tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58547452012-01-01T10:37:59.935-05:00New musik, Rereleases, projects, dreams & more to comeSAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.comBlogger5691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-39982207038736078222011-12-31T22:52:00.000-05:002012-01-01T10:37:59.945-05:00

After I got up here to New York City, i began keeping diaries. I was going out a lot and the clubs were hot . Come home from work, take a nap for awhile, get up and eat, go out to the clubs until late Soon after Mudd Club opened I was there as usual and soon met one Martin Fischer just in from W Berlin. We formed the Futants soon therafter ... We have gone through them and selected

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-21882461266687654122011-11-04T10:51:00.007-04:002011-11-19T12:28:52.204-05:00

It was fun attending Simon Reynolds talk about "Retromania" down at Unsound Lounge the other week. While I haven't read all of it, the book's implications are worth considering. We have been engaged enjoying the accelerated 'unearthing' and retrying of old genres, esp. from late 1990's into 2000. We can remember before then there was never much prospect or any dream that say, Ike Yard would be

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0Manhattan, NY 10009, USA40.7275043 -73.980064540.6312393 -74.137993 40.8237693 -73.822136tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-81694798674825394362011-11-03T17:01:00.002-04:002011-11-03T17:37:31.501-04:00

Very interesting and invigorating times between August's post and now ... These days Ike Yard, o13, Dominatrix, DCC and now, Black rain and i seem to be on FaceBook more then here. A trip to NH w Michael Diekmann (Ike Yard, DCC, Lt.70 and others) built on the great day hikes we had taken in late August 2006. That time,we got together at the cabin in Randolph where we set up on the living room

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Currently ... o13 aka Outpost 13 is mixing the first album @ Mark's place.No label. "Lost Pavillion" 12" coming on Opilec Records. "Atrocity Exhibition" video excerpt up on Ballardian.com ... Ike Yard is writing, recording a 4th release, album #3.No label. Virtual 7" on EVERYTHINGISCHEMICAL in process for Jan. Also a reissue of the Factory America 1982 Album w remixes TBA ... Dominarix

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AugustSummertime and thankfully NYC is on the cool side of the jet stream again.Extreme heat waves across the country.Sunsets by the East River.Cicadas out there in the trees ...Earthquakes , tremors continue Coast S America.Before the Mercury retrograde ...Out of their storage folders and plastic came dozens of pen drawings, various gouche painting experiments i begin to list and sequence for

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-90173044545108876782011-07-17T13:43:00.008-04:002011-07-20T11:35:41.735-04:00

10 weeks onSummer in full swing By the end of May the green space inside Stuyvesant Town called the Oval was reopenedso we can go out and just lie out on the grass at 7 AM or PM and meditate, breath and relax, at least a few times each week. The fireflies have been coming out in the evenings for 3 -4 weeks now, 20 at a time lighting on and off across the flat expanse of green lawn.Leave the city

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-88053914922062274552011-05-08T13:40:00.005-04:002011-05-08T19:41:14.832-04:00

Mark C and SA from 4/23 Belgium. photo by ives from Mea KusmaThe European tour April 12 - 27 w outpost 13 went well ! beautiful weather in London, Paris and Belgium, good standing room only crowd in London's Dalston for Jonny Mugwup's Vortex Club night and by the last show in Belgium got a "Black neurons" encore..Sitting down on Seine's edge with Parisians at the north tip of lse de Citie,

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-61827736891430746892011-04-04T11:38:00.002-04:002011-04-04T12:25:21.515-04:00

It's been weeks since the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan. NHK broadcast the tsunami live, smooth arc of deadly waves heading to the beach ...Too big a series 2-3 stories high with an overwelming push that crushed neighborhoods into swirling piles of pulverized stuff.If you didn't run fast enough to higher ground you didn't make it.And so by today we hear about how much water

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-76530486977384387792011-03-12T13:20:00.003-05:002011-03-12T14:29:12.838-05:00

things are happening quickly , getting faster nowin the studio this week for tracks on 2 songs for NomiIke Yard "Nord" out in JapanO13 continued mixing demo & album, sent mix of Remote Purity Control to EverythingischemicalDCC finalized deal to do a comprehensive reissue w the new Streetwise label that will include the 10m live at Danceteria 1984 MC Phase Two , DJ High Priest & DCC brands of hip

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-58078757302383989272011-02-26T12:38:00.002-05:002011-02-26T13:12:39.206-05:00

you can feel spring is coming in the light you can feel it, the sun's position changes, flares. Some nights cold , some a little warmer, snow mostly gone and what's left is dirty.Nightly walks to Mark's studio turning O13's new recordings beyond roughs into demo form.Crossing St. Mark's Church grounds, by the Japanese strip w Panya, Sunrise Mart ending in St. Mark's Books on the cornerIke Yard "

