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anders östberg (eskilstuna, sweden)
works in the field of phonography. >>...the enviroment don't push the organism around, the organism don't push the enviroment around, they are two aspects of poles of the same process...<< (alan watts). contact:
2010
january 9: made a present for art's birthday.
2009
june 1: new catalogue 'avtryck' published. the aim of this catalogue is to show some of the individuality, force and quality that nourish the art scene in eskilstuna. the participating artist either work in or originate from the town. works of the 31 contemporay eskilstuna artist (including me) are also shown in an exhibition at formverk, june 6 - july 7. more information
here.
april 24: ct-reuse project released: ct-reuse (nemo 031) re·use (r-yz) tr.v. re·used, re·us·ing, re·us·es. to use again, especially after salvaging or special treatment or processing. [thefreedictionary.com]. truer words could not have been said for this the 31st release of the world wide web experimental music community, ct-collective. the idea for reuse began one day when i was awaiting the train, holding a plastic drink cup and subconsciously moving the straw about its cover making the familiar 'squeaky' sound. i had just recently participated in the ct-collective project ct-generative and wanted to lead a project. i thought why not do a recording of music produced entirely from things we often throw away and thus reuse was born. (jim goodin, brooklyn, ny). download and listen for free
here.
april 8: tanner menard, antenna gallery and experimedia records present sommeil: a concert for sleep in new orleans on 4/11-4/12. get details
here.
january 25: ct-generative project released: ct-generative (nemo 029) is based on the brian eno approach to generative music. download and listen for free
here.
january 5: first moment of 2009 recorded from my balcony. you can hear it at the sound diaries weblog. the sound diaries initiative is focused around sound-recordings and sound-texts and the ways in which we can use sound as a document of our lives. artists working with sound diaries are felicity ford, paul rutter and paul whitty. go to
here.
2008
december 29: my five best listening experiences in 2008: the canterbury music festival - rain & shine (b.t. puppy btps-1018) 1968; f.j. mcmahon - spirit of the golden juice (accent 5049) 1969; mourning phase - mourning phase (eden studios demo LP no cat#) 1971; new horizon - living force (private press no cat#) 1979; sogmusobil - telefon paisa (gump 001) 1971.
october 18: ct-nature project released. the description for this project was to make a composition that reflects our natural environment or wilderness - things that have not been substantially altered by human intervention. the project was initiated and coordinated by me.
listen and download here.
october 6: "strictly secret and confidential" instructions for the guidance of "electrical engineers and recording operators". this fascinating instruction manual dates from april 1930, a year before the merger with the gramophone company to form emi, in 1931. little comment is required except to say that such expeditions were just that. imagine transporting heavy recording equipment together with a large supply of equally heavy wax blanks to say 1930s cairo. with the most unreliable of electricity supplies, lack of back-up support if machinery malfunctioned, we really cannot imagine what it was like. and yet these intrepid engineers recorded thousands of 'local' sides in what still today is very good sound.
link to manual.
september 8:
blind photographer shoots for sound.(vilnius, lithuania). remigijus audiejaitis is a photographer with little use for the intricacies of the craft. when he shoots a picture there's no concern about lighting or whether the f-stop is correct. what's important to him is the sound his subjects make, whether it's the laugh of a shop girl or the backfiring of a muffler on the city streets or the clinking of coffee mugs.
audiejaitis, a photographer for four years, couldn't adjust for poor lighting. he's been blind since birth. "i take my automatic camera out when i hear something interesting happening around me," the 30-year-old photographer told the associated press this week. despite the obvious shortcoming, audiejaitis's lack of sight has not dampened his desire to take photos.
he uses a kodak advantix 2000 he purchased a while ago. it's fully automatic, so there's no concern about being out of focus. instead of the viewfinder, he uses the mind's eye to gauge what he hears and then decides whether to shoot or not. "i picture rich sounds and my friends develop the film and sort the best images," he said. audiejaitis, who is studying japanese at vilnius university, has staged several exhibitions in the city's capital, drawing more than just the curious to see view the pictures. those images focus on the daily life of vilnius, a 700-year-old city rich with tradition and a deft blend of the old and new: rattling old cars, shouting merchants, and snowplows scraping the pavement with huge shovels in winter.
august 1: ct-zodiac project released. the inspiration for this project was the signs of the zodiac. the idea seemed to promise strong themes, formed a coherent set, and required suitable numbers of contributors. Ronny arrived just too late, but he luckily discovered a 13th sign, so he made it in the end. as ever, we each interpreted the sign in our own special ways.
listen and download here.
july 7: pure music and pure dance. "we try to bring people the real pureness, the brightness, and what is really righteous and true,",
link.
june 29: bombarding electrons with sound to make them visible" a free electron repels the atoms that surround it, creating a small space, or bubble, around itself. in conventional liquids, the bubble shrinks to nothing because the surface tension of the liquid works against the repulsive force. superfluid helium has very little surface tension, so the bubble can become much larger. the two opposing forces balance when the diameter of the bubble is about 40 angstroms - still far to tiny to see."
