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iPot.

Genius.

Thoughts. On Music.

created 2/25/07

Marlboreo 650, Camel Communicator, Kool Lite-A-Fone Slide Top

created 2/23/07

bonus! note that one month after I posted this, a *real* cigarette phone showed up! check out: The ultimate smokers’ phone.

©orporate Acid™ is back in action.

Listen to the noise in my head anytime, anywhere.

©orporate Acid™. Goes With Anything.

Found a directory of images from a sound sculpture I created for a show at the Gershwin Hotel, in New York City, 2002.

http://www.briankane.net/gershwin/

I had the bathroom to work with.

This piece was an array of hundreds of cell phone speakers braided together through a shower curtain.

The curtain was connected to a recording of an old record on which I had drawn pictures with a soldering iron.

The sound the piece made was beautiful, and its on the page listed above, too. I wanted to make sure that the the bathroom was still usable, and I think this piece adds ambience to any toliet session. Sorta like potty art.

Found a directory full of nice pictures from the 2000 Amorphic Robot Works shows at Muffattehalle in Munich.

http://www.briankane.net/muffatte2000

The image above is Mark 9 and myself setting up show controls.

So i’m in the middle of setting up a whole new server, and I consolidatedg some old names which I purchased but never used.

I set them all up to point here. Oh, and you may have noticed that I changed the main domain for this blog to slashboing.com. Why? I just like it …

Here are the consolidated names:
antisocialcomputing.com
chedr.com
chudge.com
clonedepot.com
corporateacid.com
cubehead.com
grandmaslabs.com
klooj.com
manipulate.tv
manipulatethis.com
mutainment.com
politainer.com
politainment.com
remdep.com
sitnclick.com
slashboing.com
spacetab.com
thelyinking.com
thisiswherethemagichappens.com
toomuchchoice.com
userslikeyou.com
xivox.com
xoxov.com
xyvox.com
youtubenews.com

Christo meets Homeland Security in this massive scale 2000 mile long velvet rope protective art barrier.

Coming to the U.S.? There’s a $25 cover fee. Get your hand stamped and a wristband. Ladies first. No re-entry.

created 1/17/06

Ok, so now it’s out. My good friend Gardner Post and I are going to do a show in March at Optronica at the ICA in London. We’re pulling together some classic old footage from the dusty old archives, and mixing it together with some brand new material for a special one night show. I was thinking about calling it “Aged 15 Years”. But then again, I was thinking about naming my son Orange or Vector. And that went nowhere. Except that now he likes the name Orange, and even came up with a rhyme for it: Door Hinge. But I digress…

All thanks are due to the awesomeness at Addictive TV

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Optronica presents for the first time in the UK, Gardner Post and Brian Kane from the massively influential, but sadly no-longer, pioneering American audiovisual act Emergency Broadcast Network (EBN). The duo will present a sharp-edged set of unseen EBN work mixed with some new material.

EBN was originally founded in the late 80′s by Gardner Post, Josh Pearson and Brian Kane, all graduates of Rhode Island School of Design. In the early 90s they pretty much invented a new standard in the culture of AV remixing, video scratching and audiovisual sampling techniques. Post was also heavily involved in the spectacular set design for the band, while Kane developed the first known VJ software called Vujak, with the charismatic Pearson also working as front man for the group.

Their modus operandi was to take cable TV broadcasts and remix them with a funky beat, often having the lyrics ‘sung’ by half-second sound bites cut together. They gained popular acclaim after their involvement with U2′s ZooTV Tour in ’92 and later released their video album “Telecommunications Breakdown” in ’95 on TVT Records.

After Kane had left the group, they were later joined by turntablist Ron O’Donnell and video effects artist Greg Deocampo. All the team still pursue personal projects and here, for Optronica, Post & Kane perform together for the first time in nearly a decade!

A special audiovisual treat not to be missed!

My second YouTube video, this one was featured on the YouTube homepage.

created May 20, 2006