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Celebrating the new folk revolution in art, writing and music. Published annually, Magpie Magazine brings together a collection of articles, short stories, poetry, illustration, music reviews and interviews.
Ventre Univers ~ RÊVE
The new album by Julie Fossaert
The new album by Julie Fossaert
Shae Detar
The whimisical, hand-painted photography of Shae Acopian DeTar.
REDS is an amorphous, improvisational music collective based in Brighton, England. Described as Freeform, avant, noisy, droning psych.
Their first full length release is now available on CD and Digital Download.
Available here.
Their first full length release is now available on CD and Digital Download.
Available here.
LET’S START A PUSSY RIOT
Loud, controversial, fearless — Pussy Riot undoubtedly ushered in a new era of feminism and political freedom with their protest acts.
The dialogue so explosively ignited by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich continues in the book Let’s Start A Pussy Riot. Exclusively created in collaboration with the band, this publication brings together artists, writers and poets to explore feminism, LGBT rights, the power of collaboration, the role art plays in activism, women’s rights, and freedom of speech through the personal voices of Judy Chicago, Yoko Ono, Antony Hegarty, Kim Gordon, and many more.
Loud, controversial, fearless — Pussy Riot undoubtedly ushered in a new era of feminism and political freedom with their protest acts.
The dialogue so explosively ignited by Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich continues in the book Let’s Start A Pussy Riot. Exclusively created in collaboration with the band, this publication brings together artists, writers and poets to explore feminism, LGBT rights, the power of collaboration, the role art plays in activism, women’s rights, and freedom of speech through the personal voices of Judy Chicago, Yoko Ono, Antony Hegarty, Kim Gordon, and many more.
“Let’s Start a Pussy Riot” book will be launched at Yoko Ono’s Meltdown festival as part of the Activism weekend. The book has been created in collaboration with Pussy Riot, Emely Neu, Storm in a Teacup, Girls Get Busy and Not So Popular and will be available to buy on the 15th of June at Meltdown. The book is available now for pre-order and will be available at Rough Trade shops on 24th of June. All profits go directly to Pussy Riot and their families.
Julia Holter - Finale
Film by Rick Bahto
Photographed on Kodak Tri-x Super 8 mm film.
Photographed on Kodak Tri-x Super 8 mm film.
White Chalk Hills by Michaela Meadow
‘About Farewell’ a track from the new album by Alela Diane
Magpie Magazine Issue Five
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Call for Submissions
THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
We are looking for Bird and Bee based artwork for inclusion in a one-night gallery and evening of music.
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THE BIRDS AND THE BEES
We are looking for Bird and Bee based artwork for inclusion in a one-night gallery and evening of music.
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Ascension by Zoe Le Ber
extrait de son nouvel album “Beautiful Africa,” sortie le 1er Avril 2013. Clip réalisé par Romain Carciofo.
“Beautiful Africa” - produit par John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels, Sparklehorse), enregistré & mixé @ studio Toybox à Bristol, UK
“Beautiful Africa” - produit par John Parish (PJ Harvey, Eels, Sparklehorse), enregistré & mixé @ studio Toybox à Bristol, UK
An Opening Song - Nicol Vizioli
In the 19th Century Arthur Russell Wallace and Charles Darwin propounded that phylogenetic branched trees derived from a single ancestor, which meant that all forms of life are tied by relationships of common descent. From a biological point of view, this is extremely “simple”; it suggests life as we know it was created with an original being. Thus with the first cry of each new birth, our collective memory resonates with that first piercing song of arrival. We are reminded our ancestral consciousness, we are reminded of our animal dimension.
Nicol Vizioli started her photographic project An opening song in April 2012. It all started with a dream, then a meeting in the crowd with the first woman bird, Helene; Nicol pursued birds of prey and found herself with Randal, Jeff and Trevor Carey of Countrywide Falconry in the hauntingly beautiful English countryside. In the presence of these wild animals that dominate the wind and the currents, the artist’s soul was stirred and awakened. The artist recognises that our souls are suppressed and inhibited to true expression if we don’t return to the breathe of life. This is something intangible, of wind and profound unity with nature, and only then, once we return, can our indomitable visceral pasts reawaken. That day, in the English countryside, Nicol heard nature’s enchanting mysterious song as it breathed life.
A long period of reflection, readings, drawings and meetings with characters that are able to understand and share her journey, or that have it in their DNA, whom then become her models. Albino, twins, rebellious souls, old and woodland travellers.
It’s the union of these varying vital strengths (the wild animal, the thinking animal and the prodigy animal) the strength of the photographic medium is unleashed in the hands of Nicol. She captures a simultaneous expressive fury and aesthetic balance to her photos which makes them able to speak to every individual and universally iconographic. Observers are encouraged to feel cognisant of the warm comforting protection of the womb alongside our fragile vulnerability facing the whirling enormity of Nature. Glimpses of Nature’s symbols since time immemorial are tantalisingly revealed.
Flawed, dirty, obscure, mysterious, aware of descending from the same progeny. Embodied in a tribal way, bodies covered with dust and soil bring the signs of the cost and of the fatigue to be reborn, a forfeit of that old legacy where we all belong.
The analogical portraits tell us about a return to life, a collective rite of passage from one dimension to another, from simply surviving, to living, they explore the holders of this primordial spark, this original force of which we all come from. That first song, which is impossible not to recognise in front of the photographs so graphically dramatic of Nicol Vizioli, crosses us like a lost memory which is suddenly found again.
extract from An opening Song
catalogue published by Vanilla Edizioni, Milan
catalogue published by Vanilla Edizioni, Milan
I am a girl and a boy with a big, brown and gentle dog.
