" – Peu importe d’où l’on vient. Il n’y a pas de tonique. Le thème et son développement ne sont qu’un mirage…
Il y a une musique toujours inattendue.
– Et les dissonances ?
– Dieu les a créées, elles aussi…"
Jaume Cabré - "Voyage d'hiver" - 2014

”La terre, il se pourrait bien après tout que ce soit une espèce
de merveilleux petit appareil enregistreur, plaçé là par on ne sait qui,
pour capter tous les bruits qui circulent mystérieusement dans l’Univers.”
Pierre Reverdy - ”En vrac” - 1929

”J’entends tous les bruits de la terre grâce à mes oreilles et mes nerfs de cristal
dans lesquels circulent le feu du ciel et celui des volcans.”
Michel Leiris - ”Le point cardinal” - 1927

"L'écoute, c'est l'ombre de la composition"
Pascal Dusapin - 2008

"Go, go, go! ... Go! go! ..."
John Lee Hooker"

 

31/12/2012

Sparkling music & visions in 2012

                                           Bauhaus stage

My best in 2012.  Don't miss these jewels!

a fingers' dance on a table 

shamanic sounds

the witnesses

an unforgetable ritornello 

four pianos

greek improvisators

incantation

epizootics

cannibales et vahinés

girls and guitars but no real vahinés!
 
a trip around an island

une machine molle

un policier siffleur

a pure 70's happening

a dastgāh

a theremin

a Shinjuku blues 

dreams 





                                      Happy new year! 

& music with Stockhausen, Alessandro Bosetti, Bill Laswell ("means of deliverance"), Chico Mello, Andy Moore & Yannis Kyriakides, 
Tarek Atoui, 3OO Basses, Carlton Rara, Sima Bina, Le Super Rail Band de Bamako, Debashish Bhattacharya, Scott Walker, Charalambides, 
The Tiger Lillies, Robert Ashley, Alejandro Viñao, Stefan Klaverdal, Klaus Obermaier, Fausto Romitelli, Luciano Berio, Luigi  Nono,Valgeir Sigurosson ... & ...


                     John Cage performance in Japan - 1962

30/12/2012

Puissance de l'électronique


 extrait de l'ouvrage  "Les grandes découvertes" sous la direction de Louis Leprince-Ringuet - Larousse  - 1956





25/12/2012

Enfantillages pittoresques


Erik Satie, en son ultime avatar, avait conservé une étonnante jeunesse d'esprit. Il était resté "jeune comme un collégien".
"Quelle chance d'être vieux, disait-il ! Quand j'étais jeune, on me harcelait : "Vous verrez un jour ! Attendez ! Vous verrez !" Et bien, j'y suis, je n'ai rien vu. Rien."

cf. John Cage qui reprend cette idée, en l'altérant légèrement, dans sa fameuse conférence "Lecture on nothing" (1950):
"... Satie said: When I was young, people told me : you'll see when you're fifthy years old. Now i'm fifthy, I've seen nothing..."


"Petit prélude à la journée" (1913), première partie d'un cycle de trois pièces intitulé "Enfantillages pittoresques"
composé par Erik Satie...

(à regarder plein écran) 
(to look at "full screen")) 


23/12/2012

A famous quintet



A famous quintet with Louis Savant (horn), Fritz Kreisler (Violin), Arnold Schönberg (cello), Eduard Gärtner (violin) & Karl Redlich (flute). circa 1890

Verklärte Nacht

On this specific spot,the Schönberg' s night is really transfigured!


Arnold Schönberg conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a rehearsal of Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 in March 1935 (silent movie)

20/12/2012

Atonal silence



Silent movie taken by Serge Hovey, shows Arnold Schönberg at a beach party in Malibu with friends such as Ira Gershwin, Thomas Mann, Bertrand Russell, and the american pianist Richard Buhlig , and also his two children Ronald and Nuria (who was Luigi Nono's wife).





