Christmas goodies! "Spacetalk" by My Parasol

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Christmas goodies! New live video of "Spacetalk" by My Parasol

"Spacetalk was written in collaboration by Susanna and Mark to explore the relationship between Susanna's organic roots and Mark's electronic music background. It was composed and recorded at Musicians Institute, Hollywood where they both attended school. This is the first of many songs My Parasol would like to share with willing listeners. We hope you enjoy it and share it with others!" - My Parasol



Official site of My Parasol: http://myparasolmusic.com/

Download link: http://myparasol.bandcamp.com/album/spacetalk

FROM HERE TO EAR Sound Installations

WEEKEND ONE: EXHIBITION OPENING AND EAR2EYE I
WHEN: Saturday, November 20 at 7:00pm - November 21 at 5:00am

WHERE: Outerspace Gallery and B-Side, THE COLLECTIVE7274 Malugay St. Makati City

7PM EXHIBITION OPENING
FROM HERE TO EAR (ongoing until Nov 27)
Featuring sonic-sculptures and site-specific installations:
“Bell” Tad Ermitano
“Insonoresonance” Sebastian Syzyck (Paris) and Tengal

… “EVOL-KI SUM” Kawayan De Guia (Baguio)
“The Differend Machine” Kenneth Feinstein (USA/Singapore)
“Siren Shields” HeHe



Fete dela WSK poster

Kawayan de Guia's EVOL-KI SU. Reincarnated vinyl records

instructions for Tad Ermitano's sound installation called "Bell"

Bell by Tad Ermitano. In photo: Stan (Washing Machine/EXIST)

Tad's alternative reality. Rad scientist.

Stan following instructions.

*Insonoresonance by Sebastian Szczyrk (Paris) and Tengal, etc

Misc. photo taken near Outerspace Gallery.

altered arcade cabinet for vinyl. In photo: Eric Calilan (Ugong/EXIST)

Amen.

Jon (Aurora Borealis/EXIST) looking for Primal Scream and 4AD records

Monotron! Palmtop analog synth. Part of ***Autoceremony's live set up.

*Bell is a sound installation by Tad Ermitaño that revisits the principle of transduction – the process of converting one type of energy into another – as a field of sonic exploration. Ermitaño’s work abandons the use of prefabricated speakers and surrounds the audience with a curved wall of metal suspended from the ceiling, which is then vibrated by electromagnets driven by high-voltage audio signals. Sounds ripple, bounce, and interfere within the wall before being released into the air. Bell, - a title that recalls both the object and the inventor of the speaker - imagines an alternate reality where the speaker is not as a transparent transmitter of sonic content, but an instrument of architectural proportions.
website: http://cavemanifesto.blogspot.com/

**Insonoresonance
Sebastian Szczyrk (Paris) and Tengal, etc
Sebastian Szczyrk, the creator of the project, Un Escargot Vide? is a French artist whose visual research (drawings, illustrations, performances) to sound experimentations (CD, concerts, installations) reach a diffusive panorama. As the festival’s residency artist, he’ll conduct a month long field research on public memory, urban structures and sound ecology. Insonoresonance is a result of various collaborations with local artists in Manila, which are presented in various outputs: as an installation for an exhibition, a cd, and series of computer drawings, and urban space intervensions. The work questions the viewer’s perception - the truth of representation - outlining a journey from the initial visioning of a series of “audio memories” with synthetic images and ending up in an encounter with a physical interactive object which co-opts information flows, sound and light transmission.

website1: http://www.unescargotvide.eu/

website2: http://tengalgorhythm.blogspot.com/

***Autoceremony's live set up at Fete dela WSK.

Formed in 2005, autoceremony is a solo project-studio effort of Jing Garcia as a creative musical outlet that spawned from his earlier experimental soundart group Dominguez-Shimata.Colony (est.1995) and The Children of Cathode Ray (est.1989), one of the earliest experimental soundart groups in the country.

