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My most recent 10 uploaded tracks:
* John Cage - Cheap Imitation (III)
* Radian - Okazaki Fragment
* Drexciya - Astronomical Guidepost
* Two Lone Swordsmen - Lose Control of Yourself
* Gilbert & Lewis - R (AD 106)
* Cupol - Kluba Cupol (BAD 9)
* System 7/Derrick May - Altitude (Mayday Mix)
* Thomas Fehlmann - Epique
* Tomas Jirku - The Stickiest of the Ickiest
* Sogar - Isolohr
PET SHOP BOYS ARE BACK AGAIN: It’s so colorful, I just couldn’t resist. That, and the interactive ‘Advent Calendar‘…and given that it’s the season of giving why not also check out the just released Christmas EP!
And here was the track originally recorded back in ‘97 exclusively for its fanclub, now available in a new mix heard here, enjoy!
“YOU WANT THE BEST
YOU GOT THE BEST
THE GREATEST ROCK N’ ROLL BAND
IN THE HISTORY OF ROCK N’ ROLL…”
KISS took to the big stage at the Rose Garden last night with the urge to thrill nearly 9000 fans. They rocked the house in full-face makeup and the costumery that made them famous and then packed in two plus hours of good old theatric rock n’ roll. Generously explosive pyro, more confetti than a ticker-tape parade and video effects for days. The two leads, the blood-spitting Gene Simmons (60) and the starry-eyed Paul Stanley (57) both managed to float from one stage to other higher levels, literally (on wires). The Kiss Army were out in full force, all ages, many made-up to look like their favorite members of past and present, including spaceman replacement (and Portlander) Tommy Thayer (49) on the lead guitar (serving KISS since ‘03). They rocked the classics from Black Diamond to Lick It Up to Love Gun. Things opened with a raucous set by Buckcherry, in Portland for the second time in ‘09 having sharpened their chops moreso since they took the smaller stage at the Memorial Colliseum. Now, go lose your mind in Detroit Rock City!
The view from the Modern Hotel in Boise was just simple, lovely after the snow fell late night Friday evening. The accommodations were cozy with contemporary modern furnishings, a big old army blanket, shower water that flowed right from the ceiling (along w/Aveda lotions and potions), and an incredible mixologist in the adjacent Modern Lounge. They concocted classic cocktails with herbal liquors like absinthe and Chartreuse, bitters, ginger beer and aged bourbons. Well, their munchies were also quite good. Oh, and the plush pillows led me to wrap myself in comfort as I flipped from HGTV to the Food Network (yeah, life has some of these suburban applications in time and place). I’d recommend this place to y’all for sure. Upon arrival I was transported from directly from the airport to Boise State Visual Art Center which was kindly helping support getting me back to Idaho. There I got the opportunity to see the BFA Thesis Exhibition, Resound.
But Boise was real thick with vibrant hospitality in other parts as well. I was in town to hang SQFT with artist/assistants Amanda Hamilton and Marrissa Keith (included in Resound) who really were amazing as I directed things from outside the tight window space in the chill of the day (it was about 30 degrees on Saturday!). When I say tight window space we were concerned about fitting our hips into the step-up retail window display. It is an old-fashioned space, get this, accessed through a lil trap door that is poised inside the ladie’s room! Once all was in place the evening brought me a great opportunity to meet up with my host, artist Kirsten Furlong and her partner Bill Lewis for a nice bite to eat among friends. From there it was directly back to the Egyptian Theater where the owners kindly treated me to a performance by Emmylou Harris (who I hadn’t seen since the Lilith Fair!). They seated me in the fourth row center, it felt as though she was singing those soulful songs of loss, change and hope directly to me. Perfect way to complete a Saturday night.
Sunday was dedicated to doing studio visits with regional artists, and I got to meet with both sculptor/mixed media artist Benjamin Love and painter/printmaker Sandy Marostica during their residencies with the Idaho Commission on the Arts. They were each situated in rather large spaces in separate buildings located right downtown and I enjoyed speaking with them about their work. Afterwards I met with painters Dave Thomas in Eagle, ID and finally with Bill Lewis closer into Boise. Both are veterans in their field, making large-scale work, Thomas has a penchant for abstract work using multiple approaches and materials while keeping things fairly spare and geometric. Lewis creates fables from found still life scenes, often a grittier smattering of objects and allusion. Both men were articulate and interesting to start a dialogue with. Til’ later….
Hot Little Hands
Ill-Starred
@ IFCC (through 11/14)
Jim Lommasson @ NAAU
+
Powell’s (w/Inara Verzemnieks)
11/16 @ 7:30PM (reading)
Performance Works Northwest presents
BANDAGE A KNIFE
Linda Austin/Seth Nehil
Through 11/22 (tickets)
Michael Paulus‘
The Preoccupied Occupant (short film)
NW Film & Video Festival
Through 11/14
WAKE UP NEW YORK CITY
If anywhere even remotely in NY these next weeks you will not want to miss…
And aside from works by Arto Lindsay and a commissioned film by Guy Ben-Ner one of the major highlights for this author is entitled Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners (November 12, 8PM at Town Hall, 123 W 43rd St) complemented further by the Mike Kelley-curated: A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music (November 20/21, 6PM at Gramercy Theater, 127 E 23rd St). Makes me want to hop the next red-eye! See more on PerformaTV.
