OAS Node #1 @BAT HAUS: DisciplineAriel [Internal Documentation]

[DisciplineAriel performs at OASN1@BH Saturday, August 25, 2012]

Michael Barron on overhead projector. Click image to see Bat Haus photoset.[Performance Elements]:

• Wilson Novitzki improvises on synth and guitar
• Photos shot on camera phones by Paul McLean, performers, Bat Haus owners Natalie Chan & Cody Sullivan, and guests (+ digital enhancements as after effects in some instances) are uploaded to the DisciplineAriel blog in real time, or later, and interlinked in the network of OASN1 sites and portals
• PJM animations for DisciplineAriel are projected and presented on one of the Bat Haus computer monitors, looping
• The overhead projector is utilized for real time old school psychedelic image mixing; Paul initiates the sequence, creating a wall projection, with olive oil, water, Guerra Paint and other water-borne pigments (acrylics) in powder, solid and liquid form, including interference and metallic paints, plus coffee; Michael Barron takes over, and also photo-documents the results
• Wilson invites Adam Caine to sit in on the set; Adam plays guitar

Wilson Novitzki, Adam Caine

[LINKS]:

• DisciplineAriel Blog
• Bat Haus
• Wilson Novitzki [Soundcloud]
• Paul McLean [Art for Humans]
• Occupational Art School Node 1 [Main][Tumblr]
  

Overhead projection, iteration 1 [PJM][Narrative]

DisciplineAriel began in early summer 2012 as a "Borderless Art" proposition + mobile media collaboration for Bushwick-based musician and composer Wilson Novitzki and visual artist Paul McLean. The process involved several informal exchanges at Wyckoff-Starr, plus emails, phone calls and a pre-production meeting and 4d demonstration. Web archive links were exchanged and reviewed.

During a two-month European tour with renowned DIY artist R. Stevie Moore, Novitzki composed short electronic and guitar pieces on synthesizer and iPAD. These pieces were uploaded to a Tumblr created for DisciplineAriel by McLean, who added entries featuring "outside" content - from three sources:

• Famed Kauai-based surf guru Ambrose Curry
• The Voyage of the Hippo blog (long-time AFH collaborator Shane Kennedy contributing)
• Anarchivist/revGamer/Novadic transmissions from Bold Jez.

These satellite or context threads also in real time sequences featured neo-epic or -journeyman components and intersecting trajectories. McLean contributed digital still and moving images, as well as photo documentation of "HOME," i.e., Bushwick, the project's point of origin.

The DisciplineAriel performance for Occupational Art School Node 1 at Bat Haus constitutes a "Welcome Home" party for Wilson; a version of "Talking Story;" a prototyping proof for the particular kind of collaboration Novitzi and McLean practice(d); an invitation to further expand the collaboration to include both random and "staged" participation by OASN1 artists [+]

Overhead projection [operator transition phase]

[PHOTO & VIDEO DOCUMENTATION]: Natalie Chan, Cody Sullivan, JenJoy Roybal, Michael Barron, Paul McLean [+]

Novadic Song in 7+ Parts

Dearly beloved,

Please find attached this novadic song for voice, guitar, subway train, whistle, siren, drunk girls, wind, silence, etc. Free to download here; encouraged to play in any order:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s223//sh/b15eee1a-521b-4b6c-9490-fd70f4befaf8/08774e0860b39ae6fa9e67adc42f13a8

This was recorded from 2:30-3:40am on a pocket-sized hotness while finding my way from a shabbat dinner in Queens to a hot couch in Harlem, using a borrowed guitar, stealing melodies from singers I love (e.g. Calamity & the Owl) and words from the subway walls (do not pull the emergency cord, Emergency Workers...).

