Ryan Dunn

In the Passing Lane

Sunday November 1st, 1:00pm
meet at the front curb of the MCA
220 E Chicago Ave

I invite you to join in an attempt to bridge the gap between man and machine by attempting to communicate with the denizens of the road: automobiles.  We will engage in a series of common movements and sounds that we have been able to determine are their primary signifying behaviors in an attempt to pass as one of their own and thus gain access to greater understanding of what it is to be an automobile.

The performance will take place in the street.
If you feel safe and would like to join in this attempt, I invite you to do so at your own risk.  You are also free to come and observe from a distance.  Please feel free to improvise and include sounds and motions you feel might give you a greater recognizability as an automobile to the automobiles around you.  We will try to focus our attention on these machines, and only respond to other human beings and the environment as if we are automobiles.  This ostensibly means following all traffic laws, and proscribed behaviors including but not limited to yielding to pedestrians, using your turn signals or hazard lights as may be appropriate, and perhaps letting yourself be driven, or even 'jacked'.

This will begin promptly at 1:15pm.  Further instructions will be imparted at that time.

Please feel free to invite others, and to email with questions or concerns.

Ryan T. Dunn
SAIC MFA Sound
http://www.liscentric.com
206.369.6842

I've reached a steady point in this visual software I've been writing. It's simple, and complex. Emergent behavior drives a host of complex results that are all user customizable, and playable to some extent.



Cloudwaves05bqwertyMAC

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Ok, I haven't done this one, in fact, I can't think of the last time I did one of these, I'm sitting around after my post brunch sleep-off (wasn't I supposed to be reading?) which resulted in missing the yearly appearance of the superb owl because I was curled up under my blanket.

25 Random Things (Tagged by Daniel Pokorney)

Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.

1. My most odious and beloved habit is the mincing of words.
2. I love making things what they are not supposed to be, using the wrong tool for a job, and tinkering.
3. I am addicted to online Risk (sillysoft.net) and other conceptual investigations into games.
4. I love music, but I will listen to sub-par instrumentation for lyrics, and bad lyrics can ruin even amazing instrumentation for me.
5. I grew up in an isolated house, and spent most of my childhood playing by myself.
6. I cut my teeth in the arts being a singer, reader, then a poet—playing noise has canceled out my ability to formulate effective language.
7. I have great fondness for the Republic of Cascadia, and miss it dearly.
8. I am brusque, but sensitive.
9. I own eleven domain names, including liscentric.com, disjunct.net, ryandunn.net, shitfunk.com, thejerkmovement.com, masturbatingcat.com, johntmacarthur.com, bacteriadays.com, ignoranceserviceprovider.com, gopkiller.com, and ministryofinformation.net, most of which have only rudimentary content.
10. Given the opportunity I will always investigate places I am not supposed to go.
11. I am adopted from birth—the terms of my adoption stipulated being -raised- Catholic.
12. I want nothing more than to enrich the cultural and philosophical wealth of humanity.
13. Arguing is one of my oldest pastimes.
14. Making things is its own reward, but I would love it if I could use the pursuit to subsidize my basic needs.
15. The theory has been advanced that I do not sleep.
16. I took my friend Arvid, who is an autonomous rock friend, with me to NYC where I got him a Hard Rock Cafe t-shirt (which was subsequently stolen off him at Mutant Fest...).
17. Drinking.
18. Daily habits are my weak point.
19. I have a poor if not tenuous connection between my mind and my body. I have a history of needing to be told when I'm hot and not realizing if I'm hungry, tired, or need to use the restroom. Despite this subconscious lack, I am a great dancer and am engaged with my body in creative practice.
20. When engaged I will continue said focus to the detriment of everything else.
21. My social skills are 1000% better than when I was a child, and I still feel like I have serious issues.
22. I am an excellent listener, and very empathic. Though I can't solve my own problems, who can?
23. My sense of humor is bizarre, and often beyond explanation.
24. I have bad skin, am allergic to tree nuts, and sometimes have trouble breathing, but I have exceptional vision. My hearing is pretty good too, but I'm sure I've suffered at least some damage...
25. I am verbose!

but today it looks like it:


“Sniggering at double entendres is a loved and time-honored tradition in this country"

And then there's this:
But what the millions on the Mall and watching on television heard was in fact a recording, made two days earlier by the quartet and matched tone for tone by the musicians playing along.

