Seed Of The Cosmic Horse (talkbot version)

A Duck in a Tree 2016-04-16 | A Chance to Begin Again

track list

01 Mean Flow - Paradiso Love

02 Audio Obscura - To Be Held for a Long Time

03 Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Glen Glasow [narrator] - Terry Riley: 'Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders' [extract]

04 Una Lee - Les Impressions Marocaines

05 Una Lee and Peter Wullen - -lalia (Emmanuel Mieville Remix)

06 Runzelstirn & Gurgelstøck - (Tests + Training) Studioarbeit / Feldforschung

07 Modal Voices - Substructures

08 Artificial Memory Trace - Hmizz, Sikada, Ptaki a Fiano

09 Richard Chartier - (typeof) 06

10 Four Tet - First Thing

11 Rehberg & Bauer - Supa Zwei 10

12 Akira Rabelais - (void) 01

13 [unknown sound recordist / BBC] - Stainless Steel, Manufacture, Making Gas Fired Ladle Pre-Heater

14 Massimo Amato - Tortured Rose

15 prefabGout - Dripping Green

Story (Gintas K Rework - compressed version) - Una Lee & Peter Wullen.

Una Lee and Peter Wullen ¡nterst¡ces Reworks - Bandcamp.

Una Lee and Peter Wullen - ¡nterst¡ces Reworks (petroglyph438)

https://archive.org/details/petroglyph438Una_Lee_and_Peter_Wullen-interstices_reworks

"¡nterst¡ces" is a collection of soundpoems based on original poems by Peter Wullen set to music by sound artist Una Lee. These are reworks of "¿nterst¿ces" made by experimental artists: Tom Smith, Emmanuel Mieville, Gintas Kraptavicius and Dalglish. Cover art by Marta Revillas

Globoscuro, Una Lee & Peter Wullen - #Frogporn

The Pearl Thief - Music: Emiliano Pietrini.

The Mother Stone (French version) - Peter Wullen, Globoscuro​, Mach Feedback​, Christoph Bruneel - The Mother Stone (Hortus Conclusus Records​ 2016)

(Petroglyph385) Una Lee & Peter Wullen - Incestuous sisters

Globoscuro, Una Lee & Peter Wullen - #Insectporn (Hortus Conclusus 2015)

Una Lee with Peter Wullen - '-lalia' by Ergô Felix Culpa.

The Xmas Compilation 2015 - Petroglyph Records.

Unfamiliar 12 by Acts of Silence.

#godporn by Globoscuro, Una Lee & Peter Wullen is now featured on the Unfamiliar 12 podcast by David Nemeth, http://www.unfamiliar.cc/unfamiliar-12/. #godporn is a track from the 5#Poems album by Globoscuro/Una Lee/Peter Wullen released on the Hortus Conclusus Records​. #godporn features words by LaMetàFisica aka Alessandra Zerbinati​.

Globoscuro, Una Lee & Peter Wullen - Godporn (Hortus Conclusus 2015)

Globoscuro, Una Lee & Peter Wulllen - #5POEMS (Hortus Conclusus 2015)

https://archive.org/details/GloboscuroUnaLeePeterWulllen_5poems_HCR2015

Daniele Santagiuliana & Peter Wullen - Handmade Horse (Hortus Conclusus Records 2015)

"Handmade Horse" by Daniele Santagiuliana & Peter Wullen (Hortus Conclusus Records)

DANIELE SANTAGIULIANA and PETER WULLEN

Handmade Horse (2015)

Testing Vault aka Daniele Santagiuliana is one of the most prolific and known cult figures in Italian and Post-Industrial Music. Born in 1983 he ran his little label, Looney-Tick Productions from 2013. He worked with many other artists and under many different monikers.

Peter Wullen is a poet and a writer. He also works in the field of audio and video poetry. Videopoems by several international artists can be found on Vimeo . Sound releases on SONM, KSV, BLOSSOMING NOISE, HAZE, PETROGLYPH RECORDS.

Music: shortwave radio loops, broken turntable, micro death synth and vocals

Poems:

1. Handmade Horse: cut-up of a recipe of kazy karta found somewhere on the net

2. All My European Friends... : cut-up from an interview with John Duncan, with kind permission of John, interview was published in the book Micro Bionic: Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century by Thomas Bey William Bailey

© 2015

All the tracks are written and composed by: Daniele Santagiuliana and Peter Wullen

Cover art and graphic design by: Linda de Luca

Unfamiliar 09 by Acts Of Silence.

A Duck in a Tree 2015-10-10 | Dismantled in Slow Motion

A Duck in a Tree 2015-10-10 | Dismantled in Slow Motion by :Zoviet*France: on Mixcloud

https://www.mixcloud.com/zoviet_france/a-duck-in-a-tree-2015-10-10-dismantled-in-slow-motion/

"¿nterst¿ces" by Una Lee & Peter Wullen (Petroglyph 385)

Una Lee & Peter Wullen - ¿nterst¿ces (Petroglyph 385)

"¿nterst¿ces" is a collection of soundpoems based on original poems by Peter Wullen set to music by sound artist Una Lee. Their collaboration started after they got to know of each other’s works online in late 2013. These tracks were made in 2014.