  
Arnold Schönberg speaks <<<here>>>

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17/12/2012

Trash TV Trance




Fausto Romitelli (1963 / 2004) was an italian young composer who studied with Franco Donatoni, moved to Paris to meet Hugues Dufourt & Gérard Grisey, and worked at IRCAM. He unfortunately had a brief career but wrote some amazing pieces that I highly recommand: notably "An index of metals" (2003) & "Professor bad trip - lesson I" (1998)

Here, "Trash TV Trance" (2002),a piece written for electric guitar played by Lucia d'Errico.

15/12/2012

Celestial excursions


Yesterday night, Robert Ashley did a solo performance for the "Art Press" 40th anniversary, at the Bibliothèque François Mitterand in Paris. Called "Answers and other songs", this lecture was amazing: his recitative voice, thoughtful of the stream and tempo of everyday speech, was alternately ondulating, pitching, singing, drawling with an obvious lucidity and a real sense of humour.
One of the piece he performed was "Love is a good example".

......

"Celestial excursions" is an opera composed by Robert Ashley in 2003.
The opera delves into the wild intermingling of loss, regret, nightmares, old sayings and old songs on the radio. Composed for solo voices and pre-recorded orchestra, the opera's originality lies in a vocal ensemble technique, unique to Ashley, which puts the vocal soloist in the midst of a swirling chorus.
Here are some excerpts of this piece.




"The essence of my music is that the syllables go by as fast as they do in the American English language and the pitch stresses, which make one syllable more important than the other syllable, are all within a range of half an octave. It's like you squeeze it in one direction and expand it in another direction. I've always been interested in tempo because it's a big, big factor in vocal music. The other factors, like melody, have been used up for the time being."  - Robert Ashley (from "The Wire" - august 2003)

Robert Ashley's major works are available on Lovely Music and Alga Marghen
& despite of his great pieces and recordings, i recommend particulary the CD  "Tap Dancing in the Sand"  featuring the MAE Ensemble on the label  Unsounds -  2007

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13/12/2012

636

Alessandro Bosetti a été distingué par le festival Phonurgia Nova pour son oeuvre "636".



10/12/2012

Cubism in Tavira



Looking forward to the "7 SCORIES" new CD of Paul Collins and Palix (previewed for early 2013) ,
you can hush up your impatience listening for  this pataphysical "Cubism in Tavira",
excerpt of the famous "Wipe out" release (2005).

                                    >>>here<<< 

                                        aerial Tavira's view

05/12/2012

Barn Dance



"Barn dance" is a Moondog's piece played by our friend  Dominique Ponty (piano) & Stefan Lakatos (trimba)
at the BBMix festival last 2012 november.

     the Trimba, a percussion's instrument designed by Moondog


Thanks to Armaury Cornut for the recording and his website dedicated to Louis Thomas Hardin, aka Moondog.

29/11/2012

Gredoler

GREDOLER: v.tr. Faire entendre un bruit de grelot, un tintement sec et répété...
origine : Franche Comté




RABÂTER: v.tr. Produire un bruit avec ses chaussures en marchant...
origine : Centre - Ouest



RABASTER: anc. fr.  faire du bruit, du vacarme, du tapage.


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27/11/2012

Zigouner

ZIGOUNER: v.tr. Faire le bruit d'une scie qui coupe mal 
origine : Corse




SBATOULLER: v.tr. Se dit d'une porte qui fait du bruit en heurtant quelque chose de manière répétée 
origine : Corse

"La porte, elle sbatoulle; qu'est-ce qu'elle a sbatoullé!"  - anonyme


Pierre Henry : variations pour une porte et un soupir - 1963 -            
<<<***>>> 
 

23/11/2012

Génération Dakou



Yan Jun , artiste, poète, musicien & fondateur  du label Sub Jam & Kwanyin Records  est un des principaux activistes des nouvelles scènes de musique électronique, improvisée et avant-garde de Pékin, vient de publier un excellent livre en français chez Van Dieren Editeur.

