Dear You,
You are reading the first lines of the highly infrequent UNSWORN
newsletter, either because we know you want to or because we think you
should.
Since this is the first UNSWORN Update in eleven years we have loads and
lots to tell you. Don't worry though, with the current publication rate
your inbox will not get clogged until the next ice age. If you still don't
want Updates in the future, send us a mail and we will leave you alone for
another decade or so.
FOUR OPHONES NEW YORK TOUR 2006
After two years of conquering world metropolises such as Tokyo, Paris and
Brösarp our favourite interactive sound installation finally had its North
American breakthrough in a series of, sonically as well as logistically,
challenging events ranging from squirrel-scaring Open Ophones in Central
Park to the crowning of this year's American Ophoniste Idol at MonkeyTown
in Williamsburg, where Lukamaki (aka Bob Lukomski) won the jury's hearts
in ear-busting competion with Amy Granat & Anthony Ptak, La Livia, Bora
Yoon, SUIT, Soupy, Adam Matta, Mike Skinner, and Montgomery Knott:
www.unsworn.org/ophones/nyc2006
COLOMBIAN PARTY LABORATORIES
In Medellín you can buy electric shocks in the street. Dirt cheap. Erik
reflects on art, clubbing and party-evangelism after being one of resident
gringos at the Bogotrax and Pixelazo festivals in Locolombia a month ago:
www.unsworn.org/report/colombia2007
POPHORN SNEAK PEAKS
When in Bogotá UNSWORN also announced their latest endeavour. Pophorns are
a series of small sound applications that transform your mobile phone into
a music-making machine. The first one - the Ophonine Pophorn - records and
replays loops with the press of a button. Musicians, strollers, toddlers,
and stray cats jammed with the Pophorns in selected Colombian squares and
museums:
www.unsworn.org/pophorn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO_cboiM66s
FRESH EYES AND DIRTY HANDS
2006 was not only the year of the dog and the year of You, but also the
year of the Workshop which UNSWORN Educators honoured by teaching among
other things Physical Computing, Fashion+Technology, and Inner City
Ballets. Not to mention Sounds, Cameras, and Interactions with Åsa Ståhl
in Medellín. Now, in the year of the pig we celebrate all these
Experiential Interventionist Probotypings with a re-pimped archive of our
past didactic deeds:
www.unsworn.org/workshop
VJ BATTLES
A year ago Erik teamed up with Laika-Andreas to form the VJ-duo TV-OUT and
has since then appeared on projection screens in Malmö, Stockholm, Bogotá
and Helsinki, mixing modest home movies to the lard-ass beat of packed
dancefloors. On May 4 TV-OUT will battle Magnus' and Livias' Tallponies at
the first Swim Fast Club in Debaser Malmö. Det finns ett disco i varje
stövel!
www.tv-out.se
www.tallponies.net
WHO WON THE GRAND PRIX?
The glittering finale of the Pan-European auditory joust, Ophoniste Grand
Prix, organized by UNSWORN and Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, saw Bror
Stalin claim the prize with his flagellant performance "The Weight of the
Stalin Dynasty". Better luck next year to Kaarina and the Fishfingers,
Berliner Mitte Boy, the Incredible Krakl Pearls and the rest of the
European ophonating elites.
www.unsworn.org/ophones/ogp2006
DOT ORG CARGO-CULTING
After the Second World War anthropologists noted that the dances and
rituals of the local inhabitants of the small pacific islands, where
Americans had established military bases during the war, had changed
radically. Using homemade, wooden props crafted to look like radio
headsets and air control towers, the locals mimicked the behaviours of the
air traffic controllers hoping again to have valuables parachuting from
above. However, no matter how hard they tried no more cargo was dropped.
For the Mal au Pixel Festival in Paris in March 2006 UNSWORN tried to
curate a world-wide, open-source car-building initiative:
www.orgsmobile.org
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
KLOSSRYMDEN
Forget Web 2.0! At www.unsworn.org you get a thoroughly non-participatory,
yet massively orthogonal browsing experience:
www.unsworn.org
UNSWORN FUTURISMS
- More Pophorns will be produced this summer while overlooking Norwegian
fjords
- Collaborative calculators are in the making
- Multi-mouse desktop-gaming are awaiting deployment
- Letterist music beyond words are being recorded in studio Pojkrummet
- Rural gardens are being planted
Ok that's all for now. Keep warm.
All the best,
/Magnus & Erik
UNSWORN * Perfecting the unfinished since 1996
www.unsworn.org
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