January 2009
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this is gold.
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duet
on tuesday night this week i went to a gig at bennetts lane (long established jazz venue in melbourne)
tony buck and magda mayas were performing on prepared piano and drum kit/percussion.
it was a fantastic performance. they opened with a 50 minute set - playing dislocations, fractures, meetings, divergence, pointillist rhythms, sustained explorations of texture, pauses, silence, boggling...
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living in a bubble
just found matthew herbert and his compositional manifesto…
feels like i miss a lot more these days than i used to.
his manifesto is pretty much in line with how i treat composition. i just don’t think i’d ever be bothered to declare it as a manifesto. too self important.
still, be nice for those who wouldn’t consider exploratory, emergent and developmental practices...
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map of it →
john mckerrell has made a little url frontend for google maps (and other online mapping services). simple to use as well.
if you want directions, use http://mapof.it/[start location]/[end location]
or to find somewhere, it’s http://mapof.it/[location]
ie. http://mapof.it/melbourne/sydney
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vimeo on the iphone
because of issues with video playback on iphones it’s not possible to view vimeo videos. but there’s a little web service that can convert any rss video feed into an iphone compatible website.
nice huh.
here’s my vimeo channel for iphone: http://iphone.episodic.com/slightlymoving
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spoke-o-dometer →
scott mitchell and rory hyde have many fascinating projects on the go. this one is their first project as part of Open Source Urbanism, which is exploring information expression in public spaces.
what i love about the spoke-o-dometer project and the blog is that is a great example of open source development which has been clearly documented and credited - so it’s possible to see where...
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lab partner →
a channel on vimeo for “Inspirational videos experimenting with style, technique and concept.”
and adam added the draft material from cribrosa. :)
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on hold
it’s been summer.
and i’ve been swimming and relaxing. having a great time in general.
and now i’m in a new house with no internet connection.
also been working on a few things. the presentation of Still/Live at a screendance festival in Barcelona (still waiting to see some photos of how it went - always a bit tricky doing an installation from a distance). music and sound...