Sunday, 22. October 2006, 23:05. - 0:00, Ö1

KUNSTRADIO - RADIOKUNST



Facts on the Polywave

by GX Jupitter-Larsen

with Jessica King

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Kunstradio live and on air from studio RP4 at the Funkhaus in Vienna featuring Canadian performance artist and noisician, now resident in Los Angeles, G.X. Jupitter-Larsen.

Noise is an art/performance genre that undermines conventional music and its dramatic gestures. Musical elements are either largely or completely substituted for noises. In this way ‘noise’ and noisicians’ have enduringly altered our conception of music with its classical syntax of annotated notes or sounds. Just as early modernist artists took inspiration from every possible form of so-called ‘primitive art’, many contemporary noise artists tend to gravitate towards archaic sound recording techniques: for example, vinyl instead of CD, analogue rather than digital. Most noisicians would far rather use their own technology than conform to the strictures of the commercial norm.

G.X. Jupitter-Larsen is among the pioneers of noise. Back in 1979 he formed the now legendary noise band ‘The Haters’ in New York. In his live performance on Kunstradio, to the sound of a relentlessly noisy clock, he and his assistant Jessica King set up a small record player with a turntable made of sandpaper, a transistor radio and two shovels with contact microphones attached in order to put into practice what he means by his so-called ‘theory of the polywave’. This theory is about the nature of sounds and considers noises as simultaneous movement in all directions. It postulates that each individual direction is a cross-section of a larger cumulative effect. The theory goes on to state that everything except for nothingness moves as part of the polywave. The way one measures the polywave is by comparing unconnected entities. That is by comparing the polywave (movement) to nothingness (stillness). G.X. Jupitter-Larson goes further to say that:
“If clocks indicate not a movement of time, but the metabolism of the person perceiving the clock in motion, then time would be a stationary void located in between the passing of events. And anti-time then as the velocity metabolism.”


Listen to:

GX about Facts on the Polywave

GX Artiststatements

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Related Links:
http://www.kunstradio.at/FUTURE/RTF/SYMPOSIUM/LECTURES/GX/gx.html

http://radio.jupitter-larsen.com/
http://www.jupitter-larsen.com
http://www.noisyvideo.com
http://www.polywave.us
http://drawing.jupitter-larsen.com

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