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.americanmemory.net/index.html

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

http://www.myspace.com/americanmemoryvisual - 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 - 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...

                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.americanmemory.net/index.html

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

http://www.myspace.com/americanmemoryvisual - 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 - 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...