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Transparency Made Concrete - An Instant Guide to Transperency and the Avante-garde / Concrete Made Transparent - The Use of Concrete in Modern Times
X-ray architecture - An idea hatched in the research department of OMA promises to transform the nature of buildings. Inventor Bill Price conjures up the ultimate material: translucent concrete.
...both from this April's Metropolis.
Raging Slab has a new double album out called "The Dealer". They played SXSW last week and will be in NYC April 1 @ The Continental
Ok so now we know, don't steal other kids skateboards; or else. Up agianst the wall Shaggy mother fucker.Support student boycot : Music Banned in School ! (follow the rad threads......)
"Arquitectonica's design for Rockrose Development Corporation, developers of the 74-acre
site in Queens where Pepsi-Cola was bottled and canned until two years ago, is still in
development. But it's not too soon to comment on the promise of this project and the
obstacles faced by the architects in fulfilling it. The project, expected to cost $1 billion, will
occupy almost 22 acres in the northern area of Queens West. It will include seven apartment
towers, for a total of 3,000 new units. There will be 13.5 acres of parks, streets and other
public spaces.
Arquitectonica is sui generis. Bernardo Fort-Brescia and Laurinda Spear, the firm's
principles, were the first American architects of the baby-boom generation to start building on
a large scale.
The Spear House in Coral Gables, Fla., designed by them in collaboration with Rem
Koolhaas, was among the most photographed residential designs of the 1970's. Later,
Arquitectonica imprinted itself on the public imagination with the high-rises the firm designed
for Brickel Avenue in Miami.
As featured backdrops in the 1980's television series "Miami Vice," these towers helped
establish the new image of that city as an economic and cultural crossroads between Latin
America and the United States. And they defined the specialty for which Arquitectonica has
become known: a highly inventive, often colorful manipulation of the tall building type.
Arquitectonica is the Ricky Martin of contemporary architecture. While retaining Latin roots,
the firm has built widely around the world. Its cosmopolitan outlook suits Queens West.
There is nothing profound about this firm's work. On the other hand, there is none of the
spurious historical depth asserted by the retro buildings at Battery Park City and Riverside
South. This brings us to the obstacle Arquitectonica must reckon with in attempting
something fresh. Queens West, sponsored by a division of the Empire State Development
Corporation, is stuck with a Battery Park City-clone master plan and design guidelines.
For a site where views are paramount, the guidelines restrict the use of glass in favor of
masonry walls. Instead of encouraging new approaches to planning, the master plan
mandates neo-traditional towers on bases with uniform street lines. Can the bishop's-crook
lampposts, world's-fair benches, hexagonal pavers and other theme-park accessories be far
behind? Will we have Gene Kelly look-alike doormen dancing to "Singing in the Rain"?
Arquitectonica should be given the widest latitude in responding to the conditions of the site.
After all, the context here extends far beyond the neighboring low-rise brick buildings of
Long Island City. It also includes the midtown skyline, the river and its bridges, the airports
in Queens and, not least, the United Nations headquarters and all it symbolizes for the city
and the world beyond."
- Muschamp for NYT
I got the lot of 7 mixed race moonshiner photos for $63.00 bucks (less than $10.00 each). One guy ran it up to that from $19.99, but thats ok.
Latest Nowottny sighting :
Marianne Nowottny and State of the Union release
Marianne has contributed a selection to the Elliot Sharp project "State of
The Union 2.001." This 3CD set is finally out, released by the Electronic
Music Foundation, with a beautiful package designed by
Janene Higgins.
There will be a launch event on Monday, Mar. 5, from 7-10PM at Tonic, 107
Norfolk St, NYC with brief performances by
Eszter Balint , Jack Womack, and others, plus a live mix of the SOTU set
by DJ Nico Mazet.
State of the Union 2.001
This amazing 3-CD set of contemporary sound and text-based electric and
electronic music may be just what you need to live a full life. Composer /
performer Elliott Sharp has set aside his saxophone and put his guitar on
the shelf for just long enough to collect one-minute music and sound works
by 171 leading lights of the international avant-garde, both famous and
unknown, that represent a vast array of approaches, attitudes, aesthetics,
ethnicities, musical styles, and social persuasions. He describes the
collection as "concrete, abstract, enraged, objective, caustic, soulful,
sardonic, provocative -- all unfiltered, all clear." It's more than that.
It's totally enjoyable. Unmissable. A bandwagon you should get on without
missing a beat.
