Name: 3 - Black Paquita by os sons de Löis Lancaster
Duration: 3 min 35 s
Description: O disco que acabou não saindo, 'Imita a nossa voz' trazia um apanhado das últimas composições da banda, que ficaram de fora da demo 'A batida do próximo segundo'.

O disco que acabou não saindo, 'Imita a nossa voz' trazia um apanhado das últimas composições da banda, que ficaram de fora da demo 'A batida do próximo segundo'.

3 - Black Paquita

SIDE 1
Written, performed and recorded by Emma Grace
Mastered and post-produced by Capitano Merletti at Studio Garp, Venice
Produced by Pipapop Records, Artwork album cover by Giorgia Ragnacci.
Upcoming album date February 26th 2020

6 - Funny Nests

Outplant is a new podcast from the Data.Wave webzine that features releases sent to our magazine by artists from various places of the world.

The episode 2 contains work of German sound artist Thomas Köner, electronic project Växtfolket, Michel van Collenburg aka nobuka, a track from the fresh release of A Strangely Isolated Place label and an unreleased composition by the New-York based musician Andrés León.

For musicians and labels: send your tracks to our email: datawv.office [at] gmail [dot] com

Tracklist: 

01. Thomas Köner - Substance (Suicide) (Mille Plateaux, 2020)
02. Växtfolket - III (Auditive Abstraction, 2020)
03. nobuka - Bluebird (Self-released, 2020)
04. Wanderwelle - Decay (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2020)
05. Andrés León - Variations (Unreleased, 2020)

Outplant #02

「Small Stone」

"In Japan during the Covid-19 lock down we saw a movement. It was created from a woman who raised her voice to say NO via SNS to one of the controversial bills, a revision of the public prosecutor's office law* that was about to go through the Lower House without a fair public hearing. This tiny voice of hers went viral and formed an online demonstration to protect our democracy. It is very rare in Japan for the public to be actively involved in any policies. Alas the bill was temporarily suspended because many finally stood up.

“ When we threw lots of small stones, the mountain got moved a little. However we shouldn’t celebrate yet. We need to be calm and grounded and observe what the government will do.” says Kyoko Koizumi, an actress and a producer whom I respect dearly. Her phrases sums up things that do not change so easily. 


*A proposed legal revision that would raise the retirement age for prosecutors became the centre of controversy this week when it was taken up by the Lower House. Unlike officials in other administrative organizations, prosecutors have wide powers to investigate, arrest and indict anyone, even prime ministers and other high officials. They must remain highly neutral and independent from other authorities and political powers. Since the proposed revision could allow the Cabinet to intervene in the personnel affairs of prosecutors’ offices, many experts fear it could jeopardize the independence of prosecutors and the separation of powers.

「Serene」

The music of Eric Dolphy lives with Breathing.

We never forget the day May 25th 2020 for the world we can freely breath in and out. 

「Two Blue Kites」

June 4th 1989 , it is a very memorable day for me. 

31 years ago I took part in a demonstration for the first time ever in my life. It was a small resistance held in Tokyo. I was with the Chinese people raising my voice out loud in the crowd. I couldn’t do anything but I felt that I had to do something. 

In the beginning of the 90s I was going back and forth between Tokyo and Hong Kong making music. I was offered to make music for a film portrait the night before the Chinese Cultural Revolution called “ The Blue Kite”. The producer of this film invited me to make the music for the film. The film director was banned from making this film in mainland China and he escaped to Japan via Hong Kong. The film was finally completed in Japan. Hong Kong was still in British colony then. This film made my film music career begin. 

June 4th 2020 The Hong Kong government banned the public to organise and attend the candlelight rallies to mark the Tiananmen Square massacre. Despite the harsh policing and the Covid-19 regulation many people (still) defied the ban and tried to attend the commemoration. I was thinking of many of my friends there at the moment.  

I wonder how this little country, Hong Kong, that “brought me up” and “ shaped me who I am today” will be from now. My heart is full of concern for its future.

The film The Blue Kite is still banned in China to this date."

- Otomo Yoshihide



In Japanese / 日本語訳

「Small Stone」

日本では、ステイホームの期間中の5月8日、一人の女性の発言をきっかけに、現

政権がやろうとしていた三権分立をゆるがすようなひどい法案(検察庁法改正案)に対し多くの人々

がSNSを使って異を唱え、それがデモのような効果をもたらし、5月18日国会で

の法案決議を阻止するに至った。

「小さな石をたくさん投げたら山が少し動いた。が、浮き足立ってはいけない。

冷静に誰が何を言い、どんな行動を取るのか見守りたい。」敬愛する女優であり

プロデューサーの小泉今日子が5月19日にSNSで呟いたこの発言は、そのうねり

のことと同時に、しかしそう簡単に現状は変わらないことも表している。

「Serene」

エリック・ドルフィーが作る曲は呼吸とともにある。2020年5月25日は忘れては

ならない日だ。みなが伸び伸びと息ができる世界のために。

「Two Blue Kites」

  6月4日は個人的にも忘れられない日だ。31年前のこの日、わたしは初めてデモに

参加した。東京でおこなわれた小さなデモだった。東京に住む中国人たちと一緒

にわたしも声をあげていた。いてもたってもいられなかったのだ。

90年代初頭、わたしは香港と東京を行き来して音楽をつくっていた。そんな中

1993年、文化大革命前夜の北京を描いた「The Blue Kite」という中国映画の音楽

を作ることになったのが、わたしが映画の世界に入る切っ掛けだった。中国で作

ることを禁じられ、香港経由でフィルムを持って日本に脱出した監督が東京で完

成させた映画で、香港のプロデューサーがわたしを誘ってくれたのだ。当時香港

はまだイギリス領だった。

2020年6月4日、香港では天安門事件31周年の集会が新型コロナを理由に禁止され

ていたにも関わらず、多くの人たちが集まり追悼集会が開かれていた。きっと多

くの友人もそこにいるのだろう。わたしを育ててくれた香港はどうなっていくの

だろうか。「The Blue Kite」は今でも中国での上映が禁止されている。

TR045 - Otomo Yoshihide - 'Small Stones 2 (The Diet May 18th 2020'

An improvisation made in my studio in April 2020 on the modular synth. It is largely based on ethnographic cylinder recordings from the Kodaly archive, made in April 1914. These small fragments are sampled with oscillators controlling the grain, loop size and time points of the samples. Pitch and envelope followers on the samples in turn control these oscillators and other physically modelled sounds. Yannis Kyriakides, Amsterdam, April 2020.

A Ghost Of Spring

Excerpt from the B-side of the 'Albatross' cassette, to be released in September.

Albatross

Grant Evans - India Ink Mirror (excerpt)

A liquid cooling system for a computer tower was salvaged from the street and is being slowly adapted to become a sound-making instrument or device.
This project is a commission for subnet.at
September 2020

Closed System - early investigations

Trio for harp, flute and viola

Performed by Ghost Ensemble at Areté venue and gallery, Brooklyn November 2019

Margaret Lancaster(flute)
Lucia Stavros (harp)
Carrie Frey(viola)

After some time away from composing notated music, being occupied more with open and text scores, the lovely Ghost Ensemble approached me for a piece, and what came out is an actual score and this lovely performance in November 2019. 

Thank you Ben Richter and Ghost Ensemble for organizing this sensitive, nuanced and thoughtful performance of a piece that could have gone many different ways.

Please write me if you'd like to take a look at the score!

Trio for Flute, Viola and Harp

video :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdI9RUpQM_0

harp synth vox by elise
guitar by eddie chapman
animation and art by anthony clementi

3 - Black Paquita

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