NEW N-RON REMIX of CLOUDS by MIRACLES.

Get it while it’s hot! At pay what you wish, it’s a steal!

“From Clouds” originally recorded July 2009 and featured on the Ovum EP.

Be sure to check out Miracles 2 and get a some Vinyl/Mp3s

Be good

in the process of recovering from a nasty malware attack, with a little help from a friend we updated danielperlin.net

it now includes some semblance of a resemblance to my work and will have to hold down the fort until perlin studios finally gets its own site.

of course, thoughts, issues and ideas still come here first, and stay tuned for many new thoughts (including writings for domus ) coming in the next week.

I have the pleasure of being an organizer of Postopolis in Mexico City. Working as an independent curator and producer alongside Storefront For Art and Architecture, Domus, Tomo and El Eco museum, we have assembled 10 bloggers from around the world, each who selects 5 local participants they would like to have either speak or interview. These selected participants will be presenting their thoughts, works and ideas over a 5 day period in Mexico City. I have been fortunate enough to have been one of the curators selecting the bloggers, as well as an organizer of the various events, programs and activities (including performances) that surround Postopolis!DF. Below is the description from the postopolis.org website.

From the website:

About Postopolis!DF
From 8-12 June 2010, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with Museo Experimental El Eco, Tomo and Domus Magazine, will host the third edition of Postopolis!, a public five-day session of near-continuous conversation curated by some of the world’s most prominent bloggers from the fields of architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, music and design. 10 world-renowned bloggers from Los Angeles, New York, Turin, Barcelona, London and elsewhere will convene in one location in Mexico City to host a series of discussions, interviews, slideshows, presentations, films and panels fusing the informal and interdisciplinary approach of the architecture blogosphere with rare face-to-face interaction.

Each day, the 10 participating bloggers will meet in the magnificent courtyard of Museo Experimental El Eco, designed by Matthias Goeritz, to conduct back-to-back interviews of some of Mexico City’s most influential thinkers and practitioners – including architects, city planners, artists and urban theorists but also military historians, filmmakers, photographers, activists and musicians. The talks will be conducted in either Spanish or English, and translations will be available. Each day of talks will end with an after-party hosted by some of Mexico City’s most influential music blogs.

N-RON dj /rupture and wayne and wax will be djing around mexico city all week:

June 8 @ El Eco museum opening party

June 10 Centro Cultural Espana

June 11 Toluca

June 12 DF special secret locale!

stay tuned!

@postpolis use #postopolis

The fourth piece in the series Work entitled
re: destruction
Issue Project Room
Tuesday, April 13 at 8 pm

I have the privilege of performing the same evening as the very talented Christina Wheeler who is joined by Vernon Reid (Living Color), Benton C and Danny Blume, who will be making new sounds and images.

Below is a description of the new piece and the event link for more information.

http://issueprojectroom.org/2010/03/10/christina-wheeler-daniel-perlin/

Re: Destruction

Re:destruction is a sound and video performance created by smashing a computer with a sledge hammer. It is the fourth piece in a series entitled Work by the artist and sound designer Daniel Perlin.

In re:destruction, a computer is smashed, using a sledge hammer, producing a sound as well as video work. The hammer and the computer are microphoned, sampled, amplified and played as instruments in real time.

Like the preceding pieces in the series, re:destruction is created by a single real-time sample of the sound of the act of labor, mixed with the use of the tool upon objects. In re:destruction, there is the addition of projected color video.

The Work series attempts to examine the implications of sound, noise and music in the processes of the building of physical structures.
The fourth performance piece in the series, re: destruction will be performed at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, and dovetails with re: drill performed at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council gallery, re:construction 1 performed at Studio X and re:construction 2 P.S.1, New York.

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.

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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

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

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!

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…

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Yesterday, a good friend and director Katharine asked me about Tarkovsky. I immediately thought of Stalker, my favorite film of his.

When I was in school, all I wanted to do was make sound like Stalker. So many memorable sequences–from the train tracks in the zone, to the dream sequences, to the house and the trembling “train” or abilities of the young child at the end–have pervaded my thoughts each time I begin work on sound for film. But the Stalker taught me so much more than just to design and mix with a goal of “sculpting in time”, the title of his aptly named autobiography.

Tarkovsky taught me about persistence. Little is known of the difficulties of producing poetry, whether in motion or on paper. What is known is that it is frequently looked upon as an art of choice: choice of words, choice of phrasing, choice of styles, imagery etc.. In a sense, poetry is the process of editing. It is a profound use of negative space. Getting rid of the “wrong choice”, opting for what is best or best for right now.

I have never felt that I am a poet. But I do think that sound-editing and design, when done well, is approaches to poetry’s original impulses, the aural nerves that overwhelm the mind so tightly aligned with the desires for language and communication.

And it is this persistence, to communicate, that makes Chris Marker’s documentary on Tarkovsky so One Day in The Life of Andrei Arsenovich so compelling. Told from Tarkovsky’s deathbed, in part, where he lay with cancer, we see the varying struggles Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky went through to have a visions realized. The struggle to make choices. And the desire to make good work.

One often sited sequence, from his last film, The Sacrifice (it’s name appropriate for this discussion), shows the director in his most critical form. That of a believer. A fighter.

It is the moment of failure. Or at least the appearance of failure. The dolly and tracking shots for a complex final sequence in which a house on the tundra burns to the ground, fails. One camera , and then the second, are unable to get the shot. The house lay in ruins.

Tarkovsky had to rebuild a house to get the sequence. And he did so (though largely framework) after making his choice. And Marker’s film illustrates not only the beauty of the process of doing this work, but the strength and struggle to decide to go on, despite failure. The strength not only to believe in an idea, but to rely on colleagues and comrades to realize this vision. Film, as opposed to some other forms of art making, is almost always collective. And it is its collective perseverance that I continue to find so driving, even after all this time.