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Hi my name is Melletios. This is a curated blog of stuff i find interesting. 

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Recording people recording things

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Class Activity Week 10: Multiples, repetitions & series.

This week in class we recorded ourselves talking on our phones. Using this initial recording, our aim was to record our recording and overlap the audio creating a fuzz of sound. However, it did not turn out exactly the way we wanted it to. This was a great example for this weeks class activity where the time-lapse and effects added a static and eerie feeling to the repetitive nature of the experiment. 

Date: 14th of May

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An Abstract Look at Art with Jonathan Meese

Jonathan Meese believes that art can be anything you want it to be, no matter if it's made from paint and paintbrush or ice cream and hair.

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must watch for repititions........... :) 

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Erasure

Erasure is a key conceit in the history of art and design. The line, the image, the object and its trace, its remainder, its removal, its departure – these concepts are endlessly important to the processes of composition/recomposition/decomposition. This week we will look at erasure in terms of a deliberate act, a temporal process, an unintended outcome, an intervention, a hostile gesture, a new beginning. We will consider the possibilities for (or impossibility of!) erasure in our contemporary moment.

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Drum and Bass and erasure

I was thinking about erasure in music and in the 90′s clubs were all playing safe house music 4 by 4 beats at 180 bpm quite standard  and safe music and easy to mix down tracks and follow on tunes very primal/tribal sound add cheesy vocals your on a winner! NO.... lacking some kind of swing, soul, funk, life colour. without the influence of some kind of cocktail enhanced 1950 pill pressed logo to induce a primal vibration the music sucked! There was a real gap in the electronic music scene then the weirdo’s, artist, squatter and warehouse party going art groupies discovered drum n bass and jungle and i was hooked - what was great about the music was the lack of rules in the beats and breaks, by erasing the rules of standard 4 by 4 beats by missing beats here and there and pushing the point where beats fell predominantly the base line. Almost every Drop of the bass was built up prior by adding layers and layers of sound sometimes starting with many layer of sound and or vocals or shapes of drones which created a space between layers, the lacuna was directed by off timed and chaotic pauses, but just before every big drop was strip back and almost silence and then BOOOOM! The drum and bass synoptic sound penetrates. This stripping back and taking away - erasing of layers which i always thought was the opposite (full of sound) was exposed through its silence and then your body danced in a weird running sway something reflecting the 2tone caribbean rhythms of london sped up bumblebee styles. Listen to the complexities of disjunction. Its almost jazz. But Jazz ain't some kind of cool. Dn’b always wins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwI0gbGEyuI

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Eraserhead - David Lynch - 1977

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Samantha “Sam” Taylor-Johnson,OBE (born Samantha Taylor 4 March 1967), known professionally as Sam Taylor-Wood, is an English filmmaker, photographer and visual artist. She is one of a group of artists known as the Young British Artists. 

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week 6

http://www.cycollection.com/visualthinking/index.html

great web site full of fantastic examples of work along the idea of this weeks theme.. undoing!

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In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg, a young, little known artist, took a box of erasers and set to rubbing out a densely layered drawing by Willem de Kooning, the king of Abstract Expressionism, and he did it with the Master’s permission.

Rauschenberg has said that he was “trying to find a...

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Things come Apart.

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Documentation

Discussion

How do we document experiments (in journals, archives, groups, lists, catalogues, indexes, recipes and assemblages)?

Experiment

Using the Box, experiment with different ways of cataloguing, organising, and indexing your experiments.

Questions

What forms of documentation are currently in your life, how many of these are you in control of?

How does documentation differ from recording?

How does the method of documentation effect the way we understand the content of what is being documented?

What are the characteristics of the documentation system you are using, and what happens if you change the parameters of these characteristics?