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Floppy Music, Michael Jackson: "Billie Jean" played on FDD and HDD

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Watch: The hypnotic sound art of abstract turntablist Maria Chavez.

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Steve Reich - Music for Pieces of Wood - Visualization

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Project

Border Cantos presents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and composer Guillermo Galindo. Misrach has been photographing the two-thousand-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico since 2004, with increased focus starting in 2009-resulting in a distinct melding of the artist as documentarian and interpreter. The latest installation in Misrach's ongoing Desert Cantos series, this project includes eight suites of photographs-some made with a large-format camera and others that have been captured with an iPhone. Misrach and Galindo have worked together to create pieces that both report on and transform the artifacts of migration: water bottles, clothing, backpacks, Border Patrol "drag tires," spent shotgun shells, ladders, and sections of the Border Wall itself, which Galindo then fashions into instruments to be performed as unique sound-generating devices; video clips of those performances can be seen on this site. He also imagines graphic musical scores, many of which use Misrach's photographs as points of departure.

Bios

Richard Misrach (born in Los Angeles, 1949) is one of the most influential photographers of his generation, well-known for his ongoing project Desert Cantos. His work is held by major institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He is the recipient of four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Kulturpreis for Lifetime Achievement in Photography. His other books with Aperture include Violent Legacies (1992), On the Beach (2007), Destroy This Memory (2010), Petrochemical America (with Kate Orff, 2012), Golden Gate (2012), and The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings (2015). He is represented by Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Mark Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; and Pace/MacGill, New York.

Guillermo Galindo (born in Mexico City) is an experimental composer. His interpretations of concepts such as musical form, time perception, music notation, sonic archetypes, and sound-generating devices span a wide spectrum of artistic works performed and shown at major festivals, concert halls, and art exhibitions throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.His orchestral composition includes two symphonies: Ome Acatl, premiered in Mexico City by the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM (OFUNAM, 1997), and Trade Routes (2006), commissioned and premiered by the Oakland East Bay Symphony orchestra and chorus. His operas include two major works: Califas 2000, with text and performance by MacArthur Fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Decreation/Fight Cherries, with text by MacArthur Fellow poet Anne Carson.

Josh Kun contributes an introduction and epilogue to the Border Cantos book. He is the author of Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America (2005), winner of a 2006 American Book Award, and his criticism has been published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, American Prospect, Los Angeles Magazine, and LA Weekly. Kun is professor of communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California.

Publication

Border Cantos
Photographs and text by Richard Misrach
Instruments, sound installations, scores, and text by Guillermo Galindo
Introduction and epilogue by Josh Kun

In her influential 1979 essay, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field," art critic Rosalind Krauss noted a new school of American artists making large-scale sculpture that differed from traditional monuments because they were not commemorative or historical; they were the monument's "negative condition." Decades later, the Border Wall has truly become the monument's "negative condition" but in moral and ethical terms, a statue of un-liberty that funnels the tired into desert bottlenecks and tracks the poor through gulches. It is a monument to the aesthetic and fiscal reaches of political theater, and a thuggish mirror of national and cultural phobias-to the limits, not the depths, of the democratic imagination.
The photographs of Misrach help us understand this. The musical instruments of Galindo help us hear it. When experienced together, however, they have the potential to do something else: to activate our own visions and our own scores for the American monuments that might still be possible to build.
Or tear down.

-Josh Kun, from the introduction to Border Cantos

Published by Aperture, April 2016

13 ¼ x 10 ½ in. (33.6 x 27.3 cm); 274 pages, including gatefolds; 257 four-color images; hardcover; ISBN 978-1-59711-289-5
Designed by Masumi Shibata

The publication of Border Cantos was made possible, in part, with generous support from Andrew Brown and Kristen Wolfe, Bruce and Sharyn Charnas, and Lannan Foundation.

Exhibitions

San Jose Museum of Art, California, February 26-July 31, 2016
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, September 14-December 1, 2016
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, February 18-April 24, 2017
Pace and Pace/MacGill Gallery, Chelsea, New York, June 28-August 18, 2017

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Border Cantos - Richard Misrach | Guillermo Galindo

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Border Cantos presents a unique collaboration between photographer Richard Misrach and composer Guillermo Galindo. Misrach has been photographing the two-thousand-mile border between the U.S. and Mexico since 2004, with increased focus starting in 2009-resulting in a distinct melding of the artist as documentarian and interpreter.

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Strange Musical Instruments Never Seen Before -  Man Invents Hundreds of them - The Anarchestra

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MATMOS "Ultimate Care II" live @ Floristree 02.20.2016

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György Ligeti - Poema sinfónico para 100 Metrónomos

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El instrumento musical más aterrador del mundo

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CNB - CASo // Javier Bustos : Cuarteto #2 con Cecilia Quinteros

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Yaybahar is an electric-free, totally acoustic instrument designed by Gorkem Sen. The vibrations from the strings are transmitted via the coiled springs to the frame drums. These vibrations are turned into sound by the membranes which echo back and forth on the coiled springs. This results in an unique listening experience with an hypnotic surround sound.

What you hear in this performance is captured in realtime without any additional effects and with no post audio processing.

For contact: yaybaharcontact@gmail.com
www.yaybahar.com


Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/gorkemsen
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Yaybahar/371861612976976?fref=ts
Youtube: http://youtu.be/45m0TkLpmQg



Credits
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Instrument: Yaybahar
Performence: Görkem Şen
Video: Levent Bozkurt
Video Editing: Olgu Demir
Sound Mix: Mert Aksuna
Place: Alişler Yurdu

2014