impressions in the upper atmosphere
images collected of the work of josé antonio sistiagainspired by last nights screening ofere erera baleibu icik subua aruaren - 1970impressions in the upper atmosphere - 1989(one of the big influences on the art of memory)(first seen at articulated light: the emergence of abstract film in americacurated by bruce posner)
abstraktes bild
stan brakhage - love song - 2001stan brakhage - stellar - 1993collaboration with sam bushgerhard richter - watorcolours
it is breathed by stars
sb: have you seen my last hymn to the night: novalis?pt: no, i haven’t.sb: that’s a short film, maybe four and a half minutes, where i scratched sections of that poem onto the film, so the words appear as electrical fires interwoven with paint. the other version i made this past year, pulling out from under all this awful cancer treatment i’ve been through. i tried to imagine what novalis’ last
yggdrasill whose roots are stars in the human mind
stan brakhageyggdrasill whose roots are stars in the human mind - 1997brakhage and landscape artimages from fred camper's site
remedies
The wonderful, of which the miraculous is a subcategory,was never boring.- Jacobus de Voraigne
the stars are clear sounds; the sun a magnificent silence; the moon?...whispers that are almost sounds in the undulating wave of noise the universe is
cracks in stan brakhage's dog star man - prelude - 1964painting in dog star man - preludepainting and some scratching in dog star man, part 3.- related work -jackson pollock - triad - 1948 jackson pollock - number 22a, 1948 - 1948jackson pollock - untitled ca. 1950 (detail)jackson pollock - one: number 31 - 1950jackson pollockbarnett newman - untitled - 1961clyfford still - painting - 1951-
it is a furry animal - the stars are silver hairs
stan brakhage - prelude - dog star man - 1964(cat abstractions from the prelude)(title from brakhage's the stars are beautiful)(the same cat found in cat's cradle?)
plato's cave (the visible region)
stan brakhage - dog star man - 1964(representations of plato's cave)"imagine mankind as dwelling in an underground cave with a long entrance open to the light across the whole width of the cave; in this they have been from childhood, with necks and legs fettered, so they have to stay where they are. they cannot move their heads round because of the fetters, and they can only look forward, but
after long periods in darkness
the blackest moments fromstan brakhage - the dark tower - 1999(an homage to all the dark towers in literary history)darkness itself can be a rich realm of vision for the "untutored eye". it reveals ephemeral shapes and patterns of light seen when the eyes are closed. known as phosphenes, these "wispy clouds and moving specks of light," as gerald oster describes them, may arise spontaneously,
any gathering of dust motes in the light records the passage of angels
stan brakhage - the wold shadow - 1972angels... move thru the shadow in a diffraction of light -the doors of illumination / home of angelical forces (as georgemacdonald would have it: "... home ... is the only place whereyou can go out and in.") ...... and the shadows of shadows are the shadows of angels ...... and the fixed instants of constantly changing shapes are the pic-tures they take of
trains in cinema, part 6
train wreck at montparnasse - 1895- ben affleck - gone baby gone - 2007- tomas alfredson - let the right one it - 2008- carroll ballard - black stallion - 1979- john cassavetes - husbands - 1970- jack clayton - the innocents - 1961- john cromwell - since you went away - 1944- olivier dahan - la vie en rose - 2007- stephen daldry - the reader - 2008- david fincher - the curious case of benjamin
to be absolved...
Throughout the first centuries of our era, the Gnostics disputed with the Christians. They were annihilated, but we can imagine their possible victory. Had Alexandria triumphed and not Rome, the extravagant and muddled stories that I have summarized here would be coherent, majestic, and perfectly ordinary. Pronouncements such as Novalis' "Life is a sickness of the spirit", or the despairing one
à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la troisième partie (collapsing stars)
(jazz, listening-music, etcetery)co-researched by memory contributors tarrl lightowlerdiane granahan and m swiezynski- john abercrombie - november - ecm - 1992- amm (keith rowe) - ammmusic 1966 - rer megacorp - 1989- amm (keith rowe) - the crypt - 12th june 1968 - matchless recordings - 1988/1992- amm (keith rowe) - newfoundland - matchless recordings - 1993- amm (keith rowe) - fine - matchless
pieces
There is no paradise on earth, but there are pieces of it.What there is on earth is a broken paradise.- Pierro della Francesca / Jules Renard
the pinewood frenzy, once,
forthcoming tree film *23five incorporated & ata present a night of projection, video and soundjefre cantu & paul clipsongrasslung & matthew swiezynskipulse emitter & matthew swiezynskisaturday, august 8, 2009 - 8 pm992 valencia street, san francisco ca(for those in the bay area)* stills from as yet untitled tree film inspired by the camera methods of stan brakhage, kirston lightowler and michael
isn't it rich?are we a pair?me here at last on the ground,you in mid-air.send in the clowns.isn't it bliss?don't you approve?one who keeps tearing around,one who can't move.where are the clowns?send in the clowns.just when i'd stopped opening doors,finally knowing the one that i wanted was yours,making my entrance again with my usual flair,sure of my lines,no one is there.don't you love a farce?
