Reverberant spaces

On our last day in Sarnia we played with reverberant spaces in the JNAAG building. We had a chance earlier in our stay to record the rich reverberations from power tools as workers built the exhibition rooms on the third floor.

On Sunday we replayed the sounds back into the completed rooms and recorded the layered reverberations.

We plan to use these recordings as source material for a soundtrack accompanying generative constructions of imaginary galleries. The grid of cameras feeds displayed on JNAAG surveillance monitors has been intriguing us since our initial visit in November. Photos of the camera feeds may prove to be the perfect source material for these improbable architectures.

InstantPlaces at JNAAG: Art's Birthday 2013 archive

During Art's Birthday (January 17) we broadcast new electronic music from 2PM to midnight EST,
using handmade software for audio sampling/mixing and generating rhythmic textures with altered guitar and analog feedback systems.

Laura made new compositions using a custom MAX/MSP software instrument, live sampling vocals and transforming samples she recorded of her piano improvisations. Local collaborators worked at a sound table where drawing gestures and percussive sounds were amplified and sent to the mix, and incoming audio streams from the international Art's Birthday community were sampled and transformed. The archive link is to 19 30 second excerpts from the broadcast.

Some excerpts incorporate remixed streams from Peter Courtemanche/Anna Friz, Mobile Radio BSP (30th São Paulo Bienal), Tone Deaf/Queens U Kingston with local live collaborators Jane Austin, Norman Barney, John (didn't catch the last name but he took our invitation to drive the feedback systems!) and others.

Performance broadcast from Judith and Norman Alix Gallery in Sarnia, Ontario January 17, 2013. Receiving, transforming, sending internet streams for Art's Birthday 2013.
Laura Kavanaugh (voice, laptop), Ian Birse (altered guitar, feedback systems)

Today! The Network is Eternal----->>>>

Streaming live !!! from JNAAG in Sarnia, 2PM to midnight EST January 17.

Audio stream link and info (iTunes/Winamp MP3): 

http://instantplaces.ca/artsbirthday/12/01.html

Video stream (iPhone/Desktop):

http://instantplaces.ca/sample_players/live.html

Robert Filliou first proposed "Art's Birthday" in 1963. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on January 17 to be precise, Art was born. Filliou says it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. He also proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. Art's Birthday was first publicly celebrated in 1973 in Auchen, Germany and at the same time in Paris, France.

How did the Eternal Network come into being? Robert Filliou and George Brecht close their artist space La Cedille qui Sourit, located in Villefranche, France in 1968. They go "bankrupt." They announce the post avant-garde formation of the ongoing international network of artists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgOfsG7J0Q

Preparing generative triptych and videocast @JNAAG

Family Sunday Art Drop-in!

Generative video for JNAAG alcoves

Generative video work in progress for alcoves at JNAAG!

Day 2 at JNAAG Sarnia!