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Rene Hell & Others @ Amnesia – Tonight! 0

Posted April 19, 2011

Rene Hell
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Cribdeath
Holly Herndon

Tuesday, April 19th – 9pm
Amnesia
853 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Poster by Jeff Witscher.

John McCracken – R.I.P. 0

Posted April 11, 2011

Obit here.

Excerpt from an interview from Art in America, reproduced online at E.L.F. Infested Spaces, a “Journal of Possible Paradigms”

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JM: We think we know what time is, but we don’t. There is what could be called “real” time, which is really all time-past, present and future-rolled into one fantastic, simultaneous pattern. And there are “raying out” all around us just about numberless futures and numberless pasts, and numberless parallel and alternate probabilities. All, as mind-boggling as it may seem, are real dimensions of existence.

FC: When you talk about the simultaneity of real time, I’m reminded of the story you once told me about an experience you had in high school, which seems to summarize what you’re talking about.

JM: It happened on my last day at high school, after graduation. I lived about 20 miles from the school in the country in Northern California. That evening when I got off the school bus, my mind was full of thoughts about where my life might go next. I was thinking big, wondering thoughts. “Is there a God?” “What is the nature of everything?” I stood next to the almost-deserted highway for quite a while, looking off to the west toward the mountains, where the setting sun was turning the sky into a beautiful riot of color. And a strong, curious feeling came over me: I felt like I was being watched from behind, from up in the sky. It unnerved me a little, but it was kind of a spiritual and good feeling, as if God were watching me. And that, for a while, was that.

Then one evening about 15 years later, I was in a contemplative state, remembering things, and I remembered that experience. And in remembering, I did what I think people often do, which is to remember from the outside, as if viewing a photograph of the event. So I saw myself standing there by the road, looking at the sunset, with the countryside spread out all around me. I drew the scene into focus in my mind, pulling it closer into view, moving closer to it. As I did this, I suddenly realized that I was “coming into” the scene exactly at the point in the sky from which I had felt I was being watched 15 years before. I was utterly shocked. Something like a lightning bolt snapped between me and my past self, and I felt myself rubber-banding perceptually back and forth from one location to the other-from one body to the other. In a flabbergasted state I realized I had been watched then, and that the watcher was me, my future self.

Q&A – TOM CARTER 1

Posted April 4, 2011

1: Analog or Digital?
digital with a judicious helping of vacuum tubes.

2: What time did you wake up today?
9AM

3: Last thing you read?
past master by r. a. lafferty

4: Whats your first memory?
Waking up in my crib surrounded by weird 70s cutout corkboard animals
& next to a puddle of my own vomit

5: Tea Or Coffee?
both, and lots of it

6: Last thing you cooked?
baked balsamic/tamari marinated tofu with steamed kale, walnut rice
pilaf & caramelized onions

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
a hunter/ gatherer in an isolated land of plenty

8: What inspires you?
people who know no other way than their own

9: Last record you played?
suzanne langille/ neil murgai _wild & foolish heart_ LP

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
my lone axe, ’78 ibanez pf200 alpine white les paul copy

11: Last movie you saw?
T:O:U:C:H:I:N:G by paul sharits

12: Who do you love?
family, friends, bo diddley; roughly in that order

13: Do you have any pets?
nope

14: Are you useful?
i hope not

15: Biggest fear?
becoming trapped in someone else’s nightmare

16: What do you value the most?
stillness

17: Famous last words?
safe as milk & twice as nice

Tom Carter has a blazing new tape out on Root Strata that you can see, hear & order here.

VISITOR – JEFRE CANTU-LEDESMA – INDIGNANT SENILITY – HOLOCENE – PORTLAND – APRIL 7th 1

Posted April 1, 2011

more info here

Lula Côrtes – R.I.P. 0

Posted March 29, 2011

From Time-Lag:

“it is with great sadness that i share the news that our friend lula cortes passed away earlier today. his was a massive & unique spirit, and his passing will no doubt leave a great void in the lives of those who knew him, but also in the very life force of this world. it is hard to explain in words the profound effect that his music & friendship have had on my life. his passion for art & love & life itself was truly something to behold, and i have a hard time imagining that i could meet such a vital spirit more then once in a lifetime. indeed, i am deeply thankful to have known him, his music, his art, and his glow. he will be greatly missed.”

rest well lula.

take care,
~nemo

GEL Spring Tour 1

Posted March 28, 2011

Benefit Japan 1

Posted March 24, 2011

Monstrous compilation to benefit Japan.

