Saturday, August 20, 2005
list for r, out of topic
random, classics and not so classics, cool and uncool -
william gaddis "jr"
stanley elkin "the macguffin"
curtis white "memories of my father watching TV"
john hawkes "the cannibal"
don delillo "ratner's star"
brian evenson "altmann's tongue"
guy davenport "tatlin!"
dave eggers "you shall know our velocity!"
w.t. vollmann "the rifles", "you bright and risen angels"
thomas pynchon "vineland"
david foster wallace "infinite jest"
richard powers "gain"
john barth "the sot-weed factor"
william gaddis "jr"
stanley elkin "the macguffin"
curtis white "memories of my father watching TV"
john hawkes "the cannibal"
don delillo "ratner's star"
brian evenson "altmann's tongue"
guy davenport "tatlin!"
dave eggers "you shall know our velocity!"
w.t. vollmann "the rifles", "you bright and risen angels"
thomas pynchon "vineland"
david foster wallace "infinite jest"
richard powers "gain"
john barth "the sot-weed factor"
depression in style
We need to apologize for the serious lack of content and media updates these last days - we performed in Omi Achima for a marvellously quiet session in the dark garden of a very old shrine, then for/with children during a serious Warabimochi Party organized by Phirip (see Mehdi's pics), and today, in the crazy shaped buildings of the Yoro Tenmei Hantenchi Park (we could have played just anywhere but a huge thunderstorm forced us into finding proper sheltering places - Davide and I played a nice droning piece, then organized an anti-rain demonstration outside with two very loud megaphones and even got some followers in the audience). Again, vids and sounds are being prepared for full archive experience, and the upload problem shall be solved soon enough as we're in Iamas again and there is wifi network even in our tatami dormitories.
Wednesday, August 17, 2005
little media people
there are some nice pics by Midori san on her flicker thing;
also, if you happen to be craving for some media about our latest performances in Osaka and Kyoto, please note that they're just waiting for some proper network to be uploaded. sorry about the delay.
also, if you happen to be craving for some media about our latest performances in Osaka and Kyoto, please note that they're just waiting for some proper network to be uploaded. sorry about the delay.
Tuesday, August 16, 2005
lousy kraftwerk remix
kyoto style
we're enjoying a nice nerdie evening at kawarasaki takamitsu's house, as mehdi and davide are kind of forcing him into downloading wolfenstein enemy territory to play with him and use his wifi network, and i'm all drunk with beer and shochu (davide noticed because i'm not using capital letters to write this post) and we're listening to some lousy idm playlist on kawaraski san's ipod. i just felt like writing a very few words about this afternoon's performance in kawaramachi dori and shinpukan mall (which was designed by enzo piano, by the way), which was absolutely wonderful. midori joined us, as well as masanobu, and we had the amazing surprize to come across bon chan, our very good friend from paris who'd come to meet us but was not quite sure it would actually happen. something like the least predictable i.e. best of surprizes, ever. very friendly, screamy, funny session if i must speak for myself - midori and i shared a portable PA, she used some kind of stupid toy electronic voice transformer in the shape of a saxophone and i used nao's patch to process her hilarious noisemaking. i think i hadn't had this fun making sheer noise since the very first MEC session. midori san is some crazy girl, i can tell you. please check out the forthcoming vid, shot by stephane, in the next future.
we're enjoying a nice nerdie evening at kawarasaki takamitsu's house, as mehdi and davide are kind of forcing him into downloading wolfenstein enemy territory to play with him and use his wifi network, and i'm all drunk with beer and shochu (davide noticed because i'm not using capital letters to write this post) and we're listening to some lousy idm playlist on kawaraski san's ipod. i just felt like writing a very few words about this afternoon's performance in kawaramachi dori and shinpukan mall (which was designed by enzo piano, by the way), which was absolutely wonderful. midori joined us, as well as masanobu, and we had the amazing surprize to come across bon chan, our very good friend from paris who'd come to meet us but was not quite sure it would actually happen. something like the least predictable i.e. best of surprizes, ever. very friendly, screamy, funny session if i must speak for myself - midori and i shared a portable PA, she used some kind of stupid toy electronic voice transformer in the shape of a saxophone and i used nao's patch to process her hilarious noisemaking. i think i hadn't had this fun making sheer noise since the very first MEC session. midori san is some crazy girl, i can tell you. please check out the forthcoming vid, shot by stephane, in the next future.
sonores mentions
cursed up
There's this thing with Japanese girls. They're all so pushy and frontal when they want to get to know you, so why do they all turn up so shy and unsteady and offendable when you get to open up to them?
biennale breasts
WHY WHY WHY do we always have to get used to THINGS
even JAPAN?
I don't
I don't
I don't
I don't
want to get used to Japan.
even JAPAN?
