[prak-sis] presents 'Claytech' 12.05.09

Claytech
Clay and Technology

Art workshops, Ceramics with video and sound, Sculpture,
Performance, Installation,
Music and Holiday Art Sale!!

December 5th, 2009
4:30 - 9:30 pm
1520 N. Damen ave, Chicago
(A block south of Blue line Damen stop)

Schedule
4:30 - 7:00 Art workshop
5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Performance and sound
by Mi-yeon Kwon and Jayve Montgomery
8:00 - 9:30 Music by FluiD

TBC: Dancing About Architecture—BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh Sounds Off on the Year's Best Audio Installations

TBC: Dancing About Architecture—BLDGBLOG's Geoff Manaugh Sounds Off on the Year's Best Audio Installations

Liquification

Heavy Metal Design

Great article @ Print Magazine's website on design and metal/heavy musics. Features Aaron Turner, Seldon Hunt and Stephen O'Malley. Three very talented musicians/graphic designers.

http://www.printmag.com/Article/The-Exile-of-Satan-from-Heavy-Metal-Design

The Look of Blacknuss, Brown Rice 11.19.09

All photos courtesy of Tamara L. Smith, 2009

Brown Rice is Back

An evening of BLACKNUSS descended upon us...google it!...RRK!...anyways...Brown Rice returned last night as the illustrious TRAVIS, the rhythmic FLuiD, and the abstractblack performed in an evening of self discovery...

Be sure to checkout Brown Rice 4432 N. Kedzie Ave., Chicago, IL. on Thursday nights, door opens at your beck and call...shows begin at 9PM!

Bass Bringing Zombies...

The new four-song EP from Toxic Taboo is now available for download. Toxic Taboo is a collaboration between Black Saturn, DJ Restless and FluiD.

You can download the EP here -

http://rapidshare.com/files/295716190/Toxic_Taboo_ep_2009.rar

http://www.myspace.com/toxictaboo

Live Electronics

http://www.archive.org/details/Fd2009-11-10.fluidliveSwingstate11-10-09

"Live electronics performers, streaming their own recorded music from laptops, work differently. They follow the basic template given to us by dub reggae. Take a preexisting song, add effects, momentarily remove ("dub out") parts. Live electronica performers basically mess up their own music, which is pre-built and then disassembled. The more "active" they appear, the more the original piece is being interrupted."

From 'Confessions of A DJ' by Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture

Brooklyn Gets Liquified

Two shows this weekend in Brooklyn, NY, Saturday Nov. 7th and Sunday Nov. 8th. Both shows were put together by Robert of Brooklyn's Post Abortion Stress.

Don Letts interview @ The Guardian

Don Letts is the dread who met punk rockers uptown. But does the film-maker remember the first time? Yes, it was at the Roxy with the Pistols!

Read the interview here -

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/04/don-letts-interview