颜峻 : Yan Jun

Beijing based artist Yan Jun creates new thought structures via sound and language.

Yan's current sound works deploy inventive configurations of headphones which allow groups of listeners to share an extended reflexive ganglion cluster.

Multiple headphones are linked via a hub to a recorder and a pair of mics which in turn feedback via a single pair of head-free headphones. Akin to a temporary external neural net the listeners form a symbiotic organism as they share a single set of ears while their collective body impacts upon the audio environment. By deploying a variety of microphones in motion to capture phonography near and far afield a backdrop is provided for the participants which grounds subsequent audio events.

The scenes shift with immersive microfeedback, creating dynamic tension between the everyday world around us and the linked individual nervous systems. Subtle body movements and improvised actions yield instantaneous aural shifts of great intensity.


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www.yanjun.org
www.subjam.org

image courtesy of randy h.y. yau

( ) post-korea

( ) returns to backlit backrooms after a sojourn in 금천구

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Surveying to scribe the outlying arcs,
deploying wide angles, archipelagos.

Antipodes of architecture and time,
A box of lenses, X to expansion.

Lost fragment of speech, the broken syllable
betrays the sediment, seismology's hum.

Negative space, night onto night.
Dancers dissolve to trace
almost an island.

( ) post-korea

ANDY GRAYDON : Untitled (plate tectonics)

performed live : October 18, 2010
from LMAKseries; part of LMAKprojects monthly performance series.

















performing in order:
Andy Graydon : (plate i)
Joyce Kim : (plate ii)
MOSTRA - Gabriela Monroy and Caspar Stracke : (plate iii)
Nils Karsten : (plate iv)
Tmm Mulligan : (plate v)
Nathan Carter : (plate vi)

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With the volume of the Atlantic Ocean as a lens between bodies, this architectural interventional audio performance gathers and further iterates ideas from Andy's gallery installation at PROGRAM, Berlin.
Gallery goers were encouraged to listen and use audio tools to map the parameters of the gallery's architectural space.
The tools being Andy Graydon's 12 acetate recordings, dubplates pressed from field recordings of the ambient sound of NYC museums and exhibition sites.

For the LMAKseries performance, the dubplates of the PROGRAM installation were displaced into the hands of six guests who mixed them to manipulate the aural environment of the gallery. By process of overlapping their performances and building on the others contributions the guest artists dubbed the space of exhibition, remixing and overlapping the artifacts of audio of other exhibition spaces. The dubplates' acetate body decays through the friction of play yet the live spontaneous reworking yields possibilities for new material, new plates, new structures.

"By installing excavated stones from New Jersey in a gallery, Robert Smithson, in the late 1960s, revealed the dialectic between abstract and actual locations. Sometimes in containers, sometimes piled, the stones in the gallery represented a far away location without resembling it. Something of New Jersey, Smithson maintained, was held in those rocks and their displacement resulted in the expansion of the original site, both physically and conceptually.
The Site Non-Site dialectic, as Smithson called it, feels particularly familiar today as our daily lives are continually reshaped by place-defying technologies in communication, information and travel."
- Carson Chan : notes on the installation at PROGRAM, Berlin.

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Special thanks to Richard Garet.

GILL ARNO

WALKED
rewinding recorders > thermal electrics > light projectors
> small motors > muscle memory

IN/EX/D
"recordings from various places where i grew up and so on.
playing brings me to a sort of dreamland, which i keep exploring and landscaping, re-assessing and re-defining, more or less impulsively, more or less deliberately."

FOUND
"four of them are in the picture above. the first was found around the corner from where i live, the second was handed to me in the lower east side and has been mostly re-recorded in williamsburg's streets, the third was used to record the subway in milan, circa 1997, the last was found in my apartment when i moved in. people whom i know had lived here before us came from iran, portugal, switzerland and the u.s.a."

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mpld
unframed recordings
fotofono

DJ MANGOON > Coronal Mass Ejection

DJ Mangoon and Rádio Ruído drop solar static and observe 11 year cycles on endless loop

CORONAL
> dj mangoon
1) John Carpenter - main theme from "Escape from New York" (1980)
2) Oneohtrix Point Never from Returnal [mego, 2010]
3) Babe Rainbow from Shaved E.P [warp, 2010)
4) Walter Carlos - Spring - Sonic Seasonings [columbia]

MASS
> rádio ruído
5) Rome - Leaving Perdition - Rome [thrill jockey]
6) Mialessot w/Daniel Carter & Old Ghost - Hemorrhage - Getting Rid of the Glue [pendu]
7) Barnacled - Cloud Pump - Pick Some Specimens [self]
>> dj mangoon
8) Love Cry Want - Peace (for Dakota and Jason) - Love Cry Want {1972} [weird forest]