I love to cuddle the dog, sometimes take a walk with her and sometimes I love to shoot some Instant Pictures.
I love to cuddle the dog, sometimes take a walk with her and sometimes I love to shoot some Instant Pictures.
The externalization of the other.
The Fox Wife“Maybe it’s animalness that will make the world right again: the wisdom of elephants, the enthusiasm of canines, the grace of snakes, the mildness of anteaters. Perhaps being human needs some diluting.” - Carol Emshwiller
Colette Saint Yves
new music video for ‘Wedding’ by Marissa Nadler
Directed by Derrick Belcham.
Directed by Derrick Belcham.
The Argument with Spring
by Jessica Tremp.
‘When I was little I used to dream about being a dancer or that I could fly and that I would learn to speak the language of the animals in the forest or that of the most dramatic actor. With the click of a finger I’ve found a way to make these things come true’
Lemon Psyche’ written and performed by Minko
The footage is from a Lumiere Brothers film of The Serpentine Dance which was shot c.1899. The Lumiere brothers made some of the very first films. Here, they have shot in black and white and then painted each frame by hand to give it colour. The Serpentine Dance was developed by choreogrpaher and dancer Loie Fuller in 1891. She was one of the pioneers of modern dance.
The footage is from a Lumiere Brothers film of The Serpentine Dance which was shot c.1899. The Lumiere brothers made some of the very first films. Here, they have shot in black and white and then painted each frame by hand to give it colour. The Serpentine Dance was developed by choreogrpaher and dancer Loie Fuller in 1891. She was one of the pioneers of modern dance.
A chorus of women are borne from the movements of a single dancer in this dreamlike “pas de trente-deux.”
Music by Steve Reich
Directed by Michael Langan and Terah Maher
‘We Blossom’ is nearly sold out!
The limited edition CD compliation, produced with our ‘Metamorphosis’ edition, is down to the last handful of copies.
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‘WE BLOSSOM’ COMPILATION CD
Listen to our favourite Spring sounds on this exclusive, limited edition compilation CD, featuring new musical releases reviewed within. Only available with Magpie Magazine Issue Five.
Cover Collage by Colette Saint Yves
TRACKLIST:
Morningtide - Está Vivo
The Deer Convention - Hélène Renaut
Bird - Ilya Monosov
He is Hanging By His Shiny Arms - Jozef Van Wissem feat. Jim Jarmusch
Las Tres Hojas - Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band
Josephine - Emma Gatrill
Pay Day - John Fairhurst
Paradise and So Many Colors - Larkin Grimm
La joueuse de flûte - Ödland
Mrs Magpie - Minko
Careless Love - Arborea
Gaia and the Shepherd - Bethany van Rijswijk
Love’s Spring - Two Wings
Animal - FESTIVAL
Horse Heart - Lüüp
A Spire - Julia Kent
Mother’s Blessing - Maria Pugnetti
Ghosts in My Heart - Mariee Sioux
The Deer Convention - Hélène Renaut
Bird - Ilya Monosov
He is Hanging By His Shiny Arms - Jozef Van Wissem feat. Jim Jarmusch
Las Tres Hojas - Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band
Josephine - Emma Gatrill
Pay Day - John Fairhurst
Paradise and So Many Colors - Larkin Grimm
La joueuse de flûte - Ödland
Mrs Magpie - Minko
Careless Love - Arborea
Gaia and the Shepherd - Bethany van Rijswijk
Love’s Spring - Two Wings
Animal - FESTIVAL
Horse Heart - Lüüp
A Spire - Julia Kent
Mother’s Blessing - Maria Pugnetti
Ghosts in My Heart - Mariee Sioux
False Intent - Slipt from the Blockhouse feat. Emma Gatrill
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pagan►poetry
The new world was pagan for its explorers. It has opened for us arts and cultures that are deeply inspiring. Pagan Poetry draws on those ancient and mysterious worlds, on the beats of folk-pop-electro music and on the way these esthetics are combined with our modern world in a syncretic fashion. The collections are designed around two kinds of jewels: amulets and crowns. Both refer to native and ancient artifacts. But most of all they are playful forms that can be worn in many ways. Each collection has its heroine. Sanaaq, the first collection, was inspired by the Great North, its myths and its dangers. Salomé, the second collection, develops a theatrical poetry around the taste for travel, Orientalism, and vanity. Sada was a tribute to Japanese culture, Balinese theater and West Africa’s masquerade. The last collection, Doumidia, is again a voyage to the beautiful great North.
Pagan Poetry is a work between art, artisanat and fashion: each object is handmade in Paris, France, by Diane Schuh and therefore is unique.
Pagan Poetry is a work between art, artisanat and fashion: each object is handmade in Paris, France, by Diane Schuh and therefore is unique.
Our limited edition Art Prints are now Sold Out!
The ‘Metamorphosis’ edition of Magpie Magazine is still available to purchase. Featuring 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes paired with an exclusive, limited edition, compilation CD of rare and recent musical releases.
Buy here.
The ‘Metamorphosis’ edition of Magpie Magazine is still available to purchase. Featuring 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes paired with an exclusive, limited edition, compilation CD of rare and recent musical releases.
Buy here.
Phantasmaphile: Why 2013 is the Year of the Witch by Pam Grossman »
YEAR OF THE WITCH, EXPLAINED
Early last year, with all of the 2012 Mayan Calendar End-of-Days hubbub reaching fever pitch, I thought it best to figure out something to look forward to: after all, the apocalypse can be such a drag, darling. Yes, the world is supposed to end, but…
Flor Garduño
by Susanna Sundman
Free limited edition art prints!
