Paul Amlehn - Composition, arrangement, production
David Lynch - Visual art

Scene 7: Radius Radius It Is Enough.

Libretto:

"I like prAna!

Radius radius it is enough
For God
And man’s
Outrage.

An astronaut named Platt.

We can come out
When the shadows
Cover the cracks.

Every little breeze 
Used to whisper Louise.

Murder, murder, murder.

And the dreamer’s long tooth
Which is pulled out
Is the penis.

Open this up
And break it
So I can touch you."

The Marriage of the Animal and the Divine: Scene 7 - Radius Radius It Is Enough

Paul Amlehn - Composition, arrangement, production
David Lynch - Visual art

Scene 8: The Omnipresent Accident.

Libretto:

"The center of existence is now the accident's dwelling place, it is no longer confined to the periphery, in the face of a prevailing wave or wall of logic; it has transformed into the guiding principle, consuming the very principles it once adhered to and was subjugated by. It is no longer the despised fragment, the detested particle, the deplored iota. It is The All and The Every and The At-Onement, it is The Existential Mirage and The Ontological Enigma.

And I reach you from a distant star showering your pale and anxious face with multicolored sparks.

Spread the word. This is no place for a baby boy or a baby girl. Here, where flesh circulates, at full throttle. Here, where damage accumulates, hastily apace.

Mother, don't be shy! Put your bare aristocratic foot up onto the car dashboard so I can get better access to your womb, to your pudendal dewlap, your delicate little glutton."

The Marriage of the Animal and the Divine: Scene 8 - The Omnipresent Accident

Paul Amlehn - Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Text, Vocals, 
Arrangement, Mixing, Production
Ariel Lorca - Production
Leo Abrahams - Guitar, Electronics
David Van Tieghem - Percussion, Vocal Treatments
Oren Ambarchi - Guitar, Electronics, Percussion
Andrew Sterman - Bass Clarinet
Jamie Saft - Keyboards
Hopek Quirin - Bass Guitar, Sounds
Terry Edwards - Shortwave Radio, Saxophone, Synthesizer
Jem Finer - Vari-Speed Big Band, Particle Guitar
Michael Blair - Drums, Percussion, Marimba
Ulf Ivarsson - Bass Guitar, Guitar, Treatments
David Lynch - Visual Art

Blood of Union

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Text, Vocals, Mixing, Arrangement, Production
Ariel Lorca - Production
Adi Newton - Piano, Treated Organ, FM Tape Recordings of Nyctalus noctula
BJ Nilsen - Vocal Treatment
David Lynch - Visual Art

Song (For Ariel)

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategy, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Production
Thomas Stern - Several Bass Tracks, One Guitar, Sand Thrown on 
Metal Table, Geese Recordings Processed in Weird Ways
David Lynch - Visual Art

Die Hand Die Verletzt

Paul Amlehn - Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Text, Vocals, V-A Synthesis, 
Arrangement, Mixing, Production
Mick Rossi - Piano
Gerhard Richter - Graphic Score
Robin Storey - Vocal Treatments
Daniele Pagliero - Realtime Voice Manipulation with Abelton Live and Max/MSP
Jeanne Tripier - Glossographia
Todd Trillo - Vocal Effects
MS Waldron - Digital Amlehn-ipulation
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Abyssal Self Projecting Through Non-Existence the Procreatrix I

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Process and Strategies, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Vocals, Production
Leo Abrahams - Guitar, Effects, Programming
David Lynch - Visual Art

Europe After the Rain

Paul Amlehn - Editing, Mixing, Arranging, Production
William S. Burroughs - Text, Vocal
John Cage - Graphic Score
Ulrich Krieger - Interpretation, Saxophones, Electronics
Stephen Vitiello - Modular Synthesizer
David Lynch - Visual Art

Interzone

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategy, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Production
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Modular Synthesizer, Drum Box & Filter
David Lynch - Visual Art

And Lovers Float Down from the Cliffs Like Rain

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategy, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Production
Mally Harpaz - Harmonium, Vibraphone, Cymbal Percussion
David Lynch - Visual Art

Song of the Stellar Circuits

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategy, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music, Production
Paul Beauchamp - Synthesizers, Effects
David Lynch - Visual Art

A Parting of the Ways

Paul Amlehn - Editing, Mixing, Production
Ariel Lorca - Moog Sub Phatty
William S. Burroughs - Text, Vocals
David Lynch - Visual Art

