#completely immersed in all the content: music performances talk shows etc

[lilidawnonthemoon]

[starjxsung]

this might be...super controversial...but i truly truly hope this isn't skz trying to enter the western music industry if that makes sense. like how bts at one point just completely abandoned kpop and went full western shitty generic pop music. it's what drove me away from them and i would hate to see it happen to another group i love so much...if i wanted generic music, i would listen to american pop music. i like kpop bc it's so varied w the genres and the lyrics are always meaningful in some way. not to mention variety shows and just silly kpop content yknow that's more than half the fun of liking kpop!! you take that out and there's nothing there anymore especially when the music becomes bad. american tv shows are bland, most of the music is devoid of life. as much as i loved bts as people, it truly feels like they lost a bit of themselves AS BTS with songs like butter and ptd...idk. really hope this doesn't happen to skz.

WHEEWWWWWW opinions under the cut bc this is so long ✂️

I was just talking about this w my sister I literally would never say this on main™️ because people hate me on there as it is but I fully agree 🥲 I love bts but it’s so hard for me to get with their newer western stuff and it just feels like it has no emotion, no real substance to it. As an army I see people have this debate all the time and it’s such an issue that within the fandom, no one feels like they can have these conversations without getting attacked for it. But like it’s such a valid thing to acknowledge that hyyh era is vastly different from ptd? That is such a fair thing to point out and people who fell in love with bst, idol, dna, spring day, black swan, etc are allowed to not vibe either something that’s an entirely new sound. Especially one that emulates the generic pop music we already have in the west

There’s so much I could say about the tactics Hybe has to try and appeal to the west now and how it’s completely ruining classic kpop we all know and love, but I completely agree with you in fearing that they’ll want to push skz down the same road. And what’s unfortunate is that skz are at their peak right now in popularity, so I hope jype doesn’t see that as some weird opportunity to just change their sound or concept

I was also talking with my sister about how I think this is very much why Ateez seem to be quickly gaining traction, they’re very true to the original sound that they debuted with and their discography is so consistent and every album/single keeps being bigger than the last. Very traditional Korean sound and tying culture into performances and it’s all very well received in an atmosphere where we keep getting force fed all these western collabs. I know bang pd’s famous article about “removing the k in kpop” was a huge hit among stakeholders but I think for a lot of us, the “k” is what makes it unique. I like music in a different language, learning about culture, understanding how variety shows and award shows work. It’s a different subculture than we have in the west, and making them the same thing just negates the purpose of kpop in the first place. Like we don’t need “the next Justin Bieber” or “the next one direction”, those acts already existed. We have Jungkook and we have bts and skz and they didn’t get big for emulating western sound or culture, they got big for being a part of kpop !

Like could you imagine if we all collectively started saying “we need to make Bollywood more western! We need to make it appeal to western audiences!” How fucking disrespectful that would sound to the years of culture and uniqueness behind what it already is? Why are we doing that in Korean spaces now? Why can’t we just acknowledge when it’s a different culture and allow ourselves to immerse ourselves in it, learn about it, respect it and gain a newfound appreciation for something outside of western music? Why does everything have to appeal to the west??? 😭

I could go on about this for soooo long but I 100% agree with you and this was such a breath of fresh air to type out LMFAOOO

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RA Lates: The Other Paradise

Information and tips on creating a successful proposal for the RA Late: The Other Paradise on Saturday 19th of August, 2017.

We can only select a limited amount of projects for the RA Late: The Other Paradise event so original and interactive ideas that incorporate key elements of the following brief are key to making your application successful.

About RA Lates 🔍

RA Lates are distinctly themed nights of ideas, escape and adventure, inspired by their exhibitions. Experience the RA transformed as they play host to an eclectic programme of musicians, performance artists, installations, activities, talks and more.

The RA hosts a Late event for each of their exhibitions - so approximately 6 per year, taking place on Saturday nights. They are ticketed events which includes entry to the related exhibition, all programmed performances and activities plus a cocktail.

