at this very moment, right now, i am typing on a keyboard in a gallery on 21st St. my typing, and all typing by gallery staff, is being translated into music via a player piano as part of the current exhibition for Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Paula Cooper Gallery. i work here as an archivist and this project is especially interesting to me- because i'm in a way making music.
This is from the press release:
"This work hinges on a computer program designed by the artist that translates fragments of language typed on the gallery’s office computers into a musical score played in real-time by an acoustic piano placed in the gallery. The program isolates a set of notes, dynamics and other musical terms from the language typed on the gallery’s computers to build its ongoing score. Acting as conductor, composer, and instrumentalist all at once, the piece renders an
in situ musical phenomenon that registers the labor of the gallery and plays it in song."
Céleste's work often involves music, or making music/ sound, in unique ways. In one piece, From Here to Ear, he placed electric guitars horizontally in a gallery space with little birds free to fly about. When they'd land on the guitars it would create sound.
so if your in NY you should come see the
show and maybe if you ask nicely they'll let you type and make the piano go blink, pling, plonk... it acutally sounds quite nice....
Tamara also makes these pins.... ! it's a "real lincoln quote, forged handwriting"
Globe, by Rachel Hulin
oh yeah and i should mention that lynelle is a kung fu master (what!) and has awesome sphinx cats (hairless cats!) that i've been wanting to steal from her forever!
and check out their how to on using sealing wax with these rings here
all images via Blind Spot Jewellery
images from the series The Last Iceberg by Camille Seaman. These images, from the arctic and Antarctica, are "one piece of a larger project entitled "Melting Away" which documents the polar regions of our planet, their environments, life forms, history of human exploration and the communities that work and live there." Read more about the project
i swear this kinda made itself. i just help push along the butter to make the "teeth" and the left "eye" the rest was a dark omen.
which is kinda spot on. i'm not feeling well. i have a viral infection, which makes me feel like a frankenstein face, because i have swollen gums that hurt so bad. the bug tries to help by being my sweet little mang- for all of about five minutes until he ran off. i take what i can get....
Céleste's work often involves music, or making music/ sound, in unique ways. In one piece, From Here to Ear, he placed electric guitars horizontally in a gallery space with little birds free to fly about. When they'd land on the guitars it would create sound.
so if your in NY you should come see the show and maybe if you ask nicely they'll let you type and make the piano go blink, pling, plonk... it acutally sounds quite nice....
remember i did a give away for my 1,000th heart on etsy...well, the winner was Tracy all the way from HONG KONG! so excited to send something so far. I sent her one of my new little pieces called, Reading the Stars, a series of delicately stitched constellations.
I sent her Andromeda...
she also order a book and this image is from her blog. thank you so much Tracy!!
