[video]: How to Dance to Dubstep

This is the funniest fucking thing I have ever seen. Talk about hitting the nail on the head.

 

DBGB's should fly this bird in to appear on dubstep night. They could set it up with the DJ and it could show the dubstep massive what's up. Yeh! Holla!!! Da Dirty Bird is gonna lock it down at DBGB's!!

Surround:Visual - A Multimedia/Dance Performance with Live Music

Tonight in Buffalo a true multimedia event is taking place over at Babeville. You can check out the Facebook page for all the info, but here is the quick rundown if you don't already know what's up.

Photo originally from Artvoice.com

Surround:Visual a Multimedia/Dance Performance with Live Music will feature a total of 25 performers across 3 mediums: dance, video, and music. The performers will present a collaboration that is intended to, from the sound of it, engulf the audience in a sensory overload experience. The audience is in the middle, enclosed by a circle of video projections and surround-sound audio. Dancers will then roam in between the screen and the audience.

There will be two 50-minute improvisational performances.The show is free, but a donation is encouraged.

List of performers:

Dancers: Erin Bahn, Beth Elkins, Nancy Hughes, Angela Lopez, Leanne Rinelli, Bonnie Jean Taylor, and Elyssa Bourke.

Video artists: Cory Gath, Courtney Grim, Carl Lee, Tammy McGovern, Brian Milbrand and Vince Mistretta

Musicians: Jim Abramson, Kathleen Ashwill, Steve Baczkowski, Michael Basinski, Gabe Beam, Kevin Obrien Cain, Jenece Gerber, Mike Kimaid, Keir Neuringer, KG Price and T. Andrew Trump 

Check out this video of the group rehearsing for tonight's show:

Both performances are supported in part with funds from the Experimental Television Center’s Presentation Funds which are supported by The New York State Council on the Arts and the Strategic Opportunity Stipends Program through New York Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts. The project also received a generous donation of steel from ALP Steel Corp.

Reactionary Ensemble Blog:

http://reactionaryensemble.blogspot.com/

Presented by Beyond/In WNY:

http://beyondinwny.org/

THE EVENT IS A BENEFIT FOR HALLWALLS !!!!!

[video]: Kyla Kegler "Buffalo Grain Music"

I've always wondered what would happen if a sound artist made use of the giant, rotting grain elevators located just south of the city. This video here from Kyla Kegler offers a hint at the possibilities.

buffalo grain music. from kyla kegler on Vimeo.

in this video you travel by bicycle through downtown buffalo, ny, through the deserted ruins and into the old abandoned grain elevators.

all of the sound in the video is live and natural to the environment. the music comes from the incredible acoustics in the grain funnels, and is only voice and sounds made by touching the sides of the funnel while sitting inside of it.

if you get bored at the beginning, skip to 15 minutes ahead, to see the music.

[video]: Rotary Signal Emitter: "Side A"

Stumbled on this....check it out.

Rotary Signal Emitter - Side A from The Wire Magazine on Vimeo.

Sculpture is the London based duo of musician Dan Hayhurst and animator Reuben Sutherland. Rotary Signal Emitter LP is featured in an article by Matthew Ingram in The Wire 322, and is out on Dekorder.

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony

Here is something that should call into question ever getting obsessed over finding an ultra limited vinyl, cassette, or CD-R again. 

After all, those are only copies. 

Tristan Perich's 1-Bit Symphony, on the other hand, is a not a recording for you to listen to. This release, which comes in a CD jewel case and is described as "juxtaposing the grand form of a classical symphony with the minimal nature of 1-bit circuitry," actually "performs" its music live when turned on.

How many of those 7" singles you got on Record Store Day can do that?

It can perform, instead of play, because 1-Bit Symphony is a complete electronic circuit—programmed by the artist and assembled by hand—and you can hear the circuit perform though a headphone jack mounted into the case itself. 

According to Perich's website, "1-Bit Symphony utilizes on and off electrical pulses, synthesized by assembly code and routed from microchip to speaker, to manifest data as sound. The device treats electricity as a sonic medium, making an intimate connection between the materiality of hardware and the abstract logic of software."

Confused? Watch this video below.

Tristan Perich: 1-Bit Symphony (Part 1: Overview) from Tristan Perich on Vimeo.

Despite the elementary design, 1-Bit Symphony is not lined up for mass production. An artist's edition of the project is limited to 50 copies. Each one is signed and numbered and includes silkscreen print of source code and schematic. Buy it for 150 bones HERE. Or pick up the regular edition for $30.

Thanks to Ethan Becker for passing this along. See you Wednesday night fool!

Nat Baldwin at the Vault Tonight

Interesting show tonight at the Vault brought to you by Little Red Booking. Dirty Projectors' member Nat Baldwin will perform with Kurt Weisman (Witch, Feathers) and Travis Laplante (Little Women) opening the show. Tickets are $8. You can get them at Cafe Taza or Spiral Scratch if there are any left. Only 70 were made available.

Check out the video below of Baldwin performing in NYC this past August.

If you go to this take some pics and upload this to the Soundscape Flickr Group.

[Video]: Vladee Divac Live

Oh, you have GOT to see this. Witness the birth of 'dunkwave.' Not sure if this is awesome or just down right hysterical. Regardless, it has to be seen. Basketball meets live drone and noise.

Vladee Divacc Short Park Set (Chris Mullin, Expansion Teams, Phoenix Suns) 

from Christian Filardo on Vimeo.

"My Dunkwave, drone, noise project Vladee Divacc in Daily Park I get asked to stop after about seven minutes. They threaten to call the cops as people in the back attempt to fulfill their hoop dreamz!"

Download his EP for free here.

Video: Yousuke Fuyama Live at SuperDeluxe 2010/10/08

Check this video out.

LIVE at SuperDeluxe 2010/10/08 from Yousuke Fuyama on Vimeo.

Deerhunter, "Helicopter/He Would Have Laughed"

A nice 18-minute live Deerhunter performance of "Helicopter" into "He Would Have Laughed." Hint: It gets really good around the 13-minute mark.

  

Grouper - Hold the Way

Happy Halloween everyone. Here is a creepy video for you to enjoy. 


Grouper - Hold the Way from Weston Currie on Vimeo.



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Jimmy – "Paparazzi"

Check this Lady Gaga remix out. It makes the original sound even worse.  Sweet video, too.

Paparazzi from James Tamborello on Vimeo.