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From the Deep Listening Site:
“Monique Buzzarté and Ellen Fullman began working together in June 2005. These collaborative compositions are rooted in tonalities that unfold with unexpected possibilities. Buzzarté’s trombone navigates and merges through an infinite array of distinct overtones from Fullman’s Long String Instrument. With slight timbral variations and pitch juxtapositions, sympathetic resonances articulate overtone colorations and threads of resultant melodic fragments emerge and intertwine.”

From Art Forum:

“Bruce Conner, a San Francisco-based artist known for his assemblages, films, drawings, and interdisciplinary works, passed away Monday afternoon. Conner moved to San Francisco in 1957 and quickly found his place within the city’s vibrant Beat community. His gauzy assemblages of scraps salvaged from abandoned buildings, nylon stockings, doll parts, and other found materials gained him art-world attention, as did A Movie (1958), an avant-garde film that juxtaposed footage from B-movies, newsreels, soft-core pornography, and other fragments, all set to a musical score. (In 1991, A Movie was selected for preservation by the United States National Film Registry at the Library of Congress.) Conner was active in the Bay Area’s 1960s counterculture scene, designing light shows for Family Dog performances at the Avalon Ballroom, and in the ’70s focused on drawing and photography. Art-world recognition resumed in the ’80s and continued to the present: Conner was included in the 1997 Whitney Biennial, the subject of a touring survey in 1999–2000, and is featured in the current Carnegie International. At Conner’s request, there will be no funeral.”

1: Analog or Digital?
A mix of the two, with a digital predominance. Got a Fostex R8 lying around that we should use more often…

2: What time did you wake up today?
Like every other day: at 4:50 am

3: Last thing you read?
Laura Kasischke’s “Boy Heaven”, a good frightening story; a Lester Bangs Biography; some parts of a book called “The Antipodes of the Mind” by Benny Shannon, a cognitive study of the type of vision you get under Ayahuasca, the Amazonian psychotropic brew; a comic book by Alison Bedchel called “Fun Home”… also reading again “A prayer for the dying” by Stewart O’Nan…

4: Whats your first memory?
Got several ones… I can’t put them in order: I remember seeing myself in a mirror being bathed (in a red plastic little bath) by my mother; being crept out by a dummy dressed in a blue workman suite at the front of a shop then dreaming that this artificial dude came to where I lived and kidnapped me in my baby bed; the very first movie I’ve seen, Pinocchio, I was one year old, I remember only parts of the movie (the nightmarish episode where bad Childs are changed into donkeys on an island (??!), not sure about the island, I‘ve never watched it again since…) and the translucent stars on the ceiling of the theatre…

5: Tea Or Coffee?
Coffee!

6: Last thing you cooked?
A chili, I guess, or some oat/soja milk pancakes… never throw myself in complicated recipes, anyway…

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
With the full conscience of what I was before as a human being? It could not function with animals or stones or trees I think: a human sense of his own body would be displaced in an animal or tree form… It could not function with another human, neither: I guess you can’t inhabit the body of someone else, cause you are your body, if you’re in the body of someone else, you are not yourself anymore. The only way to be reborn is as exactly the same, but you’ve got to wait that all the factors (psychological, historical, sociological, physiological etc…) that makes you what you were happen again so yeah, you’ll be reborn. Don’t know if I make sense here… But ok, if I can be reborn into the form I want, if there’s such things as soul(s) travelling from one form to another that keeps the imprint of past lives, I ‘d like to be reborn as a girl, or an animal such as a whale or a giant wolf, or any form-shifter being!

8: What inspires you?
Places, people, art, movies especially…

9: Last record you played?
Cotton Eyed Joe by Karen Dalton

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
Kramer DMZ 2000, Akai Headrush and/or Boss DD-20, e-bow… I like tambourines too, voice… damn, I can’t make up my mind!

11: Last movie you saw?
George Romero’s Diary of the dead, I really liked it!

12: Who do you love?
Solange

13: Do you have any pets?
Yeah, a cat named Inuk. But regarding the personality of His Majesty, I am probably the pet of Inuk.

14: Are you useful?
I guess there are situations where I can be totally of use and others, well, I ‘d better not be around…

15: Biggest fear?
Losing my hands

16: What do you value the most?
Love, trust, dedication, solitude, rebellion, this wild part in anyone that is uncontrollable…

17: Famous last words?
Moose… Indian (Henry David thoreau)

Mehdi Ameziane lives in Vitre, France with Solange Gularte where he makes art and music. Alone he is TwinSisterMoon, with Ms. Gularte, Natural Snow Buildings. A more in-depth interview can be found on the Foxy Digitalis page here.

Palais de Mari (1986)
Morton Feldman

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John Tilbury: Piano

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Popol Vuh – Spirit Of Peace – MP3

1: Analog or Digital?
If I have a choice, analog, no doubt. And if we’re talking LP vs. CD, I’ll take an LP everytime. MP3…ungh, forget it. I don’t even have an Ipod. But having said that, I have some digital effect pedals that I love using and I buy and listen to CDs all the time, for sure. And I’ll record on anything that I have access to, so it’s just a matter of what I can get my hands on. Personally, analog is just more fun cause an old reel-to-reel is like driving a Volkswagen—you’re at the helm of a slightly rickety machine, and I like that. I get enough of sitting in front of a computer at my day job.

2: What time did you wake up today?
5:45 am—Ouch, got a toddler in the house so no more late mornings.

3: Last thing you read?
Last Town on Earth by Thomas Mullen.

4: What’s your first memory?
Earthquake…specifically, running down the hallway into my parents’ bedroom during that earthquake.

5: Tea Or Coffee?
Tea, green…or wine, red….or beer…

6: Last thing you cooked?
Not much of a cook, but one of the few things I can usually pull off is salmon in a little garlic and olive oil which I’m sure I must have done in the last week or so. Everything else I leave to the professionals—my wife, the taqueria, the pizza joint…

7: If you’re reborn who or what would you like to be?
I don’t know, it’s all one big thing anyway. I’ll go for a tree.

8: What inspires you?
Slogging through the day job, the traffic, and all the hassles of daily life and responsibility just to get a spare few moments to play some music…nothing like a good fight to summon the muse, eh?

9: Last record you played?
That mysterious Thai LP on Mississippi records.

10: Favorite piece of musical equipment?
Black telecaster built out of scrap parts.

11: Last movie you saw?
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

12: Who do you love?
My family.

13: Do you have any pets?
Yes, a cat named Blue.

14: Are you useful?
I doubt it, but it’d be nice to think so.

15: Biggest fear?
The direction the world is headed in.

16: What do you value the most?
Being here.

17: Famous last words?
Shit, what happened?

Steven R. Smith is a visual artist & musician who lives in L.A. with his family. He has made many a good record with the group mind known as Thuja as well as in his own name and under the monikers of Hala Strana & Ulaan Khol. Keep up to date with his busy schedule here.

Plenty of interesting jamz coming out of Finland these days. Where they all were last time I visited Helsinki, I don’t know. From the looks of this video, they all live in the woods up in Lapland near the Arctic Circle. Check it!