JON HASSELL [1937-2021]

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Praise the master of music collage who passed away june 26 2021.
He truly embodies the motto ” walker there is no path, yet you must walk”

For an obituary read:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jun/28/jon-hassell-obituary

For a beautiful concert registration:
https://youtu.be/Swg3tKTftPc

So, this link has been removed by Paolo Fresu, but then replaced on his own channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZKQqqwcrDg

What is there to say, the bottomline is a feeling of gratefulness for an artist who with intuition, creativity and perseverance opened a door to a new music.

[photography JAKE / flickr.com]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JLG!

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Today 3-12-2020 Jean-Luc Godard will be ninety-years young!

There is only one JLG, and we all have our own Godard. To me JLG is like
Moving Poetry. The sharpening of the mind, the dancing thoughts.
Beautiful moments, the act of creation, this designing of meditations.

go on, try it, FILM FOR THE EARS

The power of things to move us ‘MONO NO AWARE”, this process of ‘the moving’, that what ‘moves’ us, is what triggers me, haunts me, fascination, sensations?
The moving image, the movings clouds, the edit/ montage, the substance, the contrast.
It is easily found in such things like desire, passion, this raw emotion that sets the wheels in motion, but it is also found in the delicate, almost unnoticeable things that move us, like the wind in trees.
I’m a researcher of movement, the ‘mono no aware’ the power of things to move us.
And here i find support in the work of others, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Jullien, William Burroughs, Toru Takemitsu, Jurg Frey.
There’s great beauty in this study of the ‘mono no aware’ but also great danger, because you so easily get in a state of excitement , and you are no longer studying, and perhaps loose track and get lost for some time or…….
AVALON!


DANNY CLAY

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WHO IS DANNY?

here’s Danny’s website:
https://www.dclaymusic.com

NOW YOU KNOW!

Danny is a composer of very playful compositions.
Here is an example where Matt Hannafin, curator and director of ‘The
Extradition Series’ is unboxing one of Danny Clay’s ‘Box Compositions Series’ :
https://youtu.be/xZcrAnc-erk

Danny has been working with the Kronos Quartet too, here he is telling
something about the work he made for them:
https://youtu.be/9RdN38xp7Kk
and here is the Kronos Quartet enjoying the ride:
https://kronosquartet.org/kronos-makes-sounds-with-stuff/

just wanted to let you in on this, i find it very refreshing.
maybe it will inspire you or simply entertain the mind.

Plastic Song [2020]

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Plastic Song is a short film featuring the artworks of Steve McPherson who, for the last 25 years, has been picking up pieces of plastic from the beaches of his home town in Margate, Kent and turning them into extraordinary and complex artworks.
Directed by Julian Hanford

This is a nice and interesting short film [20 min.] with a positive vibe,
could be great for school material too!

‘NOW IS THE TIME TO LEARN HOPE’

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  • not so long ago i saw an interview with Yanis Varoufakis, a Greek economist, academic, philosopher and politician:
    https://youtu.be/wwfM3IKaZgw
    i felt inspired by his hopeful attitude towards a new economic thinking.
    Varoufakis is one of the founding members of DiEM25, you can find
    mor info here: https://diem25.org/

i felt the urge to pay attention in this post to these people who are trying to get across the idea of change, hope and fairness for the majority.

i like to dedicate this song to them.
A meditation.


1969

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the MOON

and……

Terry Riley is making his new music and quietly influencing everybody

‘Music with Balls’ 1969

watch this beautiful piece of music and art here: https://archive.org/details/music-with-balls
[take care of the volume, it gets real loud at times]

PS:
A young David Lynch is making his first short movies and already dreaming of ‘guitar-thrills’ ………

but that’s for another story!

And remember ‘ a bargain is a bargain, no matter what the costs’ !
[Agent Dale Cooper/ The Twin Peaks Tapes]

ELEKTRONIKA POETIKA

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the name i gave some years ago to a personal project concerning electro-acoustic music.
https://soundcloud.com/elektronika-poetika

One of the songs “ELECTRIC CITY ECHO” i’m posting here today for 2 reasons: it’s a good example of the use and possibilities of LLOOPP/PPOOLL,

and it also will be part of a new project: ‘Carnet de Voyage’, but this time only hard ware [no computer/ software]. More info will follow soon.

LLOOPP/PPOOLL Tutorial Part 1

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This is my one and only software tool!
I love it and I hate it, an everlasting affair.
I call it ‘INSTANT COLLAGE’!
I used it a lot, check the electric souvenir soundcloud page!

https://soundcloud.com/electric-souvenir


I use LLOOPP/PPOOLL [by Klaus Filip a.o.] together with GLEETCHLAB [by Giorgio Sancristoforo] and SOUNDHACK [by Tom Erbe]

If you found your way here, i assume you are in need of some info on how
to get this stuff working. That’s the reason i’m posting the tutorial.

Just some background info:

Even though I’m not using LLOOPP/PPOOLL a lot at the moment [ my orientation is analogue these days ] i must say that using this software will bring you a lot, it’s a box full of surprises, new sounds, new ideas. If it was only for this purpose [to open yourself up for new musical insights] that would be enough reason to give it a try, give it time and enjoy. It will be very rewarding.

JÜRG FREY & ROBERT FRANK

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today I’m posting 2 compositions: ‘met zachte beweging’ [‘gentle- movement’] dedicated to composer Jürg Frey, from whom i learned so much through his music, writings and lecturing in the last 5, 6 years, and ‘ I have come home’ which i dedicate to photographer, filmmaker Robert Frank, who showed me the acceptance of beauty no matter how beauty wishes to show herself,
or to put it in another way, the process of learning to accept.


USE HEADPHONES FOR THE BEST DETAILED LISTENING EXPERIENCE!
Listening to your iPhone or other small devices without headphones will decrease your listening experience.
A lot of the music is soft, in terms of loudness. This is an essential part of the music.

In this fragment of a recent rehearsal you can get an impression of a circular movement working.
Sijme Storm ensemble:
André Hogeslag: Electric guitar, Freeze [E.G.O.] and E-bow
Luuk de Weert: Bowed Vibraphone
Ferry van der Werff: Electric guitar, Freeze [E.G.O.] and E-bow

This composition is part of ‘EDITIE 2018/2019’ / 11 Studies for the EHX Freeze


André Hogeslag: electric guitar, freeze [E.G.O.} and E-bow

This composition is part of a ‘Collection of Sketches for Solo Guitar and EHX Freeze’