goodbye sunday

*Original tapes of the "meta maschine" project (1994) with audio recordings of Jean Tinguely‘s sound installation "Méta Harmonie II" (Kunstmuseum Basel, 1993)

Méta Machine, Part V / ulrich langenbach / marc schaffroth

New Jam

Regex (CassetteRip)

``Bence bazı isanlar bir kabusun içine doğuyor; Bugüne kadar zihnimin içindeki en korkunç iğrençliklerle, günümü gecemi orada geçirdim; Bu yüzden akşam veya gündüz, uyanık olduğum zamanlarda barışçıl bir dünya için çözüm arayışları ve  imkansız bir aşkın melankolik parçalarından oluşan hayallere dalmayı severim..``

vahşi (taslak)

Richard Seymour returns to PTO to discuss the crisis and background to the crisis in Israel-Palestine. A little over a week ago US national security advisor Jake Sullivan, speaking at the the Atlantic festival, rattled off a list of positive developments in the Middle East which he argued had allowed the Biden administration to focus on issues elsewhere in the world. Referencing the truce in Yemen, a decline in hostility in the US's relationship with Iran and what he characterised as America's stable presence in Iraq - where around 2,500 US soldiers remain -  he commented that “The Middle East region is quieter today than it has been in two decades.”

On Saturday Sullivan's comments came back to haunt him as Hamas carried out an unprecedentedly large scale breakout from the Gaza strip and launched attacks on the Israeli military and Israeli civilians that have claimed over 1200 lives at the time of recording. Deaths on the Palestinian side from Israel's predictable assault on Gaza are heading towards parity, and undoubtedly those numbers will escalate dramatically as Israel continues its air campaign and prepares to launch a ground assault.  The following interview with Richard Seymour was recorded earlier today - the 11th of October - and before it became apparent that a national unity government would be formed in Israel.

Interregnum - The Israel-Hamas conflict

NIBURU

Crispy Cowboy, of East Lonesome Drifters fame, explores the foundations of country and Western music.  Expect outstanding vintage records from old-time, hillbilly, folk, Nashville sound, western swing, outlaw, red dirt, Bakersfield and more. 
 
https://www.nts.live/shows/country-hayride/episodes/country-hayride-25th-february-2024

Country Hayride 250224

"le colonne d’Ercole" was written between October and November 1996, and is dedicated to Franklin Cox, who gave the first performance on 5th March 1997 at the  University of Maryland.  It is a radical reworking of the first 90 bars of the cello part of the second movement of my string quartet "An Allegory of Exile" (1992-95), revised between 2019 and 2020 as "String Quartet No.1".

The piece is a short, ironic commentary on a passage from canto 26 of Dante’s Inferno.  This presents a fascinating mediaeval retelling of the Homeric story of the return of Ulysses from the Trojan War.  In Dante’s version, the hero lectures his crew on their moral superiority to animals and, puffed up with improper pride, proceeds to sail through the Pillars of Hercules, which lie at the western extremity of the Mediterranean Sea.  In the 12th century, they constituted the end of the known world, and to sail through them meant certain death, falling off the edge of the (flat) earth into the abyss, which is what inevitably happens to Ulysses and his men.  In a programmatic touch rare in my work, the four blows sustained by Ulysses’ ship are portrayed by one of the cello’s open strings being struck and allowed to reverberate at the end of each of the work’s four sections.  The lowest string, detuned from C to Ab, is reserved for the very end of the piece. 

My writing for cello is monophonic, in contrast to the more multi-layered approach of much contemporary music for the instrument, and was influenced by early Renaissance lute music, in which the four strings then present in the instrument were each identified with one of the temperaments (melancholy, sanguine, choleric and phlegmatic).  The strings are often coloured accordingly: the lowest string, for instance, which was associated with melancholy, would have been black.  In "le colonne d’Ercole", each cello string is similarly given a separate identity, and is used in turn throughout the piece to articulate a portion of the single line which makes up the work, often giving rise to bizarre juxtapositions of register.  I like to think of this arrangement as a model for society more desirable than either Dante’s authoritarian world view, or the spurious concepts of “individual freedom” prevalent in certain quarters of the Western world today.

