DION WORKMAN / CIA
RADIO ANARCHITECTURE, OCT 1 (EXCERPT 1) 5’57” | 6.0MB | OGG
RADIO ANARCHITECTURE, OCT 1 (EXCERPT 2) 5’.00” | 5.2MB | OGG
These recordings are excerpts from a collaborative project with the Cellule D'Intervention D'Apo33 (CIA), with assistance from Free103point9 and the August Sound Coallition, titled Radio Anarchitecture. The project was a contribution to the AUDIOWALK festival in the Goutte d’or quarter (Paris) during the Nuit Blanche, 2005. (Note: The project was intended to be heard in real time spatialized across streets in Paris and New York so these recordings are rather poor representations of our interventions.) Over two days teams in New York and Paris synchronized sound interventions
in real time from the two different space-time contexts, linked by radio communications devices. This enabled each team to modify the other’s environment through the construction and activation of a third element, an independent actor enabling simultaneous interfacing: a digital automated device operating in a network. The collected sounds were transformed and diffused into each performance context through mobile radio devices, thus building a spatialization in constant movement. Creative Commons, 2005
DION WORKMAN / JULIEN OTTAVI LIVE, NYC, 23 SEPTEMBER 2005
35’36” | 55.2MB | OGG
Live recording of my set with Julien Ottavi at the 2nd annual Erstquake festival held in New York city September of 2005. Creative Commons, 2005
PMT RE-COMPOSITION #1 (NEW YORK, 2004)
12’00” | 10.1MB | OGG
/Re-Composition #1 (New York, 2004)/, consists of recordings of TMP performances in three New York locations. PMT constructed the piece by layering excerpts from TMP performances in Mid-town, Chinatown and Rockland County. Each performance was conducted outdoors and involved manipulating the spaces ‘found’ sounds on a laptop, amplifying the manipulated sounds back into the space via a portable sound system and the placement of various sound-producing electronic devices throughout the space. The recording technique consisted of moving through the space with microphones for the duration of the performance. While this recording technique goes some way toward representing the aural experience of an individual encountering a TMP performance, PMT’s editing and layering of the different performances creates a more structurally ‘musical’ sound work. The intention of a TMP performance is not to create musical works but instead to participate in the creation of the sonic reality of a space. It is to be encountered as part of a space’s sonic texture. Lacking the space-time definitions and expectations associated with attending a concert TMP’s ‘performances’ can only be heard by those that actively choose to listen to the complex sonic environment that surrounds them. Separated from the unique context in which it was performed the immediatism of the work is lost and the sounds are reduced to source material for a more traditional approach to sound-composition. Thus this PMT recording is a mediated secondary product of the ephemeral primary creations of TMP. Creative Commons, 2004
DION WORKMAN / JULIEN OTTAVI BEGINNING AGAIN
6’01” | 6.9MB | MP3
This piece was constructed from material that Julien and I recorded in 2003 and that eventually became Misenlian (Erstwhile, 2005). It consists of excerpts from a live performance that I edited together as our contribution to the penultimate installment of Antiopic’s Allegorical Power Series. Creative Commons, 2003
DION WORKMAN CHING 20’37” | 22.6MB | OGG
Released on CD by Antiopic in 2003. For more information and online purchasing of the CD visit Antiopic AN004. Anti-copyright, 2003
DION WORKMAN / MICHAEL HALETA NEITHER
4’28” | 5.1MB | MP3
A collaboration with Michael Haleta of Backbreakerneckbrace fame for the first installment of Antiopic’s Allegorical Power Series. Creative Commons, 2003
TMP POETRY IN THE FORM OF CITIES
13.5KB | RTF
An unabashedly manifesto toned, unashamedly situationist influenced (and plagarized) communique issued by interventionist art collective TMP in New York Nights, Issue #22, August 2004. While lambasting capitalist culture for its impoverishment of everyday life the collective lays out their plan for urban guerrilla sonic experiments. Anti-copyright, 2004
DION WORKMAN FREE MUSIC, LITERALLY
180.6KB | PDF
Free Music, Literally is a short essay written for Allegorical Power Series #3. The paper looks at the political potential of alternative forms of distribution for experimental music. Anti-copyright, 2003