FROM HERE TO EAR is on display until Nov 26 at Outerspace Gallery. For more details visit www.wskfete.com

Featured Site : BOOKCROSSING.COM

BookCrossing encourages everyone to read, register, and release books for others to enjoy. It is a celebration of literature and a place where books get new life. BookCrossing is the act of giving a book a unique identity so, as the book is passed from reader to reader. After you've labeled your book, it is ready to travel the world. According to the site, there are different ways to share your book:

"Give it away. Pass your book on to a friend, a stranger, a strange friend, or a friendly stranger! You can find someone in the BookCrossing community who's looking for your book and make their day by sending it to them. These particular methods are referred to as “controlled releases", because you know the destination of your book’s next stop.

Release it into the wild. Referred to as the "wild release" (and loved by so many BookCrossers), this type of sharing is a bit like nudging a baby bird out of the nest or sending your kid off to college. Your book doesn’t want to spend its life on your shelf gathering dust; it wants to get out there and touch lives! So leave your labeled book on a park bench on a summer day, in a train station, on the table in your favorite coffee shop -- anywhere it’s likely to be caught by another delighted reader. Then come back and read about your book’s new adventures!

Be Creative! BookCrossers find a myriad of creative ways to exchange books and make new connections! They might establish an "Official BookCrossing Zone" (known as an OBCZ); a physical location where books are regularly caught and/or released. They may start a "bookring", "bookray", or "bookbox", all of which are controlled ways of passing books throughout a set group of members. Many create "wishlists" to solicit books they'd like to read. We suggest you join now, release a book, and dive into the wonderful world of BookCrossing!"

For more details visit http://www.bookcrossing.com/

Happy BookCrossing!


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FETE DELA WSK! (Nov 19-28, Manila)

Fete dela WSK! is dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital and experimental sonic art, as well the diverse range of artistic activities in the context of digital culture in South East Asia. WSK! -- three cryptic letters, which can only provide as much as the sum of the parts. It is organized by SABAW Media Art Kitchen – a not-for-profit organization whose primary interests lie in curatorial and research-based production towards the imminent intersections of art and technology.

FOR MORE DETAILS, VISIT THE OFFICIAL SITE: http://wskfete.com/

Wonderful and Unusual Bookshelves

Planning a room makeover? Looking for new ways to store and organize your beloved books? Check out these wonderful and unusual shelves that we found. It includes "Paper Airplane Shelf" by Filipino DIY artists and designers Geraldine Madriaga Mapa and Carlo Buenaventura. Enjoy!



Guitar case bookshelf by French designer Elodie Flamant via recycleart.org



Circular Walking Bookshelf” by experimental architect David Garcia



Pac-man bookshelf by Italian Designer Mirko Ginebro via Toplessrobot.com



labyrinth bookshelf by Cyrill Drummerson from Russia



Transparent and Open Box Shelves designed by Ron Gilad, NY


talk bookshelves by Oscar Nunez, a Mexican furniture designer via homeimproveideas.com



Yin Yang bookshelf via Bookshelf.com

and our favorite...



Paper Airplane Shelf by Filipino Designers Ge Madriaga-Mapa and Carlo Buenaventura via
(email Ge Madriaga Mapa at laserlollipop@gmail.com)

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HUNTAHAN: Copyright and Intellectual Property Discussion

We would like to invite everyone, specially those in Cavite, to attend "HUNTAHAN", a discussion about copyright, intellectual property issues and creative writing. It will be held at Espasyo Siningdikato on October 16, 2010 at 1:00 in the afternoon. Resource speakers are Atty. Louie Calvario of Intellectual Property Office (IPO) and Mr. Alvin Buenaventura, Executive Director of Filipinas Copyright Licensing Society, Inc. (FILCOLS).

For more details, contact Ms. Ainne Frances dela Cruz http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1015040369. Registration is required for attendees.

Espasyo Siningdikato, is located at Blk. 11 Lot 9 Barangay Sta. Fe, Dasmariñas, Cavite.

Record Player and Vinyl Artworks

After the release of our button pins, sonic mind fields scoured the net for artworks and graphic designs inspired by vintage record players and vinyls. Below are what we found. Enjoy!

