Steve Bates – Eric Mattson

Steve Bates – Eric Mattson – Le Bloc Oral

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, nouvelle série en arts sonores.

Date: 13 novembre 2020 à 13:53:48 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey! Interested. Thank you for thinking of me. Hope you’re doing okay. Here is a project I submitted for funding here in Saskatoon. I think it fits nicely within your prompt.

The Year I Floated In Space is a year-long, process-oriented, multimedia project involving sound, video and text. It is a site-specific project; a study of natural conditions (light, wind, temperature, humidity…) surrounding the house I am living in and the yard it is built upon and how these will serve as environmental controls for creating new audio and video works. This project brings together two critical conditions for me. 1) After my first year in Saskatoon I intend to devote time and energy to an intensive investigation of the specific site I am living within, to come to know it better and acquaint myself to this new space through the context of art production and dissemination, and 2) during the challenging times of COVID-19, working within a framework that allows me to make new work, gain some new skills while remaining within recommended, and changing, safety guidelines in response to the pandemic. I imagine this project to be a Do-It-Yourself response to making work in these conditions. It reflects my punk rock roots, and seems to embrace a local, get-it-done spirit of living on the prairies, of self-sufficiency and improvisation. The project is comprised of video and sound works made from, or influenced by, these shifting environmental conditions through each season. Experimental techniques will be used with more traditional audio and video production approaches. For example, contact microphones and geophones (vibration sensors) will be attached to the structure of the house to record vibration as sound, a VLF (very low frequency) antenna will collect electromagnetic and natural radio signals passing through the yard, weather data will be used to control equalizers and compressors to process the sound and video, time lapse photography will document changing light conditions and movement, 8mm film will document texture, surface, light, shadow and color. All this material will be processed further in post-production with analogue and digital processes. Finally, a daily text piece will be written which may be poetic, descriptive, or essay-like resulting in 356 short text pieces. In addition to the site study and production of new works, I will also embark on a more theoretical adjacent project of researching the history of sensing technologies and scientific method to the history of global capitalism. When and where did we, in the European tradition, come to doubt our bodies so thoroughly? I am curious to unpack some of the ideas of how scientific method and sensing technologies are tied to a Western conception of relying on external data, validation and verification to be able to phenomenologically know a place. While much media art is activated as a sort of celebration of technological wonders, expensive and elite, my project will queer this perspective and consider technologies as being the result of a lack, a missing, wounded or ignored sensorium more than simply a celebration of technologies. While this does begin to point towards more holistic Indigenous world views the world over, the more theoretical component of my project is a critique of Western/European world views and not from an Indigenous perspective I cannot know. This is from within, using the tools of Western scientific method as self-criticism. I imagine this present state for settler culture as a crisis, the crisis of global capitalism, the ongoing effects of colonialization, and its resultant self-alienation. This query will take the form of combining a banality (daily weather notations) and a poetics, not dry, faux scientific neutrality. For 12 months I will recreate my home as an environmentally sensitive production studio where I create sound, video, and text works based on objects, materials, situations, events in and around the domestic space and its yard. As the project begins to accumulate material, installations/performances will take place on site. To do this I will employ radio antennas for collecting AM, FM and VLF frequencies, temperature, humidity, wind, light and vibration sensors for this specific location as means of collecting environmental data to influence sound and video processing and playback. Combined with this more technological method of working, I will also keep a more personal written ‘journal’ that sits in relation to the ‘listening station’. This journal will be a combination of weather-related entries and personal responses modelled after the journals kept by those posted in stations in isolated locations, at sea or in space. In contrast to colonizing outposts, and their expansion of empire, The Year I Floated In Space will behave as a questioning of colonial legacy rather than re-enacting imperial methods of the past. These writing experiments will touch upon themes that may seem counter to the rational, scientific method and relate more to this idea of ‘floating’; of literally floating in space on the planet but at the same time floating in the sense of being in-between-time, of being in a state of limbo, of waiting and watching, untethered from e structures we know, but not yet fully released. Decidedly not moving forward, of being in stasis, static hum ghosts and fog, blurred edges and abstract sounds and images attempting to refigure the moment as somehow knowable at all. With this project, writing will be an integral component from beginning to end resulting in 356 new text pieces. I imagine the current state for many of us as a result of this over-reliance on a supposed “neutral” European scientific method that is, structured by ideology and world view and COVID-19 itself. It is a worsening situation due to international markets, the free trade of goods, international travel and shipping, and unbridled capitalism. A recent book by author, Shane McCorristine, has influenced this more theoretical aspect of the project. In The Spectral Arctic: A History of Dreams & Ghosts in Polar Exploration, Shane McCorristine, unpacks the inconsistencies of an ideal European scientific method and outlines many of the myths and spiritualist tendencies amongst explorers and crews working in the Arctic. Far from a purely ‘rational’ and science-based outlook, explorers and crew members were as driven by ideas of spirits, ghosts and other spectral entities as the Indigenous populations they were actively exploiting and colonizing. My interest in what the European body is missing, my body and its exiled sensibilities that has prompted its reliance on sensing and mediating technologies is the story I wish to further extrapolate in the project. My work is about listening. This project is also that although it will extend my listening capabilities further. In this sense it is a new way of working connected to past methods. This project extends my normal methods of listening (ears and body) to include information beyond my normal sensory capacities; sound frequencies above and below and micro-environmental shifts beyond my capability to perceive. My work listens to thresholds and boundaries. This project exists as a method of exploring these boundaries, imaging and feeling through the territories I occupy and acknowledging how far I extend into space and place. My larger projects are often thematically based on a body of research. This project follows the same methodology. Areas of research will include sensor technologies, sonification of data sets and vibrational matter. Over the course of the year, I will consolidate a more thorough working knowledge of sensing technologies and to more organically incorporate them into my practice. To assemble an audio-visual body of material for installation, release and performance. To create a body of research to make this work and carry it, and associative works, forward.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: and...

