Paul Amlehn -  Compositional System and Strategies, Text, Singing, Stochastic Procedures, Stereo to Mono Spatialization, Editing, Arranging, Production
John Cage - Prepared Piano Composition (Section One)
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared Piano Performance (Section One)
Jim Morrison - Poetry, Recitation, Singing
John Haeny - Sound Engineer for Jim Morrison Recording
Trent Reznor - Composition, Arrangement, Performance (Section Three)
Atticus Ross - Composition, Arrangement, Performance (Section Three)
Adrian Belew - Additional Guitar (Section Three)
Colin Potter - Vocal Mutations (of Paul Amlehn's Singing) (Section Three)

Does the Silver Forest End?

Paul Amlehn - Arrangement, Editing, Mixing, Production
T.S. Eliot - Text
Marlon Brando - Vocal Performance
John Cage - Prepared Piano Composition
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared Piano Performance
Francis Ford Coppola - Sound Design for Singing and Field Recordings
Mary Allen Mark - Photograph of Marlon Brando and dragonfly

Dedicated to the memory of my father Mike Amlehn

The Hollow Men

Paul Amlehn - Text for Sung Vocal, Sung Vocal, Editing, Mixing, Arranging, Production
Dieter Moebius - Sampling of Radio Voices, Vocal Effects, Synthesizer
Jim Morrison - Poetry, Spoken Word Vocal
John Haeny - Sound Engineer for Jim Morrison Recording
Eraldo Bernocchi - Vocal Treatments and Effects for Sung Vocal, Synthesizer
Jeff Zeigler - Cello, Electronics
Mick Rossi - Piano

Or Looking the Sea

Paul Amlehn - Intuitively-Determined Voice/Instrument Placements, Editing, Mixing, Production
Terry Edwards - Real-Time Radio Manipulation and Recording, Synthesizer, Percussion, Effects
Eberhard Kranemann - Bass, Digitech FX Unit, Piano, MC-303 Groovebox 
Elliott Sharp - Synthesizer, Glissentar 
Jim Morrison - Poetry, Spoken Word Vocal
John Haeny - Sound Engineer for Jim Morrison Recording
Trent Reznor - Writing of Music and Performance  
Atticus Ross - Writing of Music and Performance 
Alessandro Cortini - Writing of Music and Performance, Guitar 
Adrian Belew - Guitar 
Hector Belioz - Sample from  His "Songe d'une nuit de sabbat" from His "Symphonie Fantastique"

They Haven't Invented Music Yet

Paul Amlehn - Mixing, editing, production
John Cage - Composition for prepared piano
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared piano
Christopher Knowles - Text
Robert Wilson - Vocal
David Seidner - Polaroid of John Cage

I Like Dreaming

Paul Amlehn - Intuitive, spirit-led voice and music alignments, mixing, editing, production
Jim Morrison - Poetry, vocals
John Cage - Composition for prepared piano
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared piano
David Seidner - Polaroid of John Cage

A City Rises from the Sea

Paul Amlehn - Vocal, recording of voice independent of music, stochastic alignment of voice and text, editing, mixing, production
Paul Éluard - Text
John Cage - Composition for prepared piano
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared piano performance
David Seidel - Polaroid of John Cage

Liberty

Paul Amlehn - Arrangement, editing, mixing, production
T. S. Eliot - Poem
Anthony Hopkins - Recitation
Robert Fripp - Soundscape
David Lynch - Visual art

The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock

Paul Amlehn - Text, composition, arrangement, production
David Lynch - Visual art

Text:

"Only in the first hours of the night
Can I transform myself into human form
While the male dove is busy
With the twelve dead.

Numb
Or
Foam-like.

I see you in the forever."

I See You In the Forever

Paul Amlehn - Text, composition, arrangement, production
David Lynch - Visual art

Text:

"Love opens onto unknown horizons.

North... north...

Love opens onto unknown horizons.

Fluttering of a heart returning to the beatless origin."

Love Opens onto Unknown Horizons

Paul Amlehn - Text, composition, arrangement, production
Brian Eno and Paul Schmidt - Oblique Strategies
David Lynch - Visual art

Text:

"Run to me
Flee from me
Run to me.

Disconnect from desire
It's hard to hear the lie
When the liar 
Is so beautiful.

You can write
You can write
A thousand years
You can see
You can be
A thousand years
From now
From now.

Sentimental guises
Will come into fashion
Sentimental guises
Will cover their shame.

Run to me
Flee from me
Run to me.

You can write
You can light
A thousand years
You can see
You can be
A thousand years
From now
From now.

You're espying me
You're denying me
You're inside of me
From now
From now."

