American Memory Project -- is it prog?

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 AMERICAN MEMORY PROJECT (AMP)

At some time in the very distant future, long after America
is gone, a group of artists scouring the backwater of whatever it is the Net
has become inadvertently encounter the American Memory Archives of the Library
of Congress.  Barely a ghost of its
original form, all broken links and code that read like gibberish, it remains
fascinating, a ruined temple in a forgotten jungle clearing. They manage to
extract images, bits of text and sounds. 
Although they have no context for its meaning, they are intrigued by
these strange antiquities.  The group
creates surreal impressions of the material they find and thy broadcast it back
through time.   A quantum radio channel
beamed into the subconscious minds of the 21^st Century, it is a gift
of the past from the future to the present. 

http://www.americanmemory.net/index.html

 http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/02/american-memory.html

http://www.myspace.com/americanmemoryvisual

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=416426531

 http://theburnlab.blogspot.com/2008/10/american-memory.html

The American Memory Project will release a DVD EP in
conjunction with the OHGR DTOUR, followed by a full-length Hi-Definition DVD in
the spring of 2009.

In our time, the first decade of the 21^st
Century, members of the American Memory Project are film-maker/guitarist William
Morrison and drummer/composer Justin Bennett. 
Morrison may well be best known for the films and videos that have
accompanied the Skinny Puppy performances, though he has also played guitar
with SP and will be playing with OHGR on DTOUR. 
Bennett will play with Ohgr as well, and has performed with Skinny
Puppy, Professional Murder Music, Rozz Williams, Pigface, and numerous others.  Together, they have been channeling AMP for
two years. 

American Memory Project (AMP) will offer a startling
multi-media presentation mixing visuals and audio from the past, the future,
and the present in real time on each date of the OHGR DTOUR of the US and
Canada throughout November and December 2008.

Tour dates:

OHGR - DTOUR with

American Memory Project (AMP)

Mon-Nov-17 Phoenix, AZ The Marquee 

Tue-Nov-18 San Diego, CA House of Blues 

Wed-Nov-19 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre 

Fri-Nov-21 San Francisco, CA Slims 

Sat-Nov-22 Portland, OR Dante's 

Sun-Nov-23 Vancouver, BC Red Room 

Mon-Nov-24 Seattle, WA El Corazon 

Wed-Nov-26 Salt Lake City, UT Murray Theatre 

Thu-Nov-27 Denver, CO Bluebird 

Sat-Nov-29 Minneapolis, MN Station 4 

Sun-Nov-30 Chicago, IL Double Door 

Tue-Dec-02 Toronto, ON The Opera House 

Wed-Dec-03 Montreal, QUE Les Saints 

Thu-Dec-04 New York, NY Gramercy 

Sat-Dec-06 Boston, MA Paradise 

Sun-Dec-07 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel 

Tue-Dec-09 Raleigh, NC Cats Cradle 

Wed-Dec-10 Atlanta, GA Masquerade 

Fri-Dec-12 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room 

Sat-Dec-13 Tampa, FL State Theatre 

Mon-Dec-15 New Orleans, LA House of Blues 

Wed-Dec-17 Houston, TX Warehouse 

Thu-Dec-18 Dallas, TX Granada Theatre 

Fri-Dec-19 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit 

Sun-Dec-21 Albuquerque, NM 

For more, contact Bob Peters, Access All Areas

The American Memory Project

"It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to
the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not
knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation denied a
conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its
future" 

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

The American Memory Project is a broadcast from the future. A digital
archive of a long dead country uneartherd in a distant era and broadcast back
to our time. A short wave transmission bounced off the fabric of eros, washed
up on the shores of the twenty first century. It is both abstract melancholy
verse and a dire warning. A container filled with ghosts speaking stories so
far removed from their origins that they refuse context. Or perhaps, invite it
anew. 

Memory is fleeting. Short term, long term. A colletion of neurons, travelling
at light speed, rendered in matter, always fading... morphing. 

We are animating ghosts...

