http://youaredissolved.com Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:55:55 +0000 http://youaredissolved.com en http://youaredissolved.com/Knowing-You-Knowing-Me http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/Knowing-You-Knowing-Me Thu, 01 Sep 2011 10:55:55 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 1686251 This work describes some of the conceptual content of an in-progress installation titled Why We Can Not Speak. Using a modernist grid as the center of the argument, the text attempts to describe the ways in which we cannot know another person, and focuses on the almost impossible difficulty of honest speech, the hindrance to which is our own ignorance and stupidity, both of which we are sometimes not conscious of. Commissioned by the SQUID project, a Stockholm-based organization for collecting and distributing artist's texts. It was released with three other texts on Sept 2, 2011, at an event at Platform in Vaasa, Finland. You can see the text and download the PDF at the link above. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 1_11_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 1_11_o.gif" data-mid="9061424" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 2_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 2_o.gif" data-mid="8278558" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 3_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 3_o.gif" data-mid="8278559" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 4_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 4_o.gif" data-mid="8278561" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 5_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 5_o.gif" data-mid="8278562" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 6_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 6_o.gif" data-mid="8278563" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 7_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 7_o.gif" data-mid="8278564" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 8_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 8_o.gif" data-mid="8278565" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 9_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 9_o.gif" data-mid="8278566" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 10_10_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 10_10_o.gif" data-mid="9058869" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 10_1024.gif" width="842" height="1191" width_o="842" height_o="1191" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/1686251/Knowing You Knowing Me 10_o.gif" data-mid="8278568" border="0" align="left"/> http://youaredissolved.com/A-Resonant-Tomb http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/A-Resonant-Tomb Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:10:41 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 783771 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/poster1.jpg" width="500" height="549" width_o="500" height_o="549" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/poster1_o.jpg" data-mid="3720458" border="0" align="left"/> The exhibition is now over! Thanks to all who came. Video of the last performance will appear soon. You can scroll down or go to the You Are Dissolved page to listen to it, though. "A Resonant Tomb" is a sound installation about distance, either through space, time, medium, or death. How does the shape of our longings persist over time? How does it change—would we be able to recognize it? Through the use of two opposing radio stations on the same frequency, "A Resonant Tomb" provides us room to contemplate the difficulty of communication and separating signal from noise. Moving through this space, we are aware of our own body's affect on our surroundings and of the information passing through us. The old, not yet dead, media plays with our memories, crackling with the nostalgic resonating echoes of that which was, that which could be, and that which has been only a comfortable dream. This installation has been produced especially for the cavernous post-industrial space at Hey! It's Enrico Pallazzo. Produced with the support of Skup Palet. Thanks to Anna Ganslandt and Jan Pilgaard for the space, their support, and set-up advice. The title for the exhibition comes from Jonathan Sterne's 2003 book The Audible Past. Installation Views <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth angle centered- dark- far- landscape _1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth angle centered- dark- far- landscape _o.jpg" data-mid="4143903" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth back center near landscape_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth back center near landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="4143904" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth back- off center- far- from above landscape_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth back- off center- far- from above landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="4143905" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front angled detail landscape_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front angled detail landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="4143906" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front center- far- from above landscape_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front center- far- from above landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="4143907" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front centered- close portrait detail_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front centered- close portrait detail_o.jpg" data-mid="4143908" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front centered- close portrait_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth front centered- close portrait_o.jpg" data-mid="4143909" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth rosette with ropes detail_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth rosette with ropes detail_o.jpg" data-mid="4143910" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth side center- near- from above landscape_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth side center- near- from above landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="4143911" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth side- near couches- close landscape 1_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth side- near couches- close landscape 1_o.jpg" data-mid="4143912" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- centered- from near couches landscape_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- centered- from near couches landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="4143913" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- front angled- near- portrait 2_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- front angled- near- portrait 2_o.jpg" data-mid="4143914" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- front angled- near- portrait_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- front angled- near- portrait_o.jpg" data-mid="4143915" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- side- near- portrait_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="1500" width_o="1000" height_o="1500" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Labyrinth- side- near- portrait_o.jpg" data-mid="4143916" border="0" align="left"/> Physical Description This installation consisted of a ring of radios, a floor drawing, a sine wave oscillator, and two "living rooms." In the centre of the space I installed 11 radios in a circle. Within the circle I drew a labyrinth, using chalk. All of the radios, in this instance, were turned on to receive a broadcast at 1000kHz (AM radio). I built two different simple "radio stations," both transmitting at 1000kHz but each transmitting different musical programs. The power of these stations is so low that I can decide which radios will play which program by placing the antennas in the right location. Thus, half of the radios play one program, the rest play another. The musical program consisted of old folk, jazz, and popular music recorded from 78rpm records. At the end of each song, I have manually spun the record in the lock groove for several minutes. This not only prolongs the song at its end, but also damages the stylus. Each song recorded sounds worse than the last. This grinding halt has a lasting effect. This poor fidelity is of course compounded by the poor radio transmitter and vintage receivers. Every sound bears this patina and sounds truly "vintage" due to the historicity of the components, and certainly the sound would not be possible without having built the entire system. Transmitter interference abounds, and the radios themselves interfere with each other, occasionally bursting into loud cacaphonic oscillations. Due to the prolonged lock grooves, the gap between songs is quite long, so often the spectator is not expecting a song to appear out of the noise. This can cause a surprise, meant to catch the listener off guard, to better let the music serve its historical sensation. You are allowed to walk the labyrinth, surrounded by the sound and thrum, slowed down in solitary contemplation. The cultural meaning of the labyrinth is loaded and in this context is not easily parsed. To either side of the central installation are two entire "living rooms," assembled from vintage furniture. The lights are off, the seats are empty, as if they are waiting, or perhaps they have been vacated. The radio you may expect to find in the living room has moved on to an unusual place. In addition, hiding in the back corner of the room is a large subwoofer connected to a sine wave oscillator. This device provides a 19Hz background tone. This tone is not audible to humans but is felt in the body as an uneasy, sickening sensation, as if the room were haunted. Details <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Near couches detail_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Near couches detail_o.jpg" data-mid="4143951" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Annette and Gaetz radios detail (not so good)_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Annette and Gaetz radios detail (not so good)_o.jpg" data-mid="4143947" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Far couches- far 2_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Far couches- far 2_o.jpg" data-mid="4143948" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Far couches- far_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Far couches- far_o.jpg" data-mid="4143949" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Far couches- near_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Far couches- near_o.jpg" data-mid="4143950" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Near couches- half labyrinth- far landscape_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Near couches- half labyrinth- far landscape_o.jpg" data-mid="4143952" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Philips and Centrum radios detail_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Philips and Centrum radios detail_o.jpg" data-mid="4143953" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Philips Radio detail_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Philips Radio detail_o.jpg" data-mid="4143954" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Telefunken Radio detail_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Telefunken Radio detail_o.jpg" data-mid="4143955" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Two