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Record player wedding poster from ellothere



















Cake toppers by bolla74

















record player broch pin by corey marie



















mouse pad from SeaconnetLoft
























record love old school earrings by ladypunkco
























Prints from lolasRoom

















Record bowls by Jeff Davis via eco-artware-notes.com

















melted vinyl sculpture by Jean Shin
























clock made from recycled record player by pixelthis






















diy bookends from diylife.com


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Active | De-Active: Inventive Music Festival

Active | De-Active is an international festival to be held in the Philippines that focuses on two exciting frontiers of music — experimental and improvised music. The event is scheduled to take place this coming October 9, 12, 13, 15 and 16 at various selected venues in Cavite, Manila and Davao.

The festival will consist of a series of live performances, workshops, presentation of methods and practices, creative collaborations and artist-talks by international and local participating artists, in an effort to present and exchange artistic ideas and musical experiences that will contribute to the appreciation and understanding of these developments in new music.

This will provide a platform for informed discussions of the cultural, developmental and educational aspects of improvisation and experimentation in music, and at the same time to present the artistic or technical practices embodied in it. The festival is also an attempt to gather a community of experimental musicians, improvisers, new media art practitioners, musicologists, and teachers who can share and exchange knowledge that would benefit the understanding of improvised and experimental music.

(above: Filipino sound artist and sculptor Lirio Salvador of Elemento, photo by Muffet Sta. Maria)

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Schedule

Participating Artists

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Ros Veluz's exhibit at Espasyo Siningdikato

sonic mind fields' blow out sale! featured items

Monlee & Roxlee's Cesar Asar in the Planet of the Noses
Roxlee’s 1st graphic novel. Published by Khavn dela Cruz of .MOV International Film Festival. Format: Trade paperback
Condition: brand new
Size: 8.0"x10.0"Pages: 102pp, 2008 edition
1 copy only
Price: 500.00 pesos only

RE/Search #4/5:W.S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Throbbing Gristle
8 1/2 x 11" 100 pp, 58 photos & illustrations
Collector's item/ 1 copy only
Sale Price Php 450.00
Amazon collectible price above 2,000.00
Save at least 1,000.00 pesos

William Burroughs, Brion Gysin & Throbbing Gristle talk about advanced ideas involving the social control process, creativity and the future. Interviews, scarce fiction, essays: this is a manual of ideas and insights. Strikingly designed, with rare photos, bibliographies, discographies, chronologies & illustrations.Reviews:"Interviews with pioneering cut-up artists William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle . . . proposes a ground-breaking, radical cultural agenda for the '80s and '90s."Jon Savage, London Observer

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All books available at sonic mind fields inside Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue/artists' space. Espasyo Siningdikato is located at Block 11 Lot 9 Congressional Road, Bgy. Sta.Fe Dasmariñas, Cavite near DLSU-Dasma, infront of Danphil. 6 to 9 pm.

Feel free to e-mail sonicmindfields@gmail.com for reservations (5 days only)

Part of the proceeds will be donated to Espasyo artists' space. Support your loca art community.

sonic mind fields - blow out sale!

We are having a sale on May 22! Sale starts at 6PM. Books on design, arts, film, music and many more! Everything must go. Part of the proceeds will be donated to Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue/artists’space.

Good Leaf will also perform that night at Espasyo for their Dub Pilipinas Album Tour, Cavite leg. So it will be a rare double treat! With ambient, noise and sound art performances by Elemento, Ugong, Nyabinghi, Inconnu Ictu, Annoy!, Ian Madrigal, Blend:er and many more. This is a fun night! See you all!

Espasyo Siningdikato is located at Block 11 Lot 9 Congressional Road, Bgy. Sta.Fe Dasmariñas, Cavite.

(Photo courtesy of Ian Sane under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License).

Luo Chao Yun at Souk Kafe

Some photos from Improv.nation Market (March 7, 2010), a night of ethno and electro-acoustic improvisations with Luo Chao Yun, special guest performer from Taiwan. Kudos to Eric Calilan for organizing this. The event was supported by Espasyo Siningdikato, Sonic Mind Fields and Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition. Hosted by Souk Kafe.

