Jessen Jurado

Hi, I'm Jessen and these are some of my ongoing projects and activities.

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BinAural/Visual

Photo by Marjorie Becker

BinAural\Visual

I/O Chip Music’s sister show. BinAural/Visual is a showcase of mixed media art and music. The aim is to provide a space and audience for the more artistic and experimental endeavors of chip musicians and visual artists. This was a perfect pairing with the home of I/O chip music: the mixed use art gallery Vaudeville Park in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York.

Previous exhibitors and performances have included:

DAN WINCKLER + JOHN KING (INFRARED CAMERA VISUAL ART + AMBIENT IMPROVISATIONAL MUSIC)

AMANDA LONG + RHINOSTRICH (LIVE MANIPULATION OF 8MM SHORT FILM PROJECTION VISUALS + ENDLESS LOOP CHIP MUSIC)

N0IZMKR + INVADERBACCA (ELECTROACOUSTIC SOUND AND VISUAL ART)

ZEN ALBATROSS + SARA BEE (ANALOG TAPE ECHO AND AMBIENT CELLO)

KNIFE CITY (DJ SET)

CHIPTOGRAPHY (SOLO PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT)

SKGB (NO INPUT MIXING AUDIO SET)

OUTPT + PARIS (AUDIO/VISUAL DISPLAY PERFORMANCE)

ROCKMAN (DJ SET)

N_DREW (AUDIO/VISUAL PERFORMANCE)

FOCI + LOCI (LIVE VIRTUAL ELECTROACOUSTIC AUDIO PERFORMANCE)

JEFF DONALDSON (AUDIO/VISUAL FEEDBACK PERFORMANCE)

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I/O Chip Music

Photo by Marjorie Becker

I/O is a monthly chip music and visuals show in Brooklyn, New York. Its aim is to provide exposure for new and established chip musicians, visualists, and mixed media artists through showcase events as well as workshops for artists and children aged 9-12.

Embracing elements of DIY, hacker, and punk rock cultures, and mixing in some of the ethos of the Antagonist Art Movement, I/O has been free to play and low cost to attend since it began in 2009. I/O takes pride in carefully choosing venues and collaborative partners and meticulously curating shows. By pairing established chip musicians and visual artists with new talent, it has become a platform for providing exposure and experience to emerging live chip music talent.

In addition to monthly shows, I/O has also collaborated with select partners and events beyond the chip music community, including Rabbithole Studio, Vaudeville Park, Pulsewave NYC, Boston8Bit at PAX East 2011 (in Boston), ShiftyLook.com at NY Comic Con 2012, the Lomography Gallery Store (New York and Tokyo), The Moon comedy variety show, and Chiptography.com.

More information at: iochipmusic.com

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Blip Festival | New York City | Five Years

Blip Festival | New York City | Five Years

photos by Marjorie Becker

A comprehensive photographic record of chip musicians who’ve played New York City’s Blip Festival, from the first wintry event at The Tank in 2006 through the 2007 show at Eyebeam, the 2008 and 2009 shows at The Bell House in Brooklyn, and the spring 2011 return to Eyebeam. Blip Festival | New York City | Five Years represents thousands of hours of work by Chiptography in documenting the New York City chip music scene’s most important yearly event. All photos and photo editing by Marjorie Becker. Production editorial by Jessen Jurado. Introduction by Nathaniel Lee Adams.

Full details here: 

http://www.chiptography.com/?page_id=942

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Upcycled Radio

Photos by Caroline Voagen Nelson

Radio Description:

This 1936 Silvertone 6124 tabletop tube radio was found inoperable and beyond restoration. Created in an age when appliances were chosen to complement a household's decor, its durable wooden frame survived, although the radio tube assembly corroded and the mechanical buttons rusted beyond repair in the seventy-seven years since it was manufactured. The nonfunctioning faceplate and tube assembly were removed. A replacement faceplate was created from a photograph of the vacuum tubes and heat sink. The photograph is intended to recall the device's vacuum tube legacy, and meant to be an homage to the device's electro-mechanical engineering legacy as well as recall its age. It is mounted on stiff particle board and set as the new faceplate.

After sanding, staining, and refinishing the wooden exterior, the inside was equipped with solid state electronics: an amplitude/frequency modulation tuner, solid state amplifier, 4" permanent magnetic speaker, mobile phone chargers, and Bluetooth audio adapter, all of which occupy less than 1/10th the space of the original vacuum radio tubes and heat sink. This radio is a learning project in solid state electronics, with the intent of repurposing and reintroducing a multi-functional, durable and aesthetically pleasing home appliance to the modern household. The end result is an AM/FM radio as well as external audio speaker and mobile device charger. Future upgrades will include a Chi near-field inductive capacitance device for wireless charging and a Rasberry Pi-based networked media server.

Full project tumblr:

http://upcycledradio.tumblr.com/