to a current's ear --
lucile hadzihalilovic - innocence - 2004sound from opening creditstitle - emily dickinson - i think that the root of wind is water
now light blue, now green, almost always pellucid
a still every 60 seconds from larry gottheim's fog line - 1970,including first and lastthe image of the railroad on the shore of the pond figures an ambiguity at the heart of walden. man-made power, the machine with its fire, smoke, and thunder, is juxtaposed to the waters of walden, remarkable for their depth and purity and a matchless, indescribable color - now light blue, now green, almost
univers du western - lonely are the brave
david miller - lonely are the brave - 1962(landscape photography)kirk douglas - john w. "jack" burnswhiskeygena rowlands - jerry bondigeorge kennedy - deputy sheriff gutierrezwalter matthau - sheriff morey johnsoncarroll o'connor - hintonwilliam schallert - harrybill raisch - one arm(he was stand-in for burt lancaster)cinematography by philip h. lathrop *music by jerry goldsmith *screenplay by
first we must deal with the light of nature, then with nature of light
trees found in saul levine's note to patti - 1969title from stan brakhage's a moving picture giving and taking bookfrontier press - 1971
equivalent (series)
peter hutton - boston fire - 1979peter hutton - new york portrait, chapter ii - 1980-81alfred stieglitz - equivalent (series) - 1925-1931
by its own delicacy, caressed
more sluggish the snowy hive,clearer the window’s crystal,
on a chair, a turquoise veil,thrown there, carelessly, lies.
a tissue, self-intoxicated,as if it never felt winter’s
touch, experiencing summer’s,
by its own delicacy, caressed:
and, if in icy diamonds
frost is eternally streaming,
here — it’s dragonflies flickering,
blue-eyed, living, and gone.osip mandelshtam - the stone - translated
silent version 1750-1950
new film in progress - due august in the silent version,late 2009 in the sound version
cloud erosion
covers of erosion of the analogous eye by matt shoemakerdesign by jim haynes(recent drones floating in and around the art of memory)- alio die - khen introduce silence - hic sunt leones - 2003- alio die & werner durand - aqua planing - hic sunt leones - 2005- alio die - aura seminalis - hic sunt leones - 2008- alio die & aglaia - private history of the clouds - infraction - 2009- william basinski
difficult and invisible
Today it is difficult to asses the enormous extent of Nietzsche's solitude at the time. Having become a shadow for most of his old friends, a difficult and invisible man, by now accustomed to publishing his books at his own expense, accustomed too to counting his loyal readers on his fingers and having to reduce their numbers as each new book comes out, Nietzsche seems to have circled as far from
two and a half
Man has here two and a half minutes -- one to smile, one to sigh,and a half for love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.- Jean Paul
accomplished gestures
Crown prince Rudolf and Marie VetseraIn Vienna the world was often coming to an end;usually to winegarden songs.He must be saved by some midnight beyond reason: the logic of daytime was sinking so fast.How beautiful the leaves aged on ten thousand twigs!No politics could produce such glory in a forest. Only so natural and simple a thing as death.Rudolf had conjured the glistening anticipation of
delicate and dreamlike: mikalojus konstantinas čiurlionis
mano kelias IItriptychs: my road - 1907ziema Iwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7ziema Vwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7ziema VHwinter: cycle of eight pictures - 1906-7tyla - 1905fuga(musical painting - other preludes and fugues)ziema - 1907sonata of the springpavasario sonata - allegro (musical painting) - 1907pavasaris IIspring: four pictures - 1907-8aquariusthe zodiac: cycle of
hope that the stars know
window please watch the sun gohope that the stars know it's time to shine.daydream - be born on dark wingslet every sky sing this song of mine.- townes van zandtbe here to love me: a film about townes van zandt - margaret brown - 2004
that my memories are melodies i do not wonder
lit upon a fine survey of broken memoriesfurther antiquated melodies in the near
would long ago have become a star
that is, in fact, what i meant to say when i wrote you that what surprises me most in each pastel is the unity of feeling in which the object is every time contained; a unique, tempestuous breath of feeling, a unique gesture of passion has, in one fell swoop, moved it close to the heart; it's a total manumission... and still it is you, oh lover of earth and sky, that i sing! still the strength
i wish to speak
