Update: the Miss Mouse and Miss Teapot video is now available through Youtube.
Above is a mini, .gif-style version of a 6.5 minute video I made* that is going to Hungary, Albania and Serbia with Kiss Machine's Girls and Guns show (details below). Click here for the soundtrack made with Garageband. This software is frighteningly easy to use. For one thing it takes care of tuning and tempo. The samples they provide are funny and also (at least in this case) useful. This tune (with the working title "First Try") is made up of the following:
guitars ��acoustic � country � "Accoustic Picking 08"
guitars ��acoustic � country � "Accoustic Picking 17"
bass � dark � "Distorted Finger Bass 02"
bass � dark � "Distorted Finger Bass 03"
beats � urban � "RnB Beat 08"
beats � electric � "Club Dance Beat 002"
guitars � electric � "Modern Rock Guitar 09"
guitars � rock/blues � "Spacious Guitar 04"
I don't have the faintest idea what this stuff means in terms of the history of sampling or the future of music. Very puzzling. I do know it helped me out lickety-split when I was stuck for an appropriate and copyright-free soundtrack.
* I made...with help from Miss Teapots Maogosha Pyjor and Jean McKay; camerawork by Carma Livingstone, Paul Hong, and Ben Smith Lea; timely advice from Von Bark and a leg-up from Kristin Lucas of Simulcast.
The first exhibition of Kiss Machine's Girls and Guns touring project opens at the Dorottya Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, on August 10, 2004.
The art show premiered at Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario, and was originally created for the sixth issue of Kiss Machine (http://kissmachine.org/sixth.html), which featured the dual themes of girls and guns. In September, the Girls and Guns show moves to the Lindart Cultural Center in Tirana, Albania, and in October it will be featured at the Videomedija Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Sheila Butler, Nina Czegledy, Michelle Kasprzak, Sally McKay and Paola Poletto (Canada).
Roza El Hassan (Hungary).
Tuesday, August 10 to Saturday, September 4, 2004
Dorottya Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
Michelle Kasprzak will perform at the opening.
A roundtable discussion will follow, moderated by Emese Suvecz.
The Dorottya Gallery show is supported by the Hungarian National Cultural Fund, the Canadian Embassy, Budapest, the Municipal Government of Budapest and the Nadasdy Foundation.
Congratulations - how exciting to exhibit in eastern Europe! Will you be going too? - marja-leena 8-06-2004 7:52 am
thanks! I am excited, but it is also surreal. I don't know the culture(s) and I can't go which means I don't get to find out how the work is received. Feels like tying notes to rocks and tossing them over a fence. - sally mckay 8-06-2004 6:33 pm
I do know a Hungarian obscenity that roughly translates to "dog's menstrual blood"...or was it Polish....hmmmmm
Does that help? - LM (guest) 8-07-2004 7:42 am
What do you mean how will they receive it? Gunfighting mice? What's not to like. Congrats. - jimlouis 8-07-2004 4:35 pm
If 'twere only gunfighting mice it would be easy. But this mouse is fighting a teapot. Still, what's not to like? - Jean (guest) 8-07-2004 7:56 pm
the gif version starts off like a news story about a bar of soap and ends with a dramatic cliffhanger. i was reeled in for multiple viewings! looking forward to the director's cut.
which anima-huma-tronic will discover Ms. Mouse lying in a pool of sticky red-brown stuff in Sally's back alley? Vendetta! just saying... i smell a sequel. - kristin (guest) 8-07-2004 8:51 pm
beware of ghost mouse. - sally mckay 8-07-2004 9:21 pm
this is great sally mckay. you have to get someone to document the openings for you (at least!). - selma 8-09-2004 9:44 pm
Update: the Miss Mouse and Miss Teapot video is now available through Youtube.
Above is a mini, .gif-style version of a 6.5 minute video I made* that is going to Hungary, Albania and Serbia with Kiss Machine's Girls and Guns show (details below). Click here for the soundtrack made with Garageband. This software is frighteningly easy to use. For one thing it takes care of tuning and tempo. The samples they provide are funny and also (at least in this case) useful. This tune (with the working title "First Try") is made up of the following:
guitars ��acoustic � country � "Accoustic Picking 08"
guitars ��acoustic � country � "Accoustic Picking 17"
bass � dark � "Distorted Finger Bass 02"
bass � dark � "Distorted Finger Bass 03"
beats � urban � "RnB Beat 08"
beats � electric � "Club Dance Beat 002"
guitars � electric � "Modern Rock Guitar 09"
guitars � rock/blues � "Spacious Guitar 04"
I don't have the faintest idea what this stuff means in terms of the history of sampling or the future of music. Very puzzling. I do know it helped me out lickety-split when I was stuck for an appropriate and copyright-free soundtrack.
* I made...with help from Miss Teapots Maogosha Pyjor and Jean McKay; camerawork by Carma Livingstone, Paul Hong, and Ben Smith Lea; timely advice from Von Bark and a leg-up from Kristin Lucas of Simulcast.
The first exhibition of Kiss Machine's Girls and Guns touring project opens at the Dorottya Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, on August 10, 2004.
The art show premiered at Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario, and was originally created for the sixth issue of Kiss Machine (http://kissmachine.org/sixth.html), which featured the dual themes of girls and guns. In September, the Girls and Guns show moves to the Lindart Cultural Center in Tirana, Albania, and in October it will be featured at the Videomedija Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Sheila Butler, Nina Czegledy, Michelle Kasprzak, Sally McKay and Paola Poletto (Canada).
Roza El Hassan (Hungary).
Tuesday, August 10 to Saturday, September 4, 2004
Dorottya Gallery (Budapest, Hungary)
Michelle Kasprzak will perform at the opening.
A roundtable discussion will follow, moderated by Emese Suvecz.
The Dorottya Gallery show is supported by the Hungarian National Cultural Fund, the Canadian Embassy, Budapest, the Municipal Government of Budapest and the Nadasdy Foundation.
For further information: http://www.ernstmuzeum.hu/dorottya_a.htm
Contact: paola@kissmachine.org
- sally mckay 8-05-2004 7:35 am
Congratulations - how exciting to exhibit in eastern Europe! Will you be going too?
- marja-leena 8-06-2004 7:52 am
thanks! I am excited, but it is also surreal. I don't know the culture(s) and I can't go which means I don't get to find out how the work is received. Feels like tying notes to rocks and tossing them over a fence.
- sally mckay 8-06-2004 6:33 pm
I do know a Hungarian obscenity that roughly translates to "dog's menstrual blood"...or was it Polish....hmmmmm
Does that help?
- LM (guest) 8-07-2004 7:42 am
What do you mean how will they receive it? Gunfighting mice? What's not to like. Congrats.
- jimlouis 8-07-2004 4:35 pm
If 'twere only gunfighting mice it would be easy. But this mouse is fighting a teapot. Still, what's not to like?
- Jean (guest) 8-07-2004 7:56 pm
the gif version starts off like a news story about a bar of soap and ends with a dramatic cliffhanger. i was reeled in for multiple viewings! looking forward to the director's cut.
which anima-huma-tronic will discover Ms. Mouse lying in a pool of sticky red-brown stuff in Sally's back alley? Vendetta! just saying... i smell a sequel.
- kristin (guest) 8-07-2004 8:51 pm
beware of ghost mouse.
- sally mckay 8-07-2004 9:21 pm
this is great sally mckay. you have to get someone to document the openings for you (at least!).
- selma 8-09-2004 9:44 pm