"Génération Dakou" - Ecouter, recycler, expérimenter




Ce livre, accompagné d'un CD de travaux de Yan Jun nous laisse découvrir journaux de bord, réflexions sur la musique, le silence, l'expérimentation et la composition, et aussi sur la génération d'artistes chinois nommée "génération Dakou".

dakou, "faire un trou, une entaille", qualifie avant tout les produits d'écoute, cassettes puis CDs, surplus d'usines nord-américaines mutilés dans les années 1990 pour devenir inécoutables, puis revendus en Chine comme matiére plastique.

"Missing Air for Feng Shuo"  /  27 janvier 2010, appartement de Feng Shuo, Pékin


et Yan Jun à Paris, ici   ^<>^
 & là  <<>>

21/11/2012

Philips "Nat. Lab"

Kid Baltan (Dick Raaijmakers) and Tom Dissevelt at Philips "Nat. Lab" 1959,
explaining how electronic tape music is made.
Broadcast by VARA television on January 17, 1959.

16/11/2012

Plectrophonic Orchestra

In 1941, Letritia Kandle (1915 - 2010), former member of the Kohala Girls, became the featured soloist of the 50-piece ‘Chicago Plectrophonic Orchestra,’ which featured Letritia playing classical numbers such as “Blue Danube Waltz” as well as other pop and Hawaiian numbers.  When her mentor, conductor Jack Lundin, passed away in 1943, Letritia took over as conductor of the Orchestra.


Letritia Kandle, a serious Hawaiian guitar player, pioneered the electrified slide guitar in the 1930's.
She asked her father to buy a harp guitar and help her to convert it to a Hawaiian raised-nut instrument with a standard neck and a 12-string neck capable of different tunings. Then she had a vision for a brand new electrified instrument with 24 strings: the "Grand Letar". This instrument demonstrated in 1937 in trade conventions was able to generate lights' effects.
Letritia played different radio programs as NBC.


 And in 1937, she build a more portable  instrument, the "Small Letar".

 More informations on Vintage Guitar Magazine (nov. 2012) and Muleskinner blog.

& still looking for recordings of this artist and her instrument, as well of the Chicago Plectrophonic Orchestra!

11/11/2012

09/11/2012

Antonio das Mortes II

à propos de la remarquable soprano de la fameuse scène de la mort d'Antonio das Mortes
(cf  l'article précédent sur "beyond the coda"), le compositeur Marlos Nobre nous a fourni les détails suivants :

"I inform that, in the music of the death scene, the singer is a famous dramatic soprano, soloist 
at the Opera of the Colon Theatre in Buenos Aires. Her name is Amalia Bazan and she recorded the music with myself conducting with fine musicians of the Rio de Janeiro's Opera Theater. The work which the title is UKRINMAKRINKRIN is recorded on a double CD, with the same performers and my conducting, 
with the title "Marlos Nobre Orchestral, Chamber and Vocal Works" still available 
on the label Leman Classics Switzerland"


et à propos de Maria Bethânia, qui avait participé à la musique du film:

....
Vous avez eu un autre ennemi: Glauber Rocha.
On ne s'est pas disputé, non. Mais quand Glauber a fait "O Dragão da Maldade Contra o Santo Guerreiro", en 1969, j'ai chanté une chanson dans le film chanson qu'il a coupé. C'était un verset: "Será que o sol quebra a vidraça / Será que o sol vai quebrar?". C'est tout. J'ai enregistré sur deux jours, seulement parce que j'ai aimé Glauber et que ma meilleure amie était sa sœur, Anecy Rocha. Glauber était un Dieu. Travaillant nu à la maison, il créait un climat. Anecy disait: «Bethânia, ne va pas là parce que Glauber travaille», et je savais ce que cela signifiait: ". Glauber est nu. Ils mourraient de rire, j'étais très tendue et Anecy essaya de me détendre...

Pourquoi Glauber a-t'il coupé la scène musicale?
Je ne sais pas. Anecy m'a expliqué qu'il a dû enlever la séquence entière. Bien sûr, je n'ai jamais gagné quoi que ce soit, imaginez : Glauber, m'inviter? Un luxe! Seulement un jour, j'étais au bar Zeppelin (Ipanema) quand Odette Lara, qui était une actrice dans le film, est venu à la table et a fait quelques très mauvaises critiques, mettant tout en bas. Et moi, bien sûr, j'ai réagi, j'étais en colère.

