[NetBehaviour] the BIG AMERICAN guitar *
the BIG AMERICAN guitar * http://www.alansondheim.org/twodaysago.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/bigamerican.mp3 *made in Indonesia with the big american steel strings; I have troubles playing this instrument (owned by Azure's father); I'm for quick playing, light touch, but here, my hands give out and the music is strange and kind of wonderful, never mind the nails are the worst for it. these guitars are louder than the nylon/ nylgut/gut-stringed instruments; they don't have the twang of course, that slow dying-out sound of the prairie wind for example. they resonate with the hollows of thunder in the canyons; they're a message of arrival and departure, the sound of the iron steel train on the iron steel tracks, the Whitman; at Dickinson's brother's house, there was a 19th-century gut- string banjo on the fireplace mantle, nothing like this (but she might have played both today, or none at all, or did she then?); here is the sound of delicate fingers and their exercising, the frustration of wanting to do with the strings what others might do, of the daytime nighttime bigamerican guitar, irresolute in my hands, I wanted this ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
[NetBehaviour] No Copyright Infringement Intended, 1st - 23rd September
Hi NetBehaviourists! The second iteration of No Copyright Infringement Intended is coming up at Vivid Projects in Birmingham, UK, from 1st - 23rd September. No Copyright Infringement Intended is a group exhibition exploring the relationship between copyright and culture in the digital age, investigating how the concept of ownership and authorship is evolving and coming into conflict with outdated copyright and intellectual property laws. The exhibition features work by Nick Briz, Emilie Gervais, Nicolas Maigret, Christopher Meerdo, Jan Nikolai Nelles & Nora Al-Badri, Duncan Poulton, Fernando Sosa, Andrea Wallace & Ronan Deazley. Further details are here: http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/no-copyright-infringement-intended/ In addition to the exhibition there will be: * a panel discussion, Copyright as Frame and Prison, on 14th September http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/copyright-as-frame-and-prison/ * Curator's tour on 16th September http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/no-copyright-infringement-intended-curators-tour/ * Meme workshop on 12th September http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/memes-for-luc-tuymans/ * and an #accordingToTheInternet workshop from Gretchen Andrew on 21st September http://www.vividprojects.org.uk/programme/accordingtotheinternet/ Let me know if there's any questions. Kind regards, Antonio -- anto...@hellocatfood.com http://www.hellocatfood.com ___ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
