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I often find that if I stop for a second and listen to the world that surrounds me (including all the digital and sensory media overloads), it all blends into a strange kind of peaceful mix. Perhaps that is what maximalism or the new complexity is. But all this is to say that I’d like to make a call for a new type of peace in 2010.

When I look out into the world through my often mediated gaze, I see senseless wars for national and transnational greed, unspeakable human atrocities committed across the globe against the very earth itself, not to mention it’s inhabitants, a chronically collapsing economic system always already infused with it’s own failure, enslavement of individuals akin to indentured servitude from New York to New Delhi and everywhere in between, and a general disregard for the idea and practice of human rights.

But I also see in this hyperactive Pandora’s box an undying commitment (maybe this is, in a way, what Adorno saw as well in his essay on commitment in Minima Moralia) to realize a peaceful world. And in this belief, there still remains a struggle, a radically human struggle, to go beyond the constraints of nation-state and ideological-state to listen to the melange of sounds and find a way through dialogue and discourse. And so in 2010 I send wishes for new listening experiences and new opportunities for dialogue . From the extremes of humanity’s socio economic possibilities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, anything seems possible, even peace for a change.

And for the very few people who do look at this blog, I wish you a peaceful and safe new year.

P.S.1 announces Saturday Sessions, a new program of emerging performance art that will take place on the second Saturday of each month. Designed to introduce new performance artists to New York audiences, the events will range from music to site-specific actions.

The December and January Saturday Sessions are presented in conjunction with open studios and discussions with participants in Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront. Organized by The Museum of Modern Art in cooperation with P.S.1, Rising Currents will include a residency for teams of architects and designers at P.S.1 this fall and an exhibition at MoMA next spring. The residency at P.S.1 is part of Free Space, a new project with artists and nonprofit arts institutions in which P.S.1 provides collaborative use of its gallery space for events, rehearsals, and other live presentations.

An artist and sound designer who often collaborates with architects, Daniel Perlin performs Re: construction, an attempt to simultaneously build a model house and create an audio composition based on the sounds of its construction. Referencing both Robert Morris’ Box with the Sound of its Own Making (1961) and the sampling work of Matthew Herbert, Perlin makes full use of hammers, screw drivers, and other tools for their physical and sonic capabilities.

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave at the intersection of 46th Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101
(718) 784-2084

facebook event listing: http://tinyurl.com/3tmkk4

 

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Tonight at Pure Fire we have the very special appearance of Joro Boro.

Being of eastern european descent, I am a particular fan of his work, though, given his popularity, I am sure that identity politics and heredity has little to do with his rather amazing sound—-a bringing-together of north africa, london, zagreb, lower east side bulgarian bar and everything inbetween….
So come to Pure Fire at APT tonight, November 17, 2009 for the everything. Balkan bass, cumbia mash, baile funk techno, dubstep Kuduro, and everything else hybrid that always already was.

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After that, come with me or head out on your own to lay on a lawn and watch the amazing Leonid meteor shower

 

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This Friday the 13th (!!) at 730 pm I’ll be performing as DJ N-RON as part of the excellent conference Internet as Playground and Factory

at the New School for social research. Amazing speakers and panels, not to be missed.

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Saturday the 14th  I’ll be presenting as Daniel Perlin and on a panel at a conference called Shockwave Riders.

Here, I’ll discuss new ways of listening and controlling bodies through sound in urban space.

a complete description is below

“…cultural delta can be loosely described as the rate of change imposed
upon culture/society by the speed and depth of new technology.”
-from an online exegesis of Charles Stross’ novel Accelerando

Contemporary models of systems and cities rely increasingly on ‘multi-agent based’ modeling tools and theories, using digital techniques to analyze real world situations and propose design solutions. At the same time, radical and unanticipated forms of public space, communication, and subjectivity are emerging in the technologically mediated spaces of today’s cities.

It can be argued that an information and economic revolution is taking place due to these theoretical and practical changes, through the emergence of crowd-sourced collective intelligence, global swarm urbanisms, new disruptive economics ['wikinomics'] and ultimately the formation of a global political ‘multitude’- with commensurate revolutions catalyzed by these changes cascading across all cultural and political domains.

This symposium marks a continuation of the School of Design Strategies’ work to map out the ways in which emerging forms of social media, global information exchange and new models of pedagogy meet, and it brings together thought leaders from architecture and urban design, the business world, new media entrepreneurs, and media / culture theorists, to discuss and dispute the consequences of technological change in the next decade and outline strategies for developing a design and design-education models that can meet the challenges ahead.

