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Friday 5 December 2014
Blackout City
In a metropolis like London light pollution makes the night sky invisible. Only a few of the brightest stars and asterisms force their celestial light through the man made glow of the city. The night sky, one of the most beautiful of natural wonders is extinguished from view. Blackout City is an experimental timelapse film that makes the invisible, visible. It attempts to show what the night sky would look like If there were ever to be a total blackout in the South East of England on a clear, moonless, summers night.
I started shooting this project back in August 2013 and have been slowly gathering footage when conditions were right. Although each shot in this film is a composite, all footage is real. The city shots were captured during the day and processed to look like night and the night sky shots were captured from dark locations around the South of England to ensure that the stars are astronomically correct for the latitude of London. I have also processed the astro shots to be more sympathetic to what the naked eye would see in terms of saturation and detail. The internet is saturated with well-processed images of the Milky Way that show phenomenal colour that are the result of fantastic low light DSLR technology. Don’t get me wrong I love these images, I am one of the people who endeavours to create them! But in reality the Milky Way does not look like this; so in order to make this film more believable I have chosen to process the shots this way.
I first got the idea for the film when I read an article about a blackout in LA in 1994 where people called 911 reporting these strange clouds floating in the sky, those clouds where in fact the Milky Way. It made me think about how the lights from cities have made many of us lose our connection to the night sky. We live in a fast paced man-made world whereby it is all too easy for us to become disconnected from the natural world around us, isolated from what is actually real. There are many other aspects of the human condition that this film could touch upon which could make its’ intentions appear somewhat complicated, but is essence the film's agenda could not be more simple; to inspire people to get away from the city lights, go somewhere quiet on a star-filled night and simply look up.
This project is purely non-profit but I would love the opportunity take the Blackout City idea to different metropolises across the globe as each city with it's specific latitude will reveal a different sky. If anyone thinks they can help to make this happen please connect with me through the links below:
To see more of my work please visit: nicholasbuer.com
For direct enquires please mail me at: contact@nicholasbuer.com
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Main track is by The American Dollar ‘As We Float’ (Ambient)
Licensed at: theamericandollar.info/licensing
For motion control I used the Stage One Dolly System by Dynamic Perception
dynamicperception.com
© Nicholas Buer 2014
Autechre - Live@Warp25 Krakow Poland (September 20, 2014)
All new 2014 Autechre live show debuted at 25 years of Warp celebration party held in the abandoned hotel Forum in Krakow, Poland, as part of Sacrum Profanum festival.
Recorded with Zoom H2n in mid side recording mode (XY + Center microphone setup) at 44.1khz, 16bit, Stereo. Captured and processed by DSPH Sounds crew.
DSPH is a Eastern Europe based electronic arts movement, running a weekly 2-hour radio show of experimental music called "DSPH Sounds" and organizing cutting-edge audio-visual events and showcases
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This is probably one the best photos I think i've ever taken. #Ferguson protesters participate in #HandsUpWalkout pic.twitter.com/fqkmKRKQeA
— Joshua Scott Albert (@jpegjoshua) December 1, 2014
Rhys Chatham - Merci, Chopin
I'm getting into making music for film. But alas, for the moment I have no film score commissions on my desk, so I thought I'd make my own movie and add music to it.. I recently obtained a copy of Final Cut Pro, so I made a movie. It's a 3-minute minimalist movie, influenced, I suspect, by Michael Snow's early work, but that is for the critics to decide!Rhys Chatham
The music in this video is a rendering of a recent version of my composition, "Merci, Chopin", for four electric guitars, el. bass and drums. The sounds come from Sibelius, but the guitars ended up sounding more like a harpsichord than guitar. Oh well, never mind, you'll get the idea, anyway.
