Installation Views of Jose Alvarez's video Surfaces of Constant Time from Ratio3 in SF

Features soundtrack by CJM. Here's an excerpt:

 

Smithson's Hotel Palenque

From UBU, a bootleg film document from 1972 of Robert Smithson lecturing at Univ. of Utah on photographs he shot at his hotel in Palenque, Mexico in 1969.

PDF of the complete transcript and slides from the lecture.

The Ballroom at Hotel Palenque

Artikulation with stylized waveform

Fabric (geology)

Fabric (geology)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In geology, a rock's fabric describes the spatial and geometric configuration of all the elements that make it up.[1].

Types of fabric

• Primary fabric – a fabric created during the original formation of the rock e.g. a preferred orientation of clast long axes in a conglomerate, parallel to the flow direction, deposited by a fast waning current.
• Shape fabric – a fabric that is defined by the preferred orientation of inequant elements within the rock, such as platy or needle like mineral grains. It may also be formed by the deformation of originally equant elements such as mineral grains
• Crystallographic preferred orientation – In plastically deformed rocks the constituent minerals commonly display a preferred orientation of their crystal axes as a result of dislocation processes.
• S-fabric – a planar fabric such as cleavage or foliation, when it forms the dominant fabric in a rock, it may be called an S-tectonite
• L-fabric – a linear fabric such as mineral stretching lineation where aggregates of recrystallised grains are stretched out into the long axis of the finite strain ellipsoid, where it forms the dominant fabric in a rock, it may be called an L-tectonite.
• Penetrative fabric – a fabric that is present throughout the rock, down to the grain scale.

Primary fabric in anorthosite intrusion, Rogaland, Norway 

MATA Interval 3.1: Architectures of Sound [100113]

MATA presented a fascinating event on Wednesday night, curated by David Kant and Cameron Hu. Several perspectives on how to raise audience awareness of physical space via sonic material were proffered by a great group of composers and performers. Included below is the list of the program and performers, and then some media documentation.

Interval 3.1: Architectures of Sound

Performers
Casey Thomas Anderson, soprano saxophone and electronics
Jacob Sudol, singing bowls and electronics
Anthony Ptak, electronics
Charles Stankievech, electronics
Aaron Meicht, trumpet
Quentin Tolimiere, piano
Phil Rodriguez, trumpet
David Kant, tenor saxophone


Program
Casey Thomas Anderson - quarters
Anderson, electronics

Charles Stankievech - Radiance (soundtrack for a silent film)
Stankievech, electronics

Michael Winter - Perspectives I
David Kant, saxophone
Casey Thomas Anderson, saxophone
Aaron Meicht & Phil Rodriguez, trumpet

Jacob Sudol - until we remain suspended…
Sudol, singing bowls and electronics

Intermission

David Kant & Cameron Hu - Straight Line Between Terminals
Kant & Hu - video and electronics

Anthony Ptak - Elusive Architectonics
Ptak, electronics

G. Douglas Barrett - A Few Rooms
David Kant, saxophone
Casey Thomas Anderson, saxophone
Aaron Meicht, trumpet
Quentin Tolimiere, piano

Michael Winter performing A Few Rooms by Doug Barrett

David Kant performing A Few Rooms by Doug Barrett