installation/ diy electronics/ circuit bending performance

just to let you guys know the minneapolis group Beatrix Jar is going to be performing this summer June 18th in the Walker Art Center - James Turrell’s Sky Pesher installation. since a few of us were able to see this on our trip to minneapolis i thought it would be interesting to see this group perform in this location. if you want any further information about this performance you can go to Beatrix Jar's Myspace at http://www.myspace.com/beatrixjars

another sound mapping project

here is that sound mapping/photography project i had been talking about.
http://www.theircircularlife.it/frameset.htm

511 sounds

Overall i think that this performance was a success. The thing that i liked about this performance/ installation was the openness of the format for performing it. The thing i didn't like was slicing my hand open on a glass bottle, but that was more performer error than a flaw in the performance guidelines. The only other thing that i felt wasn't as successful was the record player element. The reason i feel this way is because it was so windy that day that it was very hard to use the record players that we had made. It was also very hard to hear the record players because of the wind and the fact that my record player was not working very well. I also didn't feel that the fuse detonation element of the performance worked very well. But this also may be because i was in the bathroom tenting to wounds for half of the performance. I just feel that the sound i made as a fuse were never really responded to directly. (maybe i just had a lot of duds) The way that it seemed to me was that everybody had kinda forgotten about the fuse/detonation aspect of the performance and was focusing on making 511 sounds. But since the performance was so open ended that it works any way that it is performed.