Excerpted Lyrics:
Wacky guitar...wacky guitar...oh no...oh no ooOOooOOooooo...and I wonder why the song is outside...We've got nothing left to do but play music on an empty subway platform...and o wonder why, the rails are electrified, why the floors all have their lights on (2x)...inside our minds, inside the heart, inside the hope of being One...and don't you wonder why the stars all healed inside, its not like were the last ones to consider the rain upon the sun...A Pyramid of muskets; a Teepee of guns...And don't you wonder why the lights are left on all night long...[whistles like clock chimes finding their own time]...and I wonder why, and I wonder why, and I wonder why, this song is outside. Ohhhhhhh ohhhh ooOOOooooooOOoo...

[Animation by Paul McLean, generated by Zen circles and compressed, digitized and/or dimensional simulations thereof... for OAS Node #1]

[PLEASE NOTE]:

Occupy with Art, Bat Haus and the Occupational Art School are pleased to announce that Jeremy Bold will be kicking off our Bushwick program at OAS Node #1 in August (details TBA soon).

CO-OP/Occufest Flyer

Download a printable flyer (8.5"x11" 300dpi TIF 18.5mb) HERE.

Flyers for Guitarmy

Click the image to download the flyer.Click the image to download the flyer.

Posters by Paul McLean

CO-OP/Occuburbs Kick-off, with Films by Liza Bear, and More: Save the Date!

[Save the date: July 25, 2012]

Occupy with Art and Cinema Arts Center present a selection of short films by Liza Bear, + an evening of discussion, poetry, music and more -- to kick off CO-OP/Occuburbs in Huntington, Long Island.

Occupy: Corporations Can’t Cry

Date:

• July 25, 2012

Showtime

• Wednesday, July 25 at 7:30pm

Film / Discussion / Public Forum / Music /  Poetry
Co-Presented by Occupy with Art and Cinema Arts Center

Join us for a lively and illuminating evening about Occupy Wall Street, featuring the films of Liza Béar (who has been at OWS since the first day of the occupation), music, poetry, and information about numerous Long Island activist organizations

• In Person: Filmmaker Liza Béar
• Music by Brian O’Haire
• Poetry by Christopher Moylan 

$10 Members / $15 Public
(includes reception)
Tickets also available by calling 800-838-3006, or at the CAC Box Office
Scholarship Tickets are available for those unable to pay – Contact Charlotte Sky at 631-423-7610 x22

Since Day One, September 17, 2011, Liza Béar has filmed the modus operandi of Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park and at other New York locales. Shot over a 7 month period, these 65 minidocs or situationist videos combine dialogue between–and with—an eclectic range of OWS participants, members of the community and the security forces. The style is a mixture of verité filmmaking and a more proactive, direct cinema approach. The aim has been to dispel mass media stereotyping and facile judgments. To be screened tonight: OWS Day 5: “Corporations Can’t Cry”; “Zuccotti Gets Surreal”; “Occupy the SEC: Enforce the Volcker Rule,” “Occupy the Courts: Foley Square Rally to End Corporate Personhood”; OWSJ29: “Murder By SpreadSheet; Health Care for the 99%”; OWS M28 “The Trap of Violence” and others.

Liza Béar is a New York-based writer, filmmaker and media activist.  After arriving in New York in 1968, she cofounded the avant-garde artists’ magazine Avalanche 1970-1976 with Willoughby Sharp and was a co-producer of Communications Update, a public access artists’ tv show that also dealt with information politics. Her films have been shown at The Museum of Modern Art, the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and most recently at Torpedo Kunsthalle, Oslo, Macka Art Gallery, Istanbul and the ICA London. She is the author of “Beyond the Frame: Dialogues with World Filmmakers” (Praeger, 2007).  Learn more at http://lizabearmakingbook.blogspot.com and http://communicationsupdate.blogspot.com

From Ale

"The revolutionary question became much more a musical one" - Tiqqun

[J29]: MUSICIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

From the Musicians Solidarity Council
an autonomous group in affinity with Occupy Wall Street
--

MUSICIAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
on NYC's music economy

Sunday, Jan. 29, 1:30pm at Washington Square Park, the Arch

Part of Occupy Town Square [ a mobile occupation:
https://www.facebook.com/occupytownsq ]

• Is this what we want?
• Has it always been like this?
• Are we entrepreneurs, artists, workers or volunteers?
• What's holding us back?
• Who's making the money?
• What are we planning?
• Do we deserve a minimum wage?
• What are you doing on May Day?



