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Had a chance to work with some fantastic musicians and artists to help Haiti.

Good sound. Good cause.

See what you think....

January 17, 2010 - Nineteen composers, improvisers and sound artists from diverse online experimental and contemporary classical communities have teamed up to release a compilation CD targeting all the proceeds to go directly to Food For the Poor's Haitian food relief programs. New Music Haitian Relief will give one hundred percent of the proceeds from the sale of these tracks to support a 4 Star Charity, Food For The Poor, which according to Charity Navigator has 96% of their funds going directly to buying food.

Visit sonicanta.bandcamp.com to sample and purchase this charity compilation CD. It's a pay what you wish CD, with a minimum price of $4.99.

Most of these tracks were created specifically for this release and encompass a widely ranging variety of styles.

1. Jay C. Batzner - Near Burning
2. Shane W. Cadman - Prayer
3. J.C. Combs - Navneet Kanchan's Tent at Festive Black Dragon Pond
4. Graculus - mytishchi
5. Jeff Harrington - For Erzulie Dantor
6. Bruce Hamilton - glimm
7. Greg Hooper - Looking Away
8. iriXx : enigmatic x - transmission
9. Alphonse Izzo - Special Green Interlude
10. Johnny and Faith - Love Without Borders
11. Jukka-Pekka Kervinen - Haiti
12. Steve Moshier - Two Sides
13. Paul Muller : For Haiti
14. Lee Noyes - Strength of Woman
15. Mark Phillips/Donna Conaty - Elegy
16. Ben Smith - Improv.Jan.14.2010
17. Robert Stine - Deep Field
18. David Toub - < 10'
19. Glenn Weyant: Work For Prepared Piano and Kestrel

This album is a collection of tracks recorded by members of various internet communities such as improvfriday.ning.com

About Food For The Poor

Food For The Poor, the largest international relief and development organization in the United States, does much more than feed millions of hungry poor in 17 countries of the Caribbean and Latin America. This interdenominational Christian agency provides emergency relief assistance, clean water, medicines, educational materials, homes, support for orphans and the aged, skills training and micro-enterprise development assistance, with more than 96 percent of all donations going directly to programs that help the poor. For more information, please visit www.foodforthepoor.org

According to Charity Navigator, “We are proud to announce that Food For The Poor has earned our eighth consecutive four-star rating for its ability to efficiently manage and grow its finances. Less than 1% of the charities we rate have received at least 8 consecutive 4-star evaluations, indicating that Food For The Poor consistently executes its mission in a fiscally responsible way, and outperforms most other charities in America. This ‘exceptional’ designation from Charity Navigator differentiates Food For The Poor from its peers and demonstrates to the public it is worthy of their trust.”

 

Get the full trax at: http://sonicanta.bandcamp.com/

Background details at: www.glennweyant.com

Some of what went down, up and sideways over the last month or so with sound and vision... www.glennweyant.com

 

After nearly four years of sonically transforming the border, The Anta Project now has the potential to transform the border physically by helping fund aid for the migrants who need it most via a unique collaboration with No More Deaths / No Mas Muertes.

And we need your help.

FULL DETAILS HERE

But in a nutshell: We want to raise $1,620 to cover the cost of burning 1,000 copies of a double disc, six panel set featuring a remix of The Anta Project (previously available as a DIY CD-R and lo-fidelity mp3 download) and Droneland Security (previously unreleased).

If we can raise $3,000 to finance this project (we are also seeking an additional $1,380 to cover incentives/shipping etc costs), one hundred percent, that's right ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (!), of the profit of these discs will go directly to support No More Deaths/No Mas Muertas.

 We estimate this $3,000 investment can yield a minimum of $16,000 with every penny going to No More Deaths/No Mas Muertas.

And to show our thanks for your support we have all kinds of incentives including copies of the double disc set, t-shirts, border tours, jewelry and even copies of Uncle Vic's legendary No More Deaths camp salsa recipe.

So if you have a moment check out the site and see what you think.

Stay tuned,

Glenn

FURTHER:

No More Deaths

Kickstarter

SonicAnta

This week I received an advance copy of Voyager Journeys III, a reading textbook for middle school students.

