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Golden Energies and Pop Montreal present: Spectral Poppycock

2011-09-15T10:52:00.001-04:00

This project has been a long time coming. Since two years ago when I participated in the first En Masse project, I’ve always wanted to use a limited color palette in a live collaboration. So this year I bit the bullet and organized it with Pop Montreal’s “Art Pop” and dropped the cash on the materials. Come check us out during the festival, K?PRESS RELEASE (cuz I know you want to read it):

“80 square feet of plaster-covered panels; Four colours; 5 days.

Tyler K Rauman, Lisa Czech, Dewey Guyen, Andy DaSilva, Kirsten McCrea, and Sara Guindon are aiming to complete 10 4’x2’ paintings from inception to final brush stroke in 5 days during this year’s Pop Montreal music festival.

These 6 psychedelic and irreverent illustrators collectively have several dozen improvised murals under their belts with the black-and-white live mural collective “En Masse”, but what distinguishes this effort is simply the use of color. The inclusion of a limited color palette, though a seemingly simple change, will provide an interesting challenge for these prolific collaborators that will require a high level of coordination and communication.

Located at the beautiful “Pop Quarters” (3450 St. Urbain, formerly l’Ecole Des Beaux Arts de Montréal) alongside displays by other artists, including Richmond Lam and Marcel Dzama.

Several other specials guests and collaborators will be making appearances.”

Big Murals in Quebec City

2011-03-07T19:56:00.003-05:00

Here is a project I worked on with 5 other kids in En Masse a few weeks ago in Quebec City:

At around 1:28 I look like a crazy person, but after 5 days of painting four 16'x16' murals and eight 9'x2.5' panels, plus some other stuff, I probably was going crazy.

"Design Pop" submission

2011-03-07T19:21:00.003-05:00

Check out my submission for Pop Montreal's "Design Pop". Vote for it if you like it, please.

A Gift for You (A Christmas Dream)

2010-12-19T00:20:00.004-05:00

I made a Christmas song for a compilation.

I encourage you to download the entire Feats of Strength Holidays compilation for free! It is pretty awesome.

*Edit: The original account ran out of free downloads, so I've re-uploaded it here.

These are some pictures from the last show I played with Technical Kidman and Pom Pom War

2010-12-03T20:59:00.003-05:00

Nightlife magazine posted some photos here.

Photos by Jean-Philippe Allard.

Super Fossil Power on Hallowe'en

2010-10-28T21:58:00.004-04:00

I am playing two shows this weekend.

One at the Silver DooooOOOOOOOoooor
on Saturday. . . $5

And one at Casa Del PopoloooOOOO
4873 boul. St-Laurent $6.66
The facebook event is here

Check out my unfinished demos.

Crazy show

2010-10-09T06:20:00.004-04:00

Holy shit. Now that show was something else.

Love people getting crazy, stripping their clothes off and all (WTF?), but knocking into my keyboards, and knocking over the PA system is not cool. Chill out a bit. Only time I've wished I was on a stage and not on the floor with everyone, and also the only time I almost stopped playing because people were being too rowdy. Too rowdy? I never thought I'd say it.

An entire shelf of books got knocked over and trampled, The drywall was torn down in the hallway, and who goes into someone's house and empties their medicine cabinet all over place? What kind of teenage bullshit is that? I hope the moment of fun was equal to the money wasted and time that will be spent cleaning up the shaving cream off the walls and the muck in the toilet.

I somewhat glad the cops unplugged me a minute before the end of my last song, because that kinda debauchery would have probably gone until 8 or 9 in the morning. I don't know if that building would have been left standing.

That being said, good times. Thanks if you came out. I'm exhausted.

TL;DR Don't fucking wreck someone's space when they are generous enough to host live music there!

"Die Active" zine cover illustration

2010-10-08T17:07:00.002-04:00

This is for an art zine that is being published in Thunder Bay, Ontario. My home town.

Sky Parade in London, UK

2010-08-27T19:42:00.003-04:00

I did this poster for Matt Sawyer's Together We Can Walk on Water promotions.

It is a little unusual for me, stylistically, but I think it turned out good.
(I did a neat trick to get the right look for the the nebula, can you guess how I did it?)

There was a hefty amount of text to do on the back, so I kept it a little simple, and didn't hand-draw any of the text, for clarity's sake:

Twitter

2010-08-15T13:43:00.004-04:00

Hey, I don't update this nearly frequently enough, but I do post stuff to Twitter all the damn time. So I've added a Twitter widget to the side of this blog that shows all of my most recent tweeeeets. Some stupid links, inane observations, and also photos of some of my art and stuff.

www.twitter.com/tyler_k_rauman

I'll still try to update this blog a little more too. . .