Run To Me

Paul Amlehn - Manifestly additive and subtractive decisions and actions
Robert Fripp - Inaudible architecture
Joan Jeanrenaud - Inaudible architecture
Michael Riesman - Piano
John Cage - Title (a phrase excerpted from a love letter)

This composition is the music for Act 5 of the 5-act dance-theater work Cage/Cunningham: Love Letters based on John Cage's love letters to Merce Cunningham.

The work began with a guitar-triggered synthesizer soundscape by Robert Fripp, to which Joan Jeanrenaud added electric cello. I then added spoken poetry to the soundscape and cello. Then, later, removed the spoken word. Thenceforth Michael added piano to the soundscape and cello composition. And, finally, I removed the soundscape and cello (separating it off to exist as a work of its own), leaving the piano solely extant, and the inaudible architecture of guitar soundscape, electric cello, and spoken poetry, secreted within the work.

Today Is Beautiful and I Am Dreaming of You

Paul Amlehn - Text, music, production
Paul Freeman - Vocal
Man Ray - Photograph

North 
Towards the white pole
South
Towards the red heron
The pulse beats wild and straight.

Beloved muse
Threshold of my longing
It is you who makes my soul flicker
Like a curtain of stars.

In the well of time
The years multiply their swarm
O you, my loveless traitor
Must you torture me still?

Open my chest
You will see it is full of snow
The snow of your name
Covering stamens of blood.

I will make you feel
What you do not want to feel.

Seen for the last time...

The Snow of Your Name (Iteration 2024)

Paul Amlehn - Compositional system, catalyst texts and vocals, retro-notational arrangement,  text, vocal, treatments, editing, mixing, production
David Crowell - Alto saxophone
Mick Rossi - Piano
Frank Cassara - Singing bowls
Peter Hess - Clarinet process
Eleonor Sandresky - Piano, electronics, vocal treatment
Andrew Sterman - Tenor saxophone
Michael Riesman - Piano
Gustave Moreau - Painting: "Oedipus and the Sphinx"

Oedipus and the Sphinx: 1st Movement (In Which Orch OR Can Occur)

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional System, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Editing, Mixing, Production
Joke Lanz - Vocals, Electronics
Andrew Sterman - Saxophone
David Lynch - Visual Art

Sehnsucht

A new composition from the forthcoming album: A Walk to the End of the World.

Paul Amlehn - Concept, Editing, Mixing, Production
Robert Fripp - Guitar
William S. Burroughs - Text, Voice
Robert Mapplethorpe - Portrait of William Burroughs

Word Falling, Photo Falling

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional Process, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Text, Vocals, Production
Chandra Shukla - Electronics, Processing
Elisa Faires - Vocals
Gustave Doré - Visual art: Empyrean

Empyrean

Paul Amlehn - Direction, French to English Text Translation, Production
Laurent Petitgand - Lyrics, French to English Text Translation, Piano,
Double Bass, Percussion, Programming
Margot Petitgand - Voice
David Lynch - Visual art

L'homme des plages

dans un coquillage
dans le ventre d'un monstre marin
dans les sables mouvants
dans l'or noir et l'embrun
l'homme des plages repose

s'il n'est qu'un grain de sable
s'il n'est qu'un grain
son empreinte à laissé
autant qu'un ouragan
dans la mémoire des choses.

The Man of the Beaches

In a sea shell
In the belly of a sea monster
In quick sand
In black gold and in the ocean spray
The Man of the Beaches rests

Even if he is only a grain of sand
Even if he is only a grain
His footprints are left 
As much as a hurricane
In the memory of things.

L'homme des plages

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional System, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Vocal, Production
Reinier van Houdt - Piano, Guitar, Voice, Glass, Aluminium
David Lynch - Visual Art

Descensus Christi ad Inferos

Paul Amlehn - Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Text, Vocals, Vocal Treatment, Editing, Mixing, Production
Dean Hurley - Keyboards, Bass, Drums
Daniele Pagliero - Vocoder and Delay on Voice
David Lynch - Visual Art

In the Silver Smoke of Dreams

Paul Amlehn - Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Text, Background Vocals, Treatments, Arrangement, Mixing, Production
Ariel Lorca - Production
Julia Kent - Cello
Jem Finer - Underwater Sounds
Andrew Sterman - Bass Flute
David Lynch- Visual Art

Oannes (Reprise)

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Production
Jim Pugliese - Pulse, Composition
Kato Hideki - Bass, Violin
Marco Cappelli - Electric Guitar
David Lynch - Visual Art

