So some good holiday madness heading this way.
i am a confessed humbug in the christmas consumption dept., but I do love to take things apart and put them back together.

This saturday in NY, I will be taking part in Eybeam’s holiday hackshop, teaching holiday hackups to the novice and experienced music/sound maker alike.
So join me in a recombine mashup of your favorite holiday songs. Pick from bing crosby to christian marclay to run dmc, and more! Leave with a cd, a poloroid record cover and the solid faith that yours is the best mashup ever. Plus, free drinx!

FYI, it is a sign up thing, and limited to 10 lucky folks…but check the other stuff as well…
see you soon.

turkey
heyas. this has been bouncing around, thanks to trebor scholz for sending some heads up…
leave it to burroughs to say it all so well…
thanks prayer
either way, I am thankful for so much, like family, friends and being alive.
and jello©.

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As part of Undivided Productions, I have been teaching a course at Bayard Rustin High School for The Humanities in Manhattan, a public highschool located in Chelsea. This is my second year as the teaching artist for Eyebeam Atelier’s New Media Collaborative. The students this year are learning sound and urban topography, mapping their local neighborhoods and producing sound scapes (Schafer) that will eventually be made public as walking tours.

Along the way, students learn to make binaural microphones, their own radio transmitters, edit and mix audio in protools as well as podcasting, CD duplication and production.

The students are excellent this year, as they were in last year’s NMC; enthusiastic and driven, and are already showing great promise.

Last week we looked at the Naked City maps of Debord (and practiced our frenchy pronounciation). Who knows, perhaps we will go on a collective derive soon.

Ariend of mine last night joked with me why nothing has changed except for hair and shoes since we were kids. I guess he’s right. There’s very little that has changed, at least in visible and tangible terms. Sure, technologies have accelerated things, but really, not even hair is that different (I had the sort of mod over the one eye skater look in 6th grade). But it’s not good to generalize, i guess. So here are a few things that may be of some interest, at least in terms of accelerating tendencies.
sound as a weapon=though this was conceived of as during WWI, and perhaps even before (yes, you greek heads, the Sirens come to mind), it sure is in action now. This sound weapon has been deployed many times, but critically, it has been sent to the Katrina victims as a present of crowd control.
friends as pictures= flickrgraph. Sure, we all think of our social networks as straight lines with something at the end, like a ball or a circle. but now, our straight lines can be our friends’ pictures! Why visit your friends when you can bring their pictures closer…distance is magnified as proximity simulation is intensified?
tracking your hearing=better ad placement for pod cast masters. Why not? More is better, or so they say. Audible adds that special something that open source just seems to keep ‘forgetting.’ Still, though, wouldn’t it be nice if everyone could be a dj of their podcast, and make a living off it?
b sure to check out the undivided blog as well, as leftenant and others have been boiling the latest pot roasts of knowledge and opinion…
ok, more soon…

Ok, for all you crazy biological determinists and mapper extraordinaires, I have begun to compile links about mapping data as nature.
mapping
Mapping the body, both mapping it into space, mapping networks, cartography and topography.
Nothing wrong with it inherently, I guess, but it leads down a very slippery road of genetics and essence as we push these metaphors to the biological too far. But rather than focus on what’s wrong, i am trying to wack the weeds and find out which have potential for critical and progressive forms of representation (i.e. are cool).
So far of particular note is a the hijacking of the mapping of physical social bodies in space.
google_map_hacks

The monolith that has become Google has been co-opted as they had hoped, but at least some folks are rethinking locality.

ok, more soon, and comment if you have shit you think is (in) appropriate

Yes, finally, a list of new ways to watch yourself being watched! Tired of the the old surveillance rants? Here’s some fresh ways to track and be tracked

1. color printers record every printout, thanks to xslynx
2. cellphone cartography in graz
3. mologogo yet another cellphone app for tracking! yay!
4. echolocate! bats can do it, and you can do it to bats and your friends
5. EVP and Thomas Edison, listen in on those voices from the dead
6. webcam action! and You are my subects!Watch you not seeing, see you not watching!
7. Sustain Ability See your art go!

Ok Ok! N-Ron with Mikeo! Live!
Check the tracks at undividedproductions.org
N-ron guests at Paloma thursday nite
Bringing the sound to Greepoint, Bklyn
Paloma 60 Greenpoint Ave between West and Franklin Streets
accross from the pencil factory…
10 pm, no cost 2 ~U~!
break it down//>