The fertility of sound
“I believe in the fertility of sound.” The Plumed Serpent, D. H. Lawrence.
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“…life was a hollow shell all round him, roaring and clattering like the sound of the sea, a noise in which he participated externally, and inside this hollow shell was all the darkness and fearful...
View ArticleThe noise
Don’t make a noise. The noise of firing. Listening to the noise. His own noise. Associations of the noise. The slightest noise. Blaring with the noise. A distressed noise. Followed by a noise. The noise.
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Do not make a noise
A New Spanish Grammar; or, The Elements of the Spanish Language (1800).
View ArticleComputer Music Studies
During last month, I spent most of my time making a series of audiovisual pieces entitled Computer Music Studies. The sound, and the title, are by Mikel R. Nieto, who provided me with twenty tracks....
View ArticleI love flashing lights warnings from films and TV shows
Warning: This film contains flashing images and stroboscopic sequences This one is from A Field in England by Ben Wheatley. I remade the original intertitle that I had because it was a bit small for a...
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We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music
The Paris Review: Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135
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@ Festival APOLLO 4 [20 - 26 novembre, Boucau, Anglet (France)]
Festival APOLLO 4 . art & musique avec AA tigre, _blank, Sandra Cuesta, Gérard Dalla Santa, Alain Fleig, Guilh’em All, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Béranger Laymond, Leve, Mikel R. Nieto, Pavane, Hugo...
View ArticleSismografoSeries Vol.29 _blank
A mixtape made for Sismógrafo Series. The only condition was to use music published with free licences. Tracklist: 1 Yan Jun – In for Rain [van Dieren/LUFF] 2 Bangkai Angsa – Byzantine [self-released]...
View ArticleIn structural film sound does exactly the opposite
“If one of the main functions of sound in traditional filmic mimesis is to ‘naturalize’ the image and anchor it in the real, in structural film sound does exactly the opposite. It openly contradicts...
View ArticleThe interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static
“Before a message comes on, there is the interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static; at once no sound and (potentially) all-sounds, murmur and static indicate that the channels are open,...
View ArticleWhat silence reveals
What silence reveals, all sounds, the voices of things, the musical world… All of this becomes active, a kind of disjointed rebellion, a rhetorical device, a genealogy that legitimates the rule of the...
View ArticlePsycho 60/98
WARNING: This film contains flashing images. “Psycho” (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock and “Psycho” (1998) by Gus Van Sant collide in a frame-by-frame editing that assaults the eyeballs and assassinates the...
View ArticleHarmony was a capitalist plot to sell pianos
—Do you perform often? —Only at poor attended concerts for postgraduates. —That’s a shame, why do you think that is? —Because once you move away from tonality and harmony the audience is very small....
View ArticleNew concepts for new words: hearinghearing
Definition of hearinghearing : the activity of listening to places of interest in a particular location
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framework:seasonal ::: issue #8, now available!
There’s a new framework:seasonal series with one of my rain recordings. “The framework:seasonal series of fund-raising audio releases continues with issue #8, another superb compilation of previously...
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Silence cannot conceal anything
“Shall we converse, then?” “Talk of the weather, which we know all about? Ask how we are, which we already know? I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see the past. Silence cannot conceal...
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