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-31108916594859457852011-01-31T11:19:00.003-05:002011-01-31T11:58:54.054-05:00

Underway now: Dominatrix remix for "Don't Wake Me" by A Taut Line & Hong Kong In The '80's for Diskotopia Tokyo label& remake of The Unit's "i,Night" ( original early '80's synth group from SF ) for Opilec's UNIT"S CONNECTIONS rerelease & remix pComing in 2011The Rudements "Imagination" set to appear on Future Noise & Kris Needs " Dirty Waters 2 " compilation released late March.Death Comet Crew

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-29926446294091224982011-01-09T18:38:00.005-05:002011-01-31T11:19:33.644-05:00

Very interesting month, weeks , days.Keeping track on all the moving parts is challenging.Crazy surprises seem to come more often now.Does anyone else feel things have quickened ... ?Cold days , snow still on the ground and it was pelting down on way home from Studio last night.Last week there was a flurry of activity around the first group Tim Cornish and i had formed back in N Va.- The

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-31922107955199409402010-12-15T12:41:00.003-05:002010-12-15T13:11:38.869-05:00

Cold days staying in.Gleaming, slightly twisting metal of new Gehry residental Tower downtown shines ever morning and late afternoon dark comes too early these days.Excellent live set by Mike Slott last Thur's night, one could hear, feel and see how much music has changed and become beyond plastic.Followed a couple hours later by meeting Veronica Vasicka of Minimal Wave, Inner Gaze and friends @

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-63063523123858892772010-12-05T19:27:00.003-05:002010-12-05T19:30:27.895-05:00

These days one just never knows ...Stay warm , hunker down where you are and take care tonight.Strange days, triple witching days are here again.

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-31504683853501275922010-12-04T15:00:00.003-05:002010-12-04T15:29:25.572-05:00

Highlights ;On Friday arrived a fresh remix of DCC track TBA to be released on label TBA. Listening again now ... light touch ice strobe fleeting future vip TBA on track for 2011 release . That's a *ucking highlight right Listening to Rampa & Nomi's track earlier in the week. Was good again. Like it. A long running Japanese drama we have been watching - Ryoma - came to a startlingly bloody end

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-79576116228078702472010-12-01T16:13:00.003-05:002010-12-04T15:00:53.577-05:00

One week after returning from Lisbon the afternoon of Nov.23 having processed the many images, faces , namesfrom across 3 weeks travel time between Newark - Lisbon .We did miss this bad cold spell in London and Europe , Berlin yesterdayand luckily I did get out of Lisbon the day before the strike2010 draws to a close A good year topped by moments of real joy in Europe these past weeks.Outpost 13

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-28337771808913451772010-11-21T14:13:00.003-05:002010-11-21T14:19:15.285-05:00

Last Saturday in Charlottenburg at Modena , I excitedly began programming new pieces and by now have three ;Chrlottenburg 1 Endloss, Rotterdam 1 and Scenes like theseMoods, synthetic layers , new bts and rhythms I hear outside of the groups

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-16546030331722638542010-11-21T09:00:00.003-05:002010-11-21T09:50:20.305-05:00

Nov.3- 23NewarkLisboaOportoSevillaTarifaMalagaBerlinLondonRotterdamLisboaNewark - NYCOutpost 13 Produced JG Ballard tribute to Porto's Serralves Foundation 11/6 which went wellgig slot at Lounge in Lisbon 11/5 which was funRaum 20 show we put together w Kim Laugs in Berlin- great night w Christoph de Babylon, O 13 , Jamie Vex'd DJ set , Chris Timeblind live & DJ Zhao and in London the group

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-84268141774127876752010-10-30T13:43:00.002-04:002010-10-30T13:53:31.882-04:00

Honking of geese growing louder out of the East around 9 am until we could see a ragged v formation flying high above 15th St. and the East River. Crossing town they changed directions a couple times and broke form eventually veering South and flying out of sight.Cold walking home last night.The other week there had been a cat loose - or left out that was living among the bushes around the Oval

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-68484198756111962332010-10-25T13:01:00.002-04:002010-10-25T13:39:28.783-04:00

Four birds flying South together , see them from the corner of my eye while watching the leaves tipped in sun.Five for Europe next Wed. Nov.3 @ Newark Airport.3 shows ( Lisbon, Porto, Berlin ), one of those a 'JG Ballard night' @ Serralves Foundation , Oporto.One radio 'Live' ( London's Resonance FM w Jonny M ) +one radio interview ( Berlin's Reboot FM w Barbara M )Time & space Portugal ,

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-46811889803887074072010-10-11T11:45:00.003-04:002010-10-11T12:14:43.308-04:00

