Outpostings

Yellow leaves on the ground, warm air fog in the morning air, Mutsu apples in the sun.

It's been Outpost most of the time , intensely for the period since the 10/24 show;
the group reorganized, listened to 8 rehearsal tapes, also found the pieces Mark and I did together one session last week.
Preparing for the DC show Dec. 4 & 5 ... Patrick Quick left Sunday AM after getting footage loaded that will serve as basis for the background video screen at Velvet Lounge and beyond. Patrick ran around the city after the Monkeytown show and saw alot of the lit world of NYC's bookstores, second hand book stores, The Strand.

Ike Yard 10" test pressing coming this week ?

DCC back into Riverglass Studio in mid Dec.

REC resumes work on the Luca Davis text project's soundtrack, with an eye on finishing it and releasing before year's end.
REC003 Davis/Nylon/ Outpost / Vex'd .

These days 2009AD

In the wake of the Ballard project 10/24, things have gotten ever more interesting !

JG Ballard project / Maryann Amacher rip

Have had Kingston NY on my mind in past days reading about the life and times of experimental composer Maryanne Amacher, who died last week. The bus goes through Kinston upstate on the way to our engineer Paul Geluso's Studio and stops there on the return trip too so I know the area recently .
Good to hear her music, notes and so on were going to be pulled together, archived with a new website to come.
Respect for her important works and just feel she will be missed on this planet.


Saturday night the Ballard project debuted at Monkeytown; and it worked pretty well ,
the audience was in an Outpost movie surrounded by four screens for a program of JG Ballard's Atrocity Exhibition ,
Time, Memory and Inner Space + our songs Ice Planet , League City , Witchfire and Serial Angels.
We had just burned the discs on the for the video edits earlier that day -but it all worked out thanks to John C and Johnny's help at the show. Good crowd, almost sold out even after a big downpour earlier in the night.
Patrick Quick came over from Perth via Sydney after he made video for Time, Memory and Inner Space.
By Friday he had also then made 20m of video grid visuals for our 4 songs set ...
Big thank you again to all our artists; Ester Ahn . Adrienne Altenhaus . Le Le Chan . Mark C . Jen Jaffe . Robert Longo .
Andrew Moszynski . Patrick Quick . Robert Selwyn . Vivian Wong and Stephanie Wuertz plus John C and Johnny !

So far we've gotten some great responses to the show
, and are following up on some new things that have come in since Saturday night
!

JG Ballard project @ Monkeytown Saturday night ...

Saturday night in the city of the dead !
Atrocity Exhibition /
Time,memory and Inner Space /
Ice Planet - League city - Witchfire -Serial Angels

One seating , 10:30 @ Monkeytown ( Williamsburg Bk )


Image: Mike Test (Head of Goya) Robert Longo
charcoal drawing 70 X 105 inches -2001
Courtesy Metro Pictures

More outlets for Rec's music

A few things in motion with Rec;
Bleep has contacted us about our releases and also we have opted to have our music on imeem , Amie street ( Amazon.com ), lala.com ,Verizon mobile, Think Indie, Shockhound and All Music Guide.
To be continued ...

crisp

' The “Vertical Ascent” LP by Moritz Von Oswald Trio is everything I could have wanted from one of my favorite musicians. I’m not even sure what the appropriate comparisons for this music really are, but it made me dig out my Ike Yard “Night After Night” EP (which made me order their recent CD collection of all recorded material as well as previously unreleased and live joints) as well as Rhythm and Sound. A combination of those two seems pretty spot-on: dubby and driving live drum patterns combine with spacey atmospherics to create the perfect soundtrack for a night time drive through the city at high speeds. If anything, this release suffers from being too short! I want it to keep going and going, despite each track being between 8 and 14 minutes in length. This release will be taking its place alongside all the Basic Channel related releases for constant repeat listens, and Pattern 3 will likely be hammered in all of my deejay sets for a good long while. Amazing, brilliant music. '

Now listening.

The Weapons Range

Wed. Most of the day we were at the waterside filming the helicopters.
Buffeted by high winds and prop wash while shooting.
Meanwhile across the river in Queens , power outages due to fallen trees ...

White Sunday '70's

Against a backdrop of S Asian earthquakes, tsunami's and hurricanes, Afghanistan and Iran ongoing, Socialists winning in Greece and Japanese in space ...

Outpost assembling artists for the Atrocity Exhibition video film, working on Time, Memory and Inner Space,
listening to rehearsal tapes and making a framework for new piece.
We will be previewing JGB audio clips on Melbourne's Ballardian .
It appears digital artist Patrick Quick from Perth will be coming here for the 10/24 JG Ballard thing .
Ellen Datlow editor . Marc Masters . Annette Peacock . Naokula JG Ballard and yokai enthusiast posted from her family home in Tottori Japan ...

Nightclub Diaries slowly hunting photos , Mark showed me a nice downtown photobook last night ,
the streets could be so empty and burned out in 1978.
Prolog including East coast styles of the 1970's,
habits of the artist class crew and those who met in open spaces built into the school, picture O HS art class 1972- 76 AD.

Pink Floyd and '70's music immersion after missing out almost totally on them when they were happening.
Syd Barrett's sad story , with his final walk back to Cambridge, production details of recordings.
Also VH1 Classics videos of the group live and 'the making of'.
After one VH 1 show of The Doors live in Canada with commentary from "No One Gets Out Of Here Alive"'s Danny Sugerman,
I sat and reread the Jim Morrison bio.
Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars final show with the Ronson solo during Width Of a Circle,
a live Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson Youtube video posted by Reeves G ...

Anti Pop Consortium @ Santos . All the best on "fluorescent black" their new album on Big Dada / Ninja Tunes -they rocked a crowd of friends and allies, DCC went downtown together, and it was great to reconnect with Flo , High Priest and Sayyid and CX Kidtronix . If DCC does another NYC show anytime soon , it will be with them or some of their members and Rob Madler.

Full moon in between cloud wash.
Saturday night late watching "Out Of Africa" with Noyuri until 4 AM,
quiet night except for the last NYU students reaching their Apt's drunken outside.

Art Book Fair @ PS 1 . A fine white Sunday to roll out to Long Island City for the third time to check all the new publications at the Fair. Probably bigger then ever, crowded after a sweet NY Times writeup on Saturday with some noise related music outside around the time I started to leave. The AM Bruno artists Sara Dell'onze and Judy Goldhill , one publisher selling Max Ernst drawings laid out on a window side. British lad sitting outside looking at his catch of the day- the 1978 Bowie Isolar loose pages portfolio of Bowie's Berlin period paintings ( I have one back in the dark closet ) ...

Giant yellow moon rise last night.