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BIO
Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer, writer and educator.
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
Three new small movies
Three new small movies
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/accordion_fish.mov
2.8 MB
an accordion and some fish
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/meadowhall_to_brightside.mov
1.4MB
a walk from Meadowhall to Brightside , Sheffield, UK,
recorded on my cell phone.
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/ayran.mov
3MB
A refreshing glass of Ayran .
All have sound.
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
'Everything is connected.' - V.I.Lenin
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
'Repetition, it's so fantastic, so anti-glop'- attrib. Lou Reed
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/accordion_fish.mov
2.8 MB
an accordion and some fish
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/meadowhall_to_brightside.mov
1.4MB
a walk from Meadowhall to Brightside , Sheffield, UK,
recorded on my cell phone.
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/Some_QuickTime_Movies/ayran.mov
3MB
A refreshing glass of Ayran .
All have sound.
best
michael
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/
'Everything is connected.' - V.I.Lenin
'..and always let your unconscious be your guide.' - J.Cricket
'Repetition, it's so fantastic, so anti-glop'- attrib. Lou Reed
Re: Call for Sound
<Please try to match beat of video track.>
not being facetious here, but why? Is this a guarantee
or at least a necessary-but-not-sufficient condition
for successful music making for moving image?
I think we should be told!
michael
--- "W. Logan Fry" <director@dmoma.org> wrote:
> Artists and musicians are invited to contribute
> tracks to the "Brain Scan Movies". Please provide
> one track; your name and name of track; a short
> description of track; and a short paragraph about
> yourself. Please submit in your own language and in
> English.
>
> Please try to match beat of video track.
>
> If audio track is longer than 60 to 90 seconds,
> extracts may be taken. The product for Internet will
> be in QuickTime movie format. It is understood that
> the track may be mixed (sequenced) with other tracks
> on a DVD or similar media. Any resulting DVD may be
> submitted to exhibitions, and other cultural events;
> but not for sale without further permission.
>
> Please include the following certification: "I
> hereby certify that I am the creator of the track
> submitted herewith; that I have retained copyright
> ownership of the track submitted; and that use and
> publication of the track for the purposes herein
> will not be in violation of the copyright or other
> intellectual property rights of any third party."
>
> Send by e-mail attachment to: curator@dmoma.org. Use
> the phrase "Brain Scan Movies" in the title line.
>
> DMOMA reserves right to use/ or not use/
> submissions. Please write if you have further
> questions.
>
> See:
>
>
http://www.dmoma.org/lobby/movies/brain_scan/brain_scan_about.html
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not being facetious here, but why? Is this a guarantee
or at least a necessary-but-not-sufficient condition
for successful music making for moving image?
I think we should be told!
michael
--- "W. Logan Fry" <director@dmoma.org> wrote:
> Artists and musicians are invited to contribute
> tracks to the "Brain Scan Movies". Please provide
> one track; your name and name of track; a short
> description of track; and a short paragraph about
> yourself. Please submit in your own language and in
> English.
>
> Please try to match beat of video track.
>
> If audio track is longer than 60 to 90 seconds,
> extracts may be taken. The product for Internet will
> be in QuickTime movie format. It is understood that
> the track may be mixed (sequenced) with other tracks
> on a DVD or similar media. Any resulting DVD may be
> submitted to exhibitions, and other cultural events;
> but not for sale without further permission.
>
> Please include the following certification: "I
> hereby certify that I am the creator of the track
> submitted herewith; that I have retained copyright
> ownership of the track submitted; and that use and
> publication of the track for the purposes herein
> will not be in violation of the copyright or other
> intellectual property rights of any third party."
>
> Send by e-mail attachment to: curator@dmoma.org. Use
> the phrase "Brain Scan Movies" in the title line.
>
> DMOMA reserves right to use/ or not use/
> submissions. Please write if you have further
> questions.
>
> See:
>
>
http://www.dmoma.org/lobby/movies/brain_scan/brain_scan_about.html
> +
> -> post: list@rhizome.org
> -> questions: info@rhizome.org
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>
Re: Remix and Remixability
Yes - this seems on the nail, if a tad schematic.