We are offering free limited edition art prints with every order of our last printed anthology ‘Metamorphosis’.
Featuring 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes with a limited edition compilation CD featuring new musical releases.
We are offering free limited edition art prints with every order of our last printed anthology ‘Metamorphosis’.
Featuring 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes with a limited edition compilation CD featuring new musical releases.
ORDER HERE.
CHOOSE FROM THREE LIMITED EDITION ART PRINTS
We are offering limited edition of 20 archival art prints by three artists who have created work especially for this issue of Magpie Magazine. Each image is printed on beautiful oyster shell paper, numbered and delivered to you in a protective sleeve.
‘Metamorphosis’ by Aëla Labbé
‘The Fates’ by Martha Verschaffel
‘Toutesoie’ by Cendrine Rovini
Update: Prints are now Sold Out!
“Late at night, filled with fright, the dark woods that give into a horryifying sight. Howls from creatures unknown, , snickers of the forlorn, hearts of those that have been torn. Trickling rain, a crash of thunder, it takes only a moments wonder, and you will be stranded in the dark woods. Surrounded by dark memories ans unfathomable thoughts, to your worst nightmares swooping down to your mind, to make it rot. A darkness so black, so violent, hope is what it will always lack; the dark woods. To wake up screaming, your heart racing, your heart beating, your mind running and fleeting….to find yourself in the dark woods, to contemplate suicide, to wish you would have died, cause death would be a releif, better to be robbed of your breath, like a thief in the night. Your soul screams and cries in spite, your eyes search for the forgotten light. Not even the moon is shining, just a never endindg cycle of razor sharp black, mixed with hatred, fuled by rage.in the dark woods you never age. A play for the creatures, and you will never leave the stage. And in that place all you have left are the ifs and the coulds….in the Dark Woods… ”Poem by Khaos DvenImages by Rachel Bussieres
Minko - Sybil of Delphi
Sybil of Delphi is the first release in an ongoing musical project by the dreamy songstress known as Minko. The four tracks on this first EP transport us to a world of sensuous reality. Minko’s melodies wind themselves around pealing glockenspiels, ukuleles, flutes and subtle percussion. Laced over the top, her unique and arresting voice moves from the murmur of a whisper to the urgency of an animal call.
The title track evokes the famous oracle of Greek mythology – the prophetess who predicted the future in riddles. The song tells three stories linked by themes of intuition. The line ‘the dogs sensed it coming, the rousing storm, the humming’ is based on a story Minko heard on the radio. She says: “the wild dogs in India deserted the streets before the tsunami hit. The animals sensed it coming. One lucky man noticed their absence and fled with his family. They all survived.” The next line mentions the soldiers of WW1 who would lay their ears to the ground to hear the horses of their enemies approaching. Later in the song, Minko relates these stories on a personal level, “it made me think about my own life and how we all have an intuitive wisdom.”
Sometimes dark yet other times playful, Minko composes a landscape of emotional symbolism in these four songs. The overriding theme within is transformation, “I was reading ‘Women Who Run With Wolves’ (by Clarissa Pinkola Estes) who wrote a lot about the ego and the soul… how as humans we form many layers of personality, and how we can shed these identities to find who we really are.” She also cites Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ as inspiration, “the idea of a ten year journey home is interesting in a metaphorical sense.”
In ‘I am the Bridge’ the haunting train-like rhythm is carried along with the repetition: ‘I am the bridge that they call Waterloo, I am the rain that is soaking me through, I am the wheels spinning round and around as I ride.’ Her words wonderfully evoke a scene as if from a storybook: a girl rides on her bike across a bridge in the rain, re-imagining herself as part of every element in her surrounding. The idea of embracing the elements is carried through the song: ‘I am the pine trees a hundred years old… I am the call of the blackbird that echoes above.’ The words are about “recognising our connection to nature and the importance of feeling vital and alive” Minko explains.
The track ‘Lemon Psyche’ was born from her “absolute love of European 60s pop and psychedelia.” Rather than telling a story, it simply evokes the senses. It is a bubble of light, a slightly sensual mix of ukulele, guitar, bass and shaker. This track also features a glockenspiel known as a ‘Pixiphone’, an instrument used by Marc Bolan in the 60s. In this, Minko is highly influenced by the singer Edda del Orso who produced many wordless vocals for Italian films. There is a definite film like feeling to ‘Lemon Psyche’ – she asks us to “imagine a beach with masses of yellow fabric blowing in the wind.”
In the final track ‘I Dive Again’, we are plunged into a soft lullaby of a song. With samples of waves lapping and gulls crying, the listener is enveloped in a safe and healing space. It reminds me of a sweet summer’s day floating in the sea. The song is a perfect reflection of Minko herself, who is definitely a creature of the water. “Heaven is at the bottom of the sea” she insists. After listening to ‘Sybil of Delphi’, I think you’ll be inclined to agree.
The title track evokes the famous oracle of Greek mythology – the prophetess who predicted the future in riddles. The song tells three stories linked by themes of intuition. The line ‘the dogs sensed it coming, the rousing storm, the humming’ is based on a story Minko heard on the radio. She says: “the wild dogs in India deserted the streets before the tsunami hit. The animals sensed it coming. One lucky man noticed their absence and fled with his family. They all survived.” The next line mentions the soldiers of WW1 who would lay their ears to the ground to hear the horses of their enemies approaching. Later in the song, Minko relates these stories on a personal level, “it made me think about my own life and how we all have an intuitive wisdom.”
