Yes, Colin, maybe I have caught the ccMixter bug. Just uploaded another poetry slam styled vocal track, this time from a video art piece specifically produced for the Netherlands Film Festival, at Aryan Kaganof’s request. a song for the now available for re-mix. Now I wish I had my saxophone with…. Description: a video art [...]
Sorry for the delay on posting art, etc – internet was down at the hotel for ages. The conference has been amazing thus far. The generosity of spirit, the sharing, the intellectual rigor, the commitment to the arts and knowledge – even when I disagree with some of the things being said, I understand that [...]
revver is the coolest CC thing around – make work, share work for free, see the tiniest ad at the end that does not interfere with your work, make money… It really accomplishes what I quoted Jenny saying this morning: She calls for new structures of economy, distribution, sharing, and says artists "really will come" [...]
So I took footage from Justin Hall and Rihaad Desai at the iCommons iSummit in Rio, of musician / Minister of Culture GIlberto Gil’s speech and beer drinking, and made a li’l drum beat-ish, singy like video and audio track. Trust me, you like it. They licensed their footage under a CC-BY Attribution, meaning it [...]
Just uploaded my first piece to CCmixter. In late 2004, Christian Nerf took the soundtrack from this video and had some fun with it in the studio (check out a post about it, and download the first re-mix/result, here). I’ve now uploaded the original soundtrack to CCmixter to see if others are into it… Hope [...]
One hour performance, drinks served. 52 7th Ave, Parktown North, Johannesburg South Africa the release: On 16 June 2006, South Africa celebrates the 30th anniversary of Youth Day. The act of remembrance is shaped by a multitude of senses ranging from sight, sound, physical touch and smell. This year Gallery MOMO invites you to join [...]
¨There is a new form of music piracy running rampant around the world, and your children could be involved placing you at risk of legal persecution¨ – the recording industry association of America (RIAA) warned parents to keep watch of their children´s activities in order to curb this new form of theft, stating ¨we will [...]
Are we losing our edge? I’m sitting here working and struggling with something that has never been a problem before: I want to listen to music, but it is definitely distracting me. Once upon a time, I could listen to music and write with no problem. In fact, it was better that way. Now I [...]
photo by guto bussab Tags: art, art and tech, kaganof, music, news and politics, poetry, pop culture, technology, theory, uncategorical
Tags: kaganof, music
Tags: kaganof, music
I gave a talk at the the upgrade! Boston last night, which took place at the experimental art interactive gallery space. (Thanks to Jo green and Turbulence for setting it up!) Check out the link to see the pretty cool GlowLab exhibition (which I guess, in theory, I’m a part of now – cool projects [...]
Hans Haacke, news, 1969 / 2005, at the state of the union show, Paula Cooper Gallery You may have noticed a little bit of playing by Thando Mama on the blog over the past few days, as he gets to know the WordPress software — he responded to the artthrob article about how I’ve been [...]
Tags: kaganof, music, south african art
Nicole and I are giving a li’l talk at Brown University today. 7pm, Grant Auditorium, corner in the music department – you can see it on a map here. The Implicit Body Nicole Ridgway and Nathaniel Stern ( http://nathanielstern.com ) will discuss their concept of the implicit body: the body as an emergent locus of [...]
Tags: kaganof, music, poetry, pop culture, theory
odys for your ipod is now available as individual zipped files, a whole package, and even a podcast! Fun to play, and should work in all new iTunes: window and mac. Am still trying to get links direct to iTunes store, but being an indy artist one-off, no promises. For those who don’t know it, [...]
Had a fanfab dinner with Nicole’s dear old friend, Nancy, and her boyfriend, Glenn, last night. We only met him for the first time, but he gets major approval ratings. Afterwards, headed to Josh Goldberg’s of “don’t call me a VJ, I’m a live visualist” — first digital artist in residence in South Africa; he [...]
Tags: kaganof, music
Just looking over the vast amounts of photos over the last few days, but have chosen to reminisce in text (remember: we’re in Africa; I like to keep file sizes down!)…. Wednesday morning began with a whole lot of gushing over Colleen Alborough’s amazing work. The production of Night Journey was a journey itself – [...]
