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CEM - 04 June 2021

Bringing you a mix from @blew-velvet, who we have known for a number of years now and is a close friend of the Chicago queer club community. Singer, producer, DJ, and looks queen are on their CV, and let us tell you, this mix will give you so much life! It feels as if we're traveling from party to party with an ever changing crowd of friends and no end to dancing in sight. 

Some words from Blew about this mix:

"It’s me trying to illustrate, musically, my anxieties about too much happening in a weekend these days. An ode to the infinite categories and niche groups of dancers and DJs assembling at whatever club or house is available to provoke some rave catharsis in each other, to carry the hardest,  or to pull the biggest stunt on the CDJs. It’s a belt perforated with notches for every type of function that might happen in a 48 hour time slot in queer nightlife now that the we’ve returned to it."

@blew-velvet

•Tchaikovsky - Russian Dance (Swan Lake)
•Torus - Descend in Chains/Say My Name
•COLLO - Bantu Nilote
•DJ Sneak & Armand Van Heiden - Futuristic Cypher
•Avangart Taldbot - Baladi 
•Tecmania Rebel - Circus Beat (2013 Tee-Fix)
•Not Your Shadow - Low Budget Bass Trash (W.A.S.H. Remix)
•Blew Velvet - It’s Not Enough (Odd Oswald Remix)
•Break2Break - Talking To U 
•Zuzuka Poderosa - Seda (Jubilee & Burt Fox Remix)
•Tetsuya Tamura - Just Not Satisfied (SERi [JP] Remix)
•Oceantied - Astromechanical Juke
•X-Coast - Bailando
•Klubbheads - The Ultimate Seduction (Remix)
•DJ David Goblin & The Horde - Tera Octe: Blazin’ [Bom Bom Bom]
•MCM-13 - Big Fat Juicy Booty (Marc V. & Poochie Bear Remix)
•Vengaboys - We Like to Party (Roland Kulé x Lincoln Park blend)
•VTSS - Borderline Tenderness
•River Moon - HARD
•Count Baldor - Podracing
•Killjoy - Brass Nux
•Dmitra - Baby Let Me Come Again
•Entropia - Fica Ligeiro
•Twang - There’s No If (Crash or Beat Version)
•The Wasp - Shooders
•RESLA - MUSIC
•Ittoku - SOPHIE x Nicki Minaj - Super Bass (but it’s Immaterial) 
•Lady Gaga - Judas (Andreo Remix)
•Ancient Deep - Panty Blaster (Lauren Flax Remix)
•El Pelele - MUÑECO
•Pedro Basico - Venus Energy (Azealia Banks, Bananarama, Björk, Lady Gaga)

Rumors Mix Series #074- Blew Velvet

BoCoCelli
Rhonda Rider, director
Jeffrey Means, sound engineer

premiere performance 4.22.2023 at Studio 106, Boston Conservatory
commissioned by the Albert Alphin Library

image: wall in Rockport, MA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb9__Ejnh1M

Lovesong: Ghost

Written for the JACK Quartet at New Music on the Point (NMOP) in June 2023

Sound engineer: Brian Riordan

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“i know the story of a rose.” is part of a series of works inspired by Clarice Lispector’s novella Agua Viva. This work in particular draws its musical nature from the intimate and delicate relationship found in the excerpt below:

“I know the story of a rose. Does it seem strange to you to speak of a rose when I am talking about animals? But it acted in a way that recalls the animal mysteries. Every two days I would buy a rose and place it in water in a vase made specially narrow to hold the long stem of a single flower. Every two days the rose would wilt and I would exchange it for another. Until one certain rose. It was rose-colored without coloring or grafting just naturally of the most vivid rose color. Its beauty expanded the heart by great breadths. It seemed so proud of the turgescence of its wide open corolla and of its own petals that its haughtiness held it almost erect. Because it was not completely erect: with graciousness it bent over its stem which was fine and fragile. An intimate relationship intensely developed between me and the flower: I admired her and she seemed to feel admired. And she became so glorious in her apparition and was observed with such love that days went by and she did not wilt: her corolla remained wide open and swollen, fresh as a newborn flower. She lasted in beauty and life an entire week. Only then did she start to show signs of some fatigue. Then she died. It was with reluctance that I replaced her. And I never forgot her. The strange thing is that my maid asked me once out of the blue: “and that rose?” I didn’t ask which one. I knew. That rose that lived from love given at length was remembered because the woman had seen how I looked at the flower and transmitted to her the waves of my energy. She had blindly intuited that something had gone on between me and the rose. That rose-made me want to call it ‘Jewel of my life;’ because I often give things names-had so much instinct by nature that I and she had been able to live each other profoundly, as only can happen between beast and man.”

"i know the story of a rose." for JACK Quartet (June 2023)

Radio Samt
31.08.23
Blew Velvet's "Love Realm Rhapsody"

The first installment of the Entra radio series highlighting artists, collectors, editors, producers, and music selectors who are tasked to conjure a feature-length soundscape of experimental/ambient/deep-cut/blended/downtempo tracks and compositions.

No prompts, just personality.

Music in the margins - 

Blew Velvet is a producer performer and composer living between New York and Germany. With a lifelong background in sex work and music research, Velvet balances a body of work holding character presentation, sound design, and performance installation.

"Love Realm Rhapsody" is a fingertip's touch into the central nervous system of Velvet's emotional body, featuring original soundscapes, personal edits, and deepcut favorites of the Artist.

Radio Samt [1] - Blew Velvet - "Love Realm Rhapsody"

Performed by VICE Ensemble:
Mariel Roberts - Cello
Georgie Privitera - Violin
Gregor Schulenburg - Flute
Luis Fernandez Castelló - Clarinet
Anna D'Errico - Piano
Emmanuel Berrido - Conductor
Audio and video by Emmanuel Berrido
Performed at VIPA Festival in Valencia, Spain

Rukh, for pierrot ensemble

Artist: Mark Templeton
Title: Two Verses 
Cat#: faitiche 37
Release: Sep 27th 2024
Format: LP/DL

Mark Templeton is a Canadian media artist and the founder of Graphical, an audiovisual label dedicated to publishing his own musical and image based experiments. Mark’s audio compositions are constructed from reel-to-reel tape loops and sampled cassettes that are contrasted with contemporary sound techniques. In his published photobooks, he incorporates his own 35mm pictures and found images, focusing on intangible fantasies and realities. During his audiovisual performances, he utilizes digital instruments while projecting his own photographs, VHS footage, Super 8 film, and other sampled video.

Mark Templeton’s reinterpretation of outdated media as musical instruments makes him a compelling artist for the Faitiche label roster. For his debut on Faitiche, he browsed his old hard drives and invited Andrew Pekler to listen through and co-produce a selection of Mark’s unreleased works. The compositions act as a series of snapshots: a look back at a decade of archived sounds, re-envisioned and re-imaged for Faitiche. 

The album contains nine tracks that follow an AB song structure. Each piece begins with verse A, transitions into verse B, and then ends. This simple formula creates a dichotomy that is also present in Mark’s diptych photographs, featured in the artwork. Throughout the album, both juxtaposition and inherent connections are simultaneously at play. One way or another, Two Verses provides a beginner’s guide to Mark Templeton's highly idiosyncratic catalog.

Mark Templeton: Closing/Scene

Nine for Two Violins, Senghwang, and Electronics

A world premiere performed in April 2009 by the Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.  The piece is scored for clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano, and violin.

"Disclosure" by Rebecca Saunders

white_noise (2018) - for prepared trumpet and electronics

Caleb Walker (they/them) is an experimental composer, conductor, performer, and improviser. Focused on the cross-roads of music composition and improvisation with environmental advocacy, ecological processes, and queer studies, Caleb strives for intrinsic organismic in their work. Currently based in Boston, Massachusetts, and having recently graduated from Berklee College of Music.