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Portraits GRM

THESIS 18 is a vinyl & digital release available from THESIS PROJECT. It can be found on Bandcamp or at thesisproject.us

https://thesisproject.bandcamp.com/

THESIS 18 (SAMPLE)Black Brunswicker, Lucy Gooch & zaké

Full LP available at blankforms.org/publications/

Unbegrenzt is the third in an ongoing series of archival records of the unheard music of Swedish composer Catherine Christer Hennix, co-released by Blank Forms Editions and Empty Editions. It follows Selected Early Keyboard Works and Selections from 100 Models of Hegikan Roku (named the #1 archival release of 2019 by The Wire), in addition to a two-volume collection of Hennix’s writing titled Poësy Matters and Other Matters.

Recorded in February of 1974 and featuring Catherine Christer Hennix (recitation, percussion, and electronics) and Hans Isgren (bowed gong), Hennix’s realization of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Unbegrenzt” (German for “unlimited”) from Aus den Sieben Tagen is an elaboration both rigorous and radically different from the canonical 1969 recording issued by Shandar. The collection of 15 text pieces written in Paris during May of 1968, Aus den Sieben Tagen, denies its performers notated direction and instead provides poetic cues that hinge upon Stockhausen’s conception of “intuitive music,” a Eurocentric perspective on improvisation antithetical to the vernacular forms Hennix had engaged with as a young drummer performing in Stockholm jazz clubs with musicians like Bill Barron, Cam Brown, Hans Isgren, Lalle Svenson, Allan Vajda, Bo Wärmell, and many others. While both Hennix and Isgren saw the formal prospect of Aus den Sieben Tagen as a productive development of and beyond La Monte Young’s event scores, she here steadfastly counters his rationalization of intuition with the Principle of Sufficient Reason. (Cf. Brouwer’s Lattice.) Eschewing the busy, conservatory-addled lapses into idiomatic citation of Stockhausen’s 1969 recording, Hennix’s alternative realization of the “Unbegrenzt” score’s instructions to “play a sound with the certainty that you have an infinite amount of time and space” is based on her concept of Infinitary Compositions, the trademark of her ensemble The Deontic Miracle which, at one time, considered adding Stockhausen, La Monte Young and Terry Jennings scores to its repertoire. Taking a mature, minimal iteration of Stockhausen’s compositional method of “moment-forming” to heart, her version’s dark, controlled feedback and amplified bowed gong subtly shift through an immanent sequence of formative moments, step by step. Its bubbling computer noise, percussion, and repeated ominous transient sounds of temple blocks over the bowed gong terminate with the integrated recitation of exotic text fragments from Hevajra Tantra which faithfully take Stockhausen’s score into deeper vistas of the unconscious and a more devastating opening to the unlimited time and space of a dreaming mind.

Audio restoration and mastering by Stephan Mathieu, with an essay by Bill Dietz.

Catherine Christer Hennix: Unbegrenzt (excerpt)

Taken from the album 'Death is perfection, everything else is relative' released as LP and Digital.

France Jobin 'p (excerpt)' (EMEGO 276)

Side A from 'Sleep Until It's Over', available now on cassette tape and digital.
https://endurance010010.bandcamp.com/album/sleep-until-its-over

Dream

CENTER YOURSELF is a podcast series curated by Robert Johnson. Each episode is created by one of our regulars—some are made for this occasion and some are hand-picked from the club's own archive.

@massimilianopagliara

Excerpt from an all-nighter recorded at Robert Johnson in January 2020.

Center Yourself 14 – Massimiliano Pagliara

Taken from the album 'Shutting Down Here' released as LP and Digital.

Jim O'Rourke 'Shutting Down Here' (excerpt)(SPGRM 001)

Taken from album 'Forma' released as LP and Digital

Lucy Railton 'Forma' (excerpt) (SPGRM 002)

Taken from the album 'Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly)' released as LP and Digital.

Max Eilbacher 'Metabolist Meter (Foster, Cottin, Caetani and a Fly)' (excerpt) (SPGRM 002)

Independent record company based in Vienna.
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Jim O'Rourke 'Shutting Down Here' (excerpt)(SPGRM 001)

Editions Mego