Tracklist

1. Story I

2. Black Canary

3. Persian Cat Blues

4. Wonky Alice

5. Hoplitis Spoliata

6. Story II

7. Maimed

8. Hollow Head

9. Incestuous Sisters

All Poems by Peter Wullen

Piano - Una Lee (Track 9)

Violin - Hyo Jung Kim (Track 9)

Artwork by Marta Revillas, http://www.martarevillas.com/

https://archive.org/details/petroglyph385Una_Lee_and_Peter_Wullen

To Live and Shave in L.A. - Absence Blots Us Out / CD

'Do You Dream About Me?' - Video by Goh Lee Kwang.

https://gohleekwang.bandcamp.com/

'Do You Dream About Me?' by Dickson Dee feat. Gintas K, Emmanuel Mieville & Cheri Gao

TLASILA: "Absence Blots Us Out" (cassette version)

http://toliveandshaveinla.blogspot.be/2015/07/tlasila-absence-blots-us-out-cassette.html

'Do You Dream About Me?' by Dickson Dee feat. Gintas K, Emmanuel Mieville & Cheri Gao (excerpt)

Five Poems, by Peter Wullen, voice by Una Lee.

Fake #1 - April 2015.

'Absence Blots Us Out' by TLASILA - For Chris Grier.

'Incestuous Sisters' by Una Lee, Hyo Jung Kim & Peter Wullen

MUTATIONS (Full 7 Minute Version) - For Zbigniew Karkowski

Original poem from the >>4 Poems<< cycle was published in the Dutch literary magazine nY #24 (http://www.ny-web.be/showtime/ny-24-verschenen.html)

PARIAH - All my European friends have Asian girlfriends (copy/paste for John Duncan)

Original poem from the >>4 Poems<< cycle was published in the Dutch literary magazine nY #24 (http://www.ny-web.be/showtime/ny-24-verschenen.html)

>>4 Poems<< by L'Ane Qui Butine

The >>4 Poems<< cycle that is now published in the Dutch literary magazine nY #24 (http://www.ny-web.be/showtime/ny-24-verschenen.html) also exists as a limited edition booklet. Art edition created by L'Ane Qui Butine. It contains words by Osip Mandelstam, John Duncan, Thomas Bey William Bailey, Kyrgyz manaschi, Michel Faber (Under The Skin), Celia Green, Mutants by Armand Marie Leroi, Peter Lamborn Wilson and an excerpt from the Rg Veda... More info: lanequibutine@gmail.com.

www.lanequibutine.com

ttp://www.ny-web.be/

nY #24 - "Weerzin".

http://www.ny-web.be/print-issues/ny/jan-2015-24/

'Searching for Cioran' by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston.

Unfinished sympathy. First part is great. Cioran's youth in Rasjinari. But Ilinca Zarifopol passed away before she could finish the full biography. So, the rest is really some unfinished parts put together by her husband Kenneth R. Johnston. Two chapters about 'Romania's Transfiguration' and Cioran's so-called 'fascist' sympathies. And then there is the part about Ilinca visiting Emil in the hospital. An ailing old man with Alzheimer. Cringeworthy. It gets better when she travels herself to Romania. Not to find out stuff about Cioran, but to look for her father and her uncle Paul. It's all very sketchy. That's the part where i am now. She does write a lot about the republication of 'Romania's Transfiguration' in 1990. But Emil was not stupid. He quickly hurried to republish the book after the Romanian revolution in 1989. Opportunistic? She hardly makes that link though. Yes, in the 2nd part of the book. She plays on sentiment. But Cioran was never about 'sentiment'. Notes written by a woman in love. My conclusion is that we need a biography of his lifelong partner Simone Boué. She was the complicated part in the life of Cioran. Looking after the master with care for 40 years. For whatever reason. Love, maybe... Her story is a tragic one. She killed herself 2 years after his death. Drowned in the sea.

PS: Just skipped to Appendix 2 'Articles by Cioran Reflecting His Experiences In Germany', on E.M. Cioran's very outspoken and Nietzschean 'sympathy for a young Hitler' in 1933-1934. Shivers!!!! He was wrong! So wrong! And he knew it! What does the author want to proof by publishing this 'wrong' article though? In perspective: it was hard to see what was going to happen in 1933 and 1934. A lot of people stepped willingly or unwillingly into the mass hysteria of the moment as Cioran explained later as an apology. It was hard not to be swept away by the fascist tsunami that was about to come. But the fact that Cioran gave permission to republish the book in 1990, meant that all through the years he clung to the same ideas. So, no apologies...

You can forgive a young man for having these ideas in 1933-1934. You cannot forgive a skilled writer & thinker for sticking to the same ideas in 1990. Then it's indeed Tschüss, Emil.

'Searching for Cioran', by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnson, edited by Kenneth R. Johnson, foreword by Matei Calinescu, Indiana University Press, 2009.

My Favourite Albums of 2014.

Valerio Tricoli - 'Miseri Lares'

Antoine Chessex - 'Chamber Works'

NO BULLSHIT - tribute to Zbigniew Karkowski

Scott Walker + Sunn0))) - 'Soused'

David Sylvian + Franz Wright - 'There's a light...'

Franck Vigroux - 'Centaure'

Mica Levi - 'Under the skin' (soundtrack)

France Jobin - 'Infinitisemal'

Yvan Etienne - 'La Lueur'

Zbigniew Karkowski + Tetsuo Furudate - 'World As Will'

Gintas K - 'Old man tales'

Otomo Yoshihide Quartet

A Singing Comet

Kenney/Kang/Park - 'At Temple Gate'

A-Symmetry - 'I Am Life'

reissues: Jon Hassell, Fripp + Eno, Eyeless In Gaza,...

