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
The Aoide Artificial Intelligence Neural Network Composer - Synthesizer, Bass, Drums, Composition and Arrangement (Section Two)
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)
David Lynch - Visual Art

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
David Lynch - Visual Art

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
David Lynch - Visual Art

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 (Part One of Music Composition)
Eberhard Kranemann - Bass, Digitech FX Unit, Piano, MC-303 Groovebox (Part One of Music Composition)
Elliott Sharp - Synthesizer, Glissentar (Part One of Music Composition)
Jim Morrison - Poetry, Spoken Word Vocal
John Haeny - Sound Engineer for Jim Morrison Recording
Trent Reznor - Writing of Music and Performance (Part Two of Music Composition) 
Atticus Ross - Writing of Music and Performance (Part Two of Music Composition) 
Alessandro Cortini - Writing of Music and Performance, Guitar (Part Two of Music Composition)
Adrian Belew - Guitar (Part Two of Music Composition)
Hector Belioz - Sample from  His "Songe d'une nuit de sabbat" from His "Symphonie Fantastique" (Part Two of Music Composition)
David Lynch - Visual Art

They Haven't Invented Music Yet

Paul Amlehn - Compositional system and strategies, catalyst texts and vocals for music composition, sung vocal in first music section, spoken vocal treatments, editing, arrangement, production
Georges Bataille - Text
Iakov Chibinin - Granular synthesis, toy piano, vocal manipulations
Laura Bisceglia - Cello
Mark Egan - Fretless bass, effects
David Lynch - Visual art

L'anus solaire (The Solar Anus)

Paul Amlehn - Text, casting of artificial intelligence actor for spoken vocal, casting of female orgasm performer, editing, arrangement, production
Dimitri Vassiliev - Electronics, keyboard
Human/AI voice actor - Spoken vocal
Keiron Melling - Drums, percussion
Eve - Orgasm aria 
David Lynch - Visual art

The Fossils of Lust

Paul Amlehn - Mixing, editing, production
John Cage - Composition for prepared piano
Steffen Schleiermacher - Prepared piano
Christopher Knowles - Text
Robert Wilson - Vocal
David Lynch - Visual art

I Like Dreaming

Paul Amlehn - Text, Editing, Mixing, Time-Stretching/Vocal Sculpting, Arrangement, Production
Kevin - Artificial Intelligence Voice Actor
Dimitri Vassiliev - Music Composition, Electronics
Iakov Chibinin - Music Composition, Electronics
David Lynch - Visual Art

From the multimedia art project: Tasmantis.

The knife is now an erogenous zone. The knife is now a stainless steel archipelago. Omnia and I wander the length of the metallic shore, it gleams from deep within, its contours at the outermost edges blending with the tumultuous sea. Colliding, enmeshed, corroding. Omnia and I feel no desire. We make love like the dead. She is wearing a wedding veil and exhaling iridescent bubbles from the hissing vent between her tautened thighs. I can’t tell if I love her or hate her. “I’ll cut you,” she says to the knife. “And then you’ll know the difference.”

Tasmantis (The Knife)

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional Process, 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.

With thanks to Robert Fripp and the Burroughs Estate.

Paul Amlehn - Concept, Editing, Mixing, Production
Robert Fripp - Guitar
William S. Burroughs - Text, Voice
David Lynch - Visual Art

Word Falling, Photo Falling

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

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional Process, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Production
Christoph de Babalon - Synth and Samples
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Perpetual Wound

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional Process, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Text, Vocals, Editing, Mixing, Production
Ariel Lorca - Production
Michael Giles - Drums, Percussion, Cymbals, Gongs
Julia Kent - Cello
Ulrich Krieger - Saxophone, Electronics
Ghazi Barakat - Vocal Treatment
AD Chivers - Recording Engineer for Michael Giles
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Man Suicided by Society

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional Process, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Cello Treatment, Production
Eberhard Kranemann - Fender Stratocaster Feedback Guitar, Cello
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Man from the Blood Red Future and the Woman from the Melancholy Past

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, 
Arrangement, Mixing, Production
Ariel Lorca - Electric Guitar, Effects, Arrangement, Production
Oren Ambarchi - Guitar, Electronics, Percussion
Hopek Quirin - Bass Guitar, Sounds
Michael Blair - Drums, Glockenspiel, Tambourine, Noises
Ulf Ivarsson - Bass Guitar
Jem Finer - Slow Strings, Orchestra of Tuning Forks and Scrap Metal, 
Vari-Speed Big Band
David Lynch - Visual Art

Ursula Naguschewski

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Text, Vocals, Editing, 
Mixing, Production
Mark Spybey - Processing, Keyboards, Bass, Dictaphone
Bela Emerson - Cello
David Lynch - Visual Art

Through Your Mouth, I Sing

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Editing, Mixing, 
Production
Eleonor Sandresky - Piano, Electronics
Mick Rossi - Piano
David Crowell - Alto Saxophone
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Snow of Your Name

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 
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Sky Is Thin as Paper Here

Paul Amlehn - Compositonal Process, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Text, Vocal Effects, Treatments, Editing, Mixing, Production
Ariel Lorca - Production
Michael Giles - Contrabass Clusterlodeon
Paul Beauchamp - Musical Saw
Eberhard Kranemann - Cello, Electronics
Fulya Peker - Vocals
Wyatt Howland - Electronics
AD Chivers - Recording Engineer for Michael Giles
David Lynch - Visual Art

When the World Has Been Reduced To a Dark Wood...

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
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Extraction of the Stone of Madness

Paul Amlehn - Compositional System, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Production
Julia Kent - Cello, Electronics, Engineering
David Lynch - Visual Art

Melpomene

Hi. My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an interdisciplinary artist, working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, and film. I am of Italian, Irish, and Maori descent. I am currently based in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

My poetry, prose, and texts for theater and opera have been published in literary journals in 23 countries,  including Exquisite Corpse, the California Review, the Salzburg Review and Evergreen Review. My visual art and sound art works have been exhibited throughout the world, including at Artist's Space, Luhring Augustine, the Chelsea Art Museum, 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, and 58th Venice Biennales.

On my sound art and music projects I have collaborated with Robert Fripp (King Crimson), Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed), Chuck Hammer (David Bowie), David Van Tieghem (Laurie Anderson), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno), F.M. Einheit (Einsturzende Neubauten), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), Mick Rossi (Philip Glass Ensemble), Jeff Zeigler (Kronos Quartet), and many others.

I am working on an album of music which has texts and vocals by William S. Burroughs, in cooperation with the Burroughs Estate. I am about to embark on a new 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 and filmmaker David Lynch.

I am presently undertaking an artist residency at The Exchange art space in Christchurch, New Zealand. In October 2024, I will be performing music and sound art at the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale courtesy of the Italian arts organization Moving Lab. In late December 2024, I will be undertaking an artist’s residency at the Kunstmeile Krems, in an der Donau, Austria.

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