Grundig radios detail_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Two Grundig radios detail_o.jpg" data-mid="4143956" border="0" align="left"/> Performance Do Not Wear Out Live performance from Dec. 12, 2010. This was a live action performance, which beyond the live sound element also involved a lot of movement within the installation. I will have a video for this soundtrack soon! I am tied with a rope to the floor at the center of the labyrinth, thus being restricted to move only within that space. In my hands I am holding a radio or a radio with an analog filter. Slowly walking the maze, I strafe past the radios in the circle. Since they are turned on, they interact with the radio I am holding. The performance program involves a small introduction, spending the first half with the filter off while entering the labyrinth, and turning the filter on for the second half while escaping the labyrinth. The title relates to the impossible promise of perfect sound fidelity, and the strenuous demands of the performance itself. It comes directly from an early ad for wax cylinders made by the Indestructible Record Company. Thanks to Mappe Persson for recording! <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/55899_10150129964997306_621552305_7849480_4496587_o.jpg" width="553" height="800" width_o="553" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/55899_10150129964997306_621552305_7849480_4496587_o_o.jpg" data-mid="3988888" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/56327_10150129965077306_621552305_7849482_3346487_o_1024.jpg" width="800" height="514" width_o="800" height_o="514" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/56327_10150129965077306_621552305_7849482_3346487_o_o.jpg" data-mid="3988889" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/132337_10150129965052306_621552305_7849481_3649448_o.jpg" width="534" height="800" width_o="534" height_o="800" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/132337_10150129965052306_621552305_7849481_3649448_o_o.jpg" data-mid="3988893" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/75600_1242100590119_1757488109_433662_6947708_n_1024.jpg" width="720" height="478" width_o="720" height_o="478" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/75600_1242100590119_1757488109_433662_6947708_n_o.jpg" data-mid="3988890" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/76407_1242099710097_1757488109_433660_7853897_n_1024.jpg" width="720" height="478" width_o="720" height_o="478" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/76407_1242099710097_1757488109_433660_7853897_n_o.jpg" data-mid="3988891" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Skrmavbild 2010-11-28 kl. 13.55.16_1024.png" width="1024" height="682" width_o="1456" height_o="970" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Skrmavbild 2010-11-28 kl. 13.55.16_o.png" data-mid="3988898" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Skrmavbild 2010-11-28 kl. 13.56.28_1024.png" width="1024" height="682" width_o="1453" height_o="968" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/783771/Skrmavbild 2010-11-28 kl. 13.56.28_o.png" data-mid="3988902" border="0" align="left"/> photos of "Do Not Wear Out" performance, Nov. 27 2010. By Hanna Eliasson (first three), Louise Lam (next two), and Jan Pilgaard (last two). http://youaredissolved.com/Abstraction-Separation-and-Sorrow http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/Abstraction-Separation-and-Sorrow Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:17:19 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 345619 I decided to put online my Ph.D application for this year. You can find it here on Scribd, in slightly edited form from what the University got. I put it up because it contains some more sophisticated ways of stating ideas I had introduced in my Master thesis. I thought this may be helpful for anyone more interested in my work and where my research is going. I have researched this for 6 months but due to the space limitation of 10 pages, most of that research is not here. However, the basic concept is nice and compact thanks to the limit! I'm still on the fence about whether or not it's totally insane or actually pretty good. This proposal was not accepted unfortunately, but it was shortlisted at one University, which was great! As with my thesis there is a "secret" implicate to the whole text, ie: something that is underlying everything written, but never described. http://youaredissolved.com/Psychosis-Trio http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/Psychosis-Trio Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:24:17 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 311098 Last September (2009) I worked with Martin Heuser and Britt-Marie Hogmalm to perform a spoken word performance with instrumentation and effects. You can find more info and the track at Soundcloud. The idea of this project was to combine some kind of theatrical program to an improvised work, though in the end it turned out to be somewhat scheduled, but more like different schedules of improvised sections. Britt-Marie cut up the text to Sarah Kane's play and read it mostly spoken word, so the progression of words is more or less not how the play goes (however the ending is the same). We have ideas to make further projects as well. Stay tuned. Psychosis Trio - 4:48 Psychosis by youaredissolved Martin Heuser - Organ, Melodica, Percussion Britt-Marie Hogmalm - Vocals Barrie James Sutcliffe - Computer and Live Sampling http://youaredissolved.com/You-Are-Dissolved http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/You-Are-Dissolved Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:50:33 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 135799 Here I will put some of the recent things I have recorded as You Are Dissolved. I will upload newly recorded tracks to Soundcloud as much as I am able. Do Not Wear Out Live performance from Dec. 12, 2010 at Hey! It's Enrico Pallazzo in Göteborg, Sweden. This was a live action performance, which beyond the live sound element also involved a lot of movement within the space of the installation "A Resonant Tomb." I will have a video for this soundtrack soon! On the floor of the installation I inscribed a labyrinth. The circumference of the labyrinth is surrounded by eleven radios. I am tied with a rope to the floor at the center of the labyrinth, thus being restricted to move only within that space. In my hands I am holding a radio or a radio with an analog filter. Slowly walking the maze, I strafe past the radios in the circle. Since they are turned on, they interact with the radio I am holding. A few times you will hear an uncontrolled oscillation (such as at the very end), which was a feature of the installation that somehow also manifested in the radio I performed with! This interference sound is a result of many radios in the same space being tuned to the same frequency. The performance program involves a small introduction, spending the first half with the filter off while entering the labyrinth, and turning the filter on for the second half while escaping the labyrinth. The title relates to the impossible promise of perfect sound fidelity, and the strenuous demands of the performance itself. It comes directly from an early ad for wax cylinders made by the Indestructible Record Company. Thanks to Mappe Persson for recording! Sine Wave Oscillator Video by Niklas Rydén. Thanks to Louise Waite for arranging the show. Last September I started experimenting with a sine wave oscillator to see what kind of things I could do with it. These are big machines that used to populate scientific laboratories and provided clean sine waves to use as reference on oscilloscopes and the like. In December I received a better-functioning unit from a good friend and decided to make a performance using it with a live looping platform - essentially making a very primitive synthesizer. I performed this on Dec. 5th 2010 at Atalante in Göteborg. It meanders a bit, since I am still new with this technique, which is quite difficult to master as one must create harmonies only by ear and a frequency dial. The space played in is rather massive, with a high ceiling, so I attempted to use as much low frequency as possible, thus it would help to listen to this on some quality loudspeakers. Hunger While at the Shift festival in Basel I played a headphone concert. It was a wonderful way to perform. And I had such good artists to perform alongside, as well (thanks to Pei-wen Liu and the people at the festival for making it possible). Unfortunately I was not able to record the concert, though I was happy with it. Thankfully, the day I returned to Gothenburg my friend Richard was holding a Placard headphone concert (leplacard.org) which I participated in with 14 others! My set at that headphone concert was more forceful and noisy, and I dare say a much more successful performance than in Basel. Here it is. The title of the track is inspired by a friend who said the sounds exacerbated his hunger pangs. Of course there are many different kinds of hunger. The way I have performed these sets is a more refined result of the Radio Drift work-in-progress found below. Your Absent Hands New song, to be released on Fangbomb Records "Gothenburg 2010" cassette compilation. The song was made entirely with one vintage tube radio receiving shortwave, then the recordings were multitracked. The prominent pulsing drone is the result of my hand's presence near or away from the radio. This of course lends the title part of its meaning, but the title is also meant to evoke a more substantial and serious longing for presence, which is difficult to describe. Radio drift work-in-progress Here is a track I made in April 2010 using a new set-up for slow-moving improvised performance. It's a slightly refined concept of an old installation idea. The idea is to make very long, very noisy pieces that rely little on normal modes of narrativity. Indeed that is impossible given the unpredictability of using radio receivers. More info at the Soundcloud page. Me and Petter Wästberg Petter Wästberg and I have been working on an improvised duo performance. We first performed October 2009 and with a more elaborate and interesting set up at the end of March 2010. Here is a video from our first performance. The instruments used were no-input mixer, contact microphones, and I was simply playing the radio and having to move around a lot to do that. Unfortunately we've been unable to source the recording of the March concert, though presumably one exists somewhere at the music school we performed at. Petter is great to work with and I hope we can work more in the future. Your Gleaming Eyes In the following video rather than using a radio I am sampling from the old 78rpm record and making noises with an old analog keyboard. More info on the Vimeo page. This was from late August 2009, during a concert for the summer course I was participating in at Valand. I have not since performed live with the turntable setup, though I will be incorporating something similar into a future installation. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135799/5368_117301026888_683911888_2218394_2315998_n.jpg" width="453" height="604" width_o="453" height_o="604" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135799/5368_117301026888_683911888_2218394_2315998_n_o.jpg" data-mid="582914" border="0" align="left"/> Photo by Jörgen Andersson, at Club Social Göteborg July 2009. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135799/dsc_2332_1024.