April 2011
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WatchIn honor of Reverend King who died on this day in 1968.
February 2011
4 posts
For the love of Free-Jazz-Fusion, Gibson, and the...
(above: 1968 Gibson guitar ad)
Here’s one for the 1968 archive:
I may have found a new (workingclass[?]) hero today…
June 2010
5 posts
April 2010
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Guerra de la Paz in the Global Village
March 2010
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WatchInformation Delivery Service Presents: Good People
Live @ The Benson Club Premiered @ The House Cafe 3/9/10
February 2010
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X Notes on Practice: Reflecting Raqs Media Collective, Here and Now
Forewords: Aqui é o fim do mundo
[Notes from Underground: a work in building]
It occurs to me that X Notes on Practice belongs nowhere in academia; It belongs right here on the internet, as a hypertextual document. Academia’s stubborn insistence that her students continue to turn in papers to her is, I think,...
January 2010
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December 2009
4 posts
Three Concepts Pertaining to the Idea of...
1. Reflexion - The process by which we are becoming whole and learn to act together. By which we are enabled to become autonomous agents of a reflexive collective.
2. Reflexive Collective - An agency in which autonomous persons (agents) move together towards more holistic being. Such an agency may coagulate at a time when a group of persons interested in the processes of transformation make a...
2008 DeKalb Contemporary Drum Summit
Tracks 1-4 feature Jeff Swanson, Dan Monaghan, & John Benson with tapping by Nikki Maronde. Tracks 5-9 feature the aforementioned percussionists plus Maggie Bergren & Clarice Cast. (+ Stacey Huffstutler?) Recorded in Jeff’s bedroom in DeKalb in December 2008.
This project can be found @ http://www.archive.org/details/DekalbContemporaryDrumSummit2008
D-I-Y: The Information Delivery Service...
D-I-Y: The Information Delivery Service Performance Archive
Information Delivery Service is ideas + energy. Information Delivery Service is a reflexive collective.
Information Delivery Service is here, now.
You can download the archived tracks @ http://www.archive.org/details/InformationDeliveryServicePerformanceArchive
Free-jazz archive
Order is no longer assured.
-Jacques Derrida
entropic rhythms.
are all I hear.
expressing themselves.
calling for
freedom…
In times of peace/
In times of war:
aggression.
and I feel calm in all
the burning
All tracks recorded in Morrison, IL in 2006. Personnel: Julianna Karvelius plays alto sax on tracks 1-4,6,7. Adam Jevne plays drums on track 3 and alto saxophone on track 5....
November 2009
3 posts
"Thinking Globally" (ARTLab Confernece 2009)
Here, I am building an archive of the proceedings of the 2009 ARTLab Conference at Northern Illinois University. This year marked the first of a (hopefully) annual series of conferences organized around various themes. This year’s presentations were organized around the theme: “Thinking Globally.”
BRIAN HOLMES KEYNOTE SPEECH “Is it written in the stars? (Global Finance /...
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Happy Halloween, all!
I’ve been attempting...
May 2009
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