My dad asked me if I could copy a tape to a cd for him. I said sure, what is the tape? He just laughed and said I'd like it. Next time my parents visited he handed me an instructional tape on identifying frog and toad for species found in Iowa. The tape sounds a bit damaged, perhaps by a magnet.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Friday, June 5, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
As you can all imagine
As you can all imagine, my latest mix has been mailed to 50 of my closest friends and the mp3 version is available to download. This one is a lightweight, starts off slow easing from long form jazzy ambient, leading into the second set of chilled out jazz and dub influenced jams, including an excellent Marcie Sampson track borrowed from DJ Bylamplight over at Liquid Dilemma. The third set ends up in downtempo idm but begins with 3 disparate songs that use a similar mind melting organ melody. The mix was printed in an edition of 50 using block printing ink and a yoga mat, packaged with cropped pages from a found algebra book inside a fiberboard case. A zip file of the mix is available on colepierce.com, just in time for a 3 day weekend.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Music Box - You are pretending to be a sea-horse
This is a recording from 2007 of my son talking about a music box my wife gave me for Christmas.
The aquarium style music box contains spinning sea-horses, one of which has a cut out photo of my head
taped to the sea-horse.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Active Archive
Active Archive
Cole Pierce, 2009
Oil Paint, 3.5" Floppy Discs, Nails
Dimensions Variable
Currently 58" x 80"
Tight Quarters
Tight Quarters (Signal Distortion), Excerpt
Cole Pierce 2009
Digital Video and Sound Installation
10'04
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Tight Quarters, Full Version
The working title for this piece is Distortion/Tight Quarters (2009) and is intended it to be a wall sized projection.
The source material for the video is a glitch between a DVD recorder and a monitor. The audio was originally a piano recording, but it has gone through several generations of analog and digital manipulations.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Found Answering Machine Tape
I digitized a portion of this tape I found in the attic of a house I had a studio in (Colfax). There is one message but the majority of the 20 minute recording is noise, cracks and creaks. I might use it as part of an art installation in the future, but don't have any real plans yet. Download a high quality 243 mb AIFF recording of the tape here . Or a 27 mb MP3 here.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Art Collecting, I own ten countries
I recently acquired ten sculptures of countries through an art trade with Chicago based artist and collector Ben Foch. Read about his project The World in this Proximity article. In short, Ben made a sculpture of every country and priced them according to their GDP value (1 USD to 1 Billion GDP/PPP). The piece was exhibited at the Hyde Park Art Center in January of 2009. I traded my series of triangle paintings that I showed at Old Gold last November. When I was initially trying to decide which countries I wanted to own, I had no idea what strategy to use. I looked for a continent, but there was not one intact due to previous sales. I considered picking countries that I thought were cool, or had interesting music scenes happening, but Iceland was taken and Sweden and Norway are ugly. I almost chose every country in the southern 30 - 45 latitude region. Instead, I picked countries for formal reasons, their size and shape and sexy curves.
Selection of Ben Foch's The World, 2009
Installation View, my living room.
Pakistan and New Zealand
Chile
Myanmar
Monday, February 16, 2009
The Wanderer, Illustration by "Phiz"
Phiz does these great illustrations in Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Nelson Will Take Over From Now On, side B
Side B of Tyler Carter's mixtape Nelson Will Take Over From Now On (circa 2002). 55 minute mp3 zipped and uploaded to sendspace. idm, downtempo, hip-hop tinged. download it here.Sunday, February 8, 2009
Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
CHAPTER XXXVIII
A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire. I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction. The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies' legs; the tremendous effects of a curve in a wrong place; not only troubled my waking hours, but reappeared before me in my sleep. When I had groped my way, blindly, throught these difficulties, and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyption Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expecation, and that a pen and ink sky-rocket stood for disadvantageous. When I had fixed these wretches in my mind, I found that they had driven everything else out of it; then, beginning again, I forgot them; while I was picking them up, I dropped the other fragments of the system; in short, it was almost heart-breaking.
pp 444-445
A DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP
I did not allow my resolution, with respect to the Parliamentary Debates, to cool. It was one of the irons I began to heat immediately, and one of the irons I kept hot, and hammered at, with a perseverance I may honestly admire. I bought an approved scheme of the noble art and mystery of stenography (which cost me ten and sixpence); and plunged into a sea of perplexity that brought me, in a few weeks, to the confines of distraction. The changes that were rung upon dots, which in such a position meant such a thing, and in such another position something else, entirely different; the wonderful vagaries that were played by circles; the unaccountable consequences that resulted from marks like flies' legs; the tremendous effects of a curve in a wrong place; not only troubled my waking hours, but reappeared before me in my sleep. When I had groped my way, blindly, throught these difficulties, and had mastered the alphabet, which was an Egyption Temple in itself, there then appeared a procession of new horrors, called arbitrary characters; the most despotic characters I have ever known; who insisted, for instance, that a thing like the beginning of a cobweb, meant expecation, and that a pen and ink sky-rocket stood for disadvantageous. When I had fixed these wretches in my mind, I found that they had driven everything else out of it; then, beginning again, I forgot them; while I was picking them up, I dropped the other fragments of the system; in short, it was almost heart-breaking.
pp 444-445
Friday, February 6, 2009
Nelson Will Take Over From Now On, side A
Tyler Carter mixtape, circa 2002. This is side A. Nelson's Mandate, 55 min mp3 zipped and uploaded to sendspace. Side B will be available next week. If you listened to the first T.Carter mixtape, you know the drill: idm, indie rock, clever interludes, spoken word samples. Download it here.
Monday, February 2, 2009
About LD . . .
Alas, I digitized a Tyler Carter mixtape for you.
idm, post-rock circa 2001, sprinkled with TC's
bedroom turntablism. Richard Nixon samples
galore. Download a .zip from sendspace here:
Check out Tyler's blog: iwantedtowriteanemail
idm, post-rock circa 2001, sprinkled with TC's
bedroom turntablism. Richard Nixon samples
galore. Download a .zip from sendspace here:
Check out Tyler's blog: iwantedtowriteanemail
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