By dan on 24 October 2009 under art works, the internet
Today marks the unveiling of MontroseSinkhole.com. The project has been in the piecing together stages for about a year; you may remember the Montrose Sinkhole: Release Candidate 1.0 Starschreck post from a while back. The domain serves its function as educating the public about how Montrose Sinkhole touched all of our lives. The website also serves as a storefront to the offline component to the project, a T-Shirt design. We are the army.
By dan on 17 August 2009 under art works, sound
I’m very pleased to be back at test tube for my second solo EP, The First Report of Injury. If you haven’t listened to Grow in the Dark Watch yet, go and do that now. It was a big success, especially considering no one had heard of me. TFROI builds upon the oomph of GITDW and takes it… out of the dark, so to speak.
The First Report of Injury is inspired by true events—I’ve always wanted to say that. Digital fractals and remixed remixxxes, 7 tracks long, emphasis on improvisation, not an emphasis on quantization. I’d like to tell you a story or offer you a soundtrack to applying for a healthcare plan.
Thanks to everyone involved in the project, you know who you are. Thanks to S.E.B. for another great cover artwork.
I’d like to leave you with a ’stream of conscious’ description of the first track on the EP. It’s written by my friend Randall Harr.
Distopian robot junkyard in space, sending out signals from solar whales
Click here to listen. Thanks!
By dan on 05 July 2009 under art works
Lost Soundtracks from The Wizard of Oz is a collaborative album featuring a group of artists from Chicago known as LSWZ. We all went to school together and at one time or another crossed paths in a dark sound studio.
Gordon Tebo had the idea that maybe there were some ‘keepers’ amidst the countless hours of experimental sound made at school. The possibility that some of these sound projects wouldn’t be heard by anyone outside a very small and select group of people seemed a shame.
There’s a bit of a mad scientist feel to some of the tracks that I find to be thrilling, like maybe they were made in a dark basement or in the woods. Listen for the wonderful world of humor and the diverse sound palette.
Gordon did the curating and the sifting through. Not an easy task and I think we were all pretty impressed with how well the recordings fit together. The project has been in the works for over two years and I’m pleased that it’s found a home at the amazing test tube netlabel.
Thanks!
By dan on 06 May 2009 under art works
I just published a new track. It’s a remix of some of the stems/pells/beats that I’ve found on ccMixter. There’s some heavy vocoder work going on here and the song is best played loud and in the car. I’ve started to work with beats and vocals (a little bit) again and am anxious to hear critique and comments. ++more to come
By dan on 02 April 2009 under art works
When: Mon Mar 30 – Fri Apr 17
Where: 37 S wabash Ave, Chicago, IL
Please come see entries to THE 2009 FRED A. HILLBRUNER ARTISTS’ BOOK FELLOWSHIP AWARD in the The Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection hallway cases on the 5th floor of 37 S Wabash (Sharp Building)
The entries from the 2009 competition in the East case are from Jessica Taylor, Julia Asherman, Elizabeth Hetland, Andria Niedzielski, Elizabeth Smith, Citra Alamsyah, Yogi Proctor, Lisa Yoshiko Radecki, Daniel Schreck, Basar Buyukkusoglu, and Shannon Schmidt. The West case contains examples of submissions from the past three years.
…pictures coming soon from the exhibition!
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