A string of beautiful clear blue days.Even got a chance to go out and lay down on the Oval's green grass. A little wet ...Thin slice of moon white in last night's sky ...Some of the anxiety of setting Europe dates for Outpost 13 Nov. is past, it's the not knowing while things are being booked elsewhere that make it a bit stressy. Currently we have the JG Ballard night @ Oporto's Serralves

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-67724248752126948762010-09-21T14:19:00.003-04:002010-09-21T14:29:56.925-04:00

One night before this last 9/11, one of the new Docu dramas on it came on and I caught a glimpse of another angle of the plane hitting the tower .Gasped and clicked to the next channel.But the lights downtown were beautiful again, a note of animal sad when we learned thousands of birds came to the lights and got caught up in a giant swirl of birds in the semi dark.Solemn reading of the names

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-33005555089020422812010-09-13T14:57:00.001-04:002010-09-13T14:57:00.383-04:00

just one wink by StuartA on Polyvore.comtokyo story 2008

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just one wink ... by StuartA on Polyvore.comone lady sees the other ...

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-7729519107824121332010-09-13T14:41:00.001-04:002010-09-13T14:41:28.945-04:00

Just a wink ... by StuartA on Polyvore.comFrom a simulcrum ?

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-66156623388305636242010-08-25T15:05:00.005-04:002010-09-14T20:37:19.369-04:00

Rainy cloudy August days, full moon last night but could not see it.Productive period - even with a Mercury retrograde on Apocalypse Island- Mayan Island off the coastFlame & CitroenValhalla RisingPlanning more polystyle songsGreat mix session last night with Mark for "Vandal Tribes", a sweep through dealing with a dozen little things, editing, setting levels, sometimes clearing out extra, in -

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-30764219797884947522010-08-12T11:30:00.003-04:002010-08-12T16:55:13.065-04:00

Summer weeks drift and flowhot, humid at times, the heat wears you down a bit .Yellow gray storm clouds, bright sunshine blasting 14th St. Floods, fires, storms, drought, earthquake yesterday in S America.No daily 'routine' as everything continues here on Floor 12.outpost 13 finishing soundtrack for KT for Nowness.com, finalizing artwork for REC003 "Vandal Tribes".Ike Yard CD "Nord" copies

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-63694513202128697342010-07-25T20:40:00.003-04:002010-08-02T11:30:18.851-04:00

Konono #1 rolled into their set last Saturday night at Prospect Park, seemingly without their founder .Dragonflies flitting over the crowd just above people's heads,the moon came upHeat wave days staying in with acworking on new Dominatrix and two cuts for Nomi.Heavy thunderstorms blowing throughtornado warning dark cloud mass settling over midtown the other night, spiral -y gray cloud edges in

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-82147617468725337182010-07-14T22:55:00.005-04:002010-08-02T11:28:47.797-04:00

Chinese workers in white T's dangle legs off the fire escape in SohoHot asphalt crossing Canal Street trafficOverheard at Astor Place "Atlas Shrugged"Listening to Xiu Xiu and Deerhoof play Unknown Pleasures from across the RiverSolar eclipse as shot in Polynesia by Wakayama U Space Education Lab crew online at the same time as World Cup final* Ike Yard all new Album "Nord" coming soon from

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-49191909256043558642010-07-07T10:10:00.002-04:002010-07-07T10:30:20.730-04:00

Event horizon yawns.How much time do we have left ?What was good about the past ?Making sense in the present ?How far into the future ..."Some say the world will end by fire, some say by ice..."It's been said 'the world has ended four times' and we stand on some edge of the fifth.I can believe that, seeing the endless crawl of 'news' bits every minute, every second ...But up in the summer woods

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-64534906835180844182010-07-03T12:08:00.006-04:002010-07-07T10:10:51.320-04:00

On Monday night this past week, old friend and collaborator The Rammellzee passed away at his mom's place in Far Rockaway.Under an orange moon ...Met Ramm in 1983 in W Berlin,called him up to join Death Comet Crew for the first Ep in 1984, he showed up buzzed and bleeding from working on art pieces.After we tracked "At The Marble Bar" , we went directly to "Exterior Street" and Rammell blew it to

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-46085515888442930242010-06-28T16:05:00.002-04:002010-06-28T16:15:25.522-04:00

Some hot days for sure, but one cooling night Nick Taylor aka DJ High Priest brought his family up to the Oval for a little r & r in the green grass,the next night we went out to an opening for Co Ba , by a friend of ours who used to own the Viet Namese place on First Ave. called Cyclo, then later Nam downtown.Drank champagne and a cocktail with a parade of choice rolls, sections of Banh mi

