Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Recording of Hurricane Sandy for Touch Radio

Last night, October 29, 2012, Hurricane Sandy landed upon New York City. I recorded sounds of the wind and rain out of my Bed Stuy apartment window for Touch Radio 86.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

MEET ME AT THE NEXT DORKBOT NYC

MEET ME AT THE NEXT DORKBOT NYC (this is a reposting of the Dorkbot website) +++++++
where: Location One (Greene between Canal & Grand)
when: Wednesday, 03 Oct 2012, 7-9pm
$$$: $$$FREE$$$ (donations to Location One appreciated!)
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The next dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012 at Location One in SoHo.
The meeting is free and open to the public.
PLEASE BRING SNACKS AND DRINKS TO SHARE!!! WE ARE HUNGRY!!!
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Featuring the phase space trajectories of:


Nate Hill: ArtFagCity.Me
From 2007-present, I have been doing art (performance and web) in New York City -- described as confrontational, funny, antagonistic, silly, helpful, or just plain disgusting. It's important to note that most people experienced the performances through perception forming articles by bloggers, since the street performances were often unannounced or spectacles that were not well attended by people meaning to be there. Over the last five years, I've received much fair-minded online coverage and feedback and am fortunate. However, it's the occasional discounting blogger's tone, or the harsh commenter accusations that I have chosen to respond to in this pissy, nerdy, controlling, and obsessive project that is ArtFagCity.Me. In this talk, I will discuss how this art blog "hack" was created, its motivations, and the creative/technical steps and discoveries made along the way.
http://artfagcity.me


Phosphene Variations: Jason Akira Somma
Somma's work is a new revelation in the long symbiotic dynamic between art and technology. His analog video feedback manipulations explore a radical new conception of the relationship between performance and visual art. The fractalized, psychedelic imagery of Somma's videos are recorded live and in real time. In other words, Somma's work explores a new field of Generative Art, where the qualities of form, style, and aesthetic of a live event directly influence, the form, style, and aesthetic of an independent piece of visual content: a video recording. Though performance, and dance has often been the inspiration, or subject of works of visual art, Somma's new techniques synthesize an exciting new form of artistic expression that transcends and antiquates traditional understandings of performance and visual art. Somma's most recent work probes the relationship of art and audience. Somma's interactive holograms, integrating projections of dancers and performance artists on water vapor with three dimensional body mapping software, creates a new kinesthetic dialogue between audience and art work, encouraging the viewer to explore their own movement's effect on a visual experience focused on the unique body language lexicon of some of the world's foremost performers, dancers, and directors.
https://vimeo.com/30933352
https://vimeo.com/jasonsomma


Irene Moon: Scientifically Speaking
Scientifically Speaking with Irene Moon was developed around 1997 to elevate entomology as a rock genre. Under the name I have proceeded in creating multimedia environments, organizations, happenings, and music about or inspired by insects. Scientifically Speaking has the dual focus to advance appreciation of art in the halls of science; as a means of connecting the public to entomology and increasing awareness of the art and creativity intrinsic to the scientific process. My work to introduce factual topics comes with the creative fascination and detail that could only come out of the intimate relationship a scientist has with his or her subject as I am simultaneously a working entomologist presently employed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (as Katja Seltmann) in the field of biodiversity informatics.
http://www.begoniasociety.org
http://tcn.amnh.org







Wednesday, June 20, 2012

RADIO BOREDCAST NOW ARCHIVED AT WFMU!

 

20 June 2012 Let's Talk Science with Irene Moon had 5 hourish long episodes concerning our perceptions of 'slowness' in natural processes. Included in these Radio Boredcast presentations were interviews with Chris Watson (March 1), Dr. Andrea Lucky (March 5), Dr. Jiri Hulcr (March 13), David Armitage (March 24), and Dr. John Selegue.

--A reposting from People Like Us. Great to have them all online now!!---

We are very pleased to inform you that Radio Boredcast has now been archived in its entirety at WFMU.
Given that Radio Boredcast is a 744-hour online radio project, we consider today, The Longest Day, a most appropriate time to make this announcement.  Curated by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us) with AV Festival, Radio Boredcast responds to our ambiguous relationship with time - do we have too much or not enough? - celebrating the detail, complexity and depth of experience lost through our obsession with speed. BASIC.fm first hosted the project through the duration of AV Festival (1-31 March 2012) and now this unique and colossal archive is accessible for "Listen on Demand" at freeform radio station WFMU.

http://wfmu.org/playlists/zz

An impressive list of participants were invited to create new radio shows, audio works and mixes in response to the AV Festival theme "As Slow As Possible" and thematic playlists and contextual programming surround these creations.

