Emergency Radio Battery-Check Night Time Event
MAY 23, 2010 • Miami Beach Botanical Garden • 2 - 10 p.m.
On Sunday, May 23, 2010, not only will you be able to participate in another stunning Frozen Music performative installation, this time by tuning your radio to 1610 in your AM dial, walking around a garden, and even taking the sounds with you around a 1.5 mile radius. From 2PM to 10PM, you will have a chance to also check and replace the batteries in your emergency radio! SFCA will setup a battery-check station and replace your "AA" and "AAA" batteries (if needed) for a $1.00 each suggested donation to benefit subtropics.org.
To provide a public service to our diverse community and simultaneously fulfill our artistic mission, subtropics.org will present Frozen Music’s Emergency Radio Battery-Check Nighttime Event, a symbiotic event relies on you accepting our invitation to show up with your battery operated radio! This FREE and OPEN TO EVERYONE closing event of FM’s 2009-10 season will be staged as a unique collaboration with Talking Head Transmitters at the Japanese Garden area of Miami Beach Botanical Garden.
Imagine yourself one of hundreds of birds, grabbing on to twigs and branches, singing, then jumping about to a new location, calling, sounds coming from everywhere, all inside in a forest patch somewhere in the Everglades. Now imagine walking about the grounds at Miami Beach Botanical Garden holding your transistor radio, picking up and playing back signals from THT's transmission of FM sounds, then moving about the garden, perhaps even taking the sounds with you out to the streets on South Beach to listen to "distance" and "location" or to share with others.
Based loosely on a collective apocalyptical thought, Talking Head Transmitters are inviting for this event, an eclectic group of individuals to speak and share their sounds about fear, recession, recent earth movements, volcanoes weather, art, music, and predictions! We wish to grasp all sides of the issues, the good and the bad, the safe and the un-safe. We are betting courageously that dialogue from different standpoints and perspectives will reflect the current state of the World. The goal: Find the overlapping points and synthesize the current feeling and turmoil before the end of 2010.
To provide a public service to our diverse community and simultaneously fulfill our artistic mission, subtropics.org will present Frozen Music’s Emergency Radio Battery-Check Nighttime Event, a symbiotic event relies on you accepting our invitation to show up with your battery operated radio! This FREE and OPEN TO EVERYONE closing event of FM’s 2009-10 season will be staged as a unique collaboration with Talking Head Transmitters at the Japanese Garden area of Miami Beach Botanical Garden.
Imagine yourself one of hundreds of birds, grabbing on to twigs and branches, singing, then jumping about to a new location, calling, sounds coming from everywhere, all inside in a forest patch somewhere in the Everglades. Now imagine walking about the grounds at Miami Beach Botanical Garden holding your transistor radio, picking up and playing back signals from THT's transmission of FM sounds, then moving about the garden, perhaps even taking the sounds with you out to the streets on South Beach to listen to "distance" and "location" or to share with others.
Based loosely on a collective apocalyptical thought, Talking Head Transmitters are inviting for this event, an eclectic group of individuals to speak and share their sounds about fear, recession, recent earth movements, volcanoes weather, art, music, and predictions! We wish to grasp all sides of the issues, the good and the bad, the safe and the un-safe. We are betting courageously that dialogue from different standpoints and perspectives will reflect the current state of the World. The goal: Find the overlapping points and synthesize the current feeling and turmoil before the end of 2010.
SCOTT STRIPLING
Graduated B.S. in Atmospheric Science, has worked as a Mathematics Technician for 3 different NASA contractors under temporary terms at NASA GSFC, as a participating scientist for 1st in series of National Science Foundation sponsored National Ozone Experiment (NOZE) conducted in Antarctica. Since July 1988 he has been working with NOAA/National Weather Service Forecast Office in different locations within the US.
His professional experience combined with a lifetime of surfing, Wind-surfing, and recently kite-surfing, have allowed him to become a recognized expert in wind and wave climatology for the NE Caribbean, and a regional expert on Caribbean weather and climate. For THT: Live Interview on wind and wave climatology for the NE Caribbean and on general weather and climate issues.
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Interview
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MARK DIAMOND
Mark Diamond has been telling stories with pictures since the age of five, and professionally as a photojournalist for Time and Rolling Stone magazines. In 1975, Diamond opened the first 3-D laser Hologram Gallery, Studio and Laser laboratory in the Southeast United States. As a filmmaker and videographer, Mark has been applying multi-various image making disciplines in innovative ways in 3 dimensions for over 30 years. As an educator, Diamond constantly shares a vast array of leading edge techniques with artists and young people in order to expand the vocabulary of visual communications for all.
For THT: Live interview on two statements. The first on the visionary engineer Dr. R. Buckminster Fuller posing the question:
How do we make the world work for 100% of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological damage or disadvantage to anyone?
