what lies beneath
lucas ihlein is a great artist, super nice man, excellent teacher and one of them go-getters you just want to be. well, i do anyway.
he's part of this great tiny stadiums festival and has made a cool work about sound and sleeping and alarms, in conjunction with some of the media arts staff/students at UOW. in my old 'hood: wollongong.
i've signed up to receive a customised alarm each day and will be doing a daily sleeping work at CIA during the festival.
partly as a fun way to interact with the festival from afar. and partly as a chance to do an extension of a work i did in berlin (kunsthaus quartier), where i slept for six hours through an alarm that played jim white's song it's a perfect day to chase tornadoes on repeat.
i know some of you love a bit of sound. and a bit of download fun. and cute things you get to keep every day. go and sign up for the daily track here. and go see some other stuff during the festival if you can.
UPDATE: I'll just post a little report in the comments section each day. i'll upload documentation to flickr and post a link in the comments too.
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ok, so i cocked up the order a bit. i napped, but didn't really sleep. and i woke up to alex's awake to a dream instead of snookie. but that's ok, i'll fix it up tomorrow.
i'm documenting it too. and today i looked like a puppy on a sheepskin rug. i need to work on it a bit.
but, the track itself was lovely and the tick-tock-tick-tock running through it was a reminder that i was late to a very important date, but with some kind of sloppy saggy clock that was squishing time.
oh dear, it's getting worse. i didn't nap today because there was a fun workshop using displaced vision and baby monitors.
damn.
ok, i'll be back on track tomorrow. and i'll post pics. this project is starting badly, isn't it.
damn. today didn't work at all. it only wakes me up to an alarm now. although i did listen to today's track and it almost sounds like the alarm anyway! wow.
try again tomorrow. i think i need to actually play the track on my ipod before the sound.
yay! today it worked. and the today's track kinda fucked with my sense of space a little. i went into some weird other worldliness universe as i came to - the cricket=type sprinkle sounding electronica peppered my brain a little. it was great.
wow. i needed that sleep today. i awoke to jessicah haliday's piece (which was supposed to be the day before..i'm so on this), but it was quite a lovely way to wake up. gradual filtering then quite intense electro wah wah wah. my brain felt quick speckled afterwards.
from 08.05.11 i forgot to post about my wake-up, but it was so lovely. i actually wanted to keep lying there. funnily enough, i'm starting to wake up two minutes before the alarm goes off. turns out it doesn't take much to reprogram sleep in the afternoon :)
holy crap! i woke up quickly this afternoon. three sharp bangs and i was up and stopped the alarm. i didn't even listen to the rest of it (sorry jamie). and i was so flustered that i banged my head on one of the beams. excellent for waking up quickly. not so great for waking up and still feeling functional.
dammit. i didn't properly sleep this afternoon. must have something to do with the coffee i had about an hour beforehand. which is a shame, because i quite liked the tick-tock-tocking of the alarm
from 11.05.11
i slept today. like properly started dreaming. and interestingly, the alarm didn't fuck with me like a lot of the others - it was pretty regular - the sound of whooshing machinery started straight away and it was a bit like another alarm i probably have. from an aesthetic point of view, that was a bit disappointing. but from a performative/live art point of view, that was actually a relief.
google erased some of my comments in their fall-out
but i keep forgetting to write down what i think about the alarms too.
today's the last one was great - a slippery slope of something rolling down brought my mind rolling with it from subconscious to consciousness - like a bowling ball rolling back from the pins.
14.05.11
the truck reversing noise matched strangely with some crickets that were in the building. in fact i woke up when the crickets started, thinking it was the alarm. and then the alarm kicked in. it was a confusing afternoon that one.
13.05.11
i haven’t been to india, but i imagine the sound of clinking bells and steel cutlery in the morning to sound a little like this. waking to the sound of running water is just mean :)
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