"They Come from Up Above/They Will Fall from the Skies"

2010-07-08T15:17:00.007-04:00

I made this poster for my musical project, Super Fossil Power.

I'm probably going to make an alternate colour scheme for this some day, but this one works for now.

I am not normally one to use any type of drug-related imagery in my art, but this began as an illustration for the medicine issue of Palimpsest Magazine.

Art show at Monistiraki! TRANSMOGRIFICATION!

2010-01-31T16:45:00.002-05:00

This Friday, February 5th at 7pm - 10pm will be the opening for my art show at Monistiraki Gallery 5478 St-Laurent.

http://monastiraki.blogspot.com/2010/01/tyler-rauman-transmogrification.html

Okay okay okay okay

2009-12-03T15:17:00.003-05:00

Here I am, ready to make my first blog post in a million years. What will I post? I'm not entirely sure. It will be a picture of some art project that I have been working on, surely.

...

Oh wait!

According to an interview in "Black and White" Magazine with the credited composer for Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Micheal Jackson was involved in composing music for the game!

Check this badass final boss music:

supposedly this song became the basis for the song "stranger in moscow":

Uh-Mazing.

En Masse

2009-11-16T18:34:00.002-05:00

http://www.enmasse.info/

For the past year I've been working with this group of artists on various projects. Check it out.

CLICK the photo to see the full thing (and my main contribution to it)

first new poster in a while...

2009-06-26T18:29:00.003-04:00

This is a drawing of a friend of mine.

OH HEY!

2009-06-16T14:39:00.001-04:00

I'm still alive.

Will post some drawings soon. PROMISE!

Phonopolis Record Store

2009-05-07T16:38:00.003-04:00

This is an ad I made for my favorite record store.

Check out their blog!

http://phonelopie.blogspot.com/

EN MASSE

2009-04-18T20:45:00.002-04:00

Here is a nice little video of En Masse. My face makes an appearance at 52-53 seconds.

EN MASSE from Noé Sardet on Vimeo.

mixylodian LP

2009-04-10T16:48:00.002-04:00

The Mixylodian side of an upcoming Australian 7-inch with Aleks and the Ramps.

squid

2009-04-10T16:06:00.000-04:00

elephant stone poster

2009-04-10T15:23:00.004-04:00

The final date and venue changed for this poster, but these are the versions that I colored.

harbourcoats, old believer

2009-02-26T16:47:00.004-05:00

I've been keeping busy! Trust me! I just haven't been posting as regularly as I'd like to. I was trying to figure out how to post from my cell phone, but for some reason it just doesn't work.

Here is a poster that I made recently:

You may notice that there is a blank spot where the venue name normally should be. That is deliberate.

POSTRS!

2009-01-17T13:31:00.003-05:00

****

UPDATE:
Performing at the event will be the incredible and incomparable TUNEYARDS,
ADAM & THE AMETHYSTS (w/o the amethysts), and MUSSAVER!

www.myspace.com/merrillgarbus
www.myspace.com/theamethysts
www.myspace.com/mussaver

****

I'm having a show of prints at Le Zigoto Cafe on Jan 23rd. Come out!

Build your own robo-ghost instructions!

2008-12-26T16:19:00.003-05:00

update: gluing in three parts.

If ever anything deserved a "WTF", this is it:

2008-11-23T03:32:00.003-05:00

Sorry if this disturbs you to your core, it has to be shared...

Seriously.

This breaks my heart in so many ways that I'm having trouble deciphering what it is exactly that gets me.. And then I'm laughing... But laughing in that nervous way that subjects in the Milgram Experiment laughed... I'm not sure why. Or if it is appropriate. It feels inappropriate. It feels WRONG. And then the terrible rendition of the already-terrible Aerosmith song from the terrible movie Armageddon tugging desperately at your heart strings...

Oh my. I think this is life-changing.

Help!

jim bryson holiday poster

2008-11-20T09:28:00.003-05:00

the acorn, ohbijou, bellisle nov28

2008-11-13T17:46:00.003-05:00

Too... Tired... To write something...

Must... take... epic nap.

What color scheme should I use when I color it?
Tell me what you think.

cookieface & triangle

2008-11-06T11:09:00.003-05:00

I'm thinking of whipping together a bunch of drawings like these

so I can actually have a zine for this year's Expozine, coming up Nov 29 and 30 in Montreal.

Not sure though. Is it just because I have some kind of evil sickness that kept me up all night that I like these?

ovalheads

2008-11-04T02:45:00.005-05:00

Haven't been making too much lately.

