The sound sculptors contributing to this first installment all decided to take its title (inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's sense of architecture) literally.
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The aim of the Floating Foundation series is to "create sound objects" with musicians "who are, in most cases, plastic artists too" (from Sub Rosa director Guy Marc Hinant's presentation) - in other words, to walk the thinning line between music and plastic arts. Described by Alternative Press as 'proving that machines do indeed have souls' - founder long time ago of the mythic Ultra Vivid Scene (on 4AD) Kurt Ralske is a Manhattan-based composer, electronic musician, and computer audio-video artist. He was also a close collaborator of Nam June Paik. A musician and media-artist, he is involved in the New York avant garde. His work has been featured in group exhibitions at Whitney Museum and Postmasters Gallery, in New York. he produced about 12 records from early 90 and participated to the 'Gilles Deleuze unit' with Scanner mid-90.įrench sound plastician living in Tokyo, close in mind to Markus Popp / Oval - he released "undirected 1986-1996 " on Mille plateaux and "dok " - a soundfile exchange between Oval and him.īorn in New York City in 1964. After his 'Above Buildings', he worked with Robert Hampson on a project called Comae', also he invented the Tri-Phonic Turntable.įounder of Loop and Main - a seminal musician from south london.
This is what we will try to explore for the time being.īased in london as architecte and musician. Likewise, the idea which preoccupies us in this series, is to create sound objects, abstract in their appearance, with musicians who are, in most cases, plastic artists too - the border between music and plastic arts is thinner than ever before. What must be done now is to apply this principle to other areas of creation.Ī thousand facts and actions could support the theory that we are moving towards a new decompartmentalization of genre, towards a unified field, as Christophe Charles - and Markus Popp - would state.(we could also treat archeologically the compartmentalization of the arts and its decompartmentalization throughout history, to reach the conclusion that nothing is ever permanently set).we are merely linking together a few elements that go in the same direction. In this case as in others, he had thought and assimilated the nature of nature. When asked how his construction had remained intact, he replied: Floating Foundation. Only a few buildings stayed up - amongst which the Imperial Hotel. Leaving aside controversy and scandal, Frank Lloyd Wright built a huge hotel in Japan between 19 a few months later, Tokyo was devastated by an earthquake.
HISTORICAL EXPLANATION : bases and developments