with love... (II)

6/29/2009

Welcome children. We're having the best time ever! We are on our way examining the past, present and future. Here. Finally open and still equating this with warmth and her heat, my muffled laughter. What could be better?
I move on too long. Time displaces itself. I try to put it back. I try to explain this truth here at last amidst the trees. Here we discuss space and other rich attitudes, we speak solemnly asking for a change. I wake up again. I look around. The air changed yet again. She is gone for now. Describing other attitudes, other times I should have known well. Speak of this time encounter her precious softness. We knew this was coming. Look around you yet again described the distance from here to the horizon line. They speak again - a delight in repetition. You try for a while never looking back - questioning its singularity. Your own private weakness. The pavement. The sky. This glassy reality. I try to distract myself with a new story, a new cause at length. My own worst mysteries evoked. The self I tried to give up so many years ago. They brought it out and it disappeared just as suddenly - we tried to black it out, to cancel this reality with alcohol and drugs at least that was the plan until it became its own agenda. Then everything else disappeared. I forced myself from that place - turned away in disbelief until the next cycle begins. You can't go on doing this yo have to distribute yourself, you have to let it mesh yet again to force it out of yourself somehow.

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6/30/2009

Then she spoke - sometimes that works - never too particular about time, are we? Home for the moment going through some of the archives. Quintessential love. The management of space and other bigger, larger plans - speak to this all of a sudden. Tell me what you are thinking. Iron out the insides somehow. Listening to electronic pulses at the moment.
As I said before, the words one pushed to suit the ideas - the moment in time you see immediately ahead - its all so unexpected. We desire promptness and travel without missing a beat. Lax but not stupid considering the wreckage. Another impossible trend killed off by magazines and my own tailor made glimpse of freedom. I try to remain composed in this moment. They speak to me in hushed voices as always - rushed but without regret. My heart remains the same. Mon coeur rest toujours. When did I give this up? and for how long? Present it with accuracy or don't explain it away at all. You constantly act as if the past were vague and indefinite - as if you can't properly describe what happened or even how you were brought to this point. Always upright and discouraged. Who lives like this? Who allows this to happen? Wo cannot trace a line from Point A to Point B. In this treasured place the whole of your body - its present state an accumulation of all these ideas resting taut inside of all these precious days. How can you dissuade yourself from this present? Why talk yourself out of it? The rest is far too much. I feel I cannot life without you. Rough and improper blackness blocking out time and memories I'd rather not live with.
Tell me about all these nights. Wait until your fingers cease to move. What were they like? An allocation of space and time - another trail - the struggle for pleasure. maintain control at all costs. Forever and for always. Express it as we've seen it before. Broken dilemmas - you choose to isolate yourself - the willingness of presence - she speaks. another encounter. To you it is always such dark shadow rooms, marks of expressionism and juvenalia like its always been. I am so frustrated with existence and this sad ongoing pressure without relief - does the curtain open or close? Won't your body reject it all the same?
"...just for one moment I understood: a blur of features..."
To make it as clear as possible.

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7/3/2009
The choice of narrator returns. Oh! I couldn't sleep last night. I couldn't do much of anything for that matter but to contemplate escape. A change of scenery will do me good - an altered acceptance. Consider the words. Consider the new worlds of how it all came about - another great test of my patience. I know how it seems - or maybe I don't, not really. I have to keep my mind and body in check. I have to be strong and stay stable somehow in this heat amidst thunderstorms she listens. She came to me once in a dream. How we tried to isolate our objectives - on this plain out across the sky. Someone understands this paradoxically its probably someone close by - another emotional change - a classical idiom - What proves the best way out. The happiest days - we cried so much - Now I can only stare with that dumb senseless expression on my face - asking for nothing in return.
Consequently, it is never enough. the well has opened up- her scent lingers for days. You asked for this in particular. You did. You committed it all to memory in these stolen hours. Hope is all there is. Still you press on or so she says this is again an attempt to block out the time apart - a life defined by the absence of a loved one - no matter how difficult the love may be - to translate this at once to action - to be absorbed by this space - the blueness of the sky it turns me over - I become reflective yet again. Pushed to the limits of communication - always unused to attentive listening - to direct speech. I have lived my life as a means of subverting this method. It seemed to me that direct action was somehow oppressive - that its essence was violent, perhaps. Now my mind has changed. It is something else entirely. "cultivating a distinct aversion to senseless behavior" What has a calming effect. The belief in Northern Shores - other smarter things - the need for comfort - for a different position - tell me its working here. Tell me you understand as much. You comprehend life measured on its own terms. People know you out there - live like this and they won't ever again - it all runs out and escapes me. My body flinches in arrogant dismissal. The premise was to express ideas - concrete thought - through other media. Talk about cultural aspects as a mask for something else. It seems sex is always the answer - that or the approval of affection. My body remains. It processes everything too quickly - What did you expect it to do really? Cultivate a new identity elsewhere? Ask for the remnants of a life - trace what exactly is important to you. Keep no secrets. my own sweet imagination. FINDING THE SEA. Another big commitment on your part - a zone for forgiveness. How long will this last? You've overseen it all - every subtle detail that one regarded as important or understood its final significance. The sound of the street.

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7/5/2009

Pinned against it. I wonder if my diet will ever regulate itself on any level. Somehow it seems obvious and yet so difficult. Here is the person. There is the space between. How do I reconcile this absence? What does it mean to wait like this? Let this be the first and last time. Let us understand this so very well. How must I proceed? What are the proper questions to ask at this stage? What point is there in dredging up the past anymore? Now it is silent. How things have changed? What brings me to her every second of my life? How else can I possibly exist? To give up everything that's come before.
I feel my head burst open - with all that is willing and alive. It gushes with so much potential. My own cautious ways. The trial period. The clever silver lining. The sense of space and undisclosed heaven. I watch for it and slowly attempt to understand - unswayed by popular opinion - my hand moves too fast - my mind my thoughts accelerate - I always want to block out the past as much as possible. The work of all tenants. Anything else that might keep it alive? She asked. The constant will for knowing - How to present this properly - in a somewhat exploratory vein. A rundown of the facts.
What is important to you and why? Here I am asking the larger questions in life suddenly thinking only of her. I want this chance more than anything else in life. It feels as though everything has been leading up to this moment. How is that possible? I still don't know. I don't have any solutions or words up to this point. Suddenly I am compelled to explain myself - my life so far. As sheltered as it may be.

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7/13/2009

So much to sort out in my head, so much to escape from the agonizing stretch of history and a life passing through so many changes. Space. Distance. Another happy cry - a rough solemn moment. I find it hard to trace so many things. I spend so much time full blotting out the past keeping it far far away from my existence its hard to recall anything good. You were on fire and then disappeared so suddenly. They keep this tactile and complacent. I will try to maintain my composure to not say silly things that might hurt the one I love.
That is all. It is easy and quiet to suggest.

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7/19/2009

The only hope now is to rest. Everything will be well again soon. My body is giving me trouble again. Its probably the heat - probably the moments in between that hurt so much. How did this happen? How did it all change? I suddenly wonder what might happen next. Part of me doesn't worry at all - its the rest of you that's biologically destroyed itself. Your diet killed you yet again. Its all too much yet again. I wanted to see her so much. What caused this idiocy? What led me to believe it is problematic? The only thing that is a known problem is your food intake. I can't believe I acted like such a baby. If I keep this up I will go a bit mad. I overanalyze myself too much. This cursed mind - other things are triggered in my body - things that should stay dormant.

love sent from...

older entries offered without comment.
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Solstice - 6/21/2009

Will it begin again? This legendary lifestyle choice going down in history as one of the worst decisions ever made. The promise of conquering this closeness is so critical and tempting so matter-of-fact, so necessary. I want to be made whole again. I want to experience a normal life. I never want this to end. They didn't laugh they didn't exist. I am left with my own attempts at freedom of movement perhaps. A sketch or two at this hour. Imposed in haste she cried, she laughed. The nearest I've been to love in a long time. It is pleasurable and frightening. It is everything I want it to be. A this time - in this space. Inhabiting our own happiness for a change for the acknowledgment of the greater good. I absorb her strength her energy inside me it helps me to live to continue in this daily existence. Picture it: my own recovery fulfilled with all the sweetness and violence of long ago. Those hushed silences evocative of the pleasure I feel within her. From here forever and always without discipline without anxiety without it all. Her perfection is met in her absence. In this curious space I sit alone for a change for a lifetime of wishes - explain it all to me or leave me alone, let me handle it my own way. I wait upon the couch hoping for a better, a . The fault of these attitudes the fault that makes my mind so guarded, so obtuse so unnecessarily obscured from reasonable states of being. Take to the stage take to this act take to the wetness of her thighs, the softness of her beauty. Take to this and I will find stability and hope. The door is blown open by the summer wind and I lookout at the green hills to the pastures below, and beyond that to the sea. She waits, she opens the door, she confirms herself once again to me. Once again before my eyes her unquestionable beauty. I am still in shock but maintain composure. What keeps me conscious I'll never know. It is one of those insights she's born upon herself to disclose. I lie and smile like a gibbering idiot my mind vacant as my body gives itself over to her sheer physicality. To her lifeline to her irresistable smell. Something should be said for all of this. How quick, how sudden, how accepting. We nudge ourselves forward. Its time to speak at this moment to exercise oneself cry with tears in your eyes another solemn victory for your own sake. We exist we continue we proceed we carry on. Huge swathes of people exist in the harshest conditions this planet has to offer. It is like this the assumption there is no suspicion, there is no one to thank but yourself in these dreams you come across a river that cut through the forest. Upon that answer for innocence at all cost it is within your nature within you heart to let this go to let it proceed under the will of god or your own sedentary instincts we'd asked for this many times before. Now its finally here in between your hands like sand in the proverbial hourglass.
She stops. She speaks. She asks questions. I resign myself to a quick smile a moment of compassion. I use all my strength to hold back the tidal wave of heart my heart my resistance is wearing thin my body needs this space. I define it in any other way in any other terms "mon coeur reste toujours" my heart remains the same. To take the place of emotion I let the sound or the image express what I cannot what I am resisting. Our own pieces of luck and beauty. Strife exuberance when the moment calls for it. A quiet sound. "to make sense of this din" To capture my impressions of this life this cement experience that has moved me enough to write. To hunt for something marginally adequate. Something that cried out for pen and paper. Away from the screens. I am here at once without her presence. Such is all of this story. Such is all of this life.
It is still somewhat wet and bright outside. Another week of rain is on its way. Another moment stepping outside of time. Into this pleasurable act. My limited vocabulary dulls the impact of these words. None too critical then. Another lifeless form. Why be so quiet about it?
"How could you be left like this?"
"What happened to you?"
The desolation grows - why have I become so trite? The moment that begins pelase stop me. push me outside the circle. The weekend is yours - welcome to the tyranny of freedom. Why be so cagey about this? Speak direct clear thoughts don't leave her trapped in the vagaries of your soul. "Why are you still like this?" That is the real precise point. if I am a wave then let me crash upon the shore.
Why did you choose to make a sphere? The simplest and most basic of all things - the least complex and least impressive. The beauty of space (and how many times can I shift the same words around)
Met with the cruelty of the world in all its suffering madness. She isn't speaking. She stares at you with those eyes of hers and you can't help but smile as all your fears drift away. What should I know about this? How is it relevant? How has your body changed yet again? The waves lap upon the shore. You feel the wet sand under your feet as you look out to the horizon line lucky it hasn't been obscured by the approaching cloudmass. The structure you cam from is on the hill above you. Consider the landscape consider what effect this space has on you. We exist waiting for the right moment holding back the tears. Never having to explain myself to her but at the same time unable to sate her curiosity. What gift is this! What presence! Its all so sudden its all so hard to process instead I find myself away again on the beach caressed by the sands of time.
The gift of her body. The gift of this life its finally changed me. Moving to this revelation. To this icy blue presence. "the blue light of peace and lonliness"
Seeing as its almost time.
Seeing as you know me. Seeing as you said so. The biggest hope is what she radiates. Give existence a chance this time. Why dredge up those memories? Its easy enough - fears you haven't confronted perhaps? Following the right choice without a care in the world. At last the spirit of traveling away with purpose - an accurate sense of life. Of the child she once was and the sheer loneliness of it all. As long as we understand each other. At once approaching the question: Who am I? What have I done to cultivate this reality? Everything and more - all pathways lead to this sense of belonging. We've seen you around these parts before. Cultivate a new presence. The old records sound just as good as they ever did. The dxx(?)ken scales approach the precise endpoint of their existence.
In this town everyone looks the same. We are insistent on presenting a proper manner of speech.
I've been looking over the old journals briefly - another place, another time they bring back such laughs and sadness. The context of the story our own reticent beginnings wracking my brains for choice of thought - hoping to subside on it all piece by piece. The crux of the investigation leading backwards amidst all those awful acceptances we happen to know how brilliant she's become. Another guiding voice as I shiver innocently. Looking out across the bay.
What purpose does the landscape serve?
How does it manifest itself?