The theme for each evening informs all aspects of the event, from dress code to food and drink to set design and all programmed activities.

RA Lates currently sell out more than a month in advance of each event. There will be a total of 850 attendees to The Other Paradise.

Fee

The day rate is £165. The fee will be paid to the lead participant and anyone else taking part will be a volunteer. This will be confirmed once selected.

Materials

There will be a modest budget of £150-£200 to be confirmed once selected.

Brief

Escape to fantastical night-worlds and experience Eden, utopia and the underworld re-imagined. Explore their wild, dark and bewitching side by night.

At this special RA Summer Late, we take inspiration from the ways in which artists and writers have created imaginary worlds for a night-long boutique arts festival complete with artist installations, performances, DJs, live music, secret bars, creative activities and more.

We are inviting UAL student proposals for immersive installations, performances, set designs, costumes, activities and experiences that will feature as part of RA Lates: The Other Paradise.

Some ideas and themes to think about:

· Portrayals of paradise, tropical islands and Arcadia

· Worlds and cities in Ancient Mythology (Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Roman)

· Architectural fictions / architecture of memory eg Italo Calvino ‘Invisible Cities’

· Sci-fi films as contemporary depictions of ‘new worlds’

· Fairy-tales or children’s stories

RA Lates are distinctly themed nights of ideas, escape and adventure, inspired by their exhibitions. Experience the RA transformed as they play host to an eclectic programme of musicians, performance artists, installations, activities, talks and more.

Further Information 📖

Audience

This event is for a paying audience and is aimed at a wider artistic community. It will be a BUSY event.

· Think about how your idea could engage different groups. What would attract them and keep them interested?

· This is going to be a busy event, how will your idea cater for a constant flow of people? (materials etc) Can it cater for/engage large numbers of people at once or will it be a timed activity with a limited number of participants per session?

· If it is drop in, can you estimate an average ‘dwell time’?

· Interactivity is key in engaging people’s attention.

What can be taken away from your activity; something that has been made/ learnt/ enjoyed/ discovered.

Think about events you have been to where you have enjoyed an interactive event.

Budget: What will your idea cost?

· Think about all the elements of your idea, including transport.

· Be creative in your approach – what can you do for free/little cost?!

· The RA may have some materials on site but don’t assume this will be the case.

Your Team: whilst we welcome individual proposals, in some instances it might be advisable to create a project team or collaboration. Remember this event will be busy, the more people in your team the more people you can involve at once. It will be hard work to deliver on your own.

This is a paid opportunity, however only the lead participant will receive payment, other participants will be volunteers.

Timings: The event will run 7pm-11pm on Saturday 19th August 2017.

· Set up will be between 12noon – 5.30pm on the day of the event so you will need to be available from this time and will need to be able to stay until 11.30pm to pack away at the end of the event.

· You will also need to be available during the day of Monday 10th July 2017 should you be shortlisted.

Remember this is not an opportunity for you to show your work in a traditional sense, what aspects of your practice can you bring to the event? This is a chance to show off and share your skills and talents and bring your creativity to a new audience.

Once you have a good idea of what you’d like to do, it’s important that you explain it clearly in your proposal.

Information on writing your proposal 📝

Deadline for entries: 12 midnight on Sunday 2nd July 2017.

Submit your proposal via the online entry form at: www.arts-su.com/creative/showcase

Your Proposal Content:

· Remember that we will be reading about the project for the first time and have no idea what it’s about. Try and present it as simply and clearly as you can.

· We will be looking at lots of proposals so please be concise. A few detailed paragraphs should be sufficient to get your idea and relevant points across.

· Sell your idea to us: Tell us why this project would work well at this event, what will you/others be doing, is it interactive, how it is suitable for the audience, how does it fit the theme of this event, tell us about the delivery/ logistics.