I don’t know. Do you? I mean, what has happened to pop music over this decade coming to a close? Has the digitization of music completely altered the listening experience permanently, both in how we perceive celebrities and consume music - and how has that effectively filtered into the overall quality and catchiness of songwriting, for instance? Is singling out yet another greatest hits package by Madonna even worth its blog weight anymore? Even within the vestiges of its retro-packaging does one buy exclusively based on image in these days of the great recession? Alive and well are the slickest, most over-produced recordings ever, but how valid is the lyric, the musicianship, the message? My guess is that cashing in on the past right now is not at all fashionable, so I’ll just continue waiting to be justified (and ancient).
Star Wars in Concert. Who knew it could be so much fun all over again? Using the cinematic theme music of composer John Williams combined with the very large silver screen at the Rose Garden, add tons of original props and costumes (including those of: Princess Leia, Darth Vadar and Yoda among many others) in the lobby, and live narration by Anthony Daniels (C-3PO), this two-hour show with lasers and fire was a pure delight to watch in its segments dedicated to its six films under the Star Wars moniker. May the force be with y’all!
OPTOFONICA: A new and impressive DVD/Book combo has just been released by 12K/Line and it is an essential for anyone out there following contemporary sonic cinema art. With videos by several artists I’ve worked with including Portland’s own Ryan Jeffery (in his second collaboration with Scanner), Frank Bretschneider, Richard Chartier, Pe Lang + Zimoun and Skoltz_Kolgen among others. One of those others is Kanta Horio who was featured in PICA’s TBA Festival a few years back, it’s great to see his em#3 once again! Inside the full color book is an essay by Cretien van Campen who also wrote The Hidden Sense, Synethesia in Art and Science (MIT Press, 2007). Black Noise White Silence by Marcel Wierckx alone is brilliant. Get your copy of this limited edition before it vanishes into the thin air we have left….
Instead of creating mere objects of aesthetic seduction, a new form of art is surfacing that invites audiences to transcend the limits of habitual perception. It seeks to shift the observer’s attention from the physical objects that stimulate perception to the act of perception itself.
It was thirty-five years ago today that this four-piece strode into a studio to record their very first record. While I celebrated my ninth birthday I would later fall in love with this band who will play Portland next month (w/a new lead guitarist originally from Portland no less). I will not soon forget my dad ripping their posters of these madeup men from my bedroom walls in macho disgust. KISS rocked!
Electronic Music Foundation
presents
Yoko Ono’s Secret Piece
8PM
Tonight Only
Ono’s score calls for a sound being played in a secluded place between 5 and 8am. This is one realization of the score. It’s about art that provides an unforgettable experience, in this instance the sounds and images at dawn at the Nekabong Hunting and Fishing Club in the Pontiac region of Quebec Province. The musicians are:
Madeleine Shapiro, cello
Esther Lamneck, clarinet
Gayle Young, amaranth
I’m re-addicted to this bandanomenon. This is what KLF is about:
Justified & Ancients, all bound for Mu-Mu Land:
Back to the heavyweight jams:
I’ll never forget The White Room…
or my 1st Blue Man Group show <<< clip is spot-on!
They said “Tammy, Stand By The Jams”
Over n’ Out.
The minimal electronics label known as MINUS has an interesting new initiative they have just unveiled called Minus Embed. As part of this project they invite artists from many media to collaborate saying:
Minus Embed is a project that will invite creative individuals to become an ‘embedded’ participant on a weekend excursion with Richie Hawtin in order to catalogue, document and respond to the event using their specific artistic talents. This creative response will then be exhibited on the Minus website along with other possible platforms. Open to all creative disciplines; video, sound, web design, photographers, fine artists, fashion designers, etc. Far from being a one-off opportunity, the project will be open-ended with an ongoing selection process in place to uncover the most talented and suitable candidates. We are inviting all interested individuals to submit a small selection of their work to be considered for this initiative in the form of online portfolios or websites. Participants are also required to write a short introduction about themselves and their work and how they would hope to respond to the MINUS-EMBED initiative. The first Minus Embed artist and submission comes from Cem Yardimci from Turkey (his original submission). Through academic research he attempted to blur today’s well defined edges between theory/practice and architecture/video by unexpected juxtapositioning of entities in continuum. This oneness is redefined under the title ‘architectural-reflex’. Architect (PhD) + video artist, currently exploring between film and live video/audio, momentarily through live installation-performances in Istanbul. Submissions should be sent to minusembed@m-nus.com
Well, more on the reference to the title later. But you’ll have to wait until 9/18 to see whatever words I conjure in ink form about this whole lot, in the next edition of Just Out. I’ve already seen Young Jean Lee Theater Company in The Shipment and Miguel Gutierrez’s Last Meadow and upcoming I am planning to see Locust/Crushed, Back to Back Theater/small metal objects, Pan Pan Theater/The Crumb Trail and Erik Friedlander/Block Ice & Propane. In the meantime, sit back and try to relax as PICA’s TBA Festival works your every last nerve.
Appearing in today’s Oregonian, Kristi Turnquist visits Milepost 5 and pens her discoveries of the growing live/work community out here only five miles from city center. Revitalizing 82nd Avenue is a venti order, but the folks out here are slowly taking things by storm - or at least by hook/crook. For myself, I really enjoy the possibilities, and The Manor of Art proves that great things can be done on a shoestring budget to produce an event with quite unique results. It’s like a Big Top, crossing contemporary urban and fine art under a single roof (and you can spy The Grid in the above photo).
The art blog Port also made a recent visit to look/see the grounds and reports here. And this perspective just in from Portland Octopus. And the word according to Richard Speer of WWeek.
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