Observing & absorbing
Last Saturday the Latvian exhibition “Lost in the City” was opened at the Comic Art Festival Ligatura in Poznan – the biggest alternative comics festival in Poznan which took place for the first time.
More about it & some pictures.
Here’s of course how my work looks. Great job done by David & Ingrida, I wish I was there to see it.
Today internet label Clinical Archives releases the album “0703-0307″ – the result of collaboration project of Martins Rokis and me.
aaand FLAC version.
For this release Martins Rokis & Kaspars Groshevs made several improvisation sessions during which they merged their sonic interests largely using digital manipulations of both synthetic sounds and acoustic sources such as percussions, voice, toy horn and glockenspiel. It resulted in live performances on Sound Forrest festival and taking part in project “Submergence” in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
Edited and mixed by Martins Rokis.
Cover art by Kaspars Groshevs.
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My suggestion would be to listen to this LOUD.
This is back in 2008 when I “remixed” an old track from 2004 called “Kobraman”. The so-called-remix process was actually recording the same track on the tape, than back on PC, than back on the tape, than back on PC, for about 12 times or even more. I called it Trash Snowman version.
After quite some time I’ve uploaded a broadcast (or should I call it podcast) of my radioshow “Visions” on radio NABA.
Anyhow here’s hour of goodies compiled of more recent releases & not just that. Less talk, more music, let’s go!
Playlist:
Reiko Kudo – Kaihatsu-san [Yoru no ine, 2001]
C.O. Caspar – 00-03-34-11 [Pass the times, 2002]
Akira Rabelias – 1382 Wycliff gen. ii. 7 [David Sylvian: The World is everything tourbook, 2007]
Jana Winderen – Heated, part 2 [Heated, Live in Japan, 2009]
Tomoko Sauvage – Jalatarangam Revisited [Ombrophilia, 2009]
Pikelet – Hallway master [Not so still, 2009]
Robin Watkins & Torben Tilly – Fig.3 [extract]
386dx – Imagine [The Best of 386dx, 2001]
Ikue Mori – Hemiptera [Class insecta, 2009]
Hecker – Jxean-Z Character Generator [Sun Pandamonium, 2003]
Leonid Desyatnikov – 02 [Moskva, 1999]
Erikm – Leak [Stéme, 2008]
Alfred Schnittke – In Memoriam… For Orchestra – V. Moderato Pastorale
Peter Cusack – Girl in train singing [Baikal ice, 2003]
Ariel Pink – Passing the petal 2 U [V/A - Music for plants, 2005]
Silk Flowers – Running out of rope [Silk Flowers, 2009]
Terre Thaemlitz – Resistance to change, parts 2 and 3 [V/A - Haunted house]
Guignol – Of houses and canals [Angela David & The Great Neopolitan road isue, 2003]
In October 2009 I was in Porto for Regenlab workshop which dealt with new cartographies and mental mapping. In ten days spent there I worked on sound route of the central part looking for unique sound sources that could be used in my composition. The result was 22 minutes long field recording collage in two parts: Day and Night. It was exhibited together with map and description showing the route and explaining the sound sources. After all I decided that the map isn’t obligatory; it explains the structure but I still made it as composition combining elements according to my sense.
So here is “Portosound”:
Click here for archive.org upload with this piece in .flac, .wav, .ogg
Portosound consists of:
DAY (16:50)
1) political rally (kids on balcony greet the politicians), 2) passing by school, 3) broken home phone, 4) another political rally, 5) fountain, 6) book store, 7) empty grocery store, 8) empty restaurant with loud Tony Braxton song, 9) scary tram approaching, 10) Russian grocery store, 11) music store with angry seller, 12) pass-by cars, 13) dj shop with cat mewing in the background, 14) Japanese shop with seller girl making her friend wait on phone, 15) hotel flags fluttering from wind, 16) Emaus, 17) another political rally, 18) student choir singing in heavy rain outside the central station, 19) wish market with loud women and seagulls, 20) Indian hi-fi store, 21) street workers, 22) immigrant district, 23) street beggar, 24) another political rally – this time really scary one with loud pulsing drums, 25) cathedral bells, 26) high pitched street light signal, 27) kids on main shopping street, 28) central market carts, 29) Fado, 30) car parked with loud Arabic music banging, 31) African community centre
NIGHT (5:44)
1) ambient band playing on street during street festival with two kids running around with tambourines, 2) reggae bar, 3) street lights, 4) young people having fun in the main square, 5) MacDonalds delivery arriving, 6) more street light noise, 7) the closest you can get to silence in the city
@ “Pērle”
Kaut kad gadījās uzskricelēt dažas rindas par 2009. gada interesantākajiem mūzikas ierakstiem Skaņu Meža lapā, lai gan pārlasot nākas secināt, ka neko ievērības cienību īsti neatradu 2009ajā, vai arī divu nedēļu ēdienu un dzērienu dzīres atstājušas nelielu grūtsirdību. Gribas vienīgi ticēt, kā, kā parasti, labie ieraksti atklāsies tikai pēcāk, kad datumam vairs nebūs nozīmes. Piemēram, viens no pēdējā laika interesantākais veikumiem, kas paslīdēja garām 2008ajā – eRikm – Stéme
Welcome to tennies.
