{"id":41220,"date":"2016-03-04T15:36:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T14:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=41220"},"modified":"2016-03-04T18:59:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T17:59:44","slug":"highway-magazine-issue-2-vicente-gutierrez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mottodistribution.com\/site\/?p=41220","title":{"rendered":"Highway Magazine Issue 2. Vicente Gutierrez (ed.)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Highway Issue 2
\nSummer – Fall 2015<\/p>\n

Contents by and with:<\/p>\n

In brief:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Sound artist Israel Mart\u00ednez discusses his work amid Mexico\u2019s War on Drugs. A profound interview on the power of sound art.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Mark Fisher. An interview with the radical music writer and acclaimed author of Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of My Life on music and culture today, Popular Modernism, time wars, music culture and Neoliberalism and the borrowed phrase, \u201cthe slow cancellation of the future.\u201d Editor\u2019s pick.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Dadabots. A presentation of open-source algorithms which search, remix and post music throughout the Soundcloud community as told through a correspondence with the musician-hackers.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Editorial on Spectatorship (Part 1). Read exclusive opinion, stories and revelations on what it means to be a spectator today [and yesterday] from Katie Alice Greer (Priests), Dan Deacon, Mark Andersen (Positive Force DC), Kim Gordon (Essay reproduction) and Ian MacKaye (Q & A format).<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Photography of Sebastian Mayer. A select presentation from the accomplished German photographer.<\/p>\n

\u2022 An Anthology of Recording Music, Volume 1. A new on-going section presents a wide variety of artists relating the situational boundaries of composing one song before presenting it to the band or entering the recording studio. Read personal accounts from C Spencer Yeh, James Hoff, Julia McFarlane (Twerps), Jane Penny (TOPS), Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), Beno\u00eet Pioulard, Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and more.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Decoder. An original essay by Dan Barrow to reread and reactivate this Burroughs-inspired and nearly-forgotten punk & new wave film for 2015 and beyond.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Visual Essay: Hundebiss. An invitational spread to the Italian imprint. Exclusive to the print edition.<\/p>\n

In more detail:<\/p>\n

Our second issue begins with a profound and inspiring conversation with Israel Mart\u00ednez, a remarkable sound artist whose work is recorded amid Mexico\u2019s on-going Narcowars. Since 2010, the Mexican sound artist has been reflecting, recording, documenting and exhibiting the symbolic, personal, financial, legal, civic and human costs of Mexico\u2019s War on Drugs. Martinez\u2019 sound and installation work has been exhibited around the world and select works are in two of Latin America\u2019s most notable art collections. This is Mart\u00ednez first substantial interview in English and includes material printed for the first time. Samples of sound work by Mart\u00ednez accompany the conversation in our App edition and will be posted online soon.<\/p>\n

In the editor\u2019s letter of our first issue, the words \u201cseemingly cancelled times\u201d were used to gesture towards an interview which has been on our mind for some time. We present a straight-forward, long-form, radical interview with the music writer, culture theorist and teacher, Mark Fisher. Fisher has garnered praise for Capitalist Realism and Ghosts of My Life as one can read in an accolade from 2014: \u201cAfter the brilliance of Capitalist Realism, Ghosts Of My Life confirms Mark Fisher\u2019s role as our greatest and most trusted navigator of these times out of joint, through all their frissons and ruptures, among all their apparitions and spectres, past, present and future. \u2014 David Peace, author of the Red Riding Quartet and Red or Dead.\u201d The interview discusses music and mainstream culture, Popular Modernism, post-punk, \u201clost futures,\u201d the intersections of music and politics and the borrowed phrase, \u201cthe slow cancellation of the future.\u201d Fisher elaborates on select excerpts from his [radical] writing in addition to his personal life and career as a writer in this \u201clife with music.\u201d<\/p>\n

As algorithms increasingly play a role in our life with music, this issue profiles the on-going and open-source Dadabots project initiated by two computer programmers and musicians. An exclusive to the magazine, the interview presents a portrait of these non-human bot \u201cmusicians\u201d which explore and present the intriguing possibilities of generative music and autonomy across social media platforms.<\/p>\n

Our second commissioned editorial presents revelations on spectatorship in live music through our own original route, by exploring a supposed space between how we look at artists on stage and how they look back at us. Read exclusive and original stories and opinions from Katie Alice Greer (\u201cWe\u2019re very strategic in how we operate and create\u201d), Dan Deacon (\u201cThe internet is not the problem. Mid-size venues are disappearing\u201d), Mark Andersen (That\u2019s the revolution in punk, if there is one\u201d) and Ian MacKaye (\u201cThat\u2019s the point for the record company, but it shouldn\u2019t be the point for the band\u201d) with the exception of a contribution from Kim Gordon, a reproduction of \u201cI\u2019m really scared when I kill in my dreams\u201d (1983) and this issue\u2019s object of interest. As a conversation starter, habituated and transcendent acts and moments of performance and watching are shared and discussed over 60 immersive pages. Anonymous and previously unpublished photography from the Fugazi Live Series Archive accompanies the text.<\/p>\n

The next 20 pages are dedicated to the photography of accomplished German photographer Sebastian Mayer, who has photographed several music magazine covers over a decade. A friend of the magazine, Mayer shares encounters with the likes of Iggy Pop, EYE Yamataka, Pansonic, Matthew Herbert, Carsten Nicolai, Ryuichi Sakamoto and more from some of Berlin\u2019s heyday.<\/p>\n

Our new on-going section, An Anthology of Recording Music, Volume 1, presents first hand accounts of artists\u2019 headspace before entering a studio to record a song. This free-form collection listens for boundaries of writing and recording one particular song. A wide variety of scenarios of cultural production are revealed as the following notable artists discuss one song: C Spencer Yeh, James Hoff, Julia McFarlane (Twerps), Jane Penny (TOPS), Sadie Dupuis (Speedy Ortiz), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance), Beno\u00eet Pioulard, Greg Saunier (Deerhoof) and more.<\/p>\n

To close, a commissioned essay by writer, poet and critic Dan Barrow on an almost-forgotten punk & new wave film, Decoder (released in West Germany in 1984). Barrow\u2019s essay profoundly reads and contextualizes the film, reactivating it for 2015 and beyond. The essay is accompanied by rare photography from the film\u2019s production. The last pages of Issue 2 present another new on-going section for HIGHWAY: an invitational visual essay in which over 10 pages of editorial space are given over to the Italian imprint, Hundebiss to present [a distilled] visual manifestation of the label\u2019s vision. The visual essay is exclusive to the print edition so get a print copy in our store.<\/p>\n

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