NCP I - 9/25/2009

"off the cuff" (NCP) with George 09/25/2009 07:00PM to 10:00PM

07:07PM Robin Storey and Victor Nubla "Half a breath away" from "about breathing"
07:12PM Blood Money "Secret Rapture" from "Blood Brotherhood" (CD) on Killer Pimp
07:18PM Deadly Weapons "Jayne Mansfield" from "Deadly Weapons" (LP) on NATO
07:23PM Sue Ann Harkey "its not about them its about us" from "the ancient past and the ancient future are both seconds away" (LP)
07:29PM Cluster "Avanti" from "Grosses Wasser" (CD) on Bureau B
07:34PM Controlled Bleeding "After the Rain" from "Between Tides" (LP) on Multimood
07:38PM Susumu Yokota "Cherry Blossom" from "Grinning Cat" (CD) on Leaf
07:43PM Wim Mertens "Inergys (reprise)" from "Vergessen" (LP) on Les Disques Du Crepuscule
07:50PM Andreas Tillander "Rescue me now" from "Elit" on Mille Plateaux
07:56PM Pascal Comelade "your labios as tulips" from "el primitivismo" on Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'acier
07:59PM Dream Makers "Helen's Song" from "From Brussels with Love" (CD) on Les Disques Du Crepuscule
08:01PM The Durutti Column "Prayer" from "Another Setting" on Factory
08:05PM The Durutti Column "Response" from "Another Setting" on Factory
08:07PM The Durutti Column "Bordeaux" from "Another Setting" on Factory
08:10PM Nana April Jun "Process Philosophy" from "the ontology of noise" (CD) on Touch
08:17PM Virna Lindt "The Windmills of your Mind" from "Moving Soundtracks" on LTM
08:19PM Steven Brown "Chinatown" from "composes pour le theatre et le cinema" (LP) on Les Disques Du Crepuscule
08:24PM At Swim Two Birds "Let Her Go" from "Before You Left" (CD) on Vespertine & Son
08:31PM Liima (Ilpo Vaisanen) "Version 3" from "Version 3 & 4" (10 Inch) on kangaroo
08:39PM David Sylvian "Emily Dickinson" from "Manafon" on Samadhi Sound
08:45PM Nobukazu Takemura "travels of italy" from "child & magic" (CD) on warner japan
08:52PM Tuxedomoon "Luther Blisset" from "Cabin in the Sky" (CD) on Crammed Discs
08:58PM Hiroshi Fujiwara "Hard Boiled Dub" from "In Dub Conference" (CD) on Victor (japan)
09:04PM Jimi Tenor "my mind" from "organism" (CD) on warp music
09:10PM Frits Weiland "studie in langen impulsen" from "Anthology of Dutch Electronic Music Volume 1 (1955-1966)" (CD) on Basta
09:14PM Moondog "Lament 1 'bird's lament'" from "The Viking Of Sixth Avenue" (CD) on Honest Jons
09:16PM Penguin Cafe Orchestra "the sound of someone you love who's going away and it just doesn't matter" from "music from the penguin cafe" (CD) on EG Records
09:28PM Jozef Van Wissem "How the soul has arrived at understanding of her Nothingness" from "A Priori" (CD) on Incunabulum
09:37PM Mika Vainio "Swedenborgia" from "Aineen Musta Puhelin / Black Telephone of Matter" (CD) on Touch
09:43PM The Lost Jockey "matters of theory" from "the fruit of the original sin" on LTM
09:50PM Wolfgang Riechmann "traumzeit" from "Wunderbar" (CD) on Bureau B

Quiet Life

These past few days have been wondrous in their quiet. The rupture from such tumultuous anxiety over the weekend has fully subsided. I feel changed, calmer, better more whole. I have to attend to things more grounded in reality or certain aspects thereof to put my life in order and stabilize its rhythms. Of course this is all already here at once this time living simultaneously alongside the constant changes of life. For once I have so much to look forward to, so much to be thankful for.

NCP I - Sept. 18 2009

"off the cuff" (NCP) with George 09/18/2009 07:00PM to 10:00PM

07:04PM Mika Vainio "In a frosted lake" from "Aineen Musta Puhelin / Black Telephone of Matter" (CD) on Touch
07:09PM David Sylvian "Small Metal Gods" from "Manafon" on Samadhi Sound
07:15PM Coti "Shoal 1.2" from "[metamoria\>" on vibrant music
07:19PM Thomas Wydler and Toby Dammit "La Fabbrica Politica" from "Morphosa Harmonia" (CD) on Hit Thing
07:24PM Easy & Center of the Universe "legend of selda" from "Skweee Tooth"
07:28PM Thick Pigeon "Jess + Bart (Remix)" from "Twice As Nice" (CD) on LTM
07:33PM De Portables "valentine" from "Rosegarden" (CD) on (K-RAA-K)3
07:41PM At Swim Two Birds "let her go" from "Before You Left" (CD) on Vespertine & Son
07:45PM Sonoko "Marienbad" from "La Debutante" (LP) on Crammed Discs
07:55PM David Sylvian "Random acts of Senseless Violence" from "Manafon" on Samadhi Sound
07:57PM Seigen Ono "Dragonfish" from "Dragonfish Live" (CD) on Saidera
08:03PM Nana April Jun "Process Philosophy" from "the ontology of noise" (CD) on Touch
08:10PM David Sylvian "The Greatest Living Englishman" from "Manafon" on Samadhi Sound
08:20PM Scala "Space" from "Compass Heart" (CD) on Touch
08:25PM Moritz Von Oswald Trio "Pattern 3" from "Vertical Ascent" (CD) on Honest Johns Records
08:35PM Delia Derbyshire "Sea" from "Inventions for Radio - Dreams"
08:44PM Piano Magic "5" from "{Son de Mar} soundtrack" (CD) on 4AD
09:10PM Acetate Zero "a picture you can't flash" from "VA: bucolique vol 01" on Arbouse
09:14PM The Names "Calcutta" from "swimming" (CD) on LTM
09:17PM The Passage "Drugface" from "Seedy"
09:21PM Epee Du Bois "Misery" from "Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008" on Wierd
09:31PM Jon St James "Trans-atlantic" from "Trans-atlantic"
09:31PM Xeno and Oaklander "Celeste" from "Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008" (CD) on Wierd
09:37PM The Hypothetical Prophets "person to person" from "So Young But So cold" (CD) on Tigersushi
09:47PM David Sylvian "Emily Dickinson" from "Manafon" on Samadhi Sound
09:47PM July Skies "Girl on the Hill" from "The Weather Clock" (CD) on make mine music
09:51PM Mountains "Melodica" from "Choral" (CD) on Thrill Jockey

the mind ran away with it

This has been one of those weeks when the life of the mind overtakes me. It plays tricks on me as I wait for a sign, a moment, an act. Perhaps that is the problem: my mind has been focussed on that action, that is to say: future plans - tan any present project. That is apart from the usual blindly sentimental process of perpetuating life: maintaining my physical presence- keeping it one step away from total disrepair. I look out beyond the aching plains towards the roar of the ocean contemplating the depth of the waters. It has a terrifying and yet calming effect. I continue blindly asking myself how to move forth. What direction for this next wave of passion (?) Perhaps my body's rhythms are directing my mind's thoughts yet again chained to something inexplicably base and yet vital. You've heard it before. The view to the horizon line unblocked by buildings untarnished by memory. Will I be left here to sort out all the pieces I tried to put away? Spots of memory I have yet to understand - yet to - but it all takes time.

