from marco giovenale:

there's a new ebook at http://www.scribd.com/differxhost:
"Killer Chrome", by David-Baptiste Chirot
see
http://differx.blogspot.com/2009/11/killer-chrome-dbchirot.html
and
http://www.scribd.com/doc/22212352/D-B-Chirot-Killer-Chrome

:)
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Babalith (http://www.myspace.com/babalith) «Litany to the Moon»
music video, Ruela, 2009

We hereby declare our unconditional solidarity with the five Serbian anarcho-syndicalists who have been imprisoned since September the 4th, facing the charge of “international terrorism.” Tadej Kurep, Ivan Vulović, Sanja Dojkić, Ratibor Trivunac and Nikola Mitrović, all members of Sindikalna konfederacija Anarho-sindikalistička inicijativa (ASI), were arrested some days after an action of solidarity with the Greek activist, and then-hunger striker, Thodoris Iliopoulos. The target of this action was the Greek embassy in Belgrade.

The Serbian authorities used the slight damages caused to the building of the Greek embassy as a pretext in order to exercise their repressive powers, labeling the members of ASI as “terrorist” and detaining them with no substantial evidence of their actual involvement in this so-called crime of damaging the façade of a building. It is not the building, of course, that concerns the Serbian police; neither is it the symbolism, per se, of an attack against the embassy of another state: the real impact of international solidarity and radical politics, with a view towards social emancipation, is what makes them transgress the limits of their supposed democracy, so as to imprison militants through farcical procedures.

Ratibor Trivunac, one of the accused, is a friend of the international surrealist movement. But surrealism is not an exclusive club of personal relations, any more than it is one of mere aesthetic affinities. We consider as our brothers all these five persecuted Serbian militants (and the sixth, Ivan Savic, who was arrested some days later) because their cause, their choice to live and to struggle for another, liberated life, is one that we share. When a state lays its oppressive hand upon one of us, we must all feel the threat to our freedom, we must all take a stand with those who risk being deprived of their elementary freedoms because they are determined to fight, here and now, for real universal freedom.

We demand the immediate release of our five comrades and friends!
The passion for freedom is stronger than any of your prisons!

Athens Surrealist Group:
Grigoris Apostolides, Giannis Golfinopoulos, Manolis Daskalos, Alexandra Halkias, Diamantis Karavolas, Vangelis Koutalis, Sotiris Liontos, Helias Melios, Lefki Mossou, Makis Perdikomatis, Nikos Stabakis, Theoni Tambaki, Marianna Xanthopoulou, Giannis Xourias.

Nicosia: Kostas Reousis.

Leeds Surrealist Group:
Gareth Brown, Stephen J. Clark, Kenneth Cox, Luke Dominey, Jan Drabble, Bill Howe, Caroline Jeffs, Sarah Metcalf, Mike Peters, Peter Overton, Martin Trippett.

Surrealist London Action Group (SLAG):
Paul Cowdell, Merl Fluin, Aniano Henrique, Patrick Hourihan.

Grupo Surrealista de Madrid:
José Arias Taboada, Eugenio Castro, Manuel Crespo, Javier Gálvez, Jesús García Rodríguez, Vicente Gutiérrez Escudero, Bruno Jacobs, Lurdes Martínez, Julio Monteverde, Noé Ortega, Antonio Ramírez, José Manuel Rojo, María Santana y Ángel Zapata.
and its friends:
Sonia Ayerra, Rag Cuter, Andrés Devesa, Jesús González Gómez, Paul Hammond, Inés Mendoza, Emilio Santiago, Leticia Vera and the Anarchist Group Al Margen.

Groupe Surréaliste de Montréal:
Jean-Maurice Brouillet, Dominic Tétrault.

Le Groupe de Paris du mouvement surréaliste:
Michèle Bachelet, Alfredo Fernandes, Jean-Pierre Guillon, Michaël Löwy, Marie-Dominique Massoni, Dominique Paul, Michel Zimbacca.

La Vertèbre et le Rossignol (ville de Québec):
Enrique Lechuga, David Nadeau.

on behalf of Grupo Surrealista del Río de la Plata/Buenos Aires-Montevideo:
Juan Carlos Otaño.

on behalf of Skupina Českých a Slovenských Surrealistů:
Frantisek Dryje, Katerina Pinosova, Bertrand Schmitt, Bruno Solarik.

Surrealistgruppen i Stockholm, Johannes Bergmark.

Sürrealist Eylem Türkiye

Chicago Surrealist Group:
Penelope Rosemont, Paul Garon, Beth Garon, Gale Ahrens, David Roediger, Joseph Jablonski, Joel Williams, Jan Hathaway, Irene Plazewski, Janina Ciezadlo, Renay Kirkman, Tamara L. Smith.

Portland:
Brandon Freels, M.K. Shibek.

The St. Louis Surrealist Group:
Richard Burke, Susan Burke, Andrew Torch, M. M. Morose.

