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Ancient To Modern

Bringing sound and ancestral voices into the world -

Joan La Barbara - As lightning comes, in flashes

David Hykes - Behind all this Going, Going toward Oneself

Hildegard von Bingen - De sancta Maria (Responsorio)

Enjoy

Ancient Electronica

Reissued on vinyl and download

Bernard Parmegiani ‎– Mémoire Magnétique, Vol​ 1. [1966-1990] - (2018 - Compilation)

Tracklist:

A1. Indicatif Pour L'Émission "Stade 2" (Version Inédite)
A2. La Guerre Des Insectes I
A3. L'Herbe Rouge I
A4. Je Tu Elles
A5. Versailles​.​.​.​ Peut​-​être I
A6. La Guerre Des Insectes II
A7. Opération Ypsilon
A8. Image De Marque I (Extrait)
A9. L'Herbe Rouge II
B1. La Ville En Haut De La Colline I
B2. Image De Marque II
B3. Abel-Abeth
B4. La Guerre Des Insectes III
B5. Versailles​.​.​.​ Peut​-​être II
B6. La Ville En Haut De La Colline II
B7. Récession
B8. Versailles​.​.​.​ Peut​-​être III

In a year which also saw the reissue of Bernard Parmegiani’s sci-fi soundtracks (on WRWFWW’s similarly excellent Les Soleils De L’Île De Pâques/La Brûlure De Mille Soleils release) this collection of what Transversales Disques termed “commercial and secret music” added yet another dimension to our appreciation of the French electronic/acousmatic composer.

Ancient To Modern #2

Ancient texts and spirituals meet electronica -

ARIADNE - Stabat Mater

ABOUT STABAT MATER:
Stabat Mater is a 20 movement cycle of audio/visual ecstatic visions from experimental sacred audio/visual duo ARIADNE. The cycle is being released as a purely musical work on cassette tape and as an interactive audio/visual web-based experience. Stabat Mater is heavily inspired by the visions of female Christian mystics Hildegard von Bingen and Teresa of Avila. The lyrics for Stabat Mater include adaptations of writings from these mystics fused together with text taken from surrealist poet Aase Berg’s With Deer and Dark Matter (both translated by Johannes Göransson and published by Black Ocean).

DIGITAL / WebGL:
The audio/visual version of the album is implemented as a web-based 3D interactive experience, wherein each of the 20 visions are depicted as an integrated audio/visual experience. The visuals are generative and use real-time audio analysis, physics simulation and user input to determine the animation so that each experience is unique.

BIOGRAPHY:
ARIADNE is an experimental sacred music and new media art duo whose work explores the intersection of mysticism, dream analysis and the failure of digital systems through a synthesis of music performance, digital and interactive art, poetry and dramatic experience. Much of ARIADNE’s output consists of interactive audio/visual performances which employ custom built hardware and software, real-time 3D animation, and machine learning to create immersive and captivating experiences. ARIADNE’s body of work includes feature-length audio/visual albums, web-based virtual reality, and a/v installations.

DIGITAL – audio stream & download
http://ariadne-music.bandcamp.com/alb...
WebGL – interactive audio/visual experience
http://www.ariadnedigital.net/release...
CASSETTE – physical audio relic
http://aurisapothecary.org/shop/ariad...

Sunday Slouching

We had a bright sunny morning. However, it did not last. Clouded over by midday. Alas, another ephemeral moment in time.

Most of the morning I was listening to downloads from BBC Radio 3 and some YouTube vids. I particularly like the electroacoustic stuff that is coming my way. I totally recommend both Bandcamp and ElectroCD for such electronic byways. Check out Hildegard Westerkamp, Francois Bayle and Bernard Parmegiani and both have mp3's you can listen to before committing any purchase.

Saturday I had a package of bits n' bobs from my brother. It included a quality pen, four notebooks, art pencil set and three paperbacks.





He has also sent something from Amazon to arrive for tomorrow. I do not know what it is as yet.

Meanwhile, I am listening to the Nico tribute CD - Killer Road. The album is a collaboration between Soundwalk Collective and Jesse Paris Smith with Patti Smith on the poetry side. Jesse has also collaborated with Laurie Anderson on the Songs From The Bardo CD.
Both worth checking out.

Time for another coffee.

Book 9 -Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton "Escape from the Antarctic"

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton "Escape from the Antarctic" (Penguin Great Journeys)





Sometimes when you read these 'mini' books they're too short to make much of an impact.

This is such an absolutely outstanding account of human doggedness and strength of character that it will remain with you forever.
Stuck in an Antarctic camp, with winter approaching, low rations, and some men unable to continue, Shackleton and his five best men, leave the other twenty-two and go to seek help. Braving an 800-mile voyage, in a very primitive boat across the gale-tossed Southern Ocean, (endless baling; minimal food; shifts on duty relieved by a rest in a cold wet sleeping bag); they finally reach South Georgia and the whaling stations.

It then requires a superhuman journey through uncharted land....glaciers, crevasses, waterfalls. Their initial 'reasonably comfortable' billet in a cave has 15-foot icicles in the doorway. Leaving three of the six at the camp, Shackleton, Worsley, and Crean set out for the final stage to find help...the most moving passage is their first intimation that they'd done it:
"At 630 am, I thought I heard the sound of a steam whistle. I dared not be certain, but I knew that the men at the whaling station would be called from their beds about that time. Descending to the camp I told the others and in intense excitement, we watched the chronometer for seven o'clock, when the whalers would be summoned to work. Right to the minute the steam whistle came to us, borne clearly on the wing across the intervening miles of rock and snow.....It was the first sound created by the outside human agency that had come to our ears since we left Stromness Bay in December 1914."

But there are still more hazardous miles to cross, always thinking of the two abandoned groups of comrades waiting on them. And even on arrival, there is still much to go wrong as successive boats have to be summoned from various local countries, but fail, repeatedly to reach the first group due to encroaching pack ice...

Completely unputdownable. The reader will never forget the utter grimness of their experience:
"Supper consisting of a pannikin of hot milk, one of our precious biscuits, and a cold penguin leg each."
"The chafing of our legs by our wet clothes, which had not been changed now for seven months."
"The soup , which was particularly good that day, consisting of boiuled seal's backbone, limpets and seaweed