this supposedly well known Australian visual artist was involved in a
project called "the quiet in the land: everyday life, contemporary art and
the shakers". where he lived in a Shaker village in Maine, by a lake, for
a month, and while blindfolded, painted and wrote poems and played
piano every day he was there. Apparently Burnt Friedman was given a
copy of the recordings and decided to release it on his Non-Place label
(thank god someone did); and what drew me to this random CD was first
the beautiful melancholic photography on the cover, and second the
packaging looked like it was from Non-Place.
this is an excerpt from the sleeve:
"... perceive architecture, city, continent or idea as a body,
dynamicised by its own internal energy-receiving and diffusing structure,
much like our bodies' energy-flows are regulated by the chakras. ...
in order to facilitate this proces I have sat blindfolded within each
body's centre from sunset to sunrise, through solstices, equinoxes,
equinoxes, eclipses and full-moons, all the while touoching the keys of a
piano. I believe that my own body and that of the piano might in this
context function as a receiver-transmitter, receiving/transmuting the
inaudible through my body and sub-sequently transmitting it as
keyboard-sound....
I sit blindfolded at the piano because it helps me to stay longer inside
each second; the paradox is that whilst so blindfolded I am able to "see"
more clearly than before, in this state the seeing becomes more important
than what ever can be seen, enabling one to reach deeper into the self
than any examination of form could ever acheive...
the resultant experience of "blind-listening" might remind us of the
paradox we encounter when, on being asked to describe the "inner" world,
we find it impossible to say what it is or how it is, nbut rather, on
looking at the evidence around us, all we can say is: "not-this".
I offer "not this" to you."
he supposedly has never taken a single piano lesson and knows next to
nothing about music. it is very very hard to believe because the playing
and composition are jaw droppingly gorgeous. if Satei and La
Monte had a kid together...
and look, there is a $2 copy on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...ords=Domenico+De+Clario&Go.x=12&Go.y=10&Go=Go
project called "the quiet in the land: everyday life, contemporary art and
the shakers". where he lived in a Shaker village in Maine, by a lake, for
a month, and while blindfolded, painted and wrote poems and played
piano every day he was there. Apparently Burnt Friedman was given a
copy of the recordings and decided to release it on his Non-Place label
(thank god someone did); and what drew me to this random CD was first
the beautiful melancholic photography on the cover, and second the
packaging looked like it was from Non-Place.
this is an excerpt from the sleeve:
"... perceive architecture, city, continent or idea as a body,
dynamicised by its own internal energy-receiving and diffusing structure,
much like our bodies' energy-flows are regulated by the chakras. ...
in order to facilitate this proces I have sat blindfolded within each
body's centre from sunset to sunrise, through solstices, equinoxes,
equinoxes, eclipses and full-moons, all the while touoching the keys of a
piano. I believe that my own body and that of the piano might in this
context function as a receiver-transmitter, receiving/transmuting the
inaudible through my body and sub-sequently transmitting it as
keyboard-sound....
I sit blindfolded at the piano because it helps me to stay longer inside
each second; the paradox is that whilst so blindfolded I am able to "see"
more clearly than before, in this state the seeing becomes more important
than what ever can be seen, enabling one to reach deeper into the self
than any examination of form could ever acheive...
the resultant experience of "blind-listening" might remind us of the
paradox we encounter when, on being asked to describe the "inner" world,
we find it impossible to say what it is or how it is, nbut rather, on
looking at the evidence around us, all we can say is: "not-this".
I offer "not this" to you."
he supposedly has never taken a single piano lesson and knows next to
nothing about music. it is very very hard to believe because the playing
and composition are jaw droppingly gorgeous. if Satei and La
Monte had a kid together...
and look, there is a $2 copy on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/s...ords=Domenico+De+Clario&Go.x=12&Go.y=10&Go=Go