145 - Suburban Transpondency

Listen! Put your headphones on.

• The World of Quadraphonic Sound
• Head Shop: "Listen With A Third Ear"
• Klotzsch & Krey - Through All These Years of Trying to Belong
• How to Listen Effectively
• John Cage: They say, "you mean it's just sounds?" thinking that for something to just be a sound is to be useless, whereas I love sounds just as they are, and I have no need for them to be anything more than what they are. I don't want them to be psychological. I don't want a sound to pretend that it's a bucket or that it's president or that it's in love with another sound. I just want it to be a sound.
• Bruce and Miss Nelson - Soul Transportation
• Kim Krizan: Creation comes out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration. This is where, I think, language came from. I mean, it come from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some connection with one another. It had to be easy when it was just simple survival. “Water.” We came up with a sound for that. “Sabretooth tiger behind you!” We made a sound for that. But when it gets really interesting, I think is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things we’re experiencing. What is “frustration”? Or what is “anger” or “love”? When I say “love” the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person’s ear travels through the byzantine conduit in their brain through their memories of love or lack of love. They say they understand, but how do I know? Because words are inert. They’re just symbols. They’re dead. You know? And so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed. It’s unspeakable. And yet, you know, when we communicate with one another and we feel we have connected and think we’re understood I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion. That may be transient, but it’s what we live for.
• Professor Paul Fry explores the work of Jacques Lacan. Lacan's interest in Freud and distaste for post-Freudian "ego psychologists" are briefly mentioned, and his clinical work on "the mirror stage" is discussed in depth. The relationship in Lacanian thought, between metaphor and metonymy is explored through the image of the point de capiton. The correlation between language and the unconscious, and the distinction between desire and need, are also explained, with reference to Hugo's "Boaz Asleep."
• Uberkids: Sweet Trip (Intellivision Mix)
• Edwin Schlossberg: Vibrations/Metaphors
• Inuit Throat Singing with Algia Mae Hinton "Buckdance"
• Past Eroticism - Canadian Sound Poetry in the 1960s - Vol. 1
• Frank Zappa: Alright, um, as you know, I'm not the kind of a person that reads books, I've said this before many times, I'm not fond of reading. But, I do, I have in the past made exceptions, and uh, one of these exceptions was this part of the, the book that, I'm sure you know, called Naked Lunch, and I've received permission to read the part about the talking asshole. So . . .
• Greg Whitehead "If a Voice Like Then What?"
• People Like Us: "Guide To Broadcasting"
• Terence McKenna: A language which could be seen would be a kind of telepathy. If you could see what I mean you would see my thought. The way we communicate, small mouth noises and the assumption of shared dictionary, an assumption that is never borne out by careful questioning, is a miserable way to communicate.
• Dennis James: "Adagio for glass harmonica in C major"
• Legomaker: "Are You Listening"
• Henry Miller on the end of books, direct communication, instantaneous creative expression

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144 - Suburban Transpondency

• Vancouver 2010 Olympics Winter Games
• Olympic Resistence Network protesters
• Vancouver Media Coop
• Safe Assembly, Evening News @ VIVO Media Arts
• Andrew Koenig found dead in Stanley Park
• Debt crisis in Greece (Athens 2004 Games, coincidence?)

• The Twilight Sad: "Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters"
• Fleet Foxes: "White Winter Hymnal"
• Why?: "Eskimo Snow"
• Bowerbirds: "Nothern Lights"
• Yeasayers: "Wait For The Wintertime"
• The Afternoon Naps: "Winter Olympics"

143 - Suburban Transpondency

• The Aliens: "Magic Man"
• Alan Moore is an English writer known for work in comics, including the acclaimed comic book series Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell
• Art Is Magic, from the documentary The Mindscape Of Alan Moore
• Think About Life: "The Wizzzard"
• Faded Paper Figures: "Logos"
• Scholar: "Magick with a K (Phosphoros remix)"
• Feral Children: "Universal Design"
• Death By Panda: "Magical Myths and Expectation"
• Alasdair Roberts: "Ned Ludd's Rant (for a World Rebarbarised)"
• Sweet Trip: "Your World is Eternally Complete"
• Magical Mistakes: "Psychedelic States"

142 - Suburban Transpondency

• Reviewed by In Your Ear/The GSpot
• Controversial Lenin/Mao sculpture video
• Surrey pastor says controversial Haiti comments 'taken right out of context' (the Province)
• 'God has shaken' Haiti due to voodoo: pastor
  Minister backpedals after sermon in Surrey (Surrey Now)
• Controversial Sermon YouTube Comments

• Arrested Development: "Revolution"
• GCSE Bitesize Audio: "Lenin and Bolsheviks"
• Arcade Fire: "Lenin"
• Mumia Abu Jamal: "Haiti On Our Minds"
• Dick Gaughan: "Stand Up For Judas"
• Slavoj Zizek on Democracy Now "First As Tragedy, Then as Farce"
• Dirty Projectors: "Emblem of the World"
• Dick Gaughan: "World Turned Upside Down (Diggers)"
• K'Naan: "I Was Stabbed By Satan"

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Trillium Point 22 - Lenin's Head

"Miss Mao Trying to Poise Herself at the Top of Lenins Head" art installation in the City of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada by the Gao Brothers of China.

Vladimir Lenin
Chairman Mao

This large scale sculpture features two iconic figures in shiny polished stainless steel, a diminutive Miss Mao delicately balancing on the head Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary whose monumental ideas profoundly influenced Chinese political history. This potentially controversial sculpture is part of the Gao Brothers Miss Mao series, often described as cynical realism.

This sculpture can be read as a political narrative, as well as a reflection on the current nostalgic attitude toward Mao. The position and scale of the two figures simultaneously questions and ridicules their relative positions in an undeniable commentary. The Gao Brothers have consciously chosen to play the role of social critic and therefore walk a careful line in terms of politics.

City of Richmond

The Gao Brothers