It always began with a view - an attempt to evoke a particular mood more than anything else. The silence that unfolds and slowly kills me - on one level conversation is good so long as it is productive - criticism has its place so long as these designs maintain their original shape. If only: we create rhythm to protect ourselves to span across the desolate nights protected by nothing but the promise of a new hopeful sound.

action by degrees

An attempt to maintain balance, to understand what is correct in this situation, to move away from the idea that every moment is of consequence, an attempt to relax. when will this occur? I didn't sleep well last night. Perhaps I need more discipline, more structure to achieve my aims. I cannot continue to be plagued with things that are beyond my control. Perhaps its the effect of the Trap, the cumulative idea that's started to germinate, the one item that i thought i'd put behind me, why is it here again? I have to stay focussed. I have to maintain the sense that I am doing the right thing, the sense that things are alright as they are, that I have done enough with what time I have. I always want to know more but one cannot constantly be barraged with questions, things will come about in time. Wonderful things. I have to allow this to become as it is. There is no point in pushing someone in a certain direction, if that person wants to be there then it will happen. I see no need in worrying about such things. And yet I have, or at least perhaps this is all a consequence of my diet, perhaps I just need time to get myself into a proper rhythm and everything will follow from that. It is better to have specific goals to work towards to at least have the illusion of achievement. That said, I think I've done pretty well so far. I met a beautiful woman and will do everything in my power not to lose her. I've never felt more strongly about someone in such a long long time. Its been over three months now and things are going very well. I need to focus on this more, to direct my energies to help us achieve our goals. I feel that there is so much promise here. I wish I could rest today or use this time to get my life in order, some sort of mental health option, to selfishly pursue all the things I did not get to yesterday. It will have to wait until after work today. Another week begins, I have to be alert and pay attention to my work now.

NCP I playlist from September 4, 2009 - 1900 to 2200

"off the cuff" (NCP) with George 09/04/2009 07:00PM to 10:00PM

07:00PM Jazz "The Tether Ends Here" from "the night watch" on LTM
07:04PM Ruth White "Wheel of Fortune" from "7 Trumps From The Tarot Cards" (LP) on limelight
07:08PM Emtidi "Traume" from "mitten ins ohr" on ZYX
07:10PM Wio "Once this open place was a river" from "WIO" (CD) on K-raa-k
07:13PM Rapoon "blue streak blues" from "Dark Rivers" (CD) on Lens Records
07:18PM David Sylvian "Brilliant Trees" from "Brilliant Trees" on Virgin
07:26PM Elaine Radigue "Onward 19, Backward 19" from "Vice Versa etc (1970)" on Important
07:35PM The Durutti Column "Requiem Again" from "Vini Reilly" on Factory
07:40PM The Names "Calcutta" from "swimming" (CD) on LTM
07:43PM Tuxedomoon "The Laboratory (Parts 1 & 2)" from "The Ghost Sonata" on LTM
07:49PM Coti "Sea Level" from "[metamoria\>" on vibrant music
07:54PM Martial Canterel "Hausmann" from "Refuge Underneath" (CD) on Wierd
07:59PM Hiroshi Fujiwara "hard boiled dub" from "In Dub Conference" (CD) on Victor (japan)
08:05PM Tuxedomoon "Dark Companion" from "Ten Years in One Night (live)" (CD) on Materali Sonori
08:09PM Nana April Jun "Process Philosophy" from "the ontology of noise" (CD) on Touch
08:16PM Bump & Grind Vs Third Eye Foundation "Pan Odyssey" from "Substantia" (CD) on Sub Rosa
08:22PM Ian McCulloch "September Song" from "September Song" (10 Inch) on Korova
08:26PM July Skies "Harlow" from "The Weather Clock" (CD) on make mine music
08:32PM Yann Tiersen "Monochrome" from "Black Session" on Ici D'ailleurs
08:35PM Moritz Von Oswald Trio "Pattern 3" from "Vertical Ascent" (CD) on Honest Johns Records
08:45PM Jay-Jay Johanson "Lightning Strikes" from "Self Portrait" on EMI Sweden
08:51PM The Durutti Column "Missing boy - demo" from "Sub disc 2004" on Kooky
08:56PM Steven Brown "Music #2" from "Decade" on LTM
09:00PM The Names "Discovery" from "swimming" (CD) on LTM
09:05PM Bene Gesserit "Kidnapping" from "Kidnapping" (7 Inch)
09:10PM Ennio Morricone "corsa sui tetti-aka black glove underground part one" from "Psichedelico Jazzistico" (CD) on El
09:13PM Delia Derbyshire "Falling" from "Inventions for Radio"
09:22PM Robert Henke "flicker" from "Atom Document" (CD) on Imbalance Computer Music
09:31PM Ester Brinkmann "Maschine" from "Totes Rennen" (CD) on Suppose
09:34PM The Names "I wish I could speak your language" from "swimming" (CD) on LTM
09:41PM Wolfgang Riechmann "himmelblau" from "Wunderbar" (CD) on Bureau B
09:51PM Felix Kubin + Coolhaven "There is a garden" from "suppe fur die nacht"
09:52PM Christina Kubisch "Armonica" from "Armonica" (CD) on semishigure

deus ex machina

Perhaps that's what is it needed in this instance. A final resolute option. It all sounds so silly to me- the escape, the moment, the time elapsed - it all pales in comparison to the mark of history to the examples presented before me to this foregrounded sentiment to the rashness of the spectacle and my uninhibited expectations. This will never be taken for granted. The caving in to another's selfish desires - something else that yearns for mistolerance, that exists only to keep this presence away from me. Oh that I were not bound by such material concerns and plagued with mundane commitments. Is it really so much easier to let that drift out of concern for others - to walk away and isolate oneself? To act like the myopic and the driven? Where is the perspective in this scenario? Where is the push for the alright? Where is the motion to give this birth meaning? I am left with a collection of gestures and caresses. What has the light given me in this respect? A moment of silence, a moment with which to process this yet again, unaccounted for traumas. I wish this would all be deciphered. I hope to stand on firm, solid ground again. The strains of weakness and fever echo in my head - the eye and the hand. The call to break this cycle of repetition.

The Durutti Column: Four Factory Records

if proof were needed.

their terrain

Every time I look into her eyes I feel such joy and wonder at the same moment. Is this what people do? Sit around not speaking just staring into each others eyes for minute after minute looking at each other finding out where it all connects. Waiting for the the moment the rough and the smooth finally meet.

Tonight i walk out into the rain again. Define sound as it rests upon my ears.

Playlist - July 24 2009 - WZBC NCP I

WZBC Newton 90.3FM
Boston College Radio


"off the cuff" (NCP) with George 07.24.2009 07:00PM to 10:00PM

07:12PM Ovil Bianca "RaidIO" from "Gravity = Love" (CD) on (K-RAA-K)3
07:13PM Asmus Tietchens & Okko Bekker "aus nichts" from "Stockholmer Totentanz" (CD) on Artware
07:20PM Bene Gesserit "Kidnapping" from "Kidnapping" (7 Inch)
07:24PM Jimi Tenor "My Mind" from "organism" (CD) on warp music
07:29PM Deadly Weapons "King Cobra" from "Deadly Weapons" (LP) on NATO
07:34PM KG "SPECTRE (musique pour mangas erotiques)" from "Gooom Tracks Vol. 2" (CD) on Gooom Disques
07:40PM Robert Hampson "Ahead - Only The Stars" from "Vectors" (CD) on Touch
07:51PM David Sylvian "Pollen Path" from "Dead Bees on A Cake" (CD) on Virgin
07:55PM The Remote Viewer "the sound of a finished kiss" from "Here I Go Again on My Own" (CD) on Tower Block
08:03PM Soft Verdict "Inergys" from "Vergessen" (LP) on Crepuscule
08:07PM Cavil "meet me at strumble head" from "an Evening in the Company of Vespertine" on Vespertine
08:09PM Robert Wyatt "Foreign Accents" from "cuckooland" on Hannibal
08:14PM Mark Van Hoen "Dark Roads" from "the warmth inside you" on Very Friendly
08:20PM It and my computer "Pas A Pas" from "(K-RAA-K)3 festival sampler" on (K-RAA-K)3
08:24PM The Honeymoon Killers "Fonce a Mort" from "Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel" (CD) on Crammed Discs
08:30PM Steven Brown "la vie est belle" from "composes pour le theatre et le cinema" (LP) on Les Disques Du Crepuscule
08:33PM Jay-Jay Johanson "sore" from "Self Portrait" on EMI Sweden
08:39PM Harold Budd "Flowered Knife Shadows (for Simon Raymonde)" from "LOVELY THUNDER" (LP) on Editions EG
08:45PM Delia Derbyshire "Falling" from "Inventions for Radio - Dreams"
08:56PM Nobukazu Takemura "travels of italy" from "child & magic" (CD) on warner japan
09:02PM Disco Inferno "Incentives" from "In Debt"
09:06PM Wolfgang Riechmann "traumzeit" from "Wunderbar" (CD) on Bureau B
09:14PM The Durutti Column "Otis" from "Vini Reilly" on Factory
09:18PM Nana April Jun "Process Philosophy" from "the ontology of noise" (CD) on Touch
09:26PM Liima "Version 3" from "Verion 3 & 4" (10 Inch) on Raster-noton
09:34PM Eyeless in Gaza "Invisibility" from "Voice - The Best of Eyeless In Gaza 1980-1986" (CD) on Cherry Red
09:36PM Epee Du Bois "Misery" from "Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008" on Wierd
09:40PM Ryuichi Sakamoto "Thatness and Thereness" from "US"
09:47PM Robert Henke "shift_register" from "Atom Document" (CD) on Imbalance Computer Music
09:52PM Rapoon "this side of zero" from "Dark Rivers" (CD) on Lens Records

Guardian UK Blog on Wierd Records

check it out here.

can't wait for the new compilation!

Lightning Strikes - Jay-Jay Johanson.

