MoMA PS1 and Pitchfork Present Nicolas Jaar in New York City February 5
On Sunday, February 5 from 1-6 p.m., Pitchfork will present “From Scratch”, an event with electronic music producer Nicolas Jaar at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, New York. The event will be presented in collaboration with MoMA PS1 and Clown & Sunset Aesthetics, Jarr’s newly formed interdisciplinary culture house with film producer Noah Kraft. Clown & Sunset Aesthetics is the parent company of Jaar’s record label Clown & Sunset.
“From Scratch” will premiere a new five-hour, multidisciplinary performance from Jaar, with musical collaborators Will Epstein, Dave Harrington (Jaar’s partner in Darkside), and Sasha Spie
lberg. It will include a movement piece by Lizzie Feidelson, and sound-derived video art from CSA’s filmmaker-in-residence, Ryan Staake of Pomp & Clout.
The event is free with admission to MoMA PS1.
RA Poll – Top albums of 2011 : Nicolas Jaar’s Space Is Only Noise hits #1
I made most of Space Is Only Noise at 5 PM, right after I came home from school, probably the most boring time of the day. I made most of the stuff during the summer, when I had nothing to do all day. Just having a nice meal in the morning, maybe reading a nice book and then making some music. It’s music that I made from the ages from 17 – 20, so it spans a lot of different time. It wasn’t like I sat down for two months and wrote it: it was a three year process.
For a while I thought I was going to write my thesis on Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, because I really fell in love with his ideas of time. So I curated the album with those thoughts in mind. But then the album became way too ethereal and I was not OK with that. I wanted it to be grounded in something much dirtier and more disgusting. I wanted it to have something bad inside of it, maybe something evil. When I made the track “Space Is Only Noise If You Can See” the album became more complete. I knew that it needed something like that.
I had a deadline with Circus Company of a Thursday, I think, and on that Wednesday night I wrote “Balance Her In Between Your Eyes,” which is one of my favorite songs off the album. I wrote it with my computer speakers because my other speakers weren’t working. But I guess what I realized this year is that the writing of the album wasn’t the writing of the songs. It was the three months I took to turn it into some sort of weird bastard DJ set of the songs I really like. That’s something I realized lately more than ever: Just how much of a DJ set I actually saw it as.
– Nicolas Jaar
CCPodcast.008 – Wareika
Walter Carlos, Sonic Seasonings, Summer
Herbie Hancock, Rain Dance
Wareika, 1st Floor
Seidensticker & Salour, Sue is Blue
6th Boruogh Project, Let yourself go
Moodymanc, Black Point (Larry Heard’s After Dark Mix)
Holmby Hulls, At the Bohemia
Daniel Bortz, Summertime
Morgan Geist, Sleaze
Daniel Stefanik, Four
Wareika, Scene7
John Tejada, Big City Music
Genius of Time, Same old Place
Willie Graff & Tuccillo, Sextacy
Walter Carlos, Sonic Seasonings, Spring
Aufgang, Barock (Wareika Remix)
Circus Podcasts on Itunes now !
CCRadio.005 – Oleg Poliakov (The Architectes podcast)
Broken home, Harlem River Drive
Souba, Rokia Traoré
Make The Road By Walking, The Menahan Street Band
Little fly, Marvin Pontiac
Analog (feat. Hodgy Beats), Tyler The Creator
Small Craft On A Milk Sea, Brian Eno
I Love The Lord; He Heard My Cry (Parts1 & 2), Donny Hathaway
Anger In The Nation, Pete Rock & CL Smooth
Good Guy, Marianne Faithfull
Love Sketch, Friendsound
Oni Ayhun, Meets Shangaan Electro
The goose that got away, Objekt
Ain’t That Peculiar, Marvin Gaye & Pink Floyd
Oberkorn (It’s A Small Town), Depeche Mode
All I Wanted Was the Moon, Josephine Foster
Nicolas Jaar & Ableton Live : It’s My Instrument !
Nicolas Jaar interview on The Drone
Preis der deutschen Schallplatten kritik for dOP
Nicolas Jaar live band first appearance in Europe
Nicolas Jaar & band will travel europe by the end on March with his new live band project for three exclusive shows including a ‘post’ release party at Rex Club in Paris alongside Dave Aju and Sety.
30.03.2011 @ Fabric, London, UK
31.03.2011 @ Maida Vale Show – BBC Radio 1, London, UK
01.04.2011 @ Rex Club, Paris, France
02.04.2011 @ Tunnel, Milan, Itlaly
Paris house music scene in The Guardian
Tony Naylor (The Guardian) gives his feeling about the Paris house scene:
Has house music met its Paris match?
The French capital has produced an array of eccentric talent that is coming at the dancefloor at a tangent. Far be it from the Guardian Music blog to succumb to hype, much less reinforce lazy national stereotypes, but, undeniably, something is stirring in Paris. Something which, after the brash, filtered robo-house of Daft Punk and the juggernaut electro of Justice, is bringing a certain Gallic sophistication, a certain restraint and eccentricity, to French club music.
Resident Advisor : Circus Company artists in Top Live Acts of 2010
dOP and Nicolas Jaar makes it to RA Poll top live acts of 2010 :
03. dOP Everybody loves an oddball, and dOP have three of them. The French trio once again terrorized clubland in 2010, turning the idea of electronic music live performance on its head by acting like the rock stars they so clearly want to be. The group lives by the simple credo that the mixer should always be in the red, and that you should never play sober. And with Jonathan Illel as ringmaster/court jester, that means that you never know exactly what you’re going to get when dOP comes to town.
02. Nicolas Jaar It must be easy to be Nicolas Jaar’s press agent. Chilean-American, Ivy league student, fan of old-fashioned mics, etc. But with a creative vision as fresh as his, he hardly needs these talking points. In less than two years of releases, Jaar has cultivated a sound that’s startlingly original, as well as a dynamic live act that’s landed him in clubs around the globe. And all this while juggling a full course load, which is basically like driving with the emergency break on. With so much credit to his name already, it’s easy to forget that he’s just getting started.
dOP – Greatest Hits – Album out now !!!
The first album is now out. Three EP’s will follow including remixes from Herbert, Seuil, DJ Koze and Âme.
Nôze Band : A new live project
Nôze present it’s new band set at Bologna’s Teatro Municipale in Italy during the 2010 edition of Robot Festival.
This special formation features Ezechiel Pailhes on the piano, Nicolas Sfintescu on machines and vocals, Matthias Mahler on trombone, Thibaut Frisoni on guitar and Emiliano Turi on drums.
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