December 2011
Visual Audio: Inquiries Into Found Media
Radio Transmission Ark + Vernacular Preservation Society
Curated by Briony Evans Hynson
Opening Reception: January 13th, 7pm
Exhibition Dates: January 13th to February 24th 2012
Radio Transmission Ark: Rob Peterson and Lindsay Reynolds will be in residence at Honfleur Gallery collaborating and creating Radio Transmission Ark, an exploration at the crossroads of transmission art and...
The Breville Juice Fountain: Listening to the... →
thebreville123:
Listening to the Land: Conversations About Nature, Culture and Eros (Volume 0) In this far-ranging and heartening collection, Derrick Jensen gathers conversations with environmentalists, theologians, Native Americans, psychologists, and feminists, engaging some of our best minds in an…
The Good Life and the Fully Functioning Person by... →
“I have gradually come to one negative conclusion about the good life. It seems to me that the good life is not any fixed state. It is not, in my estimation, a state of virtue, or contentment, or nirvana, or happiness. It is not a condition in which the individual is adjusted or fulfilled or actualized. To use psychological terms, it is not a state of drive-reduction, or tension-reduction,...
Freedom to Learn by Carl R. Rogers →
“When I try to teach, as I do sometimes, I am appalled by the results, which seems a little more than inconsequential, because sometimes the teaching appears to succeed. When this happens I find that the results are damaging. It seems to cause the individual to distrust his own experience, and to stifle significant learning. Hence, I have come to feel that the outcomes of teaching are either...
“History suggests that in some rural districts, the entire caucus will consist of...”
– Gail Collins, Feel Free to Ignore Iowa, NYT, 12.28.11
“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same...”
– Russell Hoban (via opticaldelusion)
RADIO TRANSMISSION ARK IS ALMOST UP! →
RADIO TRANSMISSION ARK is an internet based sound art platform at the intersection of oral history, community archive, musical and non-musical sound. We are travelers, tinkers, do-it-up-yourselfers, artists, musicians, storytellers and story listeners. The first stop on this crazy train is the Anacostia neighborhood in Washington, DC. Follow us on tumblr, twitter and soundcloud to get the scoop on...
nirvikalpa:
Joy Division - A Means To An End
soundscrapers →
Watchundomondo:
Oramics: Atlantis Anew (by The Wire Magazine) Satz’s film features Oram’s custom built Oramics Machine, a visual synthesizer that uses drawn images to create sounds. After many years lost in storage the original Oramics Machine was restored and is now on show at London’s Science Museum as part of their exhibition Oramics to Electronica: Revealing Histories of Electronic Music that...
To Flirt In Cities, Birds Adjust Their Pitch →
Have you ever been at a bar where it was just too loud to hit on anybody? Birds feel your pain.
A big part of being a bird is singing, often to attract other birds. Sometimes it’s hard to do that amid all the noise in a city. For birds, it’s like living in a bar, scientist Peter Marra says.
“Those sounds compete with low-frequency sounds,” Marra says, and that makes it...
((( ))): 2011 en 33 disques. →
maximevavasseur:
33 disques pour 2011. Dans cet ordre, mais pas nécessairement.
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 (Kranky) HTRK - Work (work, work) (Ghostly International) The Psychic Paramount - II (No Quarter) Textures - Dualism (Nuclear Blast) Implodes - Black Earth (Kranky) …