Deep sleep is over, here’s excerpt I stole from Mr. Martins Rokis of our performance in freezingly dark club Elektra in middle of snowstorm:
I wish I had some photos or something, but -20 degrees made technique act weird and our only visual proof (The Video) has been lost.
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In other news: Internetless times are coming to end, more updates – drawings and photos – soon.
18.DEC.2009 @ subkultūras namā “ELEKTRA”
noise ambient experiments:
KASPARS ROLSTEiNS
JEKABS VOLATOVSKiS
MARTiNS ROKiS
KASPARS GROSHEVS
SOUND MECCANO
ATOMZIEMA
WHITE TIDE
+
VJ PUNTE, PB, PLANKTONS
Dj NiKOTiNS
1900 hrs – 0 Ls; 20:00 hrs – 1 Ls
Tuvāks info sturmmandat.com
“Elektra” atrodas Ādmiņu ielā 4. Ieeja pa galvenajiem vārtiem. Jāiet uz zaļajām durvīm ar uzrakstu “Sturm” un jāiet uz 3. stāvu.
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Martins Rokis & Kaspars Groshevs “032809″
man šķiet, viņannnnhbnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbgtbggbgbvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvg jhbbbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbbbbbhbbbggbv bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbggbgggbbbbbbgbbbbbhgbb m hhhhhhh nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Šovakar “Pērlē”:
20:00 Filma “Labirints”
~22:00 Deivida Bovija skaņuceliņš
November is close to its end, I feel like innnnnnnnn nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn ghost town where the letter N is always stucking.
This drawing is part of the cover for upcoming comics magazine SH (komikss.lv).
And I am preparing to finally move to bigger space where hopefully I will be able finally stop piling my working materials in 3 storey constructions.
And there are a lot of people I want to strangle for at least thirty seconds.
And Porto Sound walk is still stuck in my inner bureaucracy.
Mighty Latvian Internet Medias are reporting: Latvian comics have been published in Japan. Lovely Japanese comics magazine UZO has included some of our stuff in their latest issue number 11 which looks like this:
I’m still waiting to get my copy and take a look myself, but this whole thing looks nice. Japan rocks.
And you know what else rocks? David Sylvian and his band Japan (just the album “Tin Drum” though). And Mr. Sylvian is supposed to have new album I guess hmm:
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P.S. Latviski visizsmeļošāko un vizuālo pilnīgāko informāciju par Japānas komiksu žurnālu atradu Dizaina Informācijas Centra mājaslapā.
It seems that shit doen’t have passport and border crossing problems unlike human shells.
Veto Magazine 13 is out.
vetomagazine.lv
Okt/Nov numurs iznācis.
www.studija.lv
I am back from Porto. It was great. It was combination of very stupid comedians, angry ocean and angry surfers, Tall Johnny from Barcelona and some field recording homeworks. I’m still thinking of proper way to present my “work” done there, since it’s more of a research-type thing, rather straight and illustrative soundwalk which might need some explainations.
I am also back from London. Maybe I should put some pictures from Frieze & Zoo art fairs (first one was insanely massive, the second one was massively rough and bit weird), but the cold weather has caught me unprepared.
I’ve moved from Porto to London for a few days, and than I missed my flight. Still thinking about the ocean and the lovely city, and the fact I am writting about Alejandra & Aeron for the magazine is not helping because they did a lovely album on Porto sounds few years ago.
You can download their stuff here (with their kind permission).
And here’s the first piece from barber shop:
I have to note I also did some soundwork in Porto – my map of the city which I’d love to share with you some time soon. First I have to urvive London and Frieze Art Faire, and finally get on airplane. Somehow I miss my miserable grey country right now.
I am currently in Porto for Regenlab workshop which gathers people from Spain, France, Lithuania, Latvia and of course Portugal. So far it’s been fun and interesting, working on mental mapping (in other words – discovering city on our own, finding special interesting places). All northern people come to Porto, it’s warm.