· It’s important that you tell us about the logistics of the project. For instance:

o What materials would you use

o Do you have any specific requirements – power/ sink access etc.

o How would you deliver the project

o How many people could engage at one time

Budget:

· For each project, we will be allocating a small budget so it would be really great to see that you've already thought about where this would be spent and considered keeping costs as low as possible. Indicate the estimated total cost of your proposal first, then complete this in the box titled ‘budget’ with a breakdown of where this money will be spent.

General info:

· Bringing the project to life with some sketches/images will aid your application.

· Incomplete or vague proposals will not be successful so ensure you have included the elements mentioned in this document & completed the entry form in full.

· There will be development sessions to work on proposals and meet groups shortly after selection.

· This event will be very busy.

If you have any further questions please email Sophie Risner, Events and Exhibitions Coordinator Arts SU: s.risner@su.arts.ac.uk

The RA reserves the right to change any aspects of the proposal that they deem unsuitable, but will attempt to keep any changes to a minimum. You will be required to then submit a logistics questionnaire to the RA, including measurements plus an outline of the set-up of your piece.

Good luck!

[356mission]

Interview with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon and Micah Silver

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Interview with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon and Micah Silver November 2017, Conducted on the occasion of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon’s exhibition: Not Exactly B-Flat at 356 S. Mission Road 

