Kevin Bronson on June 16th, 2011

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Multimedia gurus NewVillager will bring a whole new meaning to living their art in Los Angeles this week. Founders Ben Bromley and Ross Simonini will be taking over Chinatown’s Human Resources Gallery, building a “village” in the space where they will live, sleep and perform each night through Tuesday. The installation is called “Temporary Culture,” and it’s another of NewVillager’s high-concept explorations in the topic of change – a process they took to the limits while recording their self-titled debut album, which comes out Aug. 16 on IAMSOUND Records. In making the album, the band “recorded 10 versions of every song, each with different melodies, chords, rhythms, production and lyrics,” they say. On the surface, putting out an album seems contradictory to their mission – once done, after all, an album is document. But three tracks on MySpace manifest themselves as electro-pop changelings, seemingly morphing with every glitch.

||| Download: “LightHouse (Punches Remix)”

||| Live: Shows at Human Resources are at 8 nightly, beginning tonight, with collaborators Ilirjana Ashugar (tonight), Matt Kivel of Princeton (Friday), Worst Friends (Saturday), Calmer (Sunday), Emily Lacey (Monday) and an “integrative concert” by NewVillager themselves on Tuesday.

||| Also: After the jump, check out Ben Dickinson’s video for “LightHouse”:

NewVillager – “LightHouse” from stereogum on Vimeo.