Digital Sound and Remix:Group Show

Who
People from this course at SFAI in the fall 2005. However, the emphasis is on this being a real show so much so that SFAI will not even be used on the literature and press release for the show. Rather, the works are to conceptually blend the various participants works.

What
A sound-based gallery show. Remix. Wireless Sound.

Static or Installed Pieces

 * Ballooney: Spy camera suspended by helium filled balloon.
 * Ad Jingles: Converted to Audio/Visual format - see below
 * Crossfader Sound Box
 * Pulse in Flux: Multimedia artist Ashanti : 10-15 min Video + Sound Film Piece - (Loop) see below

Live Perfomance/Video

 *  "True Beauty" Video Premiere: 5 min
 * John Henry Performance/Installation: 4 min
 * Contact Mike Perfomance: 30 minutes. 3 Member band with Contact Mike "intruments." Audience participation. This is going to be  an improvised exploration of the sounds of various  amplied   objects  and  people performed by my band, SABRETEETH. The amplified sounds are going to be integrated/mixed/remixed with the live  instruments (drums, bass, guitar, sax) to create mew sounds. I'm still trying to  tie the  comceptual  ends  together  a  little  more. Open  for  collaboration with the  rest of the  class, in fact, we  would really like it.  Also, we  are  very interested in incorporating the audience as much as possible.
 * Justapositional Video Sound Shorts: Example in class "Ouch!"
 * Sound Burts: Continual bursts of sound that will incorporate itself in-sync with the regular happeinings of the show. Ambients/Mutated Samples.
 * Whisper Paintings : wall mounted portrait that whispers at people in the creepiest possible fashion  --jsun
 * Aural Bathroom Graffiti :  graffiti in the bathroom scratched in the air instead of the wall or stall /whispers/quotes/obnoxious stylings/ possibly collect samples or recordings from everyone in class  --jsun
 * Superliminal : 5 mi : a AV presentation exploring the history of advertising and how sound and certain jingles get stuck in our minds so easily, and become part of the popular culture. ---Sarah

When
Thursday, December 1, 2005 from 7 - 10 PM.

Where
http://www.rxgallery.com/

Why
To explore the concepts of contemporary mix and remix as modern artists in order to further dialogue between the participants (including artists and people visiting the space during the night).

1 word summary
RMX

1 sentence Summary
This is a summary of the show.

1 Paragraph Summary
This is a 1 paragraph summary of the show.

1 Page Show Summary
Fit the show program onto half of letter sized sheet and get cut in the middle.


 * Header
 * Use the RMX graphic
 * Attach the mediaexperiment.org tagline
 * Attach the time, date, and location of the event
 * Body
 * Use the descriptions of peoples projects for the show program.
 * Possibly organize the projects as such:
 * Video
 * Performance
 * Installation

Announcement
RMX: Media Experiment #1

KEYWORDS: 15 SF-based artists, remix, sound, contemporary net culture, rx gallery

www.mediaexperiment.org

@ Rx Gallery (www.rxgallery.com) 132 Eddy Street @ Mason San Francisco, CA 94102

Thursday, December 1, 2005, 7-10 PM

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Fifteen San Francisco-based artists present their work around the concepts of contemporary net culture, sound and remix this Thursday, December 1, 2005 from 7-10 PM at the Rx Gallery (www.rxgallery.com). The show, which features installations, projections, and performances, is a quick one night remix of the pre-existing work in the space and the participating artists in this "media experiment #1," the first in a series of on-going media experiments over the next year.

The night begins promptly at 7 PM with four experimental video shorts such as Ashanti's "Meditative Pulse in Flux" explores through montage, examples of general rhythms from South-East Asia to San Francisco. "Intertitle" by Todd Daniel Fiore re-examines the film Nosferatu with contemporary audio-visual layering and folding while Jose-Luis Mejia's work collages visual features of people of different ethnicities in a sonic urban landscape.

Sound performances during the night include "The Big Beat" by Darby Kaighin-Shields and Rafael Canedo. This work presents live sound cut-ups, experimental mixing with multiple turntables, and live fabrication of wax LPs. "Diamond Scratch" by Mike Daddona is a group performance that amplifies various found objects not normally considered musical or aural. Both of these projects are open to participation by people attending the event.