Date: 16 février 2021 à 15:03:24 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Sadie is fine with everything. She’s just easy going and kind (except to cats!... but maybe that’s even different now too…), Ari is suspicious that this new creature will receive some of her attention so that is a slight issue now but every day she opens up a little. It will be fine. We invited Addie in so we would have some transition from when Sadie may head over to the happy hunting grounds. For now, she seems very happy and healthy. So, all good on that front. I got the grant for a project called, The Accursed Sound. It’s one of the components of the composite I didn’t get. It’s basically a sound and video installation, vinyl record (why do a project without one?!), and possible performance ensemble positing that cymbals, made from copper alloy, is the sound of hell. The video content will be from stock industrial video from open pit copper mining and microscopic video of vinyl grooves and cymbals with text excerpts literature, geology, seismology, electromagnetic, occult and metallurgic sources, and colonial and anti-colonial texts…sound will all be from cymbals played and processed by hand and MIDI drivers…the record will be a 1xLP with a book of images from the project.

From the grant (for more info if you’re interested):

A demo video for the grant:

https://vimeo.com/466016336

pw: curse

“The project is a speculative story-telling of the sound of hell through the musical percussion instrument of the cymbal; made of copper alloy. In this sense it is a horror story...

...The horror of this story comes from the material’s (raw copper into cymbal) provenance as molten liquid oozed out and upward under extreme pressure over millennia, then stilled in great deposits near the Earth’s surface to be extracted through the violence of industry, capital and colonialism. The Accursed Sound posits that the sound of a cymbal is inherently cursed…

...The project considers the open pit copper mine, whose form is a combination of spiral (for transportation) and concentric layers of extraction, the concentric rings in a musical cymbal, the spiraling grooves of the vinyl record and Dante’s layers of Hell in Inferno as an interconnected topography. The accursed sound refigures these actualities as a natural and imagined feedback system whose very formation is surrounded by noise - from the rumbling magma where copper, the primary material in cymbals and the coating used to make vinyl masters for production, and the industrial noise of extraction industries that have also produced a hell-ish landscape. The Earth’s depths have long held connections to imaginations of Hell and its fiery inferno. Along its journey to the surface, copper passes through seismic events as large scale, very low frequency vibration, where geomagnetic forces also act on the planet. In the end, it would seem quite likely that this material, in the form here of a cymbal, could only result in a doom-soaked atonality - the crash of a cymbal (Dante’s anti-music) with its register sound of white noise splashing from its edge and surface. It is no wonder cymbals were used by soldiers in ancient times to harness a roar to install fear in their opponents. In some cymbals, it’s true, we find a tone that still rings on after the noise fades as a sparkling tone that has in some way escaped this fate. Almost ‘pure’ like a sine wave that has literally rung itself free of its former noise. This tone itself a product of the cymbal’s rings that radiate its sound outwards; tighter, more concentric grooves result in a more focused sound. The spiral also is held in the grooves cut into a vinyl record where the turntable’s stylus follows the left and right stereo path of its valley..."

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Manual for a New Neighbourhood.

Date: 9 mars 2021 à 00:20:51 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi, Just a quick response to this, for now. The intention of my house project (The Year I Floated In Space), is that the house itself is the site of production and exhibition. So, my original plan was not for this material to leave this site as an exhibition or in a gallery somewhere else. But as part of the exhibition plan here, I was going to do about 3 “performances” from the house where I would transmit sound/music from my radio transmitter and project video out the windows. In a way it is simply an exhibition for my neighbours. So, the work will include a series of “ambient” video and sound works. What I could imagine contributing to your project would be the creative documentation of these performances. So in a sense I will be shooting video of the house performing that could in turn be another kind of work. Maybe this is of interest for your project? It could be a streamed video or sound only contribution. Another idea would be to do a live streamed audio performance of field recordings of the house that I will be gathering as part of the house project. But this is less neighbourly focused. Happy to talk about this more. Thanks for considering my work and this invitation.

Steve

On Aug 12, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steve. How are you? stupid to ask as I am pretty sure everything may be quite ecstatic on your side with these projects. Still busy, no communications…. Remember: you submitted to me part of your home project to me for my answer to Pandemics and troubles, a project with distance called Manual for a new neighborhood. GOOD! I received some support for it: it means we can (at distance) work together, build your project, document it. Are you still interested? (Yes, of course!). When can we work on it? Coz’ of your good advice, Fernando, Barbara, Yan Jun are In, and I will ask my bolivian friend Ozzo to participate as well.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, a Project from you with me !

Date: 12 août 2021 à 18:29:28 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi Eric. That’s great - congratulations! Of course, let's plan...

I must admit, I’ve been away from this body of work for a while and will have to get back to it. I’m leaving tomorrow for Winnipeg for a few days. Back next Wednesday. What do you need from me? Can it wait until next week or do you need something sooner? Happy to be involved in something with you again and this team looks awesome.

Steve

On Aug 13, 2021, at 8:15 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

After few days at home thinking about it all, strong with 2 grants, 18 artists. I will budget it so that the newcomers get same fees and else (technical help, documentation etc.) as previous 13th. Then we will think of Phase 2, dedicated to deliver works (diffusion) to some audiences. New ideas from previous 13th and 5 newies will be discussed.For sure, we will also budget so to build the Bloc Oral radio, for which we were not supported but which appeared in my grant application as a resource for gathering all contributions under one roof.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, a Project from you with me !

Date: 13 août 2021 à 11:12:19 UTC−4

À: Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca>

Sounds good. Looking forward. I’ll be in touch next week.

