Week 3

October 18th- 24th
I went to my second experimental music ensemble, coming back being very inspired. We were playing a random instrument and we were reading music not from a score but an image of a Japanese screen door titled Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire-Tokyo by Fred Frith, the improvising guitarist and founder member of Henry Cow, made a series of graphic scores by adapting photographs and specifying ways to read them as notation.

I loved it. The shading represents the dynamics, the black bars are load noises and the condensation on the screen was a soloist. I couldn't find the original anywhere, but it looked similar to this. I also discovered other Performance related Fluxus artists such as George Brecht, George Maciunas and Fred Frith.

 This week in painting class I was purely experimenting on the boards I had primed on since last week as they were now dry. I started off trying to paint the result image of the blurred lights at night(in last post). I adjusted from acrylics to inks which I had on me and also putting a bit of tracing paper on it in right corner to increase texture. I was happy with the result of techniques I used and had discovered. 

In this class I also discovered a 'musical' artist called Tim Lee. Taking a page from piano legend Glenn Gould's book (literally as well as figuratively), he makes every performance new, to reinterpret historical artworks, and to compose new works out of existing material.

Lee revisits Bach's music through processes of skillful reproduction (precisely timed video edits, and impossible photographic illusions requiring mirrors, engineering and photoshop) to scope out the deceptive but connotative feel of modern media images and sounds. He also   re-contextualizes familiar identities within contemporary art practices, exploring new notions of cultural literacy and cultural drift.

 In photography class this week we got objects and photographed them and printed them out all in the dark room, experimenting with the length of exposure. Also developed all my contact sheet and a few photos.

Silly bands bracelet (flamingo) and a lollipop