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
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
Quasi una fantasia
There is music from the nineteenth century, which is so unbearably solemn that it can only be used to introduce waltzes. If it were left as it is, people listening to it would fall into a despair beside which every other musical emotion would pale. All the feeling of great tragedy would surely overwhelm them and they would have to veil their heads with gestures that have fallen out of use since
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
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,
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