Carl Craig sonic art space

[sufi]

Love the bloke. a proto @craner in many respects, an inverted snob par excellence.

I'm the true post-snob though. got into Carl Craig long after jungle. What Morressy should have sounded like all along. Still not as great as 93 mindfuck 8 bit 128 kbps bottom of the filthy sink plug hole full of fag ash darkside though Which is why i can never be an inverted snob.

That reminds me I came across this recently and wanted to share with you all

BLDGBLOG on Jace Clayton (DJRupture) on Carl Craig the fine artist.

Body Sonic / Coronavirus Surroundsound

[Image: A shot of “Carl Craig: Party/After-Party” (2020), by Don Stahl, via Artforum.] There’s a great moment in a recent article by Jace Clayton, who reviews an installation by DJ and musician Car…

www.bldgblog.com

I used to follow those 2 back in the blogging days and this is a nice writeup about an interesting thing that CC has done, good to see Jace is in the fancy art press nowadays, https://www.artforum.com/print/202005/jace-clayton-on-carl-craig-at-dia-beacon-82809 don't think he ever posted here but he was the type.I always liked bldgblogs dreamy musings a lot.

There is something of “a sonic axiom,” Clayton writes: “Amplified music sounds terrible in empty rooms. The less stuff there is in any given space, the more sound waves will bounce around the walls and ceiling and glass, losing definition as they both interrupt and double themselves. The resulting audio is smeary, muffled, and diffuse. However, when the same space fills with bodies moving around, those waves are absorbed, dampening those irksome reflections and allowing us to hear the sound more powerfully and in far greater detail.”

 

[woops]

I played at a dj rupture after party once, he told me to turn my shit off so he could play some recirds

 

[Leo]

I was going to get tickets to see the opening of this at Dia but then corona. Jace has been contributing to artforum for awhile now, well before spendy's BK Cultural Mafia moved to town. met him a couple of times, I'm of two minds: enjoy some of his music and writing but can be a bit snooty.

 

[sufi]

I was going to get tickets to see the opening of this at Dia but then corona. Jace has been contributing to artforum for awhile now, well before spendy's BK Cultural Mafia moved to town. met him a couple of times, I'm of two minds: enjoy some of his music and writing but can be a bit snooty.

i found his mixes a bit clanging and tokenist tbh, but some of his writing hit that pretentiousness that we all aspire to around here

 

[sufi]

I played at a dj rupture after party once, he told me to turn my shit off so he could play some recirds

i think his dj name was maybe ... misconceived, i wondered if he has shed it

 

[sufi]

i think his dj name was maybe ... misconceived, i wondered if he has shed it

oh my https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_/rupture it seems not and he would be pissed we omitted his artistic backslash

 

[woops]

He's like scanner isn't he, networker not musician

 

[john eden]

L-R Eshun, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Rupture, Eden.

Audio Poverty, Berlin 2009.

 

[john eden]

I still rate Gold Teeth Thief. Had to leave dial up modem on overnight to download that.

 

[john eden]

Saw Jace with Andy Moor at OTO a few years back playing kinda post-rock stuff over some films. (One was a long film of shots along the whole US/Mexico border). Great show.

 

[catalog]

There was a kerfuffle with mc nomad wasn't there, he robbed some pr money from rupture or something?

I remember his blog and mixes tho, he had a right mash up thing going on.

 

[yyaldrin]

i was friends with him on myspace

 

[muser]

Didn't he post here or am I just getting him mixed up with dj ripley they were kind from the same group weren't they?

 

[pattycakes_]

I still rate Gold Teeth Thief. Had to leave dial up modem on overnight to download that.

Was getting a burrito from a little beach hippy bar on St David in the Virgin Islands once and they had a dj who was playing Gold Teeth Thief, pretending it was him doing the mixing. Was one of the best burritos ever though so I didn't say anything

 

[luka]

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L-R Eshun, Awesome Tapes From Africa, Rupture, Eden.

Audio Poverty, Berlin 2009.

why arent they letting you sit down?

 

[Leo]

because he has comfy shoes, look at them.

 

[john eden]

why arent they letting you sit down?

I was the facilitator and chair and audience question taker and it was a lot of fun.

 

[sufi]

Yeah Yeah I just only read the blog years ago & it seems like that geezer actually is everybody at dissensus bffs blimey

What about the Art?
Did Carl Craig make a successful crossover?

 

[sufi]

and doesnt anyone know Geoff from bldgblog? He seems nice, I bet him and Owen H are besties

 

[yyaldrin]

There is something of “a sonic axiom,” Clayton writes: “Amplified music sounds terrible in empty rooms. The less stuff there is in any given space, the more sound waves will bounce around the walls and ceiling and glass, losing definition as they both interrupt and double themselves. The resulting audio is smeary, muffled, and diffuse. However, when the same space fills with bodies moving around, those waves are absorbed, dampening those irksome reflections and allowing us to hear the sound more powerfully and in far greater detail.”

there's also something beautiful about sounds bouncing around walls and ceilings though, such as massive organs in gigantic churches.