THINGS
BEHIND THE SUN
TO SHOW ON SHOWTIME
AUGUST 18 AT 9PM
Yup,
the film by Alison Anders which SY did the score for will be available
for folks to check out. Completely unheard Sonic material crafted last
December (see archived news item) which is pretty freaking rockin', plus
the rest of the soundtrack includes old favorites by the Shocking Blue,
Nick Drake, and Low Priority.
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FREY
HENRI SINGER RANALDO
BORN JULY 9 2001
"Frey
is healthy, wide-eyes taking everything in, calm and composed (so far!)."
Lee reports. Frey is Lee's third son, and his and Leah Singer's second.
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THURSTON
HELPS CURATE
LP COVER SHOW
EXIT ART / NYC / JUNE 9 - AUGUST 17
Here's
the word strait from the folks at Exit Art:
'THE
LP SHOW will feature over 2,500 innovative covers that have been culled
from over 50 collections. This exhibition will trace the history of graphic
design for album covers from its beginnings in the 1940’s to contemporary
graphics that endure even as the medium gives way to the digital age of
the compact disc. During the last half of the 20th century, the album
cover was one of the most distributed popular art mediums. THE LP SHOW
will examine the tremendous impact commercial artists, who were often
employed by large records labels and doing amazing work in absolute anonymity,
had on post-war popular culture.
'THE LP SHOW is not intended to be a history of music, but rather a diverse
survey of record cover graphics. Many of the most famous album covers
will not be featured here, as we assume everyone already knows the Rolling
Stone’s Sticky Fingers album designed by Andy Warhol and the Beatles’
White Album and the like. Instead the exhibition will be structured thematically
around seemingly obscure genres. Stephen Holman, for example, has collected
Christian ventriloquist records from renowned 1970s children’s television
shows such as Jiggers Story Time and Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s
puppet show. Other cultural themes range from religion to rage, seduction
to sex, picturesque escapism to party inebriation, and many, many others.
This thematic visual archive will form a social narrative translated into
a cultural timeline.
'The collector is at the centerpoint of this exhibition. As everyone throws
away their records and moves to compact discs, the history and legacy
of this medium has fallen into the hands of those who have a love of album
cover art. The covers for this exhibition have been drawn from over 50
sources including DJs, radio personalities, music journalists, musicians,
collectors, record store owners, bar owners, etc. In the course of researching
this exhibition, we have found that many times these collectors lives
are literally taken over by their massive acquisitions; it is a passion
that takes all their time and money. Many of the featured collectors have
built their collections around eccentric themes. For example, Deb Parker,
owner of the Beauty Bar and Barmacy in NYC, has accumulated an extensive
collection of Hawaiian records, and David Garland, a DJ on WNYC, has collected
records that refer to New York City in their titles, while Chris Ligon
of Chris and Heather’s Record Roundup in Chicago, aquires record
covers that have been defaced by anonymous “artists”.'
Thurston is one of four curators who have also been invited to do an installation;
the others being Christian Marclay, John Zorn, and DJ Spooky. Reportedly,
Thurston's installation consits entirely of black and white covers.
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LEE
SHOWS FILM
Book of
Dreams: a Trip through Kerouac's Lowell
Lee's
movie with the above title will be showing on July 31 at Collective Unconscious,
145 Ludlow St. NYC. The event starts at 9pm. Below is the description
of the evening as a whole.
31 July - PXL THIS 10! and LOTS OF INTIMACY
First, Santa Monica-based PixelVision maker and curator Gerry Fialka presents
PXL THIS 10!, the most recent installment in a decade-long showcase devoted
to the toy video camera we know and love. This program of festival highlights
recently screened at Vancouver's brilliant THE BLINDING LIGHT!, whose
impresario Alex MacKenzie does a rundown: "Lee Ranaldo’s Book
of Dreams: a Trip through Kerouac's Lowell, ten year-old Brady’s
Dancing Dog, a floppy-eared fandango rendering self-reflexive hilarity;
Jeff Shepherd’s Cyber Spaced takes us deep into the heart of one
lonely guy and the computer woman he meets; Alfred Shoots Adolf is photographer
Alfred Benjamin’s story of what happened to him at the age of 18
in Germany (1934) when he looked at the enemy staring back at him through
his camera lens. Songman Mark Hecht bellows a maniac love song with passion
in Thinking of You; Eli Elliott’s Push Butt takes on hand dryer corporations
by culture jamming in and out of american restrooms. PLUS the hilarious
Ghost Story by Joe Frese, Mark Hejnar’s startling shorts, and many
many more!"
PLUS!
In the second half of tonight's program the RBMC presents films by Taiwanese
small-gauge enthusiast and scholar Tony Wu, visiting by way of Bard College.
For his "Intimacy" series, Wu contact-printed pre-existing filmstrips
(R8, S8 and 16mm) onto Super-8 film. Once, one film strip briefly kissed
the other before pulling away, leaving a record in its absence. In other
films Wu further explores the technological peculiarities of 8mm film,
from slitting to flicker and more. Tonight's program will include: Intimacy
(1998, 3m.), More Intimacy (1999, m.), During Chaos... (1999, 9m.) More
Intimacy 2 (1999, 8 m.), Cemetery 6 (1999, 10m.) and Go Home Movie (1999,
11m.) All programs on Tuesdays at 9pm at Collective Unconscious, 145 Ludlow
St. NYC
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SYR4
EURO TOUR REPORT
BY LEE
Fourth
show tonight on our Goodbye 20th Century tour. So far we've done Paris,
Zurich and 2 shows in Gent, Belgium. Beautiful old theatre here saw 2
of the best--Opening w James Tenney's crescendo piece Having Never Written
a Note for Percussion, performing Yoko's Voice Piece for Soprano and many
of the other works from the SYR4 record. And some new pieces as well—Steve
Reich's Clapping Music, as done by Willie and Steve, a different section
from Christian Wolfe's Burdocks as well. Twice so far we've even been
able toperform George Maciunas' Piano Piece #13, hammering nails into
the keyboards, wired for sound. Then straight into Side2side, one of the
SY 'numbers' we're incorporating into these evenings. Quite different
doing these kind of shows, sit down w timers, guest musicians (so far
Christian Fennez, Marina Rosenfeld, Gunter Muller, Jean-Marc Montera,
Dan Vandewalle, Frederic Rzewski and his son Jan too. The pieces are opening
their structural doors to us, growing more and differently every night.
LR/Gent 061001
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