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NASA's Voyager spacecraft has landed: meet the aliens who found it. Performed by Chet Siegel and Peter McNerney. Produced by Jonathan Mitchell.

Voyager Found

This talk by long-time art critic for "The New Yorker" Peter Schjeldahl was presented on April 7, 2005, as part of SFMOMA’s Phyllis Wattis Distinguished Lecture Series in conjunction with the exhibition "Robert Bechtle: A Retrospective." Reflecting on Bechtle's use of photographs as the basis for his paintings, Schjeldahl remarks: "he takes something that has absolutely no intention—the light that hits a piece of film—and makes it be on purpose, specifies it and takes it visually to a level that you can’t get to in a photo." Schjeldahl also offers poetic meditations on the implications of photorealism, parallels between Bechtle's work and that of American realist painter Edward Hopper, and the place of painting in the history of narrative. 

SFMOMA has a rich history of inviting artists, curators, and scholars to participate in live programming. While our building is closed for expansion we will be bringing you artist talks, scholarly lectures, and panel discussions that have not been heard since they were recorded. We look forward to sharing our vast Public Programs Archive with you, and we hope you will return often to see what else we’ve dug up.

SFMOMA's Public Programs Archive: soundcloud.com/tags/public%20programs%20archive


Public Programs Archive: Peter Schjeldahl: The Story of the Image (April 7, 2005)

We don't have metrics to measure what happens when we read something that changes our life. So this episode is an attempt to deal with that.  We begin with writer Rob Walker who tells us about his "New Old Thing,"  a regular feature he produces for Yahoo Tech. Rob is one of the most thoughtful writers I know and if anyone can wean us from our addiction to the now it will be him. I also get to talk to one of my heros this week: Edwin Frank who is the editor in chief of the NYRB classics imprint. About 10 years ago I read a collection of Platonov stories, a book that definitely changed my life, and I became a life-long devotee of the series. I have always wanted to ask Edwin about his editorial sensibilities and what exactly binds all the books with the well designed colored spines together. Phyllis Rose is the author of The Shelf.  She "randomly" chose a shelf at the library near her house and read every book on it - then she wrote about the experience. It is a deep funny philosophical treatise on the act of reading itself. I will be gifting this book to my friends for years. 

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Our series concludes with an attempt to examine the suburbanized commodified inner cityscape of New York. Author and activist Sarah Schulman tells us about the Gentrified Mind, plus we hear from one of the first Airbnbers of New York. PLUS  a sneak preview of a new rock musical everyone will soon be talking about.

New York After Rent (part 3 of 3)

From the album Invite the Light | Sept 4, 2015 | Free with album pre-order on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/invite-the-light/id986623530


On Vinyl

Dam-Funk - We Continue

I presented two sets at the Shubbak Festival in London, this is the first of the two.

This set consists of original material for computer and oud, some never recorded or performed before, all 'performed' live. This recording is about 75% of the set – the first 10-15 minutes did not record unfortunately. The unrecorded segment consisted of a partially improvised sound piece "Sleep Commute/ The Long Journey Home of Ibn Battuta".

The tracklisting is as follows:
00:00 - Airflow/ Sketch for a Film
02:48 - Untitled (for Oud and Computer)
10:46 - Sprawl
20:03 - Untitled (Choubi)
27:40 - Circle in Maqam Rast
33:33 - Finally Awake

The set was accompanied by a video piece, "in transit selection 001_dubai/abu dhabi (for london)"
https://youtu.be/MMLVzMihs7g

Karim Sultan - Live At Shubbak Festival, London UK (25 July 2015)

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Meet Boyan, a 23-year-old producer from Sofia, who's been making quite some noise lately. The Bulgarian beatmaker grew up playing the piano and singing in a choir. In 2009 he went on to obtain a degree in sound engineering and composing music.

The idea for the track "Monday Morning" came up on a sunny Monday morning, so it seems fitting to release it on (you guessed it) a Monday Morning.
FYI this one is a follow up to Boyan's previously released "Sunday Evening", which was presented to you by our friends over at @Infinitblog. Don't hesitate to click the 'Buy' button and snatch up a free download!

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Boyan - Monday Morning

As a young woman in the 60s, Andy Austin talked her way into a job as a courtroom sketch artist in Chicago. She spent 43 years sketching everyone from disgraced governors to John Wayne Gacy, and says she only made someone look bad on purpose once.

Episode 35: Pen & Paper

SeeSaw (Club Version)

Jamie xx + Four Tet + Romy - Seesaw (club version)

Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Jim Hodges on Joseph Beuys
December 10, 2007

Artists on Artists Lecture Series - Jim Hodges on Joseph Beuys

Artists on Artists Lecture Series
Gary Simmons on Bruce Nauman
March 14, 2005

Artists on Artists Lecture Series - Gary Simmons on Bruce Nauman

Artists on Artists Lecture Series
William Kentridge on Bruce Nauman
Thursday, December 19, 2002

Artists on Artists Lecture Series - William Kentridge on Bruce Nauman

Mix of Italian ambient/minimalist/avant-garde music, mostly emanating from institutions supporting the visual arts in cities like Milan and Rome: theatre production soundtracks, video installations and architectural studies. Ethnographic plunderphonics, post-Battiato spiritual minimalism and hypnotic FM patterns, flowing with Mediterranean fourth world currents throughout.

