<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Dear empyre Collaborators,<br><br></div>I am sorry that it has taken me a few days to kick in to our epistolary project but I have been enjoying the dialogue enormously. I spent the last two days showing my films and videos in Nashville at Jack White's (of the notorious band The White Stripes) Third Man Records as part of their Light and Sound Machine series. Surprisingly enough, my time in that enthralling analogue audio universe reminded me of my two residencies (2001, 2006) at the Experimental TV Center. As the world hurls itself into the intangible galaxy of the digital and the virtual, I find that more and more people in the media arts are keen on making, watching and owning work that has been created in an analog fashion. At Third Man Records, I was asked to screen mostly 16 mm, for example. While touring the facilities, I was informed that all of the rock n roll music that is recorded there is done on records rather than CDs. How could this be! The facility had actually spent thousands of dollars to refurbish equipment with knobs and sliding volume controls. Touring the rooms with all of this seemingly antiquated machinery took me back to the discoveries I had made at the ETC. I suppose we yearn for this kind of tactile engagement with the gear because it offers us a sensory contact with the process, but I don't find that this yearning is simply a kind of nostalgia. Most of the people in the audience were in their 20s and 30s. They had recently sat through a much heralded screening of Nam June Paik videos called "I Make Technology Ridiculous" Here in the country music capital of the world, we were all trying to come to terms of the most satisfying mode of production for a form of art that, in the end, will remain intangible, ephemeral and weightless.<br><br></div><div>Writing to come -- the one woman-band concept of production that was so key to becoming one with the the machines at the ETC<br></div><div><br></div>More soon and see many of you at Hunter College upcoming tribute to the ETC,<br></div>Lynne <br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br><div><div>Lynne Sachs<br></div></div><a href="http://www.lynnesachs.com" target="_blank">www.lynnesachs.com</a></div></div></div>
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