Opening to a section titled: The Sound of Life, I was honored to find a full page spread discussing The Anta Project.

But what really struck me was how in-depth the book goes in presenting ideas about sound, creation and listening to school age children.

A world where everyone is a musician and all sounds are valid may be closer than we know.

  
 

The Downtown Tucson sound ecology is about to loose a sonic cornerstone: the ubiquitous train whistle.

This sanitization of the sound landscape is part of an overall homogenizing of downtown culture.

With this latest move, the city is now deciding for residents what sounds are "pleasing" rather than use "volume" as an exclusion criteria.

For example: An f-16 jet flying low over a school is okay. A train whistle is not.

If my music is too loud, tell me and I'll turn it down. However, do not tell me what to listen to.

Although still in the planning stages, if approved the so-called "no whistle zone" would be implemented by 2015.

More at: www.glennweyant.com

Border Patrol/ Homeland Security thought they should check me out because I looked like I might be a Russian.

Or so they said...

The full story: www.glennweyant.com

A lazy Sunday morning. Sky heavy with tattered clouds. Air thick with cicada drone vibrations. Snowbirds and students have fled the summer heat for the cooler climes of places they call home.

In other words, perfect conditions for playing the University of Arizona.

Sound, words and images at: www.glennweyant.com

More? Stay tuned....

It has been three years since The Anta Project was first released and already the notion of physical walls and fences on the border have begun to become quaint artifacts.

Sensors and motion detectors have begun to replace physical barriers.

The walls, fences and barriers of our future borders will be unseen, hidden, invisible and virtual.

To honor the dawn of this new age of global insecurity and to celebrate the third anniversary of The Anta Project's release, I give you:

~ Virtual Insecurity: A Borderland Deconstruction~

This immersive sound work is built from field recordings and assorted manipulations of Virtual Walls, Virtual Fences, Virtual Migrants, Virtual Border Patrol, Virtual Militias, Virtual Insects, Virtual Drug Smugglers, Virtual Cowboys, Virtual Indians, Virtual Homeland Security, Virtual Birds, Virtual Planes and Virtual Terrorists.

This recording was a year in the making and is culled from over 20 hours of sound files.

Of course playing some of the $ 6.7 billion virtual fence towers and their assorted support cables with a cello bow and mallets is illegal.

The areas surrounding them are clearly marked with signs warning against trespassing and playing them could certainly lead to all sorts of legal hassles if such were the case.

So caveat emptor :: This virtual work is what it is, nothing more or less.

And that’s the virtual truth.

Thank’s again for your support these past three years.

Stay tuned and listen well,

Glenn
 
The World Is Your Instrument
Play It Now
While You Still Can...

A hi-fi version of Virtual Insecurity: A Borderland Deconstruction  is also available as part of the SonicAnta D-Construction Sound Series.

FULL SUBTEXT AT GLENNWEYANT.COM

The Sonoran Desert is populated by antennas of all sorts radiating sound heard and unheard. This is the first in a series of antenna sound portraits which will explore their Aeolian properties.

For this work the antenna and support cables located off Swan Road in Tucson, Arizona were mic'ed using contact microphones fixed with c-clamps and recorded. The antenna featured was anchored to the desert floor with roughly twelve 100+ foot cables, each producing unique percussive and bowed tones when interacting with the wind in an Aeolian manner.

The sound on this recording is best experienced with a sub-woofer or headphones that support deep tones. A limited run cd-r of this work is being issued as part of the D-Construction Sound Series available at DISCS.

The full work can be heard here.

More details about The Antenna Project at www.glennweyant.com

Finally set up a Facebook account this week and discovered two other Glenn Weyants' had already arrived.

One from Florida dressed in a tank-top, the other retired and relaxing shirtless on a lounge chair in Ohio.

Who knew there were so many Glenn Weyants', but more importantly how many can dance upon the head of a pin?

A Google search for other Glenn Weyants' turned up a former mayor involved in political intrigue, an anti-choice blogger outraged by uppity women, a bed and breakfast proprietor ready to serve the tired and hungry, and even a Glenn Weyant who is passionate about wearing men's pantyhose.