EJECTION
>> dj mangoon
9) Paul Dunmall & Chris Corsano - Identical Sunsets - Identical Sunsets [esp disk]
10) Keith Fullerton Whitman - Variations for Oud & Synthesizer {pt 1}
>>> rádio ruído
11) Embarker - Tiger Woods' Teeth - Embarker [malleable/send help]
12) Brian Osborne - Fivefold Rotational Summary - Osborne/Zajack split12" [heat retention/deep fried tapes]
13) Burning Star Core {rehearsal excerpt} (2002) - Mes Soldats Stupides '96-'04 [cenotaph]
14) {artist unknown} - Shur on Tar - Iranian Music and Drum Rhythms from Iran [limelight]
>>> dj mangoon
15) Bill Orcutt {out out out}

s h o u t o u t s !! Snake Plissken, Axel F, Italo Calvino !!

image courtesy > SOLAR PHYSICS RESEARCH DEPT.
Trinity College, Dublin : Coláiste na Tríonóide, Baile Átha Cliath

NGH/RR : c.loud.ed thoughts

NORTH GUINEA HILLS: first thoughts
1) Terrestrial Tones - West Indian Day Parade - Blasted [psych-o-path]
2) Morton Subotnick - A Sky of Cloudless Sulphur [nonesuch]
3) John Chowning - Phoné [wergo]
4) Hannes Seidl {ensemble integrales} - The Art of Home Entertainment [wergo]
5) Tristan Murail - excerpt from territories de l'oubli - Sounds French [universal classics]
6) Sun Ra and his Astro Infinity Orchestra - Strange Strings [el saturn]
7) Kyoto Imperial Court Music Orchestra - Irite - Gagaku [lyrichord]
8) mazzacane connors/montera/moore from mmmr [antimoog]
9) gastr del sol from 20 songs less 7" [teen beat]
10) Amar Utpal - Music from Tinnu Anand's Shahenshah [venus]



RÁDIO RUÍDO: second thoughts
a) This Heat - Sleep/Paper Hats - Deceit [rough trade]
b) ID M Theftable - Msivkaemye Gtarraasghe
c) Gintas K - Ka Aš Žinau - 13 Tracks [percepts]
d) mitchell akiyama - concentrate on one leg - hope that lines don't cross [substractif]
e) ( ) - koenji rain (enjuku)6 - enjuku [front room]
f) Scott Arford - Zero Point - 7HZ [auscultare research/ground fault]

( ) : dj sessions

Engulfed in curves, we catch dark waves of sound as ( ) flows a dj session into the mix.
Richer than the crude clouds spilling from deepwater horizons this plume of sound is captured by our ears and by extension, our consciousness.
A rich, renewable resource to help initiate a tidal change in acoustic ecological awareness.

Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air

( ) : dj set 1 >>
(a) Jack Dangers - Explanation.../Large Magellanic Cloud {electronic tape music for TIT Planetarium, Budapest}[brainwashed]
(b) aaron spectre - dulcimer - lost tracks [ad noiseam]
(c) Bora Yoon + Ben Frost - Forecast/Funcomfortably Yours/Aire de Lunacy - The Journal of Popular Noise {v.1 #8 spring/summer 2008}

Lauren Lulloff - Windowpane/leaving

( ) dj set 2 >>
(e) triPhase - Gletscher [privatelektro/grunrekoder]
(f) Adriano Zanni - Summer Life on the Shorelines [privatelektro/grunrekoder]
(g) tū - Static Affect {rmx}

intermezzo
(*) pulse emitter - void - nakamichi [gmby]
(**) Stephane Leonard - Bells - Lykkelig Dyr [naivsuper]

( ) dj set 3 >>
(h) Kim Cascone - silver_star_noise - 35 Mutant Seconds: based on rafael toral's creamy burst
(i) BusRatch & Otomo Yoshide - moon rumor / time machine - Time Magic City [parallax]
(j) ting ting jahe - 531 - v-p v-f is v-n [winds measure]
(k) richard garet - 59 seconds - v-p v-f is v-n [winds measure]
(l) alfredo costa monteiro - elytres - v-p v-f is v-n [winds measure]
(m) ian epps - longfellow - 35 Mutant Seconds: based on rafael toral's creamy burst

rr.o >>
n) Tim Hecker from Harmony in Ultraviolet
o) radio ruido - phone x [drg 7"]
p) Lary7 - minute1/1lock - I/D/V 01 [unframed]
q) Christine Sehnaoui + Michel Waisvisz - Wig Wag - Shortwave [al maslakh]

image: video from BP catastrophe: live feed still