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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