Micah Silver: Maybe it’s a weird place to start, but it’s what I’m thinking about when I’m encountering artworks lately: what do you think is possible for someone to find here in that room downstairs? When you imagine someone engaging with the space, what is possible for them to find there? Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon:  In the simplest of terms my goal is to make people more sensitive. Sensitivity to the environment, language, and their bodies.  I am thinking about being immersed and how to mediate that immersion as an individual- generating a self-awareness of it. Like recognizing when you move towards one speaker or away from another, or deciding to step back and put your back against the wall versus being right in the middle. In relationship to the specific sounds someone finds, I feel that with the first part which is comprised of noise and pure tones is more about a meditative flow through the space versus the second part which is a song that you really listen to. I don’t think you really “listen” to the tones in a static way. You hear them, but you listen through moving and walking through the space. The song is something that requires a different type of attention. It’s a piece where you switch modes you are listening through. MS: So the desire is to create an immersive threshold where someone enters the space and the first threshold is that they are taken away from what’s happening upstairs or the rest of their life into something that has further parameters and those parameters are what constitutes the piece? Like if the piece is an A and a B section with two strong transitions or bridges between them, then the A section is static tones that are tuned to the frequencies of the blowers inflating in some kind of harmonic way to mask or blend or use those machines to make a lattice of sound. It’s interesting to me that you’re saying it’s hard to “listen” to those things directly and that instead, you observe them through motion as a body. How does that relate to the immersivity? Is it showing people the many thresholds within it? JG: I feel like they are showing our bodies relationship to architecture, sense of direction and geometry. That’s the way tones work to me – it’s more about how they literally reflect and interfere with each other than what they are emitting. So that’s the movement of them. It’s more along those lines, which I feel is at this point almost like a technique. MS:  Yeah! I agree entirely-  a technique -and there’s something interesting in the piece which is about heterogony of techniques and heterogony of audio and sound materials and their cultural histories. In terms of the first section and motion, anyone who’s gone through LaMonte Young and Marian Zazeela’s Dream House has had the experience that you can only know that space through motion and you can experience your body in relationship to the space through motion. It’s an open question whether on the level of hearing if you ever experience all the frequencies at once that are mathematically present or experience those that are additional.  Similarly, a number of different Alvin Lucier pieces are strongly related in terms of what you’re calling a technique or might also be called “style”. For the second part, what you called a song, you said you collaborated with a number of different songwriters and a producer. Can you explain this process of collaboration and how that process and the resulting modes of authorship are made legible through the audio? JG: Amanda Warner (MNDR) and Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs are the main singers, Jon Mandabach is in there too and Artem Emelianov (Mess Kid) produced it.  The initial desire to work with making a pop song came out this new series I’m trying to work on to understand affect and language. It kind of came out of watching the primaries last year and how I listen. I don’t really hear specific words in general, but notice more how language is being used. So in the debate formats of 2016, the intonation of the words was more important that the words themselves and the technique of being extra vague asks you as a listener to insert yourself into the speech. And how so much of this is how we end up hearing only what we want to hear and rhetoric has tuned itself into a mode like this to reach the most people via their projections. MS: What I’m hearing is that you’re interested in how there’s a human affect that has nothing to do with language, which we know experientially from the elections and every moment of our life talking to and feeling with people- it’s something we are very tuned into and it connects us to other species where language isn’t possible. Music is a good example, for sure, where lyrical content doesn’t need to add up or function as poetry and… JG: …and don’t actually make any sense! And they don’t have to. The way that Amanda (MNDR) is not really singing words in my piece is an example of that for sure, but that’s also just how she writes songs. You come up with the melodies first and then place words into them. Or you have words that then you create melodies out of. But they are interchangeable. MS:  Especially in the recording the process for this piece you are describing, a layering of improvisations and a layering of spontaneity, engaging with these other artists in a quasi-exquisite corpse kind of form. In the second part of your piece, there is definitely a different sense of affect than the first. It gets translated through musical style that then gets translated again into the piece as an audio representation. So there are a few different translations in there, which are interesting to think about in terms of what makes it into the room and what is signified there. Improvisation in musical style, the question is really a 1960’s and 1970’s question, which persists and remains today and is still entirely confusing and relevant. What I find fascinating still is the assumptions of emotional authenticity or first-person emotional authorship in music that is somehow independent of the culture or style. One of the mass assumptions of pop music is that the people participating in it are somehow displaying something essential and actual of themselves to other people vs. it being an elaborate system of representation. JG:  Yeah I think that’s so fascinating, the idol or pop star is amazing, because to me they’re a cybernetic being: a conglomerate of machines and many humans that help to create the musical content and image. MS: So the question is whether people are knowing or conscious, critical actors in that cybernetic thing? JG: They have to be! The successful ones are. MS:  That’s an open question for me. The role of technology in terms of how affect and intention get translated into something called music is so knotty and laminated. I’m interested in how the particulars of the musical styles that are in the room are meaningful to the piece or not / what is meaningful about them as a reference vs. the first part and the references there? JG: Those stylistic associations happened through who I asked to be in it and very specific sound files and information I gave them. Initially, I asked Carolyn because I thought her voice would sound really interesting layered with Amanda’s voice.  I asked Artem to make a beat and sent variations of it to each of the singers, and then took the beat out almost completely in the final piece. It’s still someone’s voice and style, you’re working with a human. MS: But the human is no longer there once it’s audio. JG: But the human was there to create the content to begin with. MS: That’s true. But if audio is a technology of representation then you have to ask then what of the person is in the room. JG: I don’t know about that. MS:  You’re not sure if audio is a technology of representation? What’s the alternative for you? Transubstantiation? JG: I think it’s a combination. I keep going back to the nuts and bolts of sound. It is a representation in terms of how we might consciously perceive it, but in different layers when we listen. I can relate just as much with a speaker as I can with a human sometimes. MS:  What do you mean relate? You would cry with a speaker in the same way you would cry with a human? I guess I have actually done that now that you say it. JG: Yeah, it just depends on so many circumstances, the content, the space, the environment, who I am and where I am that day. Listening in a car, at a performance or a warehouse party. There are so many factors involved. MS: Yeah, we have hyper intimate relationships with technology these days- certainly our cell phones where we are sleeping with them and we pet them and we let them vibrate in our pants. Of course technology can be very intimate and audio is one of the most successfully intimate technologies. JG: Headphones would fit this… MS: Right, that’s like mainlining. So, this work was originally shown at The Empty Gallery in Hong Kong and the title is Not Exactly B-Flat. I thought that was so interesting in terms of references in the work. I think about La Monte Young’s Compositions 1960 #7, where you just hold a 5th for a long time, but it was also intended to be tuned to the hum of our 60Hz AC power system, like the blowers produce harmonics of. If you ran the blowers somewhere else, you get a different tone. So it’s sort of interesting because the title is not only about the blowers, it’s about the underlying electrical supply.  Another association I had was Maryanne Amacher listening to Boston Harbor in mono.  In her notes from that time, she was observing the aggregate change of pitch and also annotating seagulls as ornamentations, etc. JG: Yeah, we had to get these transformers because I insisted that they stayed around b-flat. Because that’s the key of the song as well. I was very insistent on trying to keep the blowers in that frequency range. MS:  Yeah, I noticed that harmonic connection between sections! For me, a lot of times I think that the criticism of pop music is that it over-narrates your psychology and lives. You know, like the critique of pop culture in general that before you fall in love you’ve watched 20 movies about falling in love. JG: That’s why I wanted it to be this conglomerate of different singers going on, so it wasn’t one narrative. And then also seeing that as some kind of cybernetic machine. MS: The second section, you said, “You move it” vs the first section which you said “It moves you” -what do you mean by that? JG: You project into it. In both parts I’d like to think you are meeting the sounds halfway, like you as a viewer have to work for the experience. In part A, you are having to work by moving and paying attention to details and noticing the space between you and the walls. You’re having to work in that situation and you’re having to work in part B as well, because if you’re someone who does want to know the narrative and understand or hear words you have to listen and project them. back to my question of affect and language.  Is this sad or happy? Is this a break-up song or a song about falling in love? Can’t tell. You’re also having to work at piecing this together. We’re so used to that Adele narrative that is just a BOOM Feeling.  With part B, there isn’t that, but we still relate to it as that, so we’re still having to work and inserting ourselves into it. And I also think that with the walls, and the transition of the falling walls, there’s an almost sublime vibe to them. They’re black, it’s dark, the walls are falling, and yet I think of the song is not dark. It’s a very basic juxtaposition there, but it's effective in understanding what’s happening around you. MS: To me, there is a truly magic moment in the piece is where the blowers turn off.  Not only are you hearing that literally the acoustic pressure in the room goes down, but the pressure in the inflatables decreases, and then this amazing interesting acoustic scenario that you’ve constructed is revealed and quickly unfolds. It’s a really generous moment in the work- the scaffolding of the work is allowed to be made apparent to the listener and it helps tune people into their place in it.   JG: Thank you