CD 1 includes:
Adriana Sa's 'About Sensorship', Alfred Harth's 'Yogurt Karaoque Park-1',
Alan Licht's 'Goon', Allen Kaatz's 'Dub Mix #2', Alma Carey-Zúñiga's 'With
Respect to Areo Pagitica', Alvin Curran's 'ERAT VERBUM John', Angela Babin
and Lori Bingel's 'Naked Dancing Everywhere', Annie Gosfield's 'Manual
Labour Pains', Atau Tanaka's 'mosurge', Becca Schack's 'The Spell', Ben
Boone and James Miley's 'Drunken Bastards #2', Benjamin Chadabe's
'Minutes...', Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen's 'Yahoo / Bounce', Black
Sifichi's 'State of Things' / 'Barbie and her Perilous Anatomy', Blaise
Siwula's 'One Message', Blake Hargreaves and Liam Thurston's 'Check the
checky-specs, rock the telebocket', Bob Holman's 'Shredded Peace', Bruce
Bennett's 'Speaking in Tongues', Carl Stone's 'V2', C.D.'s 'Adelante de su
Presencia', Charles K. Noyes' 'A Minute in the Life', Chop Shop's 'No
Title', Chris Haskett's 'ESL for Machines', Christian Marclay's 'Free Jazz
Shrunk', Chris Mann's 'Double Standard', Chris Rael's 'Shake off that
Coma', Chris Vine's 'State of the A-Bloc', Cook & Swenson's 'America
Inc.', Dael Orlandersmith's 'My Riff', D'Divaz's 'crne oci' ('dark eyes',
excerpt), Dafna Naphtali's '1 min Bounce', Daniel Matej's 'SHARP (on
B-A-C-H)', Dave Soldier and Richard Lair's 'Swing, Swing, Swing', David
First's 'Jingle', David Fulton's 'SOTU 2000', David Gans' 'Pat Bucancer',
David Greenberger's 'The Apes Lecture', David Taylor's 'Ode to Danny
Kaye', Deaf Mute's 'Lathe', Debra DeSalvo's 'Tompkins Square Park', Doug
Henderson's 'Zippo', Donald Knaack's 'Abracadabra', Don Ritter's 'Get',
Dorgon's '4MS', Duck Baker's 'Rag Me Don't Gag Me', Elio Martusciello's
'Zanara Tigre', Emily XYZ and Virgil Moorefield's 'Separation of Church
and State', Eric Mingus' 'Hold On', Eric Rosenzveig's 'A Cop For Every 183
Citizens (Year 2000 / New York City / Millenium Capitol Of The World)',
Eric Shanfield's 'Indivisible Cities', Eszter Balint's 'she's drowning',
Eyeball 9000's 'Song3.mp3', FemNoir's 'PhoneNoir', Figure's 'Americal',
and Foetus' 'Quality Control'.
CD 2 includes:
Frank Rothkamm's 'Sine 0 to 12', Fred Frith's 'Sunshine State', Freight
Elevator Quartet's 'Mediate', GenKen Montgomery's 'Lamination As A Virtual
Metaphor', Gert Jan Prins' 'ja', Hans Tammen's 'Three Channel Guitar',
Harriet Tubman's 'Blossoming', Harry Smith's 'State', Henry Kaiser's 'See
No Evil', i.d.'s '_?*+'{'L=', Ikue Mori's 'If...', Jack Womack's 'Nixon in
New Orleans', Jacob Burckhardt's 'Tomorrow', Jad Fair's 'Paper and Pen',
Jean Marc Montera's 'Ouverte au vent', Jeffrey Ford's 'The Invisible Man's
Time Machine', Jenn Reeves' 'The Money', Joel Chadabe's 'Minutes...', Joey
Baron's 'Holy Crow', John Duncan's 'Open...' and 'Open -- a gesture of
gratitude to the makers of censored sounds you haven't heard, images you
haven't seen, ideas you haven't heard or read... yet', John Hudak's
'Fireworks', Johnny Reinhard's 'On Ogur' (from 'Urartu'), Jonathan
Bepler's 'Small Harness', Jon Rose's 'USTrash2000', Jorge Mancini and
Andrea Fasani's 'Sample - SOTU 2000 / Come To The Origin II', Judy Nylon
and Brian Foster's 'L-I-A-R', Kasper Toeplitz's 'No Scale', Katie
O'Looney's 'Exploitration', Kato Hideki's 'No Tongue Blues', Kazuhisa
Uchihashi's 'Music For States of Union', Keisuke Oki's 'Tokyo Propaganda',