Hello. Finally here’s a video from our Russia trip. This is an edit from our Moscow performance, filmed by someone with out of control camera moves which made it hard to use more material, but why not – here’s a shaky shaky document of the live video impro done by me, and monster sounds done mostly by mister candycoveredclown.
And our Reverb Nation player still have some nice excerpts both from St. Petersburg and Moscow, and sum mo’.
And it’s ready – the new fashion film by Latvian designers Mare Mastiņa and Rolands Pēterkops, directed by Kristīne Kursiša. You can watch it below in pretty decent quality, though on big screen it should be a killer hit.
Another thing I should mention is that the music for the film is done by me.
This movie was done for contest Fashion Is Passion – follow the link to see other movies.
(Poster by Maija Kurševa)
I just discovered new version of mareunrol’s (or Mare un Rol’s) where you can watch their fashion movie Private Detective, directed by Kristīne Kursiša.
This combo is now in process of making a new film and from what I have seen it’s going to be incredibly unbelievably great and beautiful stuff.
Click on picture to watch the movie.
By the way, editing / animation done by me.
Check out the lovely Book By Its Cover blog. And they have spotted KUŠ #4.
Click on picture
Tikko grāmatnīcā atvēru Andra Buļļa dzejas grāmatu “Mans Ego”. Wow.
“Interesanti ir vērot sevi no malas..” un tālāk kaut kas par spoguļiem.
found at Jukeboxmafia
It seems these numerous blogs are perfect music-collector-freakazoid-nerd tool: they can show their pearls, make people listen to it, but at the same time we all know they got the original, they got The Hot Shit. Them not us. What else does a collector-freakazoid needs if not a feeling of having something special and rare.
(Alejandra & Aeron – La Rioja: Christmas Bells, from ubu.com)
Daniel Padden is the mysterious genius that plays with Volcano the Bear (seeing them in Riga was as uplifting as drinking 13 years old real scotch). He is also the man behind The One Ensemble, they manage to blend Celtic middle age stuff with kinda klezmerish thing via avantgarde approach and what not . They have a new release “Other thunders” which is very very very very good.
Here’s older piece by mister Padden’s Uno Ensemble – “Smok”
Blackout got white, and the beautiful art appeared in front of my very eyes
Conceptual link to previous Venezian memory part. And now some works:
Lovely Singapore pavillion with film works by artist Ming Wong
Amazingly shot video piece by Ulla von Brandenburg; and it’s so great it’s even hard to describe it.
Italian fancy unicorn by Nicola Bolla; Haegue Yang (Korean pavillion)
One of the most beautiful pieces of the biennale “The End” four synchronized video projections with two guys playing some melancholic country track in the middle of Canadian nowhere by Ragnar Kjartansson + he is living in Icelandic pavilion till the end of biennale and is painting his friend everyday while listening to some LPs and drinking lots of beer, man he rocks
Idan Hayosh in Rietveld Academy pavilion
Supersmall window at Distortion place that also had the only awesome bar in the whole Venice as far as I know + some unknown asian video with girl singing karaoke. This phrase got my attention.. for some 10 seconds.
My favourite performance artist Marina Abramovich; Australian pavilion’s Ken Yonetani with his sugar sculptures
This shall be continued hopefully as I saw some more interesting works and images. I shall continue with Australian mad max.
I’ m pretty sure I didn’t take this picture but I found it on my camera.
Mūzikas apskati ir lieliska lieta, grūtāk ir to visu pēc tam atrast. Ir gadījies, ka “Rīgas Laikā” apskatītie ieraksti nedodas rokā, lai kā meklētu, vismaz netaustāmajā mp3 formā, jo – būsim atklāti – ja vispār jelkad rodas vēlme kaut ko taustāmu iegādāties, ir jābūt varen pārliecinātam. Tad nu man tikko iešāvās prātā, ka es tās savus necilos mūzikas ierakstu aprakstus Studijā un Veto varētu šeiten papildināt ar saitēm uz noziedzīgām saitēm uz šiem ierakstiem. Lai visi varētu iepazīties. Un ja simpātijas ir abpusējas, kas zin – varbūt seko patērētāja un produkta laulības.
Pirmais ierakts, ar ko vēlos padalīties un ko digitalizētā formā atrast nav nemaz tik viegli, ir britu mākslinieka Martina Krīda ieraksts “I Can’t Move”, izdots pirms desmit gadiem un iegādei atrodams www.martincreed.com
Albums sazipotā formā atrodams, klikšķinot uz attēla, un turpinājums sekos drīz.
