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Posted on: May 29th, 2011 by robin No Comments

Düsseldorf-based artist Christian Jendreiko is known for making actions with large ensembles of trained or untrained performers in novel, site-specific settings. Jendreiko specifically seeks to reconsider acoustics as aspects of how body and mind are constructed, through a decentralized and sculptural approach towards performance. Lasting anywhere between two and seven hours and featuring classically trained musicians alongside untrained performers in nonhierarchical and improvisatory fashion, Jendreiko transforms groups into social sculpture.

For the Birmingham premiere of ‘GOTTESRAUSCHEN (GOD’S WHITE NOISE): Action for Players, Guitars & Amplifiers’, a number of musicians and artists will perform at Eastside Projects over the course of 7 hours. Intended as a performance for an indeterminate number of guitarists and amplifiers, and taking its cue from a passage by Friedrich Schiller on man’s relationship to a series of sensual and formal compulsions (“For all beauty is ultimately but a property of … movement”), GOD’S WHITE NOISE will unfold over a single day, with guests free to enter, circulate throughout, and remain in the gallery space as long as they wish.

Jendreiko’s actions have been performed at Baer Ridgway, San Francisco (2010), Wesleyan University (2007), Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2007), Kunstverein Nürnberg/Albrecht Dürer Gesellschaft (2009), the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Strasbourg (2009) and in various galleries and art institutions throughout Europe. Jendreiko has also presented work internationally since 1999 as a founding member of Düsseldorf-based artist collective hobbypopMUSEUM.

Posted on: May 16th, 2011 by robin No Comments

With my tinnitus slowly disappearing (I think?) I’ve really started to appreciate music again.

I was avoiding listening to the new Blonde Redhead album “Penny Sparkle” on the basis that I thought it was the end of them really…

What I mean is while “23” had it’s moments and was a gracious, warm return, the shoegaze guitars seemed to me a bit cordial and the lyrics a little sparse in meaning. Also the title track “23” was so good it nearly eclipsed nearly everything they had done previous to “Fake can be just as good”. Then ultimatly the miming bits when I saw them live in 2008 at Shepards Bush Empire. I had rengegated to them to “kind of fizzled out” but the new bass synth heavy “Penny Sparkle” is kind of wow. It’s pretty much perfect. I’ve been listening to Blonde Redhead for around 8 years now, after luckily finding there music on the now defunct Epitonic and taking a chance at seeing them play “melody of certain damaged lemons” in it’s near entirety at the London Garage with a crowd that seemed to be little more than a handfull of French and Italian backpackers and few other luckly people. I was hooked for lack of better word. I think a lot of the bands I started liking around the time I’ve either gotten bored of, split up or I’m just not feeling the lastest works (See Interpol, Liars, Tv on the Radio) So it’s nice with just about everything else in my life changing since then that Blonde Redhead are still there making the music I love.

As whimsical and tedious it’s something I like to cling to cosidering they have soundtracked so much of my life from first few weeks of my hnc at “Bedford arts college” through Cambridge, Brighton, Marston and to Luton. At this point (for indie points) I should find my photos of them playing the Mean Fiddler in London (it’s now a block of flats) but they are lost somewhere, so I’m posting images found on the amazing last.fm pictures section.

Obligatory Link »  Blonde Redhead

Posted on: May 16th, 2011 by robin No Comments

I wish all festivals could be like more like Supersonic Festival in Birmigham,

Supsrsonic is a mix of art, music, film, performance, good food & drink and has the right kind of explorative atmosphere that festivals of this kind need. There feels a group, hive minded consciousness full of excitement and intrigue, few ideas that try to push the envelope are rejected and the audience are trustworthy and give artists the freedom to explore without feeling the need to shout “Play one the drummer knows…”

The music was difficult, loud, abrasive and I got to see Swans and Neu! (in a different form), OVO, The Bordrum film, Matthew Barney’s Guradian of the Veil, Musicians of Bukkake and Khyam Allami,  Eagle Twin, Cloaks, King Midas Sound, Demons (with Sick Llama) Devilman Lichens, OvO, Tweak Bird, Nisennenmondai, Factory Floor and many others. I really wish more people would come with me though.

Posted on: May 16th, 2011 by robin No Comments

From H2Ogate Blues:

“This here, this is going to be a blues number, but first I want to do a little bit of background on the blues, say what it is. Like there are six kind of colors, and colors have always come to signify more than simply that particular shade, like redneck, or got the blues. That’s where you apply colors to something else, you know, to come up with what it is you’re trying to say.

So there are six kind of colors: yellow, red, orange, green, blue and purple. And there are 3,000 shades. And if you take these 3,000 shades and divide them by 6, you’ll come up with 500, meaning there are at least 500 shades of the blues.

For example, there is the “I ain’t got me no money” blues. There is the “I ain’t got me no woman” blues. There is the “I ain’t got me no money and I ain’t got me no woman,” which is the double blues.

And for years it was thought that black people was the only ones who could get the blues, so the blues hadn’t come into no international type of fame.” 


Girl Scott Heron

Posted on: May 14th, 2011 by robin No Comments

My last 2 weekends have been spent at the Cambridge Film, my 2nd I think after about 4 or so years break. There no time last year and no good films I really wanted to see and before I just lived too far away.

This year I got to see a recompiled “re-discovery” edition of Metropolis which made me think a fair amount about the reason it was cut in the first place and for once I can actually understand why some films that are aimed for general consumption need to be cut.  The film is beyond bloated to the point of tiredness and incoherence, it does not actually detract from the overall experience of “Metropolis” at all but it’s much finer film with the cuts included. I wish I could write why this film is so important but the words epic, timeless and testament to modern science fiction should do fine.

The cut edition is on google at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD_-flw9IcQ if you have yet to see the film.

Secondly I got to see all of the short films of Roy Andersson  including Something Happened and World of Glory. To see them in a cinema was deeply disturbing but worth sitting through his very tame student films in order to do so.

Posted on: May 8th, 2011 by robin No Comments

George 2nd posters.

Posted on: May 3rd, 2011 by robin No Comments

luton u 1

luton u 1

Posted on: May 3rd, 2011 by robin No Comments

Posted on: May 3rd, 2011 by robin No Comments

Vesica Piscis

New images based of a forthcoming music project of my own.

Posted on: May 3rd, 2011 by robin No Comments

Artwork for Offtopic meets Humeka — SoCo LP.

offtopic artwork

For download/purchase early March from “We Are Another Us” run by Mark Burton, who is better known as Oblio.

The artwork was a collaboration between myself and artist SuzyBee. Suzybee provides the intricate illustrations in this artwork. I really enjoy working with her as I feel each of styles naturally compliment one another.

More information at Resident Advisor and www.weareanotherus.co.uk.