Vous avez continué d'être amie de Glauber jusqu'à sa mort?
On se voyait beaucoup, à Paris, lui et son épouse, Juliet Berto. C'était une belle française que j'aimais bien, avec qui il a eu sa dernière maison en France, et lors d'un spectacle que j'ai fait à l'Olympia, elle m'a donné toutes les reliques de Glauber: photos, lettres, affiches de cinéma, extraits de presse. Elle m'a fait confiance et je les ai donné directement à la mère de Glauber Rocha, Tante Lucy.
....


     Maria Bethânia

....
LES LIMITES DE LA CREATION - Selon ses plus intimes, Glauber se ferme quand il commence un film. Lors de la préparation du script de son premier long métrage, "Barravento" la chanteuse Maria Bethânia, amie de sa sœur Anecy, allait à sa maison de Salvador pour jouer de la guitare et chanter. Glauber, enfermé dans sa chambre, cria: "Silence! Quelle femme chiante!" La relation entre les deux, au début pleine de débordements, s'est s'adoucie avec le temps. Glauber l'appelait par son nom complet, Maria da Purificação Bethânia. Pour elle, Glauber était "un timide qui s'extraderait dans ses films".  Quand il a réalisé "Antonio das Mortes" , Glauber a invité Bethânia  à chanter sur la bande sonore. "J'ai eu peur. La musique était difficile, semblait plus un aria pour une chanteuse d'opéra. J'ai presque abandonné".  Bethânia a passé des journées à étudier la composition et l'enregistrement, mais lentement est devenue confiante. "Glauber m'as dirigé tout le temps comme s'il dirigeait un acteur".

DIEU EXISTE? - La musique de "Antonio das Mortes," du jeune compositeur Marlos Nobre, reflète les préoccupations esthétiques de Glauber, un «torturé de la forme», selon ses amis. Bethânia chante à la fin du film, seulement quatre versets ("Se aprepara gente / Se aprepara que agora vai ter / Le Duel of the Evil Dragon /  Contre le Saint-Guerrier"), répétés en plusieurs tonalités. Le texte est basé sur les bandits légendaires de Lampião qui avaient l'habitude de ne parler qu'en vers. Une fois quelqu'un lui a demandé comment il expliquait la virginité de Marie après la naissance de Jésus et le bandit a répondu: "Tout comme le soleil se déplace à travers la fenêtre sans casser la vitre". Glauber croit-il en Dieu? "Il ne boit pas et n'est pas religieux, en dépit de la forte dose de mysticisme de ses films", explique l'acteur Mauricio do Valle, l'interprète de Antonio das Mortes. Lors du tournage de "Le Dieu noir et le Diable blond" (Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol) à l'intérieur de Bahia, Glauber et Mauricio grimpaient sur une colline en discutant à propos de Dieu. Soudain, une rafale de vent a frappé la caméra, qui roula à quelques mètres plus bas. Mais le matériel était intact. Mauricio do Valle, qui est très religieux, a déclaré: "Dieu existe". Glauber a dit: "C'est possible ..."
....

extrait d'un article dans le magazine Veja de mai 1969

thanks to Stephane P.  &  Lisa C. for researches & translations

 

!!!!

07/11/2012

Antonio das mortes


"Antonio das mortes", "Prix de la mise en scène" au Festival de Cannes en 1969, est le film qui consacre mondialement  Glauber Rocha, l'enfant terrible du cinéma brésilien et porte parole du "cinema novo", comme un réalisateur incontournable. 
Son oeuvre fortement politique, au travers de fables allégoriques et de paraboles baroques au naturalisme stylistique, est une réflexion sur la culture brésilienne contemporaine, les inégalités sociales, la misère du Tiers Monde.


"Je n'ai pas honte de dire que mes films sont produits par la douleur, par la haine, par un amour frustré et impossible, par l'incohérence du sous-développement." - Glauber Rocha

!!! A Paris, au Musée du Jeu de Paume, une rétrospective incluant quelques films rarement montrés, jusqu'au 18 décembre.

