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UK Contemporary Art Sale

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:23:00 +0000

Make an offer for this painting here. Any offer (no matter how small) will be considered.

La Belle et La Bête

Original painting by Peter Bright . Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011.
Size: 501mm x 1603mm
Supplied in the original frame.

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Notes on Painting:

The act of being creative is a love hate thing – The Beauty and The Beast someone fetch a priest(ref. David Bowie)Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête) is a traditional fairy tale. The first published version of the fairy tale was a rendition by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in La jeune américaine, et les contes marins in 1740. The best-known written version was an abridgement of her work published in 1756 by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, in Magasin des enfants, ou dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et plusieurs de ses élèves; an English translation appeared in 1757. The tale has perhaps been made most recently famous by the retelling in the 1991 Disney film.In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. liberated 12:47, April 7, 2011, from: http://en.wikipedia.org
Action Painting – Pollock. Print dribbled paint.
Soft pink landscapes (1980) Richard Hamilton A landscape of soft focus and toilet paper – a turgid landscape. Collotype and Screenprint – text and image. A remembered exhibition.
Rediscovering the printing process after nearly 40 years has been an interesting process – disappointingly modern inks are not as rich in colour (earthy colours are very plastic like) and modern water based inks don’t become part of the surface, they sit on it, which is incredibly frustrating – the reason I took up printing in the first place was because of the absorbed flatness of the pigments.
‘Stoned Moon Series’ was Rauschenberg’s ambitious response to the American space program and the landmark Apollo 11 mission that put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the lunar surface in July 1969. At the invitation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Rauschenberg witnessed the momentous launch of Apollo 11 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.’

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noreply@blogger.com (guest_blogger) — Thu, 10 May 2012 07:39:00 +0000

Cheap original Art

More information and original price for the painting '1978'

Original painting by Peter Bright . Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated. Size: 600mm x 500mm Includes original 1970s frame…

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Guy the Gorilla (May 30, 1946 – 1978) was a Western Lowland Gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) which was London Zoo‘s famous resident, something of a celebrity in the 1960s–70s and was often profiled on kids TV shows and natural history productions. Guy the Gorilla was one of London Zoo’s best-loved animals.He arrived at the zoo on 5 November 1947, Guy Fawkes Night, hence his name. He was a tiny baby, weighing just 23 lb (10 kg) and holding a small tin hot-water bottle. Guy was the replacement for the zoo’s previous gorilla, Meng, who died in 1941. Guy was captured in the French Cameroons on behalf of Paris Zoo and was traded for a tiger from Calcutta Zoo.

It was organized that London Zoo would have Guy. The Paris Zoo Director sent instructions to their game department in West Africa to find a suitable female to mate with him.London sent a request to a variety of animal dealers and zoos worldwide to find a mate, and in 1969 the zoo was offered Lomie, a five year old female who had been living in nearby Chessington Zoo. She lived in the old Monkey House in London Zoo for a year before being introduced to Guy.

Peter Bright (aka This Window)

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Nasher Sculpture Garden – Venice – The Peggy Guggenheim Collection: The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, in Venice. Peggy Guggenheim, a former wife of artist Max Ernst, purchased this building in 1949. Although sometimes mistaken for a modern designed building, Palazzo Venier dei Leoni … Continue reading ?

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Home recording - the computer age dilemma. How many sides?

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 08:57:00 +0000

The ‘audio artist’ had to rethink the whole creative process

Compact Cassettes, were the way that home recording artists distributed their ART. Cassettes consisted of two miniature spools, between which magnetically coated plastic tape was passed and wound between them. These spools and other mechanical (physical) parts were contained and supported inside a protective plastic shell. Two stereo pairs of tracks (four in total) or two monaural analog audio tracks could be recorded onto this fragile tape; one stereo pair or one monophonic track is played or recorded when the tape is moving in one direction and the second pair when moving in the other direction – thus creating two sides. Cassettes produced a lot of ‘hiss’ and were a very poor method of archiving and storing audio. The trick was to get as much recorded volume onto the magnetic surface with out making the ‘music’ distort.