"the researchers used a planar transducer - basically, a loudspeaker that produces flat, not focused, sound waves - to pummel the whole volume of liquid helium with sound. as each wave overtook an electron bubble, it alternately increased and decreased the surrounding pressure. under negative pressure, the bubbles expanded to about eight microns, the size of a small speck of dust, then shrank again as the next wave of high pressure washed over them. a strobe light, synchronized to the sound pulse, illuminated the bubbles without overheating the chamber."
video and full article here.
june 1:sound immersion. hear sounds above, and behind you using regular headphones.(who says you need to buy surround sound?).
link.
may 15:
history of earth's polarity reversals in sound. dave engebretson has been legally blind all of his life, so he pays special attention to sound. he submits audio that is analogous to the history of earth's magnetic field reversals.
link to article and soundclip.
april 4:recordings of the earth. "there's a connection to buddhism there - slowing down, thinking about what's going on here, the deeper truths,"
link to paper.
march 31: during the exhibition period (april 4th - 13th) uppsala museum of art will be presenting the sound archive 'art is not mute'.
link
february 9: ct- birds is now complete and
online.
january 13: 'art is not mute' goes to gothenburg. during the exhibition period (february 2nd - march 2nd) hit will be presenting the sound archive 'art is not mute'. art is not mute was initiated by ersta konsthall during spring 2007. hit
website.
2007: november 27: 'art is not mute, ersta konsthall sound archive' on tour. the sound archive is on tour and will be exposed in the project room "receptionen" at botkyrka konsthall, sweden, december 1st 2007 - january 17th 2008
november 20: 'teisha now is banned' is now available for download/streaming in two locations:
archive.org and
teisha website.
october 10: made a soundbox with 'nightsounds' for form & färgverkstaden. go
here.
september 30: 'art is not mute' going east. the first in ersta konsthalls new series of nomadic events is now taking place: institute of contemporary art - dunaujvaros (hungary), exhibition: september 12 - october 19, 2007. go
here.
august 22: my 'interpretation' of the preparation days of rinus van alebeeks soundroom at mälardalens university last may will be included in the programme of the happening the happening is 4 days, site specific, performance & sound installation mixing live improvised music, recorded compositions, sound sculptures, poetry, artist's interventions, large group compositions and audience participation. the event would utilise the specific architecture of the space, blurring the boundaries between performance, artistic exploration and participation. by relating to the physical space as a big soundboard and the individual rooms as sound chambers within this sound box, the space itself would become a resonating instrument. a series of 'events', each of them unique, would be introduced in individual rooms and over the 4 days, these would create and present an ever-changing programme. location: the basement, 10 - 16 aswin st. london e8. 6th - 9th september 16 - 22 pm. free.
august 14: a cd titled 'unsafe sonic art' with submitted soundworks (including my short piece) for the
second annual unsafe festival in poole, uk is released. from the linernotes: soundworks that take risks artistically, aesthetically. philosophically, sonically, even physically. works that should carry a health warning, that ignore safety margins, that lie outside the comfort zone. works that challenge the listener - but also the sound artist. works that may be radical, unusual, subversive, awkward, exciting - but above all, interesting.
august 1: news about the 3rd edition of das kleine field recordings festival that will take place in berlin, 1 - 29 august, 2007 can be found
here.
may 28: my weblog is up and running, contains scribble, images and interesting time wasters. please visit.
go here.
may 20: art is not mute - ersta konsthall, stockholm becomes an archive with recorded sound (may 21 - June 16). the archive includes more than 150 participants from all over the world (including me). on the opening night, the following people are invited to perform a dj-battle with material from the archive: fia-stina sandlund, catti brandelius, pia sandström, jenny wilson, andreas gedin, andreas bertling, johanna billing, leo norgren, patrik andersson, andreas söderström, mats stjernstedt and ersta konsthalls curatorial trio: sofia curman, linus elmes and paola zamora. the archive will be accessible both physically and digitally during the exhibition period. go
here for ersta konsthalls website.
may 15: rinus van alebeek came to do his soundroom at mälardalens university here in eskilstuna, may 7 - may 14, with performances during the week. the soundroom days also included a lunchtalk on friday with prof. judith a. moldenhauer (wayne state university, detroit, usa) and my mix of recordings of rinus performances on monday 14. many thanks to jennie, camilla and malena for making this possible. bjõrn eriksson (miulew takahe) joined at the end of the week to collaborate on aom @ soundrooms xxxtenxions in second life with avatar orchestra metaverse, may 12. more info on rinus
weblog, bjõrns
webblog and my
weblog
april 6: ct-papermusic project is now online
here.
february 4: on the 4th and from 7th to 11th of february the second edition of the das kleine field recordings festival will be held in berlin. as at the first festival there will be also an online version, a festival to go, that will remain available from 3rd to 12th of february. the
website with pictures, short info and downloads, the programme,
links to artists and venues, found tapes
exhibition, found tapes, found sounds, found recorders
exhibition . the festival will host a great variety of international sound artists offering an impression of the field recordings' genre's current state. the artists such as momus, wolfram der spyra, marcel turkowski and many others are presenting sounds that are usually neglected: sounds from the environment, sounds from different places, cities, nature, everyday life. we will hear audible diaries from journeys, get impressions of places far away and discover the artists' take on berlin's own soundscape.
radioinkorrekt.org is going to broadcast everything that is going on at the festival. radioinkorrekt.org is a community radio on the internet starting its operation with this festival.
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