Re: [microsound] visual artists

[Thaniel Lee <thanielionlee@xxxxxxxxx>]

this is off the subjrct, but i currently attend Indiana university
southeast...........anyone else from indiana
-t


On 2/8/06, roberth <roberth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> i too started with photograpy
> and poetry, moved to sf in fact to study
> with diane diprima.
> collage
> and built some instruments
> and started a punk band that attempted
> a blend of futurists, stockhausen, contact miked
> appliances, and the sex pistols.
> robert horton
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Hopkins" <jhopkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "microsound" <microsound@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 11:17 AM
> Subject: Re: [microsound] visual artists
>
>
> > while we're at it...
> >
> > Started early with photography -- my father was a pretty advanced
> > amateur -- used to take workshops with Ansel Adams (him, not me!).
> > but got side-tracked for a decade between engineering school and a
> > corporate position with a major oil company (imperialist vanguard I
> > call it now ;-) -- doing international exploration out of LA -- kept
> > up with the photo as a concert photog, photojournalist and such on
> > the side...  bagged corporate USA and went to grad school for a
> > photo/electronic media degree.  studied film with Stan Brakhage and
> > have been working in video, film, any camera-based medium, but most
> > importantly, for the last 20 years shifting the focus from
> > materialist framing of work to a more wholistic view -- I don't care
> > what the creative end-product is, I only care about the energy it
> > contains -- so, have been doing facilitation and teaching around
> > concepts of distributed collaboration (networking and creativity are
> > primary keywords) -- where instead of focusing on the material
> > characteristics, I focus on the meta-characteristics of the situation
> > where the creative activity is taking place...  that is, what are the
> > dynamics that contribute to an energizing creative experience...
> >
> > I unfortunately shunned formal music as a kid -- because of being
> > forced to practice clarinet...  yuck.  so have only listened to and
> > been inspired by music (public radio when living in LA was a great
> > eye-opening experience, as well as WTGB in DC which was eventually
> > shut down by the FBI for supporting the American Indian Movement)
> > radical radio, yep, that and shortwave listening...
> >
> > another level of inspiration opened up when I met Simon Stockhausen
> > (K-H's son) when exhibition in Germany, and then Mr. Hafler Trio
> > himself, Andrew Mackenzie when I was living in Iceland -- that was a
> > sonic revelation to say the least, and after him generously giving me
> > a whole set of his work on cd and vinyl and tracking the lot of it
> > over a Christmas holiday, WOW!  Also, meeting sound artists Rod
> > Summers (initially through the mail-art network), taught me that
> > sound is sound is sound is music is sonic art is ... you name it.
> >
> > And finally, in the last decade when the computing power became more
> > affordable and both audio and video left the expensive production
> > studio, I've been re-hashing old analog ambient recordings of mine,
> > and playing with everything possible -- doing live streaming
> > performances alot including both audio and video sources remixed in
> > real time using whatever is available in the personal archive and
> > ambient...
> >
> > Uh... balh blah blah -- visit my site for some samples and such --
> > would be interested in your feedback (warning -- my media server in
> > Colorado is kaput so I had to mirror all my media to a server in
> > Germany last week, so some media pop-ups may not work, sorry.)
> >
> > I guess I should note that dropping into a workshop with Mr.
> > Microsound in Oslo a few years back (one of my former students had
> > organized it) was my intro to this community -- thanks Kim!
> >
> > Cheers
> > JH
> > --
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> > travelog: http://neoscenes.net/travelog/weblog.php
> > new DVD: http://neoscenes.net/aud-vid/video/indeter.html
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