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[afilmthatdoesntexist]

the day is finally here - Selfless, my new album, is now officially out on Constellation Records. this is my first physical release, and with a label - not only can you hear my album, you can actually own a copy this time!

you can hear the album here - https://jonivoid.bandcamp.com/album/selfless and purchase a copy here - http://cstrecords.com/cst125/

eternal love and gratitude to Natalie, Ayuko, Ogun and Ky, for making the songs exist, and to Constellation for making the album happen - and a multitude of other friends that would take forever to list, who have supported me and this album during the process, and helped its existence.

i hope you'll feel this album - it is a much more cathartic, abstract, dark approach to my music, compared to my previous output, but definitely is more cohesive, conceptual and thematic. it is more of a work of editing and collage than musical composition/traditional song-writing. the album is intended to represent an out-of-body experience, through any means necessary - music, cinema, art, death, drugs, mental or physical illness... it is a "projection", in the various meanings of the word. despite the title, it is definitely a very personal, very thought-out body of work, filled with meanings and details that are hidden in multiple layers of subjectivity.

oh and i've gotten more press today than in my 7 previous years of making music lol

this one is very special - today also happens to be Delia Derbyshire's 80th birthday, which you might know is my personal goddess, so this is the most wonderful coincidence I could ask for. for the occasion, The Quietus are premiering a Selfless outtake, Li De La, which is (almost) entirely made from a Delia Derbyshire piece, "Circle Of Light", and the title is one of her pseudonyms. So if the album wasn't enough for you, here's an extra song, along with some words from me about Delia and her impact in my life http://thequietus.com/articl…/22352-jean-cousin-is-joni-void

Boomkat have a really spot-on thought-out review of the album https://boomkat.com/…/selfless-822a3f88-706d-40ae-a556-da61…

Exclaim also wrote some very endearing words about it http://exclaim.ca/music/article/joni_void-selfless

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

first mix under the new moniker, for Acte, has just been released!really proud about this one - solid selection of "experimental techno", a dark, cathartic sonic journey, filled with intense sound design, gritty textures and carefully crafted noise. even contains an exclusive outtake from my forthcoming album, Selfless. major reppin' of susy.technology, as it features a song from each artist from the collective, alongside Kazuki Koga, who I will be sharing the stage with for the album release in May! (event coming soon). also includes my special friends Arandel & Noah; and a piece by Constellation Records label mate Jason Sharp. and, other musical obsessions, as usual. don't Acte like I didn't warn you.if you have a lot of tension you have to release, this mix might help!  “A.Mix 7! Joni Void presents his first mix under his new moniker (R.I.P johnny_ripper) - a dark, cathartic sonic journey, filled with intense sound design, gritty textures and carefully crafted noise. Includes selected tracks from local favorites Kazuki Koga, the artists of susy.technology, Constellation label-mate Jason Sharp, special friends Noah & Arandel, plus other musical obsessions. TRACKLIST : 1. Joni Void - Disorder 2. Valeda - Under Ice 3. Witnessing - Strangle 4. T - Calculator 5. Jason Sharp - In The Construction Of The Chest, There Is A Heart 6. Zamilska - Duel 35 7. Lakker - Maeslantkering Gating 8. Kyoka - Smash/Hush 9. Kazuki Koga - Cascades 10. Dominic Scherrer - Car Alarm Symphony 11. Moor Mother - Deadbeat Protest 12. Emptyset - Speak 13. Shapednoise - Intruder 14. Toxe - Xic 15. Youth Code - Wear The Wounds (Clipping. Remix) 16. /||\||\ - Unlove 17. Noah - Tadzio 18. Arandel - Interlude (2nd Variation On Section 7)” (Acte)

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

j'aimerais beaucoup te voir en concert à Paris

ça peut se faire :)

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

What is this?