‘There's a light that enters houses with no other house in sight’ by David Sylvian.

The voices deliver the strangest music nowadays. First we had the wonderful Scott Walker album with SunnO))) and now here is one by the great David Sylvian. Not enough suffering in his music, said the one about the other once. But here is some suffering anyway. 'There's a light...' is a collaboration with long suffering poet laureate Franz Wright. I know many fans from the first hour were appalled because it is not David reciting the words but the old man Wright. And it is poetry, not songs. What can I say? A difficult album. And that's mildly put. But we love 'difficult', don't we? Especially the last 20 minutes are very captivating... "If you liked being born, you will love dying..." Did you spot the change in tone in Franz Wright's voice towards the end of the album? The humoristic and playful is suddenly gone. A crack in his voice when he starts to sound utterly desperate and lonely. It's a breathtaking moment. The cleverness disappears. Human warmth slips in. The piece almost becomes 'emotional'.... It's the best part of the album. I thought I heard Dai Fujikura somewhere, but he is not on the album. Sylvian is not the one to sit still. He is continuously looking for new adventures and collaborations. This time it is Toshimaru Nakamura and veteran Otomo Yoshihide delivering the samples. Musically, the album even holds out without the poet's voice which comes unobtrusively in the way of the freeflowing brushes of music once in a while. I can enjoy David Sylvian's new album to a certain level, but I'm sure he has become some kind of muscian's musician. There are certain aspects of 'There's a light...' that will forever escape me. That's normal. Is it really necessary to know where every note every snippet comes from? The whole history of contemporary music that was crammed into one piece of music? I'm surely not the one looking to understand everything. BTW, I seem to be a poet's poet myself. I know all about it. The things I put into my poems will not necessarily be recognised by readers. Maybe only by connoisseurs. And then what? I don't expect anybody to fully understand what I've written. Dedicated DS fans will be chewing on this. Ha...

PS: One would hope that Scott and David will work together one day. At least here is the whimsical proof that there is a lot of suffering in David Sylvian's work anyway.

'Centaure' by Franck Vigroux on Cosmo Rhythmatic.

FRANCK VIGROUX - CENTAURE from dautrescordes on Vimeo.

Listening to the music of Franck Vigroux is a musical experience comparable to reading Cioran. It's intense! I was reading and rereading 'Le Lyrisme Absolu' by E.M. Cioran from his book 'Sur les Cimes du Désespoir' and then inadvertently I switched to listening to Franck Vigroux's new album on the brand new Berlin based label Cosmo Rhythmatic. I suddenly saw it before me and I immediately made the link. Like an epiphany. Vigroux in 'Tempest' cooly hunched over his instruments while Antoine Schmitt projects ever evolving, stellar algorhytmical projections on the videoscreen behind him. Amidst all the bad art being made in the name of Cioran, this seems to be the real thing. It felt like a total experience and the absolute lyricism we are looking for and that Cioran wrote about. Then after that I took a look at the stunning 'Croix' videos and I had to think about the words 'le lyrisme absolu est celui des derniers instants' from the same chapter... On his new EP 'Centaure' Vigroux even goes one step further: the noise, the abstraction, the experiment on 'Centaure', '2024' and 'Vesuve'... I don't know if you ever read 'Le Bain de Feu' by Cioran? It's about the most intense hair-raising philosophical text ever written. I feel like that too when I listen to the new album. Vigroux puts you head down in a scorching bath of fire. Vigroux is probably the most intense musician of the moment. But then, in comes Shapednoise to scrape together your remaining ashes with different abstract shapes and forms of rhythms. Vigroux never lets us down exploring this experimental way or that noise way, but 'Centaure' is surely the most powerful thing we heard from him since 'We (Nous Autres)'. Brilliant! Video by Gregory Robin.

Music by Franck Vigroux, Label Cosmo Rhythmatic, boomkat.com/vinyl/1147530-franck-vigroux-centaure, boomkat.com/downloads/1147497-franck-vigroux-centaure

'Paradigm' by Sergio Albano (based on "4 Poems" by Peter Wullen)

'Offering' by Sergio Albano (based on "4 Poems" by Peter Wullen)

A-symmetry: I Am Life 2014 - Life 1.

life 1 - A-symmetry: I Am Life 2014 from agf Pro on Vimeo.

Here's a splendid video from A-symmetry, the collaborative project of Georgian based Natalie Tba Beridze and AGF (Antye Greie-Ripatti). The track is from their forthcoming album on Morr Music called 'I Am Life'.

http://asymmetry.agfproducktion.com/

'Sanctum Gradalis' by Ouroboros featuring Stefania Domiziana

"4 Poems" by L'Ane Qui Butine & Peter Wullen

www.anequibutine.com

"4 Poems" by L'Ane Qui Butine.

www.anequibutine.com

Underground Poetry Fest in Brussels from 19 - 21.09.2014.

Lewis - 'Bringing You A Rose'.

http://blog.lightintheattic.net/?p=28161

Crank - "Omnipressure".

