librariesaustralia

launched today - a free service to search australia's national bibliographic database:

http://librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au

moon plane i

eye in the eve

transiting by sound

a beautiful little site (i was put onto by my metasense partner in crime) where a set of audio materials - field recordings - can be browsed in an innovative and spontaneous fashion.

http://www.soundtransit.nl/

quite the opposite:
a flikR-esque site for sharing digital video

http://www.youtube.com/

imaging movement

Recording in the streets of Hue, Vietnam (photo: n mariette)

Recording in the streets of Hoi An, Vietnam (photo: n mariette)

suspecting the backpack

a new blog for the project i've just begun to develop

the suspect backpack

spectrum of data at noisy white

if this could be my loungeroom...

data.spectra
White Noise - ACMI, Melbourne 2005

had the opportunity to see this work a few times - while in Melbourne last year - during various conferences and workshops. Meant that I had the room to myself for about 20 minutes on two separate occassions, which is rare to get such a long time alone in an exhibition space Have been thinking about it recently, and it just seems so 'right' - at least to me. The right sense of timing, the pushing of the boundary of the seemingly "digital horizon", the waves of numbers as phases shift from one to the other...

ah, so Japanese

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data.spectra
Ryoji Ikeda, Japan, 2005
Video installation with multiple projectors, mirrors and 4 channel sound
data.spectra is a new work by Japan's leading electronic music composer, Ryoji Ikeda. An intensely bright, narrow screen spans the entire width of a darkened room. Upon moving closer, the screen reveals that the room's light source is a vast array of tiny digits, streaming across the surface, seemingly without end.
]

google's epic

posted to fibreculture today - a very insightful future history about control of the internet.
see: http://www.robinsloan.com/epic/

death of the birth of video art

nam june paik - whose work i came across only in the mid 90s - has passed on. See: http://www.paikstudios.com/

i first discovered the fluxus movement in 1995 when starting at university, and the fascination has remained. i considered performing a piece from the fluxus manual - something for watering can, ladder and french horn - but the context wasn't the right one (not really suitable for a technical and repertoire exam).

it was only when in paris at the end of 2004 that i saw the "son et lumiere" exhibition at the pompidou. this was the first opportunity i had to see his work "in the flesh" so to speak... and i found it hard to drag myself out of the room...

nownow was now

the nownow was on in sydney a fortnight ago. this event is becoming a landmark on the international map of improvised music. the usual suspects were in attendance, but their music was far from the everyday usual.

despite being at the end of the festival, where people have usually run out of steam, i found my three most enjoyable performances. Firstly the trio of Rik Rue, Gary Butler and driven by Shannon ONeill (delving further into his own aesthetic, which brought more energy as a the whole). Followed by Clare Cooper, Xavier Charles and Chris Abrahams - and ensemble that was seemingly seamless. Finally Peter Rehburg and Martin Ng - which I would have been happy to listen to (while curled up on the couches) all night.

If you've not been before (it's been running 5 years now) then check out the site (http://www.thenownow.net) as the gigs run continuously throughout the year.

net archiving

attended a presentation by Igor Ranitovic from the Internet Archive (www.archive.org) today. The National Library has been collaborating with the Internet Archive to crawl through the web and carry out a whole of Australia domain harvest.