Sometimes dark yet other times playful, Minko composes a landscape of emotional symbolism in these four songs. The overriding theme within is transformation, “I was reading ‘Women Who Run With Wolves’ (by Clarissa Pinkola Estes) who wrote a lot about the ego and the soul… how as humans we form many layers of personality, and how we can shed these identities to find who we really are.” She also cites Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ as inspiration, “the idea of a ten year journey home is interesting in a metaphorical sense.”
In ‘I am the Bridge’ the haunting train-like rhythm is carried along with the repetition: ‘I am the bridge that they call Waterloo, I am the rain that is soaking me through, I am the wheels spinning round and around as I ride.’ Her words wonderfully evoke a scene as if from a storybook: a girl rides on her bike across a bridge in the rain, re-imagining herself as part of every element in her surrounding. The idea of embracing the elements is carried through the song: ‘I am the pine trees a hundred years old… I am the call of the blackbird that echoes above.’ The words are about “recognising our connection to nature and the importance of feeling vital and alive” Minko explains.
The track ‘Lemon Psyche’ was born from her “absolute love of European 60s pop and psychedelia.” Rather than telling a story, it simply evokes the senses. It is a bubble of light, a slightly sensual mix of ukulele, guitar, bass and shaker. This track also features a glockenspiel known as a ‘Pixiphone’, an instrument used by Marc Bolan in the 60s. In this, Minko is highly influenced by the singer Edda del Orso who produced many wordless vocals for Italian films. There is a definite film like feeling to ‘Lemon Psyche’ – she asks us to “imagine a beach with masses of yellow fabric blowing in the wind.”
In the final track ‘I Dive Again’, we are plunged into a soft lullaby of a song. With samples of waves lapping and gulls crying, the listener is enveloped in a safe and healing space. It reminds me of a sweet summer’s day floating in the sea. The song is a perfect reflection of Minko herself, who is definitely a creature of the water. “Heaven is at the bottom of the sea” she insists. After listening to ‘Sybil of Delphi’, I think you’ll be inclined to agree.
This review was originally published in Issue Five of Magpie Magazine.
Grouper
Two rare UK concerts have been announced for Portland based musician and visual artist Liz Harris aka Grouper.
The first is part of a five day playthecube residency at Bristol cultural hub The Cube. During her time at the space she will perform a set of her songs under the guise of Grouper, as well as painting a mural inside the Cube’s four walls. This will be the second playthecube residency, following on from February’s visit by Turner Prize nominated artist/filmmaker Luke Fowler and musician Richard Youngs.
She is also the final act to be added to the Michael Gira-curated Mouth to Mouth event at Koko, performing alongside Swans, Mercury Rev, Ben Frost and Xiu Xiu.
Monday 4 February sees the release of The Man Who Died In His Boat on Kranky, an album of unreleased Grouper songs recorded at the same time as the now much revered album Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill.
Liz Harris will also be touring in March with Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers in the duo Mirrorring.
The first is part of a five day playthecube residency at Bristol cultural hub The Cube. During her time at the space she will perform a set of her songs under the guise of Grouper, as well as painting a mural inside the Cube’s four walls. This will be the second playthecube residency, following on from February’s visit by Turner Prize nominated artist/filmmaker Luke Fowler and musician Richard Youngs.
She is also the final act to be added to the Michael Gira-curated Mouth to Mouth event at Koko, performing alongside Swans, Mercury Rev, Ben Frost and Xiu Xiu.
Monday 4 February sees the release of The Man Who Died In His Boat on Kranky, an album of unreleased Grouper songs recorded at the same time as the now much revered album Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill.
Liz Harris will also be touring in March with Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers in the duo Mirrorring.
GROUPER TOUR DATES
Sun 31 March Bristol, Cube Cinema (playthecube residency)
Thu 4 April London, KOKO (Mouth To Mouth curated by M. Gira)
‘The Offering’ by Dara Scully
Free limited edition art prints!
We are offering free limited edition art prints with every order of our last printed anthology ‘Metamorphosis’.
Featuring 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes with a limited edition compilation CD featuring new musical releases.
We are offering free limited edition art prints with every order of our last printed anthology ‘Metamorphosis’.
Featuring 96, full colour pages of prose, poetry, interviews, enticing images and new music reviews. Each copy comes with a limited edition compilation CD featuring new musical releases.
ORDER HERE.
CHOOSE FROM THREE LIMITED EDITION ART PRINTS
We are offering limited edition of 20 archival art prints by three artists who have created work especially for this issue of Magpie Magazine. Each image is printed on beautiful oyster shell paper, numbered and delivered to you in a protective sleeve.
‘Metamorphosis’ by Aëla Labbé
‘The Fates’ by Martha Verschaffel
‘Toutesoie’ by Cendrine Rovini
Update: Prints are now Sold Out!
Kindness of Strangers is taken from SOS JFK, the only album from acoustic duo The Children’s Hour, which featured Josephine Foster and Andy Bar. Initially released in 2003, the album is set to be re-issued by FIRE Records later this month.
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Order here.
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW
You Have Already Gone To The Other WorldMusic Inspired By Paradjanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
In 2012, Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost scored a live soundtrack to the unforgettable and inspirational 1964 film Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors by the legendary Ukranian director Sergey Paradjanov. They took the soundtrack on tour, accompanying the film live, and performed in cinemas and theatres. You Have Already Gone To The Other World is the product of those tours and the evolution of the soundtrack into something that can stand on its own: a double album of new compositions and traditional folk tunes that have been inspired by the surreal folk magic of the film, sprinkled with the wondrous music and foley from this piece of cinematic history.