Yvan Etienne — "La lueur" — (Aposiopèse)

NO BULLSHIT - A Sonic Tribute to Zbigniew Karkowski (Bandcamp edition)

NO BULLSHIT - A Sonic Tribute To Zbigniew Karkowski (1958-2013)

'NO BULLSHIT - A Sonic Tribute to Zbigniew Karkowski (1958-2013)' is ready for release. It's an audio DVD of 5 hours commemorating one of the greatest experimental artists of all times. The piece I sent for the DVD was made together with Korean experimental artist Una Lee and is called 'MUTATIONS'. It was loosely based on 'Mutation', a relatively quiet soundpiece by the late great Japanese sound artist Aube and by Zbigniew Karkowski. They are two giants of noise music who passed away last year. The spoken poem itself is a mashup of parts of Armand Marie Leroy's book 'Mutants : on the form, varieties and errors of the human body'. For more information about the upcoming release check here: http://sonmarchive.es/index.php?option=com_muscol&view=album&id=4114&lang=es

Pink Floyd @ the UFO Club London 1967 - Excerpt from 'DOPE' by Flame Schon & Sheldon Rochlin.

Flame Schon & Sheldon Rochlin made the delicious 'DOPE' film in 1967 with rare images of early Pink Floyd in the UFO club in London. We worked with this 60s legendary filmmaker on a brand new videopoem with sounds by Una Lee and a rework by Gintas K. It's an hommage to the rippling still Mylar images by our mutual friend, the late poet, artist & filmmaker Ira Cohen. In the end, we made something different...

Valerio Tricoli - 'La Distanza' from 'Miseri Lares' on PAN.

Blood of a Poet Festival - 11.05.2014 - Riga, Latvia.

PARIAH - All my European friends have Asian girlfriends (copy/paste for John Duncan) - video

" it's / as real as anything else / so it's just as absurd to critizice

anyone with such a limit as being / personally / or / socially /

/ weak / "

(John Duncan, excerpt from an interview in the digital version 'MicroBionic - Radical Electronic Music & Sound Art in the 21st Century' by Thomas Bey William Bailey, A Belsona Books publication, 2012)

Antoine Chessex: "Ritournelle Fulgurante (for Leo Mingrone)".

Antoine Chessex: "Ritournelle Fulgurante (for Leo Mingrone)" from Physicofsounds on Vimeo.

Antoine Chessex special on Saturday 3 May between 6pm and 8pm on university Radiocampusbruxelles. Tracks will be featured from the new MONNO album, Chamber Works, Dust, Errances, Multiple (live at Cafe OTO) and lots more... www.radiocampus.be

Monno - III (from 'Cheval Ouvert').

Is everybody already running wild about the new Swans song 'A Little God In Our Hands'? Haha... Me, I'm more impressed by this new album by the combo Monno. Here's a crazy & ultraspeedy track produced by Roli Mossiman, the former Swans drummer....

Mazk (Masami Akita & Zbigniew Karkowski) - 'Not knowing what is and is not'.

'Idioticon' by Kris Verdonck, words by Peter Wullen.

'Idioticon', videopoem by Kris J. Y. Verdonck. The soundtrack is 'Koladé Spirit' by David Toop, with kind permission. 'Koladé Spirit' is a track from 'Mondo Black Chamber', the new David Toop compilation album on Sub Rosa. The original was included on 'Konstantin Raudive - The Voices of the Dead'. A Raudive celebration including unpublished material by Scanner, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky/That subliminal kid, Calla, Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth), Ensemble, Ramdom Inc., David Toop, Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Brett Dean. They have all composed an exclusive piece of music based on the Raudive material. It goes from a close examination of the material itself (CM Von Hausswolff, Lee Ranaldo) to a more evocative mood (Calla, Scanner, dj Spooky). The last piece, for viola solo, is a global homage to all the explorators of the unknown.

Two completely new Sappho poems discovered.

[ … ] But you always chatter that Charaxus is coming, His ship laden with cargo. That much, I reckon, only Zeus Knows, and all the gods; but you, you should not Think these thoughts, Just send me along, and command me To offer many prayers to Queen Hera That Charaxus should arrive here, with His ship intact, And find us safe. For the rest, Let us turn it all over to higher powers; For periods of calm quickly follow after Great squalls. They whose fortune the king of Olympus wishes Now to turn from trouble to [ … ] are blessed and lucky beyond compare. As for us, if Larichus should [ … ] his head And at some point become a man, Then from full many a despair Would we be swiftly freed.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/30/read-sappho-new-unknown-poem-papyrus-classical

'Black Canary' by Chris H Lynn, voice: Una Lee, words: Peter Wullen.

Black Canary from chris h lynn on Vimeo.

The aim of a poet is not to win prizes. To be famous. To be popular. Even not to produce books. That's left for the others to decide. The aim of a poet is to leave as much traces as possible during a lifetime. Like seeds we blow in the wind. Like water we flow in all directions. We project fire. We consume everything before we are consumed ourselves.

'MUTATIONS' by Una Lee & Peter Wullen.

We have our contribution to the 'NO BULLSHIT' tribute to ZK. It's loosely based on the piece 'Mutation' by ZK + Aube. I wrote the cutup poem 'MUTATIONS' as a starting point. Una Lee created the startling soundscape with sounds she found in Belfast. There's a dramatic breaking point in words and sounds in the middle of the sound poem which makes it breathtaking. It's a blast. It's LOUD. It's NO BULLSHIT....

Interview in Meander.

"Een verhaaltje vertellen is een oeroude drift, maar het is helaas niet meer van deze postpostpostmoderne tijd. Om een groot publiek te bereiken moet je nu eenmaal een verhaaltje vertellen. Dat zie je ook in de gedichten van de jonge generatie van dichters. Er wordt weinig afgeweken. Maar ik wil daar resoluut van af."

http://meandermagazine.net/wp/2014/01/terug-naar-mals-groen-2-peter-wullen/

Zbigniew Karkowski (1958-2013)

"Many say they are sorry to hear of Zbigniew Karkowsky's death. I, for one, am not.

