Exploring the potential of music as pure texture, this week's TANK Mix of tactile electroacoustic environments comes from Milan-based sound artist and label head Daniele Guerrini, whose debut album X, Wheel was released on PAN last year.

Tracklist:
Irena And Vojtech Havlovi - Mysterious Gamelanland IX.
Shakali - Harhama
Michel Chion - Coup de soleil sur un vitrail
Ryuichi Sakamoto - A Rain Song
Heith & Teguh Permana - unreleased
Dawuna - The Ape Prince
Michael O’Shea - Voices
Peter Christopherson - In My Head A Crystal Sphere Of Heavy Fluid
Benjamin Lew & Steven Brown - S’ignorer
Per Nørgård - I Ching - Thunder Repeated: The Image Of Shock
Heith - unreleased
Elijah Minnelli - Cud
Klein - hope dealers
Serafina Steer / John T. Gast - Garden Of Love
PRICE - Come Back To Me Now feat. Leonardo Rubboli (guitar demo)

Photo by Sam Clarke.

TANK Mix: Heith

Lyrics:

I’m burning wick to fingertip with sage
from my shaky-shakin hands
Millie, what have you done to me,
my friend?

I’m tossin’ turnin’ in an open grave
coined-tongued with whatever I can save,
carrying hauntings of a brand-new age—
Millie, can’t you see I slide
planchettes with my wake?

Catch me walking with the ghosts again
Must be on that double dose, depends
Roman chamomile all down the throat, lift hands
In Michigan, the lakes all darken
Blackbirds flocking to and fro, sevens
Roots drag marsh over the floor, levelin’
Millie, can’t you stop them? You slow no omens
like exhaling, it never ends

I’m coughing up elderberry on the stage
like your sacrificial lamb
Millie, hypnotize pain away, I beg

I’m whisper-hissing notes on every slate
that I scribe and toss into the hungry waves
carrying itchings for a familiar ache
Millie, can’t you see I made a walking stick out of my stake?

Catch me walking with the ghosts again
Must be on that double dose, depends
Roman chamomile all down the throat, lift hands
In Michigan, the lakes all darken
Blackbirds flocking to and fro, sevens
Roots drag marsh over the floor, levelin’
Millie, can’t you stop them? You slow no omens
like exhaling, it never ends

Three redwing blackbirds outside my window
two fish heads at my door
What be this omen, I’ll never know
Millie, warm the kettle once more

Three redwing blackbirds outside my window
Two fish heads at my door
One kettle bubbling atop rusted stove but
Millie, warm the kettle once
Millie, warm the kettle once
Milly could you so please be 
a kind old dearie just for me
and warm the kettle’s tea once more?

Catch me walking with the ghosts again
Must be on that double dose, depends
Roman chamomile all down the throat, lift hands
In Michigan, the lakes all darken
Blackbirds flocking to and fro, sevens
Roots drag marsh over the floor, levelin’
Millie, can’t you stop them? You slow no omens
like exhaling, it never ends

Millie, Warm the Kettle (Dorm Demo)

@ttuttle: drumset, percussion, xylophone, misc
doug: bass, zither, bulbul tarang, percussion, strings, harmonium, misc

poopy pup

風に乗っていこう

“The country is becoming a site of extremes...”

In this week's TANK podcast, Mohsen Mostafavi discusses his new book Sharing Tokyo, an erudite collection of essays on Tokyo as a shared architectural space.

Mohsen Mostafavi on Sharing Tokyo

Richard Seymour responds to the arguments of Jonathan Freedland and other liberal Zionists who, despite the marginalisation of the liberal Zionist tradition within Israel itself, continue to produce talking points for supporters of Israel and the Western media in their coverage of Israel-Palestine.

Excerpt - Richard Seymour on liberal Zionist apologetics

Israeli officials keep openly saying again and again that the plan for Gaza is ethnic cleansing, yet the western political/media class adamantly insists on continuing to frame Israel's actions in Gaza solely as a war against Hamas. Hamas isn't the target, it's the excuse.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Goal Is Ethnic Cleansing, Not Defeating Hamas

Gaza's Delia Arts Center was a hub for musicians and community before it was destroyed by occupying Israeli forces. Ayman, now sheltering in Rafah, talks about the space and the current realities on the ground. Courtesy Delia Arts Foundation.

Ayman speaks on Delia Arts Center in Gaza, sheltering in Rafah

And this just says so much about the nature of this "democracy" - a word which literally means "rule by the people". If the people were actually in charge, there would be some option available to them to end the worst thing happening in the world right now. But the people are not in charge. When it comes to matters of the most importance, they never get a vote.

Reading by Tim Foley.

If You Can't Even Elect A Candidate Who'll End A Genocide, How Real Is Your "Democracy"?

A 30 minute dance piece, "Unknown Knowns" created by Partners of Unknown Knowns was premiered on October 17, 2015 at a cafe Sakaiki in Shinjuku, Tokyo. This track is  prerecorded part of the music for it. Yamamoto played the keyboard, and then Akai processed it, adding the guitar, no-input mixer, radio. At the live performance, Yamamoto (trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki )accordion, clarinet), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments)improvised and also played written (by Yamamoto)part. See: https://soundcloud.com/yasuoakai/we-repeat-till-the-end-of-the-anthropocene-music-for-unknown-knowns

Unknown Knowns
created by Partners of Unknown Knowns
performed by Nami Gonda (dance), Kyoko Yamamoto (dance, trumpet), Mariko Ishigaki (accordion), Takuya Matsumoto (bass), Michitaka Nakajima (percussion instruments), Yasuo Akai (dance)

See:  http://artandpolitics.oops.jp/unknown/
See the video: youtu.be/rWF4wPIzbpY

Prerecorded part of music for "Unknown Knowns" by Kyoko Yamamoto + Yasuo Akai

kyouto around1995years field recorded and made the tone of  the piano of ouki highschool and the tone which walks along a hallway１９９５あたり.京都鴨き高校のグランドピアノや　廊下歩く音やらをもとにつくりました。

Faint Memory

私とピアノ

(Releases)
Flogging an Un-dead Horse (CD-R) 
http://irregular.sanpal.co.jp/?p=4305
Diderot's Clock Man (Electronic Musik, 2011, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0)
http://www.archive.org/details/DiderotsClockManem136
Classwar Karaoke 0017 Survey (Classwar Karaoke 2012, compilation)
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Classwar_Karaoke/0017_survey/
(Writings)
Fill Up the Square, Square the Circle
http://independent.academia.edu/YasuoAkai/Papers/806031/Fill_Up_the_Square_Square_the_Circle

Prerecorded part of music for "Unknown Knowns" by Kyoko Yamamoto + Yasuo Akai

Yasuo Akai

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