tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:59:43 +0000Statement of intent The Neo-Futurist Collectivehttp://neofuturist.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger72125en-usnoAll materials copyright of the artistssound,art,futurism,performanceThe Neo-Futurist Collective invoke a celebration of urban noise inspired by the Milan Futurists and the Art of Noises manifesto by Luigi Russolo.(Re)Awakening of a City!Joseph Youngartofnoises@gmail.comJoseph Youngtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-2958868443458262064Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:14:00 +00002013-06-24T15:14:57.653+01:00 The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing Designed by Ernest Goldfinger in the late 1960's and built in 1972, Trellick Tower is an iconic addition to the West London skyline. Now Grade Two listed it is a classic example of the Brutalist architecture movement. So I was delighted when we were invited to perform the World Premiere of "The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothinghttp://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2013/06/skinny-vintage-at-trellick-tower.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-3096055296412130516Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:04:00 +00002013-04-11T14:04:58.106+01:00 On 7th April 2013, the Framework Afield Edition about the Art of Noises manifesto was first broadcast on Resonance FM. You can listen to the podcast here. http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2013/04/framework-afield-art-of-noises-manifesto.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-8319898161287461518Thu, 07 Mar 2013 14:51:00 +00002013-03-07T15:18:36.799+00:00 100TH ANNIVERSARY ART OF NOISES MANIFESTO 11TH MARCH 2013 “We must enlarge and enrich more and more the domain of musical sounds. … This need and this tendency can be totally realised only through the joining and substituting of noises to and for musical sounds. “  (Russolo 1913, translated by Robert Filliou, 1967) Dear Fellow Recordists and Noisemakers! Next Monday 11th http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-call-for-noise.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-5768574675522059254Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:56:00 +00002012-02-27T15:29:09.235+00:00Myself and Peter Faulkner, in our role as artist/agitators The Neo-Futurist Collective, have been invited to contribute work for an ambitious site-specific performance at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington High Street entitled Common Sounds : Touching the Void. Our response Concerto for Brutalist Buildings takes its inspiration from the derelict building and the crumbling ofhttp://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2012/02/concerto-for-brutalist-buildings.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-6418924969998187141Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:47:00 +00002011-03-20T19:17:47.363+00:00The End of Listening (ReAwakening of a City #5)by Joseph Young of The Neo-Futurist Collectivea&e gallery, Cheltenham Place, BRIGHTON. Jan 7th - 23rd (weekends only)20th April 1914: Immediately before the outbreak of the First World War, the premiere performance of a revolutionary noise symphony Awakening of a City by futurist artist Luigi Russolo.Almost a century later, a group of artists, http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2010/12/end-of-listening.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-6068533801629493515Fri, 14 May 2010 16:26:00 +00002010-05-16T23:18:38.999+01:00Marc Garrett interviews Joseph Young. http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=389Founded by Joseph Young in 2007 - The Neo Futurist Collective consists of a group of highly accomplished artists who have come together to celebrate urban noise in all its' visual and aural forms. Inspired by the Milan Futurists and the Art of Noises manifesto (Luigi Russolo, 1912), as well the http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2010/05/interview-on-furtherfieldorg.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-8684147641002567935Sat, 01 May 2010 11:41:00 +00002010-05-09T01:57:40.982+01:00Have a look and listen on my personal blog to hear and see the outcomes of my residency at Blast Theory. I had an incredible week and am deeply indebted to "the Blasts" for their support and encouragement.http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2010/05/reawakening-of-city-chamber-piece.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-3218718440754972243Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:38:00 +00002010-04-24T16:38:44.873+01:00Joseph Young aka Giuseppe Marinetti will be the latest Artist-in-Residence with Blast Theory, in Brighton from April 26th-30th."In this latest piece of research, I will work solo, using field recordings from Portslade, found objects on the street and text, to present a short binaural location performance for an audience of 8 people at a time. I am interested in the theatricality of the binaural http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2010/04/reawakening-of-city-micro-performance.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-567848289048979626Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:28:00 +00002013-03-07T15:18:05.837+00:00 NeoFuturist Falicitations! It's been a long while, my comrades and friends, since I posted here - but I am delighted to announce that NeoFuturism is flourishing and actively making links all over the globe. Recently, I was delighted to reacquaint myself with my dear friend, Luigi Russolo, and to be able to report that he is alive and well and living in the Netherlands. His current project http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2010/03/pause-and-then-new-beginning.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-2587861592889785837Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:49:00 +00002010-04-24T16:23:53.123+01:00Here's a few photos and (below) the film of the performance; expertly shot by Mark Birbeck and edited by my son Louie Young. Several months late - no excuses for that... but hopefully providing a flavour of the climax to an incredibly creative and challenging project. Our thanks go out to the community of Upnor(s), Fuse Medway Festival and Medway Council for their unflagging support, and to all http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/12/some-photographs-from-performance-on.