With the conception of downloading audio, the ‘audio artist’ had to rethink the whole creative process.

This is probably my most favorite This Window cassette release. http://www.thiswindow.org/ex1.html

Released in 1989 on a Belgian label it was remixed and is available at most retail download stores. It was always meant to be a composition of two halves – side A and side B but neither CDs or mp3s have sides. The remixes have been split into four sections and when played randomly on a player manage to work. The original concept of two halves has now become one of many plausible combinations – how weird is that? – When it was conceived (by four naked people in a bath) this was not an option.

See This Window the pseudonym of Peter Bright.

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Found art - worth nothing

noreply@blogger.com (guest_blogger) — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:42:00 +0000

Old #drawing found in box – worth millions ?

Well to be honest this drawing is probably worth nothing but it was a pleasant surprise to rediscover it.

This drawing was created around 1981 – I’m not sure why I did it but I’m glad it wasn’t lost.

Drawing: Common tools for making marks include graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoal, chalk, pastels, markers, styluses, and various metals (such as silverpoint). An artist who practices or works in drawing may be called a draughtsman or draftsman.

It could be argued that photocopying machines and printers can create drawings.

The most common support for drawing is paper, although other materials, such as cardboard, plastic, leather, canvas, and board, may be used. Temporary drawings may be made on a blackboard or whiteboard or indeed almost anything. The medium has been a popular and fundamental means of public expression throughout human history. The relatively easy availability of basic drawing instruments makes drawing more universal than most other media.

Drawing. (2012, March 11). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:55, March 13, 2012, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Drawing&oldid=481337651

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Peter Bright exhibitions #printmaking

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 08:20:00 +0000

Peter Bright (aka This Window) will be exhibiting at least three new prints at an exhibition called, ‘Offset‘. Offset is an exhibition of prints by North Devon Artists at West Buckland School which starts March 5th.

Below are a couple of recent exhibition contributions:

The Alabama Art Kitchen, USA

Here is an image that was exhibited at The Alabama Art Kitchen (An Art Collective) 2626 University Blvd. Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, USA, during February 2012.

Peter Bright @ Cheim & Read

Has Jesus cast out the money lenders from the temple or is he charging rent?

This is the print was exhibited at Cheim & Read, 547 W 25th Street, New York, USA. (January 2012)

"I was delighted to be included in this exhibition which also featured artworks by Jeff Koons, Yoko Ono, John Waters, Donald Baechler, Marilyn Minter, Ed Ruscha, Polly Apfelbaum, Adam Fuss and Kiki Smith."

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Charleena - 'STOP THIS WORLD'

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:19:00 +0000

Found by chance and was drawn into it - really like this!

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Bauhaus - I dare you (to be poor)

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:01:00 +0000

The footage on this video reminds me of when I was in their support band (1979) and the day we were asked to play Berlin with them but couldn't.... we had no passports - we were poor back in the day - we still are.

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noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:34:00 +0000

I yearn for the those days of cassettes and experimentation to come back, the time when artists mailed (the type that required an envelope and a postage stamp) their noise all over the world. This golden nugget reminds me of that simple pleasure.

Genres: Electronica/ Dance / Noise / primalprobably

... around 60 years old a fan of SPK , Ramleh etc fell in with the porkweasel crowd during the 1980s and the Black Dwarf thing and has hung around like a bad smell since bringing festering noises and scraping sounds to the table

French Goth is good - Akentra

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:11:00 +0000

I've had a shit day...but this makes me feel better!

This Rock Metal Gothic band, created in 2006 by Lucia Ferreira, Steve Tilmant and Stephane Rayot, owes it's name to a carnivorous plant. Akentra's music is made up of a strong rhythmic section, sharp guitars sounds and Lucia's strong feminine voice carrying lyrics tainted with darkness and melancholy. Read more...

