Through the Eyes, Ears, and Mind of Matthew Gar Bailey
Classic and haunting. As is everything Mz. Andersson lays her hands on or puts her voice to. If you’re the artistically adventurous and eccentric type, check out anything you can by “Fever Ray”, and her and her brother’s experimental pop electronic group “The Knife”.
peas - gaR
French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot has created a living work of art here which includes: zebra finches, electric guitars, and an avian friendly space and time. As the birds go about their daily routine activities, perching on or feeding from the various pieces of equipment, they create a captivating, live soundscape. One even takes to the guitar with a stick. -A lil winged shredder.
Boursier-Mougenot’s installation will be up through:
27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
The Curve, Barbican, London
Normal people are weird, and I love this video.. Love - gaR
PS - Thanx “Hot Sugar” and Pitchfork TV. You katz rawk.
Ever wonder why, where, who, and what all this is about?.. life that is. Well peep this short video and tell me that it doesn’t help put our existence here on this lil glowing orb of water and rock, which is floating around in an endless abyss of infinite space, into some sort of deeper perspective. I know it did for me any way.
Props to Brett Hamil for the tip, and to the American Museum Of Natural History for making such an amazing and accurate map/diagram/visual reference of our place in the cosmos.
Muzak and Video Editing by none other than: A_Scissors
Dig this?… Well, he’s got a ton of free music for you and yers ears over at Hairy Sloth Records. Look for his new full length LP entitled “Approaching Sunlight” to appear on the web pages of Tha SLoTH in the very near future as well. It will include the track above and be just as immaculate and then some. Count on it.
In my humble opinion.. AC are hands down some of the most creative, exploratory, influential experimental auditory artisans of the past 10 years, and their accompanying music videos and the directors they w3rk with to create these visual accompaniments to their futuristic soundZ have only fostered and expanded upon their already incredible visionary and immaculate artistic talents.
Animal Collective - “In the Flowers”
You can also read and an interview with A.C. and view their 2009 underground cross-over smash hit video for “My Girls” by clicking This Link to a past Gar Lives blog post.
Geometry never sounded or looked so beautiful as in Lusine’s -”Two Dots” track off of 2009’s LP
“A Certain Distance“.
Wanted to share this video/song with my GarLives peeps for a few months now. Finally got around to it. Props to Ian Monroe to turning me on to this album last year. Mad love n’ respect to you, your ears, and your eyes hombre.
“Atlas Sound” aka Bradford Cox in his hotel room during 2009’s ATP/All Tomorrow’s Parties Music Festival. He’s showing us how it is done when one man, his guitar, his voice, & his toys are used properly in conjunction with live looping aka infinite tape loop simulation layering.
Presumably from the same hotel complex where many of the ATP fest’s artist were staying.. Here Bradford Cox is joined by No Age’s Randy Randall and esteemed film director and occasional musician Jim Marmusch for an impromtu version of an old Neil Young song - “Cortez the Killer”.
*Props to the artists involved obviously, and to Pitchfork TV for helping document the A/V goodness
I don’t throw the term “genius” around lightly, but the musically-oriented video/sound collage duo of “The Books” are about “there” in my humble opinion. See for yourself in this “altered” bootleg of a recent performance they did at the St. Louis’ Luminary Center for the Arts. Continuing in a similar subliminal, transcendentally-laced A/V sample-based artfoRm as that as the godfather’s of the genre “Negativland” or as the marvelously mischievous masters from down under “The Avalanches”. No mistaking them for either of those outfits though, “The Books” are most certainly their own entity, and do “it” with their own unique brand of subtlety, grace, & musicianship. Which coincidentally is right up my proverbial artistic alley.
The Books ~ Group Autogenics from Ciao Music on Vimeo.
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