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-969101592543206227Wed, 30 Dec 2009 01:45:00 +00002009-12-30T11:45:10.197+00:00http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/12/call-to-arms.html2artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)noJoseph Youngsound,art,futurism,performancetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-7949179481639243544Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:24:00 +00002009-06-11T12:39:32.207+01:00Of all the Lowers and all the Uppers in all the world –the Upnor that is uppermost in our hearts isUpUpUppityUpnor. Up in Arms Upnor!A Tale of Two Upnors that is one,a tale of one Upnor that is two;but only one Upnor,not Upper.A tale of four pubs in the morningand a blood red sky,no community centre, no shops,no schools, a seagulls cry,Wake up Wake upit’s modern times.A sand pit and a playground http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/06/speech-that-never-was.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-4685703457881017295Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:33:00 +00002009-06-02T11:53:38.120+01:00This is what happened when some unknown and unseen vandals/art critics (?) decided to burn Eva's red thread wrapping of the viewing platform beside Upnor Castle. A curious act, not without its own barbed beauty, but odd nevertheless, given that a lot of the thread survived.It's part of what has made this project so fascinating. The relatively low turnout for workshops despite numerous leaflet http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/06/burning-of-red-thread.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-4440770031233320228Thu, 28 May 2009 18:42:00 +00002009-05-29T00:02:27.617+01:00http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/05/queen-of-upnor-no-really.html2artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-8781069597878600819Wed, 20 May 2009 10:24:00 +00002009-05-20T11:30:26.656+01:00A delightful afternoon having tea in the garden of the house with the best views of the River Medway at Upnor... Eva weaving her thread around the viewing platform and the view from the tower above.http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-photos-from-our-first-weekend_20.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-6586911004622195975Wed, 20 May 2009 10:15:00 +00002009-05-20T11:36:14.117+01:00Ways of seeing - changing the way we view the world through simple worn and handheld devices.http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-photos-from-our-first-weekend.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-6448162039695962623Mon, 18 May 2009 15:41:00 +00002009-05-18T17:07:25.274+01:00http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/05/photos-from-our-first-weekend-saturday.html2artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-3935288864958354171Sun, 03 May 2009 15:37:00 +00002009-05-05T17:37:19.810+01:00Well, it's hard to believe after all the planning and site visits, that the project is due to start very soon. We had a great Press Launch on April 14th, where we arrived on a fishing boat to be met by local councillors, residents and the press. We engaged them with a short absurdist ceremony where we set out our plans for the project and then walked the proposed route of the final performance, http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/05/2-weeks-to-go.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-2773876546823185075Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:37:00 +00002009-04-27T17:52:27.583+01:00http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/04/neo-futurists-vs-anti-ismists.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-7334067306870891937Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:20:00 +00002009-04-27T17:36:48.435+01:00http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/04/more-photos-from-upnor.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-8296099681910772421Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:47:00 +00002009-04-16T20:38:29.818+01:00http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/04/our-first-day-in-upnor.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-2849031113695417179Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:28:00 +00002009-04-15T08:42:51.406+01:00UPNOR - home of a famous Elizabethan Castle and a former military railway; supplier of men and explosives to the historic Chatham Dockyards. What will happen when The Neo-Futurist Collective take to the streets with placards and megaphones and invite the locals to do the same? A Call to Arms - a celebration of Upnor's military and industrial past, has been commissioned by Fuse Medway Festival, http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/04/call-to-arms.html1artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-3508047547199896600Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:31:00 +00002009-03-05T15:29:38.473+00:00Ultra-Red have published a one-minute extract of a piece that I recorded on Wall St. last Autumn as part of Conflux 08.“Black Friday.” A binaural recording made outside the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street, the weekend of the Lehmann Brothers collapse. The difficulty of trying to read out the stock prices on the indicator mirrors the speed at which the global market moves. The voice is http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/03/fifteen-sounds-of-war-on-poor-vol3.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-5641929770251966925Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:36:00 +00002009-02-20T14:44:29.512+00:00Inspired by Wall Street and the crushing world market; the idea of power held by few and the abstract nature of monetary transactions in the stock market. What is the tangibility of shares? stocks? What if we had a pie instead and trade with that?Free Money for Apple Pie created a street 'tea party' inside the gallery. We gave away lots of 'new' dollars (*) to visitors who used them to buy apple http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/02/re-mix-free-money-for-apple-pie-come.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1037981344974852126.post-8055395456231940482Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:01:00 +00002009-01-22T10:48:58.068+00:00Notes on remixing the exhibition; Past Performance.... , Blank Gallery, November 25th 2008.I spent a day in situ with the exhibition looking for ways to integrate and respond to the work with a moving, body based vocabulary. I was struck by several diverse ideas; that of the pioneer spirit that first established America; a memory from all the cowboy films I'd seen of shoot outs and cowboys; how http://neofuturist.blogspot.com/2009/01/remixing-via-body.html0artofnoises@gmail.com (Joseph Young)