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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

I have a new work, telephone to speak with the dead,  in a group show opening this Thursday June 18 in Chelsea in New York. The phone, alongside Edison’s patents and other documents, will be available for use.

Hope to see you soon…

AC [ Institute Direct Chapel ]

Presents A New Group Exhibition:

Tone and Temperament

Curated by Sophie Landres
June 18 – July 18, 2009 / Opening: Thursday, June 18, 6-8pm

AC [Institute Direct Chapel] is pleased to present Tone and Temperament, a group-exhibition that considers the temporal and expandable material of sound. Curated by Sophie Landres and in collaboration with the eight participating artists, this exhibition concentrates on sound as a condition for personal, social, political and metaphysical experience. In addition to the permanent fixtures in the gallery, performances will be scheduled to occur throughout the duration of the exhibition.

Tone and Temperament was conceived as an opportunity to explore literal and conceptual ideas of harmony versus discordance and innocence versus criminality that subsist within the framework of conflicting social norms and art historical precedents. The exhibition was regarded as a conduit for inconclusive experiments in redistricting discursive boundaries and expanding aesthetic properties. Despite sound’s reflexive predilection for interference, the participants created pieces either in response to the exhibition site or with the ambition that their work could co-exist within spatial proximity, without jeopardizing individual content. Though many of the pieces violate prevailing notions of harmony and composition, the refusal to abide is a victimless crime, motivated by a congenial faith in plurality. Allowing sound to flow without bleeding or hemorrhaging, we hope to maintain numerous elements in a constellate connection, free to generate their own alliance of possible meanings.

Chris Bors complicates the act of listening by juxtaposing pop-psychology relaxation techniques with a pop-cultural response to trauma. Jennie C. Jones stretches notes and manipulates tones to reconfigure musical history and exhume emotional content. In a sculpture that references both the harmony of the spheres and the politics of knowledge, Zach Layton uses looping phase structures to create an internally conflicting “chamber music” of the self. Audio recordings and corresponding images by Terry Nauheim describe imagined and site-specific geographies and measure the physical form of sounds against their content, examining how memory and objects are equally subject to decay. Exploring the theory of electronic voice phenomena Daniel Perlin utilizes Thomas Edison’s lost schemata to build a telephone that can speak with the dead. Through the visualization and sonification of Arctic data and electromagnetic lightening transmissions, Andrea Polli and Joe Gilmore express the fragility and interconnectedness of the global ecosystem. Mike Skinner enlists the viewer’s body in acts of compositional terrorism, working with mirrors and parabolic reverberating sine waves to demonstrate how the occupation of space can be an oppositional force.

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GOETHE INSTITUTE NEW YORK, IN COLLABORATION WITH STOREFRONT FOR ART & ARCHITECTURE, PRESENTS

20 092 305 Hz
AN AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCE BY CARSTEN NICOLAI, CM VON HAUSSWOLFF AND BYTONE

FREE ENTRANCE – REFRESHMENTS SERVED

SATURDAY, MAY 23, 8pm
Goethe-Institut New York, Wyoming Building
5 E 3rd St (at Bowery)
New York, NY 10003
www.goethe.de/wyomingbuilding
Tel: 212 439 8700
Closest Subway: 6 at Bleecker Street

Berlin-based sound artist Carsten Nicolai—a.k.a. alva.noto—has established himself as a leading
figure in the realm of electronic sound and visual design, using art and music as tools to create
a microscopic view of the creative process. Nicolai has performed and created installations in many of the world„s most prestigious venues including The Guggenheim, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, NTT Tokyo, and the Venice Biennale, and is a featured artist on the Raster-Noton label.

Nicolai, whose work has been referred to as “posthuman funk,” plays freely with the rules of tonal physicality. Using looping oscillators, tone generators, and modem sounds, he heightens the time and space aspects of tones so that pure electricity actually becomes audible. Clicks and glitches are not used as ornamental additions to his compositions; rather, they constitute essential
elements. These sound sources are then applied to the rhythmic groove of Hip-Hop and R&B,
producing an utterly unique sound. Nicolai ignores the limits between genres and brings experimentalism one step closer to the clubs. As the New York Times said, Carsten Nicolai “makes you think about the future of music.”

Olaf Bender (born 1968, Germany) began experimental film work on 16mm movie equipment whilst still in school. After the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 his experiences working with a music distributor led to the idea of publishing his own musical projects. As well as producing his own music he manages the Raster-Noton label which he founded in 1999.

Bender creates his music digitally. Abstract animations support the abstract pieces of music – in this way the rhythm of the music is transformed into a graphic equivalent. By using the computer Bender controls the animations in realtime; in combination with sound processing this enables him to interact with his audio-visual material live on stage.

Carl Michael von Hausswolff (1956, Sweden) is an artist and musician living and working in Stockholm. Since the end of the 1970s, Hausswolff has worked as a composer using the tape recorder as his main instrument and as a conceptual visual artist working with performance art, light- and sound installations and photography. He is also one of the two kings of The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland, an ongoing conceptual artwork initiated in 1993 with Leif Elggren. The Kingdoms of Elgaland-Vargaland was established as a new country on the international stage; its territories are constituted of all border areas between every country, all No Mans Land, all mental territories
such as the hypnagogue dream state and all digital areas on the Internet.