Polly Darton

I found this video on Tobi Vail's blog.


#fuckyeahhysteria #fuckyeaholympia

RIP CLARE AMORY

And another righteous babe bites the dust.


Clare was a member of Excepter, a five-person experimental noise-improv musical group from Brooklyn. This is a video for their song Burgers.


She also participated as a drummer in the Boredoms' 77 Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7, 2007 at the Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York.

Error Benders Call for Submissions

Audio/Video Object Exhibition and Performance Series

Saskatoon/Regina March 28 - April 4 2011

Curated and performed by Give & Make

Presented by Regina-based audio art organization Holophon

The title for Error Benders refers to a technique of modifying electronic circuitry (circuit-bending) and to the acceptance/celebration of unwanted or unintentional sounds that may result. As a point of departure, this aesthetic of exploration and acceptance challenges traditional paradigms of music composition, control, and parameter, as well as the relationship between composer and performer. Error Benders engages with these ideas through exhibition and performance of, and its goals include:

To curate objects in the form of modified or rebuilt musical or visual instruments from artists across Canada, and to present these objects in performance.

To present the instruments and the artists’ methods and technologies, including a consideration of physical objects as musical score and modes of composition.

To design and deliver hands-on workshops for building simple electronic or electroacoustic musical and visual instruments.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Holophon is now accepting submissions for Error Benders: a performance-based exhibition with home-made, modified and/or rebuilt electronic audio or visual instruments. Selected artists will be paid an honorarium in exchange for the “borrowing” of their instrument, and all shipping costs will be covered. Selected artists will also receive documentation of their instrument in performance and as part of workshops and artist talks in Saskatoon and Regina, in which audiences will see and hear their work, methodology and technical approach. Unfortunately, funding for travel is not available for selected artists. To participate, artists are required to submit a digital photo or video of the instrument and a brief description of technique and practice. Please see below for submission instructions.

Give & Make tread unpredictable territory with performances and installations that encourage outside participation and exploration. They welcome glitches and other errors in their works, feeding off the irregular and not always palpable control. In the current project, Error Benders, the duo will perform with and present the work of artists across Canada who build unique and fascinating electronic media instruments.

Prairie artists Jeff Morton and Leeane Berger formed the duo Give & Make in 2009 during a collaborative exhibit in Saskatoon, as part of Z-Axis, at PAVED Arts, curated by Carrie Gates. Their installation piece was a neon twilight environment of circuit-bent electronics and generative video built from hackable consumer electronics and make-able software, a visually tangible array of sound controlled by the participation of the public. Z-Axis also featured Leeane Berger and Jeff Morton in a series of workshops on tools and techniques for live electronic media performance and collaboration.

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Submission Instructions

To submit your instrument for consideration as part of Error Benders, please provide the following items in an email:

(1) Photos and audio samples, or video of your instrument being played
(2) Short description of the technique(s) used to build the instrument
(3) Short bio including a description of artistic/creative practice.
(4) Dimensions (width, height, depth) and approx. weight of the object



Artists should consider size, durability, and feasibility of shipping the instrument, because this attribute will play a part in the selection process. Only Jeff Morton and Leeane Berger will handle the instruments, and with proper care and respect. Selected artists may also attach a sale price to their instrument, and if sold the entire fee would be forwarded to the artist.

Email submissions are due by Feb 10, 2011.

Contracts and shipping forms will be forwarded to selected artists shortly thereafter.

Please submit proposals and questions to:

Give & Make, ℅ holophon3@gmail.com

Heavy HeART

RIP Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson.

Affectionately known as Sleazy, Peter died peacefully in his sleep on the
24th of November at his home in Bangkok, Thailand. The music and art world has lost a great talent whose unique approach ignored the conventions of the day and often challenged the status quo.

Sleazy’s playful and inspiring creativity saw him pushing boundaries as a musician, video director and designer throughout his life. He had recently returned to Thailand from Europe, where he had played a short but spectacular series of live shows as a member of Throbbing Gristle and in the newly formed trio X-TG with Cosey Fanni Tutti and Chris Carter. Sleazy's visual art career included work as a member of the influential British design agency Hipgnosis, creating iconic record sleeve artwork in the 1970s for Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd and, later, Factory Records. He took the first promo photographs of the Sex Pistols, created a highly controversial window display for Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing shop, SEX, and went on to design the logo of the hugely popular fashion company, BOY. In 1976 Sleazy met Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter and Genesis P-Orridge and together they formed electronic music provocateurs Throbbing Gristle and Industrial Records, creating one of the first independent record labels of the era and laying the foundation for a new genre of music. The band was infamously described in the Daily Mail by Tory MP Nicholas Fairbairn as "the wreckers of civilisation".