NCP I playlist from June 12, 2009

WZBC Newton 90.3FM
Boston College Radio

"off the cuff" (NCP) with George 06.12.2009 07:00PM to 10:00PM

07:00PM Ovil Bianca "RaiDIO" from "Gravity = Love" (CD) on (K-RAA-K)3
07:03PM Frits Weiland "Studie in Lagen Impulsen" from "Institute of Sonology 1959-1969" (CD) on Sub Rosa
07:13PM Robert Henke "crossing" from "Atom Document" (CD) on Imbalance Computer Music
07:15PM Moderat "Rusty Nails" from "Moderat" (CD) on BPitch Control
07:19PM Jay Jay Johanson "I want some fun" from "on the radio"
07:26PM Acetate Zero "A picture you can't flash" from "VA: bucolique vol 01" on Arbouse
07:30PM Emak Bakia "Love Me, Jane" from "Jane" on Acuarela
07:37PM Nana April Jun "Process Philosophy" from "the ontology of noise" (CD) on Touch
07:43PM Steven Brown "Sous quelle etoile suis-je ne?" from "a tribute to polnareff" (CD) on XIII Bis Records.
07:48PM Xeno and Oaklander "Non-Senti" from "The Wierd Compilation 2006" (LP) on Wierd
07:52PM Lazerboy "the day the earth caught fire" from "a murder in the company of vespertine" on Vespertine
07:54PM July Skies "Countryside of 1939" from "where the days go" on make mine music
08:07PM Gnac "The Arrival of the Fog" from "The Arrival of the Fog" on LTM
08:08PM Winston Tong "The Next Best Thing to Death" from "Fruit of the Original Sin (Expanded Edition)" (CD) on LTM
08:13PM Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie "Snowfall" from "Music from the Film Mysterious Skin"
08:20PM The Field "The More That I Do" from "Yesterday and Today" (MP3) on Anti
08:28PM The Durutti Column "Lock-Down" from "Love in the Time of Recession" (CD) on fullfill
08:37PM David Sylvian "The Scent of Magnolia" from "Everything and Nothing" on Virgin
08:42PM Robert Hampson "Ahead - Only The Stars" from "Vectors" (CD) on Touch
08:56PM Mokira "Oscillations and Tremolo" from "Persona" on Type
09:05PM Bisk "Gifts from a strange person" from "Substantia" on Sub Rosa
09:17PM Wim Mertens "Sidemen" from "To Fill in The Blank" (CD) on Les Disques Du Crepuscule
09:19PM Nini Raviolette "suis-je normale" from "So Young But So Cold: Underground French Music 1977-1983" (CD) on Tigersushi
09:24PM Ryuichi Sakamoto "Thatness Thereness" from "US"
09:28PM Polmo Polpo "Requiem for a fox" from "Like Hearts Swelling" (CD) on Constellation
09:37PM Tuxedomoon "Desire" from "Ten Years in One Night (live)" (CD) on Materali Sonori
09:46PM Zeitkratzer & Keiji Haino "Aria 1" from "Electronics" on Zeitkratzer Records

pulling our weight - radio dept

Hopefully they'll play Boston one day.

Raster-Noton tonight in Cambridge, MA

from the e-mail -

***Thursday, June 4, 2009***

Non-Event, Basstown, and WZBC present

The Return of Raster-Noton!!!

ALVA NOTO & BYETONE

w/DJ Volvox

at Make It New at the Middlesex Lounge
315 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
(617) 868-MSEX
Doors: 9:30pm, Show: 11pm
21+ / Admission: $10

Musician and visual artist CARSTEN NICOLAI (aka ALVA NOTO) works
in the transitional area between art and science. In his intensely
dynamic work, Nicolai plays with the rules of physicality. Clicks
and glitches are not used as ornamental additions, but make up the
essential elements of the work, which is often structured around
the rhythmic grooves of hip-hop and R&B. Nicolai has performed in
many of the world's most prestigious spaces including The Guggenheim,
MOMA SF, MOMA Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern, and Venice Biennial.
http://www.carstennicolai.com/

OLAF BENDER (aka BYETONE) is a founding member of the Raster-Noton
label, as well as its lead designer. Bender creates his music digitally,
assembling sine tones into complex sound fabrics of deep sub-bass
and rhythmic clicks and crackles. He creates abstract animations
to support his abstract music, transforming the rhythm of the music
into a graphic equivalent, which he controls in real time.
http://www.myspace.com/benderbyetone

Upcoming Non-Events:
June 12 - NOVI_SAD w/Benjamin Nelson at MassArt

Show Links:
Raster-Noton: http://www.raster-noton.de
Non-Event: http://www.nonevent.org
Basstown: http://basstown.blogspot.com/
WZBC: http://www.wzbc.org

More Non-Event Links:
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/non-event/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13578738820
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/nonevent

Judex - introduction

the haunting beginning.

This Week.

Wednesday night: China Mieville (British Sci-fi author) is giving a talk in Harvard Sq. (Parlour of First Church) about his book "The City and The City".

Thursday night: Raster-Noton show at the Middlesex
MAKE IT NEW
6.04.09
FEATURING RASTER NOTON
315 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
617 868 MSEX

Friday night: I'm doing my radio show.

This weekend is up for grabs so far.

I'm currently reading the last Martin Beck mystery: "The Terrorists"

Speaking in Code - Megapolis - NEXT WEEK

The newSpeaking in Code premiers at the Somerville Theater April 23, 2009. It is a documentary about new electronic music full of beauty and madness. I highly recommend it. Tickets are available now


Upcomingnext Friday the MegapolisAudio Art Festival is happening in Cambridge, Somerville, Jamaica Plain and other places in the Boston Area. I'll be there the first couple of nights providing DJ activity in some capacity. It should be interesting. Note the Schmedule! Ticket information is here.

from way back when

The Wolfhounds: "Me"

Stieg Larsson's work on screen

Swedish Thriller based on Stieg Larsson's work due out soon. Looks promising. Due to open Cannes Film Festival 2009.

Sorcerer Trailer

For future reference.

Xeno and Oaklander - Live

Nuit - Celeste.

From the Celebrations I missed.

short notice - NCP 1 tonight

I'm on the air again finally. tune into WZBC.

X/O live at Wierd tonight!

Again, I wish I could be there but work commitments keep me stuck in Boston for the moment.

from the e-mail:
Hello all, due to an unfortunate scheduling conflict the John Wiese, Xeno and Oaklander, Zaimph, and Led er Est Show Wednesday at the Knitting Factory is cancelled, apologies to everyone for any inconvenience.

The Xeno and Oaklander show will now be moved to the WIERD weekly party this Wednesday featuring the return of guest DJ Anarexia(sic)! In addition John Wiese will be playing live at West Nile on Thursday night and Led er Est will be back at WIERD live on October 1st, so please come on out and support these great events! Info on the John Wiese show is below.

So this week WIERD proudly welcomes the return of Xeno and Oaklander for a live performance at midnite! This will be the most complex show Liz and Sean have ever done as they debut the a whole new set of trax from their forthcoming debut LP for the first time! It doesn't get any colder or rarer than this week...see you all in the WIERD...VR

Pieter, Glenn and Anarexia Spin Cold Wave, Minimal Electronic Music!
(Live Performance by Xeno and Oaklander at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St @ Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
http://www.wierdrecords.com/

Coming Soon to the WIERD World:
Thursday September 18th 10pm: John Wiese, Barry Weisblatt, MV Carbon with DJ Pieter from Wierd Records NYC, The West Nile, 285 Kent Ave (btw South 1st and South 2nd Sts), BKNY
Friday September 19th: Minimal LA and Pendu dot org Present Xeno and Oaklander, SSPS, Terrible Eagle, Birth(Los Angeles), and Chaos Magik Live at Fat Baby 112 Rivington St NYC
Wednesday September 24th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Envenomist!(Columbus, OH)
Wednesday October 1st: WIERD Welcomes the Return of Led er Est
Wednesday October 8th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance byThe Hunt(Two week UK Tour send-off party!)
Wednesday October 15th: WIERD Presents the NYC debut of WIERD Compilation Volume II artists Ronin
(Miami)!
Wednesday October 22nd: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Blacklist!(CMJ Festival)
Wednesday October 29th: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Martial Canterel!
Wednesday November 5th: WIERD Presents the Minimal Electronic Pleasures of Further Reductions(Shawn NoEQ of Led er Est + Ms Katie Rose)
Wednesday November 12th: WIERD Presents the return of Xeno and Oaklander
Wednesday November 19th: WIERD Proudly Presents a Live Performance by Opus Finis(Miami)!
Friday November 21st: THE WIERD 5 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY!!! (Location TBC)
Wednesday December 3rd: WIERD Presents a Live Performance by Cult of Youth!
Wednesday December 10th: WIERD Presents the Return of Tobias Bernstrup!
Wednesday December 17th: A Very Rare WIERD Christmas Party featuring a Live Performance by Sleep Museum

Tuxedomoon - Live in NYC - Sept. 17, 2008

From the Press Release:

Usually more visible along the coast of the Mediterranean or the Baltic, legendary band Tuxedomoon will be making a rare appearance stateside in New York City for one show only at Le Poisson Rouge - a brand new multimedia art cabaret founded on the former site of the historic Village Gate.


Don't expect to see them repeat poses from their youth as Tuxedomoon seldom look back and, if so, more often than not, choose to refine and distort their past in terms concurrent with their muses of the moment. No room for '80s nostalgia here, their recent compositions feature a wide and surprising variety of styles, influences and themes gathered along their varied journey through space and time. Appearances of Tuxedomoon in the USA are unusual occurrences, there having been only 4 others in the last 21 years.


If you're in that part of the world, come witness this unique event.


Tuxedomoon, Gutbucket,
Wednesday September 17 at 10pm

(Le) Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012
www. lepoissonrouge. com / 212.505.FISH – phone / 646.478.
9197 – fax

Der Baader Meinhof Complex

This looks excellent. I don't think it will arrive in the United States until sometime next year. (I was recently reminded of it in this post.).

Misery at Wierd Tonight - Epee du Bois Live (NYC)

from the e-mail:
an excellent party this week's WIERD is destined to be(he says in his best hackneyed attempt at an Aristo accent)as we welcome back WIERD's long time resident Master of the cloudy cold gloom Epee du Bois for a creepy dripping wet Korg MS-20 live performance at Midnite! And yes for all of you who emailed us to ask if Cheyney will be playing his WIERD Compilation V2 frozen dancefloor VRasterpiece(including the charming young lady who said she'd drive from Indiana to hear the cheery track live) the rumours are yes Monsieur Epee will indeed be performing 'Misery' live for the first time this week so cheer the fuck up everyone! As if that wasn't enough WIERD is proud to this week also play host to the long awaited record release party for Tamaryn's debut LP where she will have the full-length album of her idiosyncratic cold guitar gypsywave sounds available for the first time!

Pieter, M Canterel and The Speculator Spin a Miserably Minimal Mess!
Wednesday July 16th, 10pm-4am
(Very Rare Live Performance by Epee du Bois and Tamaryn Record Release at Midnite!)
WIERD @ Home Sweet Home
131 Chrystie St@Delancy, NYC
Info:(212)226-5708
http://www.wierdrecords.com/

"Off the Cuff" NCP I - Friday July 11 2008 - playlist

Fri Jul 11th 2008 7.00pm–10.00pm

Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.