tracklist:
Daniel Bacalov ‎– “Africa L’Animali” Il Ladro Di Anime
O.A.S.I. ‎– “Il Gioco Dei Sogni” Il Cavaliere Azzurro
Roberto Musci / Giovanni Venosta – “Nexus On The Beach” Water Messages On Desert Sand
Piero Milesi / Daniel Bacalov ‎– “Camera 2° Parte” La Camera Astratta
Riccardo Sinigaglia ‎– “Attraverso (excerpt)” Riflessi
Elicoide – “Mitochondria (excerpt)” Elicoide
The Doubling Riders ‎– “Chinese Comedy” Doublings & Silences Vol. II
Roberto Laneri ‎– “Animalia” from Anadyomene
Goffredo Haus ‎– “Cielo” Musiche Per Poche Parti
Francesco Messina ‎– “Comunicazioni Interne” Medio Occidente
Roberto Donnini ‎– “T 2 A (excerpt)” Tunedless
Mario Piacentini / Roberto Bonati / Anthony Moreno – “Sealed in a Transparent Cube” Frozen Pool
Magazzini Criminali / Jon Hassell – “Camminavo Nella Sera Piena Di Lilla” Sulla Strada
Vincenzo Zitello “Arilels” Et Vice-Versa
Roberto Mazza “Stanze Parallele” Scoprire Le Orme
Raffaele Serra – “Maldoror Theme” Kodak Ghost Poems
Giovanni Venosta ‎– “Woman In Late” Olympic Signals
Andreolina ‎– “Music In A Small Room” An Island In The Moon
Piero Milesi (w/Riccardo Sinigaglia) ‎– “The Presence Of The City” The Nuclear Observatory Of Mr. Nanof

Cover image: Munari Apartment Venice, Sottsass/Cibic.

more info here: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=8801

Music Interiors Vol. 2: Interni Italiani

Nicole Pasulka on SHROOMS

'Destroyer' is taken from The Green Child's self-titled debut album out January 12th through Upset The Rhythm.

Available to pre-order here now:
http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Artist:  The Green Child
Title: The Green Child

Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number:  UTR102
Release Date:  Friday 12 January

Track listing:
01. Traveler
02. Her Majesty II
03. Bertha
04. New Years Eve
05. 46 Timelines
06. Walking Distance
07. Marie Elene
08. Destroyer

The Green Child is the long distance musical collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of few years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in Mikey's home studio. Some of the lyrical content and the band's name was inspired by Herbert Read's 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel called The Green Child. 

With such a choice name, it’s no surprise that The Green Child draw their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new. Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions. 

‘Traveler’ opens the album all redolent, beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling chimes and stately use of space.

The Green Child are adept at atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’ (featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled with poise and ample melancholic grandeur. The Green Child fix their sights on the heights they want to reach within their songs and much like the project itself don’t want to rush to the finish line. When it becomes more about the unfurling journey, why not take the time to enjoy the trip and burn slower?

‘The Green Child’ is due for release on January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.

The Green Child

The Green Child - Destroyer

Mark Dion – Talk at Mildred’s Lane 28th July, 2012

Introduced by Marissa Benedict, Mildred’s Lane Fellow on The Alchemist’s Shack II and recipient of the Sisters Crow Adept Scholarship Fund, this talk by Mark Dion covers some of his “botanically-related” projects including Systema Metropolis (2007) and his recent commission for Documenta 13 (2012).

Systema Metropolis (2007) takes its name from Carl Von Linnaeus’s Systema Naturae (1735) - a founding text in the history of zoological and botanic nomenclature as it introduced the Linnaean system of classification to the natural world. Whilst Linnaeus’ task was to unearth and fix a taxonomy of biological life for the entire universe Systema Metropolis aimed - through collaborations between Dion and the Natural History Museum in London -  to explore a taxonomy of biological life in the microcosmic universe of the city of London.  Systema Metropolis used both traditional Linnaen approaches of comparative anatomy and contemporary systematic methodologies (which often involve grinding down a specimen to analyse its DNA structure) in order to analyse, categorize and present the project’s findings. 

The second project Dion describes – his commissioned piece for Documenta 13 - embarked from the legacy of another important figure from the history of zoology and botanical taxonomy: Carl Schildbach and his dioramic zylotech books (which Dion first came across in the natural history museum in Kassel during a break from Documenta 10). These books, originally made for the Gentry collectors of the time, were intended as an alternative to the pressed plant herbariums of the time and each book intended as a literal embodiment the tree which it represented. For Documenta 13 Dion set out on a similar project of creating zylotech books which would represent the trees of the different continents he was working across. The final work presented a complex portrait of shifting nature as well as a critique of taxonomy as a conditioned (and subjective) system of knowledge which codifies and classifies the world, dividing nature into discrete groups as a basis for typology and understanding.

Recorded on location in the barn at Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania the talk is punctuated by the chitter of cicadas, the infrequent pop of a beer bottle and the occasional bat squeek.

For more information on the projects please see http://markdionsbartramstravels.pcah.us/

Or visit the Mildred’s Lane website http://www.mildredslane.com/ 



Mark Dion Talk 28th June Mildreds Lane

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