La bande son de la scène de la mort d'Antonio das Mortes, est stupéfiante, mêlant bruitages, cris et musique de Marlos Nobre qui propose là une forme d'opéra contemporain tout à fait déjantée. Impossible de trouver le nom de la chanteuse étonnante... Toutes informations sur ce sujet seront les bienvenues.

A écouter de toute urgence!

* le titre originale du film est ""O Dragão da Maldade contra o Santo Guerreiro"




03/11/2012

How records give you more


HERE'S HOW RECORDS GIVE YOU MORE OF WHAT YOU WANT...

THE BEST FOR LESS : Records give you top quality than any other recorded form

THEY ALLOW SELECTIVITY OF SONGS AND TRACKS: With records, it's easy to pick out the songs you want to play, or to play again a particular song or side. All you have to do is lift the tone arm and place it where you want it. You can't do this as easily with anything but a phonograph record.

THEY'RE THE TOP QUALITY IN SOUND: Long-playing phonograph records look the same now as when they were introduced in 1948, but there's a world of difference. Countless refinements and developments have been made to perfect the long-playing record's technical experience and insure the best in sound reproduction and quality available in recorded form.

THEY'LL GIVE YOU HOURS OF CONTINUOUS AND UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING PLEASURE: Just stack them up on your automatic changer and relax.

THEY ARE ATTRACTIVE, INFORMATIVE AND EASY TO STORE: Record albums are never out of place. Because of the aesthetic appeal of the jacket design, they're beautifully at home in any living room or library. They've got important information on the backs - about the artists, about the performances or about the program. And because they're flat and not bulky, you can store hundreds in a minimum space and still see every title.

IF IT''S  IN RECORDED FORM, YOU KNOW IT'LL BE AVAILABLE ON RECORDS: Everything's on long-playing records these days… Your favorite artists, shows, comedy, movie sound tracks, concerts, drama,documented history, educational material… you name it. This is not so with any other kind of recording.

THEY MAKE A GREAT GIFT: Everybody you know loves music. And practically everyone owns a phonograph. Records are a gift That says a lot to the person you're giving them to. And they keep on remembering.

AND REMEMBER… IT ALWAYS HAPPENS FIRST ON RECORDS.

27/10/2012

Bill Orcutt

Last January 2012, at the 3rd Annual San Diego Experimental Guitar show,
a concert by one of my favorite guitar player, Bill Orcutt.

26/10/2012

"Each man ..."



"Each man kills the thing he loves" est le titre de l'exposition personnelle de notre ami Markus Hansen à la  Galerie Eric Mircher à Paris, du 25/10/12 au 22/12/12.
Je recommande aux amateurs de doubles, de disques vinyl, de musique de s'y rendre.




"Each man kills the thing he loves" is the title of Markus Hansen 's exhibition located at Galerie Eric Mircher in Paris.

25/10/2012

Pansori



Kim Sohee is one of the most famous female Pansori singer in Korea.
Pansori is a style of Korean traditional music from the 19th century. 
Featuring satires and love stories, Pansori music could seem close of the shamanic oral tradition. Some pieces could take eight hours to perform without any break.

The famous movie "The pansori singer"  ( "Sopyonje" ) directed by Im Kwon-Taek in 1993 well describe a family of pansori singers learning and performing this difficult art.


to listen
KIM Sohee, "Guǔm" (김소희, 구음)

23/10/2012

Listen

In 1978, Max Neuhaus published a postcard "Listen" around his first independant work as an artist. This work, as a "lecture demonstration" , was supposed to refocus people's aural perspective.


 

                                                                                

"...The first performance was for a small group of invited friends. I asked them to meet me on the corner of Avenue D and West 14th Street in Manhattan. I rubberstamped LISTEN on each person's hand and began walking with them down 14th Street towards the East River. At that point the street bisects a power plant and, as I had noticed previously, one hears some spectacularly massive rumbling. We continued, crossing the highway and walking along the sound of its tire wash, down river for a few blocks, re-crossing over a pedestrian bridge, passing through the Puerto Rican street life of the lower east side to my studio, where I performed some percussion pieces for them..."  

