Linger on me #5

In the 1970s, Ellen Zweig was a young poet experimenting with ideas of the reading as a performance and of the poem as an oral medium. Her presence in New York’s Downtown scene, even during a period of such creative and artistic fertility, represented an astutely expressive voice, a wordsmith bending conventions, and a uniquely musical approach to spoken word. By 1980, and her two pieces “Network of Letters” and “Sensitive Bones” (both collected here on Fiction of the Physical), Zweig had introduced and perfected a technique she named the “human loop”. Here, she directed multiple performers to repeat a single poetic phrase over and over as they recorded to tape: inevitably, the loops phase in and out of synchronisation with time, creating a sonic collage of drifting, rippling syllabic waves that rise and fall with natural tides. In keeping with Zweig’s key creative codes, the text becomes performance, and in turn it becomes - dreamily and hypnotically - abstracted from the written word. Delivering her poetry like this, even the deftness of Zweig’s pen and her rapturously evocative imagery become foundation stones to new, longform musical expressions.

In the following years, Zweig became a celebrated touring performer, gracing stages of iconic creative institutions while rapidly ingesting cultural influence for her own work. Over the 1980’s, marking her growing reputation as a sound artist and a performer of poetry, she performed by invitation at prestigious arts venues worldwide, and participated in international festivals of sound poetry. In the same period, her “Impressions of Africa” series of work employed her “human loop” technique while exploring fantasies of a faraway continent with crafts, languages, music and peoples tantalisingly distant from her own. The polyrhythms and interwoven melodic lines of African music dance in symbiotic tandem with Zweig’s performance poetry, acting like multicoloured threads of equal weight, woven together in transportive vibrancy. Fiction of the Physical piece “The Act of Watching” was part of this series, performed with phased voice, skittering kalimba and warbling analogue synthesis. Around this time Zweig began working with then-rising experimental musician Gregory Jones, whose contributions to her spoken word pieces are much-coveted but sadly largely lost, though whose musical accompaniment remains in spirit via Fiction of the Physical’s connections with musicians David Weinstein and Dylan Henner, long after his passing.

Sensitive Bones

We had Hugo Lioret visit us at the Sphere Container Studio yesterday for a live performance on his Buchla System plus Ableton Live. 
We had a lenghty talk about his creative process and experimental music as well as field recording. 

You can see Hugo perform live in Weimar on Thursday at SeaM (Studio für elektro-akustische Musik) https://seam.hfm-weimar.de/ and on Friday at Funkhaus.

His new Album "Artificial Biota" will appear on SUPERPANG on August 4th. 

Further Links & Socials:
Web: https://hugolioret.com/
Insta: https://www.instagram.com/hug00014/
Bandcamp: https://hugolioret.bandcamp.com/album/here-5-hugo-lioret-conditions

Hugo Lioret - Live-Performance & Interview

released in june on a tape for Ultra Eczema's Bruismelk festival 2014 at Trans Pecos, Queens, NYC

Melting - Bruismelk 2014, Tape, Ultra Eczema

Woke Up and No Feet

Red Sprite Lightning (Fixed Media Version)

This is a mix. 
A mix of samples. 

The samples were extracted and re-looped/remixed live-to-tape on December 2nd, 2023 and edited later for clarity and brevity.

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Approximate Track List:

Joy Orbison - red velve7
Rat Heart Ensemble - R U WELL?
Masakatsu Takagi - Water Fall
Asnakech Worku - Mech Alkugn Lela Sew
 + David Bowie on why you should never play to the gallery	
 + SDSU Aztec Football Highlights (KPBS San Diego, 1974)
Exploded View - Letting Go of Childhood Dreams
KMRU - orbit
 + Slenderide - The SOUND Exercise Program
 + William Burroughs (excerpt from You're The Guy I Want To Share My Money With)
Jerry Butler - Suite For The Single Girl (1977?)
Le Groupe X - Multi Facet I (19xx)
 + Henry Miller Recalls and Reflects (1956)
Rat Heart Ensemble - ALL FALL DOWN
Leucozyt - Sonntagmorgen (1982)
Bob Thiele & His Orchestra - Theme From Chinatown (1975)
Nat Feer - Return Again (1979)	
Joy Orbison - red velve7
Rat Heart Ensemble - I'LL BE ALL DAY
Exploded View - Letting Go of Childhood Dreams

(c) creative commons '23

half-starved - side a

FEELINGS- SIDE A

FEELINGS- SIDE B

From the forthcoming Noir Age release, Things Are Quiet by Hugo Lioret

Things Are Quiet

Hugo Lioret - Falling

Things are quiet is the debut work of French sound artist Hugo Lioret. A sonic resting place, wrapping the listener in the cosmic architecture of a womb-like inhabitance, where time feels infinite. The palette: a mixture of treated field recordings with modular electronics, a wide spectrum of subtle greys hinting at a warm center. Things are quiet here in the expanding universe.

Pre-order via: http://noir-age.bandcamp.com/album/things-are-quiet
https://soundcloud.com/noirage

Premiere: Hugo Lioret - Presence [Noir Age]

improvised experimental music mixes
featuring ephemeral & found sound collages

half-starved - side a

binocular rivalry

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