Listening is key to enjoyment of electronic music. Set aside preconceived notions and expectations. Listen and enjoy the variety of sounds. To make electronic music, use whatever devices are available to modulate, filter, multiply, collage and add effects, then sit back and listen.
Mary Paints Bill and June while they sing their song about standing on tomatoes.
BONUS: Paulette reminded me of this 2019 documentary about Norval Morrisseau, the world-famous and intermittently homeless Canadian artist/shaman from the Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek First Nation, and the proliferation of forged works sold under his name in the last several decades. It’s a deeply disturbing microcosm of the larger Art World wrapped in deceptively cozy hoserisms — and apparently the source of recent criminal arrests in Thunder Bay!
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How to describe the prolific yet to go viral output of Dan Veaner? Perhaps his own words are the way to roll, “just an old guy making goofy videos with a harp.”
Mary Peters says hi to her friends the fruit flies.
As Lohbado contemplated the mysteries of existence, a voice in his head told him to ask the guitar and to ride the bicycle.
A film based on a file named “THRILL_554” by David Jude Thomas
Having assembled 99 collaborators for their previous album The Consuming Flame, on their new album Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos focus upon just one person: Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer.
Celebrated in his native land but not widely known beyond, Schaeffer innovated for decades across the boundaries of classical composition, electronic experimentation, and radical theater in playfully form-breaking ways.
At the suggestion of Michal Mendyk of the Instytutu Adama Mickiewicza in Warsaw, Matmos were given access to the entire catalogue of Schaeffer’s recorded works to use as they saw fit. Neither performances nor remixes, the resulting encounters between past and present take tissue samples of DNA from past compositions and mutate them into entirely new organisms that throb with an alien vitality.
What emerges across this suite of eight new songs is a composite portrait of the utopian 1960s Polish avant-garde and the contemporary dystopian cultural moment regarding each other across a distance.
Music by Matmos, sampling Bogusław Schaeffer
Starring Adam Ansell as “The Yellow Booted Traveler,” Bogusław Schaeffer as “The Yellow Sun God,” Martin C. Schmidt as “Percussionist.” Sets design and constructions: Cesar Garcia David Sundy David Jude Thomas. Camera: Jason Mecier, David Sundy, David Jude Thomas. Crew: Barbara Koch, Jason Mecier, Cesar Garcia, David Sundy.
Ed’s note: Sure and I don’t know what Knutzen’s on about in this one, but next time I sees him, I’ll fetch him a swift one wi’ me shillelagh!
My only regret in suggesting this video is that the rumor that this short lived Shamrock Shake ad campaign got canceled because an actor in a Uncle O’Grimacy suit expressed support for the Irish Republican Army appears to not be true. It is true that Sid & Marty Krofft successfully suedMcDonald’s for ripping off their deranged psychedelic style. It’s also true that the proprietor of this blog copped his Irish accent from Uncle O’Grimacy.
BONUS: Caption Contest for this Inexplicable Meme™. Enter in comments by 23/06/30. Prize is an autographed copy of the Knutzen/Coyne classic The Urban Homestead! No purchase necessary.
Mary and June and Bill have a great time at the discount surgeon where Mary’s eye is reattached to her head. The gang pays for the surgery with a forged Rothko.
The name Peter Stumps goes back to 16th century Paris, to a man by the name of Leno Pourris. Adam, son of Leno, changed the name from Pourris (which means rotten in French) to Stumps… watch the video and find out more…
Bill and Judy drive to the store while Mary paints a picture of fruit.
While walking down the street, Lohbado saw a sign, Spirit Chapel. He went in for a session of the occult with Esmerelda. During the vision quest, he had a memory of a school bus filled with spirits and ancestors, which gradually dissolved into gelatinous bouncing blobs.
We’ve got some real bottom of the Internet barrel stuff for you this week starting with yet more AI vids. When will this get tired? Soon probably but here you go:
Editor’s note: I had to skip a couple of Video Fridays to deal with some deinstallation issues, but we’re back! I figured that since Paulette has revived the Fruit Flies in the interim we should start with her & Lohbado’s most recent videos, then maybe move back into the archival deep dive…
The mouth as a buccal palace, a mucous lined cavern with tonsils at the back, a tongue lying in a bed of saliva, a fence of teeth, food, drink, inhale, exhale, communication, Lohbado presented images based on drawings in his sketchbook. Orality, mysteries of the mouth and the digestive model of existence…
I’m reluctant to feed the AI image and text hype beast since there’s nothing intelligent about it and I have a gut feeling that it will prove useful mostly for spammers and bureaucratic communications. AI won’t lead to either a Skynet apocalypse or a work free utopia but rather more soul sucking tasks and even more lifeless memos. It’s in Silicon Valley’s interest for us all to think that their products are more useful than they actually are.
But at the very least, the recent spasm of bizarre AI images and videos proves Fredric Jameson’s notion that the guiding pathology of late stage capitalism and postmodernism is schizophrenia. As evidence of this schizophrenia please enjoy Donald Trump fishing for and eating an octopus with Obama and Conan O’Brien eating fried chicken and then crashing his car.
The witch in this video, who prefers to remain anonymous, has a dog. In folklore, many witches had cats. This dog, Freddy, is able to see evil spirits. If one takes the sleep sand from a dog and puts it into one’s own eyes, one could see what the dog sees. To have dog vision could drive a person loco crazy.
Inspired by Victoria Reynolds, Mary paints a meat painting while the fruit flies look at a green thing and a red thing.Show less
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