Artist does not create ex nihilo . Artist, I feel, is in a stream he sits there but things go through him. He is pierced by thoughts and by movements. Anselm Kiefer I am interested in fluidity. And for me, the interesting thing is that it changes. It has always to change. […] I was always…
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magic and fantasy and labour of creating the first animated movement
Charlotte Lotte Reiniger was a German film director and the pioneer of animation. Her film “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” that she begun making in 1923 and released in 1926 was the first and the oldest surviving feature-length animated film. Reiniger made more than 70 films over her career. Reiniger fled Germany to England in…
“Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. Frida Kahlo
Preisser and LaVelle: moving the 30’s and 40’s
June Preisser warming up and “getting the kinks out” in Babes in Arms (1939). Miriam LaVelle, acrobatic tap dancer routine in Seven Days Ashore (1944)
forever walking after her own freedom
«and the furthest remoteness is nearest to the nearest closeness» – Ljubica. Marić, Zapisi (Scripts) The Fantasia of Emancipated Expressiveness Whether coincidence or a sign, Ljubica Marić was born practically on then same day when the first atonal composition (Schoenberg’s Three Piano Pieces Op.11) was composed. In the time when music in Serbia was mainly focused on vocal…
Ten years ago today… a Star-Knower died. Only to give birth to future
It seems only appropriate to start this post with simply putting this here: And it would be easy to just also finish here. Because this music… it tells tales that words cannot do justice.But, as this specific piece, and performance, also carry a very personal meaning, and a tale, I will proceed. I didn’t know…
Farewell Jonas Mekas
I do not feel like doing anything today. I want to listen to music Jonas Mekas, the 365 Day Project – Friday January 12th 2007 http://jonasmekasfilms.com/365/day_test.php?month=1&day=12
Yes! Sa(o)undE(a)rs
“… the physicality of the listening experience becomes all the more emphasised I think through working spatially. As composers we always think of course spatially, we don’t just hear this dry thing in our head, the music does not live until it is moving and it is being carried through space and the physicality of…
… only the mobiles were exactly what they were, and nothing else.
“The man said: “That was what they were supposed to do… ” He said: “Everybody saw something different after all depending on the way they looked at the mobiles… only the mobiles were exactly what they were, and nothing else…” from “Works of Calder” by Herbert Matter Calder loved all kind of experiments… with music……
Within Atoui’s Within
This is not usually a place I would write about a work/piece/performance I participated in (setting aside now the ongoing battle of thoughts on who is the performer who creator who recipient and if and how blurred those lines are…), but taking in account that it is an experience that had such an impact, and…