Manafonistas

Pacific Radio Fire

(a story by Richard Brautigan from his book „The Revenge of the Lawn“ – an example for a special way of doing „live remixes“ in modern literature)

„I had never seen anybody set fire to a radio before.

As the radio gently burned away, the flames began to affect the songs that we were listening to. A record that was #1 on the Top-40 suddenly dropped to #13 inside of itself. A song that was #9 became #27 in the middle of a chorus about loving somebody. They tumbled in popularity like broken birds. Then it was too late for all of them.“ (final part of the story)

The Tracklist of the „Electronic Griot“-Lecture

1) Ensemble Economique: Interval Signals (from: INTERVAL SIGNALS) – Denovali Records 2) Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Milk (from: MUSIC FROM THE PENGUIN CAFE) – Virgin Records 3) Hakon Stene: See Our Lake (I) (from: LUSH LAMENTS FOR LAZY MAMMAL) – Hubro Records 4) Erik Honore: Sanctuary / Pioneer Trail (from: HELIOGRAPHS) – Hubro Records 5) Thomas Köner Tiento para Elma (from: TIENTO DE LA NIEVES) – Denovali Records (probably to be released in October 2014) 6) Kim Kashkasian: Hoy, Nazan (from: HAYREN – MUSIC OF KOMITAS AND TIGRAN MANSURIAN) 7) Mirel Wagner: The Dirt (from: WHEN THE CELLAR CHILDREN SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY) 8) Eno/Hyde: To Us All, (from: SOMEDAY WORLD) – WARP RECORDS (OPAL)

 
 
Other films, poems and music mentioned – or just listed in the back of my mind:
 
 
John Carpenter: The Fog (O.S.T)
Ingram Marshall: Fog Tropes / Gradual Requiem
John Carpenter: Dark Star (the movie)
Brian Eno: Discreet Music / The Shutov Assembly
Laurie Anderson: Bright / Red
Gavin Bryars: The Sinking of the Titanic
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No.6 (Georg Szolti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Harold Budd: The Pavillion of Dreams
Ezra Pound: In a station of the metro
Jon Hassell: Dream Theory in Malay
Thomas Köner: Novaya Zemlya
Tigran Hamasyan Quartet (with Jan Bang, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset) (probably to be released on ECM Records in spring or autumn 2015)
Jan Garbarek: Dis
Keith Jarrett: Belonging
Arve Henriksen: The Nature of Connections
Supersilent: 12
True Detective: Season One
David Sylvian: Manafon Variations
Locke (the movie)
 
contact for comments, questions & „Electronic Griot“-bookings etc. : micha.engelbrecht@gmx.de

An Imaginary Punktfestival Day in September 2015
 
 
PUNKT SEMINAR HOTEL NORGE:
 
12:00 – 12:45 Michael Engelbrecht: Punkt Radio, edition No. 2

13:00 – 13:45 Trevor Cox: Sonic Wonderland

14:00 – 14:45 Alan Warner: My Days and Nights with „Tago Mago“

 
KICK SCENE:
 
18:00 Benge aka Ben Edwards & Sigbjorn Apeland (a collection of analogue synthesizers meets the world of harmoniums in different states of decay)

18:50 Live Remix: Guy Sigsworth

20:00 John Potter & Ambrose Field (ancient vocal music meets modern computer software and „historical“ electronics)

20:50 Live Remix: Sidsel, Arve, Jan, Erik

22:00 Steve Tibbetts & Marc Anderson reinventing their early ECM-masterpiece „Northern Song“ (once upon a time recorded in Oslo)

22:50 Live Remix: Eivind Aarset, Hakon Stene, Audun Kleive
 
 
 

 

(by planetgong.co.uk)