Get it here.

Part One:
1. Fennesz: “Fearless”
2. Helado Negro: “Cabeza Bella”
3. Stephan Mathieu: “(Excerpt from) The Floating World”
4. School of Seven Bells: “Midnight Sun”
5. Lawrence English: “Hotaru”
6. Noveller: “Darkheart”
7. Zeena Parkins: “The Letter”
8. Tom Carter (of Charalambides): “Mended”
9. Akron/Family: “Deep Kazoo”
10. The Ex: “Cold Weather Is Back”
11. Shinji Masuko (of Boredoms/DMBQ): “Botsuon”
12. Oneohtrix Point Never: “The Inside World”
13. Tokimonsta: “Sound Caves”
14. Joshua Abrams: “Jackdaws”
15. Keith Fullerton Whitman: “Anzac #3”
16. Ben Frost: “Snæugla”
17. David Daniell: “Shiho-hiru-tama”
18. Grouper: “Cassiopeia”
19. Tape: “Mirrors”
20. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma: “Moon in a Dewdrop”
21. D. Charles Speer: “Steel Infant”
22. Evan Caminiti (of Barn Owl): “Blue Veil”
23. Blackshaw, Wood, Wood & Tomlinson (James Blackshaw & Hush Arbors): “Are You Alright? (Chump Change)”
24. Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors): “In the Hollows”
25. Chris Forsyth & Shawn Edward Hansen: “Dirty Pool Blues”
26. Zelienople: “Stone Faced About It”
27. Elm (Jon Porras of Barn Owl): “Diamond Dust”
28. Lobisomem: “Kusha”
29. Stabbing Eastwood (Tunde Adebimpe & Ryan Sawyer): “Thundersnow Mountain”
30. Alan Licht & Greg Malcolm: “Natasha Utting Reporting”
31. Scott Tuma: “To: Hasty”
32. Rhys Chatham: “Prayer for the People of Fukushima”

Part Two:
33. Prefuse 73: “The Only Climactic Dissonant Hums”
34. Growing: “Untitled”
35. James Plotkin (of Khanate): “Broken ’96”
36. Totem Test: “Pulse Prayer for Japan”
37. Marcus Schmickler (of Pluramon): “2.71828 Up”
38. Tim Hecker: “Hatred of Music (Double Gate Mix)”
39. Sylvain Chauveau: “Colours in Darkness”
40. Bear In Heaven: “The Days We Have”
41. Spires That In The Sunset Rise with Michael Zerang: “Collision Theory”
42. C. Spencer Yeh: “Solo Violin March 13th 2011”
43. Lau Nau: “Oi Kuolema”
44. Oren Ambarchi: “Merely A Portmanteau”
45. Warm Ghost: “Uncut Diamond (Dripping Pollen Mix)”
46. Bradley & Geofrey (Atlas Sound + White Rainbow): “Mr. Stephen’s Private Service”
47. Peter’s House Music: “Half Step”
48. Leb Laze: “Da Plane Da Plane”
49. Matthewdavid: “Stop Laughing / Be Honest”
50. Sam Prekop: “Lakes River”
51. Simon Scott: “Of You (Before 2082)”
52. Tetuzi Akiyama/Jon Mueller/Jim Schoenecker: “Untitled”
53. Shelley Burgon: “Let It Be New”
54. Giant Sand: “Recovery Mission”
55. William Tyler: “Tears and Saints”
56. Mountains: “Still Life”
57. Ben Vida: “Quadsweep +2 (snkglazz iii)”
58. Maria Chavez: “Natural Disaster #2_2011”
59. Cleared: “Nova”
60. Neptune: “FIG IV”
61. Water Fai: “Tokitomori”
62. Parts & Labor: “Dokonimonai”
63. Jackie-O Motherfucker: “Blood of Life”
64. Greg Davis: “Sho Sai Myo Kichijo Dharani”