Who Sings You?
David Byrne on the NYTimes online front pageThe
recently damaged David Byrne will be launching his much-anticipated project for Creative Time,
Playing the Building, on Saturday. He talks about it in his online journal
here. The Times is psyched about it
here. And, of course, I'm psyched about it HERE. Here's a list of things to prime the pump. I can't necessarily explain some of them, especially The Kinks' song. I've been trying to read as little as possible about the piece so this list comes more from intuition and past experience than anything. Really. I'm not really sure what I'm doing here. But that's OK.
Listening and remembering:
Brian Eno,
Discreet MusicFrancisco Lopez,
Building [New York]: Listen. Remember.Fear,
"New York's Alright...If You Like Saxophones,"Joey AdamsTom Recchion,
I Love My OrganOskar Sala,
My Fascinating InstrumentThe Kinks,
"Oklahoma U.S.A."Afternoon PenisScott Walker,
"Farmer in the City"Pauline Oliveros, Stuart Dempster, Panaiotis,
Deep ListeningSpire or
Spire.
Trisha Donnelly from
The Plain of HeavenOn a totally personal note:
Pearl Harbor & The Explosions,
Pearl Harbor & The ExplosionsToure Kunda,
NataliaRobert Fripp,
Under Heavy MannersDavid Byrne,
"The Revolution"
Multiplicity.
The Collected Multiples of Cary S. Leibowitz, a survey of the collected multiples of Cary S. Leibowitz opened last week at the much beloved Printed Matter in Chelsea. Leibowitz is a Creative Time
multi-alumnus and winter cap king. I haven't seen the exhibit yet, but I'm betting that it will kick my (Candy)ass. Why you would miss this show is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me is beyond me.
What Becomes A Billboard Most?
Legends do. This made my day a couple weeks ago. A series that started as signage ends up on a tee-shirt that lands on a sign. Art is awesome and confusing. The best lie in town. I mean that in a good way.
And can I say how much I love how perfectly the reflected saw horses match the shoes? I think I just did.
The Memory Band.
Director Matt Wolf (on left) and coproducer Kyle Martin. (Photo: Dawn Chan via Art Forum)
Came across a post today on
Art Forum Diary about the premiere the new Arthur Russell documentary,
Wild Combination. The filmmaker looked kind of familiar then I remembered that it was former Creative Time video fellow, Matt Wolf. Cool. There are a couple other Creative Time connections to Russell as well.
2001 Art in the Anchorage musician/composer Phil Niblock made the incredible 1986 film,
Terrace Of Unintelligibility, which featured Russell. And a quick search of the
Creative Time archives revealed that Arthur Russell himself participated Art in the Anchorage 8 in 1991.
Worlds In Collision.
No, I'm not talking about
the most underrated Pere Ubu album of all time. I'm talking about two things I love in very different ways: Creative Time and (Hold for it . . .) David Patrick Columbia's New York Social Diary. The latter is the only obsession I have that's weirder than the one I have for
The Hills. In my regular check of NYSD over the weekend it was a kick to see Creative Time's benefit gala get the full DPC treatment. The link is
here. Scroll down for the pics. (Above, the scene. Below, the seen.)