tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73150921260603224592024-03-05T20:12:27.985-08:00Technicians of Spacemultimedia lectures on consciousness, technology, and the cosmological imagination in sound and musicTracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-67108396089267594762011-10-20T07:26:00.000-07:002011-10-20T07:41:35.232-07:00Amon Tobin's "ISAM" at Ogden Theater<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidSnd1EFU0MwfHcoo7wxQ_M1Mm8RnxWfF1jGPjZ3Or8REMw63BcC3SB9R907_ALwerzdYgZ4uOYIO5pt2J5SY5CIEub6e6My09_XZIsKcrL2VIUPkGDlo2p5Hjaty69cwI6wxLgBll-d8/s1600/311292_269282396417362_157655360913400_1152693_4459625_n.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidSnd1EFU0MwfHcoo7wxQ_M1Mm8RnxWfF1jGPjZ3Or8REMw63BcC3SB9R907_ALwerzdYgZ4uOYIO5pt2J5SY5CIEub6e6My09_XZIsKcrL2VIUPkGDlo2p5Hjaty69cwI6wxLgBll-d8/s400/311292_269282396417362_157655360913400_1152693_4459625_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665584088336817954" /></a><br /><br />Amon Tobin brought his visually and sonically stunning ISAM show to the Odgen on Wednesday, October 20, 2011. The extended ISAM set had a vaguely narrative thread to the sound and visuals, with some great deep space moments, interstellar craft, and deep solar flare sequences. Just as impressive were the cyberspaces that ISAM explored, which harkened back to intense machinic systems processes. All in all, tremendous blurring of the organic and the machinic, macrocosm and microcosm, and the core elements of fire and water, air and earth, which all came together in alchemical harmonies and dissonances, lightning storms, cybernetic systems spontaneously achieving higher states of (temporary) order before collapsing, and so much more!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS_dEERd2fMUgg1NOS3X-S_2k9K0SdT5U3FRqcWdUM5XATlOrGVmqz1isBbt2BSpRxw1upj9YLO0EJ1gN6ux-nnQ8hPS388sOwauR75KZ4Osi3senI9h-MOc-HLfL76QDN3DtFjbskp4w/s1600/Amon%252BTobin%252BISAM%252BLive%252BClient106708071320110.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS_dEERd2fMUgg1NOS3X-S_2k9K0SdT5U3FRqcWdUM5XATlOrGVmqz1isBbt2BSpRxw1upj9YLO0EJ1gN6ux-nnQ8hPS388sOwauR75KZ4Osi3senI9h-MOc-HLfL76QDN3DtFjbskp4w/s400/Amon%252BTobin%252BISAM%252BLive%252BClient106708071320110.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5665583987841586674" /></a><br /><br />The first encore went into some much faster tempo, harder edge material, and sustained this vibe with a whole new set of visual projections, while the final encore brought things down in tempo some with an excellent sequence of tumbling and rebuilding blocks that took full advantage of the amazing 3D visual mapping used for the projections. Great to see that he's selling this show out all around the country.Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-63966934271552563052010-11-08T10:28:00.001-08:002010-11-08T10:33:02.330-08:00Gary Numan's "Pleasure Principle" Anniversary Tour at the Gothic Theatre<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhsMv3n_TZoK1hd2HhL1zNxu5u_OBza_jXypkw-H2pEgr67hBLll9R1AIxhcQobDUPD74oifZhodEQnbCVMo9RC-isQJUX6mdKz7pc7RE4Gf-RRNoePacXlUhMnmr2wV9i0ImRSCbCGc/s1600/P1100865-small.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbhsMv3n_TZoK1hd2HhL1zNxu5u_OBza_jXypkw-H2pEgr67hBLll9R1AIxhcQobDUPD74oifZhodEQnbCVMo9RC-isQJUX6mdKz7pc7RE4Gf-RRNoePacXlUhMnmr2wV9i0ImRSCbCGc/s320/P1100865-small.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537247765936370354" /></a><br /><br />Gary Numan played Denver's Gothic Theater on October 28, 2010. Hearing <em>Pleasure Principle</em> album from start to finish was a great cyberpunk flashback, and the whole show reminded me of the role that artists like Gary Numan, John Foxx, The Normal, and Fad Gadget played in a wider cultural shift from outer space to the synthetic, replicating, interiorized spaces of late-`70s and `80s science fiction.Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-12961979725059877942010-09-25T11:20:00.000-07:002010-09-25T11:57:27.876-07:00Robert Henke's "Intersection" at Gates Planetarium<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOjHrZdYBEB5tlHEtv4J8lyEHZPCbE79y4gEZUeb486nqS_i7WnALzYyz6VQUOvwEUc1dyPpmRAkibmZDg5Lebuvvp_Mg_NIimpfFvFbZAtxC00ZZXbxoxC6T7q5CBBGvU1RMnGl4z5g/s1600/monodeck_II_18.