dogma http://dogma.org | benjamin bacon | 本杰明 培根 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:21:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Old Loft in NYC (Billyburg, Brooklyn) http://dogma.org/old-loft-in-nyc-billyburg-brooklyn/ http://dogma.org/old-loft-in-nyc-billyburg-brooklyn/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:51:55 +0000 bacon http://dogma.org/?p=628 I found these old pictures of the loft I had in NYC (Billyburg, Brooklyn).  Had a little music studio, huge kitchen/dining area/ hang out space, etc. Spent a lot of time and energy building it out. It was such an awesome place. I miss it.

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For those coming to the party, music and dancing: that starts around 10:00 pm until the sunrises. Especially the back room that is all decked out with a fireplace, comfortable seating and we can play whatever music we want.

See you then!

4corners 肆角餐吧

100000 Beijing, China北京，西城, 大石碑胡同27号

Phone:＋8664017797

www.these4corners.com
www.facebook.com/wearethe4corners

4corners is located in Dashibei Hutong (大石碑胡同)  near the Drum and Bell Tower. Get off at Gulou station and walk south till you arrive Gulou Xi Da Jie.
]]> http://dogma.org/4-corners-birthday-bash/feed/ 0 汉语+汉字 http://dogma.org/%e6%b1%89%e8%af%ad%e6%b1%89%e5%ad%97/ http://dogma.org/%e6%b1%89%e8%af%ad%e6%b1%89%e5%ad%97/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:41:33 +0000 bacon http://dogma.org/?p=504 I have been studying chinese conversation, reading and writing for the last several months.. actually, a little longer than that but seriously only for a short while. It is challenging but I have really fallen in love with the language and learning the characters.

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So it’s been awhile. A long while actually. Both professionally and personally. Dogma.org has been around for quite a longtime. I took the domain down (blank paged it) sometime after 2002 with all the intentions of putting up something meaningful in it’s place. But I’ve been busy. Lame excuse I know.

Prior to 2002, dogma was the home for various bands, projects and people. Those sites are still archived here and can be accessed through my new portfolio, project and weblog. Links coming soon.

Since 2002 a lot has happened. I have switched professions and I am currently an Assistant Professor of Computational and Media Design at Parsons The New School for Design, gone back to school for my MFA at Parsons in Design and Technology, been part of a lot of musical and art projects, and moved to Beijing, China to summarize a few things.

Over the next month I will be updating and filling in the blanks of what I have been up to over the years.

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Blindworks was a project spearheaded by Benjamin Bacon and Jerome Rankine from the summer of 2002 until the spring of 2005. During 2003, Blindworks added Alan Zapata and Noire Manigault to the mix. The music the group created was inspired from each members backgrounds and tastes melding a unique style for the NYC scene.

Jerome Rankine – Vocals/Guitar
Alan Zapata – Guitar/Keyboards
Benjamin Bacon – Bass/Keyboards
Noire Manigault – Drums

Blindworks Archived Website.

 

 

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Accompanying the ESO is the ambient ‘Weather Ensemble’. The ‘Weather Ensemble’ is comprised of aggregate weather data pulled from the globally dispersed Weather Tunnel sensor nodes used to compose generative music and sonic landscapes in real-time. A specific set of rules is established to determine the composition and arrangement of sample-based ambient music. Sound is generated using granular synthesis in the style of musique concréte.

The Weather Ensemble serves as the ambient environmental context while the ESO performs melodies and rhythms dictated by the very same real-time data creating different melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic musical phrases that are layered and repeated as part of an aleatoric musical composition.

Artists: Benjamin Bacon and Joe Saavedra
Exhibitions:
Translife (Weather Tunnel), National Art Museum of China, Beijing China, June 2010
Beijing Design Week, 751, Beijing China, September 2010

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Artists: Red Glasses is a SpyLab collaboration.
Exhibitions:
Flow, Yuan Fen, New York, NY/Beijing, China, August/September
2010

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Artists: Benjamin Bacon and Glendon Jones as SpyLab.
Exhibitions:
CTRL-PRINT, Shelia D. Johnson Gallery, Parsons The New School for
Design, New York, NY, November 2009

Subjective Box Time Lapse Video

 

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