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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

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: January 16th, 2011 by robin No Comments

After Godspeeds Atp in December I expressed this on the way home with Daniel, that I had this weird sense of loss and longing based around how much I really miss certain people’s company due to the geographical re-location most of my core group of friends has made in the past year. I also missed the general rubbish we chat and how the friendship in extended forms has formed the basis of lot of memories post uni times to the present. ATP had always been a point where we all met and pivotal point in our relationships and it kind of feels at and end.

I came to numerous inner revelations about music over the weekend with feelings of joy and some negativity. It felt like a huge luxury to even listen to music after the shitty year I’ve had due to my hearing related illnesses.

Godspeed were fantastic to have watched live. It feels like a chapter in my life that’s been well concluded. The imagery of super 8 they were showing alongside the music will haunt my dreams and nightmares for a long time.