new york nicedisc, salon CD's, and summer holidays
I just got the new DVD made by my friends Jeff and Nick of New York based Nicedisc, a duo of visual and sound artists. I met them in 2001 while I was on tour as part of Tog, in the deep south of the United States at Eyedrum gallery in Atlanta, they were in the middle of their (in)famous Laptops Across America tour. We shared some great barbecue there. They then came to do a wonderful and intimate show at Mills College Center for Contemporary Music in Oakland a couple of months later.
It's a DVD of three tracks, exploring the ints and outs of Fades and Flickers, both in sound and visuals. My favorite is the last track called Flicker, it's 13' of hypno-electro sounds and visuals, truly art as furniture (in the Satie sense), and what beautifully designed furniture it is. I wish I could cover my walls in it.
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Momus has posted my reworking of his track Water Song on his live journal page. He talks a little bit about the pop/art divide (I would love to hear more about what he has to say on the issue), and I am totally into his ideas of reinstating that boundary. Now that the distinction between the two has been effectively destroyed, thanks to the work of artists (one of whom I would most definitely say is Momus himself) who have been blurring, smudging, and cutting the boundary for the last 40 or so years, we can now reinstate that divide as a kind of flimsy artifice, and really start playing with it. A lovely idea! I hope I can work with him a lot on his new tracks.
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I'm doing a bit of traveling at the moment, am visiting some family in the US and will be spending some time in San Francisco as well. So, don't be surprised if I don't get back to emails quickly, I will as soon as I can though. Happy Summer, wherever you are!!