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Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart - Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds (GW 010)

Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart - Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds (GW 010) was just released today. The details are here:http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/

Cover Design of Michael Pisaro - Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds (GW 010)

Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart - Closed Categories in Cartesian Worlds (GW 010)To be released in early November. http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/

My Father's Design Tutorial Book (1966)

This is my dad's design tutorial book which was issued in Japan in 1966, titled 'Commercial Design: How to Create Store Design and Layout'. I found this last issue at an online used book store and got it, since the one my dad used to have …

Antoine Beuger / Michael Pisaro 'this place / is love (erst 068)' is released

Antoine Beuger / Michael Pisaro - this place / is love (erst 068) was officially released today. Very happy with the final product, especially how the disc image turned out. One of my favorite CD covers and disc labels I have ever designed…

Independent Art Fair 2013 (3/9 in Chelsea, NYC)

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Above photo is Michel François' copper tubing work and Richard Aldrich's painting at Bortolami gallery booth, from Independent Art Fair 2013. Michel François was the most fascinating artist whom I found at the art show this year. You can s…

Michael Pisaro's new two CDs are released from Gravity Wave

GW 008: Michael Pisaro/Oswald Egger/Julia Holter - The Middle of Life (Die ganze Zeit) GW 009: Michael Pisaro - The Punishment of the Tribe by its Elders ... Both are available at ErstDist: http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/distro.html You c…

Gravity Wave 008/009 cover art

GW 008 / 009 front covers Michael Pisaro/Oswald Egger/Julia Holter - The Middle of Life (Die ganze Zeit) (GW 008) Michael Pisaro - The Punishment of the Tribe by its Elders (GW 009)... to be released in the mid or late January 2013.

Final cover designs of next Erstwhile releases

Michael Pisaro/Toshiya Tsunoda 'crosshatches' (erst 066-2) This will be perhaps my most favorite CDs from the entire Erstwhile catalog. Every time I listen to it, the music blows me away. Fantastic collaboration of the two extraordinary ta…

Andrea Neumann / Bonnie Jones 'green just as I could see' (erst 065)

The new Erstwhile CD, Andrea Neumann / Bonnie Jones 'green just as I could see' (erst 065) was just released. You can listen to the sound clips here (click 'tracks' on the following page): http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/catalog/065.html

Chelsea Galleries 3/22/2012

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Andrea Galvani "A Few Invisible Sculptures" at Meulensteen, NYC Andrea Galvani's sound installation, originally recorded in Germany, is the audio track documents the echolocation of a group of bats flying around three minimalist sculptures…

Note on Sarah Sze's sculptural works

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Sarah Sze - Disappearing Act, 2012 In both drawing and sculpture I’m interested in the depiction of gravity and weightlessness as both an operative and a disorienting force. I’m thinking about floating, sinking, rising, drifting, and the r…

Art Week 2012 in NYC

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Independent 2012 (3/8-11) Magali Reus at The ApproachThe amazing (and fascinating) thing about minimal art is that it can change the atmosphere and the feel of the space completely with just a simple layout of each piece in a certain space…

The most poetic booth at The Armory Show 2012

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Gallery D.O.R. (Oslo). In this booth, a ceiling fan was constantly circulating a light wind from above, so the sound of the wind (or a fan) and the moves of lightly blown objects (fabrics and papers hanging on the wall, etc.) created a ver…

Michael Pisaro - fields have ears (6) (gw 007) arrived

Official release date is February 28. See the details of the CD: http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/

Cover design of Gravity Wave 007

Michael Pisaro - fields have ears (6) (gw 007)To be released by the end of February. More details: http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/

Cover design for new Gravity Wave releases

Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart - Hearing Metal 2 (gw 005) Michael Pisaro / Greg Stuart - Hearing Metal 3 (gw 006) More details: http://michaelpisaro.blogspot.com/ - Official release date for both discs will be August 16th.Ben Ratliff's previ…

Philadelphia Museum of Art (11/19/2010)

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Hans Haacke "Broken R.M..." (1986) - Enamel plaque, glided shovel Michelangelo Pistoletto "Tavolo Mediterraneo Love Difference (Mediterranean Table Love Difference)" (2005) Marcel Duchamp "The Large Glass" Marcel Duchamp "Glider Containing…

The Noguchi Museum(イサム・ノグチ美術館 in NYC)

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The tranquility of Noguchi's sculpture accentuates the subtle nuance of the light, the shadow of the background wall, the smell of the wind and the rustle of the trees, making them more clear and more delicate. イサム・ノグチの彫刻の存在の…

アート作品と音楽はどこまで共鳴できるのか(1)

昨年6月1日と2日、米テキサス州ヒューストンの「メニル・コレクション」美術館で開催された「Sound Observations」に行ってきた。この2日間のプログラムの初日は、ロスコ・チャペル内でローレン・コナーズ(ギター)とキース・ロウ(テーブストップギタ…

清水俊彦先生、安らかに

先日、ジャズ評論家で詩人の清水俊彦氏が他界されたと、各音楽関係者のサイトで知りました。思えば1999年の夏に、ニューヨークの実験音楽シーンの自費取材を思い立ったのも、清水俊彦さんの名著『ジャズ・アヴァンギャルド』と『ジャズ・オルタナティヴ』を…

The Gates@セントラル・パーク

セントラル・パークで今月末まで展示しているクリスト&ジャンヌ・クロードの「The Gates」を見てきました。公園の遊歩道36.8キロ(ってものすごい距離!)に7500個のオレンジ色のゲートを立てたというNY前代未聞の巨大アートで、総費用は約21億円だとか。遊…