Eric Bragg (www.surrealcoconut.com)

AQM- (music) & Abdul "Ben" Camel- (text) Image Nation

In multi-numbered pans of vision

Images just beneath the surface

In a pool of flickering waters

Are like gilded pledges, melted in a seductive light,

And offered upward to the surface as a prescience

(And brilliant units of communal offering.)

We count each coin as a blind desire for blessings

That seek a new dimension of expression

Of this, a quite Remarkable Rendition of Chance -

Wishing wells in the name of Fate,

(Knowing these all but empty vessels do sail,)

Sail only between the more certain Citadels

Their ghostly cargoes bubbling in the banks

Of our exquisitely fashionable Imaginations -

And this magnificence somehow breaks into seconds

What took Time, (as Creator,) eons to recognize

Frame by frame, into the manifest.., by frame.

New Six Heads cassette "The Popeye Scat" just released on Oakland,CA-based Black Horizons label. Sweet packaging and art by label head-honcho J.Livingston + the usual heady stew of savory, sonic surrealism from the Six Heads crew! Have a bite here!

- William A. Davison

> http://myspace.com/kobshootkob <

The phenomena of information based knowledge..,
Great God as a non-believer
A freak binding representative of blasphemy.

Reverse that just for me (won't you)
In the realm of pure evidence

The results are dithering diplomacies...

These insurmountable piles of human emotion
Are blocking the absolving momentum
Thrust willy-nilly upon the fabrication
Of these bodies re-defined and multifarious

I listen close and intently to the gaps between and amongst
Those particularly emboldened orbs you use...
You use as conveyances of aptitude
And my heart bleeds into the funnel of verbs
Tumbling down within the all-but-damned nocturnes,
As an uttered and simple bliss

(scratch here and listen.., I feel it)






*

• alferi
• burroughs
• cage
• foucault
• gleize
• goldsmith
• hanna
• kaprèlian (art.)
• lewitt
• meyer
• mohammad
• mussio
• roche
• 3 paragrafi

What is meant
By
A Certain Stance on the Composure of these Iconographies
We may never know (we may never know)

Venture me this;
Deserving these brilliant digits of purity (from Aerial Beings-)
Acting as receptor for sound,
As is the verse devoid of meter,
A deafening taste of paradox
Touches the most complete minuet
Within minds ear, overt and minute

Let's begin again.
Utilities of the grand piano strike out
Of their own accord, yea
Neo(n) Antiquities Abounding, Resounding
Let out a scribble as
A process of hearing in healing is lesson appealing
To the Aural Etymology
Inherent in thee
As (Parenthetical) Chemical God


undRess Béton

I roll up in a ball
Traveling backwards
Over myself quoting rhythm
As tragedian à la mode
With inexplicable revelation
Worth noting, my friend..

A Moon is not a satellite
It reveals nothing
As well as any face that shines
In age

A loss in the past
Equals a breath in the presence-
I give you my definition glinting
Of the Moment
That
is
all




("The White Nothing 4," by Reality Switch can be heard here simultaneously)

Drunken Boat | 10 | Spring 2009

Kleider-machen-Leute - Performance für Ritter, Tod und Teufel...by Litsa Spathi

rêves...














...

tony said so to anthony Friday, October 23, 2009

Steve Beresford, Dan Beattie, Matt Chilton, Will Connor, Anthony Donovan, Sandeep Mishra, Alpesh Moharir.

Sandeep Mishra hails from the renowned Sarangi Gharana (school) of Benaras, India. Trained by his grandfather Pandit Narayan Das Mishra and his grandfather Pandit Bhagwan Das Mishra - the world renowned Sarangi maestro - and his father Pandit Santosh Kumar Mishra. Sandeep has added new innovation and style to his Sarangi playing by blending a contemporary approach to this traditional instrument without forsaking its purity. He is a versatile performer collaborating with musicians from different genres and styles all over the world. His performance is well reflected in his achievements in the field of Shastriya Sangeet. Sandeep has made an endeavor to revive the ancient style of this soul-touching instrument, the Sarangi. He learned the 'tantakri' and 'gayaki' style of playing Sarangi from his father and has practiced it since his childhood.

Steve Beresford has been involved in free improvised music since 1971 and composed, produced and performed in dozens of genres, including dub, pop, Bollywood, chamber music, music for feature films and TV. He performs experimental music internationally and performs regularly on the very active London scene. He has been the conductor and pianist for The London Improvisers Orchestra since its inception ten years ago. The line-up includes saxophonist Evan Parker, trumpeter Harry Beckett, drummer Tony Marsh, pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole, and others. He has also collaborated with many improvisers, including Satoko Fukuda (violin), Jason Yarde (saxophones), Lukas Simonis and John Coxon (guitars), Roger Turner and Mark Sanders (drums), Alan Tomlinson (trombone), Leila Adu (voice, piano), Hannah Marshall (cello), Sharon Gal (voice), and many others.