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archivist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: October 09 2008 Status: Offline Points: 3	Topic: American Memory Project -- is it prog? Posted: October 09 2008 at 03:30
	AMERICAN MEMORY PROJECT (AMP) At some time in the very distant future, long after America is gone, a group of artists scouring the backwater of whatever it is the Net has become inadvertently encounter the American Memory Archives of the Library of Congress. Barely a ghost of its original form, all broken links and code that read like gibberish, it remains fascinating, a ruined temple in a forgotten jungle clearing. They manage to extract images, bits of text and sounds. Although they have no context for its meaning, they are intrigued by these strange antiquities. The group creates surreal impressions of the material they find and thy broadcast it back through time. A quantum radio channel beamed into the subconscious minds of the 21^st Century, it is a gift of the past from the future to the present. http://www.americanmemory.net/index.html http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/02/american-memory.html http://www.myspace.com/americanmemoryvisual http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=416426531 http://theburnlab.blogspot.com/2008/10/american-memory.html The American Memory Project will release a DVD EP in conjunction with the OHGR DTOUR, followed by a full-length Hi-Definition DVD in the spring of 2009. In our time, the first decade of the 21^st Century, members of the American Memory Project are film-maker/guitarist William Morrison and drummer/composer Justin Bennett. Morrison may well be best known for the films and videos that have accompanied the Skinny Puppy performances, though he has also played guitar with SP and will be playing with OHGR on DTOUR. Bennett will play with Ohgr as well, and has performed with Skinny Puppy, Professional Murder Music, Rozz Williams, Pigface, and numerous others. Together, they have been channeling AMP for two years. American Memory Project (AMP) will offer a startling multi-media presentation mixing visuals and audio from the past, the future, and the present in real time on each date of the OHGR DTOUR of the US and Canada throughout November and December 2008. Tour dates: OHGR - DTOUR with American Memory Project (AMP) Mon-Nov-17 Phoenix, AZ The Marquee Tue-Nov-18 San Diego, CA House of Blues Wed-Nov-19 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre Fri-Nov-21 San Francisco, CA Slims Sat-Nov-22 Portland, OR Dante's Sun-Nov-23 Vancouver, BC Red Room Mon-Nov-24 Seattle, WA El Corazon Wed-Nov-26 Salt Lake City, UT Murray Theatre Thu-Nov-27 Denver, CO Bluebird Sat-Nov-29 Minneapolis, MN Station 4 Sun-Nov-30 Chicago, IL Double Door Tue-Dec-02 Toronto, ON The Opera House Wed-Dec-03 Montreal, QUE Les Saints Thu-Dec-04 New York, NY Gramercy Sat-Dec-06 Boston, MA Paradise Sun-Dec-07 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel Tue-Dec-09 Raleigh, NC Cats Cradle Wed-Dec-10 Atlanta, GA Masquerade Fri-Dec-12 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room Sat-Dec-13 Tampa, FL State Theatre Mon-Dec-15 New Orleans, LA House of Blues Wed-Dec-17 Houston, TX Warehouse Thu-Dec-18 Dallas, TX Granada Theatre Fri-Dec-19 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit Sun-Dec-21 Albuquerque, NM For more, contact Bob Peters, Access All Areas The American Memory Project "It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future" Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The American Memory Project is a broadcast from the future. A digital archive of a long dead country uneartherd in a distant era and broadcast back to our time. A short wave transmission bounced off the fabric of eros, washed up on the shores of the twenty first century. It is both abstract melancholy verse and a dire warning. A container filled with ghosts speaking stories so far removed from their origins that they refuse context. Or perhaps, invite it anew. Memory is fleeting. Short term, long term. A colletion of neurons, travelling at light speed, rendered in matter, always fading... morphing. We are animating ghosts...