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-38920117595746866502010-06-21T12:31:00.004-04:002010-06-21T12:47:04.884-04:00

Summer solsticelast night's sunset moments slowed down in an especially gentle and long fade together with the moon hanging in the sky energy in the airPandorumOld BoyWorld Cup Portugal vs N Korea OOOutpost is on a tear with 4 -6 new songs hatched some weeks ago, jammed on in rehearsals and now good enough to be our 'demo'organizing for possible early Nov. into Dec. European tour of JG Ballard

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-67100291035494899542010-06-04T13:06:00.003-04:002010-06-04T13:43:13.936-04:00

Hot sun white skies blue temps rising through the days, humid emotional times. Excellent Burning Ice docu; fun seeing some artists daft ideas, Sakamoto recording glacier ice water flow, later ringing small Tibetan type bells out into silence. Screening Journey To Zangskar was unexpectedly moving , cheers Mr. Marx and many happy returns !Satisfaction inspiration hearing Moritiz Von Oswald Trio

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-9125157155536763742010-05-23T12:13:00.004-04:002010-06-04T13:03:34.301-04:00

Best Death Comet Crew in memory happened last night @ Public Assembly in Bk.no soundcheck, the club's mixer was a bit broke for DJ High Priest's set, no drink tickets and no dollar bills made,but the music was right there.thank you partners in DCC High Priest and Michel Diekmann, the freaky deak !Cheers Tobaggan, thanks Rob and keep shining Beans ...Ike Yard's Sistol remix metal fire = metalli

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-67805787828915356092010-05-12T00:19:00.004-04:002010-06-04T13:06:18.140-04:00

A good couple weeks in a row on musicOutpost finished mixing demo versions of our 7 songs recorded in late Nov. - early Dec.in addition , we just finished tracking for the REC003 Vandal tribes / in The High Hills adventure stories Audio movie Ep tonight,to be mixed, Mastered for release on iTunes in June or July .Ike Yard and Paul Geluso finished the Sistol remix for Phthalo Records sublabelDCC

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-73095083728023827882010-04-20T15:38:00.000-04:002010-04-20T15:40:08.144-04:00

A recent interview with Matt at Diskotopia (Tokyo) ...http://diskotopia.com/stream/interview-stuart-argabright/

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-60087568071866590932010-04-19T12:23:00.004-04:002010-04-20T15:18:04.155-04:00

Walking through the Apt. complex, on the look out.From the week before I had been looking for metal pieces and bits and by Tuesday's rehearsal was learning the beats for Wednesday night 40 drummers circle performance led by Hisham B and friends;Adam Autry / Adam Marnie / Alexandra Drewchin / Aron Wahl / Aska Matsumiya / Chris Millstein / Chris Puidokas / Christopher Powell / Daniel D'Errico /

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-7355709528543052642010-04-09T15:12:00.006-04:002010-04-19T12:23:53.798-04:00

Blogging less it seems ...What with spring turning into summer regardless of what calender said,and the long 'To Do' list written up and sitting in front of me.Visited the Rubin Museum on a 'free' Friday night; Remember That You Will Die: Death Across Cultures, Bardo: Tibet Art of the Afterlife and Visions of the Cosmos. One of those nights where one is restless and needs to go out in search of '

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-45987083380809001452010-03-27T21:34:00.000-04:002010-03-27T21:35:09.709-04:00

Fine orange sand sifting in across Beijing, footprints down the hallHong Kong turning it's lights off for one hourSunday Russian moves from 11 time zones to 9BA worker in court over terrorist chargesH Mubarak returns after surgeryS Korean military ship sinks overnight off N KoreaCoyote caught in Tribeca what's the first US city to run out of water ?

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-8345937029452380102010-03-26T11:23:00.003-04:002010-03-26T11:55:48.031-04:00

Striking days as the world seems to have finally turned and faced the strangeEarthquakes from Sumatra to Japan California to Haiti Chicago to Cuba these past monthsThe Euro, Greece, Portugal and Spain , Poland and Ukraine, US, Russia, Europe, China vis IranPolitics of hate and kill, health care, financial reform, race stuff, the history of white people, Texas, Mexico, narco states, JIhad Jane.