Are we all ghosts of paths not taken?

A lost tribe of escaped clones?

And what must we make of each other?

Don't know.

But one thing is for sure, if you're looking for sonic explorations, sound thoughts and miscellaneous ramblings then here's all you need to know:

SonicAnta.com: Sonicanta.com is still the mothership, offering an extensive library of sounds, images, details and other goods.  Watch for site improvements and extras over the coming months.

Facebook: May 7 UPDATE: Something strange went down. Glenn Weyant of Tucson was expunged by the Facebook Gods. Sad but true. One rumor has it the other Glenn Weyant's rose up in protest. Sigh. You can still find Glenn Weyant of Tucson but you'll need to search around.

Twitter:  Need more Sonic depth? Then SonicAnta Tweets are for you.  It's like opening up a big fuzzy cot somewhere between my Id and Ego and settling in.

Blog: THE PLACE for SonicAnta Subtext. If you ever wondered what the men's room drone at Trade Joe's #191 sounded like, then this blog is for you. Rambling sound, word and image adventures.

Video: SonicAnta has a dedicated YouTube Channel where everything is in motion.

Free TV : Ustream
A raw video feed of SonicBridge: 2. More event details below...

As some of you already know, Sonic Bridge : 2 a sound and image telematic performance linking musicians, poets and visual artists in Chicago, Tucson, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, and Veracruz will be broadcast live on Tuesday 3/24.

(See details and times below).

I hope you can join us.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Although people have many different opinions about what should be done
about the U.S.-Mexico border and U.S. immigration policy, it is probably more generally agreed that ideas, sound, and video should and can travel freely across borders.

Hundreds of miles of wall and fence the United States and Mexico, but performers in Chicago, Tucson, Mexico City, Veracruz, and Buenos Aires will be part of a long- distance, "telematic" performance event which will perpendicularly run through the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Artists in all these remote locations will interact with each other in real time via the Internet on Tuesday, March 24, 2009.

(8 p.m. CDT / 7 p.m. MDT/6pm PDT / midnight Buenos Aires)

Listen to the full mix via internet audio stream from anywhere at
http://kamp.arizona.edu
Watch the video streams from various locations:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sonicbridge http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sonicbridge-tucson http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sonic-bridge-2---buenos-aires http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sonic-bridge-mÉxico-df
At Elastic Sound & Vision Gallery (Chicago):
Amanda Gutierrez -- samples
Jayve Montgomery -- saxophones & electronics
Dan Godston -- trumpet & small instruments
Williwaw -- amplified ukulele
Ian Hatcher -- gockenspiel
Carlos Cumpian -- poetry
Noe Cuellar -- translations/text feed
($7 suggested donation, BYOB)

At KAMP studio in Tucson, Arizona -- 1570 AM:
Glenn Weyant -- Electric Ferris Box/ prepared guitar
Steev Hise -- laptop
streaming live at http://kamp.arizona.edu/
In Mexico City:
Kai Kraatz -- Nordlead
Daniel Lara -- FAT BOX
Antonio Dominguez -- video

In Veracruz:
Ernesto Romero -- laptop

In Buenos Aires:
Buenissimo Collective
Valeria Cammano Caamaño
Agustin Genoud
Leonello Zambon
Josefina Zuain
Azucena Losana -- video

MORE DETAILS:

http://www.elasticrevolution.com/ http://kamp.arizona.edu/ http://sonicbridge.blogspot.com/ http://www.sonicanta.com/home.html http://www.myspace.com/buenisssimo http://jayvejohnmontgomery.com/ http://www.donkeyscratch.com http://www.futurevessel.com/noe/ http://www.kaikraatz.com http://www.myspace.com/dangodstonmusic http://www.joshuamanchester.com/ http://detritus.net/steev http://telematicarts.blogspot.com/

Been adding some new features but as a result the site has had a number of glitches. Any problems let me know, should have things running smoothly this week...

Deep drone meditation from the Trader Joe's # 191 men's room at:

www.glennweyant.com
It's all in the listening....

