After 10 years, this short documentary by Ferry van der Werff and myself, was aired on RTV Utrecht yesterday [a reprise]. Maybe there’s more interest in the unique archive footage of the old city of Utrecht, so I post it here on the electric souvenir site.
FEAR OF HEIGHTS SOUNDTRACK
Interior Contact
here is a small portrait of Luuk de Weert, painter and musician.
in dutch
camera, sound and editing: andré hogeslag
an Electric Souvenir Production
Ic stont op hoghen berghen [for Anton Webern]
let’s start the new year with the release of a new electric souvenir song we made last july. ” Ic stont op hoghen berghen ” [I stood on the highest mountain/s] is a tribute to Anton Webern, a composer who we both love and who, now 70 years ago, was mistakingly killed by an american soldier who, haunted by this terrible accident, took his own life a few years later.
Ic stont op hoghen berghen [for Anton Webern] 10’35” [title derived from a minstrel song from 14th/15th Century]
luuk de weert: percussion, vibraphone, pure data [pd]
andré hogeslag: cd player, korg monotron, eh freeze, boss rc-20xl, max/msp REMIX: andré hogeslag recorded july 2014/ utrecht/ the netherlands an Electric Souvenir Recording
tristesse d’une étoile
our submission for the sapporo-international art festival 2014
appolinaire’s war poem ‘Tristesse dune étoile’ is our inspiration for the composition with which we entered the sapporo international art festival 2014 competition
1914-2014 centennial WW 1
tristesse d’une étoile
Une belle Minerve est l’enfant de ma tête
Une étoile de sang me couronne à jamais
La raison est au fond et le ciel est au faîte
Du chef où dès longtemps Déesse tu t’armais
C’est pourqoi de mes maux ce n’était pas le pire
Ce trou presque mortel et qui s’est étoilé
Mais le secret malheur qui nourrit mon délire
Est bien plus grand qu’aucune âme ait jamais celé
Et je porte avec moi cette ardente souffrance
Comme le ver luisent tient son corps enflammé
Comme au coeur du soldat il palpite la France
Et comme au coeur du lys le pollen parfumé.
Tristesse d’une étoile [20’02”]
André Hogeslag: Yamaha CS-10 analoque synthesizer, Max/MSP; Luuk de Weert: Vibraphone, Percussion, Pd; Annemarie Steinvoort: Soft Synths and Voice
Poem ‘Tristesse d’une étoile’ [ G.Apollinaire ] presented by Marlies Koenders
Recorded 21-12-2013 / Utrecht / The Netherlands
an Electric Souvenir Recording
Painting of Apollinaire by Luuk de Weert
a darker sun [repost]
photography ebook by dean brierly [july 2013]
this interactive ebook features the photographs from the series, and a video presentation of the photos with music from luuk de weert and andré hogeslag.
‘Pale Blue Over Maroon’
Luuk de Weert: Vibraphone, PD André Hogeslag: Electric Guitar, Max/Msp an Electric Souvenir Recording Utrecht / The Netherlands