Weekend internet image files, listening and watching
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Posted: Jun 29, 2013
"Deus Cantando (God, singing)" by Peter Ablinger, Winfried Ritsch & Thomas Musil
For computer controlled piano and screened textInstallation at Stara Rzeznia during Malta festival, Poznan 2013
Peter Ablinger's pieces usually take the form of music installations. Deus Cantando was born of the desire to transfer the recording of any given sound -- music, noise, human speech -- to acoustic instruments. "It turned out then that there is no machine suiting our needs. Thus, I had to create my own", s...
Posted: Jun 29, 2013
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Posted: Jun 28, 2013
"The legend of the creation of the world" by Albina Degtyar,
from Turkic republic Sakha Yakutistan, Sibirya (Siberia)
Khomus (harp) is the most ancient musical instrument, which meets practically at all peoples in this or that "modification" there are models from wooden, whale moustache, and naturally metal, which plays our today's person Albina Degtyar.
She was born in creative family in small Viluy village with a melodious name Kyrgyday.
In seven years the girl has asked mum to teach her to pla...
Posted: Jun 26, 2013
Some friends' ancestors abound
Posted: Jun 25, 2013
Great text on this beautiful, captivating (and one of my favorite) films. Respectfully pinched from Criterion Collection's website.
Find František Vláčil’s "Marketa Lazarová" here.
Cinema of the Wolf: The Mystery of Marketa Lazarová
By Tom Gunning
Marketa Lazarová (1967) ambushes the viewer, emerging suddenly from obscurity to overwhelm with a rush of sensation, like a cinema bandit, like the primitive hordes that provide the film’s main characters. An unforgettable—but also largely unknown—work...
Posted: Jun 25, 2013
Fascinating, gripping, uncanny article from July 2013 issue of Harper's.
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Posted: Jun 23, 2013
Gisèle Vienne and Etienne Bideau-Rey (as Groupe DACM) created 2 of a planned series of 3 fanzines (abandoning the ambition for realizing the third) in 2001 around the premier of their choreographic performance "Showroomdummies". These fanzines capture some of the thinking behind the piece, as well as research material and theoretical/essay text important to their mindset at the time. They also present a compelling design and aesthetic.
Posted: Jun 23, 2013
From the 1979 LP "The Perfect Release" on Aura Records.
Posted: Jun 23, 2013
Posted: Jun 22, 2013
From John Coulthart's { feuilleton } blog 22nd June 2013
The stones of Callanish are explored again, this time by an energetic and erudite Julian Cope. The Modern Antiquarian was a 55-minute TV documentary produced by the BBC in 2000 as a spin-off from Cope’s book-length study of the ancient past of the British Isles, The Modern Antiquarian: A Pre-Millennial Odyssey Through Megalithic Britain (1998). Cope has always been a great enthusiast, blessed with a talent for communicating that enthusia...