Towers Open Fire

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Process and Strategies, Catalyst texts and Vocals for Music, Editing, Mixing, Production
Ches Smith - Moog Rogue, Conga, Vibraphone, Delay, Reverb, Compression
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Omega Suite II (Instrumental Version)

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional Process, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, 
German to English Text Translation, Editing, Mixing, Production, Visual Art
Heiner Müller - Text 
Dennis Redmond - German to English Text Translation 
Marc von Henning - German to English Text Translation 
Alice Siil - Vocal Performance
Frank Cassara - Suspended Cymbals
David Lynch - Visual Art

I Am Ophelia

Paul Amlehn - Text, Vocals, Editing, Mixing, Production
Robert Fripp - Frippertronics
Wilfried Hanrath - Vocal Effects
Michael Blair - Vocal Effects
Ulf Ivarsson - Vocal Effects
Thomas Stern - Vocal Effects
David Lynch - Visual Art

The 7th Manifestation of L'Étranger

Paul Amlehn - Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music and Jarboe's Vocals, Texts, Vocals, Effects on Jarboe’s Vocals, Audio Collage, Audio Décollage, Editing, Arranging, Mixing, Production
Laura Schuler - Violin, Voice
Isambard Khroustaliov - Electronics
Jarboe - Vocals
RK Faulhaber - Real-Time Vocal Manipulations, Synthesis
John King – Electronics, Vocal Processing
Ash Wednesday - Real-Time Mixing, Arranging and Effects
Moritz Wolpert - Electromechanical Drums
Bryin Dall - Sound Sculpture
Robin Storey - Mini Grand Piano, Electronics
Larry Thrasher - Bansuri
Eberhard Kranemann - Electronic Processing of Sounds of Nature, Tohu wa-bohu , Keyboards
Hopek Quirin - Vocal Treatment
Chuck Hammer - Guitarchitecture
Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta - Real-Time Vocal Sculpting
Oren Ambrachi - Electric Guitar
Keith Rowe - Tabletop Guitar
Stephen Vitiello - Modular Synthesizer
David Lynch - Visual Art

Oneiric

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Sysytem, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Music Generation, Production
Eraldo Bernocchi - Synthesizers and Guitar
David Lynch - Visual Art

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I will meet you there.

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategies, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Extended Vocals Techniques, Mixing, Production
Susan Stenger - Field Recordings of Bees and Starlings, Alto Flute, Baritone Guitar, Organ, French Horn 
David Lynch - Visual Art

A Walk to the End of the World

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategies, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Production
Stephen Mallinder - Guitar; Guitar Sampling, Editing, and Sequencing; Church Organ; Juno Synth; Analogue Ceramic Bass Patch; Nylon String Plug-In Synth; Real-Time Mixing in Ableton Live; Use of Vox Waveform as Visual Guide for Arrangement
David Lynch - Visual Art

Ocean Without a Shore

Paul Amlehn - Compositional Strategies, Catalyst Texts and Vocals, Production
Julia Kent - Cello
Paul Éluard - Title
David Lynch - Visual Art

The Mournful Game

Paul Amlehn - Direction, Compositional System, Compositional Strategies, Catalyst Texts and Vocals for Musicians, Catalyst Texts and Vocals and Music for Julie Dupraz, Reverse-Scream Vocal (Inhaling Rather Than Exhaling Through the Vocal Cords), Unconscious On-the-Fly Mixing for First Two-Thirds of Composition, Conscious Mixing for Final Third of Composition, Editing, Production
Reinier Van Houdt - Piano, Bass, Radios, Synths, Computers
Susan Stenger - Field Recordings of Bees and Starlings, Alto Flute, Baritone 
Guitar, Organ, French Horn, Incorporation of Paul Amlehn's Reverse-Scream Vocal Into the Composition
Robin Storey - Mini Grand Piano, Electronics
Julie Dupraz - Text, French Spoken Vocal
Pierrick Drochmans - Sound Design
Nick Wilson - Audio Engineering and Production on First Two-Thirds of Composition
Laura Schuler - Live and Studio Violin
Isambard Khroustaliov - Real-Time Manipulations of Laura Schuler's Violin, Electronics
David Lynch - Visual Art

Mother (Wading through the Shoals of Time Possessed by an Inverted Love)

Hi. My name is Paul Amlehn. I am an interdisciplinary artist, working in the mediums of literature, music, visual art, theater, opera, 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 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), Thomas Stern (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 working on "The Marriage of the Animal and the Divine," an art rock opera that will be transmitted off-world, via satellite dish and klystron transmitter, 3-4 light years into outer space, millions of miles past the edge of our solar system.

All glory and honor to God.

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