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noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:35:00 +0000

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noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:58:00 +0000

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This Belongs to Us - Curated by Richard Haines

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:55:00 +0000

Every month, Visual AIDS invites guest curators, drawn from both the arts and AIDS communities, to select several works from the Frank Moore Archive Project. This month, Richard Haines curates the artwork of Archive Members; David B. Abbott, Marcelo Alves, Bern Boyle, Rene Capone, Joe De Hoyos, Jimmy DeSana, Bryan Hoffman, Jerry Hooten, Samuel Lewis, Eric Molnar, Daniel Roberts, Nelson Edwin Rodriguez, Joseph Stabilito, and George Towne.

From the Curator's Statement:

As I looked through the archive so many memories came rushing at me. Maybe this is why it's taken so long to curate this web gallery. It's incredibly painful to relive this amount of loss. This is my generation. I get the references, the styles. But now the work is everyone's generation, it belongs to all of us. That's part of the great beauty of art. (read more)

About the Curator:

Richard Haines often refers to New York City as an endless runway; befitting of a man who moved to the big city to pursue illustration, became a successful fashion designer, and who has come full circle as one of today’s most sought after fashion illustrators. In fact, many look to Haines as the impetus of fashion illustration’s resurging popularity today.

Haines' illustrations regularly grace the pages of InStyle Magazine and his wildly popular website, What I Saw Today which feature his personal and professional works, has received accolades from respected critics at Paper Magazine, New York Magazine, men.style.com, refinery29.com and getkempt.com, to name just a few. It is not uncommon to see Haines seated front row at fashion week’s most desirable shows busily sketching images for magazines and blogs who hire him to record what no camera is capable of capturing. In July 2009, Haines received his first solo show at one of the Lower East Side’s most respected galleries, Envoy Enterprises.

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noreply@blogger.com (guest_blogger) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:56:00 +0000

FAFNIRROCKSON is a solo artist from Germany . The guitarist has committed himself primarily to electronic music. His music cannot be fixed to a certain style. It has a very creative and unconventional interpretation of different styles.

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Finish The Story - old footage found

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:23:00 +0000

Live footage of Finish the Story at Exeter Art College Feb 1983 mixed with 8 track studio version from 1981/2, some new images, original sequences and 'lost' shots - such as the bedroom doorway from the farm (R.I.P) and very early footage of Nicola at farm window -- not wanting to play! Even very rare footage of Peter B playing.

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BRIGANDAGE by mick mercer

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:29:00 +0000

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Exhibition, downloads, Mail Art - This Window

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:28:00 +0000

Recycled postcard that was originally a promo for ‘Cassette Culture‘

Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009 by This Window

Tracklisting:

1		You Have The Power (3:07)
2		Higest Mountains (3:34)
3		Avocets (3:46)
4		Is It A Dream? (3:14)
5		Extract (Live Regensburg Germany) (11:01)
6		Extraction Part 1 (7:30)
7		Extraction Part 2 (9:21)
8		Extraction Part 3 (7:53)
9		Extraction Part 4 (9:44)
10		Hungry Children (2:04)
11		Where Is My Jesus (Jig-saw Man)? (4:37)

Label:	M4TR Productions
	Cassette Culture 1989 - 2009
Format:	File, MP3
Country:	UK, Europe & US
Released:	16 Jan 2009
Genre:	Rock
Style:	Art Rock, Goth Rock, Experimental
Credits:	Remix - Jake Bright
Notes:	In January 2009 ‘Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009’ was released as a commercial download. This project contained remixes of a series of demo recordings made in 2008 and a section of the live Plac.Art.X set that was streamed over the Internet to Regensburg Germany in August 2007. This release also contains a complete remixed version of 'Extraction' which was originally released in 1989. These remixes were by Jake Bright.

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Screen printed image created for an exhibition in 2012

The image above is a proof on paper of the screen used in the painting below. "Nancy Spungen was born 6 days after I was born, unlike me she never got old." (This Window)

Whatever Happened to the Space Age

Original painting by Peter Bright (aka This Window).

