Goldhamer

Of the things discussed after Animal's CD release party at the Beauty Shop with artist resident Laura Goldhamer: 

• silent drumming
• triggering lights vs. sounds
• computer access to notes between the notes 
• gear 
• electronic music
• the use of computer as a tool rather than an absolute
• enslavement to the computer
• freedom vs. structure 
• digital vs. analog
• the paralysis of the infinite
• digital photography as it relates to automatic weaponry and sloppiness
• t-switches in trains diesel engines and in audio equipment
• sound healing with speaker-triggered drums
• new age filtration
• community vs. individualism
• vesica piscus and the primal wound
• sounding circles
• group improvisation
• improvisation
• bow ties and the two ends of an infinity sign
• looping
• Zoe Keating
• centrioles
• mytosis
• cell duplication
• Harpoontang
•  The Evangenitals
• John Cage
• Merce Cunningham
• Apocalypso Tantric Boys Choir
• Alvin Lucier
• Steve Reich
• Milford Graves as a law of nature and heartbeat master
• free jazz as a permission-concept for all music vs. free jazz the genre
• Marcel Duchamp's "I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste" as it relates to authentic genre hopping
• contact mics
• sub woofers
• recording the sounds of brainwaves
• oscillators and the patterns of frequency
• Gary Synder's "Axe Handles" 
• Billy Collins "Splitting Wood" 
• star formation within circles and squares
• centrisomes and moons
• video feedback and the Lord
• unity and diversity, not twoness
• overhead projections, animation
• digital projectors
• the evolution of technology and photography equipment
• quality
• the infinite of digital photography vs. the finite of old school photography
• hip hop
• vulnerability and strength together within blossoming of expression
• loop pedals used as a tool not as a parlor trick
• white as an expression of all color combined
• aperture and shutter speed in terms of video feedback
• sonic installation
• breath-ability of music
• language and allowance of silence in conversation and music
• volume pedals
• art of live accompaniment vs. computer-centric accompaniment
• allowance for variance in music
• allowance for intuition and assessment of the present moment vs. re-creation of music
• prayer through singing
• truly being motivated by love and creating what you want in spite of all circumstance.

Needless to say I love Laura Goldhamer completely. 

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