tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35029328191363154602024-02-19T05:19:40.066-08:00Afterdays MediaConsider Your Culture as ArtifactAfterdays Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842080008044068784noreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502932819136315460.post-54151220540521655382014-01-04T10:49:00.000-08:002014-01-04T10:53:51.915-08:00Fossil Aerosol and Postmodern Egypt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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for the close of 2013 – released December 15 on bandcamp.com.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22pt;">“Three Days at Qurna” considers
the commodity of antiquity and the fakery of the ancient. The title refers to
the Egyptian village of Qurna, which was recently destroyed by Egyptian
authorities to provide a "cleaner and safer" environment for tourists
approaching the Valley of the Kings. The village was built atop and within a series of ancient tombs - used for dwellings, workshops, and (many years ago) sources of antiquities. For generations, many of the residents of
this village made their living by selling relics found literally beneath their homes. More recently, craftsmen in the village had
taken to making reproductions and fakes of ancient Egyptian artifacts.</span></div>
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in this piece. It is composed primarily of fragments of vintage Egyptian folk
recordings, processed and mixed live in the studio. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22pt;">Falsified ethnography</span></span></div>
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Afterdays Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842080008044068784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502932819136315460.post-64700597041572021342013-10-13T14:35:00.001-07:002013-10-13T14:35:08.096-07:00The Quintessential Urban Frankenstein<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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sprouted up along the edges of small towns in the Midwest – towns that were too
small for “suburbs”. These theaters were usually quite unremarkable utilitarian
structures, in concrete block or pre-fabricated steel. Before the widespread
appearance of cable television in the rural areas, and also before the
appearance of affordable home video, the places served as bunker-like outposts
for mainstream popular cinema. They were all together different than their
ancestral movie houses found in urban areas since the early twentieth century. They were also untethered from the pavement-and-box landscape of the
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of a car dealership, stocked with candy and fountain drinks, providing a rural
community with a connection to the new summer blockbusters imported from Los
Angeles.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
urban movie theaters closed first. Then the outdoor Drive-in theaters. Finally
these rural movie-bunkers succumbed to cable TV and home VHS. </span></div>
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rural Missouri was converted to the very thing that lead to its demise – a
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In most cases, the old buildings were demolished, but in this case, two circa 1875 rooming houses or multi-family dwellings were adapted to an unknown commercial use. The result was the Frankenstein monster that still stands today.</span><br />
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well documented over the last ten years, as a number of the larger enclosed
centers have failed and the popular interest in things-abandoned has grown. In this
post, I wanted to show another aspect of suburban
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For decades, artists, their studios, and the galleries that
show their work have sought low-rent neighborhoods in the cities in which to
work. As a result, the vibrant, active communities that often follow have
served to revitalize dying sections of the urban landscape. In nearly all
cases, however, the long-term benefit is enjoyed by real estate developers who
convert neighborhoods “colonized” by art and artists into upscale residential
and retail spaces. The end result is most often the displacement of the very
people (and the ideas) that reshaped the districts, and the replacement of
locally-owned businesses with corporate outlets. The story is an old chestnut
now. The burned-out building becomes an art gallery, and then the art gallery
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watched this process, and have attempted to transplant the phenomenon in a few
places where economic rot has crept into post-World War II communities. One
example is Crestwood Mall in suburban St. Louis. What had begun as a post-war
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and what was a jewelry store became the site of an installational sculpture. For a
couple of years, the mall was transformed by the eclectic – something not
generally seen in such environments. It couldn’t last, however. Within a few
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Afterdays Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842080008044068784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502932819136315460.post-32685326768911262962013-05-16T08:37:00.001-07:002013-05-16T08:37:36.442-07:00Gestures as Artifacts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few images from an emptied factory floor in St. Louis, taken in 1991. Traces of small gestures in a very large industrial space.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The earliest <i>Fossil Aerosol
Mining Project</i> recordings, made during the mid-1980s, utilized literal “found
sounds” such as fragments of open reel 1/4” tape and 35mm film recovered from
burnt out warehouses and abandoned drive-in theaters. One of the first loops
was made from a fragment of the film “Zombi 2”, cut out of a reel by a sloppy
projectionist. Spliced into a length of leader and run through an old projector
(with no bulb but a convenient audio output), the damaged audio track became
artifact.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the years, a number of Fossil Aerosol recordings
were produced using sonic fragments from the zombi film genre of the late Cold
War era. Some of the first pieces were included in the “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/cassette-recordings-1983-1995/id307696650" target="_blank">Cassette Recordings</a>” release,
compiled in 1995. The 2005 “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/if-you-enjoyed-dawn-dead/id307697099" target="_blank">if you enjoyed the dawn of the dead</a>” was composed
almost entirely of damaged and mutated artifacts from Romero’s original zombie
trilogy. “<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/first-15-minutes-second-sequel/id357887346" target="_blank">The First 15 Minutes of the Second Sequel</a>” (2007) was composed of
processed fragments from the first 15 minutes of the second unauthorized
Italian sequel to Dawn of the Dead. Fake resurrection, left for dead and
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<!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In 2009, some the older theme-based recordings were revisited.