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="800" height_o="532" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135799/dsc_2332_o.jpg" data-mid="582915" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135799/dsc_2350_1024.jpg" width="800" height="532" width_o="800" height_o="532" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135799/dsc_2350_o.jpg" data-mid="582917" border="0" align="left"/> Photos by Erik Wistrand http://youaredissolved.com/You-Are-Dissolved-April-May-2009 http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/You-Are-Dissolved-April-May-2009 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:37:10 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 135753 "You Are Dissolved" is a noise music project/band. It grew out of my thesis research of radios and David Bohm's implicate order. If "The Small within the Great" is austere and monolithic, then "You Are Dissolved" is the romantic, brutal, rock-and-roll counterpart. The fact I made myself wear the radio like a guitar should suggest that I'm trying to talk about my relationship to music. I sample a great deal of others' music quite overtly (see Vimeo pages for artists used) and even made a "cover" song. I have seen many artists use radios, indeed it's a reference to some of John Cage's work. I have not, however, seen a performance use one at ear-splitting volume. An important aspect of what I am doing is physical confrontation, my own response to the sounds I am making (which I often find scary). In these original performances I arranged a system of radio transmission and reception with which I interfere using my body in space. I intend to implicate myself within a system of noise, otherwise to be enfolded into an order - to be dissolved. Through the barely existent control I have over this system, I introduce ideas related to longing, desire, loss, and the inability to express my internal world and romantic feelings. There is an aspect of dance in this project, as the radios respond to my body's movement. These videos are from one of the first performances. I have since been using additional "instruments," and have been exaggerating the "dance" as well A crucial part of You Are Dissolved is that the sampled music is a) meaningful to me b) a loop of music that sounds as if it is either "collecting" or "dissolving" and c) being transmitted through my body. This entire performance can be downloaded as MP3 or FLAC for free! Whole mp3 album in a zip file here. You can also check it out on Soundcloud where you can comment on the individual tracks. Tomoyuki Yago and Giorgios Chloros were so kind as to film this. I was so happy with their results! Photos of April performance by Aoife Giles. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3464 copy8_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="1743" width_o="1767" height_o="3008" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3464 copy8_o.jpg" data-mid="582842" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3491 copy10_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="1540" width_o="2000" height_o="3008" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3491 copy10_o.jpg" data-mid="582850" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3388 copy4_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="680" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3388 copy4_o.jpg" data-mid="582851" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3401 copy6_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="680" width_o="2048" height_o="1361" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/DSC_3401 copy6_o.jpg" data-mid="582852" border="0" align="left"/> Gig poster. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/YAD_poster.png" width="400" height="565" width_o="400" height_o="565" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/YAD_poster_o.png" data-mid="582860" border="0" align="left"/> Here is a selection of some stills from the videos. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 1 02-09-54.png" width="503" height="290" width_o="503" height_o="290" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 1 02-09-54_o.png" data-mid="583478" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 1_1024.png" width="719" height="402" width_o="719" height_o="402" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 1_o.png" data-mid="583479" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 2_1024.png" width="718" height="404" width_o="718" height_o="404" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 2_o.png" data-mid="583480" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 3_1024.png" width="718" height="405" width_o="718" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 3_o.png" data-mid="583481" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 4_1024.png" width="718" height="405" width_o="718" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 4_o.png" data-mid="583482" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 5_1024.png" width="716" height="404" width_o="716" height_o="404" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 5_o.png" data-mid="583483" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 7_1024.png" width="719" height="403" width_o="719" height_o="403" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 7_o.png" data-mid="583484" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 8_1024.png" width="718" height="403" width_o="718" height_o="403" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 8_o.png" data-mid="583486" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 9_1024.png" width="718" height="406" width_o="718" height_o="406" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 9_o.png" data-mid="583487" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 10_1024.png" width="719" height="405" width_o="719" height_o="405" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 10_o.png" data-mid="583488" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 