swap-o-rama-rama

this past sunday i had the greatgood fortune to be part of a phenomenal event called "swap-o-rama-rama". it was conceived by my friend wendy tremaine who had been holding less-formal clothing swaps among friends in her apartment for many years. this one was enormous...there were sewing workshops and demostrations (i gave one myself...all about the sonic fabric). it was held on the lower east side of manhattan at a community center/theater. literally hundreds of people came with bags of clothes to swap, and each went home thrilled with the treasures they'd found. it was more than a successful community event...it was a cultural movement, a undermining of the capitalist consumer machine, where all of us new yorkers got to create an entire aesthetic around the notion of sharing, up close and in person.

more at gaiatreehouse.com
and some fantastic video clips here and here

9/29 talk and demo at parson's

this thursday evening, september 29th, i'll be giving a little talk and demonstration of sonic fabric for a group called "21F", a bunch of folks who are interested in the intersection of fashion and technology. more info on them here . Parson's School of Design, Design Lab, 7pm, 55 west 13th st, 9th floor.

article in fall issue of BlackBook

sonic fabric on cool hunting

today a nice article and link appeared on the cool hunting website:
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/09/sonic_fabric_1.php

August Issue of BPM

Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors

greetings from steamy brooklyn!

my dear friends,
as many of you are well aware, there are certain elements of summer in new york city that could be loathed or savored depending on one's state of mind: the incessant, doppler-effected hurdy-gurdy jingle-mantra of the mr. softee truck, the cool drips of air-conditioner effluent from apartments above onto one's head while walking on the sidewalk, the blast of warm musty air that precedes an approaching subway train.

in the absence of crickets, many cultural institutions throughout the city go to great lengths during the summer months to provide free events which keep the populace in an appreciative mood.

lincoln center's "out of doors" series, of which i have the great honor of being a small part, is a monumental effort to this end.

click here for a calendar of over 100 free music-related events: international, avant-garde, traditional, and experimental:

http://www.lincolncenter.org/programs/outofdoors_home.asp?ws=

i will be on hand demonstrating sonic fabric on Sunday august 14th from 2pm to 6pm during "homemade musical instrument day: make and play musical instruments with the mad scientists of music".

hope you can join me there.

if not, i hope you are near some crickets (now there's some radical homemade instrument makers for ya).



allbest,
alyce

open studio weekend june 4 & 5

this coming sat and sun, june 4th and 5th, brooklyn's carroll gardens and red hook neighborhoods will be holding their annual open studio weekend. lots of artists' spaces will be open for perusing, including mine, from noon to 6pm each day (maps and other info available at http://www.bwac.org ). in addition to having work-in-progress on display, there will also be silkscreen prints on paper and sailcloth, sonic fabric flags and bags, &etc. available in the alyce b. obvious philosoprops and subtle reality technologies souvenir and supply shoppe.

hope to see ya!

allbest, alyce

alyce santoro
85 luquer st. #1
brooklyn, ny 11231

directions by train: F to carroll st. go right one block to court st, left on court, walk a few blocks to luquer st, right on luquer two blocks to #85 on right.

http://www.alycesantoro.com
http://www.sonicfabric.com

donations of tapes needed!

the great news of late is that the women at the craft cooperative in nepal where some of the sonic fabric is being produced can work directly from individual cassette tapes (as opposed to the spools of tape that are being "adaptively reused" at the wonderful mom-n-pop mill here in the states)! so i can once again accept donations of individual tapes. all kinds welcome, especially lovingly-made vintage mix tapes, experimental stuff, homemade recordings of local sounds, rants, raves, spiritual and indiginous musics, your favorite stuff that you've been hesitant to part with, but would for a good cause. please send tapes to:

sonic fabric c/o
daniel tamang
Shangri-La Crafts
2708 Virginia St.
Berkeley, Ca 94709