Well, its that time again. Let’s clean house. Let’s move some stock. Let’s get it going.

My favorite coporate dj, N-RON, has been releasing a number of tracks this year, and in an attempt to vertically structure the company, he has decided to use soundcloud. Inspired in part by parole and recent nasty behaviours by soundcloud that ripley notes in her blog, N-RON is looking to use the system to build the system.

So be sure to go HERE to get the latest from N-RON. 19 tracks so far, many more to come!

Grab the latest to drop: Perfection N-RON + Geko Jones featuring Boogat here
Perfection (n-ron + geko jones + boogat) by dj n-ron

NEW N-RON REMIX of CLOUDS by MIRACLES.

Get it while it’s hot! At pay what you wish, it’s a steal!

“From Clouds” originally recorded July 2009 and featured on the Ovum EP.

Be sure to check out Miracles 2 and get a some Vinyl/Mp3s

Be good

in the process of recovering from a nasty malware attack, with a little help from a friend we updated danielperlin.net

it now includes some semblance of a resemblance to my work and will have to hold down the fort until perlin studios finally gets its own site.

of course, thoughts, issues and ideas still come here first, and stay tuned for many new thoughts (including writings for domus ) coming in the next week.

I have the pleasure of being an organizer of Postopolis in Mexico City. Working as an independent curator and producer alongside Storefront For Art and Architecture, Domus, Tomo and El Eco museum, we have assembled 10 bloggers from around the world, each who selects 5 local participants they would like to have either speak or interview. These selected participants will be presenting their thoughts, works and ideas over a 5 day period in Mexico City. I have been fortunate enough to have been one of the curators selecting the bloggers, as well as an organizer of the various events, programs and activities (including performances) that surround Postopolis!DF. Below is the description from the postopolis.org website.

From the website:

About Postopolis!DF
From 8-12 June 2010, Storefront for Art and Architecture, in partnership with Museo Experimental El Eco, Tomo and Domus Magazine, will host the third edition of Postopolis!, a public five-day session of near-continuous conversation curated by some of the world’s most prominent bloggers from the fields of architecture, art, urbanism, landscape, music and design. 10 world-renowned bloggers from Los Angeles, New York, Turin, Barcelona, London and elsewhere will convene in one location in Mexico City to host a series of discussions, interviews, slideshows, presentations, films and panels fusing the informal and interdisciplinary approach of the architecture blogosphere with rare face-to-face interaction.

Each day, the 10 participating bloggers will meet in the magnificent courtyard of Museo Experimental El Eco, designed by Matthias Goeritz, to conduct back-to-back interviews of some of Mexico City’s most influential thinkers and practitioners – including architects, city planners, artists and urban theorists but also military historians, filmmakers, photographers, activists and musicians. The talks will be conducted in either Spanish or English, and translations will be available. Each day of talks will end with an after-party hosted by some of Mexico City’s most influential music blogs.

N-RON dj /rupture and wayne and wax will be djing around mexico city all week:

June 8 @ El Eco museum opening party

June 10 Centro Cultural Espana

June 11 Toluca

June 12 DF special secret locale!

stay tuned!

@postpolis use #postopolis

PLEASE JOIN US FOR PURE CAPITAL!

IT WILL MAKE YOUR LIFE RICHER

THE PURE CAPITAL DANCE PARTY
WITH DJS
N-RON AND REAGANOMICS
COME FOR THE CASH AND STAY TO DANCE TO THE SOUNDS OF
BAILE FUNK + CUMBIA + BRASIL + BHANGRA + KUDURO + BASS + TREBLE + EVERYTHING ELSE IN-BETWEEN

FRIDAY APRIL 16, 2010
11 PM ON AT B.EAST NYC
171 east bway
FREE

HAVEN’T GOT IT? GET THE CORPORATE TAKEOVER MIX HERE

The fourth piece in the series Work entitled
re: destruction
Issue Project Room
Tuesday, April 13 at 8 pm

I have the privilege of performing the same evening as the very talented Christina Wheeler who is joined by Vernon Reid (Living Color), Benton C and Danny Blume, who will be making new sounds and images.

Below is a description of the new piece and the event link for more information.

http://issueprojectroom.org/2010/03/10/christina-wheeler-daniel-perlin/

Re: Destruction

Re:destruction is a sound and video performance created by smashing a computer with a sledge hammer. It is the fourth piece in a series entitled Work by the artist and sound designer Daniel Perlin.

In re:destruction, a computer is smashed, using a sledge hammer, producing a sound as well as video work. The hammer and the computer are microphoned, sampled, amplified and played as instruments in real time.

Like the preceding pieces in the series, re:destruction is created by a single real-time sample of the sound of the act of labor, mixed with the use of the tool upon objects. In re:destruction, there is the addition of projected color video.

The Work series attempts to examine the implications of sound, noise and music in the processes of the building of physical structures.
The fourth performance piece in the series, re: destruction will be performed at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, and dovetails with re: drill performed at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council gallery, re:construction 1 performed at Studio X and re:construction 2 P.S.1, New York.

THE PURE CAPITAL DANCE PARTY

WITH DJS
N-RON AND REAGANOMICS

COME FOR THE CASH AND DANCE TO THE SOUNDS OF
BAILE FUNK + CUMBIA + BRASIL + BHANGRA + KUDURO + BASS + TREBLE + EVERYTHING ELSE IN-BETWEEN

SPECIAL GUESTS Keiichiro & DJ Shinchan FROM New York – Tokyo
FRIDAY MARCH 26, 2010

11 PM ON AT B.EAST NYC
179 east bway
FREE

2 mixes to get started
fuego puro  by  dj reaganomics

Landscapes of Quarantine
Mar 10 2010 – Apr 17 2010
Opening reception: Tuesday, March 9, 7pm

Group exhibition exploring the spaces of quarantine, from Level 4 biocontainment labs to underground nuclear waste repositories.

