dub housing

 

(Bill Brandt, Rainswept Roofs, 1933)

“In Baltimore they had these row houses - we were driving through while on tour - and somebody said ‘oh, look dub housing” 

- Scott Krauss, Pere Ubu

musique de bouche (Tazartès of noises)

 Sasha Frere-Jones on Ghédalia Tazartès in New Left Review blog Sidecar 

"He often said that his life as a musician began at the age of twelve, when his grandmother died. The story goes that Tazartès went into the woods, dug a hole, and then sang so loudly that the ducks on the lake began to shake

"‘My wife worked with him at Phydor, a biscuit factory’, [label boss Philippe] Conrath told me. ‘He would sing while he was loading the cookies onto a truck. I knew he was singing something very, very, very, very strange’. "

"My favourite of his albums, une éclipse totale de soleil, came out in 1983 on Cobalt. It has not softened over time. Singing and tape edits create an immersive bad trip over the course of two very long tracks, birdsong and rhythmic pips jump cutting to fried pulses and vorpal growls"

száj zene (phonopoetica)

 

check out the piece in the August issue of The Wire by Louise Gray on Katalin Ladik's career and new release Water-Angels

united united defeated divided

 

Frederic Rzewski RIP

the source for this?

Deleuzian pickles

 

mouth music (RIP Diego Cortez)

 

"The Traumdeutung project began in 1999 with a one-hour recording of my snoring into a DAT player placed next to my bed in my NYC loft. My snores, re-contextualized here in musical arrangements produced by Arto Lindsay and Alexandre Kassin, range from the mild and blissful to the vulgar and catastrophic. My original intention was to turn something awful into something listenable or, at least, amusing. However, in the mixing stage, unexpected results were revealed and oblique references came into play. The human snore, if slowed down as we did several times in the studio searching for editing points, is almost identical to the sounds of plaintive underwater whales. In listening to these mixes one follows the moods, if not the actual narratives, of the dreamer -- sudden changes in snoring clearly result from changes within inner narratives. These are abstract matters, as we can only witness such inner events through a series of filters. Traumdeutung, the album, is linked to the modern bossa music of Brazil. The meditative or relaxation-inducing aspect of that music is hyper-conceptualized and exaggerated here. Bossa nova drummer Paulo Braga was first asked to accompany the bare snoring track. Later musicians and friends added parts -- guitar, bass, keyboards, samples, etc. Four tracks with spoken conversations are on the album, two in German, one in Portuguese and one in Japanese. The most satisfying result of this project was to create an opportunity for a listener to read or interpret the stream of thought of the snorer -- what brut moods, feelings and narratives exist within it. In these awkward and displaced sounds we can witness abstract processes of telepathy and psychic communication." 

--Diego Cortez (scenester and mover-shaker involved in No Wave era New York, co-founder Mudd Club, organized the epochal downtown art show New York/New Wave etc - who died last week)

det var i morgen

DR tv 1963 om Jørgen Plaetner

object-ion overruled

This academic essay "rethinking the concept of sexual objectification" (inspired by Cardi & Megan's "WAP") made me think of the radical feminist agit-prop street theater at the Miss America pageant of '68 (they staged a fake cattle auction)

based on this advert

and then of this video, which is quite putrid - unfortunately, given that the song just as a sound - and as vocal texture - is one of my favorite pop moments of the last 2 or 3 years

and then this one is thematically ah linked 

I remembering reading in the Female Eunuch about belittling endearments that used the language of treats and foodstuffs - honey pie, sugarplum, sweetie, love muffin  etc etc - and nodding as a stern, ideologically vigilant 16 -year-old fan of Delta 5* and the other unisex postpunkers (the scouring power of dour etc)

still there is an undeniable similarity between the two kinds of oral gratification, the senses of taste, smell and mouth-feel are both activated...  

* D5's scouring power of dour now harnessed for communicative capitalism

mouth music (rotatey flowerpot)

 

(via David Stubbs)

catmouth music