Antonis Pittas and Alexandra Landre
interviewed by artwaverdio.net (D. Foutris) - 00:50:48 min

Fischerspooner
interviewed by Artwaveradio (Carlos Slazenger and Nikos Arvanitis) at Synch Festival in Technopolis, Gazi in Athens July 2007
01:00:00 min

Fischer and Spooner met in an experimental video class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Between 1999 and 2000 they wrote a spate of cool, electronic tracks, like the anthemic hit-to-be Emerge, to accompany a new experimental performance idea. With the help of a network of dancers, singers, costumers and other artist friends the performances grew over a year into controversial pop spectaculars. Fischerspooner spearheaded the swelling international electro movement and quickly created a cult of fans around the world. The film, photography, performances and music that Fischerspooner were producing also captured the attention of New York’s art world, as a unique hybrid of modern pop culture and performance art. A partnership with downtown gallery Deitch Projects led them to perform and show their work at galleries, museums and private collectors’ homes around the world.

Joseph Nechvatal -viral symphOny (LABEL: IEA, 2007). - 00:28:00 min
You can now download, for free, my 28 min. viral symphOny mp3 at this  
link::http://www.ubu.com/sound/nechvatal.html. The fully embodied CD (with 78 min. audio and art work) is for sale at http://www.cdemusic.org/

Post-conceptual digital artist and theoretician Joseph Nechvatal pushes his experimental investigations into the blending of computational virtual spaces and the corporeal world into the sonic register. Realtime "field recordings" of the audio manifestations of his custom created computer viruses have been reworked and reprocessed by Andrew Deutsch and Matthew Underwood, resulting in the sonic landscape of the ‘viral symph0ny’. With resonances of Yasunao Tone, Fluxus, Oval, and Merzbow, this 28-minute composition is supplemented by a further 50 minutes of audio, comprising the original raw data field recordings.

Steven Mygind Pedersen Institute for Electronic Arts,School of Art & Design, NYSCC @ Alfred University,2 Pine St, Alfred, NY 14802

viral symphOny
Joseph Nechvatal : original concept viral structures
Mathew Underwood : nano, micro, meso and macro structures
Andrew Deutsch : meso and macro structures
Stephane Sikora : C++ programming

Produced at The Institute for Electronic Arts
Steven Mygind Pedersen : IEA project technician
Joseph Nechvatal : visual artwork
© Joseph Nechvatal 2007
More info: http://www.nechvatal.net/

Carlos Slazenger - audio obstacle course 10 - 00:60:00 min

Mission Statement for Carlos Slazengers Audio Obstacle Course
‘Doncha wish your deejay was wrong like me?, doncha wish your deejay was a freak like me? dontcha?’

Im on Artwave Radio to trade under the name of Carlos Slazenger- ‘Wrongist’ Dee Jay of  radical, neglected & incredibly strange recorded sound, past present & future. I am a collector who has found that some of the most interesting things that exist are not those that are pushed into your face by the ACME multi-national entertainment corp .I create radio programmes & party nights that are intended to confound & surprise, something that mainstream music seems to have lost its talent for. It ain’t easy to answer what music I play when I’m asked, as I genuinely have no axe to grind regarding any one particular genre, and I am not in the least concerned with clutching at the coat tails of ‘cool’. Though I am a lifelong fan of Captain Beefheart & The Fall, I suffer no pangs of aching credibility by following them with Sabrina or Jethro Tull, I’m happy to play artrock, krautrock, early rockabilly, I’ve taken my concept to the clubs & bars with my friends as ‘Non Stop Hits’ & I’m currently starting a new night called ‘pub juke box’ with mates from www.black-athena.com which is a homesick ex pats attempt to recreate an English pub experience (without the underlying aggression ). I also dee jay regularly on www.vinylmicrostore.gr. I have every intention of continuing to search for overlooked oddities to charm you with for as long as I have left to inhabit this planet, which judging by the state of them cowboys carbon footprints wont be too long…

P.S if any of you lot out there have got a copy of ‘Band on the Trot’ by Hylda Baker & Arthur Mullard I’m willing to do anything to get my hands on it…anything. Stalk me at www.myspace.com/carlosslazenger