Time zone: Eastern

July Skies “Waiting to Land” from The English Cold CD ALBUM (make mine music 2004)
Hazard “Windmill” from Land CD ALBUM (Touch www.touchmusic.org.uk 2003)
Howie B “Five Days” from Freezone 3 CD COMP (SSR 1996)
Carlos Giffoni “There Are Other Gates” from Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 LP COMP (Wierd 2008)
Tuxedomoon “The Waltz” from Ten Years in one night Live LP ALBUM (Crammed)
Xeno and Oaklander “Celeste” from Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 (Wierd 2008)
Ruth “Mots” from Des jeunes gens modernes CD COMP (Naive 2008)
Coti “Tiptoe” from [metamoria\> (vibrant music 2001)
Bernard Bonnier “"I can't sing..."” from Casse-Tete CD ALBUM (Oral 2008)
Medikao “Detective” from Des jeunes gens modernes (Naive 2008)
Les Hurleurs “Hotel Varlin” from Ciel D'encre (Barclay 2000)
Robin Saville “Colin the lazy cormorant (part 1)” from Peasgood Nonesuch
Steven Brown “sous quell etoile suis-je ne?” from a tribute to polnareff
Francois Bayle “allures” from La Forme Du Temps Est Un Cercle CD ALBUM (INA GRM)
The Honeymoon Killers “histoire a suivre” from Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel
Martial Canterel “Ascent” from confusing outsides LP ALBUM (genetic music)
Arbol “you travelled my heart inside out” (Lejos Discos 2008)
Brian Eno “Bone Bomb” from Another Day on Earth CD ALBUM (Hannibal 2005)
Yann Tiersen “la plage” from Les Retrouvailles CD ALBUM (Labels www.labels.tm.fr 2005)
Ben Watt “North Marine Drive” CD ALBUM (Cherry Red 1987)
Antena “Camino del sol” from Antena EP (Les Disques Du Crepuscule 1982)
Yann Tiersen “l'echec” from L'absente (Virgin France 2001)
Sylvain Chauveau “Nuage III” from Nuage CD (type records 2007)
Michel Polnareff “le bal des laze” from les premieres annees
The Durutti Column “head glue” from sunlight to blue... blue to blackness (Kooky 2008)
Robin Guthrie & Harold Budd “Snowfall” from Mysterious Skin OST CD
July Skies “The Weather Clock” from The Weather Clock (EP) CD EP (make mine music)
Emak Bakia “Ils sont americanes?” from Despues CD ALBUM (Acuarela)

Epee Du Bois “Misery” from Wierd Compilation Volume II: Analogue Electronic Music 2008 (Wierd 2008)

Desormais “violent feelings often pass” from climate variations CD(intr_version)
Xeno and Oaklander “Non Senti” from The Wierd Compilation 2006 LP COMP (Wierd 2006)
The Ecstacy of Saint Theresa “Sooper Kosmos” from Free-D (Original Soundtrack) (Free Records 1994)
Laszlo Dubrovay “A2” from Live Eletcronic

Holidays - radio - Metropolis

Happy Canada Day, Bonne Anniversaire Quebec, Happy Independence Day!

I will do 4 hours of radio on WZBC 90.3fm tomorrow night from 18:00 to 22:00 EST.

Listen in.

AND this exciting news: a Restored print of Fritz Lang's film METROPOLIS is in the works!

Locust - Your Selfish Ways

I just found this clip from French TV in 1998.

I still regret not seeing Mark Van Hoen play Mutek.

Lest we baguette

Suddenly I'm home after a bit drinking with my roommates. I realize this is raw and uncouth however I quite like it. I'm Listening to the FIRE ENGINES wondering why more people haven't heard of the genius that is the this band from Scotland. I will endevour to do my best to remedy this situation. (for give the grammar and misspellings) as if it were a remedy for past transgressions i hope for the future as manic impressions linger on and the truth comes fast and hard into this reality I look for consequence I wish i was in in Montreal for the summer to bask in the sun and enjoy the onslaught of music that the Quebecquois succumb to in such a fashion. I want to see the rest of Canada but Montreal has so much to offer its hard to give up. I work and I life towards this point.

The Passions -- video for the weekend

I'm in love with a German Film Star

It Seems

I never have time for this any more. I'd actually set aside some time this morning for this express purpose but now things have changed yet again. I'll have to look at this after work. I can't bear to have people looking over my shoulder while I am typing. Its too much. Needless to say, I want to get into so many issues that have been on my mind of late. I've had several busy weekends, I don't see the activity subsiding any time soon.

RASTER-NOTON SHOWCASE tonight in Cambridge, Massachusetts

from the e-mail:

**Thursday, May 15, 2008**

Non-Event, Basstown, and the Goethe-Institüt Boston present

RASTER-NOTON SHOWCASE

with SIGNAL + solo sets by
ALVA NOTO, FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER, and BYETONE

Middlesex Lounge
315 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA
(617) 868-MSEX
Doors: 9pm, Show: 10pm
21+ / Admission: $10

SIGNAL is a Raster-Noton supergroup, featuring Carsten Nicolai
(aka Alva Noto), Olaf Bender (aka Byetone), and Frank Bretschneider.
The trio performs intense, hypnotic music to a spectacular backdrop
of graphical information that reveals the complex geometry of the
sounds in play. Most of their sound sources are taken from a huge
memory bank of music from long jamming sessions dating from the early
days of Raster-Noton. These are processed and folded into a taut
and energetic web of rhythmic clicks, bristling static,
and deep bass pulses that are unexpectedly sensuous and undeniably
funky. Their most recent album, Robotron, was released in 2007 on
Raster-Noton. This will be SIGNAL's Boston debut.

mp3 of Signal, Robotron:
http://www.raster-noton.net/download/rn-69_robotron/02_Ermafa.mp3

Video of Signal Live in Copenhagen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2kyrrtVy_c

Musician and visual artist CARSTEN NICOLAI (aka ALVA NOTO) works
in the transitional area between art and science. In his intensely
dynamic work, Nicolai plays with the rules of physicality. Clicks
and glitches are not used as ornamental additions, but make up the
essential elements of the work, which is often structured around
the rhythmic grooves of hip-hop and R&B. Nicolai has performed in
many of the world's most prestigious spaces including The Guggenheim,
MOMA SF, MOMA Oxford, NTT Tokyo, Tate Modern, and Venice Biennial.
His latest album, unitxt, will be out this summer on Raster-Noton.
This will be Nicolai's Boston debut. Website: http://www.alvanoto.com

FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER is a founding member of Raster-Noton and one
of the pioneering figures in ultra minimal post techno. Using the
most basic sound sources (sine waves and white noise), Bretschneider
creates minimal, flowing pieces with delicate textures and complex
rhythmic patterns. Described as "abstract analogue pointilism,"
"ambience for spaceports," and "hypnotic echochamber pulsebeat,"
Bretschneider's subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals:
perfect translations of the qualities found in music into visual
phenomena. His most recent album, Rhythm, was named one of The Wire
magazine's Top 50 Records of 2007. Website: http://www.frankbretschneider.de

Video of Frank Bretschneider Live:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Rb9IGRaOF4&feature=related

OLAF BENDER (aka BYETONE) is a founding member of the Raster-Noton
label, as well as its lead designer. Bender creates his music digitally,
assembling sine tones into complex sound fabrics of deep sub-bass
and rhythmic clicks and crackles. He creates abstract animations to
support his abstract music —transforming the rhythm of the music into
a graphic equivalent, which he controls in real time. His new album,
D.O.A.T. (Death of a Typographer), is due out this summer on Raster-Noton.

mp3 of Olaf Bender, "Plastic Star":
http://www.raster-noton.net/download/rn-81_plasticstar/plasticstar_original.mp3

Links:
Raster-Noton: http://www.raster-noton.de
Basstown: http://basstown.blogspot.com/
Goethe-Institüt Boston: http://www.goethe.de/boston
LEF Foundation: http://www.lef-foundation.org/

Non-Event concerts are supported in part by a grant from the
LEF Foundation.

playlist - "off the cuff" wzbc - May 2, 2008

George ""off the cuff"" (NCP) May 2nd 2008, 7.00PM to 10.00PM

Played Artist Song Disk Year Label Note

7:04PM Arbol you travelled my heart inside out you travelled my heart inside out 2008 Lejos Discos
7:11PM Rothko Zurich Trains Bucolique Vol. 01 Arbouse
7:19PM Dorit Chrysler Sweden Monika Barchen: Songs for Bruno, Knut & Tom Monika Enterprise URL EMAIL
7:20PM The Radio Dept It's Personal Pet Grief 2006 Labrador
7:23PM Gas 1 Nah und Fern (Disk 1) 2008 Kompakt URL from 1996 first album
7:33PM Our Sleepless Forest Nomads The Wire Tapper 19 2008 Wire
7:38PM Snorkel The Conversation (Edit) The Wire Tapper 19
7:41PM Opto 5.10 am 2nd 2004 hobby industries
7:46PM David Kristian + Ryosuke Aioke 10 ghost storeys 2006 Cocosolidciti
7:58PM The Field over the ice From Here We Go Sublime 2007 Kompakt
8:14PM Gas 5 Nah und Fern (Disk 2) "Zauberberg" 2008 Kompakt from 1997 second album
8:15PM Mark Van Hoen Canyon of Descent Canyon of Descent unreleased mix
8:18PM Markus Guentner Altocomulus Opacus Pop Ambient 2007 Kompakt
8:27PM Main Maelstrom (K-RAA-K)3 Festival 2002 2002 (K-RAA-K)3
8:33PM Wim Mertens Shot One Shot and Echo 1992 Les Disques Du Crepuscule
8:38PM Les Hurleurs Il y a des jours Blottie 2003
8:41PM July Skies The Weather Clock The Weather Clock (EP) 2008 make mine music
8:47PM Lawrence Weiner Where it came from Fruit of the Original Sin (Expanded Edition) 1981 LTM
8:51PM Milenasong Streicheln Monika Barchen: Songs for Bruno, Knut & Tom 2008 Monika Enterprise
8:57PM Ghislain Poirier It's a War War War No Ground Under 2007 Ninja Tune
9:01PM Howie B Five Days Freezone 3 1996 SSR
9:07PM Gas 6 Nah und Fern (Disk 3) Konigtsforst 2008 Kompakt from 1998 third album
9:17PM Harold Budd Little Heart Avalon Sutra 2004 samadhisound
9:25PM Nine Horses birds sing for their lives Money For All 2006 samadhisound
9:32PM Gas 7 Nah und Fern (Disk 4) POP 2008 Kompakt from 2000 forth album
9:48PM The Berg Sans Nipple Melt Catalogue 2002 2002 Catalogue Records
9:56PM Richard Pinhas Iceland So Young But So Cold 2004 Tigersushi