       

17/10/2012

Erik Satie



Blaise Cendrars parle d'Erik Satie.
Blaise Cendrars talks (in french) about Erik Satie


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15/10/2012

Criteria of electronic music


© Copyright 1993 Karlheinz Stockhausen. Used by permission of Stockhausen-Verlag, 51515 Kürten, Germany
 

"Four criteria of electronic music" : excerpt of a lecture of Karlheinz Stockhausen for the Oxford Union in 1972.

                                                                   
 & more @ ***<>***

09/10/2012

Take care of your records


TAKE CARE OF YOUR RECORDS...

ONE: Always handle the record by its edges, or by one edge and the center, touching only the label. Never touch the playing surface (or grooves) of the record.

TWO: Buckle the record jacket when removing or replacing the record by pressing the jacket against you. This will help guard against possible scratches.

THREE: Before playing the record, wipe it lightly, with a soft, slightly damp cloth. This helps remove the dust which collects the record because of static electricity.

FOUR: Store records albums vertically, store single records (78 rpm records, 45 rpm records or Extended Play records) either on edge of flat in stacks.

Your COLUMBIA RECORDS are a permanent library of great words and music. Careful use of your records will ensure longer life for them, and your greater enjoyment of their many  riches. these important safeguards have been established by William S. Bachman, director of Columbia Records Sound Laboratories, as a guide for preserving your records.

07/10/2012

Eventless Plot

From Greece, the trio Eventless Plot are improvisators, using all the possibilities of the piano as well analog sources, field recordings and Max/Msp patches. Their last CD "Recon", where saxophones are invited, is published at Aural Terrains



Thanks to Freesilence where I discovered the existence of that band who seems to play exclusively in Greece.

06/10/2012

Soulnessless


Je ne peux que vivement vous recommander d'aller voir l'exposition "Soulnessless, Cantos I-V"
que Terre Thaemlitz présente au CAC de Brétigny sur Orge jusqu'au 30 novembre.

Au travers de 5 chants d'une grande densité - images, video, texte et son - intriquant différents thèmes - religion, immigration, trans-genre, histoire familiale, production musicale - elle y affirme son radicalisme et son regard critique sur les politiques d'identité - sexualité, classe sociale, ethnicité ... - , ainsi que son indépendance économique avec les systémes et stratégies des médias commerciaux.

A cette occasion, la sortie d'un nouvel album "Soulnessless" sous forme d'une carte microSDHC (16Go) contenant 32 heures de musique, les videos de 5 chants et 150 pages de textes et images, concrétise donc l'idée que Terre Thaemlitz a toujours activé, de défier les standards des supports en vigueur (CD, mp3, DVD .. etc ).


  • Over four years in production.
    4年以上に及ぶ制作期間。
  • Over 32 hours of new audio materials, including bonus remixes by DJ Sprinkles and K-S.H.E.
    32時間以上の新曲。DJスプリンクルズ上作延ハウス・エクスプロージョンによるボーナスリミックス入り。
  • 80 minutes of new video material in English, fully translated into individual video files for Bulgarian, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
    80分の新しいビデオ(英語、日本語、ブルガリア語、フランス語、ドイツ語、イタリア語、ポーランド語、ポルトガル語、ロシア語、スペイン語)各言語それぞれのビデオ・ファイルが入っています。
  • Over 150 pages of English text and images, with key sections translated into Bulgarian (65 pages), French (61 pages), German (65 pages), Italian (63 pages), Japanese (117 pages), Polish (65 pages), Portuguese (64 pages), Russian (65 pages) and Spanish (64 pages).
    150ページ以上の英語のテキストと写真。主なセクションは翻訳されています。日本語(117ページ)、ブルガリア語(65ページ)、フランス語(61 ページ)、ドイツ語(65ページ)、イタリア語(63ページ)、ポーランド語(65ページ)、ポルトガル語(64ページ)、ロシア語(65ページ)、およ びスペイン語(64ページ)。
  • Filling an entire 16GB microSDHC card (optional card reader available).
    16GBのmicroSDHCカードを一杯にしてあります。(カードリーダオプションもあります) 


