Veronica Belmont
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I’m famous (well, duh)
16 years ago
I was sent an email this morning, with the subject line “You’re famous!” Always good to grab my attention… this was the link that followed.
I was in a bar last week (a real one, the kind where you can drink without using a forward slash) with a World of Warcraft fan. We were discussing the upcoming G.A.M.E. event and how she wanted to volunteer in order to get in. She almost caught herself before saying, “I would do it just for the experience points.” Nice. I explained to her that there are three things I will never try: heroin, chicken-fried steak, and World of Warcraft. My justification is that I’m afraid I’d like them so much that they would eventually lead to my death.
HAHA! Oh god. I need a freaking life.
Also, I cancelled my Friendster account today, because they fired one of their employees for blogging. This is an old story, but one that I just caught wind of for whatever reason. And I don’t like it one bit.
Commuting.
0I’ve found that the quality of my daily morning commute usually directly correlates with how my day is going to go. It sets the tone.
Today is going to be interesting.
“Think Differently Music”
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Apparently the Wu Tang Clan loves Apple the most. This is real, as reported by Wired. If I knew anything about pop-culture, I’d have probably already known this.
Uh… I just noticed that the Wu Tang website is on Sony Music. So I’m gonna have to encourage you to not actually buy this CD. Or else you’re in for a world of trouble.
Jeff Talman – “In Transit”
0If you’re in Chicago, you should probably go see this. Jeff was one of my favorite teachers, and his exhibits are awesome.
In the InterContinental Hotel ? Chicago, exploring the sound of ?silence?
EXHIBITION DATES: NOV. 7 ? 13, 2005
International artist Jeff Talman will mount a new installation in an exhibition that explores the sonic resonance of the InterContinental Hotel atrium. In this site-specific sound work Talman exposes the nuances embedded in the ?silence? of the 4-story, dome-capped space.
?In Transit? features the actual resonant frequencies of the atrium extracted from the room tone or ?silence? of the site. Installed in the hotel atrium, the installation feeds the site resonance back into the space. Because the resonance is perfectly tuned to the site it is naturally amplified by the space. The results are a re-resonating sound field in which the inherent sonic ?presence? of the atrium itself is brought forward for the listener as intuitive notions of sound and spatial perception are enhanced.
Regarding the title, Talman noted, ?We are constantly in transit ? moving through spaces ? with too many other concerns to spend much time reflecting on where we are, where we have come from, and where we are going. When we do reflect on our surroundings, we acquire the sense of a place largely through visual perception. But our place-sense is also highly dependent on the self-sound of a site, of which we have a much lower consciousness, perhaps only an intuitive grasp. By emphasizing this unique place sound I hope to make available a larger, instinctive sense of site that is fundamental to our perception of the world.?
Talman?s other new soundspace installation, ?Absolute Elsewhere,? which is based on similar properties of site resonance, opens three days later on November 10 in St. James Cathedral, which is near the hotel. The two installations coincide with the Nineteenth Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, which is one of the installations? sponsors along with the University of Illinois-Chicago, and Emerson College, Boston where Talman teaches. He is represented by bitforms in New York City.