playlist - April 11, 2008

George ""off the cuff"" (NCP) Apr 11th 2008, 7.00PM to 10.00PM

Played Artist Song Disk Year Label Note

7:02PM Drexciya Powers of the Deep Grava 4 2002 Clone
7:08PM David Kristian + Ryosuke Aioke 10 ghost storeys 2006 Cocosolidciti URL
7:23PM Lars Akerlund Volt (Extract) The Wire Tapper 19
7:29PM Mark Van Hoen vessel of light the last flowers from the darkness 1997 Touch URL EMAIL
7:33PM The Field over the ice From Here We Go Sublime 2007 Kompakt URL
7:37PM Tangtype Blank, Lackluster Eyes... Data Takes Over (Wire edit) The Wire Tapper 19 2008 Wire URL
7:45PM Obscure Celebrities Everest (Neue Mischung von KG) Gooom Tracks Vol. 2.5 2004 Gooom Disques URL
7:49PM Virna Lindt The Windmills of your Mind Moving Soundtracks 2008 LTM URL re-issue of Les Disques Du Crepuscule compilation
7:51PM Dorit Chrysler Sweden Monika Barchen: Songs for Bruno, Knut & Tom Monika Enterprise URL EMAIL
7:54PM Opto 5.10 a.m. 2nd 2004 hobby industries URL
8:08PM Arbol you travelled my heart inside out you travelled my heart inside out 2008 Lejos Discos
8:08PM Arbol nomi you travelled my heart inside out 2008 Lejos Discos
8:12PM Michael Rother Erlkoenig Fernwaerme 1981
8:19PM Band Apart O My Beautiful Song EP 1982 Crammed Discs URL
8:27PM Cosy Corner You Only Live Twice Moving Soundtracks LTM URL
8:31PM Barbara Morgenstern Wilderness Monika Barchen: songs for bruno, knut & tom
8:36PM Yann Tiersen La Rupture Tout Est Calme 1999 Labels URL
8:38PM July Skies The Weather Clock The Weather Clock (EP) 2008 make mine music
8:44PM Penguin Cafe Orchestra the sound of someone you love who's going away and it just doesn't matter music from the penguin cafe 1976 EG Records
8:58PM The Durutti Column A Beautiful Thought (Pt 1) Treatise on the Steppenwolf 2008 LTM URL
9:02PM The Durutti Column The Mothers and The Fathers Treatise on the Steppenwolf 2008 LTM URL
9:07PM The Durutti Column A Wolf of the Steppes Treatise on the Steppenwolf 2008 LTM URL
9:12PM The Durutti Column Interlude Treatise on the Steppenwolf 2008 LTM URL
9:16PM The Durutti Column The Title On The Cover Treatise on the Steppenwolf 2008 LTM URL
9:20PM Jay-jay Johanson Escape Poison 2004 Labels URL
9:24PM Aaron Martin & Machinefabriek Cello Recycling Cello Recycling/Cello Drowning 2007 Type URL EMAIL
9:36PM Ryuichi Sakamoto War & Peace Chasm 2005 KA'+B
9:41PM Unrecognizable Now between words In a cave or a coma 2008 perhlabel
9:46PM The Durutti Column Lullaby (Live) Treatise on the Steppenwolf 2008 LTM URL

Pelle Carlberg - "I love you, you imbecile!"

I love you, you imbecile!

Its Springtime and this song makes me happy.

recent articles of interest

Highly Recommended article in the new Vanity Fair about Monsanto and Milk Production as described in Sign and Sight:
"In a report that is bursting its sides with information, Donald L. Barlett und James B. Steele describe how the chemical giant Monsanto is using genetically altered seeds and ruthless legal action to bring the American grain market under its control. Now the company has moved on to milk. The company is using legal action and campaigns to fight all farmers who label their milk as free of the Monsanto-owned growth hormone rBGH. "On this issue, the tide may be shifting against Monsanto. Organic dairy products, which don't involve rBGH, are soaring in popularity. Supermarket chains such as Kroger, Publix, and Safeway are embracing them. Some other companies have turned away from rBGH products, including Starbucks, which has banned all milk products from cows treated with rBGH." (related: Organic Valley's FAQ)

Also of note:
Stanley Fish's recent blog entry on the soon to be published book about French Theory in America. (the comments alone range from the ridiculous to the sublime)

Elif Batumann writes in the London Review of Books about the Graphic Novel.

A good article in the Boston Globe about Helmut Lachenmann's music.

And last but not least, Beppe Grillo's blog.

until next time

Absolute Body Control / Wolf Eyes/ Martial Canterel / Carlos Griffoni - April 4th 2008

from the e-mail:
"This Friday, come on out to see a long WIERD evening of frozen cold electronics!!!

WIERD Records NYC and No Fun Fest Productions Present:

Absolute Body Control(1st ever show in the US!) : http://www.dirkivens.com/ , http://www.myspace.com/absolutebodycontrolbelgium
Wolf Eyes(Detroit) : http://www.wolfeyes.net/ , http://www.myspace.com/3801568
Martial Canterel(NYC) : http://www.mcanterel.net/ , http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=312255378
Carlos Giffoni(No Fun Fest/NYC) : http://www.carlosgiffoni.com/ , http://www.myspace.com/carlosgiffoni
DJ Pieter from Wierd Records

Friday April 4th, 2008
The Music Hall of Williamsburg
66 North 6th St., Brooklyn, NY
http://www.musichallofwilliamsburg.com
Doors 9pm, Show at 10pm, 18+
Tickets available at the Mercury Lounge and Music Hall Of Williamsburg Box Offices, Other Music, and all Ticketmaster locations."

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Wierd Records

WZBC - Playlist - March 28 2008 - "Off the Cuff"

"off the cuff" (NCP) with George 03.28.2008 07:00PM to 10:00PM

07:00PM The Field "over the ice" from "From Here We Go Sublime" (CD) on Kompakt
07:04PM Air Liquide "if there was no gravity" from "Red" (CD) on sm:)e records
07:08PM Bertuf "Nebulon Number 3 (remixed by Margo)" from "Goom Tracks Vol 2" on Gooom Disques
07:12PM Arbol "01_29" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
07:13PM Arbol "my life is full of rivers and mountains" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
07:22PM Cluster "avanti" from "Grosses Wasser" (LP) on Sky
07:23PM David Sylvian "Pollen Path" from "Dead Bees on A Cake" (CD) on Virgin
07:29PM Our Sleepless Forest "Nomads" from "The Wire Tapper 19" on Wire
07:33PM DDamage "Boggle" from "Active Suspension vs Clapping Music"
07:36PM Eglantine Gouzy & Landini "L.A." from "Monika Barchen: Songs for Bruno, Knut & Tom" on Monika Enterprise
07:40PM Snorkel "The Conversation (Edit)" from "The Wire Tapper 19"
07:43PM Ghislain Poirier "It's a War War War" from "No Ground Under" (CD) on Ninja Tune
07:48PM Adrian Sherwood "two versions of the future" from "becoming a cliche" on Real World
07:52PM Desormais "broken images and packets of light" from "Iambrokenandremadeiambroken..." (CD) on intr_version
07:57PM Nico Muhly "Mothertongue - Section 2" from "The Wire Tapper 19"
08:04PM Robert Lippok "The heart of Nuut picked by the Crows of Neu Koeln" from "Monika Barchen: songs for bruno, knut & tom" on Monika Enterprise
08:08PM Robert Wyatt "A Beautiful Peace" from "Comicopera" (CD) on Domino
08:09PM Dislocation Dance "San Michelle" from "Midnight Shift"
08:14PM Kaffe Matthews "Man Being Butterflies (extract)" from "The Wire Tapper 19"
08:17PM Gabrielle Lazure "Children's Tale" from "From Brussels With Love" on Les Disques Du Crepuscule
08:20PM Dorit Chrysler "Sweden" from "Monika Barchen: Songs for Bruno, Knut & Tom" on Monika Enterprise
08:24PM Illusion of Safety "Wherewithall (For Lauren)" from "The Wire Tapper 19"
08:37PM Arbol "you travelled my heart inside out" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
08:38PM Alexei Borisov & Anton Nikkila "Engineer Strepetov's Curve (live excerpt)" from "The Wire Tapper 19"
08:39PM Gudrun Gut "Monika in Polen" from "Monika Barchen: songs for bruno, knut & tom" on Monika Enterprise
08:44PM Signal "wismut" from "Robotron" (CD) on Raster-noton
08:50PM Funkstorung "I want some fun (w Jay-Jay Johanson)" from "ViceVersa" on !K7
08:57PM Mark Van Hoen "Dark Roads" from "the warmth inside you" on Very Friendly
09:02PM Arbol "nomi" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
09:07PM July Skies "Branch Line Summers Fade" from "The Weather Clock" (CD)
09:12PM July Skies "Girl on the Hill" from "The Weather Clock" (CD)
09:16PM July Skies "See Britain By Train" from "The Weather Clock" (CD)
09:19PM Lars Akerlund "Volt (Extract)" from "The Wire Tapper 19"
09:22PM Martial Canterel "Listener Dead" from "Refuge Underneath" on Wierd Records
09:29PM Cluster "Grosses Wasser" from "Grosses Wasser" (LP) on Sky
09:48PM Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie "Snowfall" from "Music from the Film Mysterious Skin"
09:54PM Murmur "Description of the Between" from "Fermata" (CD) on Backporch Revolution

playlist for absent friends (wzbc - March 21 2008)

Fri Mar 21st 2008 7.00pm–10.00pm
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music.
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.
7:06PM Biosphere “Spring Fever” from Touch 25 CD COMP (Touch www.touchmusic.org.uk)
7:10PM Arbol “you travelled my heart inside out” (Lejos Discos 2008)
7:17PM Luke Haines “Rock 'n' roll communique No 1” from The Oliver Twist Manifesto
7:19PM Luke Haines “Oliver Twist” from The Oliver Twist Manifesto
7:22PM Luke Haines “Death of Sarah Lucas” from The Oliver Twist Manifesto
7:26PM Luke Haines “never work” from The Oliver Twist Manifesto
7:27PM Pan Sonic “Slovakian Rauta” from Touch 25 CD COMP (Touch www.touchmusic.org.uk 2006)
7:33PM The Durutti Column “Woman” from Someone Else's Party (Artful www.beggars.com)
7:41PM Robert Lippok “The Heart of Nuut picked by the Crows of New Koeln” from Monika Barchen: songs for bruno, knut & tom (Monika Enterprise www.m-enterprise.de)
7:49PM Arthur Russell “Keeping Up” from Another Thought (Point Music)
7:51PM Ghislain Poirier “Diaspora” from No Ground Under CD ALBUM (Ninja Tune)
7:55PM Adrian Sherwood “two versions of the future” from becoming a cliche (Real World 2006)
7:57PM Brian Eno “This” from Another Day on Earth CD ALBUM
8:04PM Gudrun Gut “Monika in Polen” from Monika Barchen: songs for bruno, knut & tom (Monika Enterprise www.m-enterprise.de 2007)
8:08PM David Fenech “le bruit des grenouilles” from Compilation BLOKHITON (UBIK)
8:14PM David Grubbs “show me who to love (live)” from (K-RAA-K)3 Festival 2002 CD COMP ((K-RAA-K)3 www.kraak.net 2002)
8:17PM July Skies “Branch Line Summers Fade” from The Weather Clock CD ALBUM
8:18PM July Skies “Girl On The Hill” from The Weather Clock CD ALBUM
8:22PM July Skies “See Britain By Train” from The Weather Clock CD ALBUM
8:27PM Purple Confusion “Return to Nassau” from the sound of the atom splitting CD ALBUM (Gooom www.gooomdisques.com 2002)

