Did You Make It Clear?

In the 4.5 years I was in highschool, I think I learned 4, maybe 5 important things that have stuck with me. One of them being a principal technique in Theatre class where you analyse your character’s lines and determine their intention for everything they say or do. You should apply this to your IRL communications.

Interpersonal relationships are about the well-roundedness of communication. If you are to be a good friend/companion/whatever, you have to be many things to that person, not just one thing.

 If everything coming out of your mouth is “informing/explaining” and not, for example, “imagining/inquiring/sympathizing/” you are failing at communication.

 And sometimes our jobs or social roles force us to rely heavily on one mode of communication and neglect others. If you are a manager/boss/parent, you are spending large amounts of time “correcting/disciplining/instructing” and before long you may discover that you are doing this communicating with everyone around you (spouse, friends, parents), which is bad.

I can’t remember where I read this, but it suggested that most casual human interactions are really just “emotional check-ins” and we treat interactions as simply opportunities for selfish self-preservation or validation. Pretty depressing.

Hermann Nitsch 

Harmoniumwerk

Maria Wnęk (1922-2005)

It’s officially the Era of Dionysus. Who would have predicted that the erosion of institutional trust would also eviscerate trust in the scientific method? I predict the future will be techno-shamanist in nature. We already spend 90% of our time bewitched by magic (technology). It’s the era where people will look up into the clouds and get their truths there rather than from PhDs and talking heads. 

Crimes on The Dancefloor (1985), Janitor of Lunacy.

Festival Variations : Kali Malone

Kali Malone shares the premier of her new compositions for choir and meantone tempered chest organs performed by Macadam Ensemble, Stephen O’Malley and herself at Variations Festival. Kali Malone’s music implements specific tuning systems in minimalist structure for pipe organ, choir, chamber music ensembles, and electroacoustic formats. 

Kali's music is rich with harmonic texture through synthetic and acoustic instrumentation in repetitive motions and extended durations. The music emits distinct dynamic and emotive hues which bring forth a stunning depth of focus. 

 All music composed by Kali Malone 

Published by Mute Song 

 Kali Malone: chest organ 

 Stephen O’Malley: chest organ 

 Macadam Ensemble 

Conducted by Etienne Ferchaud

 Bruno Le Levreur: countertenor 

Benjamin Ingrao: tenor I 

Matthieu Le Levreur: tenor II 

Unicornis Captivatur (14th c.)

Lieselot de Wilde - voice and calcant 

Catalina Vicens - organ

The unicorn is taken captive, 

And presented to the king’s chamber 

From the snare of the hunters; 

The serpent is raised up from a rod, 

And the wounded is healed 

From the viper’s poison. 

 Sing Alleluia! 

For the dying lamb 

Sing Alleluia! Shout Alleluia! 

For the conquering lion. 

 Life returns to the wounded Pelican: and hose prostrate 

By wretched death for their sins; 

The light of the Phoenix is burned up, 

And consumed are the ancient Sins of the world 

 Sing Alleluia! 

For the dying lamb 

Sing Alleluia! Shout Alleluia! 

For the conquering lion. 

 The hydeus enters the crocodile, 

Robs him of his entrails, kills him, 

And thence living returns; 

For three days the lion slept, 

He whom the rearing King revived, 

 Sing Alleluia! 

For the dying lamb 

Sing Alleluia! Shout Alleluia! 

Costin Miereanu (1944-)

I. Jardins Oubliés

II. Jardins Désertés

Iancu Dumitrescu describes his musical praxis as orphic, that the composer sets up space for a ritual, guides the listener through it, while simultaneously detaching himself from the effects of the ritual itself. In the case of Dumitrescu this makes more sense when you understand that he has his own ensemble to play his compositions, which use alternative notation systems to express this reality, and that he usually conducts his works.