The weeks before hallowe'en involved lots of practicing with superfossilpower, and other than that I haven't been making much that I can shooowww.

but here is this:

I donno.

coolkids

2008-10-22T17:06:00.003-04:00

This is a demo that I'm making for my new project superfossilpower, with Katherine Peacock.
Check out our myspace page.

Let me know how it makes you feeeeeel.

square octopus unfinished

2008-10-20T02:49:00.001-04:00

just started this.

lymbyc systym, this will destroy you, this quiet army

2008-10-17T17:08:00.003-04:00

This is my new favorite color scheme. What do you think of it?

Hallowe'en EP

2008-10-17T07:24:00.003-04:00

Don't forget to download last year's free Hallowe'en EP.

eye pain posters! yip yip, wax attic, half baked also young widows, metz, sylvie

2008-10-17T07:01:00.004-04:00

Two more seizure-inducing posters.

This has the potential to be an awesome show.

1)yip yip, wax attic, half baked:

To understand my inspiration for this poster, just check out this Yip Yip video:

2)young widows, metz, sylvie:

Julie Doiron, Chad Van Gaalen, Women in Colour

2008-10-07T23:19:00.003-04:00

This poster was by far the most popular at this year's Puces Pop, the annual craft fair that happens during the Pop Montreal music festival.

BANANA?

2008-10-07T23:08:00.002-04:00

Does the banana make you uncomfortable?

Another visitor? Stay a while... Stay... FOREVER!

2008-09-28T01:12:00.002-04:00

I possibly smell a new hallowe'en song coming up.

(last year's hallowe'en EP)

elephant stone

2008-09-27T23:35:00.003-04:00

hot springs, pas chic chic, pony up

2008-09-27T18:31:00.003-04:00

Julie Doiron, Chad Van Gaalen, Women BnW

2008-09-18T01:53:00.002-04:00

Someone's bike parked outside of Cagibi while I was having an organic soda beverage.

I'm going to colour this poster, but it won't be done for a while.

fossils and atavisms

2008-09-12T02:52:00.003-04:00

A significantly higher quality video can be downloaded, or streamed here. (I recommend watching that rather than the Youtube version)

I made this video yesterday. It is the first time I've ever made a video.

Lesson learned: Thin black lines on a white background, and vice versa, do not show up well on Youtube.

Most of the footage is either from the 3DVCE or Critters software, both use Darwinian evolution to create virtual life forms.

The rest of the footage is either stock, or I stole it.

The mp3 can be downloaded here.

Virtual creature evolution!

2008-09-05T13:40:00.003-04:00

Lately I'm obsessed with evolutionary biology, and the mechanisms of evolution in general. My interest got sparked by taking part in the debates on Youtube between creationists/intelligent design proponents and those who accept evolution.

I found this set of videos of creatures that were virtually evolved by Lee Graham, who attends the School of Computer Science, Carleton University in Ottawa.

I was inspired to help him out with his research, and donate some CPU time for evolving virtual creatures. This is the first one that I've evolved:

2008-09-04T14:09:00.000-04:00

"Baile Funkish' or "A Perfect CBC Theme REMIX!"

2008-09-01T18:43:00.002-04:00

Today I made this.

I sampled the horn line from this.

SAWY

2008-08-29T19:05:00.003-04:00

I made this song this morning.
random creature generator - sawy

fight?

2008-08-27T20:33:00.002-04:00

(FIGHT!)

210 sound tone bank

2008-08-25T08:47:00.003-04:00

I was playing around with sequencing my Casio some time last year and made this song.

I lost the original recording of this when my hard drive crashed, and only have this MP3 from Myspace left to document it's existence.

random creature generator - 210 sound tone bank

previous mp3 posts:
telefauna - gold fury (40 second preview)
random creature generator - on porpoise
random creature generator - juno3
ruby - take anything

Windsor for the Derby

2008-08-22T17:49:00.005-04:00

I reused this stamp from before, but changed it a bit.

Windsor for the Derby on Myspace

Juno106

2008-08-21T22:54:00.002-04:00

Recently on Matrixsynth there was a collection of Juno106 samples up for grabs. After screwing around with them a bit i made this indulgent four-on-the-floor tune:

random creature generator - JUNO3

////////////////FOURARMS/////////////////

2008-08-20T13:23:00.010-04:00

Despite going to sleep very very late, I woke up early and went to Dusty's (the diner) for breakfast by myself this morning. Brought my drawing stuff, and got cracking.

I managed to finished a poster that I started last night, and then promptly lost all ability to concentrate on drawing, and couldn't continue working on jobs that I need to get done.

So instead I read a bit of the novel that Westcott lent me, Oryx and Crake.