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The Way Home

Wellington Rover Tour

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Discover the historical past of Wellington a the Museum of Wellington situated right on Queens Wharf. It is a free museum that hosts occasions throughout the year. The Te Papa historical past event takes place all through Might of each year. You possibly can find out about historical past as well as explore artifacts from the history of the country at this annual occasion on the museum.

Glow In The Dark Worm Tour

This one hour tour via the Botanic Gardens in Wellington is definitely worth the trip because it takes place the last Friday of May every year at 8:00. It's essential to carry a torch with you so to gentle the best way and explore the fascinating world of glow at the hours of darkness worms at the gardens. Admission to this occasion is $1. This occasion takes place at different instances throughout the year as well, in the course of the summer months.

Braille Path

To honor the start of Louis Braille, you can go to the Botanic Backyard for the Sensation walk. This walk permits you to use all of your senses apart from sight to benefit from the magnificence that is round you within the Botanic Garden. It takes place each Could twenty sixth at the Botanic Garden and is a free occasion.

Wellington Household Festival

Take pleasure in an outing that's fun for your complete family at the Wellington City Heart. It is a household event that options craft stalls from local artisans in addition to food and leisure. The Wellington Family Competition takes place the first weekend of June annually and is an event that's designed for both younger and old alike.

Wellington Creative Dance Pageant

Dancers of all age teams participate on this festival sponsored by the Wellington City Council every year during the last weekend in Could. This event options creative dancers from all genres and age groups and takes place on the Massey College Auditorium. Anybody who enjoys the art of dance will love watching and maybe taking part in this particular occasion.