Mesa de mistura: uma lição

DJ Spooky em concerto, Tóquio, Março 2007

Paul D. Miller a.k.a. "Dj Spooky that Subliminal Kid" é nova-iorquino, professor, músico, artista conceptual e escritor. Ciência do Ritmo é o tema da sua grande lição, no âmbito do ciclo A URGÊNCIA DA TEORIA. Dia 29 de Maio, às 18h30, no Auditório 2 da FCG. Uma apresentação multimédia da história da arte digital e dos media, em que são remisturadas imagens de vídeo antigas ("found-objects") e outras novas, seleccionadas subjectivamente.

Leia o ensaio de Paul D. Miller do seu projecto For Promotional Use Only, que integra a exposição colectiva "System Error: war is a force that gives us meaning", no Palazzo delle Papesse, em Sienna.

(...)How do you use the media to tell a story? At heart, “System Error” paints a tale of the last several years – of media disinformation, for example - highlighting Bush’s statements as found sound, or sampling various “maqam” songs from Iraq mixed with hip hop, which show a simple connection between how music reflects the data-aesthetics of information networks. It presents rumors of war: I like to think of it as data-bootlegs, the currency of a world economy of sound filtered through regional concerns. Think of it as contemporary art that brings you the world from fragments of sound. It’s a tableau made of soundbites collaged, dispersed and condensed into material that reflects a realm of infinite possibility. Marcel Duchamp, James Rosenquist, Jeff Koons, David Hammons, Joseph Kosuth… the list of visual artists with a relationship to “appropriation” art is almost a catalog of the major art movements of the 20th century that the 21st century has inherited. I just wanted to look at the issue from the viewpoint of acoustic space. What happens when this type of collage is applied to sound?(...) O resto aqui.

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