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-43984933313779953762010-03-18T17:21:00.002-04:002010-03-18T17:36:15.271-04:00

Outpost has just about completed overdubs and is into pre mix moves on the 7 songs recorded in early Dec.Nightning / Future past / Psycho diary / League city / Witchfire / Ice planet / Black neurons - these recordings will become the basis for our first album to completed this yearMarch 27 ; Outpost's JG Ballard project continues on London's arts radio Resonance FM's Exotic Python show, host

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-33838905706430714462010-03-01T21:59:00.005-05:002010-05-12T21:40:43.701-04:00

Blank City and Radiant Child screened at Berlin Film Fest.Ike Yard's Sistol remix is underway, after a quick couple of sessions some hypritized beats surfaced and it's sounds quite good with the original track "Sistol" from 2000 ... feels right.We sent off the cover art the other week and will hear an idea for the CD "Nord" album release date.IY also posted link to Traffikers on WFMU Free Music

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-82108709431947558682010-02-14T23:38:00.002-05:002010-03-01T21:59:04.927-05:00

Ike Yard's "Night After Night" in Blank City - Now Screening At The Berlin Film Festival !Blank City is having its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival this week! Official premiere is on Monday February 15 at 22:30. Additional screenings on Friday the 19th at 20:00 and Saturday the 20th at 14:30. All screenings at CineStar 7. Please spread the word...

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-81735946885774400262010-02-06T19:29:00.002-05:002010-02-06T19:34:58.702-05:00

Time runs on.'Snowpocalypse' in DC and Philly.Tonight it's Moritz Von Oswald Trio at Le Poisson Rouge, including Vladislav Delay ...This week Ike Yard was contacted by Phthalo Records about doing a remix of an early Vladislav Delay piece.Ike Yard 10" vinyl now available ... Outpost overdubbed most of the weeklong.

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-83703307882909736312010-01-12T17:48:00.004-05:002010-01-12T18:17:09.851-05:00

A new year's Saturday night upstairs in the Mandarin Hotel.The halls are sleek, the views over the city sweepingand a Camomile and white vodka in Mo Bar will set you back a 20. But they were good and so we had another.Outside the wind began to rise, inside the air feels suspended, low murmur of conversations, occasional sound of glinting glass. The Cure and Lady Gaga playedwork on Polystyle 2108

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Last night of the year people call 2009 ...During the snow last week we watched us some tv; NHK's walking tour of Crete, then back to back episodes of Men Travels Globe on Sundance; Istanbul, India, Belgium, Algiers,continuing television Elegy, Watchmen Director's cut on PPV and last night's "Dream Of Life" Patti Smith docu by Sebring.Then a nice snow began this morning around 7 AM ...Will be

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Last night's Outpost show in W Philly went off without a hitch, we could utilize Patrick's video's for the first time and a good crowd came in out of the windy, cold night.A ride through electronic waves by Charles Cohen and partner on the floor with their machines.Smolen's table top performance chittering in the darkened space. Passing through downtown around midnight, wide streets with old

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Current issue of The Wire, the UK music mag's column Invisible Jukebox has a discussion between Alan Licht and Jim Jarmusch about the Jamin Zabar cut off Rammellzee's album. "Demonic..."Outpost takes a day off today after this slightly incredible run of works; finished yesterday with 2 new gigs coming in -after a 24m rough mix of Luca Davis' REC003 went out to the author and team via YouSendIt -

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-57071419732379219892009-11-15T13:14:00.005-05:002009-11-26T11:41:25.072-05:00

Rudements Master tape found by Ian MacKay at Dischord , good conversation afterwards with guitarist Tim Cornish of The Rudements.Beats In Space 10 year Anniversary poster and T by Rvng Int.Ike Yard Ep out on iTunes and "Nord" album cover design.Close to finishing REC003 in Studio yesterday.Proposing next JG Ballard project venue this week, London has idea for a radio date.Recording new Outpost,

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Yes, the first new Ike Yard music is now out on iTunes ! Vinyl is coming

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The original Rudements master tape from Don Zientera's has been found in the Dischord tape room and will be digitized for us by Ian in DC, very sweet of him to do so.

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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

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

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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

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Saturday night in the city of the dead ! Atrocity Exhibition /Time,memory and Inner Space / Ice Planet - League city - Witchfire -Serial AngelsOne seating , 10:30 @ Monkeytown ( Williamsburg Bk )Image: Mike Test (Head of Goya) Robert Longocharcoal drawing 70 X 105 inches -2001Courtesy Metro Pictures

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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 ...

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' 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

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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 ...