Alpesh Moharir was trained by Guru Shri Guru Shri Sudhirkumar Saxena, who is considered to be the doyen of Ajarada Gharana. Later trained by Guru Shishya parampara he completed his Master's in Music (India) and is now doing research in rhythmic patterns in the UK. He has played solo, accompanied many senior artists and participated in many musical festivals in India and the UK: UK Drum Fest, GW Festival, World Music Festival, Northampton Festival and many more... He has performed on BBC Radio at various events. Although trained in Indian classical music he has played many musical forms: jazz, African, electro, rock and folk music. Currently he is involved in teaching and performing in the UK and has begun a project called "AAVARTAN", specially designed for Indian-Western percussion fusion music for schools and colleges across UK.

Vultures is an improvising quartet from London, England; consisting of Daniel Beattie, Matt Chilton, Will Connor and Anthony Donovan. Working across the fields of music, visual art and film, its members take influence from industrial, post-rock, free-jazz, avant-classical and noise, to create a new hybrid that seems somehow to be organically formed. Vultures has a fearsome live reputation; both in its own right and in collaboration with the likes of Steve Beresford, Z'ev, PAS, Sandeep Mishra, Ampersand and Philippe Petit. A recent tour of the UK and Europe included support to Faust, Nurse with Wound, John Butcher, Adam Bohman and Fullborn Taversham. Vultures represents a vital new direction for post-improv music, marrying elements of doom-drone, 'extended technique' percussion with household objects, cracked electronics, stabbed zither, and esoteric light-reactive software to create an unholy new sound for lovers of the avant-garde.

19:30 30th October 2009
The Nave
1 St Paul's Road
London
N1 2QN
£10 / £5 tickets available on the door or in advance from www.thenave.org

"Lachplatte mono pol = Kleider machen Leute" - Inter...action between Gema & Nobody alias Litsa Spathi

"THE UNVEILING"

Monday, Oct. 26, 2009, 10pm
at The Ossington
61 Ossington Ave.
Toronto
Free!

"Unveiling #1"
Hosts Robert Dayton and William A. Davison unveil the latest and never-before-seen (until this very eve) creation of artist and musician Drue Langlois!

They will be auctioning off this masterpiece with minimum bid starting at just 50 dollars !!! A low price for this amazing work by this important artist...

This will be followed by a soiree/party!
ONE-NIGHT-ONLY! So if you want to bid and possibly attain this never-before-seen stunning curiousity, you best attend! Even if yer broke, you do not want to miss this opportunity of UNVEILING (and we-as the only eyes besides the artist that have seen this work- guarantee that this work is amazing....)
At The Ossington, 61 Ossington Ave., Toronto
Free admission

"The Unveiling" is a new series of one-night-only soirees/exhibitions, held monthly (more or less) in the back room of The Ossington Bar, which playfully reinvent a romantic and antiquated concept - that of a single artist "unveiling" their latest creation for a gathering of colleagues, collectors, critics, and cultural elite. The series is organized and hosted by local artists/curators William A. Davison and Robert Dayton.

The series kicks off on Oct. 26th as "Unveiling #1" presents the latest soft sculpture/doll creation of artist, comics creator, animator, musician and former Royal Art Lodge member Drue Langlois. Please note that the artist will not be present at this unveiling. However, Mr. Langlois has given the organizers explicit instructions on how to present his work, which Messrs. Dayton and Davison will execute in their own inimitable style.

For further information, feel free to contact The Unveiling's hosts William A. Davison and Robert Dayton.

William - davison(at)recordism(dot)com
Robert - moustachedpainless(at)yahoo(dot)com

Many thanks to Jubal Brown/Intervention Mondays and The Ossington!

- William A. Davison (and Robert Dayton)

"Kleider-machen-Leute": Nobody's Performance für Gott...fried Keller

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On the days when it was busy
Windy windy
The drug dealers had all their
Carriers
Throw paper airplanes
And then they saw where the paper airplanes went and then they'd all
Get off the buses with real paper airplanes big ones
With cocaine attached to 'em and they'd launch 'em off everywhere but
A lot of cocaine got lost

A Public Thing


It was a public thing
That people did
Like walk around the mall
In circles
Just walking around and around
And around and then it got
Real dangerous
With all these people out to get
Everybody
I was pretty good at it
But
Sometimes people could
Follow me

"oXoX LA CARD"- visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Destructive magic
And decay
Put posters up
In the
Street window today

I was lucky I had an instructor help me
When I was skin
To physically stretch out my sex problem

First drawing party in a couple of months (!) this Monday, Oct. 19th, 9pm - 12am (or later) at The Ossington, 61 Ossington Ave., Toronto. Bring pens, pencils, paper, good vibes, wicked imaginations, etc.

- William

words got crushed, skull was intact.