Here’s the recording of the live score for Jean Genet’s silent film.
Recorded at Hinterconti art space, Hamburg on June 8th 2023.
Autor: ■davidwallraf
Un Chant d’Amour at Hinterconti
live, silent filmThursday June 8th I’ll play a live score to Jean Genet’s 1950 silent movie Un Chant d’amour.
At Hinterconti artspace, Balduinstr. 24 / 20359 Hamburg. There’s a sound installation that starts at 4pm, the screening is 9 pm sharp. Free admission, donations are welcome. The event is part of Blurred Edges festival for contemporary music.
Santé Et Efficacité – new tape on Falt records
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My new tape Santé Et Efficacité is now available on the awesome Falt label.
Recorded in the summer of 2020, during a climate change heatwave & in quarantine with a Covid infection, these four songs deal with apocalyptic dread from a strictly personal perspective.
The title is borrowed from This Heat’s last EP Health and Efficiency.
Bottlefly Blues is a nod to the blue bottle fly (calliphora vomitoria), a species of fly that feeds on corpses and is used in forensics.
I Want To Be An Insect is the title of a sculpture made in 1960 by Leonora Carrington.
The World’s Curling Up Like An Autumn Leaf is a line lifted from Derek Jarman’s film The Last of England.
D’ailleurs, C’est Toujours Les Autreus Qui Meurent is the inscription on Marcel Duchamp’s tombstone.
The Auditory Field: Political Acoustics – english translation
textDuring the past months I translated three chapters from my book on noise to English. They form a part of the text that addresses the idea of an auditory field of the social that serves as a critical extension of the concept of the soundscape.
Transgressions: Noise and Violence
An introduction to the concept of auditory fields and the relations of noise, force and power in that field.
Ingressions: The Horror and Benefit of Silence
A critique of the discourse on silence that focuses on aggressive uses of quietness and the commodification of silence.
Delimitations: Music and Power
A historical sketch of the relations between power and music. Features Michel Foucault, Italian opera, castration and Muzak.
Überlebenschancen
releaseÜberlebenschancen (Chances of Survival) is a series of four new releases: sessions recorded live to C20 tapes without editing or overdubbing. Limited editions of one with collage cover-art. No time spent on the computer during the recording process.
DEATH AWARENESS CAFE
releaseJames Main and me started a new project last year. Our first album Optimistic About Nothing was recorded in November 2022. We’re currently looking for a label that interested in giving these songs a physical from.
Shows will be announced in the near future.
Stubnitz Video and Livealbum
live, recordingHere’s documentation of the concerts at MS Stubnitz on March 23.
Livealbum:
Video:
MS Stubnitz – March 23 2023
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Concert at/on MS Stubnitz with The Ultimate Bruital Orchestra and Dong Zhou. Click here for the event.
Kirchenpauerkai 29, Hamburg. Doors 19:30, Start 20:30. Box office 15,- €, reduced 10,- €
Madame Claude live recording
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Live set recorded at Madame Claude in Berlin on 16th of January 2023.
Unpleasant Knowns & L’Ombilic des Limbes
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L’Ombilic des Limbes – new song on a single sided 10“ lathe cut disc. Limited edition of 30, shipping starts on 01/23/2023.
Unpleasant Knowns – a five song C20 tape. Austere pop songs with a noise-infection. Limited edition of 15. Starts shipping on January 23rd.
Also available on the 23rd of January: The World Can Be As Sad As It Seems set (sticker and postcard in a Covid-test biohazard bag) and special merch package containing 10“ vinyl, tape, sticker, postcard and a hand made collage (limited edition of five).
