I'M NOT MUCH OF A MYSPACE USER. I ONLY ADD FRIENDS WHO ARE REAL FRIENDS. IF YOU WANT TO BE-FRIEND ME SEND ME A MESSAGE FIRST. I RARELY CHECK THESE MESSAGES, SO IF IT IS IMPORTANT EMAIL ME - BOB HALFNORMAL COM (fill in the blanks)
Bob Bellerue / halfnormal is a noise artist, theater designer, audio engineer, performer and writer from Portland of late. My work utilizes electronics and custom programming for live performance, sound installation, and prepared ambient (public & private) field recordings. With a background in punk / acid rock, Balinese and Javanese gamelan, and Tibetan Buddhism, I'm interested in the various ways that extreme sonic experiences affect awareness and identity, and the supple techniques used to focus and modulate energy. I've created original sound scores for dozens of performance art, dance, theater and film pieces, and perform regularly as a solo artist and as part of KILT, Dead Wolf Black, and Purple Pansy. My work has been presented in Indonesia, Spain, and across the United States, including the Yogyakarta Gamelan Festival, Centre de Cultura Contemporànea de Barcelona, Beyond Music Sound Festival, CEAIT Festival, Olympia Experimental Music Festival, PDX Noise Festival, Highways Performance Space, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Living Arts of Tulsa New Genre Festival, Dairy Center for the Arts, Crazyspace, DIVA, monkeymania, 7Hz, the Il Corral, the Smell, KXLU, KFJC, KSPC, KGNU, KDVS, Stanford University, UC San Diego, UC Los Angeles, Naropa University (BA 1995), and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA 2003). Visit http://www.halfnormal.com for more salience.
---------------The Version You Know There's never been a Disney version of this one, but you've probably heard it before. A miller has a beautiful daughter who he claims can spin straw into gold. A passing noble decides to call the miller on his shit and takes the girl and locks her in a tower and tells her to get spinning, presumably hoping to cause a collapse in the precious metals market.
Fortunately she's helped by a little gnome who shows up and offers to help in exchange for a small trinket. This goes on three nights, and by the third night the girl is promising the little man her first born child in return for his help. On the third morning, the king decides to marry this pretty girl who can produce gold out of dry grass.
They inevitably have a son, and the little gnome shows up demanding him. Being nothing if not fair, he'll give the girl three days to guess his name. If she can, she keeps the kid. She tries everything but comes up short, until a passing woodsman overhears the gnome bragging about how he's so clever no one will guess his name is Rumpelstiltskin. He immediately tells the queen, who springs it on Rumpelstiltskin, who's so pissed off he throws a tantrum and runs away, presumably to ply his poorly thought-out scam in another town.
What Got Changed In the Grimm brothers' version, taken from the oral tradition, the little man is so pissed off he stamps the floor in his little hissy fit, and gets stuck. And then, like some insane version of a Will Ferrell skit, he pulls so hard to free himself that he tears himself in half. Now, if our names were Rumpelstiltskin and some dizzy miller's daughter had just told the whole damn room, we'd be pissed too, but we don't think we'd get dismemberment-angry.
Not to mention, in the really early versions of the tale, Rumpelstiltskin launches himself at the girl in a rage and gets stuck ... um ... in her lady parts. Seriously. The palace
I added you as I thought you might be interested in what I am doing.
Six_events is a worldwide performance project, looking for the art in the everyday. So far, there will be hundreds of group/individual performances in Spain, America (15 states), Egypt, China, India, Greece, Japan, Italy, England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Serbia, Canada, New Zealand, Latvia, Azerbaijan, Australia, Malaysia and Israel across the last week in January (21st-27th)
Document your performances with pictures/films/poetry/drawings and they will be exhibited in London in February.
If you are interested in taking part and would like me to send you a reminder nearer the time about this then just send an email to six_events@yahoo.co.uk (tell me where you are as well!)