8:30PM Martial Canterel “Vichy Girls” from Views Beyond The City Walls (Tarantulla 2007)
8:33PM Vitesse “the saddest day” from A Certain Hostility (Parasol 1999)

8:37PM Arbol “nomi” from you travelled my heart inside out (Lejos Discos 2008)
8:41PM Infantjoy “Ghosts” from With (2006)
8:44PM Gnac “The Arrival of the Fog” (LTM www.ltmpub.freeserve.co.uk/ltmhome.html 2007)
8:50PM Tuxedomoon “Litebulb Overkill” from Desire CD ALBUM (Ralph 1981)
8:53PM Barbara Morgenstern “Wilderness” from Monika Barchen: songs for bruno, knut & tom
8:59PM Robert Wyatt “Stay Tuned” from Comicopera CD ALBUM (Domino www.dominorecordco.com 2007)
9:02PM Food “red algae” from Molecular Gastronomy CD ALBUM (Rune Grammofon www.runegrammofon.com 2008)
9:15PM Tara Jane O'Neil “This Morning” from in the sun lines CD ALBUM (Quarterstick 2001)
9:18PM The Durutti Column “Please Let Me Sleep” from IDIOT SAVANTS (fullfill 2007)
9:24PM Nine Horses “birds sing for their lives” from Money For All (samadhisound www.samadhisound.com 2006)
9:31PM Mark Van Hoen “Real Love” from Playing with Time CD ALBUM (Apollo 1998)
9:39PM Wim Mertens “multiple 12” from The Fruit of The Original Sin (Crepescule)
9:48PM Desormais “broken images and packets of light” from Iambrokenandremadeiambroken... CD ALBUM (intr_version www.intr-version.com 2003)
9:53PM Dissolve “Sunflower Search Engine” from Third Album for the Sun CD ALBUM (Kranky www.kranky.net 1997)

Steve Is Not Happy --

with respect to Scott McLemee's post.

off for a day of film in Cambridge

On this blustery day I intend to go for a walk about.

From noon on the Boston Underground Film Festival takes over Harvard Square.
I hope to see a large portion of today's films.

I'll let you know.

Tim Haslett RIP

Tim was one of the most knowledgeable and passionate people I have known. He was a very friendly guy, never pretentious and consistently hilarious. He will be missed deeply.

David Day's piece on Tim in the Weekly Dig.
From MSU State News -- Obituary.
A good post at moodmat, one on mudd up!, sQuare Productions, there is also a tribute as detailed on wayneandwax at the Enormous Room.

"Monday night, March 24, 9pm-1am, music in the spirit of Tim.
If you’re a local DJ type who knew him, come on out and bring a few rekkids Tim woulda liked.
Beat Research
Mondays at the Enormous Room with residents DJ Flack and Wayne and Wax
567 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
9pm to 1am, 21 plus, Free"


A few of Tim's Pazz and Jop lists on the Village Voice site from 2000 , 2002, 2003, 2004
I'd nearly forgotten how much he loved the Pernice Brothers.

There will be a memorial service Friday, March 21st at the Friends Meeting, 5 Long Fellow Park (off Brattle, near Harvard Square) at 3PM.

There has been too much death about lately. I wish it would stop.

UPDATE:
audio tributes start tonight after 5pm on wzbc and Brian Coleman is coming in to do a special show on wzbc from 5-7pm this coming Monday, March 24, 2008.

UPDATE: Benny Blanco's blog has some Hardwired shows archived in his entry about Tim.

the greatest threat to music today

What's the greatest threat to music today?

Radio. Stations only play a tiny fraction of the music that's out there. If they would just open their doors and let all DJs choose their own records, it would encourage musicians to be more inventive.

-- Gary Numan, as interviewed by Laura Barnett in the Guardian UK yesterday.

100% agreement on this one-- luckily i have a show at one of the few radio stations in the United States that lets the DJs do just that. Non Commercial Radio is the only way to go.

new Durutti Column album "sunlight to blue...blue to blackness"

I just noticed Dave Simpson's piece in the Guardian UK's music blogs. Further down in the comments is this link to Hello Citizen blog featuring the attached artwork of the new Durutti Column album. I'd heard about it about a month ago but haven't seen the artwork until now. I think its brilliant, reminiscent of some of Ralph Gibson's work, real high contrast black and white photography. That said, i can't wait to hear the new album. A preview of the tracklisting can be found on the Kooky Disc site.

July Skies - radio - tomorrow night

Tomorrow night from 7-10pm EST (19:00 - 22:00), I finally get my radio show back after a month's absence.

I will devote the second hour of my show to the work of July Skies, especially the new album, The Weather Clock, and The Weather Clock (EP).

Stay Tuned.

the gift she gave to me

the gift she gave to me - its often difficult for me to think of something harder, something explicit and concrete, anyone who has followed my whereabouts for any period of time is all too aware of this. its all sight, all touch, all sense-impressions mixed with abstract thought-- the love of the idea over the reality. the manner in which one frames an event, no matter how ridiculous. as long as it has an over arching purpose, or is explicitly the opposite, strangely all surface, it somehow keeps my interest, it goes beyond any kind of rational inquiry. oh, how i wish it would warm up a bit, so i could go for a long walk without freezing, so i wouldn't feel so housebound all the time. the inquiry continues: i answer with my petty troubles, my upset, my sweet discontent. i keep my body within a certain degree of control, that is my ambition anyway- it probably is as far from the truth as possible. my mind goes away again dreaming. a few moments ago, as I was walking home, i wondered about nostalgia, and whether it is by definition somewhat sugar coated, my inclination is to say no, that would be too sentimental, too kitsch. nostalgia can have an endearing harsher edge. i try to remember the good times, but too often sadness is mixed with joy, too often what i wish for nearly comes true. i can sense when something isn't entirely right, or when it will meet my expectations up to a point. i know i shouldn't force the issue but there are times when, well times when i feel i need to push it just to get answers, just to learn, how to plan my next move, when to persist and when to sit and wait. i am reminded of the silent, color 8mm bits of Alain Tanner's "Dans la ville blanche" (In the white city)-- what a beautiful film.

Rainy Days in New England

I've been listening to the brilliance that is the new July Skies album, The Weather Clock, for the past week and a half. This isn't really a proper review by any means, as I have some work to attend to but can't do much of anything until the disc is over-- its too compelling somehow. At the moment, I could listen to the track "the Girl on the Hill" over and over and over again. It comes at the right point in the album (being track three) it is quite a gift to the listener. As I haven't been doing radio for the past month, I've been lucky enough to see some good friends occasionally. In the meantime, I've spent it reading, listening to music and watching some British tv. Programs I grew up with, like Death of an Expert Witness, the PD James story, with Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh.

The disc is over now. I have to run some errands before the rain starts again.

parle moi...j'ai des choses a te dire

and so i wait and i wonder what might happen next. the feeling of distance overwhelms me. i make time by reading and exploring media-- its no excuse for pure experience. i am encouraged by this somewhat, considering the snow outside, the presence of words, the way she crafts a sentence or a tilt of her head. perhaps i finish books too fast-- i have to start another-- this inbetween time, when i'm not reading or focussing on something is too dangerous. i stop to wonder and think-- blurring the lines of common sense. letting my essence go for once-- out there, in the sunlight, taking a walk wondering when she might arrive again. current projects, apart from music reviews, include finishing "watching wildlife" by Cynthia Chris, starting "rogue male" by Geoffrey Household, starting a viewing of "Life on Earth" by David Attenborough, reconnecting with the world again. there are so few people i really want to see now-- and those i do live away from here.

the girl on the hill

Its already warming up out there. To the ones i think about every day- the ones who are filled with a bright light in their eyes. I wish things weren't so crowded here. I live in more of a a warehouse than a room at the moment-- at least that's what it feels like. I've got to run off now, walking to my next destination. The struggle for pleasure continues.


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Also of note:

I'll talk more about these soon-- as I'm a bit pressed for time at the moment;

ARBOL "You travelled my heart inside out" (lejos discos)

and this just in:

JULY SKIES - "The Weather Clock" along with "The Weather Clock (EP)" both on (Make Mine Music)

keeping up

i'm looking at a set of books, some i've purchased recently some that have been here for a while. i'm working my way through them one (sometimes two) by one. lately, i've been keeping myself informed on more topical things before delving into the specific. I heard the Berlin Film Festival wasn't all that hot. I've made a note about Suzie Templeton's animated version of Prokofiev's "Peter and the Wolf" appearing on PBS. I suppose I've been content to watch various world cinema at home and read. Its not that the cold has been excessively prohibitive, its more that I have been less motivated to go out and see people (with a few special exceptions). What does the future hold? More travel probably, less clutter, more open space.

(this is the best i can do without a good cup of strong coffee)

the music of Karheinz Stockhausen this Friday Night on WZBC from 6-10pm

This Friday night I am not doing my radio show.

That said, my friend, John Straub, is using this opportunity to provide you with
FOUR HOURS OF KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN

From John's e-mail:

Howdy,

I will be programming a 4-hour radio special on the music of Karlheinz
Stockhausen.

I can't really see very many people wanting to listen to this many
different Stockhausen pieces in a row for 4 straight hours. I am
sending this program so people can "pick their battles" if interested.

I'm concentrating on his recordings from the 1960's, with just a
couple earlier pieces from the '50's and one later piece from the
1990's.

6:00: I'm going to start with a 23-minute excerpt from Kurzwellen,
recorded in 1969. This is a personal favorite. Stockhausen's own
liner notes for the recording also put the piece into context by
looking back at a few of his earlier pieces that I'll also be
featuring, so I thought I'd read some of those notes as an
introduction.

