Say Chees

the caravan is awesome :)

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Nancy's comment on CamERAMICS

"I like the futuristic element, since it allows lot of scope with the intervention into the event, these immaterial spaces created by imagination offers vital keys for others who need to comprehend such a change. What am I doing ? Why am I there ? What am I saying? These dramaturgy questions I am continually asking in my practice and related activities I am apart of. In regard to this ceramics project, I like the idea of the 'other time' character. It allows another type approach to the plates to make sense. This stimulates creative imagination of others, as only then do they get access to the ideas, learning and culture of others, past and present. If we are aliens or event people from another time researching [doesn't have to be so dramatic] then it make more sense why we are engaging with these objects in unusual ways. I'm always bringing in extraordinary modes, drama and costume, of course, it's ok with a bit less. But it says something more than an everyday life type of approach. Field researchers from the future. let's say we want that element as it gives it more sense to why we are doing something surreal/abnormal with plates and of course it brings the time element into it, which the plates
themselves are time repositories" (MAURO-FLUDE, 2008)[i]

Patchingzone Intervention @ Museum GoudA

The Patchingzone's May 1st intervention at the ceramics days in Gouda. The Museum GoudA organised ceramics examinations, our inspectors also checked the nearby ceramics market.
Here you can find some pictures of the intervention.
http://flickr.com/photos/25102225@N03/?saved=1

Short report of first meeting/brainstorm 22 April, Concordia

Museum's plans for 1 May and the longer term

Julia Zwijnenburg briefly presented the long-term plans that the museum has -- developing an online tool for determination of plateel (based on stamps and signatures at the back of the ceramics) and discussion / stories around it.

At the plateelkeuring, flyers will be handed out where people are asked for feedback about such a potential tool: what do they expect from it, what are they interested in?

Handing out these flyers will run in parallel with the actual "taxation" and determination of the ceramics that people bring. The Patchingzone intervention/action will also run in parallel.

Patchingzone intervention

Patchingzone wants to work with strong artistic focus.

Ideas that have been discussed:
- emotions
- family / history of a piece
- value in various aspects: financial, artistic ("beauty")
- alternative perspectives, aspects to draw information from ceramics: sound (record player analogy, tapping ceramics to determine if broken or not)
- final idea from brainstorm: generate sound from visual input, camera registers moving image from patterns on ceramics and this is converted to audio.


Approximation of the layout of the square in front of the museum:

Summary from prep-meeting re market:

a market of live feeds:

Nancy likes the idea of a 'side show Moderne`'
The signals of the microphone on the wires, is set up in order to pick up the voices and the ceramics.
Vibration, human activity feeds through this network of software wires and
microphones, creating changing sound states from transformed energy.


Vincent described tones from plates as vincent described people can have little places to visit. Booths.
Segment of skype:
vivian: 12:20:52
our role is to facilitate sound, borrwing plate, putting microphone, doing the
sound, sound in space, live mixing
sistero: 12:21:11
and they all mix together in a kind of thing
sistero: 12:23:12
basically we could make a live set up
vivian: 12:23:19
marc: stethoscopes with little reflex hammer
sistero: 12:23:21
a live composition recording voices and ceramics ounds
sistero: 12:23:33
and we have our 'stations' kind a thing
vivian: 12:23:38
k: labcoats and glasses

additional links:
ALLAN LAMB
Im very inspired by his "infinite music machines" and use of pulsating magnetic fields to vibrate hair-fine tantalum wires carrying electric currents where he records amplified upper harmonics of metal wires activated by wind.


PHROQ
Uses a strange technique of contact microphones, metal wires and beer cans, explores a new sound universe, a serious work (by the form and will) but also a funny way (by technique) of the experimental electro-acoustic and noise music.


On 22 Apr 2008, at 00:21, vivian wenli lin wrote:

> hey pz-ers -
> i was consulting with taku (our local turntablist)
> and he recommended creating a video needle to read the ceramic plates.
> so use a video camera to capture colors/patterns/etc from the
> rotating plate and create a jitter/max/etc patch of some sort to
> link those patterns to sounds.
>
> i.e. blue line = constant tone
> flowers = scattered bleeps
>
> i could probably refresh my jitter memory somewhere - or maybe nancy
> you may know of a better program. and marc/vince - any max sound
> patches?
>
> also it would look fantastic if we projected or on a monitor this
> close up of the pattern scrolling by.
>
> just a midnight thought...
> good night,
> viv (with turntable taku)\

short video

images from the library event