Name: Pale Fire reading by Nicholas D Alexander
Duration: 1 min 35 s
Description: Pale Fire is a novel published in 1962 by Vladimir Nabokov that takes the form of a Forward and a 999 line poem in four Cantos. The reading is a stanza from the first Canto by Nicholas D. Alexander with additional sound by the reader.

NEGATIVE

but there is always hatred

ANXIETY

Rave Techno [ITU1511]

Prod. Pezzhead

Lyriczz

Tell me good things about me
Cah you are not using me 
You are not using me 
Are you not?

Tell me good things about me
Cah you are not using me
I can’t handle the grief 
Can you not?

Keep yourself together
She gonna get back
You’re not the only one
That’s okay

(Ye-yeah)

(Chuh)

(Yahh)

(Yeah)

(Yahh)

(Yahh)


Nothing to like about me 
Cah I be stuck in your teeth 
Curb my neck with your leash 
Leave it on 

You don’t nothing thing about me
Just what I sold on your screen 
If you’re scared you can leave 
Rose is dead, you’ll still bleed 


Kisss that bitch in the courtroom 
Murder that feeling it’s hopeful 
She not real, just a model 
It feels so good, this awful 

Hiding again
Don't call a friend
Catch myself when I crawl off the edge
Wasting again 
We all pretend
Was I good enough till the end?

We can't hurt
Shame me to dirt
You're just words
My only curse
My only curse

(Yah, yahh)

Caught in broken talk
I’m lost
Is this real?

Tell me good things about me
Cah you are not using me 
You are not using me 
Are you not?

Yeah tell me good things about me
Cah you are not using me
I can’t handle the grief 
Can you not?

I got no time for a faker 
You say you’re nice but it’s catered 
Like who’s the real you, are you made up?
When you done with that voice, it’s eraser 

You a bad man gonna act up?
Yeah, You a gang man gonna nank up?
You’re Killing yourself just to bank up 
Text me “yo man what’s the plan bruv?” 

I got about two years till I’m used up
Till then I need peace so back up 
Nah I’m not on shit, Fuck gs bruv 
You been bunnin’ that hurt like it’s cheese bruv
(Hurt like it’s cheese bruv) 

Fuck that, talk back 
Never wanna face shit, bitch you contact
Speak on my name like you own that
Bitch you a fallback
Bitch you a fallback

I eat pills, no medicine 
I sip maggy, that’s medicine
I hide my thoughts with ketamine 
She wanna save me, no heroine
(Me no heroine)

(I’ve been cursed with…)
(Cursed with you)

I’ve been cursed with…
I’ve been cursed with you

Good ghost (Feat. Biv)

A Cat’s Improvisation on a Spiritual Keyboard

This second remix improves the sound balance, I think

Deposition Daisy Alt Remix

Pale Fire is a novel published in 1962 by Vladimir Nabokov that takes the form of a Forward and a 999 line poem in four Cantos. The reading is a stanza from the first Canto by Nicholas D. Alexander with additional sound by the reader.

Pale Fire reading

"The Unknown Celebrity" by Sean Redmond & Leah Kardos

In the Unknown Celebrity, a 1:1 replica of a ‘devoted’ fan’s bedroom becomes the gallery space. The room has a rug, a bed, dressing table and lamp. The walls are golden and red curtains fall down the central wall, where a celebrity shrine is worshipped. Personal items are found in the room: each adorned with the image of the unknown celebrity. Original music plays from a series of discrete speakers. At the centre of the bedroom is the celebrity ‘shrine’ comprised of candles, a large central photograph of the unknown celebrity, and a plinth with a bell jar containing a treasured celebrity memento.

The celebrity figure found in the room is a composite unknown: a non-descript everybody, but whose ideal face has been created through a software app that renders it by the regeneration of several male and female iconic celebrities in currency today.  All the celebrity memorabilia found in the room will have this uncanny face, this nobody’s name, adorning it. The room, the shrine, will worship this unknown celebrity: this model citizen. Of course, the person whose room it is, is the one and same unknown celebrity who is being worshipped– a haunting mirror on their own invisibility and hungriness to be noticed. Their self-adoring room guarantees them the ubiquity of model citizenship.

The four separate components of the unknown celebrity’s soundscape are designed to be experienced in various locations within the constructed environment. The sonic scenes are haunted by timbres of embedded musical memory, experience and emotion. All compositions are set to a tempo of 60BPM.

Mirror (9’20") plays with repetition, feedback, texture, mimicry and multiplicity of a single voice. Memory (8’17”) uses the aesthetics of vaporwave, ambient trip hop and broken tape effects. Shrine (21’08”) is a collage of original vocal recordings, reversed, resampled and stretched. Sleep (10'32”) is an extended version of a piece originally released on the album Machines (2012), and includes cello parts performed by Catherine Saumarez.

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