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I was planning on listing several cultural artifacts, or curated collections of artifacts that have played formidable roles in my aesthetic, or at the very least, I feel a great deal of affinity for:
ubu web is easily the greatest collection of incredible rare avant-garde media masterpieces. In particular, the videos that are posted explode the mind.
To wit: take for example a very rare film by http://www.ubu.com/film/marker_junkopia.htmlChris Marker called "junktopia" taken of the Emeryville Flats in the East Bay, CA.
This I love: an early film by Phil Niblok, whose pioneer work with Sun Ra's Aarkestra I was most familiar with - confidently, an early precursor of "noise."
This amazing piece by Dariusz Kowalski with found-sound drone background made in an arctic icefield -- where my dreams all take place...
An amazing early one from Duchamp!!
Documentarian Tony Oursler's long piece feature the shining lights (my hero) Genesis P.Orrige, Tony Conrad, Laurie Andersen, Glenn Branca and many others. A fun watch.
A favorite inspirational film in terms of its aesthetics: Andrei Tarkovsky's dream vision "Andrei Rublev."
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Reading material: I'm an avid reader of Cabinet Magazine, scholarly study of curiosities and other immaterial objects that belong in a digital wunderkämmer.
As a lover of post-industrial decay, the anthropology of risk and its intersection with capitalism, I always request copies of Schadenspiegel -- perhaps the most extraordinary document of reinsurance and disaster. It's put out by Munich Reinssurance group -- you can also read the pdfs online. Look at issue "High Rise Buildings" (1999). Spectacular. I send this as a gift to my friends who teach architecture and they all use it in class.
Some images from "High Rise Buildings"
Of course, musique concrete: check out Bernard Parmegiani, Edgar Varese, Iannis Xennakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Avant-classical: Arvo Part, Gyorgi Ligeti.
My favorite: The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski - astounding pieces made from literally "dying" archival tapes in his collection. Haunting.
And the religious ecstacy of Olivier Messiaen playing Messiaen.
Next time, no wave and Japanese noise.
Again, I have too many enthusiasms. But I would suffer without them.
MBD
I was planning on listing several cultural artifacts, or curated collections of artifacts that have played formidable roles in my aesthetic, or at the very least, I feel a great deal of affinity for:
ubu web is easily the greatest collection of incredible rare avant-garde media masterpieces. In particular, the videos that are posted explode the mind.
To wit: take for example a very rare film by http://www.ubu.com/film/marker_junkopia.htmlChris Marker called "junktopia" taken of the Emeryville Flats in the East Bay, CA.
This I love: an early film by Phil Niblok, whose pioneer work with Sun Ra's Aarkestra I was most familiar with - confidently, an early precursor of "noise."
This amazing piece by Dariusz Kowalski with found-sound drone background made in an arctic icefield -- where my dreams all take place...
An amazing early one from Duchamp!!
Documentarian Tony Oursler's long piece feature the shining lights (my hero) Genesis P.Orrige, Tony Conrad, Laurie Andersen, Glenn Branca and many others. A fun watch.
A favorite inspirational film in terms of its aesthetics: Andrei Tarkovsky's dream vision "Andrei Rublev."
******************
Reading material: I'm an avid reader of Cabinet Magazine, scholarly study of curiosities and other immaterial objects that belong in a digital wunderkämmer.
As a lover of post-industrial decay, the anthropology of risk and its intersection with capitalism, I always request copies of Schadenspiegel -- perhaps the most extraordinary document of reinsurance and disaster. It's put out by Munich Reinssurance group -- you can also read the pdfs online. Look at issue "High Rise Buildings" (1999). Spectacular. I send this as a gift to my friends who teach architecture and they all use it in class.
Some images from "High Rise Buildings"
Of course, musique concrete: check out Bernard Parmegiani, Edgar Varese, Iannis Xennakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen. Avant-classical: Arvo Part, Gyorgi Ligeti.
My favorite: The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski - astounding pieces made from literally "dying" archival tapes in his collection. Haunting.
And the religious ecstacy of Olivier Messiaen playing Messiaen.
Next time, no wave and Japanese noise.
Again, I have too many enthusiasms. But I would suffer without them.
MBD
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