11_1024.png" width="718" height="403" width_o="718" height_o="403" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 11_o.png" data-mid="583490" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 12_1024.png" width="718" height="403" width_o="718" height_o="403" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135753/Picture 12_o.png" data-mid="583492" border="0" align="left"/> http://youaredissolved.com/Box-of-Oblivescence http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/Box-of-Oblivescence Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:03:22 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 135728 An Arduino-controlled readymade assemblage of vacuum tubes in an old television cabinet. Made for a workshop with the artist Niklas Roy. Kind of a culmination with my obsession with vacuum tubes. They'll be back one day, I'm sure, but I haven't worked with them since. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Closeup_david_reflection_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Closeup_david_reflection_o.jpg" data-mid="582682" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Closeup_front_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Closeup_front_o.jpg" data-mid="582683" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Detail_high_exp_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Detail_high_exp_o.jpg" data-mid="582684" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Detail_low_exp_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Detail_low_exp_o.jpg" data-mid="582685" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Detail_portrait.jpg" width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Detail_portrait_o.jpg" data-mid="582686" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Installation_lights_off_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Installation_lights_off_o.jpg" data-mid="582687" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Installation_lights_on_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Installation_lights_on_o.jpg" data-mid="582688" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Installation_lights_on_small.jpg" width="600" height="394" width_o="600" height_o="394" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Installation_lights_on_small_o.jpg" data-mid="582689" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/jitter_1024.jpg" width="1000" height="667" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/jitter_o.jpg" data-mid="582690" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Thyratron_detail.jpg" width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135728/Thyratron_detail_o.jpg" data-mid="582691" border="0" align="left"/> http://youaredissolved.com/Collection-and-Dissolution http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/Collection-and-Dissolution Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:53:24 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 135649 Update Nov. 6/09 I have just learned of the tragic death of Dr. David Crawford, my adviser on this project. He was a huge inspiration and pushed me in the right direction to go as far with this text as I did. He will be sorely missed. ----- "Collection and Dissolution" is my master's thesis. It is an attempt to deal with the contradiction of writing about your own art. Instead I ended up writing about my creative process and how I think it works. This spiraled out into a much more broad and loose discussion, sticking to my long-held interests in quantum mechanics and the limitations of consciousness. It is quite research-heavy but not in the sense that fine arts theses usually are; most of my sources are from the field of science. I think, as a whole, it's a pretty strange document that is an overt challenge to how we normally write about art in the academic field. I have laid out my argument pretty straight here, propped up by big block quotes. If there's a conceptual or scientific question, somewhere in this text is probably the answer. The emotional meaning of the work is not discussed, though, as I thought it would be inappropriate to bring it out to the open—it's hiding in there, though. There are also detailed descriptions of my two thesis artworks: "The Silence in Between" and the performance project "You Are Dissolved." You can read the abstract and the entire document over at Scribd or just look at it here: http://youaredissolved.com/Have-You-Walked-Through-This-Night http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/Have-You-Walked-Through-This-Night Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:26:23 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 135650 My first book using text and image. My style with the text has not changed so much if you look at my more recent work, the austere ambiguity is what I always enjoyed. The content, however, has changed quite a bit. A comparison between old and new would reflect my maturing attitudes, or perhaps a honing in, on the subject matter I'm looking at. Techniques are asphaltum-spray aquatint and etching. The book is bound in thick black paper. No pictures of it, I'm afraid. Best viewed large at Flickr, but the wide images make computer viewing quite awkward. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Cover_1024.jpg" width="926" height="514" width_o="926" height_o="514" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Cover_o.jpg" data-mid="582407" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 1_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="295" width_o="2000" height_o="577" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 1_o.jpg" data-mid="582408" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 2_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="293" width_o="2000" height_o="573" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 2_o.jpg" data-mid="582413" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 3_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="289" width_o="2000" height_o="566" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 3_o.jpg" data-mid="582414" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 4_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="290" width_o="2000" height_o="567" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 4_o.jpg" data-mid="582415" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 5_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="293" width_o="2000" height_o="574" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Page 5_o.jpg" data-mid="582416" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Back Cover_1024.jpg" width="926" height="512" width_o="926" height_o="512" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135650/Back Cover_o.jpg" data-mid="582417" border="0" align="left"/> http://youaredissolved.com/Drawings-and-Prints http://youaredissolved.com/following/youaredissolved.com/Drawings-and-Prints Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:20:11 +0000 Barrie James Sutcliffe: Information Reformation Technologies / You Are Dissolved 135535 A short selection of drawings and prints I have made over the years. More details and more images can of course be found on the Flickr page. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/An Accurate Description of the Large Interaction Between Three Branes 244x109cm (2005)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="461" width_o="2048" height_o="922" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/An Accurate Description of the Large Interaction Between Three Branes 244x109cm (2005)_o.jpg" data-mid="581630" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/At Last! The Impostor is Revealed 132.75x30.5in (2005- Screenprint)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="229" width_o="2048" height_o="458" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/At Last! The Impostor is Revealed 132.75x30.5in (2005- Screenprint)_o.jpg" data-mid="581632" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Cruise (Force the Truth) 45.75x49.75in (2005- Screenprint)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="931" width_o="1500" height_o="1364" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Cruise (Force the Truth) 45.75x49.75in (2005- Screenprint)_o.jpg" data-mid="581634" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Four-Part Brane Drawing (2005)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="627" width_o="1800" height_o="1103" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Four-Part Brane Drawing (2005)_o.jpg" data-mid="581637" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Information Reformation Cycle 11x15in (2005)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="1396" width_o="1250" height_o="1705" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Information Reformation Cycle 11x15in (2005)_o.jpg" data-mid="581640" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Narrow Powerline Drawing 19x31 (2004)_1024.jpg" width="755" height="1250" width_o="755" height_o="1250" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Narrow Powerline Drawing 19x31 (2004)_o.jpg" data-mid="581643" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Ring Road Project Pt. 1 42x31in (2007)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="756" width_o="2000" height_o="1477" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Ring Road Project Pt. 1 42x31in (2007)_o.jpg" data-mid="581646" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Sender-Receiver 69.5x31in (2004) Large_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="455" width_o="2000" height_o="890" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Sender-Receiver 69.5x31in (2004) Large_o.jpg" data-mid="581648" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 1 30.25x22 (2005)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="745" width_o="1500" height_o="1092" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 1 30.25x22 (2005)_o.jpg" data-mid="581651" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 2 30.25x22 (2005)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="746" width_o="1500" height_o="1093" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 2 30.25x22 (2005)_o.jpg" data-mid="581654" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 3 30.25x22 (2005)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="764" width_o="1500" height_o="1120" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 3 30.25x22 (2005)_o.jpg" data-mid="581656" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 4 30.25x22 (2005)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="747" width_o="1500" height_o="1095" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/This is the Key 4 30.25x22 (2005)_o.jpg" data-mid="581658" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Untitled 69.5x31in (2004)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="455" width_o="2000" height_o="889" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Untitled 69.5x31in (2004)_o.jpg" data-mid="581661" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Untitled Powerline Drawing 31x42in (2004)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="743" width_o="2000" height_o="1453" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/Untitled Powerline Drawing 31x42in (2004)_o.jpg" data-mid="581665" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/In the Totality- You are Enfolded 79.5x107cm (2009)_1024.jpg" width="1024" height="1392" width_o="1987" height_o="2702" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/0/4124/135535/In the Totality- You are Enfolded 79.5x107cm (2009)_o.jpg" data-mid="581682" border="0" align="left"/>