excerpt of the Luis Lopes Noise Solo I at ZDB Lisbon (side A)
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(excerpt) of Luis Lopes Noise Solo I @ ZDB Lisbon (mp3)

excerpt of the Luis Lopes Noise Solo II at ZDB Lisbon (side A)
lpz Records 001, only available on Vinyl

(excerpt) of Luis Lopes Noise Solo II @ ZDB, Lisbon (mp3)

Music for "Woyzeck 1978" from Georg Büchner, directed by Alexandre Pieroni Calado

Woyzeck Theme

Like every Helen Mirra’s creation, the frame of this collaboration of the artist with Fred Frith has a conceptual character, but what we have here couldn’t be more praxis-oriented – in such a way that this recording seems to be an improvised music document. Mirra elaborated the index of a W.G. Sebald’s novel, going from the name “Kwangsi” to the noun “quail”, and used it as the score of this live recording. And no, the steel-string acoustic guitar heard through both sides of this LP wasn’t played by Frith, but by Mirra herself. This time, the former Henry Cow member switched his guitar (and bass guitar, violin, keyboards, all his usual instruments) for a variety of objects, including his shoes and something so puzzling as a pair of aboriginal rainsticks.
The result is a kind of bricolage music. There’s some similarities with Frith’s own graphic score interpretations assembled in “Stone, Brick, Glass, Wood, Wire”, but this is clearly an opus coming from Mirra’s minimalist mind. And that means there’s less consideration for the conventional factors of “musicality” and a much radical focus on the materials, being these invariably organic, rough and crude. It all sounds like a Lilliputian world magnified by a microscope. A mysterious, intriguing and fascinating world with only two citizens – one emphasizing a different perspective of what we think is “sound art”, and the other revealing a less known side as a noise producer.
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Personnel
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HELEN MIRRA . printing press, acoustic guitar
FRED FRITH . aboriginal rainsticks, bass mbira, charango,
music box, shoes and other objects, voice

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Track List
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A Kwangsi - moss (18:13)
B mulberry - quail (17:11)

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SHH012LP // FRED FRITH AND HELEN MIRRA // KWANGSI - QUAIL

Music for "Dramas de Princesas. A Morte e a Donzela" from Elfriede Jelinek, directed by Alexandre Pieroni Calado

Sweet Dreams

Febrile, haunting and at times overwhelming, Beheaded Totem is nothing short of a dream for the necro-tourist. Cerebral and alluring. Toxic. Welcome to the four-dimensional meltdown.

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HHY & The Macumbas - Wilderness of Glass

Unreleased track. Film soundtrack piece, works well without the imagery too though.

SILENO: Soundmix

Summer
Sansepolcro - Toscany - Itally
hot hot hot
a small river with fishermen highly equipped (linen troop, boots to the waist, jackets, hat) and water up to knee!!!! hihihihi

a  beautiful sound:

water and birds

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André Tasso

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