The setting of Shadows… (pastoral Ukraine, high in the Carpathanian mountains), and its mix of pagan echoes of pre-Christian Europe, traditional Orthodox Ukrainian rituals, the blood feuds and drama of an isolated village, good and evil, magic and love, have inspired A Hawk and A Hacksaw to push their music in these directions. These recordings address the sound of a sorcerer riding his horse through a lightning storm; a fight in a tavern (not with knives, but axes); the voyage into the afterlife; traditional Ukrainian weddings and funerals; and the horses of fire, a stampede of blood red stallions that fly through the screen in the film when main character Ivan’s father is stabbed to death in the snow.
‘You Have Already Gone To The Other World’ is released April 2nd 2013.
The Sami Adventure - MelleSan
Parisian clothing and accessory designer, MelleSan, has an exciting new project at work. Since 2008, MelleSan has created unique collections inspired by her travels…
“Through my creative work as a fashion designer, for more than four years I have been working on handmade accessories and clothes, limited collections highly inspired by ethnic groups and my vivid curiosity for their rituals and habits.From Native Americans, to Lapland Samis, to Amish people…Since I went to Lapland in 2008, the desire to go back never left me and kept burning inside. I am finally going back in February to closer study the local artcraft, meet the Samis and share conversations, friendship and creative skills.The aim is to come back full enough of inspiration and flame to turn what I will see into something of my own to work on a collection with, to turn it into something personal and up-to-date and resembling my work.I am very excited to make this project come true.But more than a creative fashion project trip, I would like to bring back a trace of this adventure through images,through a real “alive” photo diary.”
Long Improvisation (like a private live performance)
Delphine Dora : piano, vocals
Walt Whitman : words (taken from “Leaves of grass”)
www.delphinedora.com
Delphine Dora : piano, vocals
Walt Whitman : words (taken from “Leaves of grass”)
www.delphinedora.com
Happy Solstice everyone! Let’s wake from darkness into light. Sending love from reborn eyes. ♥ ♥
This photo is a sneak peak from my collaboration with Sister Jane. Lookout for more photos in the new year.
Jeanne Madic - Vanishing Twins
Jeanne Madic is a young all-analogue french photographer and a Super-8 filmmaker with celtic origins and based in Aubervilliers near Paris , France. She has a passion for the grain and spirit of film photography, accidents that can only happen through this medium and its slow qualities.
She has a high interest in dreams, their special geography and the characters you may encounter in them, ghosts and lighter beings.
Fabio Orsi - High on Shards
“Fabio Orsi is an electronic musician from Taranto, Italy, specialising in atmospheric drone. In his compositions the languages of popular tradition meet the avantgarde approach, creating a charming mix. Orsi’s music originates with field recordings through which he seeks to capture images in sound inspired by the historic pre-war folk recordings made by Alan Lomax. Orsi says he admires the way in which Lomax was able to present folklore not merely as some historic artefact but as “an expression of suffering with a thirst for rebellion”.
Orsi creates atmospheric audio postcards with a tangible sense of time and place, utilizing layers of guitars, old keyboards and found sounds, having a keen attention to details, loops develop so naturally that it’s almost impossible to notice when certain sounds are brought in and out. Electronic sounds meets the humoral sonorities made by the six chords, projecting enchanted landscapes on a vibrant horizon.
With an intimate sensibility, abstract and emotional, deep and dreamy melodies, Orsi structures pieces of crystalline beauty and his music sounds like the shout of revolt of a young guy in the south of Italy, who starting from poetry, has then chosen music as the most effective way to his vent of expression, hypnotic and seductive.
Where the streets are swelling as the veins and the buildings are collapsing, he plants a microphone cold as a needle, he plays naked and old melodies just for lovers.”
His latest, ‘High on Shards’ is a lathe cut record released by Time Released Sound
jean-baptiste martin
photographies
photographies
Photography, because of its physical properties, can be seen as a cosmic relation to the world, a circulation process between two universe : one is swallowed by the lens, like an absorbing black hole, until an extreme point or singularity : on the film. End of Space / Time. And the other universe, revealed by the film under the light of the enlarger, like a flowing out white hole.
In this transfer of universe, made possible because of “Obscure clarté” (Corneille): the negative vs. positive, it is possible to consider a thought process based on the search of the origin of a print : a trace at the limit of the invisible.
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La photographie, par ses propriétés physiques, peut-être appréhendée comme une relation cosmique au monde, un processus de circulation entre deux univers : celui dévoré par l’objectif, tel un trou noir qui absorbe jusqu’à un point extrême ou singularité : le négatif. Fin de l’espace / temps. Et l’autre univers, révélé par le négatif sous la lumière de l’agrandisseur, tel un trou blanc qui expulse.
Dans ce transfert d’univers que seul rend possible cette “Obscure clarté” (Corneille) - dualité négatif et positif - il est possible d’envisager l’écriture de la lumière centrée sur la recherche de l’empreinte d’une origine : une trace au seuil de l’imperceptibl
In this transfer of universe, made possible because of “Obscure clarté” (Corneille): the negative vs. positive, it is possible to consider a thought process based on the search of the origin of a print : a trace at the limit of the invisible.
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La photographie, par ses propriétés physiques, peut-être appréhendée comme une relation cosmique au monde, un processus de circulation entre deux univers : celui dévoré par l’objectif, tel un trou noir qui absorbe jusqu’à un point extrême ou singularité : le négatif. Fin de l’espace / temps. Et l’autre univers, révélé par le négatif sous la lumière de l’agrandisseur, tel un trou blanc qui expulse.