Steve

On Aug 21, 2021, at 2:49 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Steve, good afternoon (this email may sound strange, it is an edited version, updated for you of an email I sent to our friends down south, to inform them of the initial fee). Some information about Manual for a new neighborhood:

So the main project is about our new ways of thinking about neighborhood (and friendship...) in these difficult times, as well as how to create and communicate one's work to others, near and far. I am offering you a salary of $1250 Canadian for this unique project, plus money for assistants, for example to get quality documentation. Can you send me a short description of your contribution, especially if some aspects have changed? The first payment will be made when you tell me that you have started the creative work. For any production payment, I will need your invoices or your assistant's invoices (if applicable), with your name and address. Part of my budget is also intended to launch an Internet radio station. The important thing for me is to be able to follow the development of the project from a distance, to collect information about the creative process and audiovisual documentation, but also in the form of texts, stories or poems to present to my own audience, on my blog, on social networks, the different artistic directions taken by the 18 participants. And finally, to put it all together in the form of a Manual for a new neighborhood. Also. Some artists finish their work with an object or a print. In this case, if you can keep at least one copy, it is possible, in agreement with the artist and knowing the costs, to contribute to the production. In the case of compositions or digital works, I would also like to have a copy of the work produced. Any other distribution or use of the work must also be agreed upon with the artist. Or if you prefer not to receive an honorarium for your contribution to Handbook for a New Neighbourhood, I can keep the money and use it to come to Saskatoon for a beer! Ciao from hot Montreal...

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, update Manual...

Date: 22 août 2021 à 02:35:12 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi Eric, all sounds good. Thanks for your continued interest in my work, it’s very much appreciated. I have started the creative work which to date consists of mostly time lapse videos and a super 8 film. In the end the work will consist of sound/music, digital images and prints, videos and super 8 films, and a sculptural VLF antenna. There will also likely be some text produced although at this point I’m not sure what it will be. Maybe a short story/prose piece based on the title, The Year I Floated In Space. I will send a more formal description tomorrow. But basically in the mean time, the project is still to make a body of work including sound, moving image, print images (photos, stills), and text abstractions of the home and plot of land we live on. Here’s some of the support material for the grant application if useful as a reminder. It seems the work is becoming much more abstract as I go and will likely continue that way.

https://vimeo.com/464034215/d3aced0e68 I’ll send a more formal description tomorrow. I can send work as it develops for you to follow. For production, this body of work is covered by my Sask Arts Board grant, so I won’t need any money for production or documentation - so why not use that money to come to Saskatoon for a beer! (But the artist fee would be handy for me to have…). Below is the heartbreaker. I have been fascinated by this dead tree in the boulevard of our side street. It is dead but somehow at night it seemed to be living in some way. Like it came to life at night and then returned to death at sunrise. I had plans to photograph it framed like the image on the left, but with my camera, not this test iPhone shot. A couple weeks ago, I heard motors and noise outside my studio and realized the city was cutting the tree down and I missed my chance to photograph it properly. I wanted to give up this project at that moment. The image on the right is the same space without the tree. I named the tree “Ghillie” which is the same of the camouflage suits snipers wear to look like bushes. So here, instead the tree was camouflaging itself to become human. A tree that only came to life at night.

On Aug 23, 2021, at 8:16 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

(ENG) Hello. I have a request: I would like to compile your findings on the following topic. This could be a thoughtful text or just a list of quick thoughts. This compilation will be used, among other things, to frame your documentations or my presentations of the Manual for a new neighborhood project. Here is: Since March 2020, our relationships to the world at large, to others, have been in turmoil, I believe. Today, while the risks of a pandemic are not extinguished, we have different ties with our neighborhood, our place of life (city, village, region); even our daily life in our own home has taken a different turn. Our communications and emotional ties with others, our friends, our relatives, the shopkeepers in our neighborhood, our family are either damaged or modified. Let's imagine that this stop. What will happen then? How do you envisage the evolution of your links with others soon? Will your neighborhood, but also your friendships, your emotional relationships be changed forever? Will our being-in-the-world be, in your opinion, different? Thank you. Any communication on this subject from you will be treated with the utmost discretion.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, partage, sharing, comparta, 分享 : réflexions sur un APRÈS

Date: 23 août 2021 à 13:21:11 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi Eric, I’ll be able to send you something later today. On my way soon to a studio visit with a curator at the Remai. Thanks.

On Aug 24, 2021, at 12:48 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

God Good. Will you at one point more precisely which part we must definite as our collaboration within your vaster project… Thanks

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, update Manual...

Date: 24 août 2021 à 15:13:36 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Because this work is so site-specific, maybe there’s something I can do for Manual that is more like a “fake documentary” of the project. Some kind of single channel video and sound work that tells the story of the project using the original material and documentation to bring the material together as a story with poetics and narration. Like a doc about a lost weather station or something. Let me think on this and maybe we can meet when you return to discuss? Have a good trip.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Sept 3: Manual for a new neighborhood

Date: 3 septembre 2021 à 14:10:09 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey. Welcome home. I’m around today if you want to meet. I’m not sure if I’m one of the “good ones” or the “bad ones” as listed below! I’m starting a new component of my project taking off from the photos of the tree chopped down that I emailed you while ago. I will buy a “ghillie” suit (camouflage that snipers wear) and “enact a bush” in my yard and document it with photographs. Talk soon.

Steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Manuel Pour un Nouveau Voisinage.

