"A torn corner became the starting-point for new compositions, a chance rain blot the centre of an explosion, which then spread across further areas of the picture. The recognition of chance as the actual centre of Dada vitalised him and became in his hands the magic which imbued not only his work but his whole life."
Hans Richter speaking of Hans Arp
"For believe me the secret to realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as long as you cannot be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge!"
Neitzsche
Techniques to break from our robotic everyday life include use of accident, abstraction, truly random behaviour, spontaneous and unexpected acts. These go some way to bringing a real future into existence, not the inevitable robotic future we now experience. The real future is unknown and lies in what we can grab. Its time to learn to dream again and dream harder. I have been inching my own way forward into this future, now I take a leap. At this moment I live and die.
Ancient Records launches its Moment Series in style with the reissue of Moment No. 1 Secret Society 'Storm - To Remind & Transport' plus the 2nd and 3rd instalments in this on going series. New York sound designer Richard Kamerman and international collective Fuzzy Systems made the cut, their individual details below. Try our new easy to use PayPal ‘click to buy’ option on the Moment Series site at
http://www.freewebs.com/momentseries/artists.htmAlternatively you can now similarly browse the entire Ancient Records catalogue at
http://www.freewebs.com/ancientrecordssiteAncient Records 'Moment Series' asks artists to interpret the phrase 'To Stretch a Moment is to Live Outside Time'. The audio should ideally be at least 20 minutes in duration. This series will remain open to submissions till the end of time.
MOMENT NO. 1 To kick off the series Secret Society came up with the 69 minute ’Storm - To Remind & Transport’. A prolonged audio snapshot of a rain storm recorded with a wide frequency microphone. An effort to try and freeze time itself at that particular moment using frequency as a net. I hoped that somehow each captured detail might be enough, with a little imagination, to recreate this moment at playback. The 69 minute duration used to symbolise yin and yang, which I imagined, due to some ancient occult reason, might one day cause it to spin off into infinity on it's own momentum.
http://www.freewebs.com/stephenrennicksMOMENT NO. 2 New York sound designer Richard Kamerman submitted the 40 minute 'Vox Balaenae Redux'. His piece sounds like a moment stretched and seen from every conceivable angle. On listening I visualise a moment at sea, a boat capsized by a whale. It is every terror you experience as you first go under, including shock, dislocation and suffocation. This is the moment just before death, our human abyss, a place we will all experience but thankfully not all like this.
http://www.ruccas.org/index.php?richard%20kamermanMOMENT NO. 3 International collective Fuzzy Systems came up with ‘We are Floating in the Navel of Maha-Vishnu'. Because this track only reaches the 16 minute mark a Secret Society remix was necessary to bulk up the running time. This time Fuzzy Systems was Joshue O’Connor, Roger Lenoir and Fiona Guiheen. The track sounds like a slowly evolving mystical revelation, a slow flash like moment of contemplative illumination. Detail within detail, patterns repeating but revealing new sides, further possibilities, floating indeed.
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Just posted a rare and historic interview with a member of the elusive and legendary Supreme Dicks over at Hidden Classics.
http://www.freewebs.com/hiddenclassics/interviews.htmBlack Sea Project, the electronic collaboration between Stephen Rennicks and Tim Smyth made it's vinyl debut on 'Low Slung', a various artists 12" on Takeover Records. Album on the way. Details on this at their site
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http://www.drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.comAnd for the latest Things In My Bin check here as always
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Just posted a rare and historic interview with a member of the elusive and legendary Supreme Dicks over at Hidden Classics.
http://www.freewebs.com/hiddenclassics/interviews.htm
