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"RingMod Plus Beats" [mp3 removed]

The two previous sound files combined, one after the other, with a reprise of "RingMod" on the final note.

The link was broken...for 18 hours. *moan* Thanks, Thor.

- tom moody 1-07-2007 8:10 am [link] [3 comments]



"Beats (Song 8)" [mp3 removed]

- tom moody 1-07-2007 4:23 am [link] [add a comment]



"Ring Modulation Demo" [mp3 removed]

- tom moody 1-07-2007 4:22 am [link] [add a comment]



trepte 1

trepte 3

trepte 4

Some photos I took at Cody Trepte's show (for Alan Turing), at NYU/Tisch School of the Arts' Gulf & Western Gallery, 721 Broadway. More about the show is here. At the top is a "binary cross stitch" similar to the one Trepte had in the Infinite Fill Show a while back. The middle image is an essay by pioneering computer scientist and codebreaker Turing with everything but the 1s and 0s removed (detail of a 33 page installation). The bottom image, another detail, is the negative space (spaces between words) in another Turing essay. The show is a non-standard take on "computer art" in the gallery context. The formal vocabulary is reductive (or accumulative) minimalism a la Yayoi Kusama's airmail stamp paintings, and while the subject matter is the language of both the computer and the computer scientist, it's treated not in a literal way but rather as an absence, or anti-content. As the press release explains, Turing was gay and accused in the not so swinging '50s of "acts of gross indecency." His "sentence" was an "experimental hormone therapy" consisting of estrogen injections to "reduce the libido." He died a couple of years later, apparently a suicide, but with questions lingering. Trepte's work is thus not the typical Buzz Lightyear computer-fetish celebration but rather an examination of the repressed, fragile, elegiac back story to the "machine that's changed our lives."

The exhibition's up through Saturday, Jan. 6. Gallery hours are 10am through 7pm weekdays, and noon to 5pm on Saturdays.

- tom moody 1-05-2007 4:11 am [link] [7 comments]



So, art in Miami 2006: a brief recap. It was this:

OptiDisc - Miami

versus this:

miami basel hell

(Apologies to Paddy Johnson for the polemical use of her photos. The point is that the small, scurrying mammals of the New Art were defiantly underfoot as the dinosaurs munched their last wads of eucalyptus. Or put another way, that the starship Voyager navigated through Borg Space despite the latter's overwhelming hegemonic force. Also, thanks to Johnson for including this blog and my artMovingProjects show in her 2006 best of the web wrap-up. She's one of that rare tribe of artist/critics willing to wade in and critique both the gallery world and the web world, or perhaps attempt to knock their mutton heads together.)

(Also check out her worst of the web '06, which includes such deserving topics as Banksy, Lonelygirl15, and a certain artnet writer who will never be mentioned by name here.)

- tom moody 1-04-2007 10:20 pm [link] [1 comment]



Spiral

artist unknown - GIF enlarged X 10

update: non-fuzzy (preferred) version - 425 KB

- tom moody 1-04-2007 1:40 am [link] [15 comments]



"Subharmonic Duo" [mp3 removed]

The piano parts in the previous tune were adapted for bass and two intertwining lead synth parts. I gave the piano piece a new name since it's closer to this piece than its predecessor. The rhythm parts were done with a hardware sequencer triggering both itself and tuned drum sounds with long decays on an analog drum machine. The '70s-synth-plus-techno vibe is an homage to Keith Emerson's film scores of the mid '80s (for anime and live action) that I still listen to quite a bit.

- tom moody 1-04-2007 1:25 am [link] [add a comment]



Subharmonic Duo (Piano) Score

"Subharmonic Duo" (Piano) [mp3 removed]

Kind of a slow baroque modernist blues composition for piano, using the same notes as "Subharmonic Duo" minus the beats. The score above is an except near the end. (The title has been changed.)

- tom moody 1-03-2007 3:16 am [link] [add a comment]