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News: 

22.12.24

Some great music coming in for the recording project I'm working on. Today some brilliant work by Stan Harrison who previous worked with Talking Heads, David Bowie, and Radiohead, among others. 

I'm looking forward to working on this when the deadline for the music contributions ends in February. I might take a trip to another part of the country to work on the music to have a new environment and a fresh perspective. Maybe somewhere by the beach, so I can do some swimming in between time spent in the studio. 

I am also keen to do some travelling to Europe and America and Asia this year. I'll be applying for some artist residencies overseas and see how it goes. In the meantime, I'm focused on making the best of each day here in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

17.12.24

This evening I finished a new composition in the series "Music for Beings on Other Worlds," a series I began working on in 2021. Each sonic composition is designed for a specific exoplanet, and the hypothetical beings that live on that particular world.

16.12.24

Almost fully recovered, and glad to be back at work today, working on several new pieces.

12.12.24

In the midst of a fever from some as yet undiagnosed illness, probably the common cold or influenza, I thought I'd have a play with some sounds, not doing too much, as I had resolved to rest.

To my surprise, I managed to finish something, a piece called "The Movement of the Spirit." I will post it online tomorrow. This piece has musical contributions from David Byrne, Brian Eno, David Van Tieghem, Rob Burns, and members of Matmos, as well as yours truly.

11.12.24

I spent the past couple of days reworking/re-creating music from David Byrne's and Brian Eno's album "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," which yielded one new composition "A Teardrop in the War Room," and a second instrumental composition - with vocals yet to come - with the working title "Where Is He Now?"

This afternoon I'm starting work on the radical re-embodiment of another song which previously existed in a prior incarnation, this time from Nine Inch Nails' album "The Slip."

9.12.24

I commenced work today on a remix (although it is probably more accurate to call it a "re-creation" rather than a "remix") of Brian Eno's and David Byrne's song: "A Secret Life" from their 1981 album: "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts."

4.12.24

Experimenting today with cutting-edge and bleeding-edge technologies, a text written by a paranoid schizophrenic, and the phantom voice of William Burroughs.

29.11.24

I have been working with Grimes' vocals today, dissembling and reassembling the DNA of the vocal material, using novel technologies to grow - like a colony of proliferating cells in a petrie dish - new musical constructions.

25.11.24

I've started conceptualizing a new sound art/music work as part of my John Cage project, titled: "It's Less Like an Object and More Like the Weather," which is something John said when describing his collaborative relationship with Merce Cunningham. 

My sound art work will have a computer program mapping changing global weather patterns in real time and a corresponding algorithm which triggers "sonic events" from a library of John's music and sounds for the listener to experience. In this sense it will be myself, John and the musicians he worked with, the technology deployed in the installation, and Mother Nature herself who will be the joint composers.

24.11.24

I've started composing a soundtrack to a video work created for me by Austrian painter Gottfried Helnwein (who also appears in the video).

The soundtrack for the video will be composed without musical instruments, using other means of sound production, for example, the amplified sounds of a paintbrush painting on canvas (to accompany the imagery of brushes and paintings in Gottfried's studio), children's voices (inspired by an off-camera child's voice in the video asking "What are you doing?"), barking dogs (inspired by a dog barking outside at one point in the video), and a host of other types of sound arranged to make what could be considered a non-musical piece of music, or, conversely, a musical piece of non-music.

September 2024 - February 2025

I'm currently working on a new music project, with musicians as per usual drawn from Europe and America, and this time around, musicians also drawn from my home country of New Zealand.

Musicians taking part in this project are: Josh Klinghoffer (Red Hot Chili Peppers), Klaus Voormann (John Lennon), Stan Harrison (Talking Heads), Ben Somers (Seal), Parker Kindred (Jeff Buckley), Jarboe (Swans), Ghazi Barakat (Pharoah Chromium), Alec Bathgate (Tall Dwarfs), Rob Burns (David Gilmour), Imogen Davey (Trio Farben), Robert Scott (The Clean), Camille Mandoki, Nick Currie (Momus), Ben Holmes (Oksun Ox), Michael Lawry (Headless Chickens), Ant Nevison (Able Tasmans), Barry Andrews (Shriekback), Alexandra Merl (Alphaville), Chris Worsey (Radiohead), Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), and others yet to be announced.

Bio:

My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an artist working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, opera, dance, performance art, and film.

My poetry, prose, and texts for theater and opera have been published in literary journals in 23 countries, including Exquisite Corpse, the California Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Evergreen Review.

My paintings, photographs, music, and video art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, and Tate Liverpool, and at festivals which include Art 42 Basel (with the Serpentine Gallery - curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist), documenta 14, and the 51st, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, and 60th Venice Biennales.

On my music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), Jamie Saft (Iggy Pop), Susan Stenger (John Cale), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), Michael Blair (Tom Waits), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), Michael Johnson (Joy Division), Joe Gore (PJ Harvey), Terry Edwards (Tindersticks), Mick Rossi (Leonard Cohen), Jem Finer (The Pogues), Kate St John (Van Morrison), Mark Egan (Arcadia), Eberhard Kranemann (Kraftwerk), Reinier van Houdt (Current 93), Thomas Stern (Einsturzende Neubauten), Paul Barker (Ministry), Stephen Thrower (Coil), Jessica Stewart (Psychic TV), Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Susan Alcorn, Suzanne Ciani, Keiron Melling (The Fall), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Laurent Petitgand (Wim Wenders), Jen Baker (Werner Herzog), Phil Minton (Matthew Barney), Jim Pugliese (New York City Ballet), John King (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Robert Black (Bang on a Can All-Stars), Frank Cassara (Steve Reich and Musicians), William Winant (Terry Riley), Andy Findon (Michael Nyman Group), Andrew Sterman (Philip Glass Ensemble), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

On my film and video art projects I have collaborated with actors, actresses, singers, and dancers, including Philippe Nahon (Gaspar Noe), Artur Barciś (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Anne Louise Hassing (Lars von Trier), Kate Moran (Peter Greenaway), Kate Fisher (Robert Wilson), Elisa Lasowski (David Cronenberg), Pamela Flores (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Stefania Casini (Andy Warhol), and many others.

I am currently working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate. I am also presently working on an album of music which reimagines the work of John Cage, in cooperation with the John Cage Trust.

Cover art for my albums has been provided by painter Gerhard Richter and artist, musician, and filmmaker David Lynch.

I recently finished work on the music for the art rock opera "The Marriage of the Animal and the Divine." The Marriage of the Animal and the Divine will be transmitted off-world, via satellite dish and klystron transmitter, 3-4 light years into outer space, millions of miles past the edge of our solar system.

Soli Deo gloria.

Followers of ألميترا☼ ⃝ )