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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

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Recieved this ms from Riow Arai in Tokyo via REC Myspace ...' Thank you for the message. It looks forward to your new work. I am very surprised though being possible to listen to the new work of DCC. It wishes to meet in Japan.By the way, it is radio programs of Ryuichi Sakamoto that I listened to "The Dominatrix Sleeps Tonight" for the first time.(26.feb.1985)http://soundstreet.blogspot.com/

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-57037679981469451082009-09-25T17:04:00.003-04:002009-09-25T17:36:52.416-04:00

Slice of moon obscured by cloud floating over downtown.A seagull very high up in the sky, last bright sunlight moving up high white branches.Breathe ...Up late reviewing REC's releases and plan to have the Luca Davis project become REC003; the adventure poem audio movie with : text by Luca Davis, read by Judy Nylon, soundtrack ( original music & sound fx , sound design ) by Outpost, music guest

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White lights over downtown for some nights before Sept. 11 past , their beams piercing cloud layers up to a grey cloud ceiling.Cool nights, quiet walking home late, not much cicada sound by now but clear brilliant days like today.Peaches, yellow water melons from the farmer's market. Outpost continued on Luca project, added new tracks, new basslines for the Goblin Bar scene, heading towards a

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Cool memories ...Outpost reopened the Luca Davis texts project soundtrack last night; even in it's rough stage this does sound more like an 'audio movie'.Judy's reading lends a sometimes skeptical, sometimes bemused touch that remains intact across the lands traveled in the short stories.Quite interesting and new kind of sound design to create, - and largely due to the extraordinarily visual

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Maximal Outpost on WFMU Saturday night 9/5 !* Atrocity Exhibition Chapter 1 sections 1-14 read by David Silver* Drowned World soundscape by Mark Fisher aka K- Punk+ Ice Planet , Serial Angels by recorded live in Studio by OutpostDiscussion & interview after 10Our host WFMU: http://www.wfmu.org/WFMU live audio stream @http://www.wfmu.org/audiostream.shtmlBy now , these JGB tribute efforts have

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-62919023587019826552009-08-28T13:31:00.003-04:002009-08-28T13:37:07.549-04:00

News that makes one's day - Ike Yard's new 10" and album are going into mastering @ Berlin's Dubplates & Mastering ...The Studio of the Basic Channel guys !I can see on the map it's right around the corner from where I stayed guest of Suzanne K of MALARIA! back in 1983 in Kreutzberg.Well, it took the group 27 years to make a followup to the Factory Records album.Fact: Back then, we certainly

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Left the apartment yesterday and walked into a lush green late summer feeling,relaxing, lots of students in bikini's out on the grass, a little breeze coming through. Small pack of tiny birds flitting around a raised leg.Cicada's in the trees around, song swelling and ebbing.It felt like a vacation !Ike Yard: * Ost ( * with umlaut ) Ep due early Nov on Denmark's Phisteria + Ike Yard Nord album

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-37950716571559454222009-08-23T13:46:00.003-04:002009-08-23T14:13:56.111-04:00

Soundtracks ongoing We swept through the Luca Davis audio movie project front to back and it's come together,made room so Jamie Vex'd piece can now be it's own part/section. Total 4 parts over about 23m ...Will send a rough to Luca this coming week ...JG Ballard Atrocity Exhibition- we began laying tracks yesterday, working from a slightly different basic palette.Hope to get to Time, Memory and

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Head up after last week's Studio blazing on multi sdtks.One of them didn't end so well, but sometimes that's just how it goes.And will leave it at that !Amid media wash recycling health care debates - at least it's not all about Obama's birth certificate by now -Afghan elections, Iraq big bombings and Pakistan and N Korean nukes -the images of the Taiwan mudslides and flooding was amazing and

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-13576897920226602102009-08-16T16:56:00.002-04:002009-08-16T17:21:31.470-04:00

This week we got a link to a new Waldchengarten remix of Ike Yard's Oshima Cassette. Makes for a great 10" to have this beatless, hazy buzzing Ike Yard filtered into cityscape ... a blending fabrik of specific sounds from the original tracks and new layers. Nord .The artwork's coming up , we have the photos we want to use for the 10" sleeve and then the album to follow ...Michael Diekmann has

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Shows:Missed Toumani Diabate & Bela Fleck on 'African banjo' style ... (8/3)Erykah Badu & Jannelle Monae @ The Beach ... ( 8/4)Made John Kelly doing Joni @ Castle Clinton. quite nice, great to see John fly. (8/6)Pee Lander Z @ South St. Seaport for ... Yo Yo Fest. Funny and the tunes were good ! (8/8)Rhys Chatham & Liquid Liquid @ Damrosch Park. Amps limited at '2' ? wtf ...And no, this is not

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-43313029218416511362009-08-07T14:46:00.004-04:002009-08-20T11:12:35.687-04:00

Great show on NHK the other night; Dubai through the eyes of a Japanese architect. building sites, walking through old city at night, designing work from the inside out, all built on sand !Satisfied with the sessions Ike Yard pulled off last week, the album goes to Phisteria directly.TraffikersType NMiraiMasochisticOrange tomShimmerOshima cassetteCitiesglitMetallic blankBeautifully terribleRobot

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-32952239580282534782009-07-28T23:24:00.002-04:002009-07-28T23:29:06.080-04:00

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Nick Givotovsky. RIP man. Met Nick at a digital media conf. in midtown, he asked if I was in the Blue Man Group. Nick helped us find backing for Noyuri's 1994 production of the Innerware: Prinzessin ambient lingerie catalog CD ROM,invited me into Harvestworks in '98 were we worked together on the Board Of Directors.Sally Randall Brungers. Nice to catch up a bit on an old friend from the '80's

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It is with a huge rush of shock and sadness I learned yesterday a very smart and dear old friend was killed on July 3.NIcolas Givotovsky dies in accident , 44 ...http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nick_givotovsky_internet_identity_trailblazer_dies.php#commentsMy man !