Dans ce transfert d’univers que seul rend possible cette “Obscure clarté” (Corneille) - dualité négatif et positif - il est possible d’envisager l’écriture de la lumière centrée sur la recherche de l’empreinte d’une origine : une trace au seuil de l’imperceptibl
Tiny Specks of Delight ~ Hélène Renaut
With instrumentation varying from very sparse to full band arrangements, the songs on Tiny Specks Of Delight encapsulate a certain idea of the West Coast sound - breezy and open - while offering a reflection on that eternal process of falling in and out of love - each song centering around a different point along love’s roller coaster of learning and liberation.
‘Tiny Specks of Delight’ EP Released by Kitten Charmer
Video by Zach Von Joo
A Love Letter for Los Angeles
by SISTER JANE
Film By Amanda Charchian
Original Score By Guy Blakeslee
In the Voice of Bea Deza
Styling by Patricia Ruiz Del Portal
With Ariana Papademetropoulos, Logan White, Lucile Lotte and Abigail Bean.
Special Thanks to Maja D’Aoust, The White Witch of Los Angeles
Original Score By Guy Blakeslee
In the Voice of Bea Deza
Styling by Patricia Ruiz Del Portal
With Ariana Papademetropoulos, Logan White, Lucile Lotte and Abigail Bean.
Special Thanks to Maja D’Aoust, The White Witch of Los Angeles
Listen to Footpaths, the psychedelic drone musings of Jon Rosenthal, who describes his sounds as “audio photographs of ghost towns”.
‘Footpaths’ is part of a series on the fifty United States.
Susie Ibarra ~ Flower after Flower
Composer/Percussionist Susie Ibarraresides in New York and has performed as a soloist and collaborator in various configurations. Known for her innovative style Ibarra creates cultural dialogue through her music.Ibarra composes and performs regularly with her collaborative projects with composer/percussionist Roberto Rodriguez in their eco-electronica duo Electric Kulintang, chidrens world music with Mundo Niños, Susie Ibarra Quartet with featured soloists Bridget Kibbey, Jennifer Choi and Kathleen Supove and Ibarra, as well as various interdisciplinary art collaborations with poet Yusef Komunyakaa and visual artist Makoto Fujimura.
Dara Scully
“There’s a bird in my left lung, small and fragile,
and he always speaks to me about beautiful
things. I try to translate all these things to my
pictures, his voice, mine.”
SELF MADE WORLDS Barbara De Dominicis & Aude Francois
for voice, electronics, and visual explorations
liberally adapted from ”House of Incest” by Anaïs Nin
A dialogue between the organic body depicted in video and the sounds and voices present on the stage.
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Barbara De Dominicis, lives between Rome and NY. Besides using her voice, loves collecting sounds, manipulating them and inventing sound textures.Her projects include The Body_exposed; Poe-Si [with Marco Messina/99 Posse and Mirko Signorile]; Cabaret Noir [withPasquale Bardaro]; Kuul_Ma [ an experimental audiovisual project in which organic electronic sounds interact withthe changing landscape of visual artist Davide Lonardi]. In 2008 she published as a soloist Anti-Gone, a conceptalbum which bases its narrative on Greek mythology. In 2008 she began a collaboration with canadian cellist Julia Kent;their performance (initially under the name of Intermittenze) will soon become a stable project in progress with thename Parallel41 [a musical/visual/improvisatory project released internationally on french record label Baskaru// may 2012]Her sound works include Whimsical Cartography – selected among the works which will be exhibited in the collective multimedia show E-ArtQuake in commemoration of the earthquake in Irpinia; Re_di_Sound [Radio Papesse], a tribute to Marcel Duchamp (Call for Revolutionary Sounds). Her growing interest in soundscapes leads her to conceive A tale of two cities: a series of audio collages designed to portray the similarities and differences of two cities which lie on the same parallel, Naples and New York. This work has become a radiowork produced for RadioPapesse vs Radia network, entitled Crossings.
Among her current projects Exqusite What [as both curator and creator] a collective inspired by the Surrealist practice
of exquisite corpses dedicated to the creation of an audio-visual web platform: La Reverie/La Sogneria [curator/creator]_a multimedia space linked to dreaming in which, as if inside a globe indexed by locations, issues, and time periods, one can choose to “enter” [in mp3] into the story of a dream or to travel between multiple dreams (in progress).
She has recently been invited by GIRRL [girrlsound :digitalgirrl [an Australian organization supporting women working in the field of sonic and digital art] to curate and produce a series of radio podcasts entitled ”The Cat Cinderella” with the aim of promoting the dissemination of works by women artists on the brink between net_art, sound art and audio documentary. With the moniker Apres Soon she is working on a new solo album: a blend of drones and field recordings, electronics, voices and string instruments. Barbara is currently working at Quasi.Memory: a sound installation which uses rediscovered private memories [old photographs, letters from strangers, sounds of objects no longer in use, semi-forgotten nursery rhymes, etc.]
www.soonapres.com
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Aude Francois lives between Berlin and Paris. She is multi-disciplinary artist living between Paris and Berlin, working with performance, photography, sound and live video. She regularly presents her video performances in international festivals. Her imagery plays with narrative structures, developing dreamy and intimate universes, exploring various forms of interplaybetween body, images in motion, deconstructive narrations and self-mythology.
Her performances articulate live scenography protocols integrating video as an environment medium, often using real-time camera feedback, considering the black box as a possible oneiric space, where sounds and images communicate in a poetic and narrative journey. She has developed several successful collaborations with international acoustic and electronic musicians, sound and video programmers, producing series of audio-visual performances where she manipulates time and images in evolving structures.
