He shares Joseph Cornell’s practice of, what the poet Charles Simic termed, “Dimestore Alchemy”: that restless drive that solders connections between seemingly dissimilar, random odds and ends, renewing and transform materials, sounds, images and experiences—igniting cast-off, forgotten things with a combustible beauty and mystery.
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In praise of this glorious weekend of allatonceness, Darouian’ s to be saluted for tapping into the promise of Art-signalling-Change—a notion that Portland’s energetic and earnest indie-arts spectrum can rightly aspire to—a synergistic impulse that also seems to fuel the best intermedia projects that AudioCinema helps incubate.
Journal of Popular Noise
The Journal of Popular Noise is just such a beautiful object, letterpress printed and folded in its innovative accordian origami (and so-good typography). This, the just-released second volume of the semi-annual audio magazine, contains issues 4-6, 7″ vinyl by Portland’s Copy (!), by Pontius Pilots and Teflon Don.
Brooklyn-based Parsons grad Brian Kalet, whose resume includes […]
