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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

JepJep (Yip Yips) & Yo Gabba Gabba

BASAHMO is takes you back... .... .. .




Opera House, to be continued

(I just wrote this first part in an email, and now it transformed into a blog)...

I once found these amazing bright orange, perfectly fitted for my tiny hands, completely unique gloves-- at an outdoor thrift mart in Somewhere, Texas. They were sooo dirty! I washed them a gabillion times. ANYWAYS then I was at The Cave and I spotted the exact same gloves, there at Opera House-- but bright green and not filthy. They were 5 bucks. At Feathers, something like that would be like $25.

I don't remember if it was Leah or Liz who had found them. At some other thrift store somewhere. There's probably only like 10 of them existing and only half of them are on sale.

About to perform with lrc, with the largest group i've ever played with live improv-- Of course, I had brought my orange pair. So it was exciting to have some synchrotron and still unique bright orange AND bright green gloves hanging out my back pockets!

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One other time, I went to O.P.E.R.A house, when Awthum Fest got moved from the Enchanted Forest to The Cave. Saw and experienced great things there.


Opera House
"provides a space for art experiments" -- Jeanne Stern

The O.pen P.ower E.xperimental R.esearch A.rts House

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Sad about it's closing. Understanding though. Word is the New Bohemia will be locating there instead. So the vintage clothes aspect of the space will stay alive. Though the live performance aspect will die.

I wonder what relational venue will spring up?? OH I do hope something like opera house feel will spring up in Austin soon!

I wonder what Leah will be up to? I wonder what a lot of people will be up to!


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The Erich Ragsdale and Eric Archer show installation was epic. I'll come back and post some pictures. I have some footage of Gary Barftits' noise set there, while interacting Erich Ragsdale's installation which was still up at the time.


Ben Aqua's photographic series Invasion of Privacy is there now. You should go check it out!! And pick-up his card (best card I've seen yet, and I have a hefty collection) and pay attention to where he placed them (hint: lego). Also pay attention to the way he hung his photographs. Truely inspired.

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The Opera House Closing Show Party is the AUGUST 10TH. Party starts at 5pm, bands stop playing at 11pm. Night Viking (chad of palfloat, amanda, kevin, and sam of gary b) are going to play together again, reunion, and also maybe for the last time?



Nanobangbang will also be playing around sundown. So I will perform, along with exquisite sound helpers (flier info soon). Very good space for Nanobanginging.

It's a small intimate place so, don't too many people come.


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So I wanted to write a blog about Opera House and I don't think this is sufficient, but I have to go get some work done.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

80's Estonian Meat Commercial

ummm...




youtube: "An intense meat commercial from Soviet-era Estonia. I'm told that the words beef and chicken are what is repeated throughout."

Category: Comedy
Tags: meat grinder foreign estonian soviet communism commercial advertisement chicken food disgusting intense kanahakkliha

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Good Reads

Just joined Good Reads. Great idea.

Currently Reading & Enjoying:

Banquet Years

More Captured Nuggets

Here are two more Movement Picture Moments.
Both located in Venis Beach, LA.




"LORYN HOOLAH DANCE NUGGET WINDOW IN TIME" by Deena OH







"BODY BUILDER HAT DROP MOMENT" by Deena Oh


The raw version below. Which I like because it's slow anticipation and real time.
I love the way he misses the first time. And how he takes his shoe to the sand to smooth it out, as if that will increase his chance of success. And the fact that I zeroed in on the shadowed sand just as his hat dropped.



The Fate Of BashaMO plus some

Clearly, The BashaMO Blog has been dusty. I'm feeling particularly inspired right now. And wanting to share. I've been making time to post the most since BashaMO's fairly recent birth.

Nanobangbang resurrected it, and that's my own project. Just wrote a post about how I love these "long still movement pictures"-- I feel strongly about sharing these nugget moments in time that I witness or create.


Will BashaMO take another more personal turn maybe?


I was most active in July, where I only show up once in the Richard Serra post.

Then I did get a little more personal there and probably rather tedious with the Drs.'Letters during my medical times. I still think the language creates a fascinating exchange study.

At some point when I was hanging out in that house-to-be (about to get surgery), I put up a bunch of my own captures of the house being constructed.


It's really beginning to feel like a story of sorts to me. Well, I guess I'm writing.
So maybe it's ok if I put a little of myself back in here and share some of my productions. Excerpts or fragments or previews or segments or glimses or nuggets of my time moments.



Since I seem to want to share a lot of my workings, I'm thinking I might start a different blog for my very own teeny spurs, teency clouts, nano bang bangs, itty boom booms, etc. And leave this one for others and less me. With Ben Aqua's help, working on a website. So perhaps that will take over and I can just link you there.


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Friday, July 18, 2008

Confused Cell Lady Observation

This marks my first sharing post of my "long stills" or "mini videos." Under the video I would like to talk about this for a second. I'm excited about sharing these observational moments in time.


"Confused Cell Lady Observation" by Deena Oh

Video: Taken at the Dallas Texas airport
Sound: Taken at Tryst, a coffeeshopslashbar, in Washington DC






I think that flickr introducing less-than-90-second video is brilliant. Everyone's still camera has video on it now.

