Things to Do:

I’ve fostered my procrastination for this particular task for some time, despite it being requisite for the journal; making a weekly plan (weekly. . . !)

  • Photography
    • Print some more photos using the Mac suite at University
    • Find out if I can get access to the Manchester University print room (this will allow me to print up to A1 at high quality, currently I can only print up to A30
    • Transport my framed prints into University for my review in February
    • Enquire about showing those prints at the Link gallery
    • Restart my daily regime of taking photos of my face, bedroom, ash tray, kitchen, garden (I’ve let this slip recently, but the videos would be excellent for VJ purposes)
  • VJ
    • Continue refining library and further develop my understanding of the software that I’m using (OpenTZT; http://opentzt.sourceforge.net/)
    • Animate my Romanian doll
    • Create some more digital psychedelic backdrops for overlaying natural images on top of
    • Look at animating my motorway time-lapse images for VJing
    • Prepare my time-lapse videos for review in February
    • Set up my web cam for recording time-lapse again (I would like to position it looking at the street, but I need to purchase a longer cable and set up a mount!)
    • Put together comprehensive plan of what I need to do to prepare my VJ ’set’ for my review
  • Time
    • Compile a display of time-based photographs and video pieces
    • Look at different presentations of my ‘Time’ material
  • Music
    • Complete “Diamond Apologies” track (should only require some more vocals and maybe a high synthesiser line, could consider recording Bouzouki but it may make it too busy)
    • Revisit other recently recorded tracks (Lifeline & other forays into electronic based music) and look at adding more acoustic elements
    • Put together live set of “finished” material ready to show to Leo
    • Supply Fred Baker (http://www.myspace.com/fredbaker) with recordings for his professional adjudication & input
    • Buy new guitar strings (again!) – Martin, extra light seem to do the trick
    • Book the sound suite at University for mixing down of my tracks using the monitoring system
  • Other Things
    • Sort out passport!!!!
    • Write to Granny and send some photographs
    • Identify something good to review (maybe write a review of the Joe Columbo exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery?)
    • Print photographs taken at the weekend
    • Have a go at making a video for a newly recorded track
    • Decide upon some good music for my VJ demonstration
    • See if Paddy still needs me for the Victoria Hall gig in Keighley
    • Send of release form & DVD to LocalPoint TV
    • Hassle myspace.com more to see why I can’t post anything to it & try to put new recordings up there
    • Ask people if I can do remixes for them
    • Canvass opinion of local shops for sellings my prints

Having written this it seems highly likely that not all of these will be done and will appear in a future to-do list!

Matt; taken at the weekend on another excursion to Chorlton Water Park. I can’t deduce any particular message or meaning from it – but I like simply like the aesthetics of the image. I converted the original from colour to black and white and increased the contrast in the image to bring out his silhouette. I really like the detail that you can see in it, down to the curls in Matt’s hair.

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  • Kind of abandoned this Twitter account, follow joegalen instead! Got my first ever single out.. check it out! http://bit.ly/2MS945 #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-10-11

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So the degree show finally closed its doors today: leaving me one extremely tired, yet elated, human being. The response to my piece was fantastic, and it was down to everyone who contributed their thoughts and doodles that it went so well. I took around 13,000 photographs over the last week, which were all included in the piece at some point or another – they’ll be posted here very soon. I’m going to exhibit the same piece at the Printworks in Manchester during July, so if you missed the degree show, come along. More info on that soon.

So. The other reason for this post is to explain the website, and provide links for people.

For Joe Galen the musician, Creaked Records, my music site, and Myspace.

For Joe Galen the artist, you’re in the right place, but unfortunately the place isn’t right! This website was originally my journal, and has slowly evolved into what it is today – a mess. Here’s some links to my favourite bits though: HDR photographs, baker’s yeast sonification, some videos.

If you want to email me… please use this form!

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MMU Degree Show

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  • I’d love you to vote for me here….. http://is.gd/GGcm – and otherwise looks like a good event all round. #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-05-31

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I’ve entered this interesting competition; it’s asking for concepts for 12 flash mobbing events, to be held in Manchester in July.  My idea is for all of the attendants to take photographs simultaneously on their mobile phones, and then blutooth them to a central hub to be displayed on a big screen. Vote for me here.