I remember few years ago some guy called Sean gave me this song, I though “Wow, what an amazing piece of trash”. It suited him – ragged artsy guy from states with blues brothers’ sun glasses, this irritating way of talking (“eeee-aaa-um-yeah”, you know, like the video artist type in Big Lebowski) and bottle of cheap white wine in his pocket. He made weird paintings and sculptures. They suited him well. Maybe he was a nice guy. He played bass in some French trash act called Poppel Strudel or something like that and I have a suspicion he wasn’t really much of a good bass player. But I am really glad he introduced me to the Gories.
“Smashed“
Terry Riley – Shri Camel (1978), for electronic organ & tape delay
(.zip, 192kb Mp3, 61 mb)
Download one of the truly amazing minimalism masterpieces. It has captured my mind for long enough to say it’s more that meditative repetition trick-machine.
Tā nu sakritis, ka šajās nedēļās vairākos izdevumos ir kaut kas mazliet no manis ieskricelēts:
Jaunais Š! “istabā” un “tasty” galerijā.
New microsize Š! comics magazine is out, about getting/being lost in the city. My piece’s in it and also lots of other lovely comics. Gettt it at www.komikss.lv
Tāpat nupat iznācis jaunais žurnāla “Studija” numurs par Venēcijas biennāli, jaunajiem mākslinieciņiem spēlē, Armanda Zelča izstādi, superīgā igauņu gleznotāja Kinnapu izstādi utt. Un, protams, arī par mūziku no manis – šoreiz par māksliniekiem mūzikā – Martinu Krīdu un Deividu Šrigliju. Veičos un www.studija.lv
New issue of bilingual arts magazine out.
Un last not the least iznācis jaunais Veto Magazine bērniņš pēc ilgām, konvulsīvām dzemdībām. Veto māte barotāja katru bērniņu briedina ilgi un rūpīgi kā 12 gadus vecu viskiju. Iekšā par mūziku, tostarp sunn O))), un mākslu, literatūru, modi. Visos avīžu kioskos + “istaba”, “i love you”, “supernova” u.c.
Nuevo Veto Magazinas ist aus mit viele Beitrage an Muzik und Kunst. Mann kann diese Magazin in viele Kioske suchen.
This screen paralises cells leaving no other choice but to fix everything, catch everything, glue everything to the screen, leave no flaunting thing untied.
Mobile pictures. Ubu.web. Fun and glory. Everyone have something up their sleeves and asses, everyone can fix, tie, attach. Do I keep silent and nod? Do I say something and get endangered by revengeful bits and bites floating around for years and years and years? Do I pull out the wire (ouch, hurts more than suicide, right)? Do I read a book? Or two? Or three? Do I finally listen to all the music I have? There is no troubleshooting for these and other similarly ridiculous questions.
Hey, writing is fun, I can do this honey, I can recover from my emotional crisis. Hey, drawing is fun, I think I’ll be fine and won’t have urges to kill everyone in my gym class. Hey, this clay is super wet and cute, I think I will make a penis to sublime my desire for tens of penises.
Spoken piece by Richard Nonas from the lovely compilation LP “Airwaves” released in 1977, probably never re-released, and now available on ubu.web right here.
Here’s a short video piece from festival “Sound forest” where me and monsieur candycoveredclown did a live sound and video improvisation performance.
I’d like to underline that almost certainly
Pazudis pilsētā dodas uz Rīgu. Super kruts Anetes zīmējums par to vēsta mums.
The player has been updated with two pieces from Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Enjoy.
Москва:
Дата проведения: 30 июня – 9 июля, 2009
Адрес: Московский музей современного искусства, Гоголевский бульвар, 10
Санкт-Петербург:
Катушки Лофт, Проекта ЭТАЖИ
Ежедневно с 12:00 до 22:00, ежедневно
3 июля – 17 июля: мультимедийный проект “Погружение” – видео-арт из Москвы, Санкт-Петербурга, Латвии. Вход 100 рублей.
Maskavā un Sankt-Pēterburgā šobrīd norit video mākslas izstāde “Iegrimšana”, kurā piedalās krievijas Antishanti, Intektra, Aleksandrs Strelecs un Ģirts Korps, Maija Kurševa un Kaspars Groševs no Latvijas.
Maskavas Laikmetīgās mākslas muzejā, Gogoļa bulvārī 10, no 30. jūnija līdz 9.jūlijam.
Sankt Pēterburgā projekta Etaži Katuški galerijā, Ligovska prospektā 74, no 4. jūlija līdz 19. jūlijam.
(Kaspars Groševs “Licking piece”)
(Ģirts Korps: “M”)
Still about the same, because I finally have some spare time.
The Exhibition is over, but this how the exhibition double-cover catalogue looks like (with drawing by me).