The second on if the future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed of William Gibson. |
BRIAN REEDY
Brian Reedy is a local Miami artist and sci-fi enthusiast. His drawings and woodcuts are prophetic, tongue-in-cheek illustrations of possible future events. Usually in a post-apocalyptic setting, Reedy's images are populated by animals and creatures behaving much in the same manner as the humans they have replaced. In real life, Reedy is quite optimistic about the future. He feels that the rapid advancement of technology makes for exciting times and that mankind's curiosity and thirst for knowledge will never be quenched.
For THT: Live Interview on How sci-fi has shaped his life and influenced his artwork, the pros/cons of rapid technological advancement, unsung visionaries like the Koreshans of Estero, FL, the possibility of Extra-terrestrials and time travel, recent natural and man-made disasters, and how the future will never live up to our expectations.
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Interview
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GERMAN HERRERA
Germán Herrera is an artist living in California. Trained as a photographer and musician, his work explores the visual expression of emotion through the use of photographic imagery. He was the recipient of an Artist Residency at the De Young Museum in San Francisco, California, in 2006. A monograph of his work is currently in preparation and will be published in late 2010. For more please visit: germanherrera.com
For THT: 1 sound piece
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Aural Path
[15:00 min] |
GUSTAVO MATAMOROS / FROZEN MUSIC
Gustavo Matamoros carries an experimental music career that spans over 30 years. As a creative artist, he has used sound as the raw material for the creation of numerous interdisciplinary works for musical instruments, electronic devices, the stage, radio, video and architecture. He has received awards in music, media arts and art in public places, including the 2000 Visual and Media Arts Fellowship award from the Florida Consortium and two national prizes of composition from his home land, Venezuela, as well as, many important commissions. Originally from Venezuela, lives and works in Miami.
David Dunn is an American composer who primarily engages in site-specific interactions or research-oriented activities. Much of his current work is focused upon the development of listening strategies and technologies for environmental sound monitoring in both aesthetic and scientific contexts. Dunn is internationally known for his articulation of frameworks that combine the arts and sciences towards practical environmental activism and problem solving. René Barge, a Miami local, is a multifaceted artist; his work includes drawing, painting, collage, sculptural objects and sound installations. René Barge was an audio engineering student and a visual art student in the nineties. He is currently a Resident Artist at the Interdisciplinary Sound Arts Workshop in Miami, home of the Subtropics Experimental Music and Sound Arts Festival; also he is a Graphic Art and Web Design instructor at Miami Springs Senior High School for Miami Dade County Public Schools. For THT: 1 Sound piece + live interview to Gustavo Matamoros
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Soundscape
with k-man [32 sec] Interview
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YUCEF MERHI
Yucef Merhi is an artist, poet and computer expert currently based in The Venezuelan Andes. Merhi’s creative exercise begins in 1985 and has a long career exhibiting worldwide including the 2007 Bienal de São Paulo; and the 10th Istanbul Biennial. Merhi was recently awarded with a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Digital / Electronic Arts. For more information, go to cibernetic
For THT:
Podcast on meditation from the South American Andes. |
Podcast
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DAVID BRIESKE
Fsik Huvnx is the experimental project of visual artist David Brieske.
The first 14 short works were originally created for Talking Head Transmitters. The works take their cue from the art of collage and musique concrète, piecing together bits of music, field recordings, manipulated and found sounds to form an aural environment much akin to a film soundtrack. Lives and works in Miami. For THT:
2 sound pieces + live interview |
Twilight
[5:21 min] Untitled
[9:28 min] Interview
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ALE BACHRACH
Born in Argentina, Alejandro Bachrach lives and works in Barcelona. Photographer and self-taught musician.His musical works are conceived as sound landscapes, using the song format with a contemporary attire, with an emphasis on experimental fusion of rhythms and technologies. His lyrics are non narrative but playful, imaginative verbally descriptive sensations. He studied guitar and harmony, as well as jazz with important Argentinean masters, and began recording since 2001. Combines his musical life with his career as a multi-published photographer. Lives and works in Barcelona, Spain.
For THT: 1 Sound piece
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Bifurcan
[4:50 min] Miedo
[3:07 min] |
DAVID ROHN
Born in NYC, David Rohn lives and works in Miami since 1992. Studied Architecture and Art between Paris and NYC. His Live Art practices are complemented by installations, performance, video, photography, as well as painting.
