Box Of Bees is The Arch Cupcake's full-length follow up to his highly acclaimed Wash Out EP. The Arch Cupcake is DJ/Writer/Producer Frederick Sargolini, one half of the seminal electronic duo, Ming+FS. Box Of Bees is Fred's full-length debut as a solo artist.
Box Of Bees is inspired by youthful memories of trips to Mexico, beat boxing in middle school hallways, and talent show DJ battles. In TAC's words, "I attempted to create an album that sounds like a novel. The goal was to create a sonic narrative of childhood memories."
Subway Art Gallery Opening: 50 Improv Everywhere agents created an art gallery opening on the 23rd Street subway platform in Manhattan. They put up 30 placards next to objects in the space (pipes, electrical boxes, signs, advertisements), transforming them into works of art. The gallery included a bar, a coat rack, and a cellist.
Improv Everywhere causes scenes of chaos and joy in public places. Created in August of 2001 by Charlie Todd, Improv Everywhere has executed over 80 missions involving thousands of undercover agents. The group is based in New York City.
This piece inverts the typical window by making it from opaque bricks, set within a larger opaque wall. This opens the dialogue between the lower spaces of the MTA subway and the upper world where sunlight would necessitate such windows. The null opacity of the glass is called to attention by the use of ink markers.
This extremely subtle piece reexamines the assumption that art must be visually accessible to be important and identifiable as a creative work. This artist explores the limitless possibilities of the hidden here, allowing the viewer to reevaluate underlying preconceptions, and to recondition the inner mind to work with the perception of the commonplace outer space.
This homage to the urgency of communication is meant to highlight the recent necessity, from instant to instant, to maintain the potential for instantaneous, world-wide contact from any location, at any time. That a conversation from such a location would be abruptly interrupted by an arriving train suggests the artist’s intent to lampoon the perceived dependence on telecommunication.
This work is at once a heroic call to solidarity and a hopeful ode to the future. The diverse collection of pipes, flocking together chaotically from all across the platform, can only burst through the wall once they’ve banded together. Instead of a bright knowable future, however, the pipes - brimming full of power - disappear into the ambiguous dark abyss on the other side of the wall. The viewer is left in anticipation, hoping the newly-assembled coalition can successfully harness the energy within itself on the other side.
Check out The Arch Cupcake's remix of "Morey Pya Bassey" by legendary South Asian artist Cheb i Sabbah. Out now, Revolution Rising: ethnotechno.com vol.1 presented by dimmSummer, on High Chai Recordings