The full list of participants are: Carl Stone, Pseu Braun & Alex Orlov, Touch, Rob Weisberg, Nicolas Collins, Andrew Lahman, Chris & Cosey, Jonathan Dean and Transmuteo, Cheese Snob Wendy, Kevin Nutt, Tony Coulter, Daniel Menche, Scott Williams, John Wynne, Chris Watson, Jem Finer and Longplayer, Tim Maloney, Ergo Phizmiz, Matmos, Dave Soldier, Charlie and Busy Doing Nothing, Andrew Sharpley, Nancy O Graham, Gwilly Edmondez, Anna Ramos & Roc Jiménez De Cisneros, Doug Horne, Irene Moon, David Suisman, Radio Web MACBA, Mark Gergis and Porest, Jez Riley French, Don Joyce, Carlo Patrao and Zepelim, Dorian Jones, Jason Willett, Zach Layton, Primate Arena with Alex Drool and Eran Sachs, David Toop, Dylan Nyoukis, Jared Blum and GiganteSound, Ed Pinsent, Adrian Philips aka Mr Rotorvator, Axel Stockburger, Craig Dworkin, Felix Kubin, People Like Us, Language Removal Services, Daniela Cascella, John Levack Drever, Joel Eaton, Clay Pigeon, Gudrun Gut, Charles Powne, Carl Abrahamsson, Andreas Bick and Silent Listening, Phantom Circuit, Patti Schmidt aka Wheelie Houdini, Leif Elggren, Ken Freedman, Erik Bünger, Douglas Benford, Christof Migone, BJNilsen, Andy Baio, Adam Thomas aka Preslav Literary School, Caroline Bergvall, Ken's Last Ever Radio Extravaganza, Tapeworm, Brent Clough and The Night Air, Ilan Volkov, Nat Roe, Steven Ball, X41, The Long Now Foundation, Sharon Gal, Michael Ruby, Jonathan Leidecker, DJ/rupture, Gordon Monahan, Michael Cumella aka MAC, Lloyd Dunn and nula, DDDJJJ666, and Kenneth Goldsmith.. Thematic playlists run throughout from "Acconci" to "ZzzŠ" programmed by Vicki Bennett.

This has been a great project to curate and create, and although the theme is Slowness, we urge you to get over there now and have a listen!

Listen to Radio Boredcast
http://wfmu.org/playlists/zz
Co-commissioned by AV Festival http://avfestival.co.uk and BASIC.fm http://basic.fm
Vicki Bennett http://peoplelikeus.org/boredcast.html
Blog entry
http://www.avfestival.co.uk/blog/2012/02/19/radio-boredcast-presents
WFMU http://wfmu.org/about.shtml

Monday, May 28, 2012

Death By Audio

Thanks to the person who recorded and posted this show on April 4, 2012.
Performing a few hits with less slides and more effects including:
Positively Pleasant Planarian, Sneaky Little Sneak and Fly Me to the Blossom.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Entertaining Science at the Cornelia Street Cafe

Sunday, Mar 11 - 6:00PM at the Cornelia Street Cafe
ENTERTAINING SCIENCE: BEAUTY AND THE BEASTIES


Irene Moon and David Rothenberg sing about EO Wilson from Irene Moon on Vimeo.



Irene Moon performs My Queen and I from Irene Moon on Vimeo.


Roald Hoffmann, Dave Soldier, hosts
David Rothenberg, ; Irene Moon,

David Rothenberg, author of WHY BIRDS SING and SURVIVAL OF THE BEAUTIFUL (“ecstatic” says the Wall St Journal, “triumphant” says the Guardian) will tell us why evolution is as much about survival of the beautiful as it is of the fittest; why Charles Darwin said the peacock’s tail made him sick. Showing us bowerbird sculptures and playing animal sounds from whales to cicadas, he explains why beauty is a necessary part of nature.

Which leads most naturally to a surreal performance by Irene Moon, of the Museum of Natural History and the Begonia Society, “What is Beautiful?”. In vignettes, biological organisms act out short PowerPoint plays emerging out of the creative fascination with detail that could only come out of the intimate relationship a scientist has with his or her subject. Song and imagery will make the disgusting beautiful – believe us. Moon’s actors include internal parasites -- tapeworms, hookworms – and blood-sucking insects and their mouths -- mosquitos, fleas, and, since this is New York City, bedbugs.

$10 cover http://www.davidrothenberg.net , http://www.begoniasociety.org

Friday, February 17, 2012

Moon programs for Radio Boredcast!

Here is the list of Moon interviews for the A/V festival Radio Boredcast curated and organized by Vicki Bennett.
. There are a lot of good artists and musical material (24 hours worth!) on each of the days.

Day 1: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - The Ice Show - in conversation with Chris Watson


Day 5: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Human Evolution - Part 1- A conversation with Andrea Lucky, North Carolina State University


Day 13: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Human Evolution - Part 2- A conversation with Jiri Hulcr, North Carolina State University

Day 14: Rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Human Evolution - Part 2- A conversation with Jiri Hulcr, North Carolina State University

Day 20: Rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - The Ice Show - in conversation with Chris Watson

Day 21: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Sleep - A conversation with Dave Armitage, University of California, Berkley

Day 24: Rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Sleep - A conversation with Dave Armitage, University of California, Berkley


Day 26: Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Rust - A conversation with John Selegue, University of Kentucky

Day 28: A rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - The Ice Show - in conversation with Chris Watson


Day 29: A rebroadcast of Irene Moon: Let's Talk Science - Rust - A conversation with John Selegue, University of Kentucky


That is a lot of days folks!!