Participants
• Ed Keller, Parsons SoDS, organizer and moderator
• Ben Bratton, UCSD & the Culture Industry
• Jamer Hunt, Parsons SoDS, Chair of Urban and TransDisciplinary Design
• Katherine Von Jan, KvJ & Co
• Mark Leiter, Nielsen, President of Professional Services
• Geoff Manaugh- BLDGBLOG and Contributing Editor WIRED UK
• Warren Neidich, TU Delft
• Daniel Perlin, Artist, Writer and Sound Designer
• Roland Snooks, Columbia GSAPP, UPenn and Kokkugia
• Cameron Tonkinwise, Parsons SoDS, Chair of Business Design and Sustainability
• Kazys Varnelis, Columbia GSAPP Network Architecture Lab and AUDC

Time & Location:
12 Noon – 7 PM
School of Fashion, Parsons The New School for Design
560 Seventh Avenue, NY NY 10018

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Finally, I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching next Spring at NYU’s ITP program. The course is entitled Sound and The City: Sound and Urban Interventions and should be an interesting one for exploring sound and public works.

OK!

too much to say already here in Beijing.
I am here doing a project with maya lin, the architect/artist.
I spend my days at the beijing center for the arts, building an installation called WHAT IS MISSING? about issues of the environment and endangered species (including human species).

The piece is a large platform based installation, with 9 simultaneous projections and sounds that emit from below. The images appear on  hand-held screens the spectator carries as he or she wanders from video zone to video zone. The work is very large, in a very large space (1500 sq meters), and the videos are spread over the floor  throughout the platform, allowing the spectator to effectively capture the images with their hands. The sense is, perhaps, of listening to nature while questioning the ephemeral character of the media and the precarious nature of the lives of the species being featured in the work.

At night, I go to see music…saturday I was led around as if on a derive or a dream by the photographer matthew niederhauser to some of the best music I have heard from a band in a long time. Call me a fanboy, but I found new inspiration for feeling in the bauhaus-blonderedhead-deadkennedys-Hebei province-twist sounds of rebuilding the rights of statues.

here’s an NPR blog about them as well.
Maybe it was the cheap chinese beer and the exuberance of a diverse crowd of expats, drifters, punks and beijing scenesters that really fired me up, but even the day after, their sound still rings true. I am not sure, but maybe it is because there is so much to rebel against here—in preparation of the October 1st 60th anniversary of Mao, the internet and the streets have becaome a cat and mouse game, as facebook, twitter and youtube are all offline, not to mention street closings and soldiers goose-stepping about in rehearsals for the upcoming parades—or maybe it is just good music from crisscrossing paths. It felt a little Jarmusch night-on-earth (and yes, I realize that is rather 90’s, but that is also the feeling here, sort of Berlin post and pre-peristroyka), but I can’t negate the sound and energy was amazing, filled with hopeful hopelessness. And that sums up some of what I feel here so far…

THIS THURSDAY (THAT’S RIGHT, JULY 16, 2009)

ITS AN ALL CAPS SUMMER BBQ BASH AT THE PERLIN STUDIOS ROOFDECK
BIRTHDAYS OF DANIEL PERLIN, ANDY GILLIS AND OTHERS WILL BE CELEBRATED IN FULL, WITH ALL CAPS STYLE

THE PARTY WILL BE ON THE  ROOF REPLETE WITH A GAS GRILL, GARDEN, AND THE VIEW OF THE BAHIA DE GUANABARA

DJS N-RON, UPROOT ANDY AND MANY OTHERS WILL BE PLAYING MUSIC CREATED FOR DANCE

BBQ STARTS 6 PM
PARTY GOES UNTIL 2 OR SO.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO BRING BEER/LIQUOR AND GUESTS

PLEASE RSVP TO
INFO@PERLINSTUDIOS.COM

THANKS AND SEE YOU SOON!

ANDY AND DANIEL’S ALL CAPS BBQ BIRTHDAY BASH
THURSDAY JULY 16, 6PM-2AM
ROOFDECK OF
170 TILLARY # 204, BROOKLYN, NY 11201
MAP:

http://tinyurl.com/ktx4p3

A, C, F JAY ST. BOROUGH HALL