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FOUND

norbert — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:23:46 +0000

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 7PM @ 101E. 6th Street
Bloomington, Indiana
7PM – 1AM / All ages welcome
$5 / Beer and wine cash bar

A globally cool, local evening of art, design and creative industries celebrating sustainable practices.

FOUND is an extravaganza of sights, sounds and interactions with artists, designers, creatives, musicians, DJs, VJs and performers supporting sustainable practices in art, design, culture and commerce. Creative work and performances in FOUND use hand-built, programmed, open source, DIY, hacked/bent, found or recycled elements and consider sustainable practices.

“Practical Lessons in the Use of English”
by Norbert Herber & Eric Rensberger

An improvisation of words as sound; sounds and words as image. “Practical Lessons in the Use of English” was written by Mary F. Hyde in 1896.

Eric Rensberger has lived in Bloomington, Indiana since 1979. He is a local poet whose collected works may be found at www.ericrensbergerpoetry.net.

Norbert Herber is a musician and sound artist whose research and practice explores the relationship between people and sound within mediated environments.

Also featuring:
Analog Zebra and Snebtor, Younsuk Altieri, Andrew Brennan, Sara Brooks, Amy Burrell, The Canary Project, The Collaboration Room, Laurel Cornell, Terry Dame’s Electric Junkyard Gamelan, William Huster, N_DREW, Caleb Levell and Derek Hopf, Robert Lyon, Andrew Maurer, Edward Morris, Jordon Munson, Annie Murdock, Rob Off, Susannah Sayler, Leslie Sharpe, Mariana Tres, Rachel Weaver, Fabian Winkler

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Word is Virus

norbert — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:17:10 +0000

This project is based on the cut-up techniques used by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Burroughs gave a lecture where he discussed his and Gysin’s experiments with cut ups at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in April of 1976. This piece takes that lecture and cuts it into an ever-changing variety of permutations. The lecture is heard in accompaniment with a soundscape and is intended for continuous listening.

Launch “Word is Virus”

Vox Novus 60×60

norbert — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:51:30 +0000

A version of my generative piece “Trak News Agency” was accepted to be part of the 2003 Vox Novus 60×60 concert and CD.

Launch my 60×60 player

Trak News Agency Series

norbert — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:50:10 +0000

The Trak News Agency is a news-writing organization from William Burroughs’ novel “The Soft Machine.”
This series was composed in February and March of 2003. Given the political climate at the time, the concept of a news-writing agency seemed only too familiar.
The music heard in these works is a kind of amalgamation, reflecting many of the techniques I explored in 2002 and 2003. These include: randomization, audio cut-ups, and simulated tape loops. Similar to the ENO-like series, these works are intended for continuous listening.
Trak News Agency: 1 @260K
Trak News Agency: 2 @660K
The voice recordings of William Burroughs were drawn from “Call Me Burroughs,” reissued by Rhino World Beat, R2 71848