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of coastal tanks and inland bunkers

By john grzinich | Published: May 13, 2008
This past weekend I was in Riga to visit the Sound Forest festival. I could write about my impressions of the festival but I won’t. While there were a few good performances I enjoyed more the side activities that came with visiting friends in Riga. As is often the case we ended up exploring some [...]
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notes from nodar

By john grzinich | Published: May 13, 2008
It has been a while since my last post, which was partly due to my being away in Portugal for most of April. Something of a sister project to MoKS has started up there known as the Binaural Media residency. It too is located in a rural village setting and aims to integrate the work [...]
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urban exploration : dead meat

By john grzinich | Published: March 16, 2008
An urban research group in Tartu was looking at the phenomenon of urban exploration. I suggested to make a small trip somewhere in the city. Out of a few interesting possibilities we decided on the former meat factory, a site full of urban legends, as it is fairly central and easily accessible. This meat factory [...]
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frozen layers

By john grzinich | Published: January 6, 2008
With the recent temperatures falling far below zero, the lakes and rivers have finally frozen over. Its a special moment because there has not been any snow to cover the ice. The ice on the pond next to our house was clear enough to see fully through. There were bubbles and leaves frozen still and [...]
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presentation at Y-galerii, tartu

By john grzinich | Published: November 21, 2007
MoKS ja Y- galerii esitlevad:         Y kohtumine teisipäeval 27.novembril kell 18.00 Y-galeriis Tartus. Kolmanda Y kohtumise sisustab John Grzinich. Sellel õhtul toob John lagedale oma kõige värskema loomingu ja kaasab kokkutulnud kodanikud filmiaktsiooni. John kõneleb enda praeguse aja töödest ja esitleb esimest osa oma uuest filmist “mimema”. See 22- minutiline film [...]
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stomach of the sky

By john grzinich | Published: October 30, 2007
Stomach of the Sky was held on July 5, 1997 at The Candy Factory in Austin, Texas. This was a continuous 4 hour single evening event that combined elements of our live performance and installation work. A dual PA was set up to allow Michael Northam and I to mix sound material through separate stereo [...]
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substance of fragments : balkan tour

By john grzinich | Published: October 24, 2007
From June 11th to June 18th, 2000 I made a short Balkan tour, performing in three cities. My performances included a collage of live and pre-recorded sounds. A simple installation of resonating wires provided a bed of rich drones on which live acoustic sounds and pre-recorded material was layered. The composition entitled, “substance of fragments”, [...]
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vienna rooftops

By john grzinich | Published: October 24, 2007
Vienna Rooftops various contact mic recordings : May 1999 all photos by andrea siegl
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Sound Workshop : Opava, Czech Republic

By john grzinich | Published: October 24, 2007
From September 7-11, 2002 a group of international sound and video artists gathered in an abandoned factory in Opava, a working class town near the eastern border of the Czech Republic. The aim was to allow the artists to freely develop projects or installations on the top two floors of the former fabric factory. The [...]
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sound elements: from rust to dust

By john grzinich | Published: October 2, 2007
For the month of September visual and sound artist Jim Haynes was in the MoKS residency. Towards the end of the month we made an excursion with Jim and fellow artist Toomas Thetloff to one of my favorite “lost” places in Estonia, the former collective farm site known as “Avangard” (yes, that was its name). [...]
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riga sound locations

By john grzinich | Published: August 30, 2007
The Riga Sound Locations project starts with the concept of site-specific artistic activity while integrating contemporary sound recording practices that cover areas of “performance”, “field recording”, “improvisation” and “documentation”. With the site being the prime focus, the artist as actor and instigator uses the means of sound to investigate the qualities of of the surrounding [...]
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mid-summer night embers

By john grzinich | Published: June 29, 2007
The traditional Jaanipäev (St. Johns Day) or mid-summer day in Estonia is on or around June 24th. It marks the long days around the summer solstice when there is continuous light from the sun throughout the night. This time also marks the peak of springtime nature activity when the bird songs trail off and the [...]
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