Solitary Confinement

I've posted a small series called 'Solitary Confinement', which hopefully communicates a slightly different connotation of the practice and phrase.

Giphantie- A New Blog

I've started a new blog on Tumblr called Giphantie. As you'll see on the site, Giphantie is the name of the fictional novel by French author Charles-Francois Tiphaigne de la Roche that prophesied the creation of photography. I quite like the format of Tumblr and will be posting small collections of my photographic work there. Using the menu on the right, you can view as a grid (best to see overall collection) or list (for individual photographs).

UPDATE (2/1/10): I've scrapped the idea of a blog and gone for a website. You can find my work at Ingmari Productions.

New Tracks

The truly excellent band Ladycop has just posted 3 new tracks on their MySpace page. Check out a show if you ever have the opportunity.

Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners

Apologies for the bootleg soundtrack (recorder placed under my chair). Description of the night from the Performa website:

Music for 16 Futurist Noise Intoners "is an evening-length concert of original scores and newly commissioned compositions for the intonarumori, or “noise-intoners” As part of its celebration of the 100th anniversary of Italian Futurism, the Performa 09 biennial, in collaboration with the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) and SFMOMA, has invited Luciano Chessa to direct a reconstruction project to produce accurate replicas the legendary instruments (8 noise families of 1-3 instruments each, in various registers) that Russolo built in Milan in the summer of 1913. As the first instruments capable of creating and manipulating noises through entirely mechanical processes, the intonarumori can be considered to be the original analog synthesizer, and the ancestors to the latest electronic synthesizers used today."

Back to the Future, California - Ulrich Krieger

En Sockerbagare

photo by ChrisH.

I recently did a small ethnomusicology piece about a song my mother used to sing to me. I like to think of it as the seed of a larger ethnomusicology project on traditional Swedish music, particularly children's songs. I have another work in progress at the moment so I will have to return to this down the road but in the meantime, here's that seed.

En Sockerbagare -

PS- On a technical note, I'd like to add that this was recorded with the Recorder app on my iPhone. I happen to think there's something really lovely about working with lo-fi gear and encourage anyone interested in creating something themselves to use whatever is at their disposal.

Note to Self

Don't drink and lean.

Picture of the Day

I wish I could just follow photographers I admire around quietly observe their working process. This picture is by self-described photographer/videographer/visual journalist Daryl Peveto. I think it is quite beautiful. In fact, the whole series is worth a look.