Date: 25 septembre 2021 à 23:55:02 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, my apologies. I do want to write this text. I’ve just got 3 grants due Oct. 6 and just found out that I’ve been invited to a residency in Greece on the island of Tinos (April 2022) to do a project with some musicians from the Greek National Opera. So, stoked! I’m now working on a series of photographs on our project as this character (see attached image). Will send more work examples soon. Do you have a word count on the text you’re looking for? Let’s FaceTime soon?

xoxo

On Sep 26, 2021, at 6:12 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi. I understand. After months of lethargy, retention, now is a time of blooming. The contradiction is that everyone has now so much to do, so much $$ has been spread around, looks like the projects I do are not a priority. I don’t say that for you but in general. The result is I am spinning my own projects are not advancing at all, and my Play is not played by most of the artists involved. Honestly, I am in despair to see few projects done in that new series, I am in despair to close the previous series and I am mentally thinking to stop. Result: I have one grant for oct 6 I am not sure to finalize as I don’t get the support for it. I know I am playing the victim, but may I say I feel like to cry. Nice outfit really…

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Manuel Pour un Nouveau Voisinage.

Date: 26 septembre 2021 à 15:24:15 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

I’m sorry to hear you are sad these days. Do you want to FaceTime this evening? For the project, where do you wish things were at presently? Conversations, writing, works submitted. Do you have an end date in mind? Is there a final form to the project? As in, are you imagining works in a gallery setting? Or online? Anyway, let’s talk this evening. Be nice to see you.

On Oct 8, 2021, at 2:51 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steve. How are you, you and all The Ladies? I finalized a Composite grant, I enjoy thinking it’s my last application. Will it be? I was not unstressed the next day, the opposite: but now I am back on Manual, we did a nice walk with Samuel Thulin on the 3rd in this new strange Parc in Montreal. Listening to this, I may wonder if I will have the ok for you to use your files, so to promote your participation to Manual

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

On Oct 8, 2021, at 3:01 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

So I will wait for the material can use for Promotion. And let’s budget the Publication… with a CDR or USB Key. Winnipeg, say hi to the City and To The Family.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Manual

Date: 8 octobre 2021 à 17:57:16 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi, Congrats on the composite grant. We’re on our way to Winnipeg today so email will be intermittent today/tomorrow. Which files of mine are you referring to? Some I’ve sent that were really just for your info, not necessarily public. Thanks.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, advice

Date: 22 novembre 2021 à 20:16:48 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, I haven’t used mine as a USB I/O so I would have to try it out. I can do this, but I won’t be able to for a couple days. We put Addie down this morning, so the household is kind of sad and out of it for a while.

xoxo

On Jan 5, 2022, at 5:13 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

0104149001064125

I forgot to send it, I think.

Bad News : not sure I can travel in February, I mean by plane or train..

also I may have an amazing project to do in February : a 5 days trip from Gouin Reservoir in the North to Trois rivière. in Skidoo with Patrick Beaulieu, at low speed to Record the whole trip, then play the files at night in the places we will sleep at night.

Hoping everything is OK on your side, let’s figure together how to work on Manual….

On Jan 23, 2022, at 12:59 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steve, I haven’t yet give you your fees for Manual, right.?

This is first step, as i am closing THE Budget for 2021 which still contains some $$$

if you accept, you may send me an invoice dates in 2021 for

1250+500 for the part dedicated to Creation.

and tell me how I can transfer the $$$$

On Jan 23, 2022, at 1:17 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

This is a second artist fee for project which are developing on longer terms. There is room in my 2021 budget for it. And I am not sure of everything we talked about last time (I made a Myself-Party yesterday with Nicole choosing old tunes on YouTube) My brain is a little washed out today. if there are other expenses to be paid, shoot!

On Jan 23, 2022, at 3:33 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

And it must be dated in 2021… So sorry!!! But more money later for diffusion if your project requires some $$$

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, fees ?

Date: 23 janvier 2022 à 16:09:02 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, I just emailed you. You paid me $1250 in October.

What’s the $500 for?

Thanks.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, fees?

Date: 23 janvier 2022 à 16:21:53 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Wow. Okay, so I’m to invoice you for $1250 + $500?

If that’s right, it’s a nice surprise. I don’t know if there will be expenses yet. Perhaps some printing or projector rentals. I’m thinking to postpone the house installation/performance until the summer. Is there a time in June or July you might want to come here? If I get the CAC grant for Black Seas, I might be in Montréal for recording first half of June. Also, at Daïmon August 8 to September 2.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, fees?

Date: 23 janvier 2022 à 17:32:35 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, here is an invoice. Thanks very much! A nice bottle for tonight!

Steve Bates

steve@dimcoast.net

http://stevebates.info

http://dimcoast.net

https://thedimcoast.bandcamp.com

+1 514 566 2410

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Bandcamp et Radio Internet : Les diffusions de manuel

Date: 29 janvier 2022 à 16:40:57 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Okay, sounds great. Exciting. Looking forward….

On Feb 3, 2022, at 11:15 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hello. PRODUCT RIEN is both a small broadcast space and the studio behind Karen Trask and Paul Litherland in Montreal. Handbook for a New Neighborhood is a collaboration between you and me (commissioner) remotely. It is carried out in times of pandemic. Now we must live with the friend COVID. And although I am immobilized and I have no rush at the moment to rub shoulders with crowds, I am thinking of ways to link all these projects.

I've been thinking about it for a while: renting their space for at least 2 weeks if not + in order to build another aspect less distanced between you from this Manual. After:

1. the series of radio programs to be developed together (if you have not yet expressed your opinion on this idea, let me know your intention or NOT to participate - it is important for us to know who will play this game remote broadcast or NOT)

2. The idea shared by some (not all or all, same thing as in point 1. Let me know your decision to participate) of depositing objects, reflections, audios, videos in a package, which will be transmitted door to door by post. I'm thinking of a two-week stay in Montreal, where Manuel would occupy PRODUCED RIEN according to terms that we could discuss : rotating exhibition, broadcasting on headphones and above all meetings to be programmed. Your trip to Montreal would be assured, accommodation too, unless you have an address where to stay. These meetings with a SMALL audience would be an opportunity to bring together all your voices in one place, thus putting an end to my remote curating. There will be availability soon but let’s not increase our stress…. I am thinking of the end of June, the beginning of July: June 28 to July 12. This could be before, of course, but also after until September 11. What do you think?

