As mentioned here recently, Pete Von Petrin just did a little West Coast Tour with his noise making springs and such. To close things off he made an appearance on Portland’s KPSU with fellow local sound meister Horaflora. For the facebook enabled, Mr. Von Petrin has posted his tour notes and thanks. [...]
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I’m writing this right after getting home from the second show on Pete Von Petrin’s West Coast Spring Tour, where I joined him for a special fognozzle reunion. Thank you so much to the super enthusiastic (and freaking huge) West Oakland crew! As one guest told me, “the room is expanding to fit all the [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | April 16th, 2011 |  One comment
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Mid-1990s noise project fognozzle – a collaboration between Pete Von Petrin and Marc Arsenault (me) – is getting back together for a show on Friday night in our old home base of Oakland, California. fognozzle never really got out of the warehouse, but did appear on the Mandibles in Crisis magazine compillation out of Hawaii, [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | April 15th, 2011 | One comment
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Oakland, California-based Swarm Gallery welcomes Ohio-based sound artist and former Brown Cuts Neighbors bassist, Seth Cluett, for his installation in their project space, on view from March 5 – April 10, 2011. This installation is part three of the year-long sound program “Building Steam,” curated by Jeff Eisenberg, Svea Lin Soll, and Aaron Ximm. Seth Cluett’s [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | March 4th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Categories: music, Upcoming Blasts, Wow Cool Returning for a fourth installment is the Instrument A Day all during February on MoonMilk.com. This years installment features some of the most and least (but to good effect) ambitious projects yet. Moonmilk comes to us from sound artist (and Brooklyn neighbor) Ranjit Bhatnagar. The project is also viewable as a flickr set of photos [...] [...] 
Saturday February 5th concluded the performances for this trip to the Northwest, with a live broadcast on the What’s This Called show on KPSU 1450am in Portland, Oregon, available for download HERE – February 5, 2011 show. (See Ricardo Wang’s digital photos of the performance HERE:::) The good news is that we were on [...] [...] 
Joshua Baker is taking the Offset Needle Radius on the road in the Pacific Northwest starting tomorrow, Tuesday, February 1, with an appearance on Olympia’s Radio KAOS FM. The eighth installment of the Sun Worship series has also been announced for March 19 at the Buoy Gallery in Kittery Maine. Offset Needle Radius 2011 Dates Event Venue City Date Time Notes Map Offset [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 31st, 2011 | Leave a comment
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Joshua Baker has released a Bonus track from the upcoming Offset Needle Radius release Fiona’s Week (2011, Offset Sounds Vs. Wow Cool). Give a listen below. More info on the ONR Blog. Whatever T.W.T.D by OffsetSound FIONAS WEEK TRACK LISTING 1. Fionas Week 2. Floor Puzzles 3. The Point of Light 4. Steam Power 5. Window Eyes 6. Compressor 7. Gigapus Offset Needle Radius is [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | January 11th, 2011 | Leave a comment
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2010 really is the year sound art broke. I predict that Susan Philipsz will be the ‘next Susan Boyle’; and her sales of Scottish folksong CDs will make that £25,000 Turner prize money look like small change. Currently her recordings are only available to listen to in the environments they were created for. There are [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | December 8th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Benoit Maubrey/ Audio Gruppe’s The Audio Ballerinas (2010) use light sensors that enable them to produce sounds as they dance. Friday, September 17th, during AbsoluteZER0. San Jose, California. AbsoluteZero is a street art fair with a heavy DIY tech vibe. It’s a spin-off from the similar annual SubZero event. My sole contribution was the music video [...] [...] 
Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore’s electronic duo EVIDENCE will be celebrating the release of their new 12″ vinyl release from Wow Cool with a series of west coast shows this month. They will be performing with Vibration Institute Orchestra at the Royal/T in Culver City on Wednesday, August 25th. Next they move on up to [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | August 23rd, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Yes. Albany, New York’s Jamboyz have released a new Album, their tenth (10th). ‘Men Don’t Change’ contains 14 tracks, including the hit song ‘Mindy’ (or ‘Mindie’). Mike and Nick from nickname: Rebel might have played on some of this. Mike says, “I played the guitars on Mindy and Nick sang some of it. I think [...] [...] 
No clue what is going on here. “The new version of the KTM – solid state, run off 12-v battery” Yeah. OK. Right. Scott is, of course, half of Evidence. [...] 
We weren’t kidding about this year of the sound art business. Former Brown Cuts Neighbors bass thumper Seth Cluett is the subject of an interview on WNET’s Inside Thirteen today. Seth will be presenting Three Forms of Forgetting at Roulette in New York City this Sunday, May 16. It consists of pieces for paper and [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | May 13th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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The world has surely gone mad this week, as it appears that people suddenly care about things like sound art and field recordings. It must be Spring. Following is a roundup of the last few days sudden massive interest in sound. To set the mood, please enjoy this clip of Suzanne Ciani on 3-2-1 Contact (pointed [...] [...] 
Join Scott Smallwood and Stephan Moore (AKA EVIDENCE) to eat, drink, and make merry as we explore the Atlantic Yards one last time. Part elegy, part revenge fantasy, and part rock opera, A QUESTION OF DOMAIN is a roving art adventure in celebration and lamentation of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Yards. Meet up at 6:30pm at [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | May 9th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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1 weekend, 1 thrift store toy, 1 Arduino, and 1 obsessed geek. Scott is one half of Evidence, Brown Cuts Neighbors’ former steel pan player and the original drummer/co-conspirator in nickname: Rebel. [...] Semi Precious WeaponsSemi Precious Weapons | MySpace Music Videos Lady Starlight–Brown Cuts Neighbors co-founder and infamous Lady Gaga collaborator–makes a cameo in the new eponymous video by Semi Precious Weapons (above – look for the two-tone hair and laser fingers) Sunday February 14 at 6:00 AM on KFJC Special edition of Stream of Consciousness! Cousin Mary will [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 13th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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Categories: music, Upcoming Blasts, Video, Wow Cool During at least the last two February’s, Ranjit Bhatnagar has built and blogged an instrument a day for the whole month. Ranjit works with interactive and sound installations, with scanner photography, and with internet-based collaborative art; and, he has been maintaining his personal web site moonmilk.com in one form or another since 1993. The moonmilk [...] [...] By Marc Arsenault | February 4th, 2010 | Leave a comment
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The Gemini MPX-30 is a Cheap (typically under 200USD), versatile and somewhat reliable CD turntable with effects, cues, loops, etc. It has been a standby item in my house party DJ rig and a favorite tool for Hallowe’en mixes since my brother in law left it at my house over three years ago. It’s since [...] [...] |
      
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