The freedom of information in the modern especially, has more of an effect on us than you might think. It is vital to human survival and crucial to our future evolution. Copyright issues don’t just effect musicians and artists. They effect inventors, scientists, philosophers, doctors and in turn.. all of us. Knowledge is power, and knowledge has been held hostage on a rampant scale for too long in America.

When everything in our society is bought and sold like livestock, even ideas, we forget the true value of certain things. When everything has a “price”, but nothing has “value” – we all suffer.

This film has been racking up awards and making people all over the world think about the bigger picture for months now. If you haven’t seen it, go have a looksy and tell a friend. Then if you’d like to take your involvement even further, you can Download the film and edit your own version. Audience participation is encouraged.. No joke.

Eventually all of the multiple versions and additions will be reconfigured and they’ll be releasing a 2.0 version in 2010. Perty dern cool. Who knows, It may just keep evolving and transforming for years to come. A harbinger of it’s own change. A newly formed migrating butterfly encircling and fertilizing the globe with knowledge, enlightenment, and freedom through our massive maze of human communication.

“RiP: A ReMiX Manifesto” By: Brett Gaylor

Download The Movie Here: http://www.ripremix.com
About The Film: http://films.nfb.ca

Watch the Film on HULU

Featuring the talents of:

Girl Talk
Negativland
Amplive
Amon Tobin
and others…

Wanna have a peek for yourself?
-> Gar Bailey in the “Art & Style” section of Allegory Weekly

The 3rd week of May, 2009.

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Gar Lives Exclusive!:
*Click here to read the original interview in it’s entirety.

-and how involved in the business aspect do you like to get?
I’d rather just make the art, because I feel that’s what I’m best at, and what I enjoy doing the most in life. At this point in my career though, it’s really just up to me, my wife, and to a few individuals who are helping to promote my visual artw3rk. Up to this point in time, I have had more assistance selling and promoting my auditory w3rks than my visual exploits. Mostly through Polyvibe Records, as well as through another associates company called Xentek, who’s really helped empower me to sell my own w3rks. Xentek also hosts my 3 main websites, and is helping me set up my own company as we speak. I’m hopin’ to have that up and running this Summer/Fall, and will start officially offering up items for sale very soon. -Everything from paintings, prints, shirts, stickers, pins and anything else that we can print on to. Of course my new record label’s website will be offering CDs, DVDs, MP3s and other musically related merchandise for sale very soon as well. All this is long over due and many years in the making, but when you’re going DIY, it’s key to stay patient yet diligent.

2. Have social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook been instrumental in your marketing? If yes, then how?
It all adds up and helps. -So, yes. I’ve made contact with countless publications, labels, venues, and fans through the aforementioned social networking sites, but have yet to have much of it translate into any solid financial gains.

3. What’s your favorite artistic medium?
Assemblage. Though I’ve made many more paintings over the years, and more recently musical recordings. I’ve always had a real love affair with the act & result of assembling collages and sculptures with societal detritus and meaningful personal items that I collect and manage to accumulate. Using actual objects from my life as ingredients in the w3rk, just seems to add an extra ounce of intrinsic value to the art and ends up making it feel that much more personal to me. However, I do thoroughly enjoy having multiple mediums of self expression to explore and would find it hard to w3rk in just one medium all the time. Even assemblage.

4. What’s the local art and music scene like where you’re from?
Non-existent. Which is probably much of the reason for my anonymity from the majority of the art world. I live in a tiny Central Florida town called NoSteen.. er excuse me – Osteen. It’s a small, rural community about halfway between Daytona and Orlando, so there are a few opportunities in those places, but not as many as one might imagine for cities of their size and location. My wife grew up in Osteen and we moved back here from Orlando about 10 years ago to help her father get along after her Mother passed away, and then we eventually have ended up caring for him full time. -As he’s elderly and has Alzheimer’s disease. There are some upsides to living in the woods, compared to the suburbs down the road. There’s much more space, it’s relatively inexpensive, and it’s mega private. Also my wife and I have become homeowners in the process and will have “some” financial leverage in the future. Should we decide to relocate somewhere with a better art market.

5. I see that you’re not only a visual artist, but you also have your hand in other things like the recording industry. How did Gar, the mogul come about?
There’s quote from Picasso that I’ve always subscribed to, and which can probably answer this question. It goes something like: “I am always doing that which I do not know how to do, in order that I may learn how to do it”. There you have it.

6. Who are other people in your field (or other professions) who have influenced you?
There are so damn many…. I’ll give it a shot though -

Painters: Don Van Vliet, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Roberto Matta, Joan Miro, Matthew Ritchie, Banksy, Jim Dine, Francis Picabia, Franz Kline, Nicolas de Staël, Keith Haring, Chuck Close, Glenn Brown, Kenneth Noland, Cy Twombly, Yves Tanguy, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, Amedeo Modigliani, Chaim Soutine, Daas, Michael Blair Scott, Brice Stephens, and Brett Hamil

Sculptors, Assemblers, & Conceptualists: Tim Hawkinson, Jean Dubuffet, Ray Johnson, Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Rauschenberg, Kurt Schwitters, Alexander Calder, Paul McCarthy, Bas Jan Ader, Chris Burden, Tristan Tzara, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Kippenberger, Matthew Barney, Tobias Stretch, Damien Hirst, Isamo Noguchi, Cai Guo-Qiang, Richard Serra, Christo, Andy Warhol, & Andy Kaufman

Film Makers & Video Artists: Len Lye, Chris Cunningham, and Stan Brakhage are the 3 biggest in this category for me. Joel and Ethan Cohen, John Waters, Gus Van Sant, David Lynch, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson, Sofia Coppola, Spike Jonze, Charlie Kaufman, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, David Fincher, Larry Clark, Woody Allen, Wim Wenders, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Guy Ritchie, Clint Eastwood, Ang Lee, among others..