Media: Painting and Screen Print on canvas, signed and dated 2011.

Size: 500mm x 400mm

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As an 11 year old I watched the first moon landing in 1969. I was mad about everything to do with space travel, I would read anything that was about rockets, cosmonauts and astronauts. Later in my life I shook the hand of a man who shook the hand of my all time hero Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, that was for me like touching history, if only secondhand (excuse the pun).

Nancy Spungen left home at age 17 and moved to New York City. She worked as a stripper around Times Square (and allegedly at a brothel as well). She followed bands such as Aerosmith, The New York Dolls and The Ramones. In 1977, she moved to London and met The Sex Pistols. When lead singer Johnny Rotten did not show interest in her, she pursued bassist Sid Vicious and they soon moved in together.

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Katerina Stamatelos - website feature

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:08:00 +0000

From the website of:

Katerina Stamatelos

I have been drawing since my childhood: models in fanciful dresses, but mostly entire cities. I also used to write poetry.

By age nine, I knew exactly what I wanted to become in life: an architect! But then, by age fifteen, I listened to Khachaturian’s second symphony: my feelings were so intense that I immediately knew I HAD to become a musician. Composition never appeared into my fantasy world: I thought this was the privilege of musical geniuses and I did not consider myself being one.

Throughout my adolescence, several teachers of different disciplines were trying to talk me into this or the other artistic profession. All had one common demand: absolute devotion. I followed that by choosing piano performance and, over the next decades, I devoted myself to this art entirely. I was happy with my decision but not entirely happy to have chosen only one direction-and, secretly, continued drawing…..

The good thing about my choice: I learned to focus. This ability would prove to be priceless during my later artistic development. But, one day, something inside me exploded: I allowed myself to study Fashion Design! What followed was a complete surprise: I started composing! Poetry seemed to flow naturally... Finally, serious painting followed.

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Up and coming events:

Saturday, October 29. 2011 @ 7 p.m.
Solo recital
Music in Williamsburg
preceded by church dinner @ 5:30 p.m.
Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
First Congregational Church of Williamsburg
Williamsburg, MA

Sunday, November 6, 2011 @ 4 p.m.
Solo recital
Sunday Concert Series
Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
Applewood at Amherst Retirement Community
Amherst, MA

Wednesday, November 9, 2011 @ noon
Solo recital
Wednesday Concert Series
Gretchen Saathoff, pianist
The Interchurch Center
New York, NY

Program:
Bach/Busoni, "Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ"
Bach, Prelude and Fugue No. XXII in B-flat minor, BWV 867, WTC Book I
Mendelssohn, "Songs Without Words" (selections)
Liszt, "Consolation No. 3"
Liszt, "Nuages Gris"
Katerina Stamatelos, "VARIATIONS and INVOCATIONupon a "Kyrie Eleison" and an "Anathema," Op. 4
In Memoriam Béla Bartók
Gershwin, Preludes:
Melody No. 17
Sleepless Night
Novelette in Fourths

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You have a list of awards etc. as long as my arm, do you think you have had a privileged transition through your career or do you think it has been an extremely hard journey?

I had a normal musical life: studied at Conservatories and Universities for many years. I had a "strict" schooling and excellent teachers. In this, I do feel "privileged". But I also had to work very hard for that. I started as a pianist and continued as a piano teacher/professor for many years, concertizing at the same time. My transition to composition was abrupt: I wrote a choral piece in Greece and it was chosen to be performed at the greatest concert hall of Thessaloniki (my home town) next to Mozart's "Requiem" and Haydn's "Symphonie Concertante". That was a shock! Having my first composition performed in front of an audience of 1,200 people! Read more...

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Art bits and pieces

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:18:00 +0000

From thiswindow.org

Can a creative person ever be truly happy as they constantly strive for 
 perfection in their chosen art? Listen to an interview with Garry Smout,  who talks about the problems of using early portable black and white  video cameras
 in the 1970’s, pioneering a literary review website the  Barcelona 
Review, early synths and how to kill your babies. The problem  with 
being creative is that everything has to be pushed to the limits.



