December 29, 2003
late night listening
Song of Grusia Clara Rockmore. (real audio and a lot more at theremin.info)
In Clara's Words - an interview with Robert Moog, November 1977.
periphrastic circumlocution
The Liar Paradox - wikipedia . hku.hk
December 23, 2003
"Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out." Robert Hewison
A very final and moving epitaph, 10 years after his death, Jarmans's masterpiece, The Last of England (1987) will be released on DVD (UK Release date: 16 February, 2004).
Jarman made a seminal video for The Smiths The Queen is Dead, a short film with panic and there is a light that never goes out, which echoes The Last of England in its portrayal of the tyranny of Thatcher's Britain.
"Farewell to this land's cheerless marshes..."
And the Ship Sailed On
An obituary for Derek Jarman
Gerald Houghton, March 7th, 1994
"On December 22 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal."
Writing in 1991, the great British film-maker, artist, writer, tireless gay rights campaigner and iconoclast Derek Jarman must have had a fair inkling that the millennium would be seen without him. He died from AIDS related complications in St. Bartholomew's hospital at 11 o'clock on February 19, 1994 after just over seven years of bravely battling the infection.
Jarman fought to cram into that last handful of years almost half a lifetime's work, producing as a consequence one of the most formidable and honest back catalogues of any British artist. 1993 alone saw premieres of his last two cinema films: the funny, warm, intellectual Wittgenstein; and the "minimalist spectacle" of Blue - a blank blue screen, reflecting his encroaching blindness, accompanied by a sophisticated soundtrack of music, sounds, and self-reflection. As ingenious and poignant as anything this charming, remarkable man ever achieved, it secured him the 1993 Michael Powell Prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
Glitterbug, his final film and a fitting epitaph, is a one hour BBC-commissioned collage of super-8 home movies made between 1970 and 1986; a nostalgic, intimate, touching portrait of friendship and happier times. He saw the most recent of his many books - a meditation on colour, Chroma - published just weeks before his death. And despite failing health and deteriorating voice, he was still enthusiastically granting interviews as late as January.
He was quietly buried in New Romney - not far from his beloved garden at Prospect Cottage, Dungeness - wearing the king's gold cape from his 1991 film Edward II, and a cap inscribed "controversialist".
Derek Jarman died, aged 52, two days before Parliament failed to reduce the age of consent for gay men to 16.
Derek Jarman, born January 31, 1942; died February 19, 1994.
December 21, 2003
cremaster
Matthew Barney: The CREMASTER Cycle
parts 1 and 2 last night, 3 this afternoon, 4 and 5 tommorrow. Barney's visual epic is genius to say the least, a visual feast. the biggest cocktail of surreal imagery, cremaster 3, lasts 3 hours, the projector broke 2 1/2 hours into the screening, some people left.. the houselights went down and 'the order' began... Cremaster Cycle trailer [35MB]
electr0 ac0ustics and a belated postcard from micromusic in Paris..
Ron Geesin from the Hystery LP cover (cherry red CDBRED110)
and just watched a great documentary on Harry Partch - thanks jay :)
I started writing this because micromusic mailed me about the their recent event in paris [go gwem !] - they need donations for the new server .. the internet was made for music ... microsound ... clan analogue
and great to find a bit more info about hula they did some really nice work - the birth place of industrial music sheffield ... and cabaret voltaire :)
December 19, 2003
A Postcard from Nimmitabel
echidna :)
a property in Nimmetabel, partly funded as a frog reserve, although with the drought much of the habitat is drying up... from roger
December 18, 2003
Morris on gothic
from Gutenberg to Gates: The Book as Art Object
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click the pictures for beautiful resolution :)
WORLD'S FIRST DNA STORAGE KIT - PAINLESS, SAFE & EASY STORAGE FOR £19.95
absolutely bizarre ...and you can still order for christmas too
December 16, 2003
copyright
botanical gardens, sydney
http://cia.c64.org/ - a really useful site for old CBM64 hackers like me has been taken off line over copyright issues. it's a shame, sites like that very help keep alive an audience who still use these machines and emulators - and if you don't believe they're useful, take a peek at microsound and cory arcangel [talk at The Upgrade!] :)
useful links for emulators and more cbm64 info
Power64 - now for mac osx too
www.infinite-loop.at/Power64/
more emulators and information at zetterstrom.net and c64unlimited.net
and this wouldn't be complete without jeff minter... long live the llamas ;)
December 14, 2003
actively waiting
"You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
Franz Kafka - Senses
Stones - A poem by Alyson Hallett set to music by composer and musician Roger Mills.
some fading memories of summer
where r u ?
December 11, 2003
December 08, 2003
transformation
from the scrap heap emerged beautiful industrial butterflies