#OccuParty Benefit Concert: Dangerous Muse & Eva and Her Virgins; Dec 11th

On Sunday, December 11th we're throwing a benefit concert featuring Dangerous Muse & Eva and Her Virgins. The event will also feature two floors of art, DJs, and burlesque performances in a 700+ person venue. We invite all to join us in this night of fun & celebration to benefit the Occupy Movement!

*** Please RSVP on the Facebook Event ***

Sunday, December 11th – 7:30 p.m. until 2:00 a.m.

Sullivan Hall (Map)
214 Sullivan St.
New York, NY 10012

Tickets will cost $15 at the door. Proceeds will go directly to supporting the Occupy Movement. Tickets will also be available online shortly.

Performers

• Dangerous Muse: Facebook, Youtube
• Eva and Her Virgins: Facebook
• Copal: Facebook
• Huff This: Facebook, Youtube
• Shoot The Freak: Facebook

Exhibits

• Art showing on display by Hulbert Waldroup & Occuprint.org
• Members of the Occuprint collective will be onsite with silkscreens.



COURAGE & REPRESSION

Grindcore Violinist protests 1st amendment violations at Lincoln Center

On December 3, 2011, I was again removed from the city-owned plaza of Lincoln Center for holding a sign, two days after a general assembly including Philip Glass, Lou Reed, and Laurie Anderson came to celebrate Glass's opera about nonviolence, "Satyagraha" only to find the plaza entirely barricaded and inaccessible.

As is the case in most "public-private" situations, the private security wanted more.  They wanted me off the city sidewalk which was not their jurisdiction.  Thanks to one real NYPD officer who chose not to order me off the sidewalk (the old, "blocking the wide-open sidewalk" trick), I was able to finish my set and address the crowd.

Occupy Sound: Volume 2

[From Wyatt]:

...This is a follow-up to the PopWork USA/Rebuild the Dream collabo project featuring songs of struggle and beats that let you get your march or rally on properly. Click here to listen or download.  This volume includes suggestions by online listeners and participants on the Rebuild the Dream website so not exactly my list but definitely my curating. From Steve Earle to the Temptations, Black Flag to Phil Ochs, M.IA. to N.E.R.D (see full playlist at www.popwork.org). Let me know what you think.

Thanks again for everyone’s ideas. To hear it just go here.  ...Here is the playlist for Vol 2: Power to the People (excerpt) – John Lennon; Amerika V. 6.0 (The Best We Can Do) – Steve Earle; The Harder They Come – Jimmy Cliff; Pull Up the People – M.I.A.; Rise Above – Black Flag; Ball of Confusion – The Temptations; Soobax – K’naan; Lapdance – N.E.R.D.; Church of the ATM (excerpt) – Chris Rock; Mr Greed – John Fogerty; Get Up Stand Up – Bob Marley; That’s What I Want to Hear – Phil Ochs; Open Letter – Living Colour; Our Song – Joe Henry; Bluestime in America – Michael Hill’s Bluesland; Who Will Survive in America – Kanye West/Gil Scott-Heron; Water No Get Enemy – Fela Kuti

A big surprise was the number of original songs that have been submitted since the first volume was released. For those of you with original songs or recent songs inspired by OWS, send in those MP3s! One special podcast will feature all of these genuine contributions that have streamed in over the last few weeks from songwriters and musicians. It will be Occupy Sound Vol 3: The Originals.

DISKJAMMY #8: CALL FOR COLLAB

CLICK THE IMAGE TO GO TO SEE THE PROSPECTUS.

#OCCUPYTHISMIXTAPE!!

A note from Jesse Darling:

Hi there,
I make a collaborative digital mixtape project inspired by the principles of bricolage, open-source and P2P data-sharing. It's always a jam and it's always a kind of experiment: each Diskjammy mixtape is a compilation of songs submitted by different people, from all over the world, in response to a brief. This brief takes the form of a particular theme or idea, and I try to keep these broad and universally resonant.