The present performance was given by Franklin Cox at the soundON Festival of Modern Music, La Jolla CA on 11th January 2015.  Franklin Cox has also included "le colonne d'Ercole" on his Centaur Records CD "The New Cello 2": http://www.centaurrecords.com/store/albums/contemporary/crc-3390-the-new-cello-vol-2.html

le colonne d'Ercole

小雨蛙 Microhyla ornata (Dumeril and Bibron, 1841)
Huge density of this tiny frog chorusing like hell around a little pond in a little forest, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Also present, the 斑腿樹蛙 Polypedates megacephalus (Hallowell, 1861) invasive species in Taiwan.
The site is located near little factories and roads, the background noise hasn't been filtered.
Recorded with two Sennheiser MKH40 and Zaxcom Maxx.
20/03/2020

200320 Microhyla ornata - Taoyuan

L’été derrière la fenêtre ce sont les voix d’enfants dits autistes dans la parenthèse de leurs vacances à la campagne. Des oscillations sonores pour donner à entendre un monde intérieur, tantôt naïf, tantôt angoissant, à priori imperceptible, et tenter de raconter un peu ces « gamins-là ».

Sur une invitation du photographe Lionel Jusseret.
Prix du Jury - SONOHR Radio & Podcast Festival 2021

L'été derrière la fenêtre

https://jerrylaflim.bandcamp.com/album/just-connect

Neon Through My Tears

British composer James Erber was born in 1951 in London of an Austrian father and an English mother. After studying Music at the Universities of Sussex (BA, 1973) and Nottingham (MA, 1975), he was appointed Music Editor at Peters Edition, London. He left Peters Edition in 1979 and began work as a freelance editor, writer and translator.  Still largely self-taught as a composer, it was at this period he produced his first acknowledged score, "Seguente" for oboe and piano (1976-1978, revised 1980). The guidance and encouragement he received from Brian Ferneyhough (whom he had met at Peters Edition) prompted him to a serious study of composition, firstly with Jonathan Harvey at the University of Sussex (MPhil in Composition, 1983), then from 1981 to 1982 with Ferneyhough himself at the Musikhochschule, Freiburg-im-Breisgau. In 1984, at Ferneyhough’s suggestion, he made the first of five visits to the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, winning a Stipendienpreis in 1988. From 1982 to 2016, he combined activity as a composer with teaching and lecturing. Since 2016 he has been able to concentrate solely on composition. 
James Erber's work reflects a wide range of interests, including Renaissance and Baroque music, the music of South-East Asia, Jazz, blues, Mediaeval and Renaissance philosophy, Kabbalah, green politics, recent scientific developments, film noir, Jacobean tragedy, the Gothic novel and historical slang.  His music is multi-layered and complex (especially from the point of view of rhythm and form). Its complexity is, however, combined with harmonic clarity and lyricism as well as a tenuous sense of optimism and a concern with intellectual and spiritual continuity.
It has been performed and broadcast widely by soloists such as Pavlos Antoniadis, Antonella Bini, Mario Caroli, Diego Castro Magaš, Matteo Cesari, Franklin Cox, Gianpaolo Antongirolami, Gleb Kanasevich, Carin Levine, Ian Pace, Jonathan Powell, Nancy Ruffer and Michele Selva, as well as by ensembles including 175 East, the Arditti Quartet, Duo Galeano/Javaid, Exposé, ELISION, Lontano and NOISE. James Erber’s music has been recorded on NMC, Metier, Centaur Records (USA) and Convivium Records. Many of his scores are available from Composers Edition. In July 2022, his complete writings on music (1978-2021) were published by Vision Edition under the title "Fragile Continuities".

le colonne d'Ercole

James Erber

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