These long pictures blend the brevity ("brevity is the soul of wit") with the motion of video. Motion pictures. The photographer's favorite concept should state the singularity of the moment. Video loses that, but gains precious time. The breaking time down into these nuggets is perfect for us when we are being attention deficit multi-tasking internet readers. Youtube of course approaches this, you could argue it created this, and sometimes it accomplishes this-- but you have to go through so much trash and looooooong unedited crap that remains interesting only if it is you or your buddy. A 90 second cut off causes you to choose more carefully what time you want to keep-- what moment to show. This being said, of course there are very uninteresting flickr mini vids, but at least it can never waste too much of your time.


But careful everyone: those 90 seconds, like that $3 coffee, adds up.


Hans quoted someone saying "humor is a waste of time." Then he explained that it sounds much better if taken out of context, but in context he's simply referring to wasting your time scavenging for internet humor.


What about wasting your time scavenging for beauty?


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Monday, July 14, 2008

Nanobangbang Debut Recap

Nanobangbang headlined their debut performance at the Parlor on Friday July 11th.



First off I'd like to thank everyone for your support. I know how many shows there are in Austin every night and I was super impressed with such a great turn out! Josh R, Josh D, Caitlin M, Kevin B, Jason C, Cari P, Rachel B, Tim S, Rick G, Amanda J, Bianca, Teri F, Luke G, Katherine M, Lace, Hans R, George M, Michelle G, Anna L, Allison M, Dakota S, David L, Beverly A, etc etc-- everyone I forgot and everyone who just stumbled in. And that guy who tried to sing with me! yall, it meant so much for you to witness the only performance of its kind (I'll expand on that later).

And of course I must thank DIY Danna for putting on the show. And Attic Ted for asking me to play.




THE CONCEPT:


The show was a semi linear, start from nothing and build, representative of a progression. Where NBB came from, where NBB is, where NBB is going. From acepella vocal exercise to noise/field recording with only voice to more beat oriented and structured collaborations.


My old outlet was described best by my dear friend Willis Dyer: "One of the things I think make for great art is the seamless combination of what's obscure and what's familiar. I think you blend those two things beautifully in your music, with your re-appropriation of old songs sung over ambient dissonance. You have such control and discipline and feeling when you sing, and I think it's your forte as an artist."

There was this. I did my very own version of Phil Spector(via The Teddy Bears, thenn the Beatles)'s "To Know Him Is To Love Him" over a digital recording of my friend reading a letter email out loud and a found tape (by Chad) of a woman talking to the tape recorder as if it was her old lover-- which I had pre-manipulated manually. I had put these and the other backing tracks into a loop petal as phrases. (see diagram below)

Nanobangbang will be departing from this sound; this show marked the passage of that era which I may only pay homage to at future shows. Very happy to have been asked in time to perform this -alone music- before moving on to more collaborative and structured work.





THE VISION:


Everyone "on stage" was to dress in black & white. This Everyone Included:
me, Eric Tierkunde, Winston Reed, Sam Gary, Chad Allen, [Kevin Adickes rendered a last minute absence due to recording for Moth!Fight!, so I did the Flutter & Bounce a duet solo]

and...

The Liddell sisters reading.





I decided since I was solo enough of the time, to use people as props in order to divert some attention off me and create an image that could provoke a thought-- so I had The Liddle sisters reading. I found Annecy's black & white silky unique looking dress from Goodwill and Hannah's black & white birded silk blouse from Goodwill as well, and she provided her skirt. They both brought their own books. Lots of people commented on that after the show-- their ideas of what it represented etc. A guy talked to me about how he thought it was about the Catholic religion; reminded him of Catholic school. (The happened to be library books).









THE VENUE:

I found the Parlor to be an ideal venue for a low pressure arrangement. I always thought Nanobangbang's first show should be there. I happen to like pizza and beer too.

As you may likely know, I've performed before with other ensembles, have performed people's pieces that they wrote, but never my own creation. It's a very different feeling to perform what you yourself have envisioned rather than being a vehicle for other people's vision. So it was nice to be in a casual environment.

But what Nanobangbang has in mind is a little more theatrical than the Parlor's aesthetics can allow and plus I couldn't use one of my pedals because the sound was so bad there (I think it was the feedback from this one particular light). Luckily, I don't NEED effects for my voice-- but it sure is fun. I was going to do some looping stuff. Which brings me to my next post I should write because I purchased the vocal petal I've been wanting Chad found it and I got it from some dude off craig's list. (tangent!)






THE SOUND:


see "the venue"



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Set List with Petal reference guide:

Set List with fx & loop pedal reminders



Notes on drums and noise for NBB's version of Roy Orbison's Crying:

Notes for Winston & Sam




Tentitive Set list with sunlike loop petal diagram:


tentitive set list diagram / petal reference guide




Thank you for reading! Hopefully see you next show-- I have some bookings in the works. Will be back to let you know when and where. Most definitely Quacks (38th), hopefully The Opera House before it closes: maybe at the closing show.
[upcoming: post on sadness of the opera house closing]


I want to do it at Salvage Vanguard Theatre (Church of the Friendly Ghost) and/or The Blue Theatre and play up the more theatrical components. In fact, I have this whole furniture installation in my head I'd like to see. With people as props again-- but this time more active. I want to re-create that film noir scene where everyone is at a cocktail party-- waitresses come around with drinks for real, people sit among each other, then we perform inside that environment but on stage. Think Rita Hayworth.

OH! Speaking of film noir. Chad & I did our cover of The Long Goodbye. The song done many styles in Robert Altman's movie rendition of Raymond Chandler's novel: The Long Goodbye.


Thanks for letting me share all those thoughts with you,


Nanobangbang



nanobangbang, indeed

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