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Cutting Room Experiment; My Entry

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I’m currently completely wound up in stressing about my degree show – which is on the 19th June here, for anyone who wants to come (it’s entirely public) – but managed to fit in an entry to this competition. The task was to sonify the coding sequence of a gene taken from Baker’s Yeast. Very interesting. Unfortunately some sort of technical problem means that my entry hasn’t appeared on their website yet :-/ I’ve made two versions. One is less manipulated, the second used extra processing of MIDI signals to modulate parameters – feat. jiggerypokery by Fred Baker.

Version 1

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Version 2  (feat. Jiggerypokery by Fred)

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Here’s my desription of concept;

This piece explores the intricate thought that is required to comprehend how such simple representation – using the letters A, T, G & C as symbols – can actually contain the instructions for life, any life, to exist (even something as humble as Baker’s yeast). Taking the coding sequence as an independent entity, I’m trying to expose the inherent simplicity, but use sonic aesthetics to be suggestive about implicative complexity

.. and method;

I recorded myself speaking A, T, G & C. Then I wrote a simple program to send MIDI messages corresponding to the coding sequence, into Ableton Live, where the sequence was recorded- forming the core of the piece.

Post production involved manipulation of the pitch and timing of the sequenced samples. An additional percussion track and effects sends add depth. Plogue Bidule was used to manipulate MIDI signals which modulate parameters in Ableton Live.

The meter quickens throughout the length of the piece, building to a crescendo at the end.

This is the coding sequence that I used;

ATGAGTAGTTTGTGTCTACAGCGTCTTCAGGAAGAAAGAAAAAAATGGAGAAAGGATCATCCATTTGGATTTTATGCCAAACCAG
TTAAGAAAGCTGATGGGTCCATGGATTTACAGAAATGGGAAGCTGGTATCCCAGGCAAAGAAGGTACAAACTGGGCGGGTGGTGT
GTACCCAATTACAGTCGAATATCCAAATGAATATCCTTCAAAACCTCCAAAGGTTAAATTTCCAGCCGGATTTTATCATCCAAAC
GTGTATCCAAGTGGCACAATATGTTTAAGTATTTTAAATGAAGATCAAGATTGGAGACCCGCCATCACGTTAAAACAAATTGTTC
TTGGGGTTCAGGATCTTTTAGACTCTCCAAATCCAAATTCCCCTGCTCAAGAGCCTGCATGGAGATCATTTTCAAGAAATAAGGC
GGAATATGACAAGAAAGTTTTGCTTCAAGCTAAACAGTACTCTAAATAG

Sonification is really exciting. Hope you enjoy it.

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Baker’s Yeast Sonification

Stuck in the middle

I won! I found out quite a while ago actually. My pitch for the HDR photographs did the trick and I was selected. I actually installed my finished images at the Baker Tilly offices lastweek, and they seem very happy with them. I elected to install 3 images (see below).

My work  is sharing a room with Rachel Louise Evans’ work (below) – her work is constructed from 18,000 paper clips..!

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Baker Tilly Competition

EASA HQ

I entered and was shortlisted (but didn’t win) this competition to design a paint job for the iconic ‘Moonfish’ building. It’s being rebranded / launched as the HQ for the European Architecture Students Assembly 2010 (which is in Manchester). The winner was announced last Friday, and was Nicos Yaitros from Cyprus; a well deserved winner with a great design. My entry proposed using perspective and illusions to try and make the building disappear, see below (click for a larger version). 

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EASA HQ (Moonfish) Competition

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  • Clement Freud, dead. Pretty sad, I guess he seemed to have a good life. Thanks for all the minutes. #
  • Nice to know not alone; http://tinyurl.com/cm7a4u #
  • @rizom interesting you used the same words as me “web as canvas” – just posted an old essay with that title @ joesart.org #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-19

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This is an essay that I wrote last year for University. Though I don’t think it’s bad - it could certainly be improved. It should still be of some use / relevance. I really found writing it made me get my head round the concepts I was writing about, and although I understood them all already, it really brought them into focus. Anyway, it’s here; Web as Canvas.

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Web as canvas: The evolution of the world wide web as a creative forum

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  • @casualeveryday ever fix your computer playing music randomly? Mine is doing it! Was it some weird female vocal thing? #
  • @casualeveryday thanks for heads up. I really thought I’d gone mad when it started, had no idea where it was coming from. cheers again. in reply to casualeveryday #
  • @Kate_Butler http://tinyurl.com/cafbot – don’t worry, my laptop is playing music on its own! #
  • think i have hay fever, twitter seems to confirm others do too… so maybe i do. Suppose that is preferred to a full on cold #
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Twitter Updates for 2009-04-12

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