Installed in the space are Deer Fang's "The Unique Dancer" that projects pre-recorded individual dancing and encourages people to contribute their own to the mix. Josh Pavlick's "Selectron The Arbitrator" collects audio inside one three foot clear latex helium balloon. This is then transmitted to the primary sound mixer for the night, Jacob Sperber, who is doing a "RMX of RMX" using audio output from the participating artists and the sounds in the space to create an audio atmosphere.

This partial list of projects serves to contextualize all work in the show as "Media Experiments" of differing diverse viewpoints through multiple media remixed in the Rx Gallery, a cozy lounge complete with wine and sake bar.

The artists presenting work are Ashanti, Rafael Canedo, Darby D, Kanako Shibata, Deer Fang, Todd Daniel, Jen Rabon, Jose-Luis Mejia, Sarah Williams, Han Choi, Jsun McCarty, It Lives, Jacob Sperber, Josh Pavlick, Dax Henderson and Mike Daddona (Sabreteeth). The show is produced by Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org).

"Intertitle" by Todd Daniel Fiore

 * medium: NTSC DV
 * email: Toddo51579@aol.com
 * website: http://toddo51579.multiply.com/video/item/1
 * summary: The classic film Nosferatu's narrative is remixed and visuals layered in order to re-examine the classic film and to analyze the use of the abundance of titles throughout.

This video is a type of Hollywood Narrative Remix. It is a small segment of a much larger body of work dealing with re-examining classic narrative films. For this section I will take FW Murnau Nosferatu and re-edit it. By speeding it up, layering the image, and re-photographing the entire piece I hope to attain a visual that is dynamic and engaging. Duration will be an aspect that I will structure the film around, approx 5 or 6 minutes. Color tinting the video will also play a role in the re-processing. The sound will be an exploration of very high and low frequencies that is reminiscent of the original film, but also open the experience to a more audible interpretation The sound will appear and then recede in the same fashion that the images themselves appear and disappear before the viewer can take them in. This film also has an large amount of Intertitles, hence the title of the piece, that will play a significant role in the re-photography.

"Audio graffiti" by jsuN adriaN mcCartY

 * medium: speakers, cd players, and looping audio
 * email: opaloptics@hotmail.com
 * website: http://wigwamtongue.multiply.com/music/item/3
 * summary: Small speakers installed into the bathroom provide a sonification of what possible visual graffiti might sound like.

Both male and female bathrooms will have small speakers installed that broadcast audio graffiti in spacially fluxuating surround sound. You can never truly feel alone in this bathroom.

Meditative Pulse in Flux by Ashanti

 * medium: 10-15 min Video + Sound Film Piece - (Loop)
 * email: sonicsoulfusion@gmail.com
 * website: http://babel.massart.edu/~ashanti
 * summary: A montage which explores examples of general rhythms within different aspects of society from South East Asia to San Francisco. Arrive early to participate in a basic meditation during the premiere of this work.

Weaving together the everyday and the sacred. This montage explores examples of a pulsating flux of rhythms within different aspects of society from South East Asia to San Francisco. Showing clips from a monastic life in Thailand and Cambodia to rhythmic scenes from the streets of American life. These images explore an interconnectedness of consciousness.

Ashanti's project connects this consciousness through showing the similarity of pulse, rhythm, energy, motion, emotion, movement, and patterns of differnt cultures. Showing a similar thread that may connect the pulses of everyday life and mundane activities to a more sacred intentional motion. This is expressed in a stream of consciousness flow with the use of video and audio.

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"Untitled" by Gary Stocker

 * medium: audio cd samples
 * email: ?
 * website: ?
 * summary: Sample transmissions culled from television and film are played throughout the night at differing intervals and levels of intensity. What is the pattern?

I would like to provide brief altered sample transmissions for the duration of the event. these transmissions will consist of custom sound culled from television and film. content will range from the overt to the nearly subliminal. the frequencey and duration of these transmissions requires coordination and approval of fellow show members.