~6:30: Gesang der Junglinge (1956) An early classic mixing synthetic
sounds with the recording of a boy's voice singing a Biblical passage,
"Chant of the Adolescents in the Fiery Furnace"

~6:45: Kontakte (1958-1960) - piano & percussion playing along with
pre-recorded sounds on tape. I'll play the 1st 12 minutes.

~7:00: Momente (1962-1964) Side 1 of the mid-60's vinyl release on
Nonesuch. A cantata for soprano, choir, brass, percussion and
electric organs. A lot of commentators emphasize how this piece was
about "existence in the moment and ignoring the past," which is seen
as a hallmark of Stockhausen's most famous work.

~7:30: Mixture (1964): Electronics with Orchestra. I'll play the 2nd
half of this piece which is a mirror image of itself.

Stockhausen spent a lot of time in Japan in 1966, which had a big
influence on his late '60's work. The next few things tend to be less
complex and seem to be striving towards some kind of electronic world
music.

~8:00: Telemusik (1966)

~8:20: Hymnen (1966-1967) - Electronic stew of various national anthems.

~8:30: Holger Czukay's "Boat Woman Song". This was my introduction to
Stockhausen. Czukay was a student of Stockhausen's in the early 60's
before he co-founded Can in 1968. This early solo recording from 1968
mixes shortwave radio signals from all over the world and recordings
of traditional Vietnamese and Cambodian singing. Obviously influenced
by Stockhausen's "electronic world music" especially Kurzwellen (Short
Waves). My interest in Can led me to this beautiful solo recording,
which led me to Stockhausen's Kurzwellen.

~8:40 Kurzwellen (1968) Here I'm going to play an excerpt from the 2nd
half of a 1968 recording. I will open the show at 6:00 with the first
half of a 1969 recording of the same piece. Performance of the piece
involves musicians responding to random short wave radio broadcasts.
The same timpani motif (a BBC station ID) happened to come over the
shortwaves during these two different performances. The different
reactions by the musicians to that identical stimulus is something
that intrigued Stockhausen about these two recordings of Kurzwellen.

~9:05: Helicopter String Quartet (1995) - Beginning in 1977,
Stockhausen spent most the rest of his life working on a 7-part
operatic opus called Licht. The 7 parts corresponded to the 7 days of
the week. Wednesday was one of the last pieces he completed in the
mid-1990's. His Helicopter String Quartet is part of that piece of
Licht. The Helicopter String Quartet involves each member of a string
quartet playing in a different helicopter with independent flight
paths. The musicians stay synchronized by wearing headphones in which
they all hear the same click track. The 1995 premier was performed by
the Arditti String Quartet. Here's a YouTube clip of a 2003
performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_FUqsbaxo

~9:35: Talk about Stockhausen's controversial quote on September 16,
2001. The excerpt from the quote that stirred up the controversy was
that the 9/11 attacks were, "... the greatest work of art that exists
for the whole Cosmos."

I will read the full quote and discuss the context.

~9:45: I will sign off and play an excerpt of the new recording of
Stimung (1968).

Paul Hockenos on Joschka Fischer at CES Tonight - 5pm

Tonight at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

5:00 PM - 6:45 PM, Guido Goldman Room

"Back to the Barricades: Germany's Raging Debate About 1968"

Paul Hockenos, Political Analyst and Author of "Joschka Fischer and the Making of the Berlin Republic: An Alternative History of Postwar Germany" (recently published by Oxford University Press) (reviewed by Anson Rabinbach in the Nation here.)
Paul Hockenos' piece: "Left Behind: Romanticizing Germany's urban guerillas" in November/December 2007 issue of Boston Review here.

CES Special Event, co-sponsored by the American Council on Germany


Reception to follow.

Contact: Jason Beerman
Email: beerman@fas.harvard.edu

Berlinale 2008 - February 7-17, 2008

The Berlin International Forum of New Cinema just kicked off yesterday. Ekkehard Knörer recently published a good review of what is on the menu this year. A couple of films of note are Erick Zonca's "Julia" (director of "the Dreamlife of Angels", his new film stars Tilda Swinton), and Mike Leigh's new film "Happy-Go-Lucky".
Also of note is Isabella Rossellini's Green Pornos, exposing her fascination with entomology.

NOTE: Der Spiegel has an excellent section on the Festival.

NOTE: Good video on some of the smaller films on the IHT site.
Plus this roundup by Dennis Lim can be found there as well.


(to be updated)

NCP I from February 1, 2008 WZBC - playlist

"off the cuff" (NCP) with George 02.01.2008 07:00PM to 10:00PM

07:09PM Colleen "blue sands" from "les ondes silencieuses" (CD) on Leaf
07:14PM Tara Jane O'Neil "The Winds You Came Here On" from "In the Sun Lines" (CD) on Quarterstick
07:20PM The Durutti Column "Messidor" from "Live in Bruxelles 13 August 1981" on LTM
07:22PM Tuxedomoon "III (April in Afghanistan) prototype of Crash 78" from "LOST CORDS" on Cramboy
07:30PM Felt "Evergreen Dazed" from "Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty" (LP) on Cherry Red
07:36PM Arbol "you travelled my heart inside out" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
07:42PM Arbol "nomi" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
07:46PM Arbol "avio" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
07:52PM Arbol "01_29" from "you travelled my heart inside out" on Lejos Discos
07:54PM July Skies "Garden Constellations" from "Dreaming of Spires" (CD) on Rocket Girl
07:59PM Gnac "The Arrival of the Fog" from "The Arrival of the Fog" on LTM
08:08PM Robert Wyatt "Stay Tuned" from "Comicopera" (CD) on Domino
08:08PM Gudrun Gut "Pleasuretrain" from "I Put A Record On" (CD) on Monika Enterprise
08:14PM Food "red algae" from "Molecular Gastronomy" (CD) on Rune Grammofon
08:19PM Band Apart "O My Beautiful Song" from "EP" (LP) on Crammed Discs
08:24PM Nine Horses "birds sing for their lives" from "Money For All" on samadhisound
08:34PM Martial Canterel "Foreign Birthplace" from "Refuge Underneath" on Wierd Records
08:37PM The Honeymoon Killers "histoire a suivre" from "Les Tueurs de la Lune de Miel" (CD) on Crammed Discs
08:41PM Martial Canterel "Ascent" from "confusing outsides" (LP) on genetic music
08:44PM Martial Canterel "Hausmann" from "Refuge Underneath" on Wierd Records
08:49PM Prothese "Tumeurs" from "B9 BIS (Belgian Cold Wave 1979-1983)" on LTM
08:54PM Martial Canterel "Vichy Girls" from "Views Beyond The City Walls" on Tarantulla
09:00PM Fennesz Sakamoto "trace" from "Cendre" (CD) on touch music
09:05PM Fripp & Eno "Ringing Beat" from "Beyond Even (1992-2006)" on Opal Ltd
09:13PM Steven Brown "This Land" from "Decade" on LTM
09:14PM Seefeel "charlotte's mouth (avant garde mix)" from "quique (redux)" (CD) on Too Pure
09:16PM Harold Budd & Robin Guthrie "Snowfall" from "Music from the Film Mysterious Skin"
09:23PM The Vertical Smile) "a return to satisfy (opium tears mix)" from "Tell Tale Signs of Earworm" on Earworm
09:29PM The Sound "Winter" from "shock of daylight" (CD) on renascent
09:34PM Richard Pinhas "Iceland" from "So Young But So Cold" (CD) on Tigersushi
09:45PM Gavin Bryars, Alter Ego, & Philip Jeck "The Sinking of the Titanic (excerpt)" from "The Sinking Of The Titanic" on Touch

Haven't we been dreaming long enough?

Tonight from 19:00-22:00 EST -- I'll be on the air at WZBC 90.3fm - wzbc.org for listening details.

I've got the new Arbol disc "You traveled my heart inside out" and some of Martial Canterel's backcatalogue among other items.

like that Band Apart song...

Stay tuned.

my voice, uh! - wzbc radio NCP 1 tonight

I'll be on the air tonight from 19:00-22:00 EST

My voice is extremely hoarse as I have a cold or some related illness.

Please bear with me. Expect longer tracks and possible live sets.

That is all.

Stay tuned.

Janko Raven

Since I've been slightly preoccupied lately, here is a special treat.

Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space

Chantal Akerman: Moving through Time and Space
19 Jan—29 Mar 2008
In her first major US museum exhibition, Belgian-born artist Chantal Akerman presents five multimedia video installations dating from 1993 to the present. Best known for her politically charged pieces, the exhibition brings together D'Est, 1993, De l'Autre Côté, 2002, Sud, 1999, Là-Bas, 2006, and a new work created in Siberia especially for the exhibition. After its premiere in Houston, the show travels to the M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (1 May-6 July), the Miami Art Museum (16 October-18 January 2009) and the Contemporary Art Museum, St Louis (8 May-2 August 2009). Categories: Contemporary Video & New Media Contemporary (1970-present)

first stop: BLAFFER GALLERY
University of Houston, 120 Fine Arts Building 77204 - 40
+1 713 743 9530

(Information provided by: The Art Newspaper.

Happy New Year! (reflections on the double)

A new day begins today.

But first, a moment for the past:

Recently, I finished reading The Memory Wars by Frederick Crews, which essentially dismantles the whole Freudian edifice and the 'recovered memory' movement. My head was buzzing with latent disgust with the whole Freudian project. Then I saw Francis Ford Coppola's version of Mircea Eliade's "Youth Without Youth". The film is, on the whole, pretty good. It is very faithful to the novel. However, by the same token, I wonder why would anyone want to make a film of this book. The book seems to be steeped in the application of Freudian theory (to some extent) to language. This is evidenced in the main character's project of recovery of the origins of language. The film also enlists the aid of a double. There are entire scenes where the main character (well played by Tim Roth) holds entire conversations with himself. This notion of the double or doppelgänger is reminiscent of Vladimir Nabokov's Despair, (or of Edgar Allen Poe's story "William Willson" which was filmed by Louis Malle amongst others) which was elegantly brought to the screen by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. These are just a few examples of the double in film and literature that I can think of at the moment. They are not without merit, however, in the case of "Youth Without Youth" they add another layer to the general impression that the director is going-for-broke obscurity. Prior to seeing the film, I read the novel and was prepared for the story. On the other hand, If I neglected to do so, I might have been a bit lost or at the very least would have left the film feeling I might have got more out of it had I read the book.