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2022-09-15 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

The Wringing in Your Ear

My postings tend to be sporadic, more regular while I am teaching (as I am now). I often wonder what exactly to write about, obviously I speak mostly about my work with short texts giving some context. This has not been really satisfying as I am not certain that can be called “writing”.

There is still going to be a work posted at the end but first a story.

It is a story about how I crossed from childhood to the harsh reality of the real world. I actually remember hearing a loud crack at that very moment. It was a Sunday morning 44 years ago, I was 12. I got up and went downstairs to make myself some breakfast (I have always been an early riser). My favourite cereal then was Rice Crispies.

My Dad was at the kitchen table drinking tea and playing solitaire as was his regular routine. I remember the sounds of the cereal popping and the flick of cards on the table. As always, the radio was on and tuned to CBC radio (when that still meant something).

But it was a special day and Terrence McKenna was making a report from Jonestown. This was two days after the mass suicide. McKenna was walking around the compound describing what he was seeing and his voice was muffled because he was holding a rag over his mouth and nose because of the smell. Any search online using Jonestown Massacre with give you many more details. In short a cult leader (Rev. Jim Jones) went psychotic and made his followers drink Kool-aid mixed with cyanide. 900 people died that day and I was no longer a child… forever.

The piece linked below was made early in my career at Grenfell and was my first foray into sound/video art. You will hear the voices of Jim Jones, Terrence McKenna, and excerpts of an old CBC television show called “Front Page Challenge” and of course my own voice fades in and out. This is by far the most obviously personal work I have made. Of course all work is personal in some respects but this one was almost autobiographical.

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Posted in: Art Work, Journal Tagged: Jonestown, Sound, Video

Cleanliness & Order : : Thirteen ov Twenty Three : :

2016-07-23 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

Cleanliness and Order 13

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Posted in: 23, Art Work, Deleuze, Journal, Landguage Tagged: 23, AndreiTarkovsky, Architecture, Sound, Surface, William Burroughs

New Work :: PsychoMagik Waltz

2016-07-02 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

 

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Posted in: Art Work, Journal, Sound Tagged: Genesis Brayer-P-Orridge, Gilles Deleuze, Sound, Space

Post 11 from Haukijärvi – ARTELES

2016-03-01 by GedeonCom Leave a Comment

The Wall

I signed my name next to another Acadian’s, a tradition.


Accommodations in Helsinki

The biggest little apartment in town. So small, but so well organized. This is an actual Helsinki apartment.


What a month it has been. I have met some really interesting and great artists from all over the world in an amazing setting. It has been such a long time since I have been able to devote so much time and energy uniquely towards being creative; I feel honoured to have been selected among such a talented and charming group of people. I also feel honoured that my students and my employer (Grenfell Campus) were so gracious in allowing me this opportunity, this alone gave me the impetus to work hard and dedicate myself to doing what I had to do.

Much work has been created, most of it will be a framework to develop many future projects. Below is one of the pieces I left with my hosts at Arteles. It is relatively resolved, meaning I took some time and “performed” some sound to it. Of course this will evolve as I work with it more. I am hoping to gather my courage and propose an actual public performance in the near future.




A “final” version of this work made during a residency at Arteles Creative Centre in Haukijärvi, Finland. It is a reflection on how silence, awareness and existence co-exist in uneasy harmony. Silence is impossible, awareness is difficult and existence just is. The work is designed to be projected during performance of sound works, the soundtrack is one such “performance” played out while watching the moving images. Loops, reiterations and différence and répétition all thanks to Gilles Deleuze.


Across thee Silence version 03 /with sound from Pierre LeBlanc on Vimeo.

 

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Posted in: Art Work, Arteles, Bergson, Deleuze, Journal, silence::awareness::existance, Sound Tagged: ArtWork, Performance, Sound, SoundWork, Video
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