Karolina Urbaniak interviews Stephen Barber about 'A Sinister Assassin: Antonin Artaud’s Last Writings, Ivry-sur-Seine, September 1947 to March 1948' by Antonin Artaud.

'A Sinister Assassin' presents new translations of Antonin Artaud’s largely unknown final work of 1947-48, revealing new insights into his preoccupation with the human anatomy, sexuality, societal power, creativity and ill-will.
    That last work - mostly undertaken at a pavilion in the grounds of a convalescence clinic in Ivry-sur-Seine, on the south-eastern edge of Paris - is the most extraordinary element of Artaud’s entire prolific body of work. It is the element now most enduringly inspirational, for artists, filmmakers, musicians, writers, choreographers, and others inspired by Artaud, through its fiercely exploratory and combative forms.
    Drawing from extensive archival consultations of Artaud’s manuscripts, and from many original interviews with his friends, collaborators and doctors of the 1940s, this book brings together translations of the many manifestations of Artaud’s final writings: the contents of his last, death-interrupted notebook; his letters; his two final key texts; his glossolalia; the magazine issue which collected his last fragments; and the two interviews he gave to national newspaper journalists in the final days of his life, in which he denounces his work’s recent censorship.
    Edited, translated and with an Introduction by Stephen Barber, A Sinister Assassin illuminates Artaud’s last, most intensive work, for the first time.

Stephen Barber on 'A Sinister Assassin' Antonin Artaud's last writings.

Title says it all really :-D

see the score here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YiD9Vw713VA

For Morgan Hayes on His 51st Birthday

Dyfyniad o Lyfr Coch Hergest (Pedwaredd Gainc y Mabinogi) a'r cyfieithiad gan W.J. Gruffydd / 
Quote from the Red Book of Hergest (Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi) and the translation by W.J. Gruffydd:

“Ti a wdost,” heb ynteu, “kynnedyf Math uab Mathonwy, — ba hustyng bynnac yr y uychanet a uo y rwng dynnyons or y kyfarffo y gwynt ac ef, ef ae gwybyd.”
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“Thou knowest,” said he then, “the quality of Math son of Mathonwy; whatever whisper, however small, that may be between men, if the wind has met it, he will know it.”

꩜ 🜁 "...or y kyfarffo y gwynt ac ef, ef ae gwybyd…"

I wrote this for my lovely amazing friend Paul and then handed the midi file over to my other lovely amazing friend Cedric Fangeat and gave him free reign to create a sound work from it!

You can see the score here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPZuYPXWHaM

For Paul Beaudoin

Llyn Cerrig Bach

		ymyl ddeheuol Llyn Cerrig Bach

		gwelyau erwain, gwyddfid

		lledaenu mawn dros y tir tywodlyd

		coed afalau surion, y ddraenen ddu

		echdynnu mawn o Gors yr Ynys 

		helyglys pêr - rhwydwaith o ddŵr agored  

	cadwyn gang haearn wedi'i ddal i fyny yn nannedd yr oged

		dyfrllys amryddail a llinad eiddew 

			pum cylch gwddf 

		cornwlyddyn, gwybybyr wythochrog 

		tystiolaeth o aberth dynol?

		dŵr-lyriad nofiadwy, cors gyrs

saith cleddyf, chwe phen gwaywffon, darnau o darian, rhan o utgorn efydd

		clysturau o garr helyg a thir lleidiog 

		offer y gof, darnau o ddau grochan

		marchredynen y gors a hesgen hopysaidd  

	bariau haearn ar gyfer masnachu ac esgyrn anifeiliaid 

			wedi torri'n fwriadol 

	wedi'u gosod yn y llyn fel offrymau addunedol
                                                                
                                                                           TRW

Llyn Cerrig Bach

For Shamisen, Guitar, Violin, and Cello

~ with Hidejiro Honjoh, and Ensemble Nomad

Orbits Of Influence

Ukulele renditions of velvet underground classics.

Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Ukerground

Jarboe and Father Murphy’s connection runs deep. Jarboe continues to have a profound influence on Father Murphy’s musical path, and there is a strong, mutual understanding of what they define as a “sense of guilt”, rooted in their Catholic upbringing, which informs their music, both together and independently. Approaching the EP, both Jarboe and Father Murphy each wrote a song, which they exchanged for the other to finalise, the result being a rich reflection of the spirit of both artists, and their meaningful bond. The EP was mastered by an infamous engineer at Bombanella soundscapes studio in Italy, using a technique he calls “anti-mastering” whereby he irradiates the analogue master with deep, pure 432hz sounds in a process that somehow gives the master the same benefits than a defragmentation does to a hard disk. It works the sounds together in harmony, the result being much brighter and more real, which is very befitting to the release.

Art direction by Dehn Sora.

Limited edition of 500 copies, download code included.

Release date: September 22, 2017.
Out on Consouling Sounds.
Press and Promo: Rarely Unable

The Ferryman

Composed by Richard Craig, August, 2019
For flute and fixed media

Recorded live by SDG productions, Storiel, Bangor, Wales. 
November 2019

Hortulus Animae (ii) siambr

Extract from a release planned for 2021

Performed on a closed hole wooden Rudall Carte flute (circa 1950), using a Robert Bigio wooden headjoint with a silver insert.

Recorded by Richard Craig in Edinburgh, September, 2020

Telemann - Fantasia in Bminor

Tristan makes soundworks based on the psychogeographic charge from the isle of Anglesey.
They work towards a ritualistic, degraded aesthetic informed by the elements and ancient prehistoric sites in the environs.

Llyn Cerrig Bach

tristanrhyswilliams

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