04/10/2012

Hope train


                                                                    on Facebook

The future of music



"I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the aid of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard.
Photoelectric, film, and mechanical mediums for the synthetic production of music will be explored. Whereas, in the past, the point of disagreement has been between dissonance and consonance, it will be, in the immediate future, between noise and so-called musical sounds.
The present methods of writing music, principally those which employ harmony and its reference to particular steps in the field of sound, will be inadequate for the composer, who will be faced with the entire field of sound. New methods will be discovered, bearing a definite relation to Schoenberg's twelve tone system and present methods of writing percussion music and any other methods which are free from the concept of a fundamental tone. The principle of form will be our only conxtant connection with the past. Although the great form of the future will not be as it was in the past, at one time the fugue and at another the sonata, it will be related to these as they are to each other: through the principle of organization or man's common ability to think..."

 John Cage - "The Future of Music: Credo" in "Silence, Lectures and Writings" 
Wesleyan University Press, 1961, p.3-6.

30/09/2012

Jesus, joy of man's desiring

Amazing installation!
A giant xylophone playing the Bach's "cantata 147" excerpt in the middle of a forest.
An idea of Morihiro Harano commissioned by the Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo.


     by "everyday listening"

29/09/2012

Arguments for Vinyl


HERE'S HOW RECORDS GIVE YOU MORE OF WHAT YOU WANT:

1. THEY'RE‘YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT BUY. Records give you top quality for less money than any other recorded form. Every album is a show in itself. And once you've paid the price of admission, you can hear it over and over again.

2. THEY ALLOW SELECTIVITY OF SONGS AND TRACKS. With records it's easy to pick out the songs you want to play, or to play again a particular song or side. All you have to do is lift the pick-up arm and place it where you want it. You can't do this as easily withanything but a long-playing record.

3. THEY'RE CONVENIENT AND EASY TO HANDLE. With the long-playing record you get what you want to hear, when you want to hear it. Everybody's familiar with records, too. And you can go anywhere with them because they're light and don't take up space.

4. THEY'RE ATTRACTIVE, INFORMATIVE AND EASY TO STORE. Record albums are never out of place. Because of the aesthetic appeal of the jacket design, they're beautifully at home in any living room or library. They've also got important information on the backs — about the artists, about the performances or about the programme. And because they're flat and not bulky, you can store hundreds in a minimum of space and still see every title.

5. THEY'LL GIVE YOU HOURS OF CONTINUOUS AND UNINTERRUPTED LISTENING PLEASURE. Just stack them up on your automatic changer and relax.

6. THEY'RE THE PROVEN MEDIUM. Long-playing records look the same now as when they were introduced in 1948, but I there's a world of difference. Countless refinements and developments have been made to perfect the long-playing record's technical excellence and ensure the best in sound reproduction and quality.

7. IF IT'S IN RECORDED FORM, YOU KNOW IT'LL BE AVAILABLE ON RECORDS. Everything's on long-playing records these days... your favourite artists, shows, comedy, movie sound tracks, concerts, drama, documented history, educational material... you name it. This is not so with any other kind of recording.

8. THEY MAKE A GREAT GIFT because everybody you knowloves music. And everyone owns a record player because it's the musical instrument everyone knows how to play. Records are gifts that say a lot to the person you're giving them to. And they keep on remembering.

AND REMEMBER... IT ALWAYS HAPPENS FIRST ON RECORDS'

CBS - 1969

28/09/2012

Conférence sur rien



The movie "Conférence sur rien", a french reading by Eve Couturier of the John Cage's "Lecture on nothing"
was part of the movies' program in the exhibition "Cage's Satie: composition for museum" curated by Laura Kuhn, director of the John Cage Trust in New-york, at Lyon (France) at the contemporary art museum "Mac-Lyon" december 2012.

movie by Jean-Jacques Palix
french translation & lecture par Eve Couturier 



duration : 52 minutes 

Paris - 2002