BohemianPlayboy

Amazing. An entire four day festival devoted to Art made from low-fi gaming consoles i.e. nintendo, atari, and commodore. The sub-genre of music is called chiptunes where artists make music in real time using modified game catridges and consoles instead of samplers. The festival does not limit itself to music either with plenty of video installations.

http://www.blipfestival.org/

Be sure to check out these guys especially:

Cory Arcangel!

Cory Arcangel is a computer artist, performer, and curator who lives and works in Brooklyn. His work centers on his love of personal computers and the Internet. He is currently a senior fellow at Eyebeam Atelier in Manhattan. He is a member of the artist groups, BEIGE, + R.S.G. His work has shown recently in the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Guggenheim Museum, New York, the MoMA, New York, Space1026, Philly, the Migros Museum, Zurich, Team Gallery, New York, and Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris. Aside from gallery installations, most of his projects can be downloaded with source code from his Internet web log —> http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/.

Random

Random is my latest obsession. Glorious Glorious 8-Bit deliciousness. I can’t get enough. I wish people will make a video games based on Random’s music. Be careful. Listening to this non-stop will cause pixelation.

Searching for Atlantis - Random (mp3)

Give Me Your Day - Random (mp3)

Wednesday, Nov 29

Book Launch: Ron Galella’s Disco Years
The Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street, DUMBO

Opening Reception: 7:00–10:00 pm
Co-hosted by *SURFACE
Music by DJs Michael T and Justine D (Motherfucker NYC)

Drinks courtesy of 267 Infusion, Suntory Zen, and FIJI Water

Come peruse a show put together by a guy who “began his career as a photographer in 1955, and has since been sued by Jacqueline Onassis, punched by Marlon Brando, and hosed down by friends of Brigitte Bardot.” And wow! Suntory Green Tea liqour? Remember for relaxing times, make it Suntory times.

RSVP to 212-604-9074 x307, laura@powerhousebooks.com

Thursday, Nov 30

Private Screening with FLY

Thursday, November 30th
Grand Screen @ Tribeca Grand

Fashion shorts by:

“Torrent” by Ghukfvin featuring Hussein Chalayan
“Dollsdrome” by Paolo Zambaldi featuring Fendi
“Tea a Tete” by Ghukfvin featuring Thom Browne
“Protest” by Catherine Cushman featuring Louis Vuitton
“Day for Night” by Tiziano Magni featuring Zac Posen
“Farewell to Daylight” by Andreas von Scheele featuring Karl Lagerfeld
“Fairytales are Nice” by Heidi Hertwig featuring Alice Roi
“New York Exit” by Alex Antitch featuring Richard Chai
“Parallax View” by Andreas Von Scheele featuring Cloak

Extracts from following interviews will also be shown:
Ryan McGinness
Karl Lagerfeld
Liam Gillick
Michael Gallagher

As well as a short story by John Malkovich

To watch a preview trailer of FLY go to
www.insidefly.com/two
For more information about FLY go to
http://www.insidefly.com

Inquiries please email Mandy at: events@tribecagrand.com

After Party Details To Come……..

A new bastard child weekly party (surprise, surprise) from the Ruff Club Incest Fest to fill that void on Wednesday nights. Check out the pics from the first two parties.

Appreciating music shares many similarities with fine dining. Sometimes washing the palate allows a gourmand to further appreciate the subtleties of the course. The technique applies for music connoisseurs as well.

Listening to the organic richness of Joanna Newsom’s new album, Ys, is a delightful change of pace from all the electronic textures that have been featured previously on this site. With just a harp and a truly beautiful but unimposing orchestra arrangement as a backdrop, Joanna paints vivid stories of folklore metaphors. The packaging of her album is in the image of a book straight out of a Never Ending Story. Along with the gilded pages, each song is presented in the forms of chapters and the lyrics are gramatically correct in punctiation to further present the album in literary form.

Joanna gives each song enough space to allow her lyrics to dance and flourish into fully develop into stories. Yet these long songs never get boring because as the well crafted lyrics move along in the story, the orchestra arrangement responds accordingly with intricate nuances and counterpoints to the mood of each line. Never have I heard any music so responsive to its lyrics and so much freedom in the delivery of lyrics since Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks which has long considered one of the best albums ever made. Could Joanna Newsom’s Ys give Van Morrison a run for his money as this generation’s Astral Weeks? Time will tell but it doesn’t hurt that she was recorded by Steve Albini (ahem In Utero, Pixies).

Opening song of Joanna Newsom’s Ys (2006)

Emily - Joanna Newsom (mp3)

Opening song of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks (1968)

Astral Weeks - Van Morrison (mp3)

While Annie is busy playing Karoake Revolution, Sally Shapiro is filling the electro-pop void with her own shy vocal pop stylings back by some seriously sick italo-disco. Any lack of confidence you can sense in her nervously cute vocals is thoroughly compensated by the bombastic beast of the backing track by Johan Agebjörn. The production on “I Know” sounds like some lost 7″ Harold Faltermeyer did with Giorgio Moroder when he was taking a break from soundtracking Beverly Hills Cop. And also one for hanging up the holiday decorations this weekend, “Anorak Christmas.”

I Know - Sally Shapiro (mp3)

Anorak Christmas - Sally Shapiro (mp3)