specimens and marvels - tristesse engraved

images - william henry fox talbotphotomicrograph of a crystal - study of polarized light -albumenised paper print - ca. 1851photomicrograph of interference patterns - study of polarized light through crystals - albumenised paper print - ca. 1851photomicrograph of three crystals - study of polarized light - calotype negative - ca. 1840photomicrograph of interference pattern - study of polarized

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

remnants from paradise

music - favourites of 2008- asher & ubeboet - cell memory - wind measure recordings- aidan baker - fragile movements in slow motion - universal tongue- aidan baker - book of nods - beta-lactam ring records- william basinski - the river - 2062- william basinski & richard chartier - untitled 1 - 3 - line- christopher bissonnette - in between words - kranky- james blackshaw - litany of echoes -

he lived in fear that the state of illumination with which he was blest - or with which he was afflicted - might be untimely withdrawn

one night i dreamt that i had made a pact with the devil: he was my servant, and anticipated my every wish... i found myself handing him my violin to see if he might manage some pretty tunes; but imagine my astonishment when i heard a sonata so unusual and so beautiful, performed with such mastery and intelligence, on a level i had never before conceived was possible! i was so overcome that i

through naked branches

winter tree, carte postale yes - we are.are simply hereand filled by a slow songwe knew existedthat no ear has ever heard,but that was here before roots took holdand before day emerged from its skin.text by tarjei vesaas, from ved neste skar (the next pass) in lykka for ferdesmenn (wanderer's happiness), 1949title from through naked branches - selected poems of tarjei vesaas, princeton university

the voiceless downpour of the stars

...they eloquently proceeded with their task, took up again the lost human cause, and pleaded before the indifferent tribunal of stars, now set in a sky on which the shapes of the instruments floated like water signs or fragments of keys, unfinished lyres or swans, an imitory, thoughtless starry commentary on the margin of music.- text by bruno schulz, from spring - sanatorium under the sign of

ciaccona, the musical thought

nathan milstein playing the ciacconavarious recordings of j.s. bach's chaconnefrom sonaten und partiten für violine solo (bwv 1004)aka les sonates et partites pour violon seulsonatas and partitas for solo violinsonate e partite per violino solocompleted in cöthen, 1720- nathan milstein - angel records/emi - 1954-1956- joseph szigeti - vanguard classics - (recorded) 1955, (edited) 1962- arthur

transparency, invisible

new acquisitions from arthur de eriomém & gossamerbooks- max ernst collages: the invention of the surrealist universe by werner spies - abrams - 1988- caspar david friedrich: line and transparency - centre culturel du marais j. et m.c./rizzoli - 1985- gego: 1957-1988 - hatje cantz - 2006- gego: between transparency and the invisible - the museum of fine arts, houston - 2007- winslow homer:

spheres of resonance

there is an ancient indian folk story about the bird called musikar or dipak-lotus which had a beak of seven apertures. through each of these openings the bird was supposed to have been able to blow a different note, and at different seasons of the year it combined these notes into harmony to produce ragas with an "ethos" particular to the hour of the day and season of the year. an egg was