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Interesting email from John Cooper @ Cerysmatic this week -someone found an old poster for the show IY did with New Order at the Ukrainian National Home bk in 1981 (or '82 !).It says Factory & Blind Dates - that was Ruth Polsky's booking moniker and has 'New Order' hand drawn by your's truly.Can barely remember doing it !It should surface soon enough. RIP Ruth Polsky ...

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That outpost rehearsal jam Fri. was ripping; the group worked up one song perimeter into a powerhouse fat funky bass with Mark's silver handcuffs tune.Two other former 'jams' were also put onto the 'song' track.Saturday we had gone up to Central Park to check Istanbul Live day of Turkish music & food but when we got there it was already too crowded and so instead we walked down the tree lined

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Michael JacksonFarrah FawcettEd MacMahon- someone said ' it's like the '70's died 'tv montage of Michael's face / the red Swimsuit poster / Johnny Carson in Ed's armsAl Sharpton's holding a press conf.it had already been a strange week, the ongoing days of unrest in Iran had engaged me for hours at a time following it, then the crackdown.After almost three cool and rainy weeks , today the sun

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Recording with Judy went fine, Nowthenafter listening party at Harvestworks went well, was well attended, friends came out, the rain held off that night !The Surround Sound DVD will become available later in the year, and there is talk of taking it around to other cities this year.outpost Mark and I went out to Hoboken Sat resulting in a first session of Luke Davis' text soundscapes and sound

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-49767061899322605192009-06-14T16:51:00.003-04:002009-06-14T17:12:19.477-04:00

Stayed on track this past week;after returning from upstate Sunday, found the Lady Gaga music video for Love Game to be a partial hommage' ahem to our old "Sleeps Tonight" video.Contacted Cevin Fisher to see what's up with his "Women Beat Their Men" track that's floated about and surfaced on various compilations over the er decades. No response.Sent Luca' text to Jamie.outpost played @ Cake Shop

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Some pretty good work this past weekend !We worked on 4 DCC tracks -Ignition Spark / Let The Clubs Ring / Megacidade / Galacticoast Mosi and finished Runmap and Moons On Titan Seas.Ike Yard's Citiiesglit files were sent to Denmark's Phisteria.

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Some very nice nights this past week and weekend, black skies and clear white moon hanging in the sky.Flowers white blossoms by the doorway, thunderstorms late at night, a pair of nightbirds singing in the trees below.Obama at the Pyramids.Nice rehearsal last night with outpost; all seven pieces run through - lots to think about.Tonight I pack for three nights upstate at Riverglass Studios for

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Saddened by yesterday's Times article on the Chinese Gov.' plan to raze the Old town in Kashgar.Far West China's ancient Silk Road depot will not be the same, the Uighur people will be moved into new apartment blocks.Makes it easier to keep an eye on them.Remember Free Tibet ?

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On recent sunny days, people couldn't resist getting out into it and as the green was closed off they brought chairs, laid out on around the fountain facing the sun.Now that the Oval has been reopened during the days it's covered with oiled bodies stripped in heat haze pollen.Student tenants crossing 14th St. in waves of 5 -10, trios of young women on their way out.A loud slap from down on the

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Presenting the Nowthenafter album in SurroundSound : At Harvestworks June 19 5-8 PMIkue Mori & DJ OliveJudy Nylon & SADavid Linton & Charles CohenMarina RosenfledRay SweetenMark CMal TorranceStuart Argabright

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All week long ... Night after night ... women beat their men ...outpost outrageous rehearsals cont. - the songs and pieces are killing; back in today at 2Only one bit of work left on the Ike Yard 10"; prepare tracks for Citiesglit rmxVoodooists tracks by early next weekDCC set early June date for mixing album First session recording Judy Nylon's splendiferous narration for the 'new lit audio

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We got the Ike Yard mixes for the upcoming 10" this week and they are ... awesomeOn the Oshima cassette mix everything sounds right in it's place and connecting with the other parts.Citiesglit got pushed up too, and clear.JG Ballard tributes : We have been busy with pulling together art and music in the wake of the man's passing .Currently developing:Excerpts from Atrocity Exhibition / Time ,

