Redbot at Soundwalk 2009

Posted by Jon, onehumanbeing on October 3, 2009

Your host, Jon, one­hu­man­be­ing, along with his beau­ti­ful wife Tania and her fam­ily, had a great time at the Sound­walk this evening in the Art’s Dis­trict of down­town LB.

One instal­la­tion that really impressed me was a guy sweep­ing the side­walk with his broom hooked to a micro­phone that got fed through some effects and then played back to head­phones attached to the sweep­ers waist.

A very straight-forward piece — just grab some head­phones and tune in to the won­der of sweep­ing sounds… seemed like some­thing Wayne from The Flam­ing Lips would use on-stage. Unfor­tu­nately I don’t know the name of the artist crew that did this piece.

Another cool piece was by a crew called HOLLOW BODIES that cre­ated a mes­mer­iz­ing sound blend with numer­ous effects, tape machines and inter­ac­tive sound boards — met Nolan from this crew — would love to see more of their work…

The piece that Tania, Derek (Tania’s brother) and I wish we could have stayed longer at was the piece by the Hop-Frog Kol­lec­tiv that was a 5 hour spir­i­tual cleans­ing medi­a­tion of sound per­formed in a U-Haul truck in a park­ing lot — if you like long med­i­ta­tive drones that get under the skin and into the super­nat­ural fre­quen­cies you would have loved this piece…

Sev­eral Red­bots got posted along the way…

…and I got to give away a num­ber of the spe­cial edi­tion but­tons that I’ve made to cel­e­brate Long Beach arts and artists this month…

I’ll be car­ry­ing a sup­ply of but­tons with me this month — so hit me up for a free­bie if you see me around — one of my great joys is giv­ing away my buttons…