Flux De Bouche
Jaap Blonk is a self-taught composer, voice performer and sound poet. His unfinished studies in physics, mathematics and musicology mainly created a penchant for activities in a Dada vein, as did several unsuccessful jobs in offices and other well-organized systems. He took up saxophone and started to compose music, at first mainly jazz pieces and music for experimental theatre. In reciting poetry, especially the works of Antonin Artaud, Lucebert and Kurt Schwitters, he discovered the directness…
Ja Ja Ja Ja Ja, Nee Nee Nee Nee Nee
This CD contains Joseph Beuys' sound work, A tape piece in which the above words are repeated on and on resulting in a hypnotising soundtrack, not entirely without tongue in cheek: with repetition of "Ja" (yes) and "Nee" (no), Beuys changes the intonation of the words to achieve a sense of intensity. Featuring Henning Christiansen, Recorded at Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Dec. 14, 1968. CD in digipack with 32 paged booklet (in German).
Opus 17 A
Hanne Darboven, a visual artist known primarily for her rigourous, repetitive drawings which are drawings of non-representational writing, loops written out again and again in time, also created music, including Opus 17A, a work for double bass. This piece will then be recorded and played once a day throughout the duration of the exhibition. This monumental piece consists of 1008 pages of uniform size divided into 4 Opus’s (Opus 17a and b and Opus 18a and b). Each Opus is comprised of 36 poems, …
Private recordings 1984/1993
The CD Stories from Paolino's Tapes consists of taped letters (in English) which Feyerabend recorded for his last wife, Grazia Borrini-Feyerabend, during his stays in Switzerland, Berkeley and Rome. These recordings, interesting also because of their curious mix of Viennese and Californian idioms, reveal another side of the philosopher. Feyerabend's views on a bad translation of Brecht/Weill's Dreigroschenoper, his comments on certain nuances of Verdi's Falstaff, his own translation of Xenophane…
for those about to rock
A very nice limited artist-record, comes in fold-out cover with a text by john miller and an introduction by Raimar Stange. Four visual artists rockin’ out. Includes the title track, “Stooges Burn Out”, “Dance Practice”, “Jesus” and the Bass intro and outro. “They are amateurs, therefore perfect”
Exposé
Based on a series of 33 musical ideas written, printed, framed and 'exposed' in a recent installation in Milan, Exposé is the first of a new cycle of works as well as the result of Alessandro Bosetti's fascination with speech loops. The mesmerizing voice of Audrey Chen, endlessly repeating the same sentence over the entire duration of each piece, is full of musical nuances, and it rewards close attention. The result is a weird and fascinating experience, that takes the listener through a surreal…