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Spheric resonances / eggflutes
Last September, when social contact was still a desert landscape, Ecka Mordecai cycled to my home to present me with a gift of eggflutes. To describe them (only) as musical instruments would be to reduce them to a functionality that … Continue reading
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Tagged Cafe Oto, David Toop, Ecka Mordecai, eggflutes, Lucie Stepankova, Peter Sloterdijk
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emanation, as if by a charm: Ami Yamasaki
Surprise is a dubious pleasure, cultivated in the search for musical forms that take the listener into realms of impossible/imaginary. Then suddenly, after decades of searching, the surprises diminish in quantity, often in quality, leaving an unavoidable sense of melancholy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Ami Yamasaki, ASMR, Charlie Collins, vocal improvisation
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raw materials
The late-19th century spiritualist and campaigner Louisa Lowe was unjustly, if legally, incarcerated because her husband claimed she was mad. Giving evidence against her, the proprietor of Brislington asylum – Dr Charles Henry Fox – had this to say: “She … Continue reading
the sweat of toads
“I was in search of something – a small detail which I remembered with special intensity as part of my vision.” George Eliot: The Lifted Veil (1859) The man whispers in Spanish as he pisses, sniffs, sighs, washes his … Continue reading
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Tagged C. G. Jung, Guy Brett, Jean-Claude Lebensztejn, Tania Chen, Victor Grippo
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many private concerts
I was obsessed with the slippery, unstable nature of the categories through which we learn to divide experience: time, the materiality of objects and the imperceptible slide into intangibility, what some called spirit though I would reject the word for … Continue reading
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Tagged David Toop, Eva Karczag, London Contemporary Music Festival, Miranda Tufnel
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a voice, uncanny instrument
The Quiet Coach on a train is often a site of tension. So when three male off-shore workers, all of them drunk as wasps drowning in a whiskey vat, decided to occupy a table just by the sign that said … Continue reading
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that lead beneath brambles to the bodies and minds of others
The book jacket is designed by Vanessa Bell, sister to Virginia Woolf. Her drawing for the front of the jacket is of trees and grasses, many black pen lines pulling and curling in vortical movement, little differentiation made between figure … Continue reading
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