Then after a couple chapters, I made this drawing while drinking heaps of mediocre drip coffee:

8x8. paper cutout on acid-free card stock:

Detail:

And to my surprise today the eggs weren't cold or slimey. bonus.

STAMP0002

2008-08-19T19:52:00.006-04:00

This is the stamp I made for the Liederwolfe poster.

Saturday Night in Montreal

2008-08-18T02:45:00.004-04:00

For those of you who missed it:

August 17th Megazoid, Gislain Poirier and Khiasma hosted the third ever Bridge Burner; A soundsystem underneath the Van Horne overpass next to the train tracks.

I was somewhere by the projector.

Video courtesy of Darren Curtis

gold fury preview

2008-08-17T17:51:00.003-04:00

This is a 40-second preview of a song I wrote with Adam (miracle fortress, adam & the amethysts) and Katherine (mussaver, my people sleeping, coal choir).

Naked Opera: Liederwolfe

2008-08-16T16:21:00.006-04:00

www.myspace.com/liederwolfe
www.liederwolfe.com

Oh my shit!

2008-08-16T03:16:00.006-04:00

I don't even know where to start with this..

At 4:21 he does a really convincing Rappers Delight.

More at www.mcrorie.net

originally found at matrixsynth

An Albatross, Aa, Thundrah, Trouble VS Glue COLOUR!!!1

2008-08-14T17:58:00.002-04:00

I coloured it.

Take Anything

2008-08-11T18:54:00.009-04:00

Another free mp3!

take anything.mp3

Ruby plays this song with her band My People Sleeping. (I produced their EP for them. go check it out!)
This version is a rough sketch--you can hear a truck passing by the window on St.V in the ambient track. I didn't feel like closing the windows, and that is what I got for my lazyness. It is still very nice, and the rawness is charming.

We just threw it together one lazy summer afternoon for kicks before watching my favorite fantasy movie of all time: WILLOW...

Which for some reason makes me feel the same way Christian the Lion does.

on porpoise

2008-08-07T13:45:00.008-04:00

oh-em-gee-its-a-free-em-pee-three!

random creature generator - on porpoise.mp3

This is something I started working on a few months back.

Check out some of my other stuff on myspace

Featuring the lovely and talented Katherine Peacock (my people sleeping, mussaver, telefauna, adam & the amethysts, etc) on spacey new age synthesizer.

Oldie but a goodie

2008-08-06T18:11:00.005-04:00

preview of something I'm working on

2008-08-04T23:10:00.003-04:00

This is a preview of something I'm working on right now:

eww

2008-08-02T02:51:00.002-04:00

Stampz are sooo cool!

2008-08-02T01:57:00.007-04:00

When I cut a stamp for making a patterned background, or whatever, I regularly test stamp it on a page to see where I'm at.

Usually the page ends up looking something like this:

Here is an animated gif of the stamp evolving (I just learned it is supposedly officially pronounced "jif". gross).

Gickr only allows 10 frames, but its kinda fun anyway.

...Unfortunately I can't find any art that I made that actually uses this stamp pattern.

RE: predicting future design aesthetics

2008-08-01T02:17:00.005-04:00

(I found this picture here:
commons.wikimedia.org)

(apparently it still works too)

FIGHT!

2008-07-31T13:32:00.002-04:00

cube-top.
squared off.
eight corners.
ninety-degree angles.
flat-top.
stares straight ahead.
stock parts.
block head!

wireless radiation eyes

2008-07-28T18:57:00.003-04:00

Sometimes trying to get drawings done makes me feel like this:

Still waiting for Internet access.

Ma Bell I've got the ill communication!

robots robots robots

2008-07-27T20:37:00.005-04:00

yyYYYAY FR ROBOS!

I doodled these at DUSTYs last week, after eating deux oeufs tourné with some kids from Indyish, while they had a meeting of some sort.

ALSO Risa did an impromptu interview with me:

I've been making lots of stuff for the past few weeks, since moving in to my new apartment, the White Castle, for the summer (PS. I'm looking for a place for September!), but I haven't had my own Internet access. I'm currently posting this from my roomie's computer while she's out. She steals the Internets from the neighbors.

So I've amassed a collection of neat art things that I'd like to post up here once Bell stops taking their sweet damn time and connects our phone line.

I plan on posting some mp3s of audio experiments and demos that I've been working on too.

Aaand. I quit my job. Summer is awesome. So if you want to hire me to draw something, now is definitely the time.

pomme pomme craft fair

2008-07-10T17:06:00.002-04:00

This weekend I'll be selling my stuff at the Pomme Pomme fair at Sala Rossa.

