12 instrumenter til Henning

 

The Danish multi-instrumentalist and composer Anders Lauge Meldgaard works in a wide field of musical expressions, ranging from contemporary music to free improvisation over sound installations, songwriting, orchestral midi collages, chamber music, mixtapes, noisy works for electric guitar sextet and lately also electronic music. The tension between composition and improvisation is often used as a motivating force to propel his musical adventures. He has formerly released critically acclaimed albums under the alias Frisk Frugt.

 

"12 instrumenter til Henning" is a new arrangement that sees Meldgaard exploring
the music of the Fluxus artist and composer Henning Christiansen. "About the time that passed", a trio piece (for recorder, cello and piano) by Christiansen from 1975 is the source material for a bright and stimulating new work for extended chamber ensemble, with the tonal language the original blossoming outwards via Meldgaard’s own brilliantly colourful sound palette. 

The album was released last September on vinyl and digital on the label År & Dag  that Meldgaard is part of.

Note by note, Meldgaard has transformed the music of Christiansen from the original trio score into a new radiant composition. Each part is rewritten through a thoughtful system created by Meldgaard, who reflects on the proces: “I’ve imagined how Hennings piece has grown older, the instruments have grown in size, they’ve propagated and changed their pace”. The three original instruments mutate into twelve for classical trained musicians who all play in their individual tempo during the entire piece.

 

 

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One for violin solo

"One for violin solo" , a Nam June Paik's piece from his classic Fluxus compositions - 1962

Nam June Paik's "One for Violin", 
performed during Neo-Dada in der Musik, Kammerspiele, Düsseldorf, June 16, 1962 
 

 

original picture of this performance - courtesy of MOMA

 

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Chers amis du meubler perdu

 

 

 

"Chers Amis Du Meubler Perdu, Chers auditeurs" is a performance by Claus Böhmler recorded by Holger Hiller in 1984

 

 

Claus Böhmler, born in 1939, is a german Fluxus artist and media-scientist, working with video, drawing and modern techniques of image reproduction. He lives and works in Hamburg.

This crazy piece is based on a vocal performance in German, English and French 

and is cut on the Edition Block 's EP

"Materialien Zur Postmoderne In Bild Und Ton"

Les voyelles qu'on sonne

L'artiste performer, historien d'art (Fluxus),  
Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff, vrai poète du méta-langage,

voit son ouvrage "Métaphonie - itinéraire dialogique"
publié par les éditions "Le Manuscrit".

"Il invite le lecteur à se promener dans quarante-cinq années de ses jeux de langages. Les phrases ont plusieurs sens et se lisent tout haut, afin que l’oreille participe à cette extraordinaire aventure langagière, une collection de jeux de mots, de calembours."  Alain Frontier, poète et grammairien

 

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"Le choix  entre Buffet  et  Dubuffet  n’est pas  commode"

 Une performance de Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff 
 filmée à l'Atelier des Vertus le 21 décembre 2016 par A-M.Morice

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A Chinon (France) son exposition "Y naît l'image innée" est visible jusqu'au 12 novembre 2017

FLOTTEMENT MIRIFIQUE
FIT EFFET FIEFFÉ
"Épiphanie du sens, rencontre entre matière et esprit. La matière façonnée par l’homme et les mots façonnés par l’esprit baptisent les objets et produisent ainsi la métamorphose. Il y a des lustres leur utilité semblait indispensable. J’y pourvois, non pas pour voir, c’est déjà tout vu, j’illustre par mes mots : ils seront gravés. Sans trop d’apparente gravité, poli, sage, je les rends brillants par leur désormais double hors-sens, utile fut-il futile ?"
Charles Dreyfus

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un "Cri du patchwork" diffusé sur France Musique en 2015.

son interprétation de "Sex Machine", d'après James Brown.

&

more info about "flottement mirifique fit effet"

 
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..."Charles Dreyfus, un inclassable ouvreur de boîtes et de pistes... Une philosophie nourrie au lait de Buster Keaton, par des gags audio-verbaux-visuels.. relais relié d'une longue tradition singulière qui remonte aux sophistes et au Tao."...  Michel Giroud sur Charles Dreyfus

Ben Patterson

 

RIP Ben Patterson (1934 - 2016) american artist and one of the founders of Fluxus movement. 

After a brief career as a double-bass player with symphony orchestras in Canada he settled in Cologne in 1960. There, he was active in the contemporary music scene, performing in festivals in Cologne, Paris, Venice, Vienna and elsewhere.
During this pre-Fluxus period he created and performed some of his early seminal works:  "Paper Piece", "Lemons" and "Variations for Double-Bass". 

Late in 1961 Patterson moved to Paris, where he collaborated with Robert Filliou. Commuting between Paris and West Germany, Patterson assisted George Maciunas in organizing the historic 1962 Fluxus Festival in Wiesbaden. His interview with Emmett Williams - for the opening of this festival - became the first article ever about Fluxus. 

 

After Wiesbaden Patterson and his works continued to be an important presence at Fluxus events around the world. In 1963 Patterson moved to New York, where he participated in Fluxus events until the late 1960's, when he returned to pursue "an ordinary life".

After this period, he did occasionally appear with performances and new works for such events as the 20th Anniversary Fluxus Festival in Wiesbaden in 1982 and the 1983 Sao Paulo Bienal, and has been well represented in various exhibitions.

After after, he flied up in the sky a few days ago...

In caelum utopicam

RIP the italian composer and performer  Walter Marchetti, former member with Juan Hidalgo of the avant-garde ZAJ group in 1959 in the spirit of Fluxus.

His pieces "La Caccia" and "In terra utopicam" were published in the late 70s by the label Cramps.
Other pieces, more recently, by Alga Marghen.

 

 

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Revisiting Mr JB

    "Laetitia" - Rafael Gray - circa 1994

Charles Dreyfus, french performer well known in Fluxus and poetry areas, and art's historian,
& Rafael Gray, french painter and film-maker *
were performing a well-known song of Mr JB at Tapage Club - Paris in the late 90s.
A real pataphysical and unforgetable version!




    "Voilà, vois-là, entre le son, sort le sens" Charles Dreyfus - 2011

Voilà, Vois-là, entre le son, sort le sens Charles Dreyfus - See more at: http://syndicatpotentiel.free.fr/yacs/articles/view.php/619#sthash.NTdjdFtD.dpuf

Voilà, Vois-là, entre le son, sort le sens Charles Dreyfus - See more at: http://syndicatpotentiel.free.fr/yacs/articles/view.php/619#sthash.NTdjdFtD.dpuf

     "demain, deux mètres" - Charles Dreyfus - circa 2000

Beuys & Christiansen

Beuys & Christiansen
"Schottische Symphonie" / "Requiem Of Art"
performed at Edinburgh College Of Art, August 21, 1970

via Maxime G.

La traversée du XXe siècle

Vivement recommandée, cette première monographie en français,
amplement illustrée, propose une généalogie inédite de l'œuvre de Joseph Beuys
pour en révéler l'ambition esthétique et les enjeux politiques.
Cet ouvrage, écrit par notre ami Jean Philippe Antoine
est publié aux éditions "Les presses du réel"

In Memoriam George Maciunas

"In 1978 George Maciunas, founder and chairman of FLUXUS, died in New York at the age of 47.
In invert of these numbers the duration of the piano-duett, performed in his memory by Joseph Beuys and Nam June Paik was planned for 74 minutes.
The end of this memorable evening at the Kunstakademie of Düsseldorf was determined by an alarm-clock, set for 9.14 pm."
from back cover of LP  Editions Block, 1982

audio excerpt