Eric

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, idée Produit Rien

Date: 3 février 2022 à 15:05:30 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

This sounds great! I would happily participate. I won’t know until later this month the results of CAC. But I might be in Montréal in June recording next Black Seas. I will also be in Gatineau in August at a residency at Daïmon. I am happy to participate outside of these times schedule and budget permitting. I can imagine contributing sound/radio, performance, prints (photos), video.

sjb

On Feb 22, 2022, at 6:42 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

is S there, I want to talk with S?

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: is this S there ?

Date: 22 février 2022 à 22:52:26 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, I’m here. I had to go to Winnipeg this past weekend to visit my family. My Dad is not doing so well so I’ve been trying to visit as much as I can. I will likely go again before heading to Greece end of April. How are you? And when do you want to talk? I will be working on Manual this week…….

sjb

24 févr. 2022 à 12:33, Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net> a écrit :

You don’t really support the so-called freedom convoy, do you?

On Feb 24, 2022, at 11:41 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

aaahhhhhh Of course I do : I love the litany of some important words as Freedom, love et, their concern for the life of grandchildren, my new mantra is Freedom, Freedom and so on. My message has been sent to completists. NO, of course, it is a controversial text, playing on the use of the word Freedom, I know hate for its mis-use. Funny, I received some emails of comconveyers, who are really happy about my support : I now will invite them to fight for Ukrainian fights. Like also my new collage with Teddy Bears : in QC, to attract families as when it was forbidden to come in the protest with kids, they were offering Teddy bears. We should now go to contests with huge teddy bears…

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: is this S there ?

Date: 24 février 2022 à 14:53:53 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

One of those #Freedom lovers almost killed me on my drive home from Winnipeg. Be really careful, please. There are many hostile and crazy people in that camp. Professional trolls. Yes, sad days indeed.

On Feb 24, 2022, at 1:33 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

ooooohhhh what happened, he honed and you put a finger out your window, then he chased you ? we will never make this world a better place. so may assholes...

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: is this S there ?

Date: 24 février 2022 à 16:35:05 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

I had to slam on the brakes on icy highway as he just drove right in front of me. His big fucking #Freedom cardboard sign blocking his whole back window. I drove by screaming FUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKK YOOOOOOOOOUUUUUU! And he would barely look at me.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: is this S there ?

Date: 25 février 2022 à 01:48:14 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Birthday present!

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, today

Date: 25 février 2022 à 14:05:55 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Ah, that’s very nice. Have a good night!

On Mar 7, 2022, at 9:17 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi dear Steve. Recently you mentioned you may want to make an update to your participation to Manual. I must admit I lost track of what you intended to do, or how you wanted to participate, despite some photos received.

May I say my mind. Do you want to talk, today, tomorrow at last? BTW: A good egoistic News, in this world of Chaos and destruction. No Phuture ! They said. I received a major grant on 3 years to host residencies in the West of QC, at la Pointe De Moisie. It may be my last Opus! Wednesday, I go with Patrick Beaulieu in abitibi to start a 850 km ride in Skidoo to join Trois Rivières. And today I book my flight to Chile on march 20… My de-programmation program is ON, but it is pretty demanding, as my head is full as a carnaval of emotions and despair. How is it in Sakatoon ?

On Mar 8, 2022, at 10:02 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Yep, I return Monday 14th, then to Chile flight on the 20th… Tough, really tough times, and I don’t even live in this U nightmare…

But lucky we re, it is even disgraceful how lucky I am… but this doesn’t calm down my panic attacks. maybe being lost in the no-so wilderness up in QC will make me lose my bad temper. Not even sure. Anyway, yep, I feel we are well supported by the councils these days, not just they love us, but we write good proposals I presume. My grant is for 5 residencies in Pointe De Moisie, and a book at end. I got what I asked, it is like asking for 5 grants. and getting them all.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Manual ?

Date: 8 mars 2022 à 12:56:27 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey Eric, I teach to day and a little behind in planning. You leave tomorrow - exciting! Is it okay if we meet when you return from your adventure and before you leave for Chile? I will have more info for you. When do you get back home?

And…congratulations on your grant!!!!!! Is it a composite? Awesome! I too received good news about my grant of Greece and to record the next Black Seas record! Feeling quite lucky. Have a great trip and talk soon.

Steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Manual ?

Date: 8 mars 2022 à 14:24:10 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Congrats! Okay, lets talk after you get back. Next Wednesday I’m playing my first live show since Mutek! Opening for godspeed you black emperor….hahaha. Can we talk Thursday? Also, you have the Sanken CMS-50, right? And you like it?

Steve

On Mar 16, 2022, at 8:47 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steve, how can I follow your purchases on Bandcamp? I don’t remember

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On Mar 17, 2022, at 10:27 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

You got my questions about possible contributions regarding diffusion to Manual. any idea is welcome. radio-Tsonami in April, the Box, the website I have now a partner Nady with whom I start working when I am back..

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, INFOS du 17 mars 2022, Manuel Pour un Nouveau Voisinage et site !

Date: 17 mars 2022 à 16:55:06 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey,

Opened for godspeed last night. Was fun. Super weird to play live again though. But a relief also. Felt strangely good to be in a room at a concert with a couple hundred people.