Read more about it at their own blog:

http://pommepommefair.blogspot.com/

dress up robots

2008-06-27T10:02:00.002-04:00

These are some guys that I was working on last night. I decided to upload them on my way out of the house this morning.

'splode head

2008-06-15T19:17:00.001-04:00

I just dooodle this pencil drawing today for fun.

yay for pencils!

Laura Barrett tour poster B&W

2008-05-08T09:46:00.002-04:00

I'm going to colour this guy eventually.

www.myspace.com/laurabarrett

An Albatross, Aa, Thundrah, Trouble VS. Glue

2008-05-01T20:38:00.005-04:00

Another psychedelic one in Black and White:

Coloured Miracle Fortress Poster

2008-05-01T20:24:00.006-04:00

I coloured this poster for limited use at the show itself, and so that it will hopefully be used in a spread in the upcoming May issue of Ion Magazine (I gave them a selection to choose from, so we'll see which ones they use)

I've realized that on the Internets it is hard to get an impression of all the little details I do, so I've decided to start making some detail shots:

Detail 1:

Detail 2:

Lezzies on X in colour.

2008-04-09T21:43:00.003-04:00

I was asked to make the lesbians on ecstasy poster in colour.

I think it pretty much rules.

Miracle Fortress Poster

2008-04-09T21:29:00.005-04:00

I got to make this nifty poster for my friends Miracle Fortress.

Lezzies on X poster

2008-03-27T20:39:00.001-04:00

I'm playing this show as Random Creature Generator as well.

HOT HOT GOLD

2008-03-22T17:59:00.003-04:00

Marilis took some pictures of my paintings and mobiles:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marilis/

a free halloween treat mp3 EP!

2007-10-31T19:15:00.000-04:00

I've spent the last few weeks producing this hallowe'en EP with some friends.

You can download the songs here (right click, save as...):

Random Creature Generator "Its hallowe'en"
Mussaver "Momma Frankenstein"
Elliot Maude "R.R.Hood"

The credits are as follows:

Random Creature Generator (Me, Tyler) - It's Hallowe'en (Featuring Ruby, Mussaver and Dishwasher)

Mussaver (Telefauna's own Katherine Peacock) - Momma Frankenstein (featuring Ruby and Random Creature Generator)

and

Elliot Maude - R.R.Hood (featuring Random Creature Generator, Ruby, and a barely audible Dishwasher)

Go check out Mussaver's myspace too!

Please share these mp3s.

Happy Hallowe'en!

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

2007-10-23T13:58:00.000-04:00

Having a rhyming band name is pretty cool, I must say.

Back in Black and White (Figurines poster)

2007-10-22T11:50:00.001-04:00

Maybe it is hard to discern at a web-ready resolution, but those are pierogies stuffed with tiny robots. Only they aren't tiny, they are about the size of your house. Please draw your attention to the big robot in the background.

Pop Montreal 2007

2007-10-22T11:38:00.000-04:00

These are the posters that I made for this year's Pop Montreal music festival.

"A brumby for Mum..."

2007-09-02T10:01:00.000-04:00

These are some drawings that I made for Jack Dylann's ART MAZE that will be set up at the Osheaga Music Festival in Montreal, September 7 and 8 I believe.
I'll also be selling prints of these and my regular posters there.

07-08-05 the immaculate machine, final flash, flying

2007-07-16T21:29:00.000-04:00

I didn't edit this in photoshop at all. not even brightness/contrast.

elfin saddle - there were valleys - brave radar

2007-07-12T22:01:00.000-04:00

Experimentation!

They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, Shapes and Sizes

2007-07-09T17:00:00.001-04:00

Flying

2007-07-04T22:09:00.000-04:00

gravy train, vip, mixylodian 07-07-18

2007-07-03T19:56:00.001-04:00

new poster technique is unstoppable

2007-06-29T11:47:00.000-04:00

I've made a new poster. This one uses paper which i've stamped patterns onto. I cut the stamps myself.

New art

2006-05-25T16:22:00.000-04:00

Wow. This Blogger shit is way cooler than Myspace. I guess that is a common sentiment.
I'll actually write something sometime soon.

Over-use of Linking is not cool

2006-02-11T11:21:00.000-05:00

This blog is called "My Neural Art", and "Blocks Shooting Out of Eyes".

My Neural Art can be rearranged to spell Tyler Rauman, which is my name.

I make art and music in Montreal, Canada.

Yes, I have a myspace account, or two. Or maybe three or four or more, but you'll have to find the other ones on your own.

None of them have pictures of me pouting into a webcam;

I don't have access to a webcam.

This is where I'm going to put some posters up for you to look at, and occasionally write about things.

-tylr