crossroads
hv2 was beyond intense, quite a journey. Currently putting the finishing touches to hv3, join us Wednesday at Maus Hábitos.
LOST returns this week. It´s been a long wait.
Flashforward (thanks for the tip Pablo) and Fringe kept me sane during this long dry spell; yet, despite their merits, they are not quite the same.
I confess I´ve already watched the first episode, albeit in less than ideal circumstances… that is the nerd in me rearing its head. Not hard to find, if you are keen.
Cirurgiaacusticoplastica a great success last Wednesday. Join us this coming Wednesday for Operapostoperatoria.
A tiny selection of HV1 footage. Thanks to Sérgio, Helena and Luís for the photos.
And today at 6pm: Yuriy Pogorelov retrospective, curated by yours truly. Stories from other times and places that will blow your mind… That, and authentic Russian vodka and caviar in generous doses.
breaking news. first drink is on us.
In October 2007, I presented a paper at Detours on the subject of reverse graffiti. Back then it was a stike of genius by Moose, puzzling the authorities, who could not legally frame his graffiti activity that simply employed cleaning products.
Well, now the brands have caught on. Cheap greenwashing, I´d say. I should write a post-doctoral coda on this.
You keep breaking new records of incoherence, previously thought impossible.
Go get yourself a tape, and learn how it´s done.
a new opus by
un
available now
@
free.
call it a xmas present if you wish.
Recorded 2002-2009 in Porto, Aveiro, Viseu, London and Istanbul.
Mixed in Aveiro, December 2009. Mastered in Porto, December 2009.
For the purpose of this exercise, un consisted of Anselmo Canha, Heitor Alvelos, José Maria Lopes.
Special guests (mostly unbeknownst to themselves) included Tiago Videira, Len Massey, The Awarehouse Harmonica Orchestra, various temporary inhabitants of Maus Hábitos, numerous pop stars from the 1980s, and hundreds of Bosphorous seagulls and miscellaneous birds. Others there were but we leave it at that.
We love you all and all that.
un© 2017 un.
Currently on the jukebox, besides the above:
Donna Summer – Lush Life
Prince – Wonderful Ass
Stanley Cowell – El Space-O
Robert Mitchell – Ocean (in a small hand)
I so agree with Matt. There are certain discreet dictatorships in our daily routines – and a particularly unnerving one is the presumption that cheese is God´s gift.
Another one here:
Now that´s what I call a double punch.
Currently on heavy rotation:
Irmin Schmidt – Exit West
Herbie Hancock – Spiraling Prism
Petz – Chapel Stile
A silence at this particular hangout usually means a flurry of hyperactivity on other fronts. Such is the case these days, when academia has been keeping me beyond busy. That, and a new project entitled THE MAGNETIC OTHER, which is keeping me beyond excited. More on this soon.
So… Brussels. Inevitably revisiting Tuxedomoon and my glorious Summer of ´87, when I got my first taste of suburban life in a foreign city, interviewed Steven Brown for Blitz, and bought tons of used vinyl including the Rip Rig and Panic LPs missing in my collection (their entire catalogue of 12″ singles would miraculously land on my lap a few years later in Chicago).
Meeting Isabelle Corbisier, author of Tuxedomoon´s exceptional bio, tomorrow for coffee.
Good old Blaine!
I see a trend taking shape…
It´s been a long journey. My dear friend Adriano began working on this long-term research project many years ago, its path long and tortuous, culminating on the sudden and malicious wipe-out of mf v.1. Yet the question that drives memoriafutura, deep and complex in its implications yet very simple and direct in its formulation, is so relevant that it will endure pretty much anything:
What images should survive the passing of Time?
In an era of visual overabundance, which visual references do we believe should become tomorrow´s archeological findings?
Visit the resurrected memoriafutura in its early days. It will grow, literally and symbolically. This much I know.
Bigger, better, and more. And still free, no reservations required; just show up.
