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Meeting Notes - 12.13.11
Pairing one member of the group with an external respondent - could be a field trip, dinner, discussion, presentations, etc - variable format
Focus on the early part of research phases of project, not finished work, to get feedback + sharing of knowledge
Once per month? Third Tuesdays
One more meeting off-site with internal group before year is done (drinks! next week
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Meeting Notes 11.21.11
Alan Sondheim: just some thoughts occasioned by the walk
I was thinking about common threads - always a misrecognition - in relation to the sites we visited. What occurred to me was the relationship between capital and the body, between capital and materiality. The bollards, etc. are objects whose existence is only to deflect or stop other objects; as such, their internal structures are based on resistance. One might think of them as asteroids. What are they protecting? The simulacra of capital, capital flows.
Excursion I: Financial District
On Thursday, November 10, members of the Urban Research Group took an excursion to three sites/conditions in lower Manhattan.
meeting notes - 10/25/2011
Excursions -
Alan - performance at Eyebeam. African American Burial Ground near City Hall Park. Business, security, place of rest/mourning/lamentation - monument, low mounds, museum. 1) looking at architecture of power, concentration camp in Poland (Eyebeam project space) 2) looking at monument downtown. Architectures of lamentation. Making private experience public. The hug as smallest space you can make. Hug <> Hut. Pia Lindman (ritualized grief). Theresa Brennan (affect). November/December - afternoon.
Spacepod 1: Report
In August I had the opportunity to build the first prototype of the spacepod, a sort of auditory vehicle that defines architectural spaces with sound, and sends the listener flying through them. I will attempt to describe the concept, the solution we pursued, and what we learned.
Audio-Haptic Navigation - grab/drop invisible sound
Just came across this project. Seemed relevant to our discussion at last meeting about defining architecture through sound.
Meeting 3, July 27
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Proposed private event pairing speaker/sound systems with wines selected by wine expert. Daniel suggested possibly doing this at Santos Party House as he is the sound engineer there and the venue has a very robust sound system. Sally proposed working with a particular wine expert in deciding on wines.
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Modular Collaboration
Intro
At the moment I'm working on a new piece with the Alulatonserien-Ensemble from Leipzig, Germany, and it would be great to find interested collaborators in the group.
We described our way of composing live concert pieces or live sound installations as Modular Collaboration, which is a non-hierarchical, decentralized way of working together. Below you can find further info and links to pieces I showed during my presentation.
New Piece
