Browsing Month 'January, 2009'

YIDO, pronounced Why I do, is a draft manifesto on the value and making of art in the 21st century by a 20th century nomad weaning myself off the net and much more besides. Help me write this manifesto. Add your thoughts, comments, grievances by creating an account on my wiki. When adding comments, I wouldn’t [...]

To sync or drift… a little of each I suspect as this new iteration of the Terminal Quartet sets about to sync three operating systems, two software applications, five computers, one network switch and a single turntable from which we receive tempo from. All this and a CD burn station conceived just for our forthcoming [...]

Don’t Touch The Art: Sonorium in B-flat minor, by Andrew Garton, is an on site performance for Arts Birthday, 17 January 2009, in collaboration with KunstRadio and performed at the Magical Soundmachines exhibition, Kulturfabrik, Hainburg, Austria. Listen MP3 Stream: Arts Birthday Mix It is said that a child’s first sound is in B-flat. Some say [...]

Began writing this tune about a year ago. Started out a lot rockier, but by the time I’d got to Cape Town, it slowed down considerably. Its first public debut was performed along with Benguela guitarist, Alex Bozas, who encouraged me to slow it down even more. This version is about as ponderous as it’ll [...]

From 18 August through to 26 September 97, Australia’s The Listening Room presented Sensorium Connect / Body Morph, a generative composition by Andrew Garton and comprised of sounds sampled from performances by Stelarc. Sensorium Connect was the first Listening Room project entirely produced for online and was streamed for its entire six week duration. On [...]

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