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 242px; height: 155px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiOjHrZdYBEB5tlHEtv4J8lyEHZPCbE79y4gEZUeb486nqS_i7WnALzYyz6VQUOvwEUc1dyPpmRAkibmZDg5Lebuvvp_Mg_NIimpfFvFbZAtxC00ZZXbxoxC6T7q5CBBGvU1RMnGl4z5g/s320/monodeck_II_18.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5520921822201723426" /></a><br /><br />The Digital Media Studies program at the University of Denver is hosting a visit from Robert Henke. Robert will be performing his multi-channel work, "Intersection," incorporating field recordings made in Hanoi in 2009, reconstructed through narrative, music and sounds. Monday's performance will unfold in the context of full-dome digital theater at Gates Planetarium, with live Uni-View visualization from Ka Chun Yu. The next evening's presentation will have Robert displaying his performance techniques, handmade hardware and custom software tools.<br /><br />ROBERT HENKE<br />Gates Planetarium<br />Denver Museum of Nature & Science<br />2001 S. Colorado Blvd.<br />Monday, September 27<br />Doors open: 7:30pm<br />Show begins: 8:00pm (no late seating)<br /><br />Robert Henke Workshop<br />Sturm Hall 253<br />University of Denver<br />2000 E. Asbury St.<br />Tuesday, September 28, 7pmTracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-78549203052618558422010-02-18T21:08:00.000-08:002010-02-18T21:11:49.511-08:00Cyborg Ritual and Sentic Technology in the Vortex Concerts<a href="http://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/images/424__320xfloat=_trace_reddell_vortex.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 224px;" src="http://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/images/424__320xfloat=_trace_reddell_vortex.jpg" border="0" alt="Henry Jacobs and Jordan Belson in Morrison Planetarium" /></a><br /><br />Trace Reddell presents the Vortex Concerts of Henry Jacobs and Jordan Belson, which took place at San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium between 1957 and 1959, as extensions of astronautic research and cybernetic space sciences. While considering the audiovisual content and new performance interfaces used by these artists, he is most interested in how this space age ‘theater of the future’ plays out a cosmological agenda. The unique spatial structure of the planetarium dome represents the near atmosphere and distant outer space, but it also mimics the observatory and even the cramped interiors of spacecraft. Through this vehicular mechanism, the Vortex Concerts promote a new understanding of the nexus of mind, mood, and body as these are integrated into highly technical cybernetic systems by means of bio-engineering and pharmaceutical regimes. These performances facilitate the emotional life and imaginative health of the cyborg-astronaut through ritual use of sense-altering technologies.<br /><br /><a href="http://2010.sonicacts.com">Sonic Acts XIII: The Poetics of Space</a><br />spatial explorations in art, science, music and technology<br />25-28 February 2010, AmsterdamTracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-58188265258083131842009-03-03T22:38:00.000-08:002009-03-03T22:42:14.755-08:00TOS6. Contemplative Radio<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-B2DTKzOWf6a4nDTbN9Zp3pBND1w5yY9E07SCaLUTfidchAkImQDEk1zaG-t2KNuiAyAW9QpQ0JQ_aUW_MjnUhtdK7hgiywT8K8X1GARNA1NYDNcsemNWGW1EcTm7fvYwZ26WEK0L2k/s1600-h/R-232379-1105722202.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm-B2DTKzOWf6a4nDTbN9Zp3pBND1w5yY9E07SCaLUTfidchAkImQDEk1zaG-t2KNuiAyAW9QpQ0JQ_aUW_MjnUhtdK7hgiywT8K8X1GARNA1NYDNcsemNWGW1EcTm7fvYwZ26WEK0L2k/s200/R-232379-1105722202.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309219051823533138" /></a><br />2-4pm Wed Mar 03<br />Lindsay Auditorium<br />Sturm Hall 281<br />U of Denver<br /><br />Throughout the various waves of new age space music we encounter a common concern with sonic environmentalism for the mind. Tuning into the vast, intergalactic communications system that Philip K. Dick names “Radio Free Albemuth,” this presentation explores the dream radios, mood organs and spiritual cyborgs of new age music, with works ranging from Karlheinz Stockhausen and Steve Hillage to Robert Rich, Lustmord, and Meg Bowles. Such space music performs a technological religiosity situating terrestrial experience and mental health within the grand scale of cosmic event, as well as sustaining the belief that the human enterprise is inextricably bound in an impulse to leave the planet Earth behind.Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-48086162796239098812009-02-24T15:53:00.000-08:002009-02-24T16:05:25.221-08:00TOS5. Space Rituals<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8OKPAbKt0d6OwvxX6h96es2mtH2SKuTqG6W3IV2DoWAf1TkJUDSr-PDg6M5ThIRXX44feSDpNCzsCLhrXKRlC0KphaRbTikUoPcBHkwD3RBYpsxoBzVc3WdCxxGoyuWNFb2MyZIb-54/s1600-h/timblake-crystalmachine1.gif"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT8OKPAbKt0d6OwvxX6h96es2mtH2SKuTqG6W3IV2DoWAf1TkJUDSr-PDg6M5ThIRXX44feSDpNCzsCLhrXKRlC0KphaRbTikUoPcBHkwD3RBYpsxoBzVc3WdCxxGoyuWNFb2MyZIb-54/s200/timblake-crystalmachine1.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5306517763981760418" /></a><br />2-4pm Wed Feb 25<br />Lindsay Auditorium<br />Sturm Hall 281<br />U of Denver<br /><br />From the Pink Floyd’s space rock shows at London’s U.F.O. club to Hawkwind’s free concerts and the disasters of a Sex Pistols gig, media ritual surrounds these artists. Concentrating on space-related performers ranging from Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Yes, Tim Blake's Crystal Machine, and Arjen Anthony Lucassen’s Star One to Sun Ra and Parliament, I consider the spatial nature of group identity and the practice of collective deep listening and communal trance in relationship to the telematic bodies described by Roy Ascott and Derrida’s echographies of television. I’m particularly interested in conflicts between zones of cosmic spiritual identity and electronically mediated presence.Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-54217202067722329402009-02-03T11:47:00.000-08:002009-02-03T22:17:40.534-08:00TOS3. Cognitive Dub Science<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFqIwe9wKB84pMrs76ShSzDFm5Tvg6U_LliTHgR-X_GwzH97uWZI3fDFELKtcpb0iXtEpq2MCOgtaVgSppseoNMEcbkOsqQNJMqbG_TZYGZrZ3HFn02-MthgVYnlraHArv0nB2byRmWtw/s1600-h/boards-campfire-02.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 197px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFqIwe9wKB84pMrs76ShSzDFm5Tvg6U_LliTHgR-X_GwzH97uWZI3fDFELKtcpb0iXtEpq2MCOgtaVgSppseoNMEcbkOsqQNJMqbG_TZYGZrZ3HFn02-MthgVYnlraHArv0nB2byRmWtw/s200/boards-campfire-02.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5298663958704207890" /></a><br />2-4pm Wed Feb 04<br />Lindsay Auditorium<br />Sturm Hall 281<br />U of Denver<br /><br />This presentation zooms in on "memory" as a particularly important, discrete state of consciousness with powerful parallels in the use of magnetic tape in recording, manipulating and composing sound. Listening to diverse works by Brian Eno, Eno and Fripp, Richard Pinhas, Jamaican dub engineers, William Basinski, Boards of Canada, Tricky, DJ Spooky, and Kode9 + the Spaceape. I consider the relationship of the delay effect and sound recording to the phenomena of death, decay, and disintegration. Informed by the works of Jacques Derrida, I suggest a philosophy of electronic voice phenomena that helps us consider how dreadlocked systems produce sonic intelligences, Others otherwise known as ghosts.Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-44598986956518781122009-01-25T14:35:00.000-08:002010-01-27T09:42:55.813-08:00TOS2. The German Space Program<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCP659HHX5OkVXS_3POxnKXdjIm2vsaGZfy3C4oXIDe1YZi64Oe5Vs-XhRm2wJW80zdhy5-1C7ZgQN7F5r4T0-odC-U6RQGbqsiZTmBD46gbphm-5tmjMXI8UOj3Uoxq7iwyoRjXqC1g/s1600-h/cosmicjokers1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295364047762252978" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoCP659HHX5OkVXS_3POxnKXdjIm2vsaGZfy3C4oXIDe1YZi64Oe5Vs-XhRm2wJW80zdhy5-1C7ZgQN7F5r4T0-odC-U6RQGbqsiZTmBD46gbphm-5tmjMXI8UOj3Uoxq7iwyoRjXqC1g/s200/cosmicjokers1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />2-4pm Wed Jan 28<br />Lindsay Auditorium<br />Sturm Hall 281<br />U of Denver<br /><br />This presentation considers parallel inquiries into human biocomputing, cybernetic engineering, and space exploration conducted by the American space program and the German acid rock scene during the early 1970s. Swapping Werner von Braun and Timothy Leary, as it were, I present the Kosmische Musik phenomena as it reflects research and experiments in biocomputing and cyborg studies, the psychedelic sciences, and interspieces communication in the projects of John Lilly and Ed Mitchell.