archivist Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Newbie Joined: October 09 2008 Status: Offline Points: 3	Posted: October 09 2008 at 05:44
	American Memory Project “Compelling . . . hypnotic . . . ultimately forceful . . .delicious and eerie post-industrial music. . . “ Douglas Rushkoff, from BoingBoing At some time in the very distant future, long after America is gone, a group of artists scouring the backwater of whatever it is the Net has become inadvertently encounter the American Memory Archives of the Library of Congress. Barely a ghost of its original form, all broken links and code that read like gibberish, it remains fascinating, a ruined temple in a forgotten jungle clearing. They manage to extract images, bits of text and sounds. Although they have no context for its meaning, they are intrigued by these strange antiquities. The group creates surreal impressions of the material they find and thy broadcast it back through time. A quantum radio channel beamed into the subconscious minds of the 21^st Century, it is a gift of the past from the future to the present. http://www.americanmemory.net/index.html http://www.boingboing.net/2008/10/02/american-memory.html http://www.myspace.com/americanmemoryvisual http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=416426531 http://theburnlab.blogspot.com/2008/10/american-memory.html The American Memory Project will release a DVD EP in conjunction with the OHGR DTOUR, followed by a full-length Hi-Definition DVD in the spring of 2009. In our time, the first decade of the 21^st Century, members of the American Memory Project are film-maker/guitarist William Morrison and drummer/composer Justin Bennett. Morrison may well be best known for the films and videos that have accompanied the Skinny Puppy performances, though he has also played guitar with SP and will be playing with OHGR on DTOUR. Bennett will play with Ohgr as well, and has performed with Skinny Puppy, Professional Murder Music, Rozz Williams, Pigface, and numerous others. Together, they have been channeling AMP for two years. American Memory Project (AMP) will offer a startling multi-media presentation mixing visuals and audio from the past, the future, and the present in real time on each date of the OHGR DTOUR of the US and Canada throughout November and December 2008. Tour dates: OHGR - DTOUR with American Memory Project (AMP) Mon-Nov-17 Phoenix, AZ The Marquee Tue-Nov-18 San Diego, CA House of Blues Wed-Nov-19 Los Angeles, CA El Rey Theatre Fri-Nov-21 San Francisco, CA Slims Sat-Nov-22 Portland, OR Dante's Sun-Nov-23 Vancouver, BC Red Room Mon-Nov-24 Seattle, WA El Corazon Wed-Nov-26 Salt Lake City, UT Murray Theatre Thu-Nov-27 Denver, CO Bluebird Sat-Nov-29 Minneapolis, MN Station 4 Sun-Nov-30 Chicago, IL Double Door Tue-Dec-02 Toronto, ON The Opera House Wed-Dec-03 Montreal, QUE Les Saints Thu-Dec-04 New York, NY Gramercy Sat-Dec-06 Boston, MA Paradise Sun-Dec-07 Washington, DC Rock and Roll Hotel Tue-Dec-09 Raleigh, NC Cats Cradle Wed-Dec-10 Atlanta, GA Masquerade Fri-Dec-12 Ft. Lauderdale, FL Culture Room Sat-Dec-13 Tampa, FL State Theatre Mon-Dec-15 New Orleans, LA House of Blues Wed-Dec-17 Houston, TX Warehouse Thu-Dec-18 Dallas, TX Granada Theatre Fri-Dec-19 San Antonio, TX White Rabbit Sun-Dec-21 Albuquerque, NM For more, contact Bob Peters, Access All Areas The American Memory Project "It is useful to remember that history is to the nation as memory is to the individual. As persons deprived of memory become disoriented and lost, not knowing where they have been and where they are going, so a nation denied a conception of the past will be disabled in dealing with its present and its future" Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. The American Memory Project is a broadcast from the future. A digital archive of a long dead country uneartherd in a distant era and broadcast back to our time. A short wave transmission bounced off the fabric of eros, washed up on the shores of the twenty first century. It is both abstract melancholy verse and a dire warning. A container filled with ghosts speaking stories so far removed from their origins that they refuse context. Or perhaps, invite it anew. Memory is fleeting. Short term, long term. A colletion of neurons, travelling at light speed, rendered in matter, always fading... morphing. We are animating ghosts...