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This past weekend was outpost's trip South to Wash DC and N Va. for the show @ Avant Fairfax Fest.We got on the road, quite hot sun whitening a broad clear sky and within an hour or so we hit a traffic jam.People were getting out of their cars to see what happened, it grew hotter as heat waves rose from the road surface.There was an outlet though, a small bridge up and over the highway and back

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Between last night's Robert Longo opening where Noyuri , Mark C and I met Robert, Barbara, his longtime assistant Dianne,Eric Mitchell, Bogosian, Knox, Anna Kustera and Lisa Rosen -and tonight's Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio performance at The Met - where we met Robert again, said Hi to Rhys, Johnathan Kane,Robert Poss ( Band Of Susans ),we met Tony Conrad and Keiji Heino between the L Train and the

SAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01189205348540262536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5854745.post-20275229361533252552009-04-19T21:13:00.006-04:002009-04-20T17:07:57.619-04:00

We knew it was coming, but still !Like a punch when you hear about yet another death .Burroughs long gone , a Ballardian mood holds in our apartment in the grey and rain today .A shakespeare of sorts in the time humans call the 20th century .First reading the short stories like The Disaster Area , Sound Sweep and then Atrocity Exhibition,Concrete Island, Crash, Hello America , High Rise .JG's

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Full moon turns white . Drums begin . Hair standing on back of your neck .We have been listening to the old DAT's and the two mixes of Damballa 2000 are both going to be on this rerelease;also Spider dance and Psychoceremonial.In the coming weeks we will be listening to these alt mixes we have and seeing what else we have .The tracks were electro dance , ethno pop ; layers of percussion in voudou

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Some moments remembering older NYC days and nights feelings this week.Bumping into performer who used to dance with your group while looking intently through Astor wines,walking through neighborhoods you don't usually hit, really seeing the new tall , thin Apt. building cantilevered over a space where you used to go to ...Looking up at the window of a Pub. Co. you went to once upon a time.And

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Cold winds blowing outside the windowLast night a third outpost rehearsal with bassist Kent Heine from Holy Ghost, now preparing for recordings and first show(s) together later in April. Coming together ...Thursday night DCC at 6/8 Studios with Nomi was great.She came in and nailed her vocal tracks for Let The Clubs Ring, a harmony track sweet & chill.And then onto redoing a section of Ignition

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A taller then advertised and redesigned 35th generation HRP humanoid robot took a bow after a surprise appearance in Tokyo fashion show.A son of Sylvia Plath commits suicide in Alaska. Alaska's Redoubt volcano erupts.The many stories of Carlos Fernando Charmorro.Sweden says no to SAAB.Pope tries to send ripples of hope.Balkans.Obrezje Slovenia -Croatia border. Bored border guards can smell the

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Props to Ronnie Cutrone for his show opening @ Milk Studios Wednesday; Art, wine and lots of ladies the likes of which we haven't been seen in ages on the gallery or club scene.Collective Hardware afterparty down the Bowery was cool too, interesting place to do things in the city ...Dom EP getting out there in the world of downloadsPulling Ike Yard trk files together for Phisteria 10"DCC in

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Now that the new Dom Ep is getting out there in it's soft release through iTunes , E Music and other fine services ...Very nice responses are coming in , and all are from women.They like that cover art !David take a bow ... it's all you.

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We are excited !The new Dominatrix Ep will be released to iTunes next Tue's 3/17.More info and the David Levinthal cover art is here at the Virtual Label site, thanks Tim B for the help and support,Dominique and Barbara for the vocals >http://www.virtuallabel.biz/newsThe first of about 12 releases this year ...we hope, fingers crossed.

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Sometimes you are inside a bubble of your own creation.That can last and last , like an economic bubble seems to.Then burst ! you are out of it and able to look around and take stock.Sounds like I m referring to the present financial meltdown again,but I am talking about the bubbles that form around music groups,when you are in it , all time spent on it is good, cool tunes are made, even bad

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We are excited to report that Ike Yard will be releasing with Denmark's Phisteria the 10" of Oshima Cassette and Citiesglit with remixes by Waldchengarten and Hinisdan, date TBA.The 10" should be followed by the all new IY album we had been working on since reforming late '06, recorded in 2007 and 2008 with mixes still ongoing.The musik ranges from the first new tracks we wrote after reforming

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Having survived the Viet Namese dinner in Chinatown that got 10 out of 12 of us sick for the days afterwards , last week and this one have been a flurry of catching up, detective work finding more exactly HOW we all got sick and getting on with the various releases all in the air here.Caught the many WATCHMEN trailers on the movie site - shades of Blade Runner on the sdtk ( "Blade Runner Blues"

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