TG ceased operations in 1981, after which Sleazy formed Psychic TV with Genesis P-Orridge and they produced two albums. The second, Dreams Less Sweet included his future life partner Jhonn Balance as a member, with whom he went on to form Coil and to release an extensive body of work up until Jhonn's passing in 2004. Subsequently, Sleazy left the UK to live in Bangkok, Thailand and to continue his artistic and musical vision in the guise of The Threshold HouseBoys Choir and Soisong. Following their original break-up, Throbbing Gristle's legacy steadily grew within the music and art world, leading to their reformation in 2004 and a series of sold-out performances, including in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall.

At the time of his death, Sleazy was in the midst of assembling what was to be Throbbing Gristle's next project: a cover version of Nico's Desertshore album.


Sleazy was a kind and beautiful soul. No words can express how much he will be missed.

-Throbbing Gristle / X-TG
Cosey Fanni Tutti
Chris Carter

An impromptu road trip in the a.m.. We're heading westbound to Edmonton for Wyrd Fest II. In Edmonton, Wyrd Fest II has become the official after-party for the Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair, while the Calgary and Lethbridge stops solidify partnerships with the Sled Island and Mammoth Cave music festivals. The organization of each evening will mimic the same successful formula from Wyrd Fest: 16 bands across two stages and running from 5pm through Midnight.

The traveling festival lineup is:

Women (Calgary, AB)
COSMETICS (Vancouver, BC)
D’EON (Montreal, QC)
Omon Ra II (Montreal, QC // Halifax, NS)
Nü Sensae (Vancouver, BC)
Shearing Pinx (Vancouver, BC)
MYTHS (Vancouver, BC)
The Famines (Edmonton, AB)
Myelin Sheaths (Lethbridge, AB)
The Wicked Awesomes! (Edmonton, AB)
Fist City (Lethbridge, AB)
Topless Mongos (Calgary, AB)
JAZZ (Edmonton, AB)
Krang (Edmonton, AB)

Date: Saturday May 1st, 2010
City: Edmonton, Alberta
Time: Doors at 3:00pm, bands start at 4pm.
Location: The ARTery + ARTery Annex (9535 Jasper Avenue)
Price: 1st 99 advanced tickets $15 and come with a 7” :::: $20 thereafter
All Ages Welcome

Too Much?

Jon Rafman

NOIZE!!!

I was just watching the episode in season one of Californication where they tell the story of how David Duchovny and Natascha McElhone's characters met. Basically they were hipsters from NYC. He a writer, and she in a noise band that played at CBGB's. He thought she was pretentious and she thought that he was self-serving... blah blah blah. I totally lol during that scene for realsizes, and was inspired to shut of my television, turn on some noise, and do my dishes. Then I remembered that Shearing Pinx is going to be here on Friday, and so I dedicate this here post to them and noise.

Shearing Pinx are an Experimental/Punk rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Formed in 2005, the band is made up of Nic Hughes (Vocals/Guitar), Jeremy Van Wyck (Drums) and Erin Ward aka Les Beyond (Guitar). The band has over 50 releases including vinyl records, cassettes and CDs, most of which are on singer Nic Hughes' own record label Isolated Now Waves. They will be playing in Saskatoon on Friday November 13th, 2009 @ The Free Flow Dance Studio, 224 25th St. W.

Here are some noisy sounds that I like listening to whilst washing dishes:

Shearing Pinx - Selfish Acts (mp3)

Shearing Pinx - Battery Born (mp3)

Boredoms - Greatboreful Dead (mp3)

Boredoms - Boredom With God On Noise - Boretafari (mp3)

AIDS Wolf - Gnarly Tooth (mp3)

AIDS Wolf - Cities of Glass (mp3)

Narwhalz - Rupiesjam (mp3)

Narwhalz - Slime (mp3)

Doddodo - She Sing Slime Song (mp3)

Doddodo - pictograph of crossed out note and angry furry thing (mp3)

Dot Com And Shit

I was introduced to Narwhalz (of sound) a few years ago by my girlfriend, but wasn't totally sold. The fetishization of Pomeranians was too obnoxious for me, and it probably didn't help that I related a traumatic period of my life to a pet pom. my family had when I was a teenager. In any case, I can now appreciate the pure genius that is Narwhalz, and am grateful I didn't let this gem get away.

The Pom Wizard Rises (mp3)

Pom Party People (mp3)

CLOUDCHILLIN (mp3)