The potential to express large amounts of different
stuff in ones and zeros, so sound and image and text
and procedure confront one another as *equals* and
moreover in some sense the *same coinage* seems to me
also to be behind/parallel to a general renewal of
interest in the gesamkunstwerke, and this not only in
the networked world.
But the elephant in the room here is the massive
amount of stuff (ie. most stuff) not yet (and probably
never) reducible to, and exchangeable in, this
coinage.
The difference between an image of a painting and that
painting's surface and presence (& I'm not talking
*aura* here, just the fact of that raised and lumpy
surface),or the distance between the wonderfully
accurate Strad sample called in by an extremely
nuanced Sibelius file compared to a performance by a
human on a real Strad,or smell,or taste,or dance...
I'm not dissing the virtual, I love it; also I'm not
setting up a simple human/machine opposition - those
networks and channels are, of course,chock full of
humanity. There's just a further dialectic at work...
michael
--- Lev Manovich <manovich@jupiter.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Lev Manovich
>
>
> Remix and Remixability
>
>
> The dramatic increase in quantity of information
> greatly speeded up by
> Internet has been accompanied by another fundamental
> development. Imagine
> water running down a mountain. If the quantity of
> water keeps continuously
> increasing, it will find numerous new paths and
> these paths will keep
> getting wider. Something similar is happening as the
> amount of information
> keeps growing - except these paths are also all
> connected to each other and
> they go in all directions; up, down, sideways. Here
> are some of these new
> paths which facilitate movement of information
> between people, listed in no
> particular order: SMS, forward and redirect function
> in email clients,
> mailing lists, Web links, RSS, blogs, social
> bookmarking, tagging,
> publishing (as in publishing one
The potential to express large amounts of different
stuff in ones and zeros, so sound and image and text
and procedure confront one another as *equals* and
moreover in some sense the *same coinage* seems to me
also to be behind/parallel to a general renewal of
interest in the gesamkunstwerke, and this not only in
the networked world.
But the elephant in the room here is the massive
amount of stuff (ie. most stuff) not yet (and probably
never) reducible to, and exchangeable in, this
coinage.
The difference between an image of a painting and that
painting's surface and presence (& I'm not talking
*aura* here, just the fact of that raised and lumpy
surface),or the distance between the wonderfully
accurate Strad sample called in by an extremely
nuanced Sibelius file compared to a performance by a
human on a real Strad,or smell,or taste,or dance...
I'm not dissing the virtual, I love it; also I'm not
setting up a simple human/machine opposition - those
networks and channels are, of course,chock full of
humanity. There's just a further dialectic at work...
michael
--- Lev Manovich <manovich@jupiter.ucsd.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Lev Manovich
>
>
> Remix and Remixability
>
>
> The dramatic increase in quantity of information
> greatly speeded up by
> Internet has been accompanied by another fundamental
> development. Imagine
> water running down a mountain. If the quantity of
> water keeps continuously
> increasing, it will find numerous new paths and
> these paths will keep
> getting wider. Something similar is happening as the
> amount of information
> keeps growing - except these paths are also all
> connected to each other and
> they go in all directions; up, down, sideways. Here
> are some of these new
> paths which facilitate movement of information
> between people, listed in no
> particular order: SMS, forward and redirect function
> in email clients,
> mailing lists, Web links, RSS, blogs, social
> bookmarking, tagging,
> publishing (as in publishing one
Fwd: 'interactivity' - teaching at LCAD
Here is a bit of work at Leeds College of Art &
Design, UK, if anyone's interested. The departmental
staff are nice as are the students, about half of whom
I worked with earlier this year -positive and
motivated.
Inquiries as below , not to me please.
michael
--- Dan Robinson <dan.robinson@leeds-art.ac.uk> wrote:
> Subject: 'interactivity' - teaching at LCAD
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:46:43 -0000
>
---------------------------------
'interactivity' - teaching at LCAD
Dear all
below are details of a short teaching contract
available at Leeds College of Art & Design in January.