Koji Asano's 'A Cold Summer', Lauren Weinger's 'Place Study #9: Marquette
Grain Elevator', Leon Gruenbaum's 'Desperate Hearts: State of the Romantic
Union', Ligeti / Ritchford's 'Parker's Box', Lloop's 'Tenac', Lo
Galluccio's 'All the Pretty Horses / Let em think my wings iz broke',
Loren Mazzacane Connors' 'Annabel Lee', Love Todd's 'Dangerous', Lost
Satellites' 'Electric Effervescence', Luca Formentini's Vuoto', Luciano
Margorani's 'Vendetta!', Manu Sauvage's 'Speach to the Muted', Marc
Behrens' 'Real Player fucked my Netscape Settings', Marc C.'s 'The Orbit
Room', Marc Ribot's 'Space Walk', Marek Piacek's 'Rainy', Marianne
Nowottny's 'Corridors', Marie Goyette's 'Short-Cut: Borodin', Mark
Dagley's 'Chinch Bug Blues #2', Mark Howell and Tom Hamilton's 'Smudge on
the Radar Screen', Mark Trayle's 'goldT°.2°3', Martha Mooke's 'State of
the Underground', Matt Rogalsky's 'Koll Kash', Matthew Shipp's 'Notes Cry
Out', Merry Fortune w / FAT's 'Who is it that calls subtley perverse?',
Merzbow's 'Cannon Balls', Michael J. Schumacher's 'Sounds End', and Mike
Cooper and Max Nagl's 'The Singing Bridge in Rabat'.
CD 3 includes:
Misha Feigin and Steve Good's 'A Chinese Clicking Duck Music in 5 Parts',
Murat Nehmet-Nejat's 'A Screw into the Universe', Ned Rothenberg's 'High
Jump', Nicolas Collins' 'Puck', Nicolas Dias' 'e-soltitude', Nicolas
Mazet's 'Turbulence', Norman Yamada's 'Coin Toss', blaat's '22', Oblique's
'Double Tongued', Doug Theriault and David Chandler's 'y', Ori Kaplan and
Geoff Mann's 'Is Jerusalame?', PAK's 'One Minute Political Song', Particle
Data Group's 'Interdependence', Pete Missing's 'Digital Out', Phill
Niblock's 'Aomori Water', Phillip Johnston's Transparent Quartet's
'Ta-da', Piero Chianura's 'KHISS', Public Works' 'Hoping it's a dream',
QPE's 'in signed out', Queen Esther's 'Got To Get Back', Raging Peasants'
'Harry+Albert', ReproRappers' '199.9 Mhz' (G. Peccary version), Roberto
Zorzi's 'Stai Zitto!', Roger Kleier's 'Soft Money, Hard Time', Satoko
Fuji's 'Sigh', Saturnalia's 'Fre Actions', D.J. Spazecrafte One's '34th
Ave...' (Edit), Stefan Poetzsch's '4 Channels Viola', Stefano Bassanese's
'Il Flo Interdentale (The Dental Floss)', Stephen Pope's 'Four Magic
Sentences', Stephen Vitiello's 'Caught in the headlights of the Beverly
Hillbillies photo cell recording off of a flickering TV screen', Steve
Dalachinsky's 'Empire' and 'The Wind', Steve Goldberger's 'Le temps
ensuite', Steve Piccolo's 'The Expedition', Tape Beatles' 'Broken
Broadcast', Ted Reichman's 'Gaida Dilemma', Telectu's (Jorge Lima Barreto
and Vitor Rua) 'Duplicator', The Fitzbergs' 'Fishy Go Swim Swim', Thomas
Dimuzio's 'Turnkey', Tom Devaney's 'This Guy Walking In My Head', Tony
Daniel's 'Epitaph', Toni Dove's (with Paul Geluso) 'Attention', Tracie
Morris' 'Djele', Ut Gret's 'Crease the Sky', Viv Corringham and Gareth
Williams' 'Safety or Happiness', Vivian Sisters' 'Freckle People', Voice
Crack's 'shock_hack', Wanda Phipps' 'Desire', We's 'Gerbil Wheel', Wendy
Atlas Oxenhor's 'Loverman', White Out's 'buzz saw trapped in a perfumery
of shrugs', Zammuto's 'Circle of Fits', Zeena Parkins' 'J Cushions E',
Z'ev's 'You Never Know', Zbigniew Karkowski's 'amazonas', and Zoot Horn
Rollo's 'Solo Below'.
Play State of the Union 2.001 on Random Shuffle!