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The Audio Gruppe

Wednesday, November 9th, 2005

Concordia Studio Arts Visiting Artists Programs in collaboration with CIAM and the Topological Media Lab presents: BENOIT MAUBREY (Berlin) The Audio Gruppe creates mobile and multi-acoustic sculptures in public spaces. BenoƮt Maubrey is the director of DIE AUDIO GRUPPE a Berlin-based art group that build and perform with electronic clothes (past examples: AUDIO BALLERINAS, AUDIO [...]

Versions of “Speed Trials”: looking at lyrics, learning about smiles.

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

by Yohei I recently re-listened to Elliott Smith‘s earlier, demo version of his song “Speed Trials.” Though the demo is poorly recorded, it has some noteworthy lyric moments that are, I think, more interesting than the later version’s. Placing the original, demo lyrics in the margins in bold, the chrous of finished version of “Speed [...]

An Intense Conversation about Politics and Art, Followed by Furniture Music.

Thursday, October 27th, 2005

I received this invite to a happening/magazine launch/conversation in a mass emailing today. This gang of arty hoodlums down at the Societe des Arts Technologiques is opening up the floor for dialogue about the murder and censorship of Zahra Kazemi. And so this has me thinking, this morning, about the layers of technological and social [...]

Car Dreams.

Sunday, October 16th, 2005

Detroit, Detroit, You got a hell of a hockey team You’ve got a left-handed way of making a man sign up on that automotive dream. Paul Simon: Papa Hobo.

Why Hiphop is like Open Source, part 2: A Politics and What Al Gore Thinks.

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

did you miss part 1? Linus wasn’t an intentional revolutionary or anything like that, but his understanding of the different kind of success that might be possible with a committed effort of collaborative devlopment built something new. In this viral, communicative way I think Hiphop and Open Source share a politics. At the core of [...]

Why Open Source is Like Hiphop. Part 1: How Hiphop Remakes the Mainstream.

Monday, October 3rd, 2005

Hiphop DJ’s disrupt the flow from artistic production to market consumption by cutting and sampling old records- using them to create commodities. Rappers take apart language to build new rhythms, and to tell stories that hadn’t made it into music before. Between rap, turntablism, graffiti, and breakdance hiphop crafted a hybrid equation that came at [...]


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