Dall’8 all’11 Dicembre, Lione è un buon posto dove andare. Per quattro notti vi si svolge la Fête des Lumières, manifestazione, ormai giunta alla 12ma edizione, in cui vari artisti della luce proiettano le loro creazioni sui monumenti della città. Per quattro notti, Lione ruba a Parigi il titolo di Ville Lumière.
Sconsigliato ai demofobi: sono attesi circa 3 milioni di visitatori.
Da Google, alcune immagini delle passate edizioni.
Bella l’idea delle gocce di inchiostro nell’acqua in questo lavoro di danio catanuto e trovo anche l’abbinamento con la musica discreto e raffinato.
L’autore:
Growth is a vision both of reality and life/growth/death. Ink drops in water are arborescences, inflorescences. Phantasmogorical images which any of us can interpret estetically on basis on one’s own uncounscious, revealing a sometimes dramatic or sometimes symbolic aestethic.
It represents the organicity and behaviour of every form of life that borns, growths and deads in its ambient, among other individuals. Some external umpredictable elements can generate, determinate and modify the course of events.
Music, here, is the scene’s sound, artificially organic, that describes and emotionally interprets the entire narrating form.
The soundscape elements represent three main aspects: the environment ambient (water), the forms’ organic developement (treated piano samples) and the presence of unpredictables and isolated events.
The whole formal aspect comes from the physics of ink drop’s expanding course.
COM.POST is an exploration into the current state of affairs in the field of composed sound by invited artists, filmmakers, composers, scientists, architects and performers. Main areas of analysis are sound in contemporary composed music, public space/architecture/urban planning/chaos, staging and the spectacle/opera. With COM.POST we are searching for the compositional statement which has, within the completely stagemanaged society in which we live, at the very least a disquieting effect.
More on COM.POST page
David Toop (born 5th May 1949, Enfield, London, England) is a musician, writer and sound curator. He has published three books, currently translated into six languages: Rap Attack (now in its third edition), Ocean of Sound, and Exotica (selected as a winner of the 21st annual American Books Awards for 2000).
His first album, New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments, was released on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1975; since 1995 he has released six solo albums – Screen Ceremonies, Pink Noir, Spirit World, Museum of Fruit, Hot Pants Idol and 37th Floor At Sunset: Music For Mondophrenetic – and curated six acclaimed CD compilations for Virgin Records – Ocean of Sound, Crooning On Venus, Sugar & Poison, Booming On Pluto, Isolationism and Guitars On Mars. In 1998 he composed the soundtrack for Acqua Matrix, the outdoor spectacular that closed every night of Lisbon Expo ’98 from May until September.
He has recorded shamanistic ceremonies in Amazonas, appeared on Top Of The Pops with The Flying Lizards, worked with musicians including Brian Eno, John Zorn, Prince Far I, Jon Hassell, Derek Bailey, Talvin Singh, Evan Parker, Max Eastley, Scanner, Ivor Cutler, Haruomi Hosono, Jin Hi Kim and Bill Laswell, and collaborated with artists from many other disciplines, including theatre director/actor Steven Berkoff, Japanese Butoh dancer Mitsutaka Ishii, sound poet Bob Cobbing visual artist John Latham, filmmaker Jae-eun Choi and author Jeff Noon.
As a critic and columnist he has written for many publications, including The Wire, The Face, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Arena, Vogue, Spin, GQ, Bookforum, Urb, Black Book, The New York Times and The Village Voice. He has curated Sonic Boom, the UK’s largest ever exhibition of sound art, displayed at the Hayward Gallery, London, from April to June, 2000. In 2001-02 he was sound curator for Radical Fashion, an exhibition of work by designers including Issey Miyake, Junya Watanabe, Martin Margiela and Hussein Chalayan, held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2001-2002 and featuring music by Björk, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Akira Rabelais, Paul Schütze and others.
[Text from Last-FM]
David Toop – A Cartographic Anomaly from Hot Pants Idol album
A music video which was derived from the visuals for the Insen Live Tour of Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto where it was generated in realtime and shown on a LED Screen on the stage.
The same music as soundtrack of a video showing the City of Berlin seen from the window of a train.
Guardatevi quests divertenete animazione. Colpisce il sincronismo musica immagine.
Realizzato da Animusic. dal cui sito potete anche scaricarne altri, ma non questo, che invece si può scaricare in mpeg dal sito dell’ATI (è il primo).
Fra il 1968 e il 1972, Stewart Brand pubblicava, su carta, The Whole Earth Catalog che era definito come
“a paper-based database offering thousands of hacks, tips, tools, suggestions, and possibilities for optimizing your life.”
Si trattava di una specie di Wikipedia ante litteram. Una raccolta di articoli sugli argomenti più disparati, spesso scritti da personalità dell’epoca: da William Burroughs al Black Panthers Party, dal poeta Ferlinghetti all’architetto Buckminster Fuller.
Oggi The Whole Earth Catalog è online in Internet Archive.
30 pianoforti con la scritta “Play Me, I’m Yours” sono stati dislocati per le strade di Londra (e non solo) come parte del festival Sing London. Il progetto è stato creato da Luke Jerram.
Questo il sito ufficiale.
Unbelievable but true! Jean Baudrillard recites his poetry backed up by an all star band featuring Tom Watson, Mike Kelley, George Hurley, Lynn Johnston, Dave Muller and Amy Stoll, special guest vocalist Allucquère Rosanne Stone.
Recorded live as part of the Chance Festival at Whiskey Pete’s Casino in Stateline Nevada, 1996.
You’ve never heard Baudrillard like this before! Music to read Nietzsche to.
Listen to the tracks from UBUWeb.
Excerpt, track 2.
Doveva succedere prima o poi. I Beatles sono finiti in un videogame. Realizzato da MTV Games, sarà rilasciato in settembre. Alla conferenza di presentazione si sono riuniti tutti i detentori dei diritti: Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono Lennon e Olivia Harrison. Cosa non può il denaro…
Paul (“We love the game”) e Ringo (“The game is good”), hanno detto poco. Le vedove, ancora meno. Sono state anche rese note 10 delle 45 canzoni incluse nel gioco fra le quali “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Day Tripper,” “Taxman,” “Here Comes the Sun” e “Get Back.”
La notizia è apparsa dapprima sull’Ansa, ma io ho trovato anche la schermata e il trailer 
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