Comments on: MUDD FM http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/ dirt, sound, lit Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:05:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: bochay http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1451 bochay Fri, 04 May 2007 17:46:35 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1451 After Miya Masaoka's performance (it must have been in '96?), my mother and brother came home with two of the 'giant malagasy hissing cockroaches'. They really only hissed when poked or were otherwise harrased. We put them in a nice terrariumed fish tank, from which they promptly escaped. Two months later we found one of them under the rubber bottom of the dish drainer. We named it spartacus, after he escaped another time or two, and discovered that the only things that spartacus would eat in our presence were orange colored foods. The other giant one we never found. I cant recall what happened to spartacus after the shitty millenial evicition times in sf.. After Miya Masaoka’s performance (it must have been in ‘96?), my mother and brother came home with two of the ‘giant malagasy hissing cockroaches’. They really only hissed when poked or were otherwise harrased. We put them in a nice terrariumed fish tank, from which they promptly escaped.
Two months later we found one of them under the rubber bottom of the dish drainer. We named it spartacus, after he escaped another time or two, and discovered that the only things that spartacus would eat in our presence were orange colored foods. The other giant one we never found.
I cant recall what happened to spartacus after the shitty millenial evicition times in sf..

]]> By: nick http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1374 nick Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:33:30 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1374 the live version had the strings and bells - all electronics, triggered by optical sensors. but i think she was having equipment problems the night i saw it, so i can't really compare to the soundfile. masaoka is also a badass koto player, big in the bay area jazz improv scene at the time anyway. not surprising that she cares about the sound... the live version had the strings and bells - all electronics, triggered by optical sensors. but i think she was having equipment problems the night i saw it, so i can’t really compare to the soundfile.
masaoka is also a badass koto player, big in the bay area jazz improv scene at the time anyway. not surprising that she cares about the sound…

]]> By: wolfknuckles http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1336 wolfknuckles Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:17:22 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1336 summer is gonna be hottttttt! rupture in the city! i work in youth media and have a tap on some pretty sweet young poets. hit me up if you want intros. summer is gonna be hottttttt! rupture in the city!

i work in youth media and have a tap on some pretty sweet young poets. hit me up if you want intros.

]]> By: LamZoo http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1335 LamZoo Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:16:56 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1335 that's some very exciting news about the radio program. i'm heading over to ol' mudd to get a clue of what those strong new ideas are by reading/downloading whitehead's "drone tones..." and other/alternative radio experiences. i like old mudd, what great resource it has become. that’s some very exciting news about the radio program. i’m heading over to ol’ mudd to get a clue of what those strong new ideas are by reading/downloading whitehead’s “drone tones…” and other/alternative radio experiences. i like old mudd, what great resource it has become.

]]> By: jace http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1332 jace Thu, 26 Apr 2007 03:15:30 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1332 nice description nick! did the live version have the strings & bells present ? or was it just processed bug farts? whole thing sounds like it was heavily edited + composed using raw material from the live performance (to compensate for the lack of physicality / revulsion aspect foregrounded in live version) . it caught my attention b/c it's not often that conceptual sound art is as strong/visceral in concept as in execution. (those bugs are terrifying. i cant even look at them via my screen.) nice description nick! did the live version have the strings & bells present ? or was it just processed bug farts? whole thing sounds like it was heavily edited + composed using raw material from the live performance (to compensate for the lack of physicality / revulsion aspect foregrounded in live version) .

it caught my attention b/c it’s not often that conceptual sound art is as strong/visceral in concept as in execution.

(those bugs are terrifying. i cant even look at them via my screen.)

]]> By: nick http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1328 nick Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:22:23 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1328 i went to see the masaoka performance because it sounded absurd, like an entry in a performance art one-upmanship contest. i don't remember how long it went on for - ten minutes? it was boring pretty much immediately, but i wasn't expecting much. then the time was up and they removed the cockroaches. and as if in one motion she shuddered bolt upright and strode offstage, like ten minutes of restrained revulsion suddenly crystallized and directed into a few seconds of movement. and that few seconds made the previous ten minutes sort of swirl around and reinterpret itself as something far more complex and ambiguous and disturbing than i had noticed at the time. that was ten years ago and i don't think i'll ever forget it. thank you miya masaoka for teaching me something about intensity. i went to see the masaoka performance because it sounded absurd, like an entry in a performance art one-upmanship contest. i don’t remember how long it went on for - ten minutes? it was boring pretty much immediately, but i wasn’t expecting much.
then the time was up and they removed the cockroaches. and as if in one motion she shuddered bolt upright and strode offstage, like ten minutes of restrained revulsion suddenly crystallized and directed into a few seconds of movement. and that few seconds made the previous ten minutes sort of swirl around and reinterpret itself as something far more complex and ambiguous and disturbing than i had noticed at the time.
that was ten years ago and i don’t think i’ll ever forget it. thank you miya masaoka for teaching me something about intensity.

]]> By: vamanos http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1318 vamanos Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:47:42 +0000 http://www.negrophonic.com/2007/mudd-fm/#comment-1318 Yeah boy, looking forward to the shows. Nice one. Vamanos Yeah boy,

looking forward to the shows. Nice one.

Vamanos

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