Basscut - To Be Loved

Based on the Korean gut ritual performed by 김금화 as recorded by 김성환 in 2000.  Song contains a short excerpt of this ritual.  Voice at the beginning is Yoon Jin Kim.

From radio work commissioned by Bayerischer Rundfunk 2 (BR2).  The full work, HOWL BOWEL OWL, is available at the Bayerischer Rundfunk website.

This song is a setting of a lyrical translation of the ritual by Sung Hwan Kim.

What is a mechanical fan?
What does it consist of?
Do fans make noise?
Are the blades in the fan dangerous?
What is fan death?

An electric fan left running overnight
in a closed room
can cause the death of those sleeping inside.

Left running overnight in a closed room
can cause the death of those
sleeping inside.

Sleeping inside.
Can cause the death of those
in a closed room
left running overnight.

Let us out for the breeze outdoor
Let us go out for out there they call 
On black earth stand brighter people 
We will loom over and aid them
Were there a foe in mind you kept 
Let them loose and your love will fall
together
Let us go out for out there they call 
Let us out for the breeze outdoor 
Come follow me
To open the closed gate
to the road y’ll come follow that is raw and long along 
The road you will tread with the big spirit back
You will go and find no end Have you gone —
then you’ll go again
Just come follow me
On this road you walk
stones and rocks are in rooted 
There are thorns in bushes
Climb the mountain 
Tread the water 
Water deep
Water shallow 
Water cold
Water warm 
All is there
If this road wearies you birth strength;
lend courage
Hammer away all hardship 
Win and carry on
See far
Own strength 
Resolve your heart 
Imprint in that heart the path that you tread
￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼You must needs walk see high 
You must needs walk think deep
If your eyes are on the front leave them to see your path 
If your eyes are on the side leave those lids closed
You must need knead your mind for your path is high yet so low so low that ‘tis deep
For you will wither after this path 
For you will fall after you wither
but if you wither then spring up
For you will fall more after you spring but if you fall more then spring more
Then you will again fall more.
Then spring up more again and once more
Fall again after your last fall 
Rise again after your last fall
Between these falls appear a place for you to stand
Come this way 
Come away near 
This much here
Catch this well
You must needs catch this well

howl bowel owl

call and response in two tongues

Where The Sun Don't Shine

Nation of Abel - Anyone Could Happen to Me

This is a live set @ Hulas Bar & Lei Stand in Honolulu, Hawaii.  
One of many parts to a soulful summer Sunday series for 2025.  

This House Children set has plenty four to the floor gallops of house; new and old, with major nods to disco & somehow that announcer guy voiceover moment.  Buildups are built pretty jacked, with melodic comedowns that are warm, familiar and groovy.
 
Have fun. Happy Sundays ~

House ya Childrens

As part of the Guggenheim Museum’s “Summer of Know” series, artist and activist Mariam Ghani and Vincent Warren, Executive Director, Center for Constitutional Rights, discussed identity and national security, in a conversation moderated by Amara Antilla, Assistant Curator, on August 8, 2017.

Summer of Know

Conversation: Mariam Ghani and Vincent Warren (2017)

From the upcoming 12inch out Dec 8th on Smalltown Supersound.

Pre-order here http://smarturl.it/STS32612

More Than A Woman

Me&My (To Bury Your Parents)

This edition of Ghostly International's monthly show features artist,  producer & DJ Logan Takahashi.
Twitter/ instagram: @logan_t_ @ghostly

Track list:
Alvin Curran - ’Crystal Aires’
Environments - ‘Dusk in the Okefenokee Swamp’
Ulla Strauss - ‘Sister’
Meitei - ‘Nami’
Chester Raj Anand - ‘Shibuya 5AM’
Blackwater - ‘Istanbul’
Hallucinator - ‘People’
Sakan & Senju - ‘Senpuuki’
Logan Takahashi - ‘live at the Kitchen NYC, June 2019, excerpt’
Black Dice - ‘Wastered’
Promoter - ’Cogitate 1.1’
Pontiac Streator - ’Cum Angelus’
Speculative Ero - ’Track 3;
Seltene Erden - ‘Paris Schema’
Alice Coltrane - ‘Improvised Harp Solo’
Debussy - ‘Ballade’ performed by Alfons & Aloys Kontarsky
Hoshina Anniversary - ‘Shinju’
Julion De’Angelo & Viola Klein - ’N’aie pas peur (Exchange Mix)'
Seltene Erden - ‘ Twinkling Twilight’
Pretty Sneaky - ‘D’
Atonal - ‘Cithare’
Art of Noise - ‘A Nation Rejects’
Hallucinator - ‘Dusk’
Shinichi Atobe - ‘Rebuild Mix 2’

Ghostly with Logan Takahashi @ The Lot Radio 10 - 05 - 2020

David Michael DiGregorio is a composer and musician based in New York and Honolulu. His background includes classical and improvised technique on the piano, diverse vocal methods, performance with a gospel choir, electro-acoustic composition, and experimental pop construction.

His discography features albums IN KOREAN WILDS AND VILLAGES (as dogr, 2009), produced by Andi Toma and published by Sonig Records; and two Bayerischer-Rundfunk-2 broadcast commissions with Sung Hwan Kim, HOWL BOWEL OWL (2013) and ONE FROM IN THE ROOM (2010, for which the two won the Karl-
Sczuka-Förderpreis).  

His major concerts include Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan; New Museum, New York; Barakat Gallery, Ilmin Museum, and Insa Art Space, Seoul; De Nieuwe Kraakgeluiden and STEIM, Amsterdam; IFFR, Rotterdam; Huis aan de Werf and BAK, Utrecht; the Images Festival, Toronto; Project Arts Centre, Dublin; etablissement d’en face, Brussels. Group concerts include MoMA PS1 and Danspace Project, New York.

Group exhibitions include Small at Galerie Ferdinand van Dieten—d’Eendt, Amsterdam, 2006; BRILLIANT COLLABORATORS at Ilmin Museum, Seoul, 2013; New Habits, CASCO, Utrecht, 2014; and THE SHADOW OF THE BODY OF THE COACHMAN, Kunstsaele, Berlin, 2016. His film, COVER, has been exhibited for the 2022 collection show at Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea. His composition was included in Ari Benjamin Meyers’ Kunsthalle for Music Ensemble at Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly Witte de With), Rotterdam, 2018.

DiGregorio has collaborated since 2006 with Sung Hwan Kim, initially through development of the IN THE ROOM series. Later works include HAIR IS A PIECE OF HEAD, exhibited at the Busan Biennale 2022 and the Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022; the Venice-Biennale-commissioned film LOVE BEFORE BOND, 2017; composition and performance in the operatic experiment 피나는 노력으로 한 [A WOMAN WHOSE HEAD CAME OUT BEFORE HER NAME] (2015), commissioned for the Asian-Arts-Theatre, Gwangju; music for the Tate-Modern-commissioned 2012 film TEMPER CLAY, which has also been shown in an extended installation version at Kim’s solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2021. DiGregorio also has collaborated with artists Danai Anesiadou, Rosa Barba, Byungjun Kwon, Martín Lanz Landázuri, Otobong Nkanga, Jewyo Rhii, and Haegue Yang.

http://dogr.org; ig: @dogr_music

call and response in two tongues

David Michael DiGregorio (dogr)

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