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Studio Notes: Culture of Behavior Modification
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Verbal accretions through process. Saturday, December 7, 2013. Culture of Behavior Modification. Why is the Troubled Teen Industry an important topic for artistic exploration? I'll leave aside for now the larger question of whether Art may or may not be useful for addressing social topics at all. I sometimes wonder. recalling the famous Adorno quote. With the rise of "zero-tolerance policies". Our schools have become increasingly harsh in their enforcement of "normality" and increasingly punitive in ...
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Studio Notes: May 2012
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Verbal accretions through process. Wednesday, May 23, 2012. It has been refreshing to take a break from the obsessive vertical qualities of tracks from the past two years, and to work instead with loose, horizontal structures - uncoordinated and slowly unfolding, arranged in timbral rather than rhythmic relationships; revealed in smooth, large "moments" rather than the jagged, highly-crafted "gestures" of much recent work. It feels like a drink of water, a dive into dark matter. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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nurses: December 2009
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Thursday, December 31, 2009. It's nice that it's sincere. If only music sites/blogs were run like this:. Http:/ www.itsnicethat.com/. Maybe you know of one i don't? This is my favorite destination on the whirl wide web. they're rad and super enthusiastic. This site is also how we were introduced to our new pal hans lo. Who is one of our favs and is working on a video for us that should be done in the next couple weeks. Here's one of his videos- yeah! Happy new years chucklers! Monday, December 21, 2009.
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Studio Notes: November 2011
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Verbal accretions through process. Monday, November 28, 2011. Some images from Children's Games. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Portland, Oregon, United States. View my complete profile. Childrens Games (After Bruegel). Linda K. Johnson. Patricia A. Turner. Phantom of the Opera. Regional Arts and Culture Council. School to prison pipeline. The War on Kids. Village of the Damned. Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner. FO A RM magazine. The Art of Memory. Woolly Mammoth Comes to Dinner.
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Studio Notes: July 2011
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Verbal accretions through process. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. I am now working on the "Horror Movie" section of Children's Games. A pseudo-narrative within a pseudo-narrative. As I've mentioned before, I like the idea of nested elements. I also like the limitations/freedoms that a diagetic mini-project provides. I am enjoying (self-created) pressures which require/allow me to try different forms, different textures, different senses of functionality. What if the narrator is a disembodied voice? I'm an art...
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Studio Notes: October 2011
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Verbal accretions through process. Thursday, October 20, 2011. Band practice at The Mouth - with Taryn Tomasello and Gabi Villasenor. Monday, October 10, 2011. Sebastian Healy recording the voice of the ghost child. Tracing the Children's Games diagram to black fabric. Sunday, October 9, 2011. 3 weeks to go. Rehearsal photos by Hillary Murphy. Crippled Athlete makeup and video shoot. First rehearsal with video projection. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Portland, Oregon, United States. 3 weeks to go.
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Studio Notes: Synanon & The Game
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Verbal accretions through process. Monday, December 23, 2013. Synanon and The Game. In many ways, the roots of the Troubled Teen Industry can be found in Synanon. The California community that started in 1959 as a rehabilitation program for drug addicts. Over several decades, Synanon evolved into a huge, cultish network with thousands of members. Because of the extreme containment of TTI programs, along with the psychological manipulations of sleep deprivation, nutritional deprivation, solitary confineme...
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Studio Notes: August 2011
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Verbal accretions through process. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. Yo-yo, Mama, caca". As I conducted research for Children's Games, there were texts I encountered which seemed to encapsulate one or several of the core themes. These almost always related to ideas of language, pre-language, repetition and signification. Finding a text like this, I could read it as a score - a set of sounds and actions. Thus, the theoretical leads directly into the practical. From Formless: A User's Guide. I'm an artist, perfo...
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Studio Notes: March 2012
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Verbal accretions through process. Wednesday, March 7, 2012. This is the latest and last in a series of six short pieces that I'm calling "Lunar Density". My compositions in the last few years have become increasingly “clotted” or “crystallized” – consisting of distinct sections, sudden shifts, abrupt introductions of sounds and equally abrupt disappearances. Over time, the pieces kept getting shorter, and my tolerance for duration diminished. I’m sure it's this quality that produces the difficulty...
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Studio Notes: June 2011
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Verbal accretions through process. Friday, June 17, 2011. Over the next two days, we'll be shooting the runaway camp sequence under a maple tree in the columbia river gorge. Here Alex, Fawn, Devin and Emily try on their costumes, artfully distressed by Lydia Rosenberg. On the chalkboard, a mirror drawing by Devin and Paul from Lab rehearsals. Above, a drawing led by the 'wild child', below led by the 'scientist'. Thursday, June 2, 2011. Two sisters seduced by a disgusting slimy slug. Trying to stay awake.