I have decided to recycle some old preview invitations that I sent out for exhibitions over the years.

The ant and the word bug amused me.

The term mixed media has always made me want to reach for the puke bucket – I prefer the expression ‘Combine Painting’ or in this case ‘Combine Drawing’. I have always been a hoarder, newspaper clippings, postcards etc. It is only now that I have decided to recycle them. Juxtaposing images, either as a collage or printing is not simply a decorative process it is a complicated exercise. The mind always tries to create a narrative between images. The juxtaposition of arbitrary marks, color, photographs etc. will always tease and trick the mind into rationalizing what it is trying to process and attempt to make physical world references – in other words make sense of what it is trying to analyze.

BUg = aNT old exHIBitIOns

Invited to perform @ 3rd mail-art festival ( 14th April 1990) – OJC Clichee in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium, as ‘This Window’ Click here for This Window’s reviews in GAJOOB =======================

Royal Albert Memorial Museum Exeter March 2nd 1979 – 24th March 1979 Exhibition of Prints from Exeter College of Art

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10-31 mai 1979 École Regional des Beaux-Arts RENNES Une exposition commune des élèves

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Nancy Sinatra and those boots!

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 06:41:00 +0000

Sometimes a little bit of nostalgia does nobody any harm - sadly I remember this when it was released in 1966. I have even got the 45rpm single of it and if my memory is correct the 'B' side is 'The City Never Sleeps At Night'.

Nancy Sinatra was encouraged by Lee Hazlewood to sing the song as if she were a sixteen-year-old girl giving the brush-off to a forty-year-old man. Sinatra's recording of the song was made with the help of notable Los Angeles session musicians known as the Wrecking Crew. This session included Hal Blaine on drums, Al Casey, Tommy Tedesco, Billy Strange and Mike Deasy on guitars, Ollie Mitchell, Roy Caton and Lew McCreary on horns, Carol Kaye on electric bass, and Chuck Berghofer on double bass.

The text below is lifted from Veronica Henry

I've spent about a million pounds in Clarks on children's shoes in the past, but never actually bought a pair for myself. But as I rushed in the other day for a tube of trainer whitener, I spotted these. As a committed boot girl the moment autumn arrives I am clomping around, and these will go with absolutely everything. And the best thing of all? *whispers* - they are incredibly comfortable.

Then I remembered this - they don't make them like this any more!

Not worth the virtual paper they are written on

Leave the arts alone! Interesting reading in the UK press about the demise of 'Women's Commercial Fiction'...

"Go" - Delilah

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 07:39:00 +0000

"Go" is the debut single recorded by British Singer Delilah.

The song was released as a single on 6 September 2011 as a digital download in the United Kingdom from her upcoming debut album. Delilah featured on Chase & Status's hit "Time" earlier this year, which reached number 21 on the UK Singles Chart. Like 'Time', 'Go' utilizes some light drum and bass, though only towards the end of the track.

The song features lyrics and melodies from the 1983 Chaka Khan hit, "Ain't Nobody" ("The next thing I felt was you / Holding me close / What am I gonna do? / I let myself go"). In an interview with Pyromag in September 2011, Delilah mentioned that Chaka Khan has heard the track and thought it was "genius"

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Not worth the virtual paper they are written on - Interesting reading in the UK press about the demise of 'Women's Commercial Fiction' - why does the UK (press) always criticize successful industries and people?

Today I'm off to Exeter to talk to the lovely Judi Spiers at Radio Devon about my new book, Marriage and Other Games, which comes out on 21 October. I bumped into her at Appledore Festival on Saturday, where we were both appering. No doubt we will touch on the subject of chick lit while we are there, and whether it is dead. Absolutely not! There are still legions of people out there buying uplifting, heartwarming, life-affirming fiction, which provides a much deserved escape during these tough times. And books still provide remarkably good value for money. So go on - stick one in your trolley!