For THT: Live Interview of international Art Star Jella Kuare, who has been widely collected throughout the world is also represented in the Herb and Kitty Katzenjammer Kollection here in Miami, with her seminal video work 'Heroin Heroine'. Ms Kuare grew up with Palestinian and Israeli parents in Bethlehem, until their deaths in a suspicious plane crash when she was 7 years old. She was subsequently adopted by a mixed irish Catholic and Protestant family and moved to Belfast. It was in Ireland that she began to draw upon her profound grief and extraordinary insight into the human psyche. She later married a Yugoslav Serb who was eventually assassinated in the early '90's for attempting to help Muslim refugees escape the former Yugoslavia. Ms Kuare left for the United States in disgust, where she soon attended California Institute of the Arts, followed by graduate work at Yale, which awarded her a MFA Magna Cum Laude in 1997. It was Ms Kuare's video and installation documenting the ancient custom of whipping cats in rural France that drew fierce fire from the animal rights group PETA, which caused MOMA to withdraw the controversial Piece for the safety of that institution and it's public. Ms Kuare has since been an outspoken critic of censorship, and has spoken on that subject at MOMA and many similar institutions throughout the world. In 1994, long before Princess Diana came out of the bulemia closet, Kuare produced a spectacular Piece on that sore subject called 'VOOMIT!!!" It was this Piece that catapulted her to worldwide notoriety and a large presence at Documenta 13 in Kassel Germany in 2000. She later went on to win a MacArthur Genius Award for her video "Cut", on female circumcision in Sub-Sahara Africa; Followed by 'Heroin Heroine'. In this video, which has been condemned as a scathing condemnation of the moralistic tendencies of Judeo-Christian and Anglo-Saxon Cultures, Ms Kuare's technique of forward and backward manipulation of a basic action, has been described as the climax of a spectacular career that clearly has far further and higher to go. |
Interview
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MUU BLANCO
Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Muu Blanco is a multi media artist who began working with sound in 1995 to coincide with his installation “Parlamento” at the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum.Works as a musical producer and editor for other musicians. Is part of Hermanos Monteverde band.
For THT: 1 Sound piece
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Paisaje Sonoro
[12:08 min] |
MONSALVE
Raúl Monsalve is a Venezuelan bass player, composer and multi instrumentalist that has been involved in projects that often move between afro Caribbean music, Jazz, Rock, and Free improvisation.
He is remembered especially for his role in the band kRé.
For THT: 1 Sound piece
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La otra orilla
[4:29 min] Marea baja
[5:50 min] |
PABLO LARRAGUIBEL
Born in Chile, Pablo Larraguibel lives in Barcelona since 1998. Collects music, edits children books and carries a radio program in Radio Catalunya named Musiques Urbanes. His main interests towards music is the permeability between cultures. He is passionate about Caribbean sounds.
For THT: 1 Sound piece
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Compilation
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LEON PAUL HOVENESIAN II
Leon Paul Hovanesian II is an American artist/illustrator/doodler. Born in South Florida he lives currently in New England and is prone to extensive traveling. Aside from contemporary art issues, Leon is also invested in Science Fiction and illustrated narratives. The junction of where classical technical art meets with expressive art, design, color, comic books, narrative, science fiction, technology, and thought, has long been his preoccupation.
For THT: Podcast about a reflection upon the tools for understanding the evidence of an ever-expanding universe.
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Podcast
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JUAN SOLO
Juan Solo is a Venezuelan born, London based DJ. He’s been collecting music for more than 30 years, from Punk or Deep House to Salsa or Drum and Bass. For him, a good record collection is more about different moods and diversity.
For THT: 1 sound piece
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Mix
[Total time 16:40 min] Melody [4:41 min]
Dayvan Cowboy
[5:00 min] Roscoe [6:55]
From Your Favorite Sky
[2:46 min] |
BEATRIZ MONTEAVARO
Beatriz Monteavaro was born in Cuba. She is an artist and musician. Monteavaro has been playing drums in bands since 1991 including The Human Oddites, Floor and Cavity. Her present band is called Beings and will be releasing a 12” through Amnesian Records this year. Beatriz Monteavaro lives and works in Miami.
For THT: 1 Sound piece by Salome's Request, configured by the following artists: Western Charles, Cooper, Ivan Toth Depena, Gean Moreno, Beatriz Monteavaro and Gavin Perry.
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The Dot Versus Period Debate
[4:06 min] |
JEAN MARC TAUSZIK
Martial Arts practitioner, Graphic Designer and Psychologist. Jean Marc Tauszik works as a psychotherapist specialized in archetypes, images and culture. Recently won the prestigious 2009 Writing Award from the IPSO/IPA (International Phsychoanalitytical Studies Organization. Lives and works in Caracas, Venezuela.
For THT: Live phone interview will address issues about anxiety management in times of uncertainty.
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Interview
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NEIL OCHOA
Neil Ochoa was born in Caracas Venezuela to a family of music lovers, he grew up exposed to an intense and big Latin music discography owned by his father. At age 10 his grandmother gave him a set of bongos, being this his first instrument and the beginning of a passion that has lasted over 18 years and still keeps growing and evolving in a professional and a solid career. Since 1995 Neil has been living in NYC.
For THT: 1 Sound piece
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Mix
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