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Sleeping House is Limited Bob (@bob-bowden) and Mesmo

Sleeping House "Xipol Bobgodo"

It's All Downhill From Here

July 20, 2024
for progettosonoro - Marco Mascia
painting by Thomas Sander

PIOMBINO

piano: matthias boss
remarque: lard brut bruit bien cuit

zunehmend stürmische Böen

Musique Concrète November 2024

Antanniseven hat mein kleiner Bruder als Kleinkind immer zu "Kastanie" gesagt, das ist mir lebhaft in Erinnerung geblieben. Das Stück ist eine Hommage an meinen Bruder, der wie ich auch Künstler geworden ist!

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My little brother used to say Antanniseven to "chestnut" (Kastanie) when he was a toddler, and I remember it vividly. The piece is a tribute to my brother, who, like me, also became an artist!

Antanniseven

Emplaze unight

BÖSER TRAUM

crooked smile 1 10 bpm take 1 111324

Night Shift Syntax

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)

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), Joe Gore (PJ Harvey), Terry Edwards (Tindersticks), Mick Rossi (Leonard Cohen), Jem Finer (The Pogues), Mark Egan (Arcadia), 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), Andrew Sterman (Philip Glass Ensemble), Jeff Zeigler (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 taking part in this project are: Stan Harrison (Talking Heads), Ben Somers (Seal), Jarboe (Swans), Ghazi Barakat (Pharoah Chromium), Rob Burns (David Gilmour), Nicholas Currie (Momus), Peter Hess (Philip Glass Ensemble), and others.

Soli Deo gloria.

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

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