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Me & Nam June Paik in Copenhagen he he he
Somehow I ended up in a very fancy line-up tonight at Black Box Gallery in Copenhagen. There's über-oldskool data-artists like:
Nam June Paik
Vera Molnar
Eduardo Kac
Manfred Mohr
Respect, gangstaz! And also
Tristan Perich
Raquel Meyers
Jacob Sikker Remin
The Ferret Show: A Musical With Uwe Schenk Band
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQEw602X6F0&feature=share&list=PLkkD_97Wy253GB-yj2foKlEbUMx5G2ns7
This is a 20-minute musical performed by me, 4 musicians and Raquel Meyers. Uwe Schenk rearranged my songs for bass, saxophone, harpsichord (spinet) and drums. Raquel animated the story with text graphics, and sequenced it live.
Most of the songs are tightly arranged, but others are quite improvised. I used a tracker to change some songs on the fly, and also played the C64 as a piano using Cynthcart. Quite a challenge to be as pro as the Uwe Schenk Band!
The videos are available in better quality at Uwe Schenks website. The original songs are either unreleased, from here or Cherry CD or perhaps lurking around on internet2008.
Big up to Uwe Schenk and Dragan Expensiveshit for making this happen!
The faxbook is here!
This book won't eat itself! A book with faxes from our fax performance. More than 60 pages of crunchy fax graphix with plenty of Raquel's new text images -- this is the christmas present all your friends will thank you for! More here and here.
Get your copy here - it's $15 and the quality is sehr güt!
My Own Teletext Channel!
Yeah, this could obviously be faked. But don't worry - you will see soon enough that it's not. Me and Raquel Meyers are now able to produce our own teletext signal. So now we don't need a video mixer anymore!
We've started to mix teletext with trackers and PETSCII graphics. Check out the first tests at Flickr. There's also some teletext printouts there, using a TV with a built-in dot matrix printer. Check out text-mode.tumblr.com if you're hungry for more text graphics.
Fax Performance Recording
http://youtu.be/REFHf-3o0Ds
Last year I made a fax performance, where we had a phone line open for incoming faxes, and another one for internal PETSCII faxing. There is now a Tumblr that shows one of these faxes every day.
As for the music, I turned pre-made songs into droney jams, and I drowned it in Ableton delays. It was filmed by TVMarineret, who did some pretty hardcore editing of the material. The first part is here and contains more accordion and clownery.