Yo Yo Ma: "It was wicked cold."

I forgot about reading my friends list. Right.

This is actually pretty good. Note to self: right wrongs.

When was the last time you heard anyone refer to W. as "George Bush"???

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11dowd.html

Asked last week by Mark Knoller of CBS Radio in one of his exit interviews to name the “biggest mis-impression” people had about him, Cheney replied with a laugh, “That I’m actually a warm, lovable sort.”

He went on to seriously assert that his image as “a private, Darth Vader-type personality” has been “pretty dramatically overdone.”

“I think we made good decisions,” he told Knoller, adding with even grander delusion, “I think we knew what we were doing.”

He protested “the notion that somehow I was pulling strings or making presidential-level decisions. I was not. There was never any question about who was in charge. It was George Bush. And that’s the way we operated. This whole notion that somehow I exceeded my authority here, was usurping his authority, is simply not true. It’s an urban legend, never happened.”

Portland, OR

Disjunct - http://myspace.com/disjunct

The Sunken - http://myspace.com/thesunken (FINAL PERFORMANCE!)

Traces - http://www.myspace.com/roboticdaly

XXXTinct - http://www.myspace.com/ecomorti

Briz - http://myspace.com/brizbomb

I haven't looked at these in a while, but while browsing movie trailers I found myself looking at the newest ads.

Something funny has happened to these ads. Through the assertions of ease and difficulty free computing, the Mac character has actually become quite boring. As a result of this long developing ad line, the PC has become a far more interesting (read: complicated) character, with more developed motivations and creative responses to Apple's supposed success.

http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/

The controller:


In my mouth:


Connection to an arduino:


Optoisolation (LEDs driven by the arduino, sealed in with photoresistors:


Resistors connected to the board of my reel to reel:

so, i haven't updated here.

i built this:
Palate Controller—a device to translate movements of the tongue against the roof of the mouth, as in speech, into data. This can be used to make music, control the characteristics of video, etc. Objects like this device are used in speech therapy, and I heard report from a maker of retainers of this concept being used for the movement of a motorized wheelchair. Here I demonstrate its use controlling resistors which bend the reel to reel I have been playing this semester.



and here's me playing with it on Nov 28th at the Green Bicycle Organization:

my name is common. so,

i get a lot of email for other ryan dunns, to ryandunn @ G

just got this one

From: ***********@*************
Subject: Mustang
Date: December 7, 2008 3:26:48 PM CST
To: ryandunn

Hello, Ryan,


If you could provide pictures of the engine compartment, interior, roll cage and rear suspension as well as any timeslips, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Anthony

And being bored of this, I replied with the worst images I could find that still fit the bill (and didn't take up too much of my time):

Hope these are helpful,
Ryan

America!

a hapless victim:

I just uploaded an old album of my work that I released when I went to Tokyo in 2004. It was basically only available then and there. I also uploaded the album I put together and released last fall.

Both are available on my website— http://www.liscentric.com

apparently someone i play online risk with got the image i made of obama and mccain texted to him today...

:D

During C-Span call in commentary, an elderly woman from Arizona decried McCain's behavior both during tonight's debate and on the campaign trail this past week. She had been a supporter previously, but seemed to have changed her mind. She also said something amazing, comparing Sarah Palin to the actress Judy Holiday, who was in this movie about a lobbyist and his brassy mistress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Yesterday_(1950_film)

!!! What an amazing comparison. :D

i was bored yesterday before i left home to play a show: