Art in ECK

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November 2009 Calendar

Click this LINK to open the download page.

The quote: "He who has the true knowledge knows that in the lower worlds there exists both creative sounds and destructive sounds, and he who can produce both, at will, can create or destroy." is from the Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad. Art: UEK Multimedia Artist

HU, the sound of all sounds

"The sound of HU is the source of all sound, and sound is as close to the source of life as we can get. Any living being can experience sound first hand by vocally participating in it, but we can only experience light by being exposed to it. That is because we can make a sound with our vocal cords, but we can not make a light with any organ of our physical body." (From this blog)

"Singing HU draws us closer in our state of consciousness to the Divine Being. This is its purpose. It is for those who desire spiritual love, freedom, wisdom, and truth." (From the Eckankar web site)

This is only an artistic rendering of the vibrations of the sound of HU ... thank you for visiting! ...and thank you Hueater!

Transphormetic

More of Paul Prudence's work can be seen HERE

Sequitur by Karlheinz Essl

Karlheinz Essl is a modern day musician using the human voice, conventional as well as electronic instruments. They complement each other in his compositions. His music reminds me somewhat of the one of Robert Fripp (King Crimson) or Eno. Fortunately Essl is very open in sharing his music.

If you need an in try Sequitur IX (2008) for voice and live-electronics (mezzo-soprano and live electronics, in about the center of the page of the first link below), or Sequitur I (2008) for flute and live-electronics.

Sequitur is a series of compositions for solo instruments and live-electronics written for outstanding soloists. The aim is to create various pieces which use the same computer program -- the so-called Sequitur-Generator written in MaxMSP. It generates a complex 8-part canon from the instrument's live input as an accompaniment. Unlike traditional canons, the individual canonic layers do not enter at regular intervals but in a sort of acceleration which results in an increasing structural density. Moreover, the single canonic layers are getting gradually distorted - as if they were decaying. And at last, the 8 parts do not always play together, but are constantly cross-faded by using random operations which results in every-changing and unforeseeable structural interactions where the canon can vary between 1 and 8 voices.

Link with many recordings to listen to or to download much more here, including videos, scores and MIDI.

Essl's Main Page

A State of Consciousness ...

... is a State of Acceptance. --Harold Klemp

Optical Illusion

What you can do with a bunch of simple lines



another one here:

Fifty People One Question

Look what happens when a camera is pointed at 50 people in the street and the same question is put in front of them. It's a nice art project, and should be proof that listening works.

Vimeo

The Art of Listening

This is a rather long podcast about "exploring what it means to listen." Kevin Quigley (producer) and Adam Asnan (composer) discussing how they approach listening. The program comes from the UK Institute of Contemporary Arts.

Whoever takes the time to listen to the podcast will find that it's not just the listening but also the story-telling that keeps us interested. The way Morton Feldman, Glenn Gould or Filter Feeder do it. The moderators' approach to listening in this program is through detecting and consuming exterior sounds, unlike spiritual listening, where the inner rate of vibration creates the sound. Never the less, I do think this podcast offers a valuable tool to learn to understand someone else's approach to listening. (From ica.org.uk)

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Part 1:
Partial description from the site:
The art of listening: a closer listening, using a mellow sharp ear -- a middle ear that concentrates on every pitch of sound, bringing one closer to a fuller absorption of life. For the next two podcasts, we have a special 'slow winter edition' where we will be exploring exactly what it means to listen to sound, and therefore music.

What is the 'art of listening'? Is there even an art of listening? If so, what is involved in the art of listening? Why is it important for us to understand and explore sounds: is a act of survival, part of our being, or something more this that we can not explain or understand? (From ica.org.uk)


Click here to listen/download part 1 (95 minutes, 98.1 MB in size)
To get to the main site to read about the music and more click on the picture. There are also links to the respective artist's sites.

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There is lots of verbal discussion on how composer Adam Asnan sees music, not much actual sound to listen to in part 2.

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Part 2:
Partial description from the site:
"The art of music is no longer limited to the sounding models of instruments and voices. Electo-acoustic music opens access to all sounds, a bewildering sonic array ranging from the real to the surreal and beyond." Denis Smalley, electro-acoustic composer. (From ica.org.uk)

Part 2 of the art of listening flows into the ambiguous nature of electro-acoustic music, a world of infinite reflection, indeterminacy and transformation.

Click here to listen/download part 2 (62 minutes, 65 MB in size)

Gerry Judah (artist)

Gerry Judah was born in Calcutta, India.

He studied at Barnet College of Art before obtaining a degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and post-graduate Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.

In the last twenty years Gerry Judah has built a reputation for innovative designs for films, television, theatre, museums and spectacular public installations for many clients including the Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Opera House, English National Opera, BBC, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Imperial War Museum, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Ridley Scott Associates and Expo. (more in LINK below under Biography)

Pix credit

You can click on FILM to see him work, the 9 minute file is just over 50 MB

LINK

The spectator makes the picture (Duchamp)

Marcel Duchamp, by Octavio Paz
The Castle of Purity, page 85:

One of Duchamp’s most disturbing ideas is crystallized in an often-quoted sentence: “The spectator makes the picture.” Expressed with such insolent concision, it would seem to deny the existence of works of art and to proclaim an ingenuous nihilism. In a short text published in 1957 (“The Creative Act”), he clarifies his idea a little. He explains here that the artist is never fully aware of his work. Between his intention and realization, between what he wants to say and what the work actually says, there is a difference. This “difference” is, in fact, the work. Now, the spectator doesn’t judge the picture by the intentions of its originator but by what he actually sees. This vision is never objective; the spectator interprets and “distills” what he sees. The “difference” is transformed into another difference, the work into another work. In my opinion Duchamp’s explanation does not account for the creative act or process in its entirety. It is true that the spectator creates a work that is different from the one imagined by the artist, but between the two works, between what the artist wanted to do and what the spectator thinks he sees, there is a reality: the work. Without it, the re-creation of the spectator is impossible. The work makes the eye that sees it—or, at least it is a point of departure; out of it and by means of it the spectator invents another work. The value of a picture, a poem, or any other artistic creation is in proportion to the number of signs or meanings that we can see in it and the possibilities that it contains for combining them. A work is a machine for producing meaning. In this sense Duchamp’s idea is not entirely false: the picture depends on the spectator because only he can set in motion the apparatus of signs that comprise the whole work. This is the secret of the fascination of the Large Glass and the Readymades. Both of them demand an active contemplation, a creative participation. They make us and we make them.

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Marcel Duchamp. Bicycle Wheel/Roue de bicyslette. 1913. Readymade: bicycle wheel, diameter 64.8 cm, mounted on a stool, 60.2 cm high. Original lost. Replica.

HERE is a video (55 min.) about Duchamp: A Game of Chess, in French with English subs

John Whitney (animator)

John Whitney (1917 - 1995), was an American animator, composer and inventor, widely considered to be one of the fathers of computer animation. The video below is from 1972, before computers were used widely to create animations.

LINK
(10:34 min Youtube video)

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Emma Kunz (artist and healer)

Emma Kunz was a researcher, healer, and prolific artist, who also discovered the healing rock powder AION A, which has helped thousands of people on their path to recovery. 
She was known for her exceptional healing powers and worked with a pendulum that had a spherical weight on each side, one of a light-colored jade, the other of silver. During a consultation with a young patient, as she watched her pendulum oscillate over the boy's head, Kunz claimed she could cure him with a special powder that would be found in his immediate environment. With her pendulum in hand, Kunz navigated the quarries owned by the young boy's father. Here, at the Roman Stone Quarry in Wuerenlos, she found a rock with potent healing powers. Kunz instructed the boy's parents as to how the rock should be quarried, cleansed, and milled to powder to be used for healing. After a few weeks the boy's legs grew stronger and within months he could walk and run with the other children.

LINK to slideshow and bio
Picture credit: 1, 2, 3

 

For it was not ...

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Garto by Luis Gomez (animation)

Close to the river we find the lizard Garto. Abe, the bumblebee, will take Garto out of boredom, and will make him live a day full of adventure

LINK (4 min. video)

Wassily Kandinsky @ Centre Pompidou

LINK (10:16 min video)

This is in French but shows the exhibition from the Center Pompidou in Paris in Spring of 2009. It concentrates on his paintings showing artwork that is rarely seen.

Ai Weiwei (Chinese artist)

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Ai Weiwei is the renaissance man of Chinese contemporary art. After a twelve-year stint in New York, he returned to Beijing to become a publisher, curator, architect, blogger, and vocal critic of Chinese government policy, in addition to performing his multifarious roles as neo-Conceptual artist—which include even tour guide: For Documenta 12, he transported 1,001 Chinese citizens to Kassel. This exhibition, Ai’s largest to date, will feature thirty-two sculptures, photographs, videos, and installations made primarily in the past decade. To articulate the artist’s diverse vocabulary, curator Mami Kataoka will divide the show into three loose groupings—cubic and polyhedral shapes, ceramic-based works, and carved maps and furniture—based on recurring forms and materials in Ai’s practice. The artist may be a media darling, but this show promises a deeper critical look into his oeuvre rather than at his celebrity. (Colin Chinnery, Artforum)

Make things disappear at will

Gertie the Dinosaur - Winsor McCay 1914

This is kind of fun because it's one of the first animated cartoons.
Just imagine what went through the viewer's mind when they watched it ...

One of Windsor McCay's first successful characters was Gertie the Dinosaur. In this movie, we can see how the animated dinosaur obeys the orders given by her creator, who was placed in front of the projection screen, and who interacted with her.

LINK (12:18 min. video, animation starts at around 6:25 min) 

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