Name: exquisite corpse by Paul Newland
Duration: 10 min 10 s
Description: David Arrowsmith - electric guitar. Paul Newland - electric guitar

guildhall new music society spring 2021 micro-commissions

Anna Semple: Hope is the thing with feathers

performed by Pia Rose Scattergood

In spring 2021, the Guildhall New Music Society linked composer-performers to create new solo pieces for each other to perform. You can read more about the projects on our online archive:
www.linktr.ee/GSMDNMS

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Anna Semple: Hope is the thing with feathers

David Arrowsmith - electric guitar. Paul Newland - electric guitar

exquisite corpse

Single from the album ' 死生観(Views of life and death )'

Album playlist : https://soundcloud.com/user-541428630/sets/my-heart-to-reflect-in
Download : https://orientallove.bandcamp.com/album/view-of-life-and-death

sampling source
      voice : Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫）
      sax    :  Kaoru Abe ( 阿部薫)
noise improvisation contains 檄 .
     (檄 means the speech of Yukio Mishima just before the harakiri )

(voice 1)
The world I had been living in where was it heading , how would it change like this ? That was completely strange .

We are living in an era without heroic death .
There is no state of tension that living is based on dying .
There are no "great causes" .

I only had a strange blank feeling bypassing emotions .

Though the world was supposed to collapse , still the trees , the green around was bathing in the thick light of summer .
That was completely strange .

Human lives are mysterious, in that human beings are not strong enough to live and die just for themselves .
It is because human beings always think of living for some kind of ideal and they soon get bored of living just for themselves .
It is because of this that the need to die for something arises .

(the idea )that death will come sometime and when I was thinking that it would come in near future , that psychological state , compared now , was happy .
That is actually a strange thing , but in my memory , it does not just look beautiful .
Human beings , in those moment , strangely become happy .

something more honorable , something for a cause is how I would like to die .
And living thinking these things I think I will probably die on a Tatami mat .
There are no `great causes` .

(voice 2)
It seemed to continue as an era of peace and security, but there is no drama . ( there are no "great causes ". )

Modern people can no longer die dramatically .
( there are no "great causes ". )
You might call this the boredom of living .

I think it is natural for me to find it obscene for human beings to live only for themselves .
If we can not find values that go beyond thinking just for ourselves in our minds , we might come to think it to be meaningless to go on living .

Samurai  had to choose death first in sink or swim situations .
It is because of this that the need to die for something arises .
That need is the "great cause " that talked about in the past samurai .
Dying for "great causes"  was considered the most glorious , heroic , or brilliant way of dying .

However , there are no " great causes " now .

So , I will die like a bee inside a cell in a hospital room .
( there are no "great causes ". )

Video

三島由紀夫と死生観についての考察 ( Views of life and death about Yukio MIshima)

https://soundcloud.com/ttuttle: words, music, singing
doug: music

words:
hear at the tough trough
thoroughly rough sauce

who non in a hot pot
long pole casters 
what got the who not

see her at the laugh track
heroine

laugh track

Meandering Moon

Available on Spotify, Apple Music, and many other platforms:
https://linktr.ee/eternalsearch

Track 1 from the Sampler compilation album
Produced by @masaki-2

For social media and other links: linktr.ee/esr.masakiuchida

Masaki Uchida - Irae

An arpeggiator walks into a bar. It was reverb night.

Slow, sombre and atmospheric.

Somewhere a sun is rising.

Sophism

Illuminate

Selection from an unknown tape recording dowloaded from Soulseek.
Sound manifestations by Rev Zombi on analog equipment.

Extract from a 24 hours tribute to La Monte Young.

Archangel Gong

Trapped inside a Drone

Penghu Experimental Sound Studio
www.kalerne.net
by Yannick Dauby 澎葉生

Underwater Recording
Equipment = Zoom H5 / Aquarian Audio H2c with USB battery in underwater enclosure
Date/Time = from 25.07.2020 12:03 to 26.07.2020 15:42
GPS = 23.515714, 119.572440
Habitat = coral reef
Note = Autonomous recorder running during 24h. This extract was recorded on 25.07.2020 around 12:06 it features snapping shrimps (of course) and damselfishes and in the lower frequency (50-90Hz) a drumming sound that is probably the stressed warning call of Pomacanthus Semicirculatus (Semicircle angelfish). It was observed (and disturbed, sorry) when deploying the recorder and was swimming around. To be confirmed

200725 - Pomacanthus Semicirculatus

SuperCollider patch show-casing the Mi-UGens (some UGens based on eurorack modules by Mutable Instruments): 2x MiTides + MiRipples.
This one is inspired by Lightbath's Loom 4 :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uojFtozPynE
Get the UGens (compiled for macos) from vboehm.net/downloads/
Sources on github: github.com/v7b1/mi-UGens

exquisite corpse

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