Balite Zine Launch, Espasyo Siningdikato

Congratulations to Jeanilyn Kwan, Ainee Frances Dela Cruz, Jon Romero, Stanley Castelo and everyone who worked on the 1st Issue of Balite Zine. Here are some photos taken by Joan Rodriguez and Ben Garcimo (Photomaya) during the launch.


Poetry reading by Karl Orit

Drum and Synth collab performance by Blend:er + Mischa

Cavitelandic sounds of Erich Diolola and friends

Erick Calilan manning the board. Thanks for the sound system!

Editor/Host Jen Kwan



Performance poetry by Maureen Gaddi Dela Cruz and Ainne Frances Dela Cruz

ReSound

We would like to invite everyone to ReSound this coming Friday (January 28, 2011 at 8:30 pm) at Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue (Block 11 Lot 9 Congressional Road, Bgy. Sta.Fe Dasmariñas, Cavite (near DLSU-Dasmariñas, in front of Dan Phil Hardware). More details below. We hope to see you all! We'll check out the new music projects of Erich and Jen (from Microwavves) and Erick Calilan's sound art performance. Free entrance but donations are highly appreciated.

EXperimentation In Sound art Tradition (E.X.I.S.T.) and Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue present ReSound; featuring MNTXX, Ugong and Distinguished Over-rated Radical Kids. ReSound is an underground platform for experimental, electronic, sound art, avant-garde, improvisation, noise, obscure, or in-between adventures in music.

Participating Artists:

MNTXX (pronounced "mo-no-tax") is the duo of college mates and alter egos, Momo and Takz. When Momo met Gee-Bee and Takz met Kay-Ess, they all went on a quadruple date with Andy Warhol, scored some A to Z's with Sid Vicious and jammed with Malcom McLaren till the cows got lost on their ways home.

Erick Calilan is a Cavite-based sound artist, a multi-instrumentalist and an interdisciplinary artist working with D.I.Y. (Do-It-Yourself) technology related to sounds. Often performs under the name UGONG, a sound art outfit utilizing home-made circuit-bent sound devices created from toy keyboards, walkie-talkie and other low voltage electronic devices, he has collaborated with numbers of sound artists, media-art practitioner, musicians and performance artists in the Philippines. He spearheads the sound art collective, Experimentation in Sound Art Tradition (E.X.I.S.T.), and recently curated the festival called Active | De-Active: An Inventive Music Festival 2010, an international music festival focused on improvised music, which toured three Philippine cities – Cavite, Manila and Davao.

DISTINGUISHED OVER-RATED RADICAL KIDS is a solo project by Eric Diolola, for this edition of ReSound he will be collaborating with a local Hip-hop artist.

This event is brought to you by EXperimentation In Sound art Tradition and supported by Espasyo Siningdikato creatiVEnue, Sonic Mind Fields and wakeez.com

Sound Design Workshop at University of the Philippines, Diliman

In case anybody is interested. I just got this from the Yahoo!Group of Phil. Art
Forum. Pls. contact UPFI directly for inquiries.

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SOUND DESIGN
Facilitator: TBA
Schedule : February 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2010 (4 Saturdays of February)
Time : 1pm to 5pm (16 hours)
Course Fee : P 5,000
Venue: CMC Media Center

LAST DAY OF REGISTRATION : 31 January 2010
WORKSHOPS ARE OPEN TO PUBLIC. LIMITED SLOTS.
An initial fee of P500 is required to reserve a slot.
(this fee is non-refundable and will be deducted from the total course fee
thereafter)

To REGISTER:
1. Drop by our office.
(Address: UPFI Film Center, 2/F Cine Adarna bldg. Magsaysay and Osmena Ave.,UP
Diliman
QC)
2. Fill up a Registration Form.
3. Pay P500 or in full. (An initial fee of P500 is required to reserve a slot.)