Musicians: (In this category I’m only listing artists that I know personally or have played shows with. For further info: See the link in question #9 below)
A_Scissors, Dr.XnLb, Drone Operator, R_Garcia, Plusses & Ups, Dino Felipe, Machine Drum, Otto Von Shirach, The Rules, Mic Mell, Kalx, Oddknock, Adrian Taylor, Tel Aviv Bats, AttachedHands, Sigh Rodgers, Joel Caldwell, Mr. Whitefolk, Mr. Antonym, and Yip-Yip

7. What’s one thing about your profession that you were surprised to learn about once you began your work?
Well this was something I learned after I’d been working for a few years, but it’s really blown me away how completely close-minded many artists can really be. I suppose that from the outset and as an artist myself, that one wants to believe other artists are people, who by their very nature, should be some of the most open-minded and compassionate beings on planet Earth. Sadly I come to know otherwise over the years. After meeting hundreds, if not thousands of artists from all over Florida to NY to Seattle, WA to Vermont and many places in between. -That artists in general, are some of the most obstinate, narcissistic, close-minded, know-it-all bastards there are. I think this is possibly because art by it’s very nature of constant self-exploration and self-examination leads to.. you guessed it: “Self-absorption”. -Which if used incorrectly can lead to narcissism, smugness, stagnation, and eventually exclusion and divisiveness. Hate to generalize, but just keepin’ it real for my interview and for the readers. On the flipside of that realization, the few artists who manage to stay humble and truly “open” in their lives.. ARE some the most compassionate, beautiful people you will ever meet. -There are a few of’em out there.

8. What’s the best career advice you’ve ever been given and who gave it to you?
“Don’t be afraid to make your dark’s DARK and your light’s LIGHT.” Advice from Kaile Adney. A former artist, a gifted student, and one of my high school girlfriends from way back when I was just starting to get real serious about making art. It’s a mini-lesson about the importance of contrast. A theme in my w3rk and life that has served me well and still holds resonance today. I believe many of the most powerful analogies and truisms from art are just as applicable to life and business as they are to art.

9. What kind of music do you listen to, and who are some of your favorite recording artists?
I am Mainly interested the genres and sub-genres of & pertaining to: Rock and Electronic musics. I’m moderately interested in: Pop, Hip-hop, and Jazz. I am NOT interested in: New Country, Classical, or Hippie Jam Bands.

I’ve got many more “favorite” bands than I could list here, but if you’d like to take a more in depth look at some listings of what and whom those artists are, go to: www.garlives.com/about and check out the links to my “alGARhythm” project and to my “Gar BaiLey” myspace pages. There are also links to my LastFM pages, which display my regular listening habits and have actual radio widgets. *Which you can play and physically listen to quite easily. -Quadruple Yay!

10. From where do you find inspiration for the [visual] art you create?
From the universal laws of nature, science, and philosophy. From Irony. Tragedy. Triumph. Defeat. From other human beings who’ve inspired and confounded me. From spirit molecules. From within the intangible places inside my own being which I could not understand or comprehend but through the transmogrifying journeys of self-expression, exploration, and transformation.

11. What does Gar Bailey like to do for fun? To relax?
Listening to music is the bee’s knees. I like to watch films (with my wife especially). I used to skateboard a lot until injuries started taking their toll on the body. Traveling is fun, with the exception of the whole “flying” part. Going to galleries and museums can be a fun. Good sex is relaxing and can be one of thee best natural stress relievers. -So having and creating orgasms. I’m a huge fan of nature by way of hiking, biking, or even driving if there are the right roads.. I love going to the mountains, old growth forests, and going places with water. -Lakes, rivers, ponds, waterfalls, seas, and the ocean. I also like making mix CDs for my friends and family and have probably made about 100 or more in my lifetime. Going all the way back to the days when you had to do it on cassette tapes.

12. What has been the biggest career bummer you’ve faced thus far? Please give details if the answer involves a specific scenario.
Not having a career would probably be the biggest “career bummer” for me. Not being able to make a sustainable living at what I’m great at, what I love to do, and what I should be doing in this life on planet Earth is a major “bummer”. If the world had it’s way with me, I would have giving up making art a long time ago, and would be a full time construction worker right now. I fight every day of my life to keep that from happening.

13. In your own words, describe your music to me.
Take your pick of descriptions:
-> “Found sound audio collage amalgamations w/ performance art connotations. Continual cross pollination of mediums, builds an air of contagious electricity. A bountiful palette of knobz, boxes, switches, & signals are forged into a wall of profound sound. The Dada with drum machines aesthetic.”

-> “Primordial Circuit Machine Button Boxes, tickling Existential Futuristic Arm Tricks.”

-> “Avant-Garde Auditory Exploration for Creatures of Enlightened Habitats.”

-> “Organic Electronic Music made by a Neo-Dada, Maximalist Artist and Assembler of all things Original & Arrangeable. GaR BaiLey is a true Visionary of multiple mediums & his alGARhythm ProjeKt is the Pinnacle of LIVE Post-Punk Electronics. The Ghost of Rock is Now the Ghost in Gar’s Drum Machines.”

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www.allegorymagazine.com

To AC: -Big BIG ups fellers! I’m deaf feelin’ yer latest LP to the FULLest. Blastin’ shit off to the moon and back again.

mad respekt – gaR B.

“Animal Collective – “My Girls”

Interview by Mark Richardson of Pitchfork TV:
pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7585-animal-collective

UPDATE: *The video interview I had originally posted has since been taken down, So I’ve linked you guys up to a text interview instead. I hate when bands/websites tease us like that. Better than nothin’ though I suppose.

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