The theme for Diskjammy #8 had to be #occupy, or: "what are YOU fighting for?"

I'm looking for people's original music, spoken word, first-person accounts - or just favourite protest songs, good jams, music that represents this moment. I know there's been a lot of singing around Zucotti & environs - I wonder if you might post up the call for submissions, and help me make the mixtape-that-is-a-snapshot-of-a-movement. The greater the range and diversity of submissions, the better.

Let me know what you think.
Love & solidarity,
Jesse.

FROM THE PROSPECTUS:

What are YOU fighting for?


I want your songs of rage, your battle-cries, your protest songs; I want the new young soldier, the voice of a generation; I want the song that speaks of what has made you angry again, even after ten years or twenty; I want the song that wordlessly expresses all you care about. I want the song whose harmonies suggest new models for non-hierarchical self-organization. I want your tracts. I want voice recordings made in your bedroom or on your bike; I want you to identify, and express, what kind of a war we're fighting, and to speak your part in it - in your own words or someone else's, with beats or countermelodies, with silence, with breaks, with speech, with sound.

The mixtape is the quintessential token of exchange in a gift economy wherein love is the common currency (for a person, for an idea, or for the music itself). This seems appropriate enough given that the mechanisms of market capital are breaking down on all sides. "Something has been going on between the left earphone and the right earphone of this generation that represents a profound change in attitude" (Paul Mason, as before). I look forward to hearing it in mine.


[somewhat arbitrary but strictly enforced]
** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 25/11/11 ** 

Occupy Records

Image added to OR website by DISCOJANE!

Occupy Records

What we're doing at Occupy Records is creating a platform to facilitate the connection between artists and fans who are involved with or inspired by the global Occupy movement.

Up until this point, there has been a lot of great music that's been created but no central place to share it or find it.  Thus, our initial goal is to encourage everyone - artists, music fans, activists, and anyone interested to join the community, share and connect with each other.

Going forward, we're going to be facilitating a series of releases of original music inspired by the Occupy movement that will benefit the cause, along with events, original video content, and other cool stuff. 

The ultimate goal is to have Occupy Records develop into its own self-sustaining media portal, allowing an organic global culture to flourish without interference from corporate interest.

Please enjoy the site, use it to share everything that inspires you, and spread the word.

“L’histoire du Soldat” At Zuccotti, Nov. 3rd, 5-6pm

Stravinsky’s timeless and haunting “L’histoire du Soldat” (“The Soldier’s Tale”), a parable for three actors and seven musicians, will be performed for Occupy Wall Street at Zuccotti Park by Broadway actors and New York musicians on Nov. 3rd from 5-6pm, with a possible additional performance on Nov. 4th.

*(NOTE: Nov. 4th is our back-up rain delay date!  We’ll keep you posted!)*

Stravinsky and C.F. Ramuz’s hour-long tale/ballet/oratorio tells the story of a Soldier on leave to see his sweetheart.  Nearly home, he is sidetracked by the Devil.  In an infernal insider-trading scheme, the Soldier gains a magic book that tells the future of the economy, but, in return, must give up his precious violin.   Imprisoned - by the Devil, his newfound wealth, and his own delusions - this veteran is separated from his loved ones and true happiness.  This fairy tale, spoken in sparkling verse to some of Stravinsky’s most charming and memorable music, is about the complex nature of greed, and the meaning and price of freedom. Its themes resonate effortlessly with the aims and ideals of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Starring famed New York actors Erik Liberman (Broadway, “LoveMusik,” Helen Hayes-Award Winner for “Merrily We Roll Along”), Elizabeth Stanley (Broadway, “Company,” “Cry-Baby,”), and Nick Choksi (“Invasion” at The Flea, “Twelfth Night” with Sonnet Rep, regular on “One Life to Live”), and with some of New York’s finest contemporary music performers conducted by Ryan McAdams, this one-time-only performance explores the relationships between money, love, and happiness through a fairy tale that is, like all great fairy tales, beautiful, terrifying, funny, and deeply moving.