*For BANK DEPOSITS
Name: UP CMC Foundation, Inc.
Account No. 00-275-830-109- 8
PNB, UP Campus Branch
(kindly
fax us (9262722) or email us a copy of the deposit slip/receipt of your
down payment together with your completed registration form)

For Inquiries:
925-0286
upfi_workshops@ yahoo.com. ph
http://www.upd.edu.ph/~film_ institute/
University of the Philippines Film Institute
(Member, CILECT/Internationa l Association of Film and Television Schools)

For workshop inquiries:
Cine Adarna, Magsaysay and Osmeña Avenues, UP Diliman, Quezon City
E-mail: upfi_workshops@ yahoo.com. ph>
Tel: 9818500 (UP Trunkline) local 4286, 4289; 9263640/9262722 (Telefax) ;
925-0286

Facebook account:
http://www.facebook .com/group. php?gid=19029333 3337

Twitter account:http://twitter.com/UPFilmInstit ute

Multiply site: upfilminstitute.multiply. com

Website: http://www.upfilminstitute.net

To always get screening alerts, join UP Film Institute e-group: upfilminstitute@

yahoogroups. com

Featured Video: The Books - Smells Like Content

A. YES! We are a food band, and we would love to be known as a food band. In fact, I think we are much more comfortable cooking for an audience than playing music for an audience. Food is essential, no doubt about it. We tag team the house, when one of us is in the studio, the other is in the kitchen. We prefer simple healthy food, dark green vegetables, potatoes, nice cheese, good whole-grain bread, sweet ripe fruit, almonds, mushrooms, red wine. One of our favorite dishes is ‘hoppin’ John’ which is the good luck food of the south consisting of collard greens and black-eyed peas. Awesome. And Paul is the pie man." - (FAQ, the booksmusic.com)

For a free food taste, visit http://www.thebooksmusic.com/

Happy New Year!

Passage: Tad Ermitaño's first solo exhibit

"End Frame Video Art Project 3: Present," a Philippine video art festival, commences this month as the third edition and new format of the video art festival which took place in 2006 and 2007. Presented by Visual Pond, the theme "Present" refers to the current project’s focus on selected Philippine contemporary artists’ practices in video art. Throughout the festival, each artist stages a show presenting new video work in various venues from January 2011 to January 2012.

The festival proudly launches with "Passage," a solo exhibition by Tad Ermitaño, opening on January 15 at Pablo Gallery, Fort Bonifacio. A site-specific work responsive to the two rooms of Pablo and the stairs between them, "Passage" utilizes multiple projections and video mapping technology in a crossover of fairy tales and science fiction. Ermitaño, who has studied philosophy, biology and filmmaking, has participated in several local and international group exhibitions and film festivals, including the 2002 videoart.mov, the 2004 Hong Kong International Film Festival, the 2006 Ogaki Biennale, the 2007 Dime a Dozen at Lopez Museum, the 2008 Inter-society of Electronic Arts juried exhibition and recently, the Hear to Ear exhibition of Fete dela Wsk. "Passage" marks the first solo exhibition of this media artist, running until 29 January 2011 with a closing talk by the artist at 5:30 pm.

Pablo Gallery, located at C-11 South of Market Condominium, 11th corner 26th Avenue, Fort Bonifacio, Taguig, is open Tuesday to Saturday from 12 noon to 7:00 pm, tel. no. (632) 506-0602. Other confirmed artists presenting new works for End Frame 3 include Manny Montelibano, Claro Ramirez, Kiri Dalena and Kaloy Olavides with the full schedule and line-up to be announced soon. For inquiries on the project, call +63917-5357955 or email visualpond@gmail.com. "Passage" is with thanks to Green Papaya Art Projects.

- http://www.facebook.com/visualpond

Check out Tad's blog: http://cavemanifesto.blogspot.com/

Christmas goodies! "Spacetalk" by My Parasol

My Parasol - Spacetalk (Live) from Spazzkid on Vimeo.

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