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sequence 1: Stern Trek<br />Cosmic Jokers, “Galactic Supermarket”<br />Tangerine Dream, “Rubycon, Part 1”<br />Klaus Schulze, “Satz Exil Sils Maria”<br />Cluster, “03,” “01”<br />Conrad Schnitzler, “Contrapuntal Interstellar Radars”<br />Popol Vuh, “Ich mache einen Spiegel”<br />Harmonia, “Sehr Kosmische”<br />Tangerine Dream, “Phaedra”<br />Popol Vuh, “Aguirre”<br />Tangerine Dream, “Alpha Centauri”<br />Ash Ra Tempel, “Traummaschine”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Sequence 2: Kosmos<br />Thomas Lück, “Kosmos” soundtrack<br />Cosmic Jokers and Sternmadchen, “Der Magier / The Electronic Scene”<br />Amon Düül II, “Wie der wind am ende einer strasse”<br />Stern Combo Meiden, “In Den Kosmos” soundtrack<br />Manuel Gottsching, “Echo Waves/Quasarsphere”<br />Tangerine Dream, “Birth of Liquid Plejades”<br />Klaus Schulze, from Cyborg<br />Cosmic Jokers and Sternmadchen, “Meine Kosmiche Musik”<br />Outro: Soundtrack collage</span><br /><br /><a href="http://www.archive.org/details/TOS2_germanspaceprogram">The Audio Mix</a><br /><br />A Miscellany of German Popular Music and Influences Since 1950<br /><br /><object width="400" height="305"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/p/1A4C7759983802D7&hl=en_US&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/p/1A4C7759983802D7&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="305" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object><br /><br />Here is a link to the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1A4C7759983802D7">Complete Playlist</a> of German Space Music and its influences.Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-77798528513631538862009-01-18T15:25:00.001-08:002012-05-25T12:18:57.388-07:00TOS1. Sonic Science Fiction<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7ncXCn_wITXsGoUSJwL97_57sIs_TdRkGrXb07ITQaoca807Fhp8RsDJW6JqRfAyA9fTu07Q5z9JpxkIYshu0RmfjSFZZI76RV81B45VEdYkPI4pqQNK0lKcMZTVg0X7NSQl1kzUat8/s1600-h/R-63742-1188160250.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292776071335613986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7ncXCn_wITXsGoUSJwL97_57sIs_TdRkGrXb07ITQaoca807Fhp8RsDJW6JqRfAyA9fTu07Q5z9JpxkIYshu0RmfjSFZZI76RV81B45VEdYkPI4pqQNK0lKcMZTVg0X7NSQl1kzUat8/s200/R-63742-1188160250.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 198px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
2-4pm Thur Sept 29<br />
DMST Classroom<br />
Sturm Hall 434<br />
U of Denver<br />
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Throughout the history of the science fiction film, the soundtrack plots a unique trajectory from ordinary consciousness to unusual, altered states. Considering works ranging from <i>Rocketship X-M</i> (1950) and <i>The Day the Earth Stood Still</i> (1951) to <i>Blade Runner</i> (1982), <i>The Fountain</i> (2006), and <i>Wall-E</i> (2008), I present the sounds of science fiction cinema in terms of the developments and transformations of consciousness from alienated, mythic, archetypal and psychotechnological states on toward the plateaus and peaks of complex cosmic and oceanic modes of consciousness.<br />
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<a href="http://www.archive.org/details/Tos1_sonified-sci-fiPartOne">The Audio Mix</a>Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315092126060322459.post-90010152145541773802009-01-18T15:17:00.001-08:002009-01-18T15:24:11.125-08:00Technicians of SpaceDocumenting my on-going series of multimedia lectures on consciousness, technology, and the cosmological imagination in sound and music. The current iteration of the project involves a series of six performance lectures delivered in Lindsay Auditorium on the University of Denver campus.<br /><br />Lectures take place from 2-4pm on the following Wednesday afternoons:<br /><br />Jan 21 Sonified Science Fiction<br />Jan 28 The German Space Program<br />Feb 04 Cognitive Dub Science<br />Feb 18 The Microcosms of Telharmonic Space<br />Feb 25 Space Ritual & Improvisational Technologies<br />Mar 04 Contemplative Radio<br /><br /><a href="http://mysite.du.edu/~treddell/TOSflier.pdf">Download PDF flier/calendar/episode guide.</a>Tracehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16562742006035088409noreply@blogger.com0