
Jean-Luc Guionnet – saxophone
Bertrand Denzler – saxophone
Taku Unami – computer

YES?

One says:
“1 computer and 1 saxophone have nothing to do with each other.”
One also says:
“2 computers and 2 saxophones have no more to do together.”
Another one replies:
“Does one say that because computers and saxophones have nothing in common? Because they have nothing to share? Is that enough to infer such an extreme conclusion?”
And one adds:
“But a computer has nothing to do with another computer… And it’s the same with 2 saxophones. It’s not because they have the same name that… One can even say that 1 saxophone has more to do with 1 computer than with another saxophone.”
But then another one tries to conclude:
“No! As a matter of fact, it’s because things have endlessly nothing to do with each other that they have much to do together: they can never be in the very same place even if they hardly try to do so, that’s why it’s working more than well beetween them 4.”

And, after a while, a crowd of ones and others say:
But what do you mean when you say that they should have to do with each other?
What is this thing they would have to do?
What kind?
What colour?
What shape?
What lengh?
What is it?
What are you talking about?

This is possibly what our music is all about.

NO?

4 musicians, 2 computers, 2 saxophones. From the Basque Country, France, Switzerland, Japan. First meeting as a quartet on September 30, 2004, 9 pm, at Les Voûtes, in Paris, for 66 minutes. First CD -/:. on fargone records, USA. A very special music, UFO-like. A tense space where anything can happen. But doesn’t necessarely do so. So far they managed very well to brake with previous traditions such as the plinky plonk or reductionism. There is a lot of talk about electroacoustic improvisation. But these musicians do not follow trends, they are going their own way into the unknown…

http://www.fargonerecords.com/
http://www.mattin.org/
http://obenoitmusic.free.fr/pguionnet.htm
http://bdenzler.free.fr
http://www.hibarimusic.com/