Lakbay Lahi

Dok of Lakbay Lahi playing Hegalong

Luo Chao Yun, Pipa virtuoso from Taiwan

Photos courtesy of Abet Esguerra
To check out more photos visit the site of EXIST here
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"EARTH NOISE WATER MEAT" - Gangan Ensemble meets Chao-Yun Lou this Thursday at 22H

MAR 4, 2010 / 10PM THURSDAY NIGHT AT B -SIDE:

Location:
The Collective (7274 Malugay St.)
Makati, Philippines
Phone: +63 920 931 9635

SABAW MEDIA ART KITCHEN PRESENTS: Electronic sound-video improvisation group, GANGAN ENSEMBLE with special guest TAIWANESE free jazz PIPA virtuoso, CHAO-YUN LOU perform an HOUR-LONG improvisatory sound-video experiment:
"EARTH NOISE WATER MEAT"
Digital and Acoustic KUNG FU.

GANGAN ENSEMBLE is Caliph8 (mpc, fx, turntables), Malek Lopez (laptop), Tad Ermitano (live video), Tengal (live electronics, objects)

The Gangan Ensemble is loosely composed of improvisers who work on both sound and moving image and was created to explore the intricately different kinds of interaction and ways of harnessing sound/energy/musicianship alongside moving images. The evolving participation involves a variety of video-performance artists to electro-acoustic musicians hailing from the Philippines, Singapore, USA, Germany, Australia, UK, Slovenia, France, Malaysia, and Indonesia since its incarnation in 2007. The ensemble has performed in various countries in South East Asia, notably in NCCA's Sinemusikalye in Manila, in Choppa 2008 in Singapore, in the Cellsbutton Media Art Festival in Indonesia (2008-2009), as Transmissions Gangan with electro-acoustic composer Chris Brown (2009), in Kinozvočenja in Ljubljana, Slovenia (2009), and at Upgrade! Paris in Ars Longa, Paris (2010).

It was founded by intermedia artist Tengal with video artist Tad Ermitano.

CHAO-YUN LOU is the only PIPA (traditional Chinese guitar lute) player who plays traditional music to free jazz improvisation and experimental avant-garde in the contemporary music world. She is Taiwan’s famous professional Pipa Soloist/improviser, Luo Chao-yun, is a virtuoso performer on the Chinese traditional string instrument----“PIPA”. She received the master's degree in Pipa performance at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Luo Chao-yun has performed recitals, concertos with orchestra, multimedia-performances, improvisation performances, embassy concerts,and etc. in Beijing( many times), Malaysia(2 times), Singapore, Portugal, Pakistan, Nepal, Costa Rica(2 times), Italy, USA(3 times), UK(3 times), the Netherlands(2 times), Brazil, Bulgaria, Japan, North Cyprus, Indonesia, and etc. She also has master class, and lectures in these countries, too.
http://www.myspace.com/pipawoman

ALSO right after B-SIDE presents performances by:

COSMIC LOVE
JAM SESSIONS with ALLEN UMALI, FRITZ and EL TERRIBLE MANCIO

THIS IS A FREE EVENT!

Adbokasiya at Sining, Lasallian Festival 2010, DLSU-Dasma

Photos from Adbokasiya at Sining, DLSU-Dasma, January 17, 2010, courtesy of Abet Perez Esguerra. Sound performances by Elemento, Lakbay Lahi, Washing MAchine, Double Burner and Microwavves. Heartfelt thanks to all the DLSU students, faculty members and the entire DLSU-Dasmariñas for supporting the booth of Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue, ANIKcessories and Sonic Mind Fields during the Lasallian Festival 2010. Thank you very much also to Erick Calilan (Ugong), Chef Orvin, Gilbert, Ma’am Mean, Lirio Salvador, Heidi Sarno, Abet Perez Esguerra, Jonjie Ayson, Jon Romero, Ivan, Cha, Joan, Erich, Jen, Ros Veluz, Dok, Martin, all the performers, visual and sound artists, Elemento, Lakbay Lahi, Washing Machine, Double Burner, Microwavves and Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition. Cheers!

Lakbay Lahi

Ros Veluz and fellow artist

Chef Ivan and Chef Orvin of Double Burner

Jeanilyn Kwan + Erich Diololoa of Microwavves

Erick Calilan inside the booth of Espasyo, ANIKcessories and Sonic Mind Fields

Joan, Cha and mais con yelo.

Lirio Salvador & Jonjie Ayson of Elemento

Lirio Salvador & Jon Romero of Elemento

Elemento's Sandata! Sound art and books!