For my contribution to Manual: I am recording a live house concert this weekend. One 30-minute session in the day and one in the evening. I will also broadcast it on my radio transmitter to the homes around me and incorporate this as a feedback signal again. I will send you the recordings once I mix them (the following week). Maybe this can be an ORAL Bandcamp? I WILL BE IN MONTREAL for the dates for Produit Rien!!! I’m in town recording the next Black Seas record July 29 -August 6, then at Daïmon from August 8-Sept 1 and then back to play a show with Elizabeth at Michaela’s Cinémathèque Québecoise exhibition on Sept. 2. So, I will be in town again from Sept. 2 until about Sept. 6-7. I’m available to do something at PN any time after Sept. 2 until maybe the 6th or 7th. Could play a set, do radio or just be around. I will be able to contribute work to the exhibition in the form of sound, video, projection, print/photograph(s), and even a jar of soil from the yard. Maybe I can get Jake to send some raspberries to us from our garden!... Have a great trip. (When you’re down there, think about who that might be there could work with us as a guide shooting video in Atacama next year….)

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, INFOS du 17 mars 2022, Manuel Pour un Nouveau Voisinage et site !

Date: 18 mars 2022 à 01:34:17 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

All cool. End of April to June 1 I will be mostly unavailable as I will be in Greece working with some musicians from the national opera, a women’s choir and Nikos and Ilios!!!!!!!!!!

On Mar 18, 2022, at 3:06 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

talk today???? I am free from now on. Nicole goes at Fifa. Me I freeze at home, trying to fight my demons!

On Mar 18, 2022, at 3:33 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Means 8 PM here. Not sure how it will go as Nicole has left for some FIFA screening, while I drink saké. When she comes back we eat… Let’s say at 10 Pm my time? Plays: Mmaso, Ecko bazz...Yes! Can we meet this evening?

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric BC

Date: 18 mars 2022 à 18:07:38 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Yes! Can we meet this evening? I have to finish some grading and then I have to take Bookie to get his nails trimmed at the BEAUTY SALON! Anytime after 6 pm my time is good for me….

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric BC

Date: 18 mars 2022 à 18:35:42 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Oh right, I thought we were only 1 hour off.

I can be home for about 5:30 my time - 7:30 for you. And later is okay too (10 pm your time)

On Mar 19, 2022, at 8:25 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hilfe, I am stressed for nothing, but how did we do to plug things in Chile?

They are in 220V. I don’t remember

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Chili, ?

Date: 19 mars 2022 à 14:41:42 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

We had voltage adapters. I had one or two and you had one. I remember us sharing a “charging station” in the dining room. If you don’t have one anymore you can most likely buy one at the airport. I think Mountain Equipment Co-Op also sells them.

Don’t worry, as you say, once you’re on the plane you’ll feel better. I always hate the time just before travel. Have a great trip!!!

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric , Radio Tsonami - URGENT. SVP...

Date: 20 mars 2022 à 00:20:19 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, I am happy to participate but I will be in a new neighbourhood, Athens or Tinos. Let me know.

steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Programmes radio Manuel

Date: 26 mars 2022 à 13:57:35 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi,

This may not be possible for me… I will be in Winnipeg April 15-23 and then arrive on Tinos April 25 and not sure what my first days will be like and internet access.

It’s possible but not certain. Okay? Hope you’re well.

steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Programmes radio Manuel

Date: 26 mars 2022 à 16:35:00 UTC−3

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Okay, sounds good. Thanks.

I hear you, but there’s always a war on… if that helps! We just don’t see Palestine as Ukraine. The Congo…+++ Thanks for travel tips. I’ve been following closely and can fly direct from Canada to Athens so not third country complications…

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, audio +

Date: 20 avril 2022 à 15:13:48 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Not really although they were made at home in my neighborhood! So, in that sense, okay. But some of them are from my new record which I will send off to be pressed this week. The noisier tracks are from a drum machine session. I wasn’t sure if your radio project was neighborhood specific or not. So, if it is, these files may not be best to use. If you’re making a broader, non-neighborhood specific ambient radio show, than go ahead. I likely won’t be able to meet before I go and then will need a couple days to settle on Tinos. Can we meet later next week?

On Apr 20, 2022, at 1:37 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

In Greece, isn’t it? Thanks

I may not alter them… use them as Is for my pleasure and as a Requiem for next programs.

On Apr 21, 2022, at 12:50 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Looks like I don’t find your previous answer to a participation at a Recontre-exposition (sort of). One- or 2-weeks end of august

august 30 to 5 (with the 30th to install or /and? 6 to 12…of September

are you in town…? if yes, what would we present / do, aside of a short talk with small audiences. if not, can we think of some artwork/ Manuel related to be shown?

On Apr 21, 2022, at 2:19 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

My pb right now is some people can’t first week, some the 2nd one

You can fit perfectly first period… just out of the second period… if I go for just that week. If I go for 2 weeks, then your contribution can stay over for the 2nd week, even if you are gone...

Ok, thanks. Tonight

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De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, audio +

Date: 21 avril 2022 à 15:01:02 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi, Yeah, I said in a previous email I can participate. I’m in Montreal July 27 or 28 until August 8. But I’m recording full time August 2-6. I will be in Montreal again September 2-6. I can install sound/video/prints. mWhat do you think?

Steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, audio +

Date: 21 avril 2022 à 17:12:02 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Okay, do you need anything from me today or tomorrow?

After Saturday I won’t be available until around Wednesday while I get settled in Greece. Have fun with this. Don’t be stressed!