I still hear Zbigniew's infectious laugh, hear his voice, see the sparkle of mischief in his eyes. Ripping a poster of an exhibition that my piece BLIND DATE was in off the window of a packed Yamanote-sen in Tokyo, then showing it to a suited salaryman and encouraging him to take his children to look for it in the show. Both of us laughing hysterically when the train was gone.

Zbigniew always seemed utterly without fear. His final gesture, traveling for hours in a canoe into the Amazon jungle directly after flights from Europe lasting nearly 24 hours, to be treated by a Shipbo shaman is perfectly in keeping with everything else he did. All the way, no compromise. His final wish, if the treatment failed, was to be left in the jungle to be eaten. No ceremony, no grave. If it succeeded as he hoped, he said he would bring back stories of the adventure. Somehow, I still expect to hear them.

A Karkowsky concert often meant that we would see smoke rising from the burning speakers of the overdriven PA, fumes clearing the room. As much as he seemed to enjoy it when that happened, frankly I doubt that this was ever done for effect: he simply demanded that his music be heard with the power that he intended, that he himself heard. During a residency, one of several, at The Compound in San Francisco, director Naut Humon proudly remembered that Zbigniew played lower frequencies at volumes so high that they shattered the toilet bowl. Musicians who worked with him often spoke of him with unabashed admiration, said they looked forward to a chance to do it again.

Yes, Zbigniew was often cruel when drunk, plenty of those stories to go around. So far, I have yet to meet anyone who isn't. Alcohol is a seductive, motherless bitch to anyone who lets her have her way. She slams doors of friendship shut and, under her influence, Zbigniew slammed a few more than his share.

When Zbigniew moved to Tokyo, he was fortunate enough to meet Atsuko (I never did hear her last name), who stayed together with him for fifteen years, travelled to Greece to spend a last several days together, saw him off in Paris for the flight to Peru. If she and I never meet, here I send her a huge, heartfelt Thank You.

So today, and many more days like it, will be spent thinking of that laugh, that love of entertaining friends, that cavalier and uncompromising sense of daring. One of the first phrases in Japanese that Zbigniew said he learned was 'Omanko wa oishii' -- 'Cunt is delicious'. Here, too, he was absolutely right."

(John Duncan, 13.12.2013.)

Xopher Davidson + Zbigniew Karkowski - 'Processor'

The whole idea is to play this album extremely loud with ultra powerful loudspeakers. So loud that the plaster falls off the wall. Something you can't do at home, I suppose, unless you want to rebuild your home very cheaply. I played this at low volume. The low rumble caused some anguish downstairs.

Zbigniew Karkowski (feat Anton Lukoszevieze) - 'Nerve Cell_0'

The whole piece burbles away a bit. But when you sit long enough into the music, something incredible happens around the 30th minute. The composition starts to move... Hear for yourself! Not on YT of course. The real thing. Play it really loud so the foundations of the house start to shake... That's the whole idea! Play it as loud as you can.

Favourite albums of the year 2013.

BJARNI GUNNARSON - Processes and Potentials (3Leaves) - Einóma man releases a very intricate and organic solo album on field recordings label 3Leaves.

DALGLISH - Niaw Ot Vile (PAN) - Chris Douglas aka O.S.T. aka Dalglish gets picked up by the PAN label for an excellent and eclectic album.

C. SPENCER YEH/OKKYUNG LEE/LASSE MARHAUG - Wake Up Awesome (Software Studio Series) -Ubercellist Okkyung Lee teams up with Yeh and Marhaug for an album that really has it all, it's funny, it's clever and it's moving.

IRA COHEN feat. TESTING VAULT - Fungoid (or the Multimedia Shamanic Poetry of Ira Cohen) (Looney-Tick Productions) - Dani from Testing Vault took some spoken word tracks by the late Ira Cohen and gave them the shruti or Coil treatment in a very respectful manner, it works and it is a nice tribute to one of the greatest poets.

ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI (feat ANTON LUKOSZEVIEZE) - Nerve Cell_0 (for cello and computer) (Sub Rosa)- This one was lying on my desk the whole year since it came out, I even managed to play an excerpt on university radio. What can I say? The man died recently in one of these human tragedies...

XOPHER DAVIDSON + ZBIGNIEW KARKOWSKI - Processor (Sub Rosa)- This one too to remember the late great Karkowski.

FRANCK VIGROUX - Prisme (D'Autres Cordes) - The busiest experimental musician of France got it right again with his new album. I wrote somewhere that'Ressac' feels like concrete beats falling on your head. A beast!

GINTAS K - Slow (Baskaru) - Underrated but lovely album by Lithuania's finest experimental artist.

SOLAR BEARS - Supermigration (Planet Mu) - Overlooked but brilliant album by the best Irish band of the moment.

UNSUNG MINDS - Soundpoem Remix Project feat. Tom Smith, Emmanuel Mieville, Gintas K and Dalglish (unalee.bandcamp.com).

"ON THE PERIPHERY - David Sylvian: A Biography - The Solo Years."

http://www.sylvianbiography.com/

Ira Cohen feat Testing Vault - 'But What In Your Other Hand Lies Concealed'

Excerpt from the album 'Fungoid (or The Multimedia Shamanic Poetry of Ira Cohen)' by Testing Vault featuring the voice of Ira Cohen, A Looney-Tick Productions, 2013.

