le canard cahiers

matthew swiezynski - le canard cahiers - 11.21.1999 (4 1/4" x 6 1/4")(ducks in water one, excerpts) ingenting kollektiva - side a (excerpt) to heighten the visualsmont blanc fountain pen (chopin/rouge *), water, paperdrawings done while reading lots of french poetry (mallarmé, jabès, rilke, ponge, bonnefoy, tzara, baudelaire, jaccottet, etc.) and many of the oulipo writerssound - duet

my name is mud... give me a drink

some music fromjohn cassavetes' - the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976classic drone seriessound, sound design, music in film my name is mud heavy to be one with the lady i love... what is that junk called?music/sound - bo harwoodsound mixer - robert (buzz) knudson

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

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?)

john cassavetes' husbands distilled into 23 blurs, streaks and abstractions(discovered while listening to toru takemitsu)

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

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

silent version 1750-1950

new film in progress - due august in the silent version,late 2009 in the sound version

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

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

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

signatures, in the regular edition, is now available

invisible birds is deeply honoured to release the very fine disc by mr. colin andrew sheffield entitled signatures, in the regular edition.here, we have posted a nice review:seattle’s colin andrew sheffield has been quietly destroying sound since the late 1990’s. beginning with 1998’s side one/side two, on his own elevator bath imprint – also home to recordings from adam pacione and rick reed,