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric' Radio Tsonami programs

Date: 29 avril 2022 à 10:29:26 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, maybe this is a related but not integral to my “normal” contributions to Manual? As in, many artists move around a lot to be able to work…so in this way, an artist’s neighbourhood often shifts and moves around related to work. In this case, I’m on Tinos, my “residence” is in the village of “Kardiani”. Also, I am working in the quarries of Koumelas the next 3 weeks and will be there every day. You would love it. It’s like the Anthropocene was 20 years ago. I can imagine making field recording programs of the quarries no problem. There is already an internet radio station operated by Jacob Moe, the director of the Styros Film Festival, connected to this project that I’m contributing to so some of the material could overlap. I will be on Tinos until May 23 and then will go to Athens and work with Nikos and Ilios again until May 31. Maybe this doesn’t fit your idea. No problem if so. I just like these conversations with you. I hope you are well. I wish you were here working with me! Marc-Alexandre is in Iceland, and it would be good if we could all be here together.

xoxo

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Work:

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On Apr 29, 2022, at 4:55 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steve, maybe good, if so, that you update for me your contribution at Manual

2- HOW IS it? are you happy, satisfied?

3- I booked the Produit Rien for september 6 till 12..

May you make me a list of what you will need to make a spontaneous apparition?

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric' Radio Tsonami programs

Date: 29 avril 2022 à 05:22:19 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, maybe me if it is fair to consider my new neighbourhood of Tinos! Lots of nice recordings to come. What do you think?

steve

On May 2, 2022, at 11:38 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Looked today to these places you are in now. amazing, really…

For Radio, I have a problem as it is hard to receive news from the artists.

Maybe a program on the 26th with so far Jen Reimer, Vincent Thériault. I think it might be too tough for you as there is alike 6 hours space in between our two locations and we do it live with meeting at 17:30, on Air at 18 »00 for 2 hours. Also, we must work in advance on the questions and a text for Tsonami about your project for Manual. If you see a good match, we definitively should talk, have a good time...

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric' Radio Tsonami programs

Date: 2 mai 2022 à 17:09:30 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, no problem if it doesn’t work with me here. I just wanted to respond and be in touch. It’s pretty crazy here. The quarries are a heavy presence. Just me and some goats. More soon.

Xoxo

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric' Radio Tsonami programs

Date: 2 mai 2022 à 17:18:46 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

https://vimeo.com/705520292

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric' Radio Tsonami programs

Date: 2 mai 2022 à 17:35:50 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Yes, that’s “Julia”. She’s a monster.

On May 3, 2022, at 12:17 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

It could work but it may be stressful for you, and you have. I think, better to do… you may take photos, I guess!

On May 3, 2022, at 12:34 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Is this place close to the places you went… looks like a cathedral.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: URGENT Eric, Manual Box Set : what do you put IN ?

Date: 14 mai 2022 à 17:05:28 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hello, sorry, these are the busiest days in Greece. Recorded a women’s choir today, some Greek communist fight songs and a love folk song ballad in a car with two young amazing women. Drone video over the quarries on Thursday. Tomorrow church organist. But for me and the box, I would say a USB stick and some postcard size images. I will deal with any other limitations as they arise. Will be back Monday. Hope all is well,

Steve

On May 15, 2022, at 12:08 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

I am OK, thinking of You. Better since few days… do less, preparing mentally for The Shyness of Tree, departing from Montreal on May 30th. Will go and see my Mum in July for 3 weeks with Nicole.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: URGENT Eric, Manual Box Set : what do you put IN ?

Date: 15 mai 2022 à 01:11:56 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Good that you will see your Mom. More soon.

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: URGENT Eric, Manual Box Set : what do you put IN ?

Date: 15 mai 2022 à 01:12:39 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

https://vimeo.com/709816474

On May 16, 2022, at 4:18 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Super. So Mr has bought a drone?

Tell me: is this quarry still operating, or is it closed for many years

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: URGENT Eric, Manual Box Set : what do you put IN ?

Date: 16 mai 2022 à 12:16:56 UTC−4

À: Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, no I brought a guy from Athens to do it for me. I directed. He piloted. Super fun. Quarry has been closed for a few years. More soon.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jun 9, 2022, at 8:21 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

How are you? How does it feel after such a travel, days of decontamination?

I am in Moisie for the first Crown Shyness residency. It goes well despite the cold these last days. I am at same time dealing with other projects, amongst which Manuel… I am w=wondering if we could talk about your project into it… I have a little lost track, I must say, on your proposal. Can you refresh my memory, can we elaborate on it?

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, are you back ?

Date: 9 juin 2022 à 16:18:20 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey! Yes, back home. Trying to get settled but it’s taking a long time. Not sure why. It was a great trip. I’m looking forward to assembling it into something in August at Daïmon. But first, other projects to get caught up on, of which Manual, is one. I propose:

_an ORAL online release

_to participate in the exhibition at Produit Rien, if that is still happening. I can contribute video, sound, maybe a couple prints.

_anything else?

Do you want to meet after your current trip and confirm details?

I’m in Montréal July 28 - August 7 and then again September 2 - 9.

Hope you’re well. Talk soon.

sjb

On Jun 9, 2022, at 6:24 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steve, not easy!!! I am not sure about the Anything else? My concern regarding Manual is how your artistic approach may have been modified by the still-actual-time-of-crisis, so I am interested in how the Oral release is related to such topics, not to forget the context in which you worked for it. Not sure what I write now. We had a long day. Days are long here with everyone starting early. So great, but demanding

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, are you back ?

Date: 10 juin 2022 à 00:09:00 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, I’m not sure what “anything else” is either! Lets just do a zoom when you are home. Too confusing to discuss in email.

I can commit to the first two ideas I sent previously. Admittedly, my relationships with my neighbours is not so pandemic related. I’ve mostly been comfortable and happy to be working and living in my house and yard. It’s my friends in Montreal that I’ve been missing. So, it’s more like a missing neighborhood for me. But let’s talk when you can.

See you in July!

On Jun 10, 2022, at 7:04 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi. So maybe let’s do one from here. I have time to do so….

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, are you back ?

Date: 10 juin 2022 à 12:54:25 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Okay, my days are flexible other than tomorrow during the day so just let me know a time that works for you.