Her work oscillates between digital and analogue medium, combining original cross-border techniques between real-time video feedback and digital and acoustic sounds. She often uses Overhead projectors, Dia projectors, typewriters, clocks, that are amplified via micro-contact microphones, combined with acoustic and digital sounds. She uses live cameras and pre-recorded video samples, sometimes combined with programing language such as pure data, seeking to develop a closer interaction between video and sound events.Fascinated by archaic imagery and mechanical objects, she also create costumes and scenography, seeking to immerse the audience in a dream box, using her figure as a “personnage” reenacting a forgotten memories inside a poetic journey.
http://auderrose.de/
for voice, electronics, and visual explorations
liberally adapted from ”House of Incest” by Anaïs Nin
A dialogue between the organic body depicted in video and the sounds and voices present on the stage.
~~
Barbara De Dominicis, lives between Rome and NY. Besides using her voice, loves collecting sounds, manipulating them and inventing sound textures.Her projects include The Body_exposed; Poe-Si [with Marco Messina/99 Posse and Mirko Signorile]; Cabaret Noir [withPasquale Bardaro]; Kuul_Ma [ an experimental audiovisual project in which organic electronic sounds interact withthe changing landscape of visual artist Davide Lonardi]. In 2008 she published as a soloist Anti-Gone, a conceptalbum which bases its narrative on Greek mythology. In 2008 she began a collaboration with canadian cellist Julia Kent;their performance (initially under the name of Intermittenze) will soon become a stable project in progress with thename Parallel41 [a musical/visual/improvisatory project released internationally on french record label Baskaru// may 2012]Her sound works include Whimsical Cartography – selected among the works which will be exhibited in the collective multimedia show E-ArtQuake in commemoration of the earthquake in Irpinia; Re_di_Sound [Radio Papesse], a tribute to Marcel Duchamp (Call for Revolutionary Sounds). Her growing interest in soundscapes leads her to conceive A tale of two cities: a series of audio collages designed to portray the similarities and differences of two cities which lie on the same parallel, Naples and New York. This work has become a radiowork produced for RadioPapesse vs Radia network, entitled Crossings.
Among her current projects Exqusite What [as both curator and creator] a collective inspired by the Surrealist practice
of exquisite corpses dedicated to the creation of an audio-visual web platform: La Reverie/La Sogneria [curator/creator]_a multimedia space linked to dreaming in which, as if inside a globe indexed by locations, issues, and time periods, one can choose to “enter” [in mp3] into the story of a dream or to travel between multiple dreams (in progress).
She has recently been invited by GIRRL [girrlsound :digitalgirrl [an Australian organization supporting women working in the field of sonic and digital art] to curate and produce a series of radio podcasts entitled ”The Cat Cinderella” with the aim of promoting the dissemination of works by women artists on the brink between net_art, sound art and audio documentary. With the moniker Apres Soon she is working on a new solo album: a blend of drones and field recordings, electronics, voices and string instruments. Barbara is currently working at Quasi.Memory: a sound installation which uses rediscovered private memories [old photographs, letters from strangers, sounds of objects no longer in use, semi-forgotten nursery rhymes, etc.]
www.soonapres.com
~~~
Aude Francois lives between Berlin and Paris. She is multi-disciplinary artist living between Paris and Berlin, working with performance, photography, sound and live video. She regularly presents her video performances in international festivals. Her imagery plays with narrative structures, developing dreamy and intimate universes, exploring various forms of interplaybetween body, images in motion, deconstructive narrations and self-mythology.
Her performances articulate live scenography protocols integrating video as an environment medium, often using real-time camera feedback, considering the black box as a possible oneiric space, where sounds and images communicate in a poetic and narrative journey. She has developed several successful collaborations with international acoustic and electronic musicians, sound and video programmers, producing series of audio-visual performances where she manipulates time and images in evolving structures.
Her work oscillates between digital and analogue medium, combining original cross-border techniques between real-time video feedback and digital and acoustic sounds. She often uses Overhead projectors, Dia projectors, typewriters, clocks, that are amplified via micro-contact microphones, combined with acoustic and digital sounds. She uses live cameras and pre-recorded video samples, sometimes combined with programing language such as pure data, seeking to develop a closer interaction between video and sound events.Fascinated by archaic imagery and mechanical objects, she also create costumes and scenography, seeking to immerse the audience in a dream box, using her figure as a “personnage” reenacting a forgotten memories inside a poetic journey.
http://auderrose.de/
La théorie des fantômes
Série de 12 photographies (4 triptyques)
Tirages d’après négatif
Papier baryté contrecollé sur Dibond
En photographie, on évoque souvent l’idée de mémoire, de représentation du réel.
Avec La théorie des fantômes, je propose des images troublantes, qui oscillent entre rêve et réalité.
Elles sont plutôt de l’ordre du souvenir, incroyablement proches et désespérément lointaines, douces et cruelles à la fois.
Un frisson étrange, une joie incertaine ou un rêve ineffable, ces instants comme des illuminations, et pourtant immédiatement enterrés, essuyés d’un revers de la main, happés par le réel, ce sont ces instants perdus que je veux ranimer.
J’ai choisi de disposer les images de ma série en triptyques, m’inspirant de la forme du Haïku, bref poème japonais qui vise à traduire l’évanescence de la vie en 3 vers courts, instantanés composant une phrase magique, un chemin secret vers l’introspection.
~ Marie Ciuffi.
La théorie des fantomes
Séries of 12 photographs (4 triptychs)
Printing from negatives
Baryum Pasted-paper on Dibond
In photography, one often mentions the idea of memory, of representation of reality.
With La théorie des fantômes, I put disturbing images forward, vacillating between dream and reality. They have to do with the memory, both incredibly close and desperately distant, sweet and cruel.
A strange shiver, a uncertain joy or an unuterable dream, those instants are like flashes of light, immediately buried, wiped with the back of a hand, seazed by reality, those are the lost instants that I want to rekindle.
