‘And to help someone hear, you have to give them space.’ Something that exists around, something that creates a distance, let’s one see. ‘lady, my things water leaden my maps, my compass after all, what is the political position of stars?’ ‘She was praised for the way she analyzed Aristotle’s definition of place in theContinue reading “BAMAKO (notes on place)”
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NIGHT : Notes from Notes
01.09.21 (Drawn from 10/5/15;10/6/15;10/13/15;10/17/15) What Western music al forms have be come is a para phrase of memory. But memory could operate otherwise as well. — desolate, dystopian and highly erotic. Monks and heretics shift ‘into delirium and curse softly when bodies are set into motion’ ‘slices of time’ that are not incongruous providing anContinue reading “NIGHT : Notes from Notes”
On a Page from Mieke’s Notebook
The words ANGST MACHT are found inside a drawn heart shape, written out in pencil, lines protruding outward from the heart: (on one side) RITUAL (on the other) ABSTRACT, words contained in boxes that connect through other lines: DISEASE, MEDIEVAL, SHAME, PERFORMANCE, PLAGUE, STAIN, LEPRA, FILM, and above and on the right (surrounded by otherContinue reading “On a Page from Mieke’s Notebook”
WOODMAN, HOWE (and briefly)
Howe started writing by transcribing walls. A poet friend of hers advised her to collapse the walls around her into print. And she did. And it became a hinge. A picture balanced on a precipice of sound, invoking something like an alphabet in space. Woodman slept inside her schoolgirl closet, using, for a time, herContinue reading “WOODMAN, HOWE (and briefly)”
FRED MOTEN ANSWERS A QUESTION
The poem is a recording an experiment in improvised choreography The material of the poem is performances the necessarily fragmented notes cut up memories scrambled to transcribe the trace of those performances the juxtaposition of words ‘motion’ and ‘capture’ Other Dimensions of Music movements relation to confinement the production of sound bending andContinue reading “FRED MOTEN ANSWERS A QUESTION”
NOTES TO FICTION: A COUNTER MANIFESTO
NOTE: JULIUS EASTMAN
THE HOLY PRESENCE OF JOAN D’ARC The composer in his lonely room constantly birthing music This must be opposed Discovering what is fundamental Discarding what is superficial Buddha for unspecified instrument Our God for piano and for voice Our Father for two male voices The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc Joan was taken to theContinue reading “NOTE: JULIUS EASTMAN”
NOTE: TWO ACCIDENTAL POEMS
READING WOJNAROWICZ (after Carr) It would take a separation from the normal levels of existence Sagging docks and railroad cars rusting in the oily rain He wanted to explain his feelings on the voice within the body To put together a collection of voices Like a passage coming to an end I give my lifeContinue reading “NOTE: TWO ACCIDENTAL POEMS”
NOTE: PETER HUJAR
He sits behind the blue kitchen table smoking. One thing I won’t answer is anything about why I do what I do. I make uncomplicated, direct photographs of complicated and difficult subjects. My work comes out of my life. I like people who dare, people who push themselves to some extreme. What I do isContinue reading “NOTE: PETER HUJAR”
Into the silence of the space
NOTE: A SENTENCE ON MIEKE WRITING ABOUT UWE, KATARINA AND PHOTOGRAPHY He has taken Katarina out into the evening black, into the fog and wetness of the snow in Riverside Park, their rubber boots plashing down the part-lit paths, in hopes that they will work up a bit of hunger, and later on return toContinue reading “Into the silence of the space”
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