I would be grateful if you could forward to anyone you
think may be interested.
many thanks,
Dan
--
Dan Robinson
2nd year tutor
BA Art & Design (ID)
Leeds College of Art & Dssign
tel: 2028285 (Tue & Wed)
--
>>LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
TEACHING VACANCY
BA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Art & Design
Tutor required to teach the following module on the
above course:
>>Interactive Art & Design
A level 2 module with approximately 32 students
>>Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10th January - 1st February
2006 (8 days in total)
c.
Design, UK, if anyone's interested. The departmental
staff are nice as are the students, about half of whom
I worked with earlier this year -positive and
motivated.
Inquiries as below , not to me please.
michael
--- Dan Robinson <dan.robinson@leeds-art.ac.uk> wrote:
> Subject: 'interactivity' - teaching at LCAD
> Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 20:46:43 -0000
>
---------------------------------
'interactivity' - teaching at LCAD
Dear all
below are details of a short teaching contract
available at Leeds College of Art & Design in January.
I would be grateful if you could forward to anyone you
think may be interested.
many thanks,
Dan
--
Dan Robinson
2nd year tutor
BA Art & Design (ID)
Leeds College of Art & Dssign
tel: 2028285 (Tue & Wed)
--
>>LEEDS COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN
TEACHING VACANCY
BA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Art & Design
Tutor required to teach the following module on the
above course:
>>Interactive Art & Design
A level 2 module with approximately 32 students
>>Tuesdays and Wednesdays 10th January - 1st February
2006 (8 days in total)
c.
Re: fresco
HI Geert
for some reason it takes a little while for the thing
to load completely even after it has apparently fully
done so - I noticed this yesterday , just before I
unleashed it on the world & I was slightly worried
people might get impatient & move on. If you wait 15
or twenty seconds you should see a clickable triangle
appear at the left hand side. If you *are* waiting
that long & this isn't happening please mail me off
list - the other cause might be that despite the
nominally cross platform nature of shockwave movies it
ain't always so - a few of my things, especially where
I've used Lingo to synchronise sound, just don't seem
to work at all on Macs..
best
michael
--- Geert Dekkers <geert@nznl.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> ibook (oldie!) 500Mhz 384 MB macos 10.4.3
>
> I have the shockwave plugin (not that your work
> moans about missing
> bits..)
>
> Just see a white field...:(
>
> Is it me???
>
> Geert
> http://nznl.com
>
>
> On 4-nov-2005, at 2:47, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>
> > 'fresco' - a generative movie
> >
> > *allow pop ups
> > *sound on
> > * 2.5 Mb - most of that sound..
> >
> > http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/fresco/
> >
> > best
> > michael
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for some reason it takes a little while for the thing
to load completely even after it has apparently fully
done so - I noticed this yesterday , just before I
unleashed it on the world & I was slightly worried
people might get impatient & move on. If you wait 15
or twenty seconds you should see a clickable triangle
appear at the left hand side. If you *are* waiting
that long & this isn't happening please mail me off
list - the other cause might be that despite the
nominally cross platform nature of shockwave movies it
ain't always so - a few of my things, especially where
I've used Lingo to synchronise sound, just don't seem
to work at all on Macs..
best
michael
--- Geert Dekkers <geert@nznl.com> wrote:
> Hi Michael
>
> ibook (oldie!) 500Mhz 384 MB macos 10.4.3
>
> I have the shockwave plugin (not that your work
> moans about missing
> bits..)
>
> Just see a white field...:(
>
> Is it me???
>
> Geert
> http://nznl.com
>
>
> On 4-nov-2005, at 2:47, Michael Szpakowski wrote:
>
> > 'fresco' - a generative movie
> >
> > *allow pop ups
> > *sound on
> > * 2.5 Mb - most of that sound..
> >
> > http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/fresco/
> >
> > best
> > michael
> > +
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>
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>