While I'm there I get to choose a piece of music. I'm totally in love with this song at the moment, Go by Delilah. It is inspired by one of my old favourites, Ain't Nobody by Chaka Khan, which takes me right back to the eighties. But the spare way it's produced, and her stunning voice, send shivers down my spine. Gorgeous.

Via Veronica Henry

Last ever This Window live session - video

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 10:27:00 +0000

This is a hybrid performance which is an eclectic mix of the avant-garde ramblings of the early experimentation pieces of ‘Extraction’ and the 'dark song' musings of the tortured artist. Sadly this appears to be the last known live recording of This Window.

Double bass (Jake Bright) and guitar (Peter Bright) played with screwdrivers. Recorded and transmitted live on Soundart Radio (FM) Dartington College, Nr Totnes on 8th August 2008. The double bass was miked up and played through a Marshall Stack - very loud in a very small studio!

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Audio by This Window - vocals Peter Bright

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EE Tapes - news

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 09:08:00 +0000

THE (ALMOST) INSANELY HAPPY EP – 7” EP 33rpm, 250 copies (EE Tapes cat# EV04)

Split EP by former INSANE groups SUBJECT & HUMAN DANCE

First 85 copies are hand-numbered and come with 2 extra photographs

Again mostly exclusive 80's material from the vaults of Alain Neffe, don't miss it!!

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COMING SOON

M.B. “HIBERNUM” - CD, 300 copies (1 november)

JUNE11 “THE TEMPLE OF WOOD” - CD, 300 copies (1 november)

pre-orders are welcome!

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DELAYED

RAYMOND DIJKSTRA “DE SCHAAL” (Book/CD), 200 copies (EE Tapes cat#EE19)

Due to reasons beyond our will we are sad to announce - once again - the delay of this art project.
At this point we cannot set a new date of release.

We hope the artist will take his responsability to finish the book in due time.

Please do not order/make enquiries about EE19 until you here from us with good news, thank you!

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Mail Art - bring it back!

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 11:29:00 +0000

Mail art is a worldwide art and music movement that began in the early 1960s. the principle is simple you send visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system. Mail Art is sometimes known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art. Mail Art is a network, based on the principles of barter and equal one-to-one collaboration.

After a peak in popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mail Art phenomenon has gradually migrated to the Internet, whose “social networks” were largely anticipated and predicted by the interactive processes of postal collaborations. Nevertheless, Mail Art is still practiced by a loose planetary community involving thousands of mailartists from the most varied backgrounds.

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I will mail you a postcard of an image that was exhibited recently in an exhibition of mine. I have always loved the idea of Mail Art – the forerunner of the Internet! Mail art is a worldwide network… Continue reading →

Below is the original blurb and finished piece that was sent to a mailart exhibition in the USA in 2003. This was posted and accepted and an email was recieved confirming arrival on Sept 4th 2003.

"I just thought I'd let you know that your piece arrived today, completely in tact. Not even bent! I love the postal service!
Thank you so much for your contribution."
Melissa Muller

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West Buckland Festival - Auction

noreply@blogger.com (Uk Optimisation.com) — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:46:00 +0000

SILENT AUCTION LOTS

Bidders are invited to make secret bids for lots in the 'Silent Auction' from 15th August by placing a sealed envelop, containing a sheet of paper with your name, address, bid and telephone number on it, into the 'Bid Box' in St Peter's Church, West Buckland. You may place an email bid here.

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The winner of each Lot will be announced at ‘The Evening with Dana’ concert on Sunday 11th September.

Lot 1 : The choice of one of three paintings or drawings by Gerald Moore. These will be exhibited in St. Peter’s Church from 15th August until 11th September 2011.

Minimum Bid £200

The three paintings are part of the unique Collection of the Works of Gerald Moore and are due to be exhibited permanently soon in a London Gallery. Read more…

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