C. Spencer Yeh / Okkyung Lee / Lasse Marhaug - 'The Mermen of Poetry'.

T/SMS Artwork.

« Secret Brussels » – Carte Blanche Peter Wullen @ Radio Campus 09.11.2013 from 6pm till 8pm

Lucrecia Dalt – Glosolalia (from 'Syzygy')

OHNE – Track 7 (from OHNE-1)

Scott Walker – Pilgrim (from 'Bisch Bosh')

Peter Wullen & Una Lee – Societies Rust Suns (Tom Smith rework)

Dalglish – Ciaradh (from 'Niaw Ot Vile')

Peter Wullen & Una Lee – Incestuous Sisters (Dalglish rework)

Franck Vigroux – Ressac (from 'Prisme')

Einóma – Minióma (from 'Tvenna' EP)

Bjarni Gunnarsson – Concomitance (from 'Processes and Potentials')

Bérangère Maximin & Richard Pinhas – Carnaval Cannibale (from 'No One Is An Island')

Reinaldo Laddaga – excerpt from 'Things a mutant needs to know' (from Unsounds book + 2xCD)

Linea Aspera – Kinabalu (from 'II' EP)

Francisco Lopez & Reinier Van Houdt – Untitled #275 (Movement 1)

Zbigniew Karkowski – Nerve Cell (feat Anton Lukoszevieze)(excerpt from 'Nerve Cell_0)

Gintas K – Reik (from 'Slow')

Dajuin Yao – Words without a song (feat Jerlian Tsao) (from 'Cinnabar Red Drizzle')

Dj Cheb I Sabbah & Ira Cohen – Song to Nothing / Letter to Caliban / End of a Line (from 'The Majoon Traveler')

T/SMS – Unreleased (from the forthcoming T/SMS album)

Phill Niblock – Feedcorn Ear (featuring Arne Deforce) (from 'Touch 5')

broadcast dedicated to the memory of Ira Cohen and DJ Cheb I Sabbah

www.radiocampus.be

Lucrecia Dalt, 'Inframince' from the album 'Syzygy'.

Lucrecia Dalt's music might sound frail and fragile at first listen but titles and lyrics are full of references to art, literature and films. Like a philosophy student dabbling with music. You don't need to know all that though to enjoy her soundscapes. Here's 'Inframince' from her new album 'Syzygy'.

'Солярис | La Chambre d' Андрей A. T.' by Roland Quelven.

Солярис | La Chambre d' Андрей A. T. from Roland Quelven on Vimeo.

'Secret Brussels' on Radio Campus Brussels.

I assembled an impressive playlist for a show that i'm hosting on Saturday Nov 9 on Radio Campus, the free radio of the French university of Brussels, from 6pm to 8pm. The show will be called 'Secret Brussels'. It’s an independent playlist with some close ties and connections with Brussels. It's also an awesome list of ‘new’ albums from ‘new’ artists, who are mostly not widely known by the general public, but who are making groundbreaking music, sometimes already for years, without necessarily being noticed! Their music can be soft and hard. I could have easily filled up 4 hours with edgy and experimental music, but here’s a random selection of artists represented: Bjarni Gunnarson (of Einóma), Berangere Maximin, Pinhas Richard, Franck Vigroux, T/SMS, Gintas K, Emmanuel Mieville, Lucrecia Dalt, Dalglish, Linea Aspera, Una Lee, Okkyung Lee and many many more… Podcast will follow.

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Kazat Akmatov - 'Munabiya' & 'Shahidka'.

Kazat Akmatov is the National Writer of Kyrgyzstan, a Kyrgyz author writing in his own language. Although his work is still largely unknown in the West, and must be translated from Kyrgyz to Russian and then from Russian to English, Hertfordshire Press must be applauded for its mission to promote this author’s poetic brilliance, uniquely Kyrgyz literary style and exposure of Central Asian culture to a broader public. I myself am lucky to be married to a Kyrgyz girl. I don’t pretend to understand everything Akmatov writes but I do understand a little bit of this strange culture and that’s a good start! I was initially quite shocked by how familiar Akmatov’s written words seemed to me but I soon realized that his phraseology was exactly akin to that spoken by my wife. It made me appreciate that they belong to a hidden world steeped in ancient traditions , more than a thousand years old. What Akmatov describes lives on in the hearts of the Kyrgyz people, even though the majority now live in cities, leading ‘modern’ lives. I don’t think that the content of the stories is necessarily the most important feature here, but just like Manas, there’s this general feeling and emotion behind the stories, which are universal for the Kyrgyz people and express their true national identity. It is hard to imagine a society that still lives on the brink of the Middle Ages and still clings to such old values even if all of this is quickly being dispelled by contemporary means of communication! Take the short story ‘Munabiya’ for example. It’s a story about a remorseful son visiting his old widower father. The old man lives on his own in an aul or village in rural Kyrgyzstan. This is a tale about the ‘moral values’ of this small, closely knitted society. The story circles around concepts of ‘spite’, ‘remorse’, ‘complex family ties’, ‘family feuds’, ‘pride’ and most of all ‘respect for the dead’. Admittedly, the father is not totally innocent. He is not completely alone either. He is in fact surrounded by women who look after him. There’s the spirit of his dead wife hovering around. Then it seems that the father also had some sort of relationship with the woman Munabiya, who was considered a witch in her village. An affair that started some twenty years ago and went on till the old man died. There’s the jene , or auntie, the wife of his middle brother, who strongly defends the ‘family honour’, by keeping the feared Munabiya far away from the home of the old man. Her plans don’t work out because in the end his last wish is exactly that Munabiya would ‘sit by his body at his head’ at his funeral, which causes a terrible shock and angers the fierce and jealous jene. A family feud arises at the funeral whereby the jene blocks the entrance so that Munabiya cannot enter the yurt where the dead man lies. The aksakals or village elders, play an important role in solving this family feud. They intervene and decide that the last wish of the old man should indeed be honoured. Munabiya enters and finally earns the respect of the village by singing a beautiful siren song at the old man’s deathbed. I will not explain the whole story here. Suffice to say, it takes more than one reading to fully enter this world. It’s up to the reader to read and reread and discover the rest of the carefully woven threads of this family tragedy where not everything is said out loud. This is a beautiful story which moved me profoundly. If you want to get to the heart of the Kyrgyz people, I recommend that you look to the novels of Kazat Akmatov. You will be well rewarded!

