recorded winter 2010-2011
video for this track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA1iqN9k4aE

VALISE - 2

VALISE - stalk (absum)

VALISE - welt

VALISE - of all delicious seed

VALISE - curse and cobalt

VALISE - singe

audio from Empty Room performance on March 22, 2013
video projected in the background

performance structure: 
stand on own hair
staple gun hair to floor 
until head cannot move freely
rip hair out 
by the force of pulling head up

video stills: http://maralie.com/post/68529567267/newly-uploaded-soundtrack-for-my-valise

+ text-to-speech remix of Hélène Cixous' Laugh of the Medusa by VALISE

VALISE - Your wife

Humanbeast - Running Up That Hill cover

Longform minimal electronic noise offering from Maralie Armstrong-Rial's VALISE project, utilizing the same setup as her/their standout set at the 2023 Summer Scum festival ~

"The sounds herein were produced by durational touch.
ATTINY pins soldered to wire & tied with steel thread & laid across a conductive tabletop. The thread was gently blown before being repeatedly cut with scissors. Additional sounds recorded trackside at 2023 INDY 500."

The cassette release includes a piece of wire used for the recording on a numbered card.

VALISE • On Wire_Turn 4

10 April 2025
Opening night of Ende Tymes XV
Recorded by Keenan Dubois.
To listen to the full live VALISE set, go to https://valise.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-pioneer-works

Thanks to Bob Bellerue, Jackson Kovalchik, Keenan Dubois, and the other performers that night: Charmaine Lee, Spiteful Womb, The Rita w/Drumloop, and Aaron Dilloway

Dedicated to sisterly love. May we see an end to all genocides

VALISE • Receiver [live at Pioneer Works]

Spoken word and acapela tracks synthesized, disassembled and settled into scattered syllables. This is a peek into a larger collection of poetry recordings to be published later this year.

VALISE • La radio espectral 📻

original photo by Kristin Hayter 
less loss on headphones
dedicated to R.SteeleG in honor ov the New Moon in Scorpio

VALISE - Silo 11112015

New cassette and digital download of Zero Copula out soon on Primitive Languages
http://primitivelanguages.bandcamp.com/album/valise-zero-copula


ipf§m∑ltdºwn (side b excerpt Zero Copula)

cover of 'CANCIÓN DE LAS VOCES SERENAS' as sung by Ewa Demarczyk,
poem by Jaime Torres Bodet

VALISE • EN DESHOJAR UNA FLOR

my sister asked if our father was a candidate for hospice care 
Dr said yes
Dr said he’s been ready
Dr’s face grew soft and ashamed, 
but we all know a patient’s natural death is not his failure

we arrived home, 
my father’s shoulders soaked up tears from 
my sister’s and my face 
we held each other 
in a good bye, in a circle, in the present
we’re still embracing
i’m writing crying this     
				 

first visit from home hospice care nurse
he suggests dad continue playing piano
continue with puzzles
keep the brain engaged


that's the last week i heard my father play piano


we're sitting
shoulder-to-shoulder, gazing into the screen
i teach my old man midi
brain lights up
i'm secretly recording as he tickles the keys 
his attention is faint yet expressing more excitement
than one could expect a dying man to muster

smiling
looking at each other
smiling again
listening to our musics, our moments, together
.
.
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recorded 9 June 2016

VALISE w/father - old age, new tricks

recorded atop my father's headstone Winter Solstice 2017

VALISE • Power Lines Above My Father's Grave

the grave of Leonard Bernstein is located at the tallest natural point of Brooklyn, NY. a small bench etched with his surname is covered in stones left by reverent visitors. small shrubs surround the bench where many small and singing insects find shelter.
a restless dawn led me to this site with a loved one in mind. with only the occasional groundskeeper in sight the morning felt so quiet, so removed from the city and yet the sounds are so full.
low drones from nearby riding lawnmowers
oscillate with aircraft overhead.
a city washes night from it's face with back-up truck alarms and emergency sirens claiming the day.
the crickets teach me rhythms, polyrhythms, and persistence. 
the gravestone teaches me impermanence, patience and listening. 
  
this is a recording from that bench at 8:04am on the morning of September 18, 2019

VALISE • A Morning at the Grave of Leonard Bernstein

full video youtu.be/qhsGbPGQdYc
and vimeo.com/maralie

lyrics:
Desaparecidos
muertos sin tumba,
tumbas sin nombre,
bosques nativos,
The stars in a city night
el aroma de las flores,
el sabor de las frutas,
las cartas escritas a mano,
los viejos cafés donde había tiempo para perder el tiempo,
el fútbol de la calle,
el derecho a caminar,
el derecho a respirar,
los empleos seguros,
las jubilaciones,
casas sin rejas,
las puertas sin cerradura,
el sentido comunitario
y el sentido común.

They've been denied life,
and now
some try to deny their deaths. How?
Son presente
Donde están?
Son presente
Donde están?
Desaparecidos,
muertos sin tumba,
tumbas sin nombre
They've been denied life,
and now
some try to deny their deaths. How?
Son presente
Donde están?
Son presente
Donde están?
Donde están?
Donde están?

Desaparecidos


released August 30, 2020
The lyrics are an adaptation of the Eduardo Galeano poem, 'Día de los desaparecidos'

VALISE • 30 de Agosto

artist interview/studio visit conducted by Chris Fernald from Discrit with Maralie Armstrong-Rial in Sept 2020. The full episode aired on Montez Press Radio.
https://discrit.net/

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