" – Peu importe d’où l’on vient. Il n’y a pas de tonique. Le thème et son développement ne sont qu’un mirage…
Il y a une musique toujours inattendue.
– Et les dissonances ?
– Dieu les a créées, elles aussi…"
Jaume Cabré - "Voyage d'hiver" - 2014

”La terre, il se pourrait bien après tout que ce soit une espèce
de merveilleux petit appareil enregistreur, plaçé là par on ne sait qui,
pour capter tous les bruits qui circulent mystérieusement dans l’Univers.”
Pierre Reverdy - ”En vrac” - 1929

”J’entends tous les bruits de la terre grâce à mes oreilles et mes nerfs de cristal
dans lesquels circulent le feu du ciel et celui des volcans.”
Michel Leiris - ”Le point cardinal” - 1927

"L'écoute, c'est l'ombre de la composition"
Pascal Dusapin - 2008

"Go, go, go! ... Go! go! ..."
John Lee Hooker"

 

24/07/2012

Oued Said story

From the famous french TV show "L'oeil du cyclone", this compilation of the "Scopitones", ancestors of the actual musical clips, around the Maghreb' s music, in the 60s, when immigration from north of Africa was significant in France.

Directed In 1999 by our friends Anaïs Prosaïc & Michèle Collery, this show contains few jewels with Salah Sadaoui, Mohamed Mazouni, Noura, Idir, Dahmane El Harrachi, Abdel Halim Hafez, Rachid Mesbahi, Sabbah, Hamadi Laghbabi, Farid El Atrache & many others.


https://vimeo.com/42556241
a scopitone

  with french subtitles & remarkable dances' parts

 




22/07/2012

Soft Machine - 1968


‪Souvenirs, souvenirs! 
1968 : "Ce Soir On Danse"  on french TV with Soft Machine, a great performance when the band was formed 
with just 3 members: Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge & the brilliant Kevin Ayers who was the pioneering founder of the group and made this memorable new sound that caught on quickly in the psychedelic 1960s!‬ As well Kevin Ayers was closely associated with the Canterbury Scene.

1. "A Certain Kind"
2. "Save Yourself"
3. "Priscilla"
4. "Lullabye Letter"
5. "Hope For Happiness"



20/07/2012

Hard format



A nice website, reaching to the sublime in music design...

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Rain tree

"Rain tree", for 2 marimbas & 1 vibes, a Toru Takemitsu 's delicate piece from 1981


performed by Eriko Daimo, Johan Bridger, and Patrick Raab

18/07/2012

Noise 2

"Sound come into its own". What does that means? ... it means that noises are as useful to new music as so-called musical tones, for the simple reason that they are sounds...

~ Christian Wolff ~



"Wherever we are, what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating."

~ John Cage  -  "The future of music: Credo"  (1937)  ~

17/07/2012

Noise



Noise,
Undomesticated music. The chief product and authenticating sign of civilization.

~ Ambrose Bierce,
The Devil's Dictionary  (1911)


Noise,
Noise is the primitive and collective consciousness of music.
... If "noise" means uncomfortable sound, then pop music is noise to me...

 ~ Masami Akita, aka Merzbow , interview with Oskari Mertalo (twentieth century) ~


Kuba mambo

From the famous french TV series "L'oeil du cyclone" in 1992,
an amazing compilation of cuban movies' excerpt,
with Rita Montaner - in a strange version of the famous Lecuona's song "Maria la O" - ,
Beny Moré, Celia Cruz, Manolo Fernadez, Estrellita Rodriguez, Orquesta Havana Casino,
Orquesta Casino de la Playa, Orchesta de Mujeres Anacaona at the Saratoga Hotel - where had sung Omara Portuando - and many other artists.
Archives from the 40s, 50s & 60s.

french subtitles & remarkable dances' parts

L'OEIL DU CYCLONE-014 > Kuba mambo from alain burosse on Vimeo.

09/07/2012

Vinyl to choose




Gay guerilla



Really amazing performance of Julius Eastman 's composition "gay guerilla"  (1979) last saturday at Palais de Tokyo in Paris.

... just listen for the final part of this performance when, instead of the four piano, at certain times, and when you sit in between the 4 pianos, you can listen phenomenal harmonics as well a big orchestra with lot of strings, percussions and winds...



thanks to Maxime Guitton

Other performance with the three pieces - "evil nigger" / "crazy nigger" / "gay guerilla" -
to experience sunday 26th of august.




07/07/2012

Morgan Fisher - "miniatures"



Remember the brilliant 51 "Miniatures", collected by Morgan Fisher  in 1980 with short pieces wrtitten by Robert Fripp, 1/2 Japanese, Robert Wyatt, Gavin Bryars, Kevin Coyne, Joseph Racaille, Lol Coxhill, Alejandro Viaño, Hector Zazou, and many others.
You can listen the Robert Fripp's one on "Miniatures, the blog" as well other pieces from that famous LP.

and the Morgan Fisher's one here   <<<>>>



05/07/2012

Evil nigger

"you can't wear Gucci shoes and be a nigger"  -  Julius Eastman


Samedi 7 juillet 2012  @  Palais de Tokyo - Paris
Répétition publique : 14H-17H
Conférence sur Julius Eastman et Evil Nigger par Jean-Christophe Marti: 17H30-18H15
Concert : 19H

Composition pour quatre pianos interprétée par Matthieu Acar, Antoine Alerini, Violaine Debever et Nathanael Gouin
Direction musicale: Jean-Christophe Marti

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Julius Eastman's spoken introduction to the Northwestern University concert 6.1.1980.