“Resurrection Remixes”, just released on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/resurrection-remixes-2009/id640838273" target="_blank">iTunes</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, represents a revision of
Fossil Aerosol’s zombi past. A mildewed journey that begins in a dead mall in
1978, passes through a dying Midwestern drive-in theater in 1983, and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can hear a sample here:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Afterdays Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842080008044068784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502932819136315460.post-89473444591170210762013-03-07T16:04:00.002-08:002013-03-07T16:04:59.149-08:00Considering the Post Industrial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So again, the focus of this little forum is on us in the
past tense, generally. The point of this is to gain a certain outsider’s
perspective on any number of our own practices, symbols, or traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most common lens through which to
see this is the post-apocalyptic lens. However, there are other viewpoints, and
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In art and media, the post-industrial is one such
perspective. This term (often used in music but also in painting, architecture,
and sculpture) is still a somewhat poorly defined one. Essentially, it can be read to
mean vocabularies that suggest traditions or practices that might follow our
own industrial / consumer age. Something from a proposed future, but stripped
of the conventions that we feel make us modern today. This is where the topic
becomes quite relevant to this blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Themes in post-industrial art often include the renaming of
past objects, the appropriation of symbols, the valuation of debris, the
hybridization of vocabularies, and often a new primitivism that might follow
the fall of industrial and consumer culture. Some of these premises are present
in post-apocalyptic culture, but in post-industrialism there is not necessarily
a presumed disastrous event or collapse. Just mutation, evolution, or fundamental paradigm
shift. Also a more probable future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The homespun façade of the Du-Good Chemical Laboratory
in St. Louis is an unusual example of the folk-like presentation of a scientific
facility. Lincoln I. Diuguid, a local science professor, established the lab in
1948. His company provided microanalytic services and also marketed its own
brand of cleaning products and cosmetics. The business was in operation for
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building, Dr. Diuguid’s lab made no attempt to varnish over the old structure
with a veneer of modernity or authority. Instead, Du-Good looks to have been
primarily an expression of the professor’s unique personality. Now, the
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artifacts – usually those of other, extinct cultures, and less often of those
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contains a number of examples of very early sound recordings. Most of the older examples date to the 1910s or 1920s. One in particular, however, is a rare and
haunting example of a true audio relic. In fact, it is one of the oldest known
recordings of human voice. In 1888, or just over ten years after Edison
introduced his phonograph, an agent for his company attended the Ninth Triennial Handel Festival at Crystal Palace, London.
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to the sound from this 125-year old cylinder. The circumstances of its
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you haven't yet heard it, "A Duck in a Tree" is a weekly internet radio show programmed by :Zoviet*France: and broadcast by Basic.fm. The show features some remarkable music, much of which you will have a hard time finding elsewhere. We are pleased to report that this week's edition includes an unreleased Fossil Aerosol track - a Duck in a Tree exclusive. Have a listen at <a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/zoviet_france/a-duck-in-a-tree-2013-01-12-hand-speed-you-to-the-thermal-nations/" target="_blank">Mixcloud</a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you haven't heard this kind of music before (but as a reader of this blog are interested in post-industrial or post-apocalyptic culture), you will probably find something of interest here. Much of the work is relevant for the simple fact that it often begins with the intentional collapsing of most forms of musical or cultural convention.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Maybe a more relevant take-away from the revised spate of Maya Calendar Media is the fact that the calendar (and some very nice pottery) outlived the culture that created it by approximately 1000 years. Some of our ideas and gestures outlast us for a very long time. The problem is, we usually don't get to pick which ones...</span></span>Afterdays Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842080008044068784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502932819136315460.post-82917753482307861932012-12-01T18:55:00.000-08:002013-01-19T06:27:40.085-08:00New Fossil Aerosol Mining Project Release<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Very Early Fragments</i> is the second release to observe our 25th anniversary. Recent tracks created from very early fragments: bits of tape and recorded experiments made a long time ago. Pieces of late twentieth century media, decomposing to the quiet roar of chromium dioxide as it clings to the tape heads. </span></span><br />
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attractions in the explorations of contemporary ruin and abandonment, such as those
found in this blog. However, those images and posts (as well as the books and
music promoted by Afterdays Media), may be reflections of the irony of another era.