I Am Become Passion

Paul Amlehn - Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Text, Vocals, 
Editing, Mixing, Production
Ariel Lorca - Production
Chandra Shukla - Processing, Guitar
Elisa Faires - Vocals
Phil Minton - Vocals
Jenny Minton - Recording Engineer for Phil Minton 
William Burroughs - Painting: Venus Rising, Like a Kansas Sunflower

The Sky Is Thin as Paper Here

Paul Amlehn - Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Texts, Vocals, Editing, Mixing, Production
Jen Baker - Extended Vocal Techniques
Ash Wednesday - Synthesizer, Effects
Ariel Lorca - Treatment for Ash Wednesday's Synthesizer Music
Eberhard Kranemann - Electronic Manipulation of Sounds of Nature
RK Faulhaber - Vocal Manipulations, Synthesis
Brian Chase - Drums, Percussion, Electronics
MS Waldron - Sounds, Electronics
Mick Rossi - Piano
Hieronymus Bosch - Painting: The Extraction of the Stone of Madness

The Extraction of the Stone of Madness

Paul Amlehn - Compositional system, catalyst texts and vocals for music creation, title, production
Julia Kent - Cello, electronics, engineering
Salvador Dali - Collage: Melpomene

Melpomene

My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an artist working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, opera, dance, performance art, and film.

My poetry, prose, and texts for theater and opera have been published in literary journals in 23 countries, including Exquisite Corpse, the California Quarterly, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Evergreen Review.

My paintings, photographs, music, and video art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, and Tate Liverpool, and at festivals which include Art 42 Basel (with the Serpentine Gallery - curated by Julia Peyton-Jones and Hans Ulrich Obrist), documenta 14, and the 51st, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, and 60th Venice Biennales.

On my music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), Jamie Saft (Iggy Pop), Susan Stenger (John Cale), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), Michael Blair (Tom Waits), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), Michael Johnson (Joy Division), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Joe Gore (PJ Harvey), Terry Edwards (Tindersticks), Mick Rossi (Leonard Cohen), Jem Finer (The Pogues), Mark Egan (Arcadia), Dieter Moebius (Cluster), Jess Stewart (Psychic TV), Eberhard Kranemann (Kraftwerk), Thomas Stern (Einsturzende Neubauten), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Susan Alcorn, Suzanne Ciani, Keiron Melling (The Fall), Julia Kent (Antony and the Johnsons), Laurent Petitgand (Wim Wenders), Jen Baker (Werner Herzog), John King (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Robert Black (Bang on a Can All-Stars), Frank Cassara (Steve Reich and Musicians), Andy Findon (Michael Nyman Group), Mick Rossi (Philip Glass Ensemble), David Crowell (Philip Glass Ensemble), Melanie Russell (Philip Glass Ensemble), Eleanor Sandresky (Philip Glass Ensemble), Frank Cassara (Philip Glass Ensemble), Andrew Sterman (Philip Glass Ensemble), Joan Jeanrenaud (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

On my film and video art projects I have collaborated with actors, actresses, singers, and dancers, including Philippe Nahon (Gaspar Noe), Artur Barciś (Krzysztof Kieślowski), Anne Louise Hassing (Lars von Trier), Kate Moran (Peter Greenaway), Kate Fisher (Robert Wilson), Elisa Lasowski (David Cronenberg), Pamela Flores (Alejandro Jodorowsky), Stefania Casini (Andy Warhol), and many others.

I am currently working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate. I am also presently working on an album of music which reimagines the work of John Cage, in cooperation with the John Cage Trust.

Cover art for my albums has been provided by painter Gerhard Richter and artist, musician, and filmmaker David Lynch.

At the end of 2024, I worked on several re-creation compositions which utilzed sonic elements from pre-existing songs by Brian Eno and David Byrne, Nine Inch Nails, and Grimes, from their albums "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts," Ghosts I-IV," and "Miss Anthropocene, combined with new music by myself and other musicians.

Earlier this year, I collaborated with painter Gottfried Helnwein on a short film called: Epigenetic Trauma Painting No. 1.

I'm presently working on a new music recording project. Musicians who have contributed to this project thus far are: Stan Harrison (Radiohead), Bill Gilonis (The Work), Jeroen Visser (Trio Kazanchis +1), Nicholas Currie (Momus), RK Faulhaber (Nurse With Wound), Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), Hans Peter Kuhn (Robert Wilson), Audrey Chen, Max Eastley, Conrad Harris (String Noise), Pauline Kim Harris (String Noise), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), William Klugh Connor III (The Centre for Transgressive Behaviours), Alan Splet, Ann Kroeber, and David Lynch.

Soli Deo gloria.

Paul Amlehn

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