‘Munabiya' and 'Shahidka', two short stories by Kazat Akmatov were published by Hertfordshire Press.

'Societies Rust Suns' (Tom Smith Rework) - based on 'Incestuous Sisters' by Una Lee & Peter Wullen.

'Society Rust Suns' is a new work by Tom Smith loosely based on the Una Lee + Peter Wullen soundpoem 'Incestuous Sisters'. It's a challenging piece. The sonic brouhaha continues for almost 10 minutes. Tom used excerpts from sessions he did earlier with Aaron Dilloway.

Dalglish, 'Niaiw Ot Vile' on PAN.

It took a long time, twenty years to be exact, but here he is finally resurfacing on the excellent PAN label! Chris Douglas aka O.S.T. aka DALGLISH, has been producing the most stubborn, singleminded, singular electronic music since 1993, a string of albums under different names on various underground labels. Until now he was mostly ignored by the rest of the music world. And indeed, this is immensely difficult and uncompromising music. But it's finally paying off after two decades. His new album under the DALGLISH moniker comes out on Bill Kouligas distinguished PAN label. Respect!!! I already had the chance to have a listen to the new album in its entirety! It's a quite a stunner. It is abrasive and at the same time it is DALGLISH at his melancholic best. The nice thing is that Douglas can be melodic on one track (listen to 'Venpin') and then change to almost abstract on the next track (see 'Noscrlu') and then back to the almost sweet with 'Viochlm' or the cosmic weirdness of 'Out_Kutzk' or 'Sclunt'. It's a well balanced and varied album that showcases Chris' talent with a lot of different moods. I can already tell you that the first track on the b-side, the glowing track 'Ciaradh', which was also included on the Bill Kouligas' PAN mix on XLR8R, pulls the album completely open with its glorious sound and is one of my favourite tracks of the last months. It's about the best music you will hear this year! The album 'Niaiw Ot Vile' has been mastered by Rashad Becker and you can hear that... The sound is crystal clear and ultradeep with a lot of space for sonic details. We are very f**** excited about this release. Ha!!!! The world will finally hear.

A1. Venpin A2. Noscrlu A3. Viochlm A4. Out_Kutzk B1. Ciaradh B2. Donsfe B3. Seit Nuin B4. Sclunt B5. Mothlitz B6. Oidhche

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'Incestuous Sisters', rework by Dalglish, by Una Lee and Peter Wullen.

Very proud to say that mr O.S.T. aka DALGLISH (Chris Douglas) made a mindblowing and fantastic futuristic rework of the Una Lee + Peter Wullen track 'Incestuous Sisters', original voice + sounds: Una Lee, words by Peter Wullen. Check also: DALGLISH (O.S.T.) 'Niaiw Ot Vile' LP (PAN 45) out November 8th!

'Ressac' from 'Prisme', by Franck Vigroux.

'Prisme' is the new long awaited album by French experimental musician Franck Vigroux on D'Autres Cordes. It's an all together different beast than his excellent album 'We (Nous Autres)' that came out a couple of years ago. The fierce 'We (Nous Autres)' was the sound of souls consumed by fire. 'Prisme' is the crackling of smouldering ashes and buildings collapsing after that devastating fire. Listen for example to the first track of the album 'tesla', 15 minutes of noise and silence, noise and silence,... The second track 'ressac' features electronic beats as heavy as concrete blocks falling on your head. My favourite track is the claustrophobic 'capsule', that ends the album. Totally awesome!

Bjarni Gunnarsson, 'Processes and Potentials'.

Talking about Icelandic music. This is an excerpt from 'Processes and Potentials', the new Bjarni Gunnarsson album on 3Leaves. Bjarni is one half of the duo Einóma, who released some very distinctive yet quite obscure albums the last 10 years. Releases by Einóma have become a bit scarser lately, but the two members have been working on their solo projects for a while now. Bjarni did some great audiovisual stuff with Cedric Dupire lately. 'Processes and Potentials' could be the nonlinear & experimental core sound of Einóma, but unwilling to give in to anything you ever heard before. It's excellent: full of grainy textures & microsounds that flitter all over the place. The detailed meticulous sound reminded me a bit of Rashad Becker's recent, appraised album on PAN. It is maybe even more singleminded. Standout tracks are 'Momentaries', firmly held together by some kind of deep drone & 'Concomitance' with it's metallic dehumanized voices at the end. I still haven't absorbed everything. Have to listen again a couple of times. Bjarni's 'music' is demanding & extremely complicated. But for me this is definitely one of the best experimental albums of this year. Out on October 1rst.