"The Unique Dancer" by Deer Fang

 * medium: video installation and performance
 * email: luufang@yahoo.com
 * website: ?
 * summary: Pre-recorded individual dancing is projected large in the space. The project encourages people to contribute their own to the live mix.

This project investigates how solitude dancing related to one's self-consciousness and affects on one's psychological state. In a club dancing environment, an environment occupied by high volume fast beat music, the body is separate from our normal linguistic consciousness, which become it's own objective existence that not relate to the mind and parallels to any other vibrating objects in the same environment. This experience is more revealing in the condition of a solitude dancer, when the dancing is not an effort of social, nor an consideration of the audiences. It also makes me categorize dancing to two forms, one is social dance, the goal of which is sociability or other functionality of the activity; another is self-satisfaction dance, which dancers are powered by the sound, the beat and the actual environment, and gives up the self control ability to the external factors. It's an aimless movement. The term "dance" here is not so much a definition for trained movement; it is more of shaking, swinging, jumping.. On the other hand, these movements are intuitive and informal but it's not a claim of originality. We are all part of the popular culture, the majority part of what we do are consciously or not consciously affected by social effects. Therefore this solitude dancing is also a parody of things we receive.

This project creates an space for solitude dancing. Audience walks into a small space. Inside the space, there is a projection on the wall of a life-size person dancing by her/himself with music, the opposite of the projection is a mirror. The audience will be between the mirror and the projection. There is a a TV monitor on the floor which connect to the projection. There is DVD menu on the TV, from which the audience can select the dancer and music that they like to play. The video is footage of non-professional people dancing by themselves in a black background. The space is an inviting environment for whoever steps in to dance.

"You Used to Find A Bug in a Box With Fade" by Jen Rabon

 * medium: wood, mixer, speakers, cd players (1.5' x 1.5' x .5')
 * email: jenrabon@artchemical.com
 * website: http://www.artchemical.com
 * summary: A wooden box contains racialized dialogue which a participants may alter through a simple panning mechanism. It mimics the common practice of whispering racial jokes or comments.

The piece is a sound box that gives the viewer/listener access to the cross fader to control two tracks of sound distributed to two small speakers. The viewer/listener will be able to move back and forth between the tracks so that they can hear one or the other clearly or can overlap them. The tracks will be overlapping racial dialogue. The box will be small and the person interacting with the piece will have to lean close to the speakers to hear the sound. Conceptually I think this is interesting because it mimics the common practice of whispering racial jokes or comments. It is also symbolic of the attempt to examine closely one’s own concepts of race.

"vL Filter" by Josh Pavlick (jp)

 * medium: Helium balloons, AV equipment
 * email: josh@5er.org
 * website: http://www.5er.org
 * summary: v.3.0 [vL Filter]: One (1) wireless satellite camera unit is mounted in styrofoam suspended by a helium balloon. Real-time footage from the camera attached to the ballon is projected on any surface and transmitted to a television monitor on the show's floor.

THIS is THE FINAL VERSION [3.0]:

v.3.0 [vL Filter]: One (1) wireless satellite unit mouted in styrofoam suspended by helium balloon. real-time footage projected on any surface or transmitted to a television monitor placed on the floor.

v.2.0 [Selectron The Arbitrator]:  Four wireless satellite units (DV/microphone) collecting signals inside one 3' clear latex helium balloon. Transmission broadcast to a central unit collecting live audio and video feed. Resulting video will shift depending on random orientation of selected camera inside balloon in conjuction with the visual signals of the space. Balloon will be counter-weighted for mobility. Location variable.

v.1.0 [Quadraphonic Isolator]: Four wireless satellite units (DV/microphone) collecting signals at distinct coordinates in the space. Transmission broadcast to a central unit collecting live audio and video feed from one satellite at a time. Central unit will be a small structure containing a monitor with headphones and a 4 channel switch consol for signal selection. Each satellite will be a camera and microphone placed inside a helium balloon. Resulting wild sound will be altered by the material filter of the balloon while the resulting video will be primarily the color of the balloon with shifts in value determined by placement, ambient light and light interference. Each one of the four balloon satellites will be a different color for immediate audio/visual coordinated identification. Balloon placement controlled by lead weight and yarn.

