Artforum Review of National Gallery Gig

"GORGEOUS THOUGH THEY WERE, the cherry blossoms that literally burst into bloom last Thursday were not what brought a swarm of New York art moths to the newly kindled flame of Washington, DC. I speak not of the Obamas’ fire but of the candlepower of Multiverse, an LED light sculpture by Leo Villareal newly installed in the National Gallery of Art.

“This is the best party we’ve ever had here,” Fleischman said, heading for the moving walkways running back and forth within the twinkly Multiverse tunnel that took us to the dessert tables on the other side. What they usually get is far more boring, he noted, all Supreme Court judges and lobbyists at a formal, sit-down, black-tie dinner. And the DJ isn’t usually composer James Healy, a sometime Villareal collaborator who created a live mix of “early techno,” as Force put it.


left to right: Agriculture label boss James Healy, Leo Villareal and Yvonne Force, The Artist's Work


Here's the complete review.

Double Dutch Finals for the Triboro

Double Dutch, which involves jumping through a daunting skein of twin ropes twirling simultaneously, was said to have been brought to New York centuries ago by Dutch settlers to the burgeoning town of New Amsterdam. On more modern city streets and sidewalks, double Dutch evolved into a game shared by generations of New Yorkers, primarily girls.



Full article here.

Photography of the Industrial Fringes of NYC.

Nathan Kensinger's Photography is beautiful and haunting.
Here's the link.

11:11 Radio from Australia

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From our friend Jennifer Tao in Sydney, and new radio set for 11:11 and Plum Industries.

Playlist 02/02/09
1. Francisco López & Lawrence English - Untitled #175 [ HB/Baskaru ]
2. Severed Heads - That That Revolves [ Experimental Music: Audio Explorations In Australia ]
3. Lloop - ODB Scripta Elegans [ 60 Hertz/The Agriculture ]
4. Benga - Go Tell Them [ Diary Of An Afro Warrior/Tempa ]
5. Benga - 26 Basslines [ Diary Of An Afro Warrior/Tempa ]
6. qpe - Degrees of Freedom [ the one true constant/The Agriculture ]
7. Lloop - 22 Degrees (Sun Dogs) [ 60 Hertz/The Agriculture ]
8. Symbiosis Orchestra - Live At Fabbricaeuropa, Florence 1 [ Live Journeys/Baskaru ]
9. Joe Frawley - Mistress of Ceremonies [ Ritual Research/Clinical Archives ]
10. Robbie Avenaim - Bodyrocking [ Rhythmic Movement Disorder/Room40 ]
11. Joe Frawley - Inquiry [ Ritual Research/Clinical Archives ]
12. qpe - Fulcrum [ Boolean Logic/The Agriculture ]
13. Bai Tian - In [ Ya Ji/Kwan Yin Records ]
ELEVENELEVEN :: 16 MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES



Programmer
Jennifer Teo (Sydney)
www.plumindustries.org

Happy New Year folks and welcome to the first show for 2009!!

Several new releases are featured this month including the opening track Untitled #175 by Francisco López and Lawrence English, from the album HB on French label Baskaru. Also new from Baskaru is Live Journeys, a selection of live performances by mixed-media band Symbiosis Orchestra.

The podcast title Mistress of Ceremonies is a track from the new Joe Frawley release Ritual Research. An extremely enjoyable listening experience, the album is available for free download through the Clinical Archives net label (www.archive.org/details/ca195_jf).

From our friends at The Agriculture we have two exciting new releases to look forward to in February. Rich Panciera under his Lloop moniker explores elements of dubstep, hip hop and drum and bass with the album 60 Hertz. Kacy Wiggins aka quiet personal electronics (aka qpe), releases 'the one true constant', a new album with a downtempo ambient hip hop groove. Also from qpe we hear a track from the album Boolean Logic, which I refer to as my all-time-favourite pre-cyclone music.

From Australia, we hear a track from Rhythmic Movement Disorder (Room40), the long awaited debut solo release from Robbie Avenaim, a luminary figure in the Australian experimental and improvised music scene.

We also hear a golden oldie, 'That That Revolves', a Severed Heads track that features on the companion CD to a new book release entitled "Experimental Music: Audio Explorations In Australia". Book chapters have been written by 'artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making' in Australia including contributions from Julian Knowles, Shannon O'Neill, Ian Andrews and Jim Denley, to mention a few, edited by Gail Priest. A definite must have for those interested in the history of experimental and electronic music in Australia. I was thrilled that Punos rated a mention (thanks Seb Chan).

Enjoy!

DJ /Rupture Europe Dates

Jan 29 Paris, FR. with Maga Bo, CIA Africa

Jan 30 Graz, Austria. Disko404. with Joker.

Jan 31 Ljubljana, Slovenia. Channel Zero

Feb 6 Berlin. dj set, Audio Poverty

Feb 7 Berlin. roundtable talk with Kodwo Eshun, Audio Poverty

U.S. Secretary of the Arts

Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect
Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other
countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for
centuries, The United States has never created such a
position. We in the arts need this and the country needs the
arts--now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this
important petition and then pass it on to your friends and
colleagues.

Please sign this petition and forward it to friends.

Mosquitoe's ‘Harmonic Convergence’

Male mosquitoes are attracted by the flight sounds of conspecific females. In males only, the antennal flagellum bears a large number of long hairs and is therefore said to be plumose. As early as 1855, it was proposed that this remarkable antennal anatomy served as a sound-receiving structure. In the present study, the sound-induced vibrations of the antennal flagellum in male and female Aedes aegypti were compared, and the functional significance of the flagellar hairs for audition was examined. In both males and females, the antennae are resonantly tuned mechanical systems that move as simple forced damped harmonic oscillators when acoustically stimulated. The best frequency of the female antenna is around 230 Hz; that of the male is around 380 Hz, which corresponds approximately to the fundamental frequency of female flight sounds. The antennal hairs of males are resonantly tuned to frequencies between approximately 2600 and 3100 Hz and are therefore stiffly coupled to, and move together with, the flagellar shaft when stimulated at biologically relevant frequencies around 380 Hz. Because of this stiff coupling, forces acting on the hairs can be transmitted to the shaft and thus to the auditory sensory organ at the base of the flagellum, a process that is proposed to improve acoustic sensitivity. Indeed, the mechanical sensitivity of the male antenna not only exceeds the sensitivity of the female antenna but also those of all other arthropod movement receivers studied so far.




Mosquitoe Antennae