Curated by: Future Plural
Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG
Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography

Designed by:
Glen Cummings, MTWTF

Landscapes of Quarantine features new works by a multi-disciplinary group of eighteen artists, designers, and architects, each of whom was inspired by one or more of the physical, biological, ethical, architectural, social, political, temporal, and even astronomical dimensions of quarantine.

At its most basic, quarantine is a strategy of separation and containment—the creation of a hygienic boundary between two or more things, for the purpose of protecting one from exposure to the other. It is a spatial response to suspicion, threat, and uncertainty. From Chernobyl’s Zone of Exclusion and the artificial quarantine islands of the New York archipelago to camp beds set up to house HIV-positive Haitian refugees detained at Guantánamo and the modified Airstream trailer from within which Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and Michael Collins once waved at President Nixon, the landscapes of quarantine are various, mutable, and often unexpected.

Typically, quarantine is thought of in the context of disease control. It is used to isolate people who have been exposed to a contagious virus or bacteria and, as a result, may (or may not) be carrying the infection themselves. But quarantine does not apply only to people and animals. Its boundaries can be set up for as long as needed, creating spatial separation between clean and dirty, safe and dangerous, healthy and sick, foreign and native—however those labels are defined.

As a result, the practice of quarantine extends far beyond questions of epidemic control and pest-containment strategies to touch on issues of urban planning, geopolitics, international trade, ethics, immigration, and more. And although the practice dates back at least to the arrival of the Black Death in medieval Venice, if not to Christ’s 40 days in the desert, quarantine has re-emerged as an issue of urgency and importance in today’s era of globalization, antibiotic resistance, emerging diseases, pandemic flu, and bio-terrorism.

Landscapes of Quarantine began with an eight-week independent design studio directed by Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley of Future Plural. Each Tuesday evening, from October to December 2009, a multi-disciplinary group of studio participants met to discuss the spatial implications of quarantine and develop their own creative response: the resulting work forms the core of the Landscapes of Quarantine exhibition.

Works on display:

Pages 179 – 187, Joe Alterio

Q-CITY: An Investigation, Front Studio | Yen Ha & Michi Yanagishita

MAP 002 QUARANTINE, David Garcia Studio

Did We Build The Frontier To Keep It Closed?, Scott Geiger

Field Notes from Quarantine, Katie Holten

Hotel III, Camp II, Lab IV, Cell V, Mimi Lien

Cordon Sanitaire, Kevin Slavin

Context/Shift, Brian Slocum

Containing Uncertainty, Smudge Studio | Jamie Kruse & Elizabeth Ellsworth

NYCQ, Amanda Spielman & Jordan Spielman

Quick, Richard Mosse

Thermal Scanner and Body Temperature Alert System, Daniel Perlin

Precious Isolation: A Pair of Invasive Species, Thomas Pollman

N-RON: The M-C-M1 Mixtape

TRACK LISTING:
1. Joseph Beuys-Ja Ja Ja Nee Nee Nee/Larry Miller-Accord (Selections From The 2nd and 4th Movement)
2. N-RON-darksteps/Grimelock-Justice
3. N-RON-Rap da felicidade (cidinho e doca) stepmix
4. Flying Lizards-Money (That’s What I Want) (N-RON intermix)
5. Cota GV-Biling/Vandergraff-NDE/Jon Hopkins-Vessel
6. Celso Pina-Cumbia Sobre El Rio Interludio/Sonido Desconocido-VW Cumbia
7. Regadda-Instrumental/William Burroughs-Cut Up 19
8. El General-La culebrita/Chico Science & Nação Zumbi-Baião Ambiental (Instrumental)
9. Bodran 1/Blues thing/Assassin step pon them (acca)/Malica-Girl Hot
10. Molequ manhoso & bonde do rodo-danca do rodo
11. MC Colibri-CPI
12 Afroditas-pasconcito (N-RON rico mix)
13. N-RON-la calle es todo
14. Diplo-Ward21 Bay of Figs/Pase Rock-The Motherfucking Rave is Over
15. Tego Calderon-Trangalanga/Alex Under-El Ganado Ovizo Blanco
16. Mangueira DJ-Não Gostou/KRNL PANIC-PLAYBOY’S BLEND – PANIC REFIX BAILE FUNK RMX/Automatic refix
17. Comrade Fulozinha-Obá (N-RON Remix)

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Update: Thanks Spannered! You  can also stream the mix it at Spannered.org

I often find that if I stop for a second and listen to the world that surrounds me (including all the digital and sensory media overloads), it all blends into a strange kind of peaceful mix. Perhaps that is what maximalism or the new complexity is. But all this is to say that I’d like to make a call for a new type of peace in 2010.

When I look out into the world through my often mediated gaze, I see senseless wars for national and transnational greed, unspeakable human atrocities committed across the globe against the very earth itself, not to mention it’s inhabitants, a chronically collapsing economic system always already infused with it’s own failure, enslavement of individuals akin to indentured servitude from New York to New Delhi and everywhere in between, and a general disregard for the idea and practice of human rights.

But I also see in this hyperactive Pandora’s box an undying commitment (maybe this is, in a way, what Adorno saw as well in his essay on commitment in Minima Moralia) to realize a peaceful world. And in this belief, there still remains a struggle, a radically human struggle, to go beyond the constraints of nation-state and ideological-state to listen to the melange of sounds and find a way through dialogue and discourse. And so in 2010 I send wishes for new listening experiences and new opportunities for dialogue . From the extremes of humanity’s socio economic possibilities in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, anything seems possible, even peace for a change.

And for the very few people who do look at this blog, I wish you a peaceful and safe new year.

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