On Jun 12, 2022, at 1:01 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Now !!!! ? Eric Mattson vous invite à une réunion zoom planifiée.

Sujet : RDV SB

Heure : 12 juin 2022 03:00 PM Montréal

Participer à la réunion zoom

https://us04web.zoom.us/j/77789357487?pwd=l-q8sdIE6eobV2q_ai6XH_GY5Vh4Sq.1

ID de réunion : 777 8935 7487

Code secret : cG9WCx

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, do you have time now ?

Date: 12 juin 2022 à 14:59:17 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, Just got it. Back from the dog park. At home for the afternoon if still good for you….

steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, do you have time now ?

Date: 12 juin 2022 à 15:06:38 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Steve Bates is inviting you to a scheduled zoom meeting.

Topic: Steve Bates's Personal Meeting Room. Join zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/7680098785?pwd=ZVRjN1NDaVlCR1d0TkFQN1hQa2phQT09

Meeting ID: 768 009 8785

Passcode: 5NRa1z

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, The Manuel (as a Box)

Date: 15 juin 2022 à 22:36:15 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hey, for the box I will also include a small jar of soil from our garden. About the size of a small jam jar. For Produit Rien, I can have audio and video (do you have a projector?). Prints may be about 24" x12” x 3.

Steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, Décisions- The Manuel (as a Box)

Date: 20 juin 2022 à 13:22:08 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

This sounds like a good alternative.

Steve

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Mastering moolah

Date: 26 juin 2022 à 14:27:08 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Hi Eric, I’m working on the sound for my Manual project - the piece I will propose to ORAL for online release. As it wasn’t my original intention, I hadn’t included any money to master it. Would you have any funds for that? If not, it’s okay, but you have suggested you might have some funds for expenses so I thought I would ask. I would get Giuseppe to do it. He charges 200 € for a full length. I can work around if you don’t, really. Just asking… Thanks.

steve

On Jul 7, 2022, at 11:13 AM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Hi Steve. Back home. Difficult to be trapped in town after experimenting vast spaces. I meet with a friend of yours Ziad in an hour. He comes to pick up some Monoton’s. Ian from Constellation bought yesterday the whole digital ORAL catalog (oups!)

Tell me: did you do your Home related Event ? How was it?

To your question, I answer YES. I can pay that…. If you still think mastering is appropriate when we let tracks go on the Net, please do it. Send me the Bill.

Follows some ideas I compiled updated for your own participation. Just a resume of what’s coming.

MONTREAL. The audio will be part of a listing of Manual tracks which will be played at Produit Rien from Sept 6 to 12 (11!), not sure exactly yet about the sound system (headphones or room ?) You will be around some days of that week:

are you still into playing Live: if YES, I have to check with Karen & Paul how it works for Sounds at their place. What kind of sound system will you need? (they have none, I see). Would you like to make a presentation, or be part of a kind of friendly panel ? May I receive the files to be printed, which sizes is it? and instructions. I will print at ADC, old printer partner of mine beginning of august, I guess,

I am thinking about PRINTING cards for each project with links to the Internet files.

all audio tracks will also be accessed thru a headphone jack on a Raspberry Pi with a screen installed in a knitting box I bought which I see as our Manual.

QUEBEC : this box will be on display in Québec city at La Chambre Blanche for 3 days end of September Is that OK with you? A diffusion fee will be available, amount will be determined by the various interventions each artist may do these days. All the best to you. Keep me updated on your project.

On Jul 7, 2022, at 12:38 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

Nice short talk with Ziad I met before in CTM 2016. Your LP out since yesterday he said! OK for printing here under your instructions,

Live yes, as you said with Bluetooth speaker, nice for me. Cool be scheduled daytime.

the best to you. My heart with you on the 26th…

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, follows...

Date: 7 juillet 2022 à 14:33:54 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

Oh cool! Say hi to Ziad for me. Yeah, Ian bought the whole dim coast catalogue yesterday as well. Nice.. The home event will happen July 26. I will document it with sound and video and send to you these materials.

I will send a couple of images to propose to you for the exhibition. If you can print, there - fantastic. And then you can keep them! Playing live…I can do something but also, fine to not. I am playing an improv show with Elizabeth on Sept. 2 as part of Michaela’s vernissage at the cinematheque. I also just emailed Mauro about doing a record release show at Casa Sept. 5, 6 or 7 so maybe better to not play at Product Rien? Or I can do something really low key with my nice bluetooth speaker, so you don’t have to worry about a PA? All of this sounds good to me. I will send the images soon. Leaving for Winnipeg for two weeks on Saturday. Will be there from 10-24. So much to do before then… Okay, more soon…

xoxo

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, follows...

Date: 7 juillet 2022 à 14:46:12 UTC−4

À: Mattson Eric <oral@videotron.ca>

With Ziad it’s cool. We haven’t met in person yet but have had a lot of correspondence.

The record isn’t out yet, just announced yesterday with a first single/video.

https://cstrecords.com/products/cst167-steve-bates-all-the-things-that-happen

Okay, maybe we can do something interesting for a quick live set at Produit. Lets talk more. I’m actually quiet happy with the bluetooth speaker. I used it a lot in Greece.

Thanks, re: 26th.

steve

On Jul 7, 2022, at 3:13 PM, Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca> wrote:

and it’s worth getting it. can you use them as « standalone » speakers with cables but no electricity. OR. Once charged, they don’t need to be activated by Bluetooth ?

Not sure my? is clear

De: Steve Bates <steve@dimcoast.net>

Objet: Rép: Eric, follows...

Date: 7 juillet 2022 à 17:27:08 UTC−4

À: Eric Mattson <oral@videotron.ca>

Also has 3.5 mm audio input.

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