May 2009

Sunday, May 24, 2009

I Get Bumps When I Shave Or Veet

listening room # 15 : Midlife Crisis: A New Beginings?

Thank you all for coming. Tonight is the first part of 80moins1, our concept for the weekend 40 of Ingrid and my 39 years. What was the concept yet? Gathering friends and their children (our children's friends, in short) for two days in a cottage in the middle of nowhere. The bet was big because at GSM and the mall (and facebook and other salad pseudo-community) we have less and less time for physical encounter, much less in number. It should also override: in addition to the fear of sharing our night with "outsiders." Finally, it should undertake. Not judge the absent of course, but a nod to the present. Your presence here is the best gift you can give us. Place the music! Introduction

Time flies and years accumulate. We age. The milestone of 30 is already not an easy task, then what about 40 years! Events, lectures, films we show what it is: the bright side and dark side.
The idea for the listening room (and weekends perhaps) is to find in the book (a little trash psychology) Francoise Millet-Bartoli: The Crisis of the mid-life: a second chance. The crisis of middle life happens between 35 and 45 years (it is not mathematically the midst of life) and can be a difficult for some (because it carries a number of challenged), or conversely A period of growth and achievement for others. Finally, it can also be both at once. The music selected
talk to you tonight about all this: the time that passes, missed opportunities, the re-birth, the cravings all over again, the temptation to disappear, etc..
Enjoy!
Note: Since the selection is mixed, you may experience difficulties in following the order of appearance. To overcome this problem, I will post a No is the number of the current track.

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1/Larsen Tracklist: Rebirth (Important Records)
This label is my new home music. There there are ten to 200 discs bold have been created. Larsen's music is often slow and hypnotic, sometimes noisy. I chose this song because it bears the evocative title of rebirth. The idea of rebirth is tempting. Being devoid of any experience. "The first time ... I'll let you finish the sentence.

2/Them Use Them: Able ()
This group is the project, from Birgmingham. It finds its place here because its title contains the word simple Able (able in French). What am I still capable? Last Saturday, when Ingrid was in England and the children were with their grandmother, I'm out all night until 6 o'clock in the morning. Around 1am, back pain almost had given my inclinations to avert the effects of time fortunately Brufen in my pocket has allowed me to win the game. I am still capable (able) to go out as a post-teen. A victory!

3/Barbara Carlotti: Miss oposum (4AD)
This young French singer has the immense privilege to have been signed with the prestigious label 4AD (Pixies and Dead Can Dance to TV on The Radio). The lyrics are charming and the instrumentation has the energy and finesse missing in many heralds of the new French song. Here the beautiful story of an ad looking for a missing man. At 40, the idea of disappearing from the face of the earth to start a new life elsewhere had to touch the minds of some. I myself once a day I want to leave but one thousandth of a second after I meet the obvious: Ingrid is my home port. What counts, I think the idea is to leave (It th road like Jack Kerouac) one way or another.

4/Lykke Li I'm good, I'm gone (LL Recordings)
Still a young singer who comes to us Sweden. Out of nowhere, it is far past on Pure FM. In this nice little pop ballad, it tells of the difficulty of working like a beast, "spending his life to win" as they say. "I'm working, I'm working to make butter for my piece of bun." As time goes by faster than before, slave labor becomes more and more torture. For my part, I solved the problem: the profession of teacher I can often blur the line between work and leisure.

5/Masha Qrella: Unsolved Remained (Morr Music)
Masha's music wavers between pop and acoustic electronics. One foot in tradition, another in a certain future. But if I chose it for text. Unsolved Remained Undecided means and held in abeyance and we talk about everything we did not have time to accomplish and / or terminate or, conversely, anything you would not want to do. Finally, we Masha breath she would remain "between the years".

6/Orbital: Choice (FFRR)
A nod to my crazy night last Saturday. Intelligently on a dance piece that invites us to make choices. Maybe it's the crisis of middle life: to choices between the possible and the passage of time. Orbital is the project of brothers Hartnoll. Named after the Orbital (The M25 encircles London - the equivalent of the Brussels Ring), these two pioneers of dance music (they're the ones who made the first real album of dance music) are fascinated by the figure of the circle, another reference to time, cyclical one. The eternal return of the same (this concept of Nietzsche bringing both confusion is not even the return of exhaustion, but rather to live in the moment so intensely that we could relive the infinity. It a desire, not a constraint).

7/Kettel: Her thin voice (Neo Ouija)
The project of the prolific Reimer Eising on the label Neo Ouji deceased. This piece, I chose the idea of a woman who would be reduced to a thin voice (track Light). Be heard or be discreet, this would be the dilemma of this woman of 40 years. Wearing his choice or give up. Insecure to be quiet. I think the heroine of the Revolutionary Road: dream life, then in his second go mad or to the characters of novelist Laura Kasischke (eg The Life Before Her Eyes), which not realize their lives and whose voices are not heard.

8/Benni Hemm Hemm: Ku Po Ui (Morr Music)
The Finnish composer speaks of love: another dimension of time passing. How to locate the romantic relationship over time? I love you forever: a word of teen puts us, we adulescents eternal, the dilemma of our feelings. Benni Hemm Hemm is trying to / be convinced that the passage of time has no hold on love: "I love you more today - More Today Than Yesterday - but I love you less today - less Than I Will tomorrow".

9/Etienne Daho: the first day (Virgin)
The song that opened our wedding dance. The first day (the rest of your life) is the title that best sums up the theme tonight. Ingrid is 40 years old today. We are celebrating our 20 years together and our children celebrate their 15moins2. Today is "day one", that is just a matter of perspective ... Thanks for your friendship.

Extensions

As always, I propose to extend the play by a small cultural activity. There are a few miles from here in the courtyard of the abbey of Stavelot, an art gallery which is, apparently, very beautiful. Blue Triangle Gallery hosts an exhibition for the moment the painter James Brown. The Planets Connected (title of the show that earned three stars in the section of MAD) give to see "a myriad of issues related to the pencil." James Brown, born in 1951 in Los Angeles, lives and works in Oaxaca, Mexico. We can see nine large paintings (210x340) which include this painting in the wake of Cy Twombly and Basquiat.
In addition this work extends skillfully listening room, because in the interview with MAD, the painter said that "inspired me to a work obsessive thinking about time, preparation for meditation ..."

rooms listening to come

# 10 DJ Culture: 5X10 (five ten DJs spin their favorite songs to dance). Delayed but still it happens ... (Special issue)
# 19 Male / Female: Gender Studies: Music and Gender (serial para / / ELE). # 17
Noise Vs Silence: a double bed and listening (with the draw as to whether we start with the noise or silence) (Versus Series) # 18 H2O
sound qualities of blue gold (the series 4 cells). With a mineral water bar as in Japan.
# 16 Music and politics (series Para / / ELE). With policy for regional and European elections of June. This is the next: it will take place Wednesday, June 17 to Congress (details follow).

Ethics and statistics

listening rooms are made 100% free illegal downloads. The majority of music this evening are bought or rented at the library. Listening rooms do not generate any profit and are very time consuming for the organizers. The TECC (the fee for group listening and contextual) is used to fund various small expenses.
In 2008, I recorded scrupulously all my purchases and rentals of CD in a small Moleskine: I have spent 661.09 euros in music (not including CDs offered a way to manipulate the statistics). Per month, this gives 55.09 euros. Per day, 1.81 euros.
My commitment for 2009 is to reduce these costs 1 euro per day while maintaining the "quality" listening rooms. Curb consumption and revisit her nightclub ... Happy New Year.
NB: the Moleskine is available ...

Talk about listening rooms around you and please come if you want ... participation

Thank you thank you thank you
Axel

Midlife Crisis: A New Beginings?

A listening room / weekend of anniversaries proposed by Axel at Ingrid and lodging Arbrefontaine May 15, 2009

The Legendary Bang Bros Free Watch

Listening Room # 14: House Tracklisting

Get well! I wanted to thank you once again, for being here tonight. The train as a sound object and source of inspiration: if the train has these attributes because he participates in our imagination of a whole series of ways. I invite you to read the few lines that follow the tracklisting: these are tracks to prolong the moment. We leave for about fifty minutes of music. Then, the buffet put together by The TARTISAN. The photos are of Annick Ploughman, close collaborator of the Centre Scolaire Ma Campagne (where she teaches photography). She is present tonight and I thank her warmly. Arnaud thank you to Congress for his time, his enthusiasm and availability. Thank you to Henry for the cultural dimension of political engagement.
Thanks also to Ingrid for her support ...

Listening Room # 14: Tracklisting

Herbert Distel La Stazione (HatHut)
We talked to the station in Milan! Well Herbert Distel just takes us there with his song La Stazione. Train noises are mixed with no ads and speakers from the station. The sounds are recorded, then worked until it became unrecognizable. This work is an echo sound which refers to an opera of Mario Peragallo (The Hill) where certain personalities in the arts were celebrated. Herbert Distel is himself a sculptor and activist in the tradition of Fluxus. We have already listened to the fourth Distel Listening Room (dedicated to sound art) with his mythical Die Reise (travel by train between Bern and Zurich) but I could not resist the nod (listen to a station in La Stazione).

Steve Reich Different Trains (Black Box)
In this quartet for strings and recorder, Reich part of the human voice as a primer. On this basis, it will graft many childhood memories related to journeys he had to make between his divorced parents. Between his father and mother, trains, Virginia with the housekeeper. The other movements of this album explores the theme of the survivors of the Holocaust by mixing the different frames. This interpretation is the work of Duke Quartet. This piece is a proposal for François Dubuisson, who is not far ...

Stephen Vitiello Listening to Donald Judd (Sub Rosa)
Those who appreciate the artist (Donald Judd) know without doubt that he took possession of a place in Texas (Marfa) to create a space for its measurement. For its part, the composer Stephen Vitiello has installed in the vast warehouse, equipment to capture that, faute de mieux, be called the "spirit of place" (Guy Marc Hinant - Sub Rosa boss speaks of him " Sound capacity "). In Marfa, Vitiello said, the calm is interrupted only occasionally by the passing trains, "Somehow I was there to record The Elusive Marfa Light That Appears Almost nightly in the sky (...) Sounds Were Captured in and Around the Donald Judd installations at Chinati, in a glider, in fields of Grasshoppers and Along Some unknown street. "

Ulrich Schnauss Passing by (City Centre-Offices) Other
sound, another snapshot: the train that goes the distance. Nothing is known of him or her destination, or the melting pot it. And yet it makes us dream. It is also the train, passing, pace our lives.
Ulrich Schnauss is celebrated (and appreciated) for successfully blending rather unlikely between electronic music and pop music dark Anglo-Saxon.
This disc was released in 2001 on the label CCO who was one of our favorites. A long piece, which installs, little by little, an atmosphere of "large areas" crossed by a railroad (a nice phrase in itself).

Mouse On Mars Omnibuzz (Too Pure)
In 1995, Mouse On Mars (the duo of Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner) finished (re) place on the world map Cologne Electro (following in the footsteps of the late Stockhausen). Album IAOR Tahiti, which celebrates the deterritorialization has its way, the duo has Omnibuzz: nice portmanteau word that condenses the tranquil rhythm of the train "which stops everywhere" and the buzz, this little noise made about him.

Maas Eurostar (Soma) Soma
is a little label that put Glasgow on the world Techno. The city has a really special atmosphere with the architecture of Charles Rennie Macintosh and his little orange metro which loops around the city (and the people nicknamed the "clockwork orange"). The North (of England) has a soul. Ewan Pearson tackles him to the mythical Eurostar, the train that reduces the distances between major European cities. With distance, you lose more and more "time" of travel and change of territory. Eurostar, with its phones phones that interferes with reading, with its Wi-Fi which sabotages our neurons. The station becomes a shopping center and crossing the border is reminiscent of 9 / 11 (nine / eleven). Sometimes we come to prefer his train P (for rush hour) to Dendermonde, because it stops at the station Bockstael ...

Chris Watson Ouleja Mine (Touch) This former member of
very influence Cabaret Voltaire (Sheffield 80s) became a master at capturing sounds on the ground. Here we are in Mexico, or rather, in a city abandoned train station in the outskirts of Mexico City, April 13, 2005. We Watson Calls to push the button "pause and listen to the beat of diesel and tones of powder blue that disappear into the canyon."

Telepopmuzik Last Train To Whenever (Catalog)
Not so long ago, Bristol redistributed cards pop music invented trip-hop music that cleverly mixed codes and proposed a music often slow, always hypnotic. The movement was soon to be small outside the borders of the English seaside town. Telepopmuzik is the French response to Massive Attack and Tricky other. This piece was chosen for its title borrowed from mythology "last train that goes nowhere."

Lee 'Scratch' Perry & Dub Syndicate Train to Doomsville (On-U Sound)
On the mythical label of Adrian Sherwood, Pope of the echo (and true alchemist in the studio) meeting of the apostles dub music for a song that begins with the start of a train to hell. All of the imaginary voyage is contained in the metallic noises of a journey that Lee says "no return".

Terrestrial Tones Future Train (Paw Tracks)
Here a piece of rather abstract. The rhythmic steam engine moved slowly. The train of the future is here. We used to travel 300 km per hour. Eric Copeland (of Black Dice - a combo American neo-noise) and Dave Portner (Animal Collective - Another American neo-folk combo) gently we dismantle this myth there. Their train of the future leaves a taste of madness in my head.

Neven BXL Central (Different)
Neven is a mythical band of Belgium. We often spoke of them as the first group "trip-hop" of our small country. They participated in the "Brussels is ours" (ceremonies Brussels 2000), which is as a kind of auditory memory of Brussels. Brussels Central is for us a way to come home. Thank you to my friend Yves Cardoen for offering me this song.

Small mythology of the object train

As a postscript to our evening a little justification of my choice to treat the train like an object. I rely here on the text of Roland Barthes Myth Today in which he defines myth as "a word". Based on this observation, he adds: "We hear so here, now, by language, speech, speech, etc.. Any unit or any meaningful synthesis, whether verbal or visual: a photograph will speak to us just as a newspaper article, the objects themselves will become speech, if they mean something ... "
The train is an object when it becomes a word. The "train" is itself a bundle of stories that start all alone in our minds, provided that the incentive to go in that direction.
With you, tonight I tried to explore some of the myths associated with the object train. Here are exposed jumble some of these myths:
station as separation zone between two lovers (see the beautiful British film Brief Encounter)
The sub-area as an accelerator of desire (not to mention the sleeper train or cama coche-English)
train elsewhere as a synonym
train as his (in all its materiality)
The driverless train as metaphor a society that does not know where she will train
as a link between areas cut off from the world
train as a marker of social distinctions (the first and second class, the ticket business in new high speed trains) The
train like conquering the wilderness (the conquest of the West) as
train daily rhythm / lethal (metro-boulot-dodo)
train late as universal excuse
The dichotomy between express bus and train
mythical (the Orient Express passes at home in March, you can climb aboard for some 3000 euros)
service within and international relations (such as ministries)
be "on track" as a synonym for determinism

"It is that myth is a word stolen and returned. Only the word that it relates is no longer quite that which was stolen: in this respect, we did not exactly put in its place. "As

extensions

A listening room is always followed by extensions. Nothing like a little cultural outing to finish the conversation started here tonight. Four proposals for activities that combine art and train. For each activity, an email will be sent to all participants of the listening room. An appointment will be made and we will go (even two!)

Two station here, D'Or, the installation of Kris Verdonck outside Brigittines: installation that combines light and reference to Walter Benjamin (Angelus Novus). It starts this week.
train ride to Liège to visit the exhibition of commuters drive Thierry Lenoir (read the excellent article by Isabelle Masson I put you in the appendix, which appeared in last week's victory). At the broom closet, 9 / 11 Minor Street. Warning: open Monday to Friday from 10-16 am until 13 February.
A journey by train to Hasselt in the direction of the Z33 Gallery. This huge space dedicated to contemporary art is housed in a former Beguine. The place is beautiful. We went in December. A little lunch at the Villa Kakkelbont is also possible.
train ride followed by a tour by tram along the Vlaamse Kust, it soon Time of the triennial Beaufort: a journey as an artist along the coast or large sizes of contemporary art offers works (often created for the site). I suggest you go together, now, to finish to break the ice. The event is this year in its third edition. Dates to be confirmed ...

rooms listening to come

# 10 DJ Culture: 5X10 (five ten DJs spin their favorite songs to dance). Delayed but still it happens ... (Special issue)
# 15 Male / Female: Gender Studies: Music and Gender (series para / / ELE). # 16
Noise Vs Silence: a double bed and listening (with the draw as to whether we start with the noise or silence) (Versus Series) # 17 H2O
sound qualities of blue gold (the series 4 cells). With a mineral water bar as in Japan.
# 18 Music and politics (series Para / / ELE). With policy for regional and European elections of June.
New Weird America # 18 (Series Imaginary Territories). The U.S., a territory that is to dream again?
# 19 To continue in French, type 1. The phone and its diversion into music (series Objects). # 20
finger at the harp and accordion in pop format (Series Instruments)

Ethics and statistics

listening rooms are made 100% free illegal downloads. The majority of music this evening are bought or rented at the library. Listening rooms do not generate any profit and are very time consuming for the organizers. The TECC (the fee for group listening and contextual) is used to fund various small expenses.
In 2008, I carefully recorded all my purchases and rentals of CD in a small Moleskine: I have 661.09 euros spent in music (not including CDs offered a way to manipulate the statistics). Per month, this gives 55.09 euros. Per day, 1.81 euros.
My commitment for 2009 is to reduce these costs 1 euro per day while maintaining the "quality" listening rooms. Curb consumption and revisit her nightclub ... Happy New Year.
NB: the Moleskine is available ...

Talk about listening rooms around you and please come if you want ... participation

Thank you thank you thank you

Axel

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Central Station / train like sound object and source of inspiration

A listening room / guest table proposed by Axel Pleeck (and TARTISAN) to Congress January 21, 2009

Red Flower Pin On British Royals

listening Central Station # 14: the train like sound object and source of inspiration

All stations connected to each other by forming a rail empire in the land ... [1]

Meals and listening room # 14: Central Station, the train like sound object and source of inspiration to Congress Wednesday, January 21, 2009 at 19:30

As I announced in my mail, bed and listening back. The principle remains the same: to come together to play music together. An act friendly and enthusiastic an hour of MP3 and locations impersonal broadcast music. The theme of this room is listening to the fascinating world of the train: Central Station, the train like sound object and source of inspiration.
For this new project, we were welcomed by Congress, the association which, for a year, transforming the station in place of the Congress culture and experimentation. One of the programmatic areas that VZW is the awareness of music and sharing it.
Here is the program:
Doors open at 19:30 and cocktails
8:30 p.m. beginning of the Listening Room 9:30 p.m.
host table orchestrated by Le TARTISAN
Participation is 17 euros and includes the traditional TECC (fee for group listening pop), the host table and the first 15 registered will receive the CD with the songs of the evening.

Extensions

A listening room is always complemented by extensions: proposals for visits together to extend the evening. These meetings are done on a voluntary basis regardless of the number of participants. The extensions of the listening room will be announced that evening and appointment will be made with interested individuals.

How to engage?

By paying the sum of 17 euros on the account 063-1645113-28 before January 19, 2009 (with your name and the words "Central Station"). Seating is limited to 25. The first fifteen receive the CD that night, others later (postal delivery bike by myself within the limits of the Brussels-Capital.
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listening room # 14 at Central Station
Congress (station Congress) Pacheco Blvd between the Gare du Nord and Gare Centrale, January 21, 2009 at 19:30
www.grandensemble.blogspot.com and www.bruxelles-congres.be
[1] I borrow image to Peter Sansot in his wonderful book Poetics of the city.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Plans Lecturn Or Podium Or Pulpit

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Very bright, this condo has 2 