The Mag.net Reader 3 — Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures.

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Publishing is no longer a question of ‘readership’ but of resonance. Only lazy, old media add up the numbers of individuals who look at what they publish, and leave their audience research at that. More astute contemporary publishing focuses on resonance and the shifting of forces within unacknowledged collectives and technical networks. — Andrew Murphie

Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures is in itself an act of making public what goes on behind the scenes. In this context the act of publishing is viewed as a gesture that accommodates the political, the artistic, and in some cases, the defiant. Gestures are located between the realm of discourse and the material act. A gesture is something preceding the action, and therefore signifies motion and agency of the most expressive and potent kind, precisely because it is so wrought with intentionality. It is this sensibility that this publication attempts to capture.

Processual Publishing. Actual Gestures looks at three main strands which situate contemporary independent publishing as: a locus for artistic practice (“The Art of Publishing”); a public platform engaging with its readership in a specific manner (“Publishing the Public”); and a potential site for countering hegemonic informational power structures (“Hacktivist Publishing”). The thread stitching these realms together is the examination of conditions and tactics for the distribution of knowledge.

Editors: Nat Muller & Alessandro Ludovico. Contributions by: Arteleku, Patricia Canetti & Leandro de Paula, Miguel Carvalhais, Constant, Régine Debatty, Jaime Iregui, Christina McPhee, Nasrin Tabatabai & Babak Afrassiabi, Andrew Murphie, Jelena Vesic, Simon Worthington.

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“Praxis” reviewed by Tapage nocturne @ France Musique

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Autre nouveauté discographique qui utilise l’art du son mais cette fois ci non pas en Angleterre ou aux Etats Unis mais au Portugal avec Cem Güney, un compositeur d’origine turque, né en 1973. Après de sérieuses études musicales en Californie Cem Güney s’est intéressé de très près à l’art du son, aux rapports entre phonétique, langage et forme musicale. Le label portugais Crónica vient de publier sur un album intitulé Praxis quelques unes de ses plus récentes compositions. — Eric Serva

Ben Frost’s “Music for 6 guitars”

Pedro Almeida (aka paL) will be one of the six guitar players to perform on Ben Frost’s “Music for 6 guitars”, for the TRAMA Performance Arts Festival, today, October 26 2008. This piece, “is very much about the performance and the ability to play a single melodic structure, repetitively, with extreme intensity continuously”. Frost “is probably most widely recognized for an uncompromising form of experimental music drawing widely on influences of Minimalism, Post-punk, Black metal, Sacred Minimalism, and Noise”. The guitar players for tonight will be Paul Corley, Carlos Lobo, Francisco Silva, Leonel Sousa, Pedro Almeida and Vitor Santos.

“Praxis” reviewed by Rockerilla

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A meta strada tra il collage dada, I’esercizio di musique concrete e I’opera acusmatica, le 9 composizioni di “Praxis” possono spaventare I’avventore impreparato. La messe di suoni raccolti e prodotti con laptop, live electronics e radio é cosi ingente e variegata che la prima reazione non puo che essere di stordimento. Se poi Güney, sound-artist, trombettista autodidatta e dj turco, evidentemente calatosi troppo seriamente nel ruolo del compositore extracolto, vuole spiegare come dietro a “Praxis” si celi un rigoroso lavoro di rireca su composizioni algoritmiche, continuum spazio-tempo e tecniche nada-yoga, ecco che altri potenziali ascoltatori vedono bene di tenersi alla larga da un disco che invece ha nei saliscendi emotivi che sa provocare la propria unica forza. (7/10)

Martijn Tellinga live at TAC, Eindhoven

Next Wednesday, October 22nd, Martijn Tellinga will perform three of his works for computer and 4 speakers. This performance is part of a three day DNK-amsterdam program, which takes place at the TAC in Eindhoven on October 22, 23 and 24. The event has been realised on kind invitation and in collaboration with Axes, organisation for new music, and lines up in a row of events that make the anual Dutch Design Week. Also featuring on the 22nd is the Wandelweiser ensemble performing work of Antoine Beuger. Wandelweiser ensemble is Antoine Beuger (flute), Taylan Susam (clarinet), Markus Kaiser (cello) en Koen Nutters (double bass).

Thursday 23rd holds 2 performances by Tape That (Christophe Meierhans and Koen Nutters) playing The Catalogue (100 short pieces) and James Beckett playing 4 bass guitars. Friday 24th presents 2 shows by RnGdS (Gert-Jan Prins (electronica), Koen Nutters (double bass) and Raed Yassin (double bass)) featuring Andre Avelas on stove, and MoHa! (Morten J. Olsen & Anders Hana).

More info: www.tac.nu

Pedro Tudela at TRAMA 2008

Next friday, the 24th October, Pedro Tudela will be at “TRAMA – Performance Arts Festival” .Trama is third edition of a festival that takes place at several places and venues across the city (Porto). The festival aims at presenting experimental forms of contemporary creation in music, dance, and performance. TRAMA is curated by the Serralves Foundation, MatériaPrima, brrr_ Live Art and Lado B producers. Some artists and projects at TRAMA2008: AUDIOBOMBER; BEN FROST; CATHERINE BAÿ; DIDI BRUCKMAYR; FABRIZIO PALUMBO & ERNESTO TOMASINI; FEDERICO LEÓN & MARCOS MARTÍNEZ; GD LUXXE; GISÉLE VIENNE; LUCKY DRAGONS; MÄUSE; MORITZ VON OSWALD [rhythm & sound, basic channel] feat. TIKIMAN; OSSO EXÓTICO; PEDRO TUDELA [dj]; PHILIPP QUEHENBERGER; REBEKAH ROUSI; RONALD DUARTE; SHIT & SHINE; SILVERIO; TÂNIA CARVALHO; WIPEOUT; YOU GO! [dj]