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Praxis reviewed by Loop.cl

Cem Güney is a Turkish-born sound artist who started within the jazz music field playing the trumpet. He studied music in California and he’s a DJ since 1994. “Praxis” is the debut album on Portuguese Cronica Electronica label, furthermore a compilation appearance on “V/A Mus….c”, (Cronica, 2008). Güney works both synthetic and recorded sound as source material which processed by software. “A Phonetics Theme” opens with a wide range of recorded voices. “Impulse” is built out of tiny digital sounds, while “Undulations (dedicated to Janek Schaefer)” is a loop of a string section that changed into flickering tones penetrating dark moods.“Factitious Phobia” is a combination of electroacoustic sounds, recorded voices and underrated Middle Eastern music. The piano deliver harmonic notes which sound quite strange alongwith such abstract sounds. “Praxis” is composed by digital microsounds, some of them Morse like and unidentifiable snippets.“Behold Now Bhikkus, The Sounds of Nada Yoga” comprised the meditation through sound and there are some vowels with especial characteristics and meanings worked by Güney as processed voices.

Guillermo Escudero, LOOP

a dialogue from Solaris

snout: when a man is happy, the meaning of life and other themes of eternity rarely interest him. these questions should be asked at the end of one’s life.

kris: we don’t know when our life will end, that’s why we’re in a hurry.

snout: the happiest people are those who never bother asking those cursed  questions.

kris: we question life to seek out some meaning. yet to preserve all the simple human truths we need mysteries. the mystery of happiness, death, love.

snout: you may be right. but try not to think about it.

kris: to think about it is the same as to know the day of one’s death.
not knowing that date makes us practically immortal.

::: solaris :::

"ipso facto" is taking part in the 60x60 project

60x60 contains 60 works from 60 different composers.
Each composition is 60 seconds (or less) in duration sequenced together to create a one hour performance. Highlighting the work of a great many composers, 60x60 testifies to the vibrancy of contemporary composition by presenting the diverse array of styles, aesthetics and techniques being used today […]

my one minute composition “ipso facto”, has been selected for the 60x60 project, 2009/International Mix, with the following artists,

Aaron Acosta, Aart Uunivers, Christopher Ariza, Dwight Ashley, Adam Basanta, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz, Jay Batzner, Benjamin Boone, Justin H Brierley, Halsey Burgund, Hermes Camacho, Danny Clay, David Congo, Alvin Curan, Matthew Dotson, Mark Eden, Morgan Fisher, Enrico Francioni, Kraig Grady, Cem Guney, Richard Hall, Yoko Honda, Masaaki Iseki, Lynn Job, Aaron Kristen Johnson, Bernadette Johnson, Timo Kahlen, Tova Kardonne, Michiko Kawagoe, Antom Killin, HyeKyung Lee, Brian Lindgren, Pasquale Mainolfi, John Maycraft, Angela McGary, Leslie Melcher, Polly Moller, Josue Moreno, David Morneau, Peter Mottram, Alexander Mouton, Paul Oehlers, doug Opel, Christophe Petchanatz, Kala Pierson, Gene Pritsker, Robert Ratcliffe, Philip Schesslar, Matt Schickele, Les Scott, Diana Simpson, Steven Snowden, Jorge Sosa, Laurie Spiegel, Patrica Walsh, Jane Wang, Andrew Weathers, Andrew Willingham, Gregory Yasinitsky, and Natal Zaks.

60x60 has been presented in more than 10 different countries throughout the world. Following is a list of events: past, present and future.

12/03/09 60x60 (2009 / International Mix)
Full Moon Concerts - Long Night’s Moon
San Francisco, California 

11/13/09 60x60 Dance (2009 / International Mix)
60 one minute dances by different choreogrpahers organized by Jeramy Zimmerman/CatScratch Theatre
World Financial Center Winter Garden Atrium, New York City

11/08/09 60x60 Dance (2009 / International Mix)
60 one minute dances by different choreogrpahers organized by
Jeramy Zimmerman/CatScratch Theatre New Music Circle
St. Louis, Missouri 

11/06/09 60x60 Dance (2009 / International Mix)
60 one minute dances by different choreographers organized by
Jeramy Zimmerman/CatScratch Theatre
Electronic Music Midwest Festival, Kansas City, Kansas 
…
and more to come,
…

Vox Novus

excerpt from "the atrocity exhibition", jg ballard

Obscene Mannequin.
The time-music of the quasars. A huge volume of radio signals reaches this planet from space, crossing gigantic distances from the far side of the universe. It’s hard to accept that these messages are meaningless, as they presumably are, no more than the outward sign of nuclear processes within the stars. Yet the hope remains that one day we will decode them, and find, not some intergalactic fax service, but a spontaneously generated choral music, a naive electro-magnetic architecture, the primitive syntax of a philosophical system, as meaningless but as reassuring as the pattern of waves on a beach. 
    Reassembling the furniture of his mind, Talbot has constructed a primitive antenna, and now can hear the night sky singing of time, the voice of the unseen powers of the cosmos.