music exists to say things that words cannot say...a refreshment for those who've run out of words.for lost childhood...to muffle the hammering of shoemakers.for the time before we were born,before we breathedor saw light...(which is why it is not entirely human)images & text - tous les matins du monde - alain corneau - 1991( for matthew )
à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la deuxième partie (please please please let me get what i want)
* additional guitar research *(listening-music)- oren ambarchi - persona - black truffle - 2000/2009- oren ambarchi - suspension - touch - 2001- oren ambarchi & johan berthling - my days are darker than your nights - häpna - 2003- oren ambarchi - triste - southern lord - 2005- vashti bunyan - just another diamond day - spinney records - 1970/2000- vashti bunyan & animal collective - prospect
sarabande
images from linda schwarz: music pictures - verlag hermann schmidt - 2001that includes a fine rendering ofj.s. bach's cello suites by julius berger
follies (serene velocity)
softness and abstractions in the spirit of john cassavetesfrom frederick wiseman's titicut follies - 1967also surrounded bysamuel fuller, nicolas ray, bela tarr, hieronymus bosch, ernie gehr, robert altmanmany others........found here
from the oblique plucking of a string
opening sequence of peter jackson's heavenly creatures - 1994cinematography by alun bollinger(title from old man ponge)
the sounds of the sounds of the sounds of the sounds
twenty three recordings of reality by jean painlevé
lighting on the printless verdure (and at a great distance all appear alike)
and at a great distance all appear alike. the sea, however, is said to be blue one day and green another without any perceptible change in the atmosphere. some consider blue 'to be the colour of pure water'...lying between the heavens it partakes the colour of both...some have referred this to the reflection of the verdure; and it may be simply the result of the prevailing blue mixed with the
to the finder. remember me.
brother charles ferdinand ganebin - ca. 1935stereoview of the inside of church family school - ca. 1870charles brown - to the finder. remember me.letter - june 30, 1871brother ricardo belden - ca. 19581786 meetinghouse at hancock, massachusetts1938 (taken during its dismantling)poplar bark/populus tremuloides - chest detailmount lebanon, ny - ca. 1815ethel (left) and alice smith (right) - ca.
à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la première partie - dark was the night
- robbie basho - the seal of the blue lotus - takoma - 1965- robbie basho - the grail and the lotus - takoma - 1966- robbie basho - basho sings! - takoma - 1967- robbie basho - the falconer’s arm, volumes 1 & 2 - takoma - 1967- robbie basho - venus in cancer - blue thumb - 1969- robbie basho - song of the stallion - takoma - 1971- robbie basho - visions of the country - windham hill - 1978- the
and diamond drops turned to half-liquid pearls, and the water went to sleep
joseph goold - watered cross effect(drawing realised with a harmonograph)from harmonic vibrations and vibration figureslondon, newton & co. - 1909from every leaf and petal of these, from every branch-tip and tendril, dropped bright water. it gathered slowly at each point, but the points were so many that there was a constant musical plashing of diamond rain upon the still surface...george
floating in the air above out of which it has arisen
—oskar fischinger - wax experiments - 1923-1927—oskar fischinger - an optical poem - 1938—mary ellen bute - tarantella - 1940—annie besant & charles leadbetter - thought-forms - 1847-1933
mobile color machine
(images for young gossamer)(luxorgan - mobile color machine)image 1 - watercolor from the series mathematical abstractions - 1941image 2 - watercolor for a mobile-color composition - 1934image 3 - drawing showing wiring connections between keyboard and luxorgan lamps - ca. 1917image 4 - lamping plan for a later version of the luxorgan - 1920"from 1917 on, claude bradgon began to develop a
softened melody
from the railroad station in the distance came the sound of shunting trains, ringing and rumbling, softened almost into melody by the distance. my wife pointed out to me the brightness of the red, green, and yellow signal lights hanging in a framework against the sky. it seemed so safe and tranquil.- h.g. wells - the war of the worlds - 1898photo taken 12.19.(year undetermined) at pt reyes
Blind Pony at Observatory
PERFVGIVM is low-fi ventriloquism - of the old American man-with-guitar tradition - infused with curtains of wayward noise. The performance at Observatory will be an experiment in re-creating the shapes of sound and physical space manifested in the recordings "Perfugium" and "The Gown".