'Practicing Landscapes' by Ian Kubra, soundtrack by Una Lee & Lynlee.

Practicing Landscapes from Ian Kubra on Vimeo.

'Cioran', poem by Peter Wullen, read by Bart Stouten.

'Fragment', poem by Peter Wullen, read by Bart Stouten.

'-lalia' (Emmanuel Mieville rework), by Una Lee & Peter Wullen.

A Scott Walkerish nightmare. One minute of total postmodern pooh weirdness. The fourth and last installment of our soundpoem remix project is called '-lalia'. And It was kindly remixed by the wonderful Emmanuel Mieville once again. It is quite cutting: a strange breed full of impish voices & strange sounds. This one might be the most experimental and conceptual of all the soundpoems we created. Loads of thanks to Una Lee and Emmanuel Mieville for taking it to another level.

'Story1' & 'Story2' (Gintas K rework), by Una Lee & Peter Wullen

'Hoplitis Spoliata' (Emmanuel Mieville rework) by Una Lee & Peter Wullen

'Maimed' (Tom Smith rework) by Una Lee & Peter Wullen

'Satisfaction of Oscillation' by Dao Dajuin.

The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival.

'Persian Cat Blues' @ The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival.

astarte from ian kubra 道 studios on Vimeo.

The videopoem 'Persian Cat Blues' - a collaboration between Korean experimental musician Una Lee, Russian film director Ian Kubra and Flemish poet Peter Wullen - will be published on the website of The Body Electric Poetry Festival with an Honorable Mention. It was chosen out of 237 submissions.

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'Putain' @ The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival.

Our videopoem 'Putain' has been selected for screening at The Body Electric Poetry Film Festival. Out of 237 submissions 36 poetry films were selected. 'Putain' is one of them and will be shown to a live audience on May 4th at The Lyric Cinema Cafe in Fort Collins, Colorado, USA.

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'Drop in the Ocean', by Moonshake.

'Fyt' by This Mortal Coil.

'Odonna' by Woob.

RM74 - 'Orkas Dream'.

RM74- Orkas Dream from Sera Timms on Vimeo.

Sera Timms is not only very famous in the LA area as a singer with the bands Ides Of Gemini, Black Math Horseman and her own recent solo project Black Mare, she is also a keen photographer and a video artist. Here's the excellent video she made for Swiss band RM74's 'Orkas Dream' from their new album 'Two Sides of a Triangle'.

'Grey Seeds', by Cedric Dupire & Bjarni Gunnarson.

GREY SEEDS from Cedric Dupire on Vimeo.

I know this is just too much for a lot of people but I think it's great! This video by Cedric Dupire is just top of the bill. The sounds were made by the more experimental side of the Icelandic duo Einóma, Bjarni Gunnarsson... The whole video is just splendid and miles away from what he did and is still doing with Einóma.

'Afloat', by Una Lee.

Afloat from paxsincera on Vimeo.

'Entrailles' by Franck Vigroux.

ENTRAILLES - Extraits - Excerpts from APRÈS LA GUERRE on Vimeo.

French sound sculptor Franck Vigroux has done some excellent work lately. Some time ago he released the fine album 'We (Nous Autres)' on D'Autres Cordes. On the other hand he's been working a lot with Belgian video artist Kurt D' Haeseleer. His latest project is a dvd called 'Entrailles' ('Insides') shot with Gregory Robin in a deserted coalmine in Saint-Etienne in France. It's very apt surroundings for Vigroux. You see some eerie and stark images of machines, name tags, empty elevators going up and down the mine shaft. In the middle of it all Vigroux experiments cooly with his digital music machines. In a bit more than a half an hour you see him shifting from abstract noise to some chopped down beats. But the most interesting moment is when he straps on a red guitar - Vigroux is in fact a guitarist - for some real guitar noise. The dvd is in fact well balanced. The attention shifts from Vigroux to the deserted mine and then back to the musician. The contrast is there. The dvd felt a bit too short but it's well worth a view...

http://records.dautrescordes.com/fr/32-entrailles.html

'A Rolling Mind', by Una Lee.

A Rolling Mind from chris h lynn on Vimeo.

'Persian Cat Blues' in Dublin.

Sound Device n.2 The lineup:

■Intro: Pride & Prejudice: movement: past, possible, present plus letters: verbs [overlay] | Maura Hazelden

■tsuka mo ugoke | Olivia Louvel

■Persian Cat Blues | Una Lee & Peter Wullen

■L’Étranger (deducted) | Jamez Dean & Albert Camus

■Ombre | Daria Baiocchi

■Video: One Quick Memory | Jonathan Johnson

■Video: Cullando Parole Svanite | Trama afonA

■Caladan: Landing | Florian Hartlieb

■Tales from Space | Chiara Passa

■Caladan: Exploration | Florian Hartlieb

■L’Imaginaire | Elsa Justel

■Guest artist: Steve McCourt, introducing his piece ’Ideomas: 2nd and 3rd movement’, Q&A

Limited seating, booking advised: sounddevicesdublin [at] gmail.com or registering in person at Rathmines Library

Selection curated by La Cosa Preziosa

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