Thursday 4 December 2014
William S. Burroughs: Can You All Hear Me? (October Gallery London)
Liliane Lijn, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Shezad Dawood & Cerith Wyn Evans
4 December 2014 - 7 February 2015
Wednesday 3 December 2014
Ecco Homo - Motorcycle Baby/New York New York (1988/90)
Troy Davis alongside some familiar names from Max Q (Bill McDonald/Michael Sheridan/Gus Till/Ollie Olsen and Michael Hutchence) The Edge and Bono appeared on NY NY which was also mixed by Todd Terry. Sherine from the very wonderful Big Pig also appears
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The SlumGods of Mumbai: ‘hip-hop has brought us to the world’
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The Box VS Aleš Veselý - 2/12/83 Bohemia (Free Download)
Even considering the absolute impermeability of so called Iron curtain, there still had happened several shows in Eastern block which had something to do with industrial music. In Czechoslovakia itself, of course against the will of guardians of communism, there still has been a few people who were able to attach some of the wild noisy metallish industrial music acts from abroad. Ones who remember the times of so called „goulash communism“ in 80's, can hardly imagine how could someone almost smuggle band like The Box from Sheffield consisting of members of the first Clock DVA incarnation, more specifically Paul Widger, Charlie Collins and Roger Quail with Terry Todd on bass.
Before Peter Hope, who also often gives his support to our releases, joined The Box, they had cooperated with various singers including Ken Bingley and Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire). As you can see even such an event could be held very in very secret almost conspiratorial environment so that even today only few people know that such an event had actually occurred. So it is our pleasure to bring you this memory from deep 80's, same time when Jarda Palat was starting his first projects. However now we are asking Peter Hope himself to tell us about that unique trip to socialistic Czechoslovakia:
"Every Instrument was taken out for inspection at the border. All 6 of Charlie’s horns tipped and turned. A long drive to Prague. Big apartment blocks. Parking at the Railway station amidst a sea of Trabants. Soviet Soldiers watching. Strange Westerners, strange hair and clothes.
Finally meeting up with Milos Curik & going to eat stew on long tables. Evening spent in a massive underground theatre where students were having their graduation ball. Totally Surreal rock’n’roll band played and people danced in their best clothes. Police pulled us over on the way back to the house. In the morning ‘telephone engineers’ arrived to fix a problem on the line, and bug the phone. We went to Ales Vesely’s yard full of the most incredible metal sculpture, drank wine & played the art with beaters & hammers in the cold brightness. A woman washed clothes in the stream & the gate squealed like some half beast half horn.
That night we played an illegal gig at university college Strahov. We played hard & fast. The audience sat on chairs & tried not applaud as that would have made it official. They failed! They collected money in a hat and were eager to talk to us. “Now we know what it would have been like to see the Sex Pistols” some one said. We ate that night in a small restaurant, drinking ‘expensive’ beer that the owners wanted us to pay for first, afraid we might not have the money for the bill.
When we left the following day we still had as much money with us as we’d had to exchange when we entered the country. We bought Silk Cut cigarettes, which none of us liked, and chocolate. It had been an amazing time, never forgotten, the people open, generous and friendly. We forgot to record the gig but a short tape of Ales’s Sculpture remains. 31 years later it still evokes the harsh beauty of that cold bright day in Bohemia."
(Peter Hope)
Tracks 1-6 are treatments of the original tape.
Speed adjustments, Reverb, Delay & Distortion added in keeping with the simple ideas of Tape Manipulations happening at the time.
Tracks 7-11 are the raw cassette recordings.
Track 12 is a further treatment of The Gate featured on Track 6.
The Box were - Charlie Collins, Peter Hope, Roger Quail, Terry Todd & Paul Widger.
credits
released 02 December 2014
Label: CS Industrial 1982-2010 - CSi 024
What a sane drug policy looks like
...Some final food for thought: 44 percent of Americans report having used marijuana in their lifetimes, and 14 percent have used cocaine. In the Netherlands, those numbers stand at 26 percent and 5 percent, respectivelySo how's the war on drugs working out for you?
Ad Break: Historic Hollywood Hills Appt
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1bed, 1 bath includes the aforementioned private parking garage (remote door opener). Washer/Dryer, hardwood floors and terrace.
This is the apartment that Elliot Gould's character lived in in Robert Altman's 'The Long Goodbye'. A movie worth seeing if you're not familiar with it. Here is the brilliant intro where he tries to feed his cat (no joke):
Also featured in Kenneth Branagh's film 'Dead Again'. Author Michael Connelly lived and wrote there. David Copperfield lived up there for several years in the 80's while performing at the near-by Magic Castle.
The location is great. Quiet, no freeway noise, beautiful views yet a short walk to Hollywood and Highland and the subway. And a shorter walk to the Hollywood Bowl.
please see link for additional pictures:
http://supercube.net/broadview/broadview/broadview.html
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Tuesday 2 December 2014
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