bird with the shoe-button eyes
joseph cornell - cotillion - c. 1938cinematography - larry jordan"a room in third avenue"nostalgic thoughts most of dayworking in cellar on new bird boxoctober 3, 1949—in the quince tree petals making a medieval tapestry of the lawnresolution of mean mood in cellar, approaching the sublime "early morning" of monday and tuesday - birds under the quince tree in early summer shadows sun gradually
darkness moves (tracing the skins of clouds)
(seth nehil & jgrzinich - stria)(plinth - music for smalls lighthouse)(belong - colorloss record)(elegi - varde)listening-music, some old, some new- asher - miniatures - sourdine - 2009- sibylle baier - colour green - orange twin records - 2006 (1970-73)- aidan baker - the sea swells a bit... - a silent place - 2006- belong - october language - carpark records - 2006- belong - colorloss record -
imagine a diamond point acting upon a blackened silver film on glass
original drawings realised with a harmonograph by joseph gooldmusical drawing:in the 19th century, sound had for the first time made a literal translation into drawing and was considered a remarkable phenomenon, though it had already been somewhat predicted by mathematicians. the physical reality of acoustic vibrations was then transformed into graphs by means of simple pendular mechanisms known
such were the images which paraded before my eyes
the realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn, - not the material of my every-day existence - but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself.edgar allan poe - berenice - a tale - 1835here began for me what i shall call the overflow of dream into real life. from this point on, everything at times
the sublunar light with its softened colours
at times octavian even imagined he could see indistinct human forms flitting among the shadows, but they dissolved the moment they passed into the moonlit parts of the street. low whispering and indefinite murmurs drifted upon the silence. the solitary visitor at first attributed them to some nervous flicker of the eye, some tingling in his ears. or perhaps they were merely a trick of the
the meaning of mystery
the great comet of 1881 - étienne léopold trouvelotcomet biela in 1846 - bilderatlas der sternenwelt - 1888comet, september 29, 1908the outline of science - a plain story simply toldedited by j. arthur thomsong.p. putnam's sons, knickerbocker press - 1922illustration of the leonids (1799)the midnight sky - edward dunkin - 1872the meaning of mystery is to be always in ambiguity, with double,
nothingness
untitled (plum and dark brown) - 1964your paintings are like my films. they are about nothing... with precisionmichelangelo antonioni to mark rothko, during a visit to rothko's studio in 1962, according to motherwell and peter selzsee temps mort: rothko and antonioni by jeffrey weissfound in mark rothko published by skira - 2008for the complete story
...and every love find its beloved one.
alonso sánchez coelloretrato de las infantas isabel clara eugenia y catalina micaela de habsburgothe years of warmth are soon to be unfolded;the stranger comes and endless time beginswhen earth and sea into sweet love are molded,the queen will wake from dreamland's origins.novalis - henry von ofterdingen(for matthew)
weaving the feathers of a blackbird with breath and strings
nayoro from the solitude of ravens - 1977kanazawa from the solitude of ravens - 1977wakkanai from the solitude of ravens - 1975noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979noboribetsu - 1979nayoro from the solitude of ravens - 1976(photographs - masahisa fukase)—at once a voice arose amongthe bleak twigs overheadin a full-hearted evensongof joy illimited;an aged thrush,
till her breath warmed his face
tarrl lightowlernew review of colin andrew sheffield's signatures by jim haynes in the wire magazine, right next to giancarlo toniutti's stunning new cd qwalsamtimutkw?italuc'ik (and now he almost did make himself into hemlock needles, it is said) sound-field for rattle-harp....there's plenty of preamble when it comes to this album from colin sheffield. this artist works reductively with
trains in cinema, part 5
- american mutoscope and biograph co - the blizzard - 1899- jon amiel - the singing detective - 1986- paul thomas anderson - there will be blood - 2007- michelangelo antonioni - l'avventura - 1960- busby berkeley - gold diggers of 1935 "lullaby of broadway" - 1935- curtis bernhardt - possessed - 1947- g.w. "billy" bitzer - interior new york subway 14th street to 42nd street - 1905- robert breer -
athanasius kircher
the interior of the earth, with subterranean lakes, rivers and poolsof fire, according to athanasius kircher - 1678
heartsnatcher
Of a distant person one can think, and of a person who is near one can catch hold - all else goes beyond human strength. Kafka - letter to MilenaImage: Hans Christian Andersen
(i can feel the sea falling over my head)
a study of the sea, on the one year anniversary of young gossamer and arthur de eriomém's encounter with the sea, nearly being taken by her, yet spared with the promise to pursue her beauty.- pt anderson - there will be blood - 2007there will be blood - 2007- michelangelo antonioni - l'avventura - 1960l'avventura - 1960- the work of anna atkinsbangia fusco-purpurea - 1843-53polysiphonia violacea.
a sound of some new unknown life
why is it so unutterably beautiful? it is pure music, but for me it has so many implications, - hard to define - of course it is enigmatic, all great art has its secrets -; it has all the deep mysteries of the earth and its environs - for me, the agony of the old primitive earth stirring restlessly at the beginning of spring; something tremendous is going on in the earth, but i do not know
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