I have chosen to arrange the images of my series in triptychs, inspired by haikus, brief japanese poems, attempting to translate the evanescence of life in 3 short verses, snapshots composing a magic sentence, a secret path to introspection.
~ Marie Ciuffi.
DIA DE MUERTOS
Video / Music / Illustrations: Rita Ro
November 2012
November 2012
Francesca Woodman- Antella, Italy, 1977-1978
(via autumnwindphotography)
Soichi Sunami- The dancer Helen Tamiris , 1930’s{from the Dance Division, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}
(via drstrangelystrange)
In 1964, Lesley Gore first sang ‘You Don’t Own Me’ and a feminist song was born. It’s still resonating today, with the US elections quickly approaching.
“Women, let’s rise up. Our vote alone can win this election. A vote for Obama is a vote for your health and your right to choose. It is a vote for equal pay and equal rights. A vote for Obama is a vote for our families. It is a vote to marry who you choose. It’s a vote to start a family when you choose. A vote for Obama says that we won’t stand for violence against women and that rape is rape. Our vote ensures that our daughters will grow up with the same rights that we’ve had. A vote for Obama sends a message: This war on women must end. We will not go backwards.”
“Women, let’s rise up. Our vote alone can win this election. A vote for Obama is a vote for your health and your right to choose. It is a vote for equal pay and equal rights. A vote for Obama is a vote for our families. It is a vote to marry who you choose. It’s a vote to start a family when you choose. A vote for Obama says that we won’t stand for violence against women and that rape is rape. Our vote ensures that our daughters will grow up with the same rights that we’ve had. A vote for Obama sends a message: This war on women must end. We will not go backwards.”
The Cat Cinderella
Launched as the podcast/sonic backdrop of GIRRL SOUND to become a web radio magazine for female-artists from all over the world to publish their work, The Cat Cinderella features a new podcast-episode bimonthly with works by women artists who investigate sound as a distinctive element in their research. We are mainly focused on sound at the border between art_music and hybrid audio collages and aim to provide a space to encourage works created by women in the name of experimentation and authenticity. We do welcome works by women of any ethnic, cultural and educational backgrounds devoted to sound art, audio documentary, field recording, performance, radio theatre, audio portray, sound postcards, sound poetry, visual arts as well as electroacoustics and any other free- forms explorations in the aural and visual realms…
Photo by Sarah Bliss
Copies of our ‘Metamorphosis’ edition are now being stocked in the magicalSnooper’s Attic in Brighton.
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Land and Cinders ~ Gabriel Jesiolowski
“Having taught at the university level for the past ten years in poetry, art, and gender studies, i am currently at work on developing a non-profit, land based, counter-disciplinary school and site for a number of collaborative residency programs: the institute for emergent ecologies. My current projects involve theories of embodiment, transgendered subjectivity and questions of uprootings and regroundings.”
What are you afraid of?
I’m afraid of moths.
So I started to collect them.
I’m afraid of moths.
So I started to collect them.
~ Laura Makabresku
Beili Liu ~ Encirclement
Thorn and Thistle
The multidisciplinary artist Beili Liu created an art installation made primarily of hundreds of thistle plants entitled Encirclement. This installation and performance was created as part of an artist residency program called Djerassi Artist Residency which is located in California. Her work reminds the viewer of nature and it’s fragility. Her materials are simple, however they convey rich metaphors of time, energy, and complex cultural narratives.
Hogweed And The Aderyn
Hogweed And The Aderyn is a Turkish acoustic-folk duo drawing inspiration from folkloric and acoustic music from all around the world and resting somewhere between being Turkish and English. Mainly guitars, ukuleles, percussion instruments and Chinese flutes make up the palette of sounds and might gain the love of admirers of artists, acts like Still Light, Sand Snowman, Incredible String Band, Fairport Convention, Sahba Motabelli, Robbie Basho, Fleet Foxes, Shearwater, Six Organs Of Admittance and Aşık Veysel.
Everything has started in the meadows of Oxfordshire and they thought about getting an ukulele as a souvenir from England, probably a bit driven by the influence of Beatles. During their nightly tea times at Cumberland Arms at North End Road and before sleep they started to write very simple folkloric songs. And even though the earliest demos for Pariah and Sacred Alchemy were recorded in London-Ankara, 2011 summer it was finished in Ankara, 2012 summer.
Musically speaking, most of the music is written with an acoustic guitar and ukulele only and is adorned later on. We can say that the influence of eastern music is heavy yet it is composed in a western way. It’s words about lovers on a flying carpet in Persia and Milky Way, beautiful nature-being as one with nature and love are sang beautifully by Gözde with a style which we can describe as something between My Bloody Valentine’s Bilinda Butcher and Pentagle’s Jacqui McShee.
Released by Wounded Wolf Press
Gloom Folk ~ a forum dedicated to gloomy, dark, ambient, ghostly, psychedelic, and ultimately folky-folk.
Artwork by Mike Bruno
Mariee Sioux ~ ‘Swimming Through Stone’
“Mariee was a pleasure to record. Her song “Swimming Through Stone” was filmed in the dressing room of the mansion on a beautiful green couch, cohesively matching the room’s décor and the night’s overall sentiment. This song is a part of her second full-length album “Gift for the End,” which was released earlier this year. Enjoy.”
“Mariee was a pleasure to record. Her song “Swimming Through Stone” was filmed in the dressing room of the mansion on a beautiful green couch, cohesively matching the room’s décor and the night’s overall sentiment. This song is a part of her second full-length album “Gift for the End,” which was released earlier this year. Enjoy.”
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