[Updated] Context

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Construction01 (2:30): improvised on viola Dec. 3, 2011.

Between Ends and a Common Place (2:32): 36 drawings as audio, laid end to end. 

5 Spheres (26:49)

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FURTHER CONTEXT

   FILMS
Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog
   VIDEOS
Mortal Engine by Chunky Move
Graham Hancock interview on the Joe Rogan Experience
The Stoned Ape Theory by Terence McKenna
Bacteria’s Amazing Communication System by Bonnie Bassler
How Architecture Helped Music Evolve by David Byrne
Drawing circuits (Patterns+Pleasure: Ground)
Christine Sun Kim (deaf sound artist)
Using Arduino to dim a light bulb
Draft-sensing nose light
   BOOKS
Supernatural by Graham Hancock
Art, Technology, Consciousness edited by Roy Ascott
Truth in Comedy by Halpern, Close, and  Johnson

5 Spheres

5 Spheres : The 5 Spheres text (found below) as audio.

Construction 01

Here’s something I made
Static then
improvised viola
Recorded on Dec. 3, 2011

Construction01

TSC in Liverpool

On November 24, 2011. We played an event hosted by the Liverpool-based improv group, Frakture.

They’ve written an excellent post about the whole night but here’s what they said about us:

“We are introduced Combine as a first of a new platform combining music, sound and art which will consist of three acts. The first act is Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern who have set up in the corner of the room, Angela Guyton beckons the audience nearer or they’ll miss out. She and the audience are gathered around a blank canvas and she begins to mark the canvas. This action is accompanied by a roaring crushing sound it’s apparent that the canvas and Angelas herself has been transformed into an instrument. Of course associations with action painting spring to mind and Harold Rosenberg’s ascertain that art lies within its creation rather than with the final product.

What also comes to mind is the almost synesthetic nature of creating art, how the sound of pen scrapping across paper, brush across canvas even your own breathing become somehow part of the process. Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern have created a piece which amplifies these private moments into the public realm providing us the audience the opportunity to consider the creative process and the production of art.”

Planes

I made 3 forms out of cardboard. I thought constructing them would allow me to better understand three-dimensional space, but I don’t understand a goddamn thing.
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