instantplaces-canadawide

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 20 Aug 2014 10:07:00 -0700

Some video from our time in the tower:

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 07:01:00 -0700

Jim Nicholls at the keyboard

Jim in the tower

Keyboard to bell interface

Bell with inscription

Laura at bells level

Carillon structure

Bell mechanism

Jim descending to keyboard room

Clock

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Thu, 14 Aug 2014 06:11:00 -0700

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 13 Aug 2014 06:16:00 -0700

The bell tower

Ian with Jim Nicholls, Norfolk County carilloneur

The carillon keyboard

Clock mechanism

The bells!

dock

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:27:00 -0700

beach

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 07:47:00 -0700

House

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 05:38:00 -0700

Reverberant spaces

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:33:00 -0800

On our last day in Sarnia we played with reverberant spaces in the JNAAG building. We had a chance earlier in our stay to record the rich reverberations from power tools as workers built the exhibition rooms on the third floor.

On Sunday we replayed the sounds back into the completed rooms and recorded the layered reverberations.

We plan to use these recordings as source material for a soundtrack accompanying generative constructions of imaginary galleries. The grid of cameras feeds displayed on JNAAG surveillance monitors has been intriguing us since our initial visit in November. Photos of the camera feeds may prove to be the perfect source material for these improbable architectures.

InstantPlaces at JNAAG: Art's Birthday 2013 archive

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:54:00 -0800

During Art's Birthday (January 17) we broadcast new electronic music from 2PM to midnight EST,
using handmade software for audio sampling/mixing and generating rhythmic textures with altered guitar and analog feedback systems.

Laura made new compositions using a custom MAX/MSP software instrument, live sampling vocals and transforming samples she recorded of her piano improvisations. Local collaborators worked at a sound table where drawing gestures and percussive sounds were amplified and sent to the mix, and incoming audio streams from the international Art's Birthday community were sampled and transformed. The archive link is to 19 30 second excerpts from the broadcast.

Some excerpts incorporate remixed streams from Peter Courtemanche/Anna Friz, Mobile Radio BSP (30th São Paulo Bienal), Tone Deaf/Queens U Kingston with local live collaborators Jane Austin, Norman Barney, John (didn't catch the last name but he took our invitation to drive the feedback systems!) and others.

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Sat, 19 Jan 2013 06:57:00 -0800

Performance broadcast from Judith and Norman Alix Gallery in Sarnia, Ontario January 17, 2013. Receiving, transforming, sending internet streams for Art's Birthday 2013.
Laura Kavanaugh (voice, laptop), Ian Birse (altered guitar, feedback systems)

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:28:00 -0800

Today! The Network is Eternal----->>>>

Streaming live !!! from JNAAG in Sarnia, 2PM to midnight EST January 17.

Audio stream link and info (iTunes/Winamp MP3):

http://instantplaces.ca/artsbirthday/12/01.html

Video stream (iPhone/Desktop):

http://instantplaces.ca/sample_players/live.html

Robert Filliou first proposed "Art's Birthday" in 1963. He suggested that 1,000,000 years ago, there was no art. But one day, on January 17 to be precise, Art was born. Filliou says it happened when someone dropped a dry sponge into a bucket of water. He also proposed a public holiday to celebrate the presence of art in our lives. Art's Birthday was first publicly celebrated in 1973 in Auchen, Germany and at the same time in Paris, France.

How did the Eternal Network come into being? Robert Filliou and George Brecht close their artist space La Cedille qui Sourit, located in Villefranche, France in 1968. They go "bankrupt." They announce the post avant-garde formation of the ongoing international network of artists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BgOfsG7J0Q

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:22:00 -0800

Preparing generative triptych and videocast @JNAAG

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:44:00 -0800

Family Sunday Art Drop-in!

Generative video for JNAAG alcoves

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:27:00 -0800

Generative video work in progress for alcoves at JNAAG!

Day 2 at JNAAG Sarnia!

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 9 Jan 2013 17:12:00 -0800

live from batoche july 22

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:16:00 -0700

live from batoche july 22

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:39:00 -0700

ipadio: Instant Places live from Batoche 2010 - 13th phonecast

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:43:00 -0700

canadawide at sioux lookout

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:15:00 -0800

Video conference performance from KNet in Sioux Lookout to Keewaytinook Internet High Schools. Thanks to Brian, Kirsty, and Lyle at Knet and Darrin Potter at Keewaytinook Internet High Schools.

instantplaces canadawide day 36-38

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 4 Nov 2009 17:01:00 -0800

canadawide day 15-18

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Wed, 7 Oct 2009 18:10:00 -0700

st. john's newfoundland : canadawide day 14

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:38:00 -0700

lewisporte newfoundland : canadawide day 11

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:08:00 -0700

cartwright, labrador : canadawide day 10

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:37:00 -0700

goose bay to lewisporte : canadawide day 10

noreply@blogger.com (instantplaces) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:27:00 -0700

Search and rescue training on the Sir Robert Bond, between Goose Bay and Lewisporte, Newfoundland