The experimenters tighten their controls and send him back on the trail. Time flows by again, the moment returns. This time, he is close to her, speaks to her. She welcomes him without surprise. They are without plans, without memories. Time builds up around them, their only landmarks the flavor of the moment and the markings on the walls. Later, they are in a garden. He remembers that there once were gardens. She asks about his medallion—the dog tags he wore in the war which is yet to come. He invents an explanation. They stop at a tree trunk, covered with historic dates. She mentions an unknown name. As in a dream, he points beyond the tree and hears himself saying “that is where I come from,” and he falls back, exhausted.

Chris Marker

from “La Jetee”

the wonder of the 5/20/12 annular eclipse captured within a beautifully composed short film by Jim Granato.   Music by Colin Newman of Wire.

http://autonomy16.net/

le petit parachutist

like any decent exquisite corpse….   

John Cage/Rahsaan Roland Kirk -

2012 marks Cage’s 100th birthday!

Ernst Haeckel - nature in all it’s lurid beauty!

Ernst Haeckel - nature in all it’s lurid beauty!

Another round for my dark companion
The view from here is crowded now
I raise my glass
My doppelganger smiles at me
From across the room

The great social issues mean less than nothing;
two-dimensional pests
On my T.V. screen

I will wear only black and white
and hide in the alleys
On saturday nights

The endless prattle of politicians
Rings in my ears
The rain makes my mascara run

Another round for my dark companion
The view from here is crowded now
I raise my glass
My doppelganger smiles at me
From across the room

Another round for my dark companion
Another round for my dark companion

TUXEDOMOON - “Dark Companion”/”59 to 1 Remix”, 7”, 1980

a swirling confectionary mix of psych…

Stern on and Spin-off

thinking aloud may hurt…

kicking it to the curb

Am still searching for more info on these early purveyors of New Age musics, Robert Bearns and Ron Dexter - this series began around 1980.  Thanks for my good friend Milan for introducing me to this strangeness!   You too can explore their utopian idealism and cosmic headiness….    In their own words: ” An Adventure… A Journey… A Discovery! CREATED, BY THE WRITING & COMPOSING TEAM OF… Robert Bearns & Ron Dexter Welcome aboard the Golden Voyage Rainbow Light Ships… where time stands still! THE GOLDEN VOYAGE SERIES is created by the writing and composing team of Robert Bearns and Ron Dexter. They have realized an Isotonic, “Neo-Classical” blend of natural and environmental sounds orchestrated with a tapestry of accessible melodic themes, delicately woven by classical guitars, flute, french horns, piano, strings, vibraphone, and synthesizers. The GOLDEN VOYAGE experience is a galactic exploration through celestial harmonics. It represents a totally new, unique concept in stereophonic s-o-u-n-d frequencies. The music has a timeless quality with strong universal appeal. It is a highly personal experience, and listeners often use headphones to enjoy the subtle aspects of this intricate work. Welcome to the Golden Voyage experience… where time stands still. Enjoy reading “The Awakening Electromagnetic Spectrum,” meaning the Awakening Light. This beautifully illustrated book of poetry and contemporary verse was authored by Robert James Bearns, and is the very Source, the inspiration, that flowered forth The Golden Voyage Series. Available from Awakening Prod. Inc.”

Am still searching for more info on these early purveyors of New Age musics, Robert Bearns and Ron Dexter - this series began around 1980.  Thanks for my good friend Milan for introducing me to this strangeness!   You too can explore their utopian idealism and cosmic headiness….   

In their own words: ” An Adventure… A Journey… A Discovery!

CREATED, BY THE WRITING & COMPOSING TEAM OF…

Robert Bearns & Ron Dexter

Welcome aboard the Golden Voyage Rainbow Light Ships… where time stands still!

THE GOLDEN VOYAGE SERIES is created by the writing and composing team of Robert Bearns and Ron Dexter. They have realized an Isotonic, “Neo-Classical” blend of natural and environmental sounds orchestrated with a tapestry of accessible melodic themes, delicately woven by classical guitars, flute, french horns, piano, strings, vibraphone, and synthesizers.

The GOLDEN VOYAGE experience is a galactic exploration through celestial harmonics. It represents a totally new, unique concept in stereophonic s-o-u-n-d frequencies.

The music has a timeless quality with strong universal appeal. It is a highly personal experience, and listeners often use headphones to enjoy the subtle aspects of this intricate work. Welcome to the Golden Voyage experience… where time stands still.

Enjoy reading “The Awakening Electromagnetic Spectrum,” meaning the Awakening Light. This beautifully illustrated book of poetry and contemporary verse was authored by Robert James Bearns, and is the very Source, the inspiration, that flowered forth The Golden Voyage Series. Available from Awakening Prod. Inc.”

MAGIC REALISM • Like the video technique of “keying in” where any background may be electronically inserted or deleted independently of foreground, the ability to bring the actual sound of musics of various epochs and geographical origins all together in the same compositional frame marks a unique point in history. • A trumpet, branched into a chorus of trumpets by computer, traces the motifs of the Indian raga DARBARI over Senegalese drumming recorded in Paris and a background mosaic of frozen moments from an exotic Hollywood orchestration of the 1950’s (a sonic texture like a “Mona Lisa” which, in close up, reveals itself to be made up of tiny reproductions of the Taj Mahal), while the ancient call of an AKA pygmy voice in the Central African Rainforest—transposed to move in sequences of chords unheard of until the 20th century—rises and fails among gamelan-like cascades, multiplications of a single “digital snapshot” of a traditional instrument played on the Indonesian island of JAVA, on the other side of the world. • Music which is to this degree self-referential, in which larger parts are related to and/or generated from smaller parts, shares certain qualities with “white” classical music of the past.AKA/DARBARI/JAVA is a proposal for a “coffee-colored” classical music of the future—both in terms of the adoption of entirely new modes of structural organisation (as might be suggested by the computer ability to re-arrange, dot-by-dot, a sound or video image) and in terms of the expansion of the “allowable” musical vocabulary in which one may speak this structure—leaving behind the ascetic face which Eurocentric tradition has come to associate with serious expression. (Jon Hassell)

MAGIC REALISM • Like the video technique of “keying in” where any background may be electronically inserted or deleted independently of foreground, the ability to bring the actual sound of musics of various epochs and geographical origins all together in the same compositional frame marks a unique point in history. • A trumpet, branched into a chorus of trumpets by computer, traces the motifs of the Indian raga DARBARI over Senegalese drumming recorded in Paris and a background mosaic of frozen moments from an exotic Hollywood orchestration of the 1950’s (a sonic texture like a “Mona Lisa” which, in close up, reveals itself to be made up of tiny reproductions of the Taj Mahal), while the ancient call of an AKA pygmy voice in the Central African Rainforest—transposed to move in sequences of chords unheard of until the 20th century—rises and fails among gamelan-like cascades, multiplications of a single “digital snapshot” of a traditional instrument played on the Indonesian island of JAVA, on the other side of the world. • Music which is to this degree self-referential, in which larger parts are related to and/or generated from smaller parts, shares certain qualities with “white” classical music of the past.

AKA/DARBARI/JAVA is a proposal for a “coffee-colored” classical music of the future—both in terms of the adoption of entirely new modes of structural organisation (as might be suggested by the computer ability to re-arrange, dot-by-dot, a sound or video image) and in terms of the expansion of the “allowable” musical vocabulary in which one may speak this structure—leaving behind the ascetic face which Eurocentric tradition has come to associate with serious expression. 
(Jon Hassell)

Nothing Much…

an exercise in language filtration…

let words do their work while music fills the gap…

sleepless

Exotic by design

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