Body Text Music[k]

A place to gather thoughts about bodies, space, place, text, voice and their relationship to music and critical theories

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This amazing wee instrument mechanically gyrates to the waves

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Sunday Morning Thought

This morning as my porridge boiled, I watched a plastic blanket dance in the intersection of two streets Near the kitchen window. The kind of grey white blanket that covers the scratchable surfaces on electronics goods when they are packed.

It fluttered and floated at the cars passing by for a few minutes, then disappeared down the street. I had thought it gone.

Then it came back, surprising me by walking sidewards back along the pavement by the side of the shiny black Audi parked on the corner.

Then it circled around the boot of the car and flew off down the street. Now I glance out my bedroom window at the shopping catalogues stumbling about.

I feel this is the time of visual silence, the time to watch trash: http://www.futureacoustic.com/silence/

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Matt Hilvers, Culture (Car)(Positioned), 2019, oil on canvas, 48 × 52 inches

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»in honorem sanctae crucis [de laudibus sanctae crucis]« by rabanus maurus (780–856)

have a look at the complete work here

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overpainting »monotony is a virtue, repetition is a strength, practice makes progress« by dana sederowsky

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»sunset with words« by ghada amer

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[wired]

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Legendary Australian performance artist Stelarc is known for going to extremes, from aggressive voluntary surgeries and robotic third arms to flesh-hook suspensions and prosthetics. For more than four decades, he has used his body as a canvas for art on the very edge of human experience: He once ingested a “stomach sculpture” that could have killed him…

The long sleeves of Stelarc’s black jacket conceal the notorious “Ear on Arm” project, in which a “biocompatible scaffold” was surgically inserted into his left forearm in 2006, creating the shape of an ear in an arduous ongoing process.

“At present it’s only a relief of an ear,” Stelarc said. “When the ear becomes a more 3-D structure we’ll reinsert the small microphone that connects to a wireless transmitter.” In any Wi-Fi hotspot, he said, it will become internet-enabled. “So if you’re in San Francisco and I’m in London, you’ll be able to listen in to what my ear is hearing, wherever you are and wherever I am.”

Read more @ Underwire.

Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired

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Making the Predator Noise (by Fletcher901)

Uvula stroking the top of one's narrow throat making me feel sick

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Women's underwear if you are Italian and poor at English

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One Stanza

humbles me; the antipodean

in me

cries out for the comfort now

of a meatcheeseshake sealed 

in a pastry coffin.

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Amoxcalli (1998)

Carmen Cano

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Sami Viljanto via seanblr

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“If I paint a color I don’t like, I don’t change it. I try to modify it by the next line, or something that comes down lower. So, in some weird way I see it as a form of jazz. Improvisation. You can’t take back a note, but you can play a note later on that makes that note the right note. That’s the game.”

Mel Bochner Babble, 2011 oil and acrylic on two canvases overall: 254 x 215.9cm

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Onomatopoeia

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Cat Tails - the question mark? (2004)

Tracey Allyn Greene

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David Byrne on how space influenced music's development