Yep, SonicAnta has entered the newly evolving Twitter-verse.

For what it's worth: sound observations and other lurid stuff at:

http://twitter.com/sonicanta

Never heard the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show?

Now you can.

A new Sound Scouting installment posted at www.glennweyant.com
Rock on.

Tucson's last regular source for solid news about immigration and the border, The Arizona Daily Star, reported today that the border wall averaged $3.9 million per mile.

Now that is one expensive instrument folks.

I wonder what else could have been done with all that money...

"The 140 miles of pedestrian fencing put up under the Secure Border Initiative prior to Oct. 31 of last year cost an average of $3.9 million per mile with costs ranging from $400,000 to $15.1 million a mile, a Government Accountability Office report released Thursday found."

"That per-mile average is more than the $3 million estimated by the Congressional Budget Office in August 2006 and much more than the $2.2 million estimated by the Senate used during the immigration reform debate that same year."

"Even the highest estimate at the time, $3.2 million per mile from U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., ended up being too low. " --- Arizona Daily Star, Brady McCombs 1/30/09

Gung Hei Fat Choy.

Gentle winter rains have returned to the desert, laying the groundwork for the coming season of wildflowers.

As a New Year's gift to you, I've posted a track of rain falling upon a tin porch roof and interacts with other random objects"HERE"
This track allows the patterns of the rain to dictate the tempo and tones.

As clouds arrive and pass the tones alter accordingly.

This track will also appear in an extended work later this year.

More can be found at: www.glennweyant.com

If an airduct drones in the heart of Tucson's semi-abandoned El Con Mall and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?

Wonder no more.

Sound answers to the questions that vex one's soul in the tawdry hours of dawn await at: www.glennweyant.com
Be. Hear. Now.

SonicAnta launched a subtext site today at:www.glennweyant.com
More a flog of the mental slog than a traditional blog,www.glennweyant.com will be a repository of unique content and further more ranging beyond the scope of SonicAnta.

Plus you will get a chance to weigh-in and help drive this beast forward.

Will this lead the way down some new twisty, windy paths?

Dunno.

But not to worry.

SonicAnta will still be the home of the sonically depraved, offering all the usual aural goodies and doodads you've come to expect and deserve.

So stay tuned and hope to see you there.

And here.

New sounds"HERE."

On Thursday December 11, (fourty-five years to the day that I was first slapped into this existence in Hackensack, New Jersey), I’ll be celebrating my seminal birth milestone by bowing steel in Tucson, Arizona at The Loft Cinema.

The 20-minute set will be part of The 6th Annual All Souls International Film Festival which is a two day event exploring death and rebirth via cinema.

For this event I'll be working with some new instruments, a short circuiting shortwave radio, and prepared sound samples.

Video artist, event coordinator and psychograper extraordinaire Adam Cooper-Teran will be adding his unique vision to the live soundscape with a wall of images and visual delights.

If you are not familiar with Adam’s work, I’ll let his images speak for themselves rather than clutter it up with words: "ANTRAL.NET"
I’m looking forward to finding out where our visual soundscape collaboration morphs to.

Working with Adam is an honor and perhaps best of all for those who will be attending, the audience will be able to take this all in on The Loft’s sprawling vintage movie screen.

More details about event can be found at: "THE LOFT"
The Gearwire Tapes
Recently I was turned on to www.gearwire.com and the work of reporter Gretchen Hasse who I had the pleasure to speak with about The Anta Project last month.

Gearwire.com is a fantastic repository of mostly video gear tips, techniques and interviews.

The four-part series Gretchen produced on The Anta Project takes a look at the hardware I used to create the work so now there’s really no reason for you not to can get out there and play the world.

But perhaps best of all the interview was done via the phone, so I sound a bit like The Central Scrutinizer which is wonderfully appropriate for this new age of Homeland Security.

The White Zone is for loading and unloading only indeed.

The full series links:
1. http://www.gearwire.com/sony-icdp520-review.html 2. http://www.gearwire.com/dod-fx80b-review.html 3. http://www.gearwire.com/korg-cm100l-review.html 4. http://www.gearwire.com/schaller-oysterpickup-review.html