http://2uptech.com/index.php Live audiovisuals &c. en rej@2uptech.com Copyright 2008 2008-04-24T17:20:01-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/mobile_billboards/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/mobile_billboards/#When:17:20:01Z I’ve just written a nice letter to the Mayor that will probably get a form-letter response.  The jist was: should driving a truck in the city all day, for no other reason than hauling around a billboard-sized ad, be legal?  ‘No’ has been the immediate answer from everyone I’ve bounced this off of, and I’m not talking about the Adbusters set.  People hate these things.  It seems like you could make some pretty cut-and-dried laws about this kind of thing.  Ads on trucks already hauling stuff: OK.  Ads on trucks hauling no stuff: NOT OK.  Maybe a politician eager to establish himself as a “green” candidate could see some profit in this idea.  Or maybe that’s naïve of me because of the power of the ad lobby, but anyway I spent half an hour turning my annoyance into action, and that feels good. Check this out: an online brochure that promotes mobile advertising as “an environmental choice.” Why environmental?  Because it reduces waste.  Waste of what?  Your ad dollars. It looks like they are recycling cars into metal shoes too, that’s good to know. 2008-04-24T17:20:01-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/lachenmann_in_vancouver/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/lachenmann_in_vancouver/#When:01:59:58Z This Saturday I’ll be in Vancouver helping perform live electronics for a very special concert of works by Lachenmann and Nono.  Lachenmann is visiting to lecture, so we hope we do a decent job.  Making the Max patch for Nono’s tuba piece has been an educational experience, one about which I hope to write more later.  But for now, just the show details: Vancouver New Music, the University of Victoria, the UBC School of Music and the Goethe-Institut are pleased to host Helmut Lachenmann, one of the most influential European composers of the 20th and 21st century. With Special guest Helmut Lachenmann, Max Murray, tuba; Dániel Péter Biró, live electronics; Randy Jones, live electronics; Kirk McNally, live electronics; Jee Yeon Ryu, piano; Franklin Cox, cello;AK Coope, bass clarinet; Franklin Cox, cello; Jee Yeon Ryu, piano Works include Post-Prae-Ludium per Donau by Nono; 15’;Serynade, 25’, Pression, 10’, Allegro Sostenuto, 35’ by Lachenmann. More info here. 2008-03-28T01:59:58-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/and_i_dont_mean_the_writers_day/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/and_i_dont_mean_the_writers_day/#When:21:58:00Z I’ve been reading some Amy Hempel lately on Chuck Palahniuk’s strong recommendation.  Like just about all writers I respect, she has an utter lack of pretense and a way with packing as much meaning into as few words as possible.  Traits that translate well into music, and that I hope for my own work to have.  This interview at powells.com sums up her approach in about fifty words that sum up three-quarters of everything you need to know to make good art in whatever field. Interviewer: When you teach creative writing, is there one piece of advice that seems to resonate more than others, seems to work, with students? Hempel: Not so much a piece of advice as a question to keep in mind, which is the most basic of questions: Why are you telling me this? Someone out there will be asking, and you better have a very compelling answer, or reason. There are people who have been raised by loving parents to believe that the world awaits their every thought and sentence, and I’m not one of them. So I respond to that. Is this essential? The question might be, Is this something only you can say—or, only you can say it this way? Is this going to make anyone’s life better, or make anyone’s day better? And I don’t mean the writer’s day. 2008-03-08T21:58:00-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/last_minute_notice/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/last_minute_notice/#When:20:11:00Z Come see me and Kamran Sadeghi perform live cinema at Cinema by Design, tonight at the Northwest Film Forum. Free! 8pm. 2008-03-06T20:11:00-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/brakhage_in_victoria/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/brakhage_in_victoria/#When:01:29:00Z I’m happy to announce that a Stan Brakhage screening in Victoria, a project I have been trying (however intermittently) to make happen for a year now, is a go.  Thanks to Michael Hoppe at Cinecenta and the UVic Art Department, we finally have funding for and dates for the screenings.  In two consecutive Tuesdays, Cinecenta will be showing the entire Vancouver Island Quartet, four of Brakhage’s later films which are, as Marilyn Brakhage puts it: “grand meditations on childhood, adolescence, middle age and Stan’s imaginings of heaven—richly metaphorical and rhythmically beautiful. “ JAN 29 (7:15 only) 2 BY STAN BRAKHAGE: THE CHILD’S GARDEN AND THE SERIOUS SEA (1991 80 min; colour; silent; 16mm) THE MAMMALS OF VICTORIA (1994, 30 min; colour; silent; 16mm) FEB 5 (7:15 only) 2 BY STAN BRAKHAGE THE GOD OF DAY HAD GONE DOWN UPON HIM (2000, 50 min; colour; silent; 16mm) PANELS FOR THE WALLS OF HEAVEN (2003, 32 min; colour; silent; 16mm) 2007-12-11T01:29:00-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/more_about_this_dvd/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/more_about_this_dvd/#When:04:28:00Z I have a first batch of 50 Six Axioms DVDs, each bearing 32 minutes of visual music in NTSC video, Dolby 5.1 surround audio.  I had the discs duplicated at the very nice Protape Northwest here in Seattle, used my rubber-stamp kit to print on them, made 50 origami cases out of translucent vellum, and numbered each one.  I am sending the disc out to a few people to see if anyone wants to release it on a larger scale.  But if nobody wants to do that, these will be the only copies.  Either way they’ll be the only ones I wrote on. If you want one, you can have one for twenty dollars+shipping.  To reserve a copy, please write me an email with your shipping address.  I’ll let you know how much shipping will be, you send funds via paypal, and I’ll mail you a DVD and thank you for supporting experimental visual music.  2007-11-16T04:28:00-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/six_axioms_dvd/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/six_axioms_dvd/#When:07:55:02Z Coming soon to a theater near you.  Check out more stills and video excerpts here. 2007-11-13T07:55:02-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/a_cinematic_experience/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/a_cinematic_experience/#When:00:08:59Z I’m headed to Brussels in two weeks for the Cinematic Experience conference, organized by Boris Debackere and part of the Cimatics audiovisual festival.  If all goes well, I’ll be bearing a few “artist proofs” of Six Axioms on DVD.  I’m also working on an essay for the conference about subjective vision and simulation as organizing principles for “live cinema.” If this is your type of thing, then by all means get in touch.  2007-11-07T00:08:59-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/natural_metaphor_for_information_visualization/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/natural_metaphor_for_information_visualization/#When:01:57:02Z Anymails is a brilliant project by Carolin Horn with Florian Jenett, an Electroplankton-like interface to your inbox which is cute yet sharp looking and actually useful.  “[...]all received emails from school are blue and look a bit like croissants.” 2007-10-10T01:57:02-08:00 http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/someday_lounge_pdx_this_friday/ http://2uptech.com/index.php/site/entry/someday_lounge_pdx_this_friday/#When:21:47:01Z Community Library presents RANDY JONES MARK TEMPLETON LULLATONE WHITE RAINBOW STRATEGY (DJ) Someday Lounge, Portland, Friday July 30, $7 2007-07-30T21:47:01-08:00