dmtls Did a great write-up today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comThe first few lines are here:
No blogging for quite some time. University exams and almost unbearable summer heat prevented all activity. Merzbau officially now slips into summer hiatus. Back in full by Fall with some interesting collaborations. There will be a couple of more posts in […]
Entries Tagged as 'avant-garde'
Silence at the hunting lodge
June 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: avant-garde · experimental · music · Travel · photography · everyday life
fun with nuns in town!
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Made a great post today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comHere’s a summary….
Fun with Nuns on stage for another sonic assault, prepare!
31st of May @ Department Of Music Studies of A.U.T.H. university. Their act will be part of a Cage-ian Musicircus. No more info on other appearances, if you have any drop me a line.
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Tags: avant-garde · experimental · free jazz · improvisational · music · live · event/exhibition · free improvisation · concert · musicircus
sardines can opened to reveal a bunch of music
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Blogged something interesting today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comThe first few lines….
Another big update to merzbau trade / sell page. 44 items added [!]. Diamanda Galás, Tunguska-Guska [Ultra Rare], more Blood Stereo, more Residents, more Death In June, a couple of rare experimental/noise compilations, Pere Ubu, a rare Uchihashi Kazuhisa VHS video, a miscellany […]
Tags: avant-garde · experimental · music
Hermann Nitsch- Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters (cd20+21+22)
May 27th, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Posted something interesting today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comThe first bit is quoted here:
Not in the mood for much writing at the moment. For today a triple Hermann Nitsch treat.
cd 20 - tag 2
cd 21 - tag 2
cd 22 - tag 2
Read the rest of this great post here
Tags: 20th century composer · avant-garde · music · fluxus · Hermann Nitsch · Vienna Aktionists · grotesque
EMW 08
May 22nd, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Did an interesting post today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comHere’s a snippet:
I got to Warehouse ‘Art Factory’, where the festival was held, on the first day at about six twenty [opening was arranged for six o’ clock sharp]. I felt that it was not a really great idea to attend the opening of the festival […]
Tags: 20th century composer · avant-garde · experimental · music · event/exhibition · criticism/opinion · festival
The Tone Generation
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Posted something interesting today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comThe first few lines are here:
Check this:
Over 10 programmes, artist/musician Ian Helliwell delves into his archive to look at the development of electronic music right across the world in the classic era of analogue technology. Starting in Europe and finishing up in the Southern Hemisphere, he […]
Tags: 20th century composer · avant-garde · experimental · music · electronic music · podcast
D.D.A.A. play Ronsard
May 19th, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Posted something interesting today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comHere’s a snippet:
This obscure group of radical experimental noise makers used improvisation and collage to craft strange sounds and deconstructed songs for highly creative music that is as far off the path of conventions as that of similar but more known visionaries like the Residents and […]
Tags: avant-garde · experimental · music · DDAA
Hermann Nitsch- Das 6-Tage-Spiel Des Orgien Mysterien Theaters (cd18+19)
May 11th, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Blogged something interesting today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comHere’s a quick excerpt:
cd 18 - tag 2
cd 19 - tag 2
Note on the photo:
Relitti della 122 Aktion al Burgtheater
Fondazione Morra Palazzo dello Spagnuolo
via Vergini 19 - Napoli
dal 13/4/07 al 30/9/07 [via]
Get the full story here
Tags: 20th century composer · avant-garde · music · fluxus · Hermann Nitsch · Vienna Aktionists · grotesque
word from a friend / Satan bouche un coin
May 8th, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Did an interesting post today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comThe first bit is quoted here:
Today I got an email from my friend Mr. Stereotype, who is now pursuing his musical interests a little more intensively [reach him also @ his Myspace page]. He included a link to what at first seemed an interesting […]
Tags: avant-garde · art · video · fetish · Cinema · bizarre · surrealism · criticism/opinion · Pierre Molinier · short film
As if days were bigger / magazines
May 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
dmtls Did a great write-up today on dmtlsmerzbau.wordpress.comHere’s a summary….
…He [Sonny Blount a.k.a. Sun Ra] had developed insomnia, and seemed to never sleep except for brief moments of napping, usually at the keyboard in the middle of rehearsal. Instead of handicap, he saw it as a sign of potential greatness, and cited […]
Tags: avant-garde · music · art · photography · Culture · criticism/opinion · magazine · publication