2 actions for a monday morning (or any other)...

"open a new book
and put some flowers on the page
and just smell them"

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"open any big magazine on top of
a transistor radio and turn the pages"


from a beautiful little xerox & rubber stamp booklet:
yukio tsuchiya, 1972-73, works in progress

new sound installation...

i currently have a new sound installation up at art center's williamson gallery in pasadena. the show runs until january 15. the sound piece was created using recordings i received from JPL, and an old LP of recordings of the ionosphere via tape recorders circa 1955.

the exhibition was curated by stephen nowlin, and contains some wonderful work by semiconductor, michael c mcmillan, rebecca mendez, and others.

you can see images of some of the works in the exhibition, along with my sound on this youtube clip...

when sounds were wrapped around a piece of gum...

here are a series of extracted single-panels from early 1940's colored ink on wax paper bubble gum comics, originally wrapped around a small piece of dubble bubble gum. most of the comics feature pud, the dubble bubble ad character, who can be seen in some of these wearing a red striped shirt. each panel shown is, in reality, much smaller than a postage stamp, and insanely difficult to read without a magnifying glass. i love the out of register printing, and the written descriptions of sounds like pow and mooo, as well as the phooo and the splug images which look like they might have been illustrations for jarry's ubu roi. of course, these pre-date lichtenstein's comic panel paintings and the batman tv show's graphics by 20+ years, and yes the images are sound effects for some incredibly dumb yet totally hilarious laugh out loud old school gags.

the desert music...

well, i've never had a schedule like this, but once again i'm leaving town for a week and a half. this time the destination is the texas desert, in the form of marfa, home to donald judd's chinati foundation and the marfa ballroom for 'the marfa sessions', an exhibition performance event opening on sept. 27. i will be collaborating with stephen vitiello on an installation as well as a performance.

the installation will be based on field recordings we made in the desert a year ago, and will include a cabin size structure built in the landscape with the help of liz chaney. the performance will be inside one of the large buildings of judd's sculptures, with the sound being piped outside to the audience looking in as the sunset begins.

there will also be installations also by Emily Jacir, Nina Katchadourian, Christina Kubisch, Louise Lawler, Inigo-Manglano Ovalle, Kaffe Matthews, Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere, Dario Robleto, Steve Rowell and Simparch, Deborah Stratman and Steven Badgett, Julianne Swartz; as well as a talk given by david toop. the whole thing has been curated by regine basha, rebecca gates and lucy raven

because blogger now has the ability to "schedule" posts in advance, i have pre-posted a few gems, so fear not, airforms will be working it's magic virtually, while i'm driving through the texas desert. if with any luck i have wireless in marfa i'll try to post some images of the installation in progress.