1444
Posted on | January 14, 2010
1,444 minutes is the precise time it takes to move from one day to the next. Within this small space of time, it’s possible for a personal or even global change to occur. While many of us attempt to plan our lives and predict our individual or situational future, much of what happens is left to unknown devices. In the same vein, my upcoming project ONEthousand.four.hundredANDfortyFour.minutes is a new generative net.art and sound work that is left to an unknown author to score. It is an emergent or behavioral musical system that commits to few parameters. Composer John Cage worked with a similar system he called “chance operations”. By using the I Ching to make compositional and artistic decisions , Cage was able to free himself and the work from personal likes, dislikes and bias. Embracing this concept, ONEthousand.four.hundredANDfortyFour.minutes allows chance or fate to author the work. Over the course of a 24 hour period this work will emerge live and fade to silence following a path created in the moment through the use of a computer based generative system. The only input I’ve had in the works creation is the duration, samples/patches used in the composition and the page background color that changes based on each unique visitor’s computer time stamp.
ONEthousand.four.hundredANDfortyFour.minutes will begin February 2, 2010 at 4:34am and end February 3, 2010 at 4:34am. During this time visitors to the site are encouraged to record musical passages or even the entire work (see below for suggested software). Portions will be archived for documentation purposes only, but the score as a whole will probably never be heard again in it’s entirety. There will be no official release of this music made available.
<– VISIT THE 1444 MINUTES PROJECT SITE –>
**WILL GO LIVE FEB 3, 2010 AT 4:34AM [-5GMT]
Recommended Software to Record Streaming Audio:
- Wiretap (MAC)
- Audio Hijack (MAC)
- Audacity (PC/MAC)(open source)
- Free Hi-Q Recorder (PC)(freeware)
mobile.music [first e.p. now available]
Posted on | December 11, 2009
a little over a decade ago, artists and musicians began experimenting seriously with using laptops as instruments during live performances. i remember my friend matt borghi and i having long discussions about how the laptop could change how people approached live music. it’s funny looking back now thinking about those conversations because at the time, it was actually pretty uncommon to see a laptop computer at a live gig. fast forward to the present and hardly anyone would bat an eye at the sight of a computer or a variety of mobile devices on stage with musicians. software equivalents of analog gear that would have taken an army to move now easily fit onto a portable hard.drive and go just about anywhere. the studio has gotten smaller and compact while at the same time, way more powerful. what excites me about emerging technologies are how they allow artists to be creative just about anywhere and at anytime.
over the past year i’ve been using a variety of sound apps on the iphone during some of my live performances. a few days ago, i decided to attempt creating a series of works that used only the iphone as the sole sound source.
what resulted is the “mobile.music” series. over the next few months i’ll be releasing a trilogy of digital/download only e.p.’s titled:
-.. — – … / . .–. (1) released 12/12/09
-.. — – … / . .–. (2) release date: TBA
-.. — – … / . .–. (3) release date: TBA
each release will run between 20-25 minutes and be available as a download only. below are samples from the first e.p. NOW AVAILABLE in the store section of jasonsloan.com.
BEGINtoEND [50 second excerpt]
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HUSHEDandblind [50 second excerpt]
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images from 11/22/09 WXPN radio concert
Posted on | December 1, 2009
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| Images from the November 22, 2009 radio concert on WXPN FM’s Star’s End program. Philidelphia, PA | |
| photo credits l-r: 1-3: soma611 4: kathy jeffries |
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current & upcoming events
Posted on | November 20, 2009
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| // Live Performance on Star’s End Radio 88.5 FM WXPN Philadelphia, Pa November 22, 2009 1AM -2AM EST [-5GMT] LISTEN ONLINE LIVE |
| // Visiting Artist Lecture University of South Florida Tampa, FL February 25, 2010 |
| // SSI4 Sight.Sound [interaction] curated by jason.sloan Rosenberg Gallery [2nd Floor / Brown Center] November 2 – November 20, 2009 Opening Reception: Thursday November 5, 2009 6pm -9pm Website |