This is the internet

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

hello Tumblr, it’s been so long. more than a year in fact. i feel a bit weird for ghosting here, because this was a place where i was definitely getting some genuine interaction and sharing, and with content that i connect much more personally to. however, i come back with some surreal and life-changing news.  2 weeks ago, it was announced that I signed to Constellation Records, with a new moniker, Joni Void, and my forthcoming album Selfless to be released on May 5th (on Delia Derbyshire’s birthday!). this album i’ve been working on the past 2 years, is an exploration of a more dark, cathartic side of my music, and emphasizing the “editing” nature of it, by containing no musical composition of my own, only using samples, one-shots and external sound sources. despite the title, it is an incredibly deep personal album, with lots of thought put on it, and definitely more concise as an album/work of art, than my johnny_ripper releases. it means the world that you all will be able to hear it finally, after keeping it to myself for so long. and finally in a different manner than my own digital self releases, as the Constellation family are the most caring people in making this record happen on their label, in a beautiful physical form. speaking of which, you can pre-order the album on their website page for it, which also includes a spot-on biography/description, but also the first song revealed from it - Dissociation, an “a-capella” techno song made entirely from vocals of my dearest friend Ky (who performs as Nag, and with Lungbutter), except for the kick and a “key-in-door” snare sound.  all this means that “johnny_ripper” has come to an end. however the previous albums will still remain under that name, except for To Alter Realities EP, because that was really the Joni Void debut/prequel to Selfless. anyway, so much to look forward to, more to be revealed. in the meantime, i hope to be more present on this website again. also, my asks are always open, so if you’d like to say something, be my guests. much love 

[nemfrog]

Art catalogue, cover. Enclosing the void : eight contemporary sculptors : Whitney Museum of Art at Equitable Center, November 11, 1988-January 25, 1989. Published 1988.

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

5 songs about the intangible nature of reality, and what lies beyond our perception. Released May 13th 2016 (download)

[mizoguchi]

Revenge/Mest (Yermek Shinarbayev, 1989)

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

“sometimes i hate to think that i exist in other people's heads to think that there are nonconsensual perceptions of me that i have scarcely any control of fashioning i am shaped by their past, not mine

shaped by the light shining forth from every mother's womb into that of the earth which is a different tone for everybody and casts their life ethereally accordingly to the hue that this ray has taken

Camus wrote that we exist as these dichotomies - who we believe ourselves to be and what we are perceived as the latter reminds me of the fruit whose beginning and whose end is forgotten because people only fare attention to it's ripening, when it is ready for the taking presented prettily and perfectly, when its at it's most fruitful so to speak when you can get the most from it

but do you know what a lime tree looks like in the spring? have you ever thought about the juxtaposition of the apple pit in the plastic bag? does it make you feel anything?

sometimes i hate to think that I make other people feel that my mother has shed tears for me i remember some nights ago rolling a spliff mind trance-like, rambling i saw her hands in my own and recognized her voice in mine sometimes I wonder if i'm easy to forget my hands my words

whenever it so happens that i catch a stranger's gaze on the street i try my best to smile and dreamily wonder whether they too feel rapture from ephemeral connections i like to linger on the impressions of those to whom i exist merely as a body cloaked in cloth, abstracted minds, earbuds spewing indeterminacy, kicking salt stained boots forth trying not to slip on ice they'll remember me so simply, so simply as i remember them, as i've invented them

isn't it strange that we can fall in love with the idea of someone? isn't it strange that everyone you know, you don't really know. you've painted a picture of them in your head, picasso-like fragments of reality and everyone you know exists differently to everyone else like schrodinger's cat, do i exist if you cannot see me? is it really me that you'll remember then?

i think in order to know someone, you must have seen them all alone or have some notion of that rawness when they're waking stretching dancing in the morning truthful still naked still dazed in dreams while coffee coats their singing tongue

and the rising sun paints them for who they are” [S E L F L E S S]

[nemfrog]

Year in review

[odd-castles-deactivated]

19 tracks inspired from ‘Our Hearts are Beating Pt. 2’; a showcase featuring Qualiatik, Emily Reo, Yohuna, Uxvie, Shakai Mondai, and Fin on Oct. 19 at Silent Barn

oddcastles.com/oct-19/

Keep reading

[prtls]

Photo Essay: CMJ 2015 (Portals + Stadiums & Shrines)

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

Portals & Stadiums & Shrines have posted some really gorgeous photos from the magical CMJ event in the church on the 16th. there's one set here http://bit.ly/1KtV5Lj and the other http://bit.ly/1GminYw

[prtls]

We’re excited to announce our latest collaboration with Stadiums & Shrines. 

[nevver]

[nevver]

Born on this day, T. S. Eliot

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

soundtrack for a film that doesn’t exist is 2 years old today. this is what my life sounded like during a year. 

[afilmthatdoesntexist]

it’s been 4 years now, and this post is still more active than 90% of all my other posts.

[folms]

Frankly, have you ever heard of anything stupider than to say to people, as they teach in film schools, not to look at the camera?

Sans Soleil (Sunless, 1983) Directed by Chris Marker

[natashasarayoung]

don’t: a film of films directed by johnny_ripper

premiere via highway magazine