I don't
I don't
I don't
I don't
want to get used to Japan.
courrier
dès que je ferme les yeux je vois la même demoiselle, qui n'a pas vraiment de visage, mais beaucoup de traits
cette nuit j'ai rêvé que tu m'en voulais à mort parce que j'avais raté ton anniversaire
j'aimerais arriver à ne parler qu'en onomatopées doublées
j'aimerais être tout devant manipuler des choses qui n'existent pas encore et qui ne ressemblent à rien et pas encore à ces affreux noeuds filandreux lumineux qui sont des algorithmes si savants et qui finissent en fonds d'écran
pourquoi est-ce que je lis tous ces gestes tout comme un manque de générosité pourquoi est-ce que j'ai tant besoin qu'on me donne des choses
est-ce que je suis vraiment épuisé ou est-ce que je suis juste très fatigué
tiens nous sommes déjà arrivés à Kyoto
cette nuit j'ai rêvé que tu m'en voulais à mort parce que j'avais raté ton anniversaire
j'aimerais arriver à ne parler qu'en onomatopées doublées
j'aimerais être tout devant manipuler des choses qui n'existent pas encore et qui ne ressemblent à rien et pas encore à ces affreux noeuds filandreux lumineux qui sont des algorithmes si savants et qui finissent en fonds d'écran
pourquoi est-ce que je lis tous ces gestes tout comme un manque de générosité pourquoi est-ce que j'ai tant besoin qu'on me donne des choses
est-ce que je suis vraiment épuisé ou est-ce que je suis juste très fatigué
tiens nous sommes déjà arrivés à Kyoto
Little lights and deer attacks replacing short circuits and other virtual nerdy enlightenements
Yesterday was semi-off, with a little lecture at ATR - something like we lo-tech shoboys and our trivial concern with actual people and actual interaction vs. the crazy supersmart researchers - and some nice demos of robots, post-feedback programs, virtual life making midi-driven music etc. (my mind kept coming and going between what was being said and a lot of other secret things I might tell you of one day). See the other guys' posts about this, will you? Most of all, I was eager to leave and take the train to Nara, which has been this huge dreamy spot ever since I saw that film by Naomi Kawase, plus there was a lantern festival going on, the Nara To-Kae. Eventually, after many talking, we managed to leave and, oh boy, it was worth it. I must be thankful to the nasty clouds who were threatening enough for us not to take the PAs with us and just go there for sight-seeing sake, and remain gentle in their rain-making. We strolled in the park, then in town, which had got almost totally dark, and managed to make it a special day, and I hadn't been this excited since our arrival in Tokyo. I am a simple boy. Hopefully, we'll find some time to wander purposelessly in Kyoto too, where we're spending the next two days.
Sunday, August 14, 2005
it's hard documenting exciting events as you're nowhere to be seen on the pics or videos
Yesterday: nice AS evening hosted by Osaka Arts Aporia, a great warehouse which belongs to the city of Osaka but who is as an art place by self-managed artists (actually, rehabilitated buildings are very, very few in novelty-obsessed Japan, which is very weird for us patrimoine-obsessed French people, and Osaka Arts Aporia will be destroyed in a one-year time time to be replaced by yet another ugly noisy mall). Also Laurence's final evening with us, who'll certainly be greatly missed among us Shoboys, and not only by Davide. Cute Mikiko, who'd already come to the caves in Dazaifu, was there, as my friend Midori chan, who took the train all the way from Kyoto. We also managed to make it to the sento thirty-minutes before it closed, to bathe among yankee would-be yakuzas who played dames, which was greatly needed as we hadn't washed in two days.
Today: our first wild Portable PA session ever since Tokyo, first on the Osaka Great Tempozan Wheel, then in the huge mall just nearby. Davide, Stephane, and Nathan, a.k.a I.n0jaQ, noisejunkie from Australia (whom we met thanks to this blog) played while I documented (Mehdi got stuck in the bus to look after and make animation for the MEC installation), and performed nice immersive sounds among people and across noisy shops (at one point, the noise inside got so intense that I couldn't even tell my fellows shoboys noisemaking from the screaming advertisements). It all ended in a nice invitation from the Mall authorities to go fuck ourselves and play somewhere else, as Mikiko, her friend, French musician Colin (he used to play with Costes and now plays with Satanic Porno Cultshop)joined us together with his family, unfortunately a bit late. Quite a nice fortnight in Osaka, in the end, despite Laurence's departure and the fact that we didn't see one single Yan-Cha(it stands for "Yankee Car")style car or truck. We're leaving tonight at 8 for ATR.
Today: our first wild Portable PA session ever since Tokyo, first on the Osaka Great Tempozan Wheel, then in the huge mall just nearby. Davide, Stephane, and Nathan, a.k.a I.n0jaQ, noisejunkie from Australia (whom we met thanks to this blog) played while I documented (Mehdi got stuck in the bus to look after and make animation for the MEC installation), and performed nice immersive sounds among people and across noisy shops (at one point, the noise inside got so intense that I couldn't even tell my fellows shoboys noisemaking from the screaming advertisements). It all ended in a nice invitation from the Mall authorities to go fuck ourselves and play somewhere else, as Mikiko, her friend, French musician Colin (he used to play with Costes and now plays with Satanic Porno Cultshop)joined us together with his family, unfortunately a bit late. Quite a nice fortnight in Osaka, in the end, despite Laurence's departure and the fact that we didn't see one single Yan-Cha(it stands for "Yankee Car")style car or truck. We're leaving tonight at 8 for ATR.