"Superliminal" by Sarah Williams

 * medium: Visuals
 * email: Pixiechix@gmail.com
 * website: http://sarahhope.multiply.com/
 * summary: Visuals which relate to the concepts in the show, the participants, and other media culture are projected live in the space. They provide a meshing of the many performances, films, and installations.

During the course of the class I have become interested in various visual aspects of programming - the way schematics for Pd and max msp flow and mimic circuit boards, the shape and contours of various computer hardware, and the patterns in audio equipment. I have compiled a visual collage of these images, as well as others that reflect the themes and concepts of the class.

"Diamond Scratch"  by Mike Daddona

 * medium: contact microphones, found instruments
 * email: ?
 * website: ?
 * summary: Amplification of various found objects not normally considered  musical  instruments are used to   create various  tones and rhytms.

DiamondScratch is a project by my band, Sabreteeth consisting of the  amplification of various  found objects that would not be  considered  musical  instruments  and  creating  various  tones and rythyms with the arbitrary  objects.We  are  going to be sampling and  looping  these  amplified sounds and incorporating them with live  instruments  (drums, guitar, bass, sax). We are  going to be  using  contact  microphones to  amplify the  objects, which can be used to  amplify  just about anything  that  omits  a sound. This project seeks to incorporate  participatation  from the audience  to join in creating the  sound.

"POCKY" by Kanako Shibata

 * medium: video (3'20")
 * email: shibatakanako@hotmail.com
 * website: http://kanakoshibata.multiply.com / http://kanachanhaaai.multiply.com / http://kshibata.multiply.com
 * summary: His name is Pylvester Ptallone. He is a star of a new film called POCKY. He has been described as handsome, tough, talented, sexy, sensitive, dynamic, and brilliant! He has been called a top contender for an academy award. PG parental guidance suggested.

His name is Pylvester Ptallone. He is a star of a new film called POCKY. He has been described as handsome, tough, talented, sexy, sensitive, dynamic, and brilliant! He has been called a top contender for an academy award. PG parental guidance suggested.

"RMX of RMX" by Jacob Sperber

 * medium: Live Sound Performance (Mics, Mixer, CDJ, Samplers, EFX Pedals
 * email: deejaypeeplay.com@gmail.com
 * website: http://jacobsperber.multiply.com/
 * summary: This performance glues the other projects of the show together by remixing the remix. By using the output of audio from other projects, a third is generated.

This is a live performance that will require the rest of the show for its innerworkings. RMX of RMX will be performed on the RX Gallery PA by utilizing microphones set up around the gallery active during the show. This sound, which will feature not only other sound works in progress but outside the gallery, the bathroom, and the bar, will be mixed into the general space with other ambients and sounds by being run through the RX Gallerys main soundsystem mixer board. I will use extra mixers, samplers, as well as the microphones in use. The performance will be utilized to kill any dead air inbetween live perfomances and for the opening and closing of the show.

"The Big Beat" by Darby Kaighin-Shields and Rafael Canedo

 * medium: wax, plastic, installation
 * email: ?
 * website: ?
 * summary: Records are pressed to wax and then plastic ones are made during the event. This culminates with a performance of the newly pressed records at the end of the show.

Live sound compostions with multiple turntables.

"True Beauty" by Jose-Luis Mejia

 * medium: Video
 * email: jmejia@webmail.sfai.edu
 * website: ?
 * summary: Framing ethnicity comments on what mainstream media identifies as beautiful by showing an alternate perspective through a visual montage of people's phyisical features.

"Seenae" by Han Choi

 * medium: installation (5 min(Loop), single channel video with object)
 * email: hansnine@hotmail.com
 * website: http://hanchoi.multiply.com
 * summary: A collection of decaying visuals and sound of a past personal encounter are displayed publicly to correct a relationship and the artist's personal damaged memory.

Video installation related with personal experience before. The damaged sound and visual like the bad memory which chnaged my life totally. I collected the damaged visual and sound remembering both my damaged memory and a little girl, Seenae who is in heaven to recorrect the relationship me with Seenae.

THURSDAY, OCT 20 - Mail off Details

 * Mail off Overview to Monika and Will from RX for confirmation

FRIDAY, nov 21 or nov 24 - Update PR and postcard + mail out postcard

 * Submit PR to mailing lists
 * Mail off postcard to vistaprints

Day before Show (setup) - WEDNESDAY, Nov 30

 * 1 PM - meet in DMS for people who need to move stuff with JP's truck
 * 2 PM - Start installing show at 2 PM on WED and install all day until done!
 * 4-7 PM - MANDATORY - Class meets at space during class hours (4-7 PM).
 * 6 PM - Do run through of event for performances at 6 PM on WED

Night of Show - THURSDAY, Dec 1
1 -2 PM - Earliest we can get into the space

7:15PM- 8PM Video Screening

 * TODD
 * ASHANTI
 * KANAKO
 * HAN
 * JOSE?

(LOOP RUNS THE REST OF THE NIGHT W/O SOUND)

8:15PM - 8:45PM

 * MIKE - CONTACT MIC PREFORM

8:45 PM - 9:15 PM

 * JACOB - REMIX AUDIO FROM GALLERY SOUND

9:15PM - 9:45PM

 * DARBY/RAF - DJ PREFORMANCE

Simultaneous Performances

 * GARY'S SOUND THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT
 * JOSH MINI-SPY CAM THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT
 * JEN'S SOUND MIXER BOX
 * DEER FANG'S DANCE INSTALL
 * SARAH - VISUALS
 * email visuals for the loop to Pixiechix@gmail.com
 * JSUN - AUDIO IN BATHROOM
 * DAX - VIDEO INSTALL

Design

 * The general concept for the show is Remix.

Ideas

 * Different levels of remix during the event
 * main sound system
 * headphones
 * other sound system
 * time-based sound system (the blasts)
 * wireless sound system?

Documentation

 * dvd footage
 * all contribute footage
 * photos
 * audio recording
 * How can we record audio of the entire night? By computer?

Equipment Needs

 * Provided by RxGallery
 * 1 projector
 * House Sound System (has buzzing)
 * Bar
 * Provided by Us (Everything else)
 * Jon
 * JP
 * Portable Sound System

Budget

 * SFAI D+T department - $100.00 (NOPE) we aint got no money
 * DONATIONS: ?

Tasks

 * PROJECTORS: Jason (jSUN)
 * GENERAL EQUIPMENT: ?
 * FLIER: Jacob Sperber
 * INSTALLATION (PROJECTORS and ASSISTANCE): Rafael
 * Req. working with idividuals who will be presenting static works in the space and delegating a plan for the where and the how they will be installed.
 * PRESS/PUBLICITY: Jon / Ashanti
 * Req. making sure the word and promotional materials are properly dispersed within the school, city, and web.
 * WEB PRESENCE:
 * Could put link on the SFAI site or just rely on content on the rxgallery site**SF Weekly, Guardian, SFAI Newsletter, Myspace, Friendster, etc...
 * EVENT DIRECTION: Jacob / Jon / Sara
 * Req. a general troubleshooting and orchestration of the event when it is in progress.
 * PERFORMANCE / SOUND: Darby
 * REq. working with all artists doing live performances during the event and making a schedule for set-up and performance times between 7pm and 2am.
 * DOCUMENTATION: Han + Others
 * Audio at 5.1 Dolby Surround Stereo
 * Research Recording of DSS 5.1, atleast in Stereo
 * DV Video doc of performances and installations
 * Pictures of work
 * Later on... DVD of Show
 * COMPILATION VIDEO LOOP: Todd
 * Truck: JP DOES HAVE A TRUCK!

Questions

 * How shall we document the entire night?
 * Han will be in charge of the master documentation, everyone else is in charge of recording their own pieces and generally capturing the event
 * How shall we divide up tasks for the entire night?
 * everyone is responsible for their own work
 * Projection/Screening Room, is it already running w/own projector?