I realized this today while reading Christy Wampole’s excellent essay in the
New York Times. <a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/how-to-live-without-irony/" target="_blank"><i>How to Live Without Irony</i></a> speaks with remarkable clarity and
insight into the sadly shallow, insincere, and rather corrosive stance that
irony has taken within Generation Y hipster culture since the 1990s. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Generation X, I became culturally conscious during the early 1970s, and I see
now that I may have experienced an early form of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“proto-irony” during the waning years of the Cold War. It was clearly of a different flavor than that described by Wampole. Our first
tastes of irony were wistful, self-reflective ones. Imagining of the end of us,
and the nature of our own ruins. And it wasn't hip. We were weird.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote about this in my recent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-1979-Life-Dawn-Dead/dp/0615627587/" target="_blank">book</a> about the
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peculiar product of a peculiar time and place. In the audience, we recognized
something astonishingly relevant about colorful corpses decomposing in J.C.
Pennys. These ideas taught me, at an early age, to imagine the sudden decay of
my own culture. They introduced the irony present in much of my daily life,
when considered in the past tense”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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‘80s may have been the time w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hen Warhol and postmodernism finally trickled down from art and literature. T</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he widespread act of stepping out of
one's own pop culture to see it from another perspective. That sense of disassociation is crucial
to the kind of irony that is endemic in mainstream culture today. Always
self-referential. As Wampole puts it, today’s hipster is a “walking citation”. </span></div>
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dislocated perspective was <u>imposed</u> upon our imaginations by, among other things, the popular
depictions of worldwide annihilation of one form or another. <i>Dawn of the Dead</i> was a good ironic laugh, perhaps one of the first of
its kind, but that irony was simply a sugarcoating atop a much more
contemplative and horrifying product in 1979: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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warned of the coming apocalypse, and that ours might be the next civilization
to fall. The vacant and breached Monroeville Mall, filled with melancholic
irony and surrounded by walking sculptures of exotic, post nuclear decay, was a
genuinely compelling idea to many of us in 1979. Its timing was perfect.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we just could not shake. It’s different today. Most cultural memes now come
with a smirk, but I don’t remember smirking that much back then. What I do remember is the
ocean of self-realization that washed over us as those zombies tumbled down the
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doors, we found that cosmetic suburban architecture, when left unattended for only a
short time, becomes ancient. The damaged interior of the concession stand was
heavily infested with the contemporary melancholy that attracted us to these
places. Our shoes crunched across foil bags that still smiled CHEESEBURGER into the
darkened, mildewed space. Our hands sifted through a stainless steel bin filled
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focuses on the consideration of our own culture in the past tense. It is
basically relevant to extend the time frame in question back to the early years
of the industrial and consumer revolution, sometime in the early 1700s. The
beginnings of the western culture that we know today. That brings me to my day
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we are assigned to interpret the meanings and circumstances behind the ruins
and artifacts left in the ground by people long dead. There is an implied
“resurrection” of sorts – of some aspect of architecture, material surroundings,
or daily life. We follow rules of empiricism and logic, and we tell ourselves that we</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> build conclusions based on observable facts.</span></div>
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And we can say a few things with a certain degree of authority. Some amazing
things, actually. But we are constantly on shaky ground, due to the natural
laws of decay and fragile memory. We must bridge the gaps of decomposition and
forgetting with certain assumptions, often based on <i>Occam's Razor</i>, which states that the simplest
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at the site of Kennedy’s assassination. But what it is really about is <u>the potential for seemly nonsensical factors behind
any historical circumstance</u>. Once you look too close - when you <i>really</i> attempt to read each detail - probability,
predictability, and Occam's Razor itself may fall apart. This perspective can
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An imagined darkened Manhattan, 1981.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This blog has been on a musical
theme for a while. I will steer it back into some mummified pop culture, while
staying on the same topic. <o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;">Here are two dead music stores in central Illinois. Both were located in low-income urban neighborhoods, and both served more than LPs or CDs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Washington’s</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> was essentially a community center, with a café and
a video rental store along with music sales. In its last days <i>Top Cat</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> was selling used odds and ends as well as old vinyl.
These were interesting hybrids of home-spun entrepreneurialism and corporate
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Afterdays Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842080008044068784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502932819136315460.post-37399071200592762812012-10-08T14:00:00.000-07:002013-01-19T06:28:07.200-08:00Podcast for October<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have uploaded a <a href="http://www.mixcloud.com/FossilAerosolMiningProject/certain-contexts-for-the-use-of-modified-bone-tools/" target="_blank">new podcast</a> at Mixcloud. "Certain Contexts for the Use of Modified Bone Tools" features artists such as :Zoviet*France:, Mnemonists, Jeff Greinke, as well as a few selected audio artifacts. 40 minutes of music for October. Hope you enjoy....</span>Afterdays Mediahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16842080008044068784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3502932819136315460.post-466730972505592902012-09-27T20:21:00.000-07:002012-09-27T20:23:19.479-07:00Post Punk at the Drive-In<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, previous posts have examined the postmodern <a href="http://afterdaysmedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/dead-drive-in-artifacts.html" target="_blank">relics</a> of
drive-in theaters, as well as the <a href="http://afterdaysmedia.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-hip-blight-that-was-extra-place.html" target="_blank">ruins</a> of punk-scene landmarks. Now for some appropriate music to complete this rather odd thread.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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work on early 1980s post punk recordings (for instance some of the stuff on the
Cherry Red label, or even a few of Wire’s early melodies) had a jingle-esque
sound to them? No, you probably didn’t. Well, right or wrong, we <i>did</i> notice....</span></div>
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incorporating/grafting some choice riffs from the Golden Age of post punk. As
camouflaged as they may seem, all guitar melodies on this track are actually
from the world of rock and roll, not hot dog retailing. Test your <i>Hi-Fidelity</i> quotient,
and see how many you can identify.</span></div>
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retrospective of Fossil Aerosol’s work, <i>Decades of Fake Resurrection</i>, available NOW at the iTunes concession
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relationships with our own recent past. And of course with liminal places of
decay and neglect. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The little alleyway known as
“Extra Place” in the Lower East Side of Manhattan provides a good example.
Located just off the Bowery, the alley was in the heart of a pretty exotic
landscape during the 1970s. Plenty of urban decay, homelessness, empty lots,
empty buildings. Decline, blight, and the present becoming a crashed and
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buzzed with artists, writers, and musicians living in unheated lofts,
pioneering an urban frontier. The alleyway, called Extra Place, ran behind a
little club called CBGB’s, now legendary for its role in the birth of the New
York punk scene of the mid-to-late 1970s. By 1975, CBGB’s had become a new
music incubator, clubhouse, and <i>scene</i>, surrounded by the very real grime and despair of the Bowery. Inside,
Television, The Ramones, and Patti Smith were developing something new on a
little stage in front of an audience of local artists and non-local visitors
interested in “slumming” for the evening. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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alley out back wasn’t a pretty place. A dark corner in the Bowery of the
mid-1970s. This corner was a little different because pioneering artists were
peeing and puking alongside the homeless and mildly deranged. It represented a
picture-perfect backdrop of the decaying Mean Streets – so perfect it graced
the cover of the Ramones' album <i>Rocket to Russia</i> like a license for street cred. Bands booked in the
club often had their photos taken in the debris behind the bar – sitting on
burned out cars abandoned at the back of the dead end street. An apocalyptic
version of tourist photos in front of a local landmark. So ugly, but so hip. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A photo session in the blight, with the Ramones.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The club was losing its
cache by the 1990s, and the neighborhood was getting cleaned up as part of the
Giuliani makeover of much of the city. CBGB’s closed in 2006, and no one cared
about the cruddy alley anymore. That is, until gentrification leaked into Extra
Place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few years ago, there were
a number of news stories and blog posts about developers’ plans to not only
clean and pave the alley, but to transform it into an outdoor courtyard /
retail mall. Their vision of the place was much like those seen dozens of times
over in the new New York, and hundreds of times over in other American cities
and suburbs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Artist's rendering of the reinvented alleyway.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some folks were saddened,
some were outraged, but the gothic decay behind the fabeled art incubator was
swept clean in such an efficient manner that a passing tourist would never
imagine what happened in the shadows back there 30 years earlier. Now, a once
sad, scary, exciting, illicit, filthy, legendary place (depending on one’s
perspective) is considered a lost historic site by the old timers. A few period
photos have become historic documents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A new generation of residents paints the new sidewalk with eco-friendly,
neighborhood sponsored art-graffiti with slogans like “the birthplace of punk.”
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a facet of our
strange perspective on our own past, and our on-again-off again relationship
with the natural forces of neglect and decomposition. I doubt the visitors to
Extra Place desired to spend much time back there in 1975. Yet upon its
passing, we realize we need such dark corners. A weird nostalgia now hangs in
the sanitized air at the back of Extra Place. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fossil Aerosol Mining
Project makes music from audio artifacts. The idea is essentially one of a
sonic version of an archaeological midden – a suite of interrelated artifacts,
fragmented and decayed to various degrees, and lacking most of their original
contexts. The Project has a penchant for sounds from 1980s post-apocalyptic and
zombie films, for their double-whammy of irony and postmodernism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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themes, however – including the deconstruction of pop songs to create new sets
of dislocated artifacts. These can be rearranged and artificially decomposed in
such a way as to create a certain distance that allows for new perspective on
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songs and soundscapes was modeled from fragments culled from an iconic <i>White
Album</i> by a certain Fab Four. This
had been done before - notably the <i>Grey Album</i> by Danger Mouse five years earlier.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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album was not commercially released. But here are two tracks. The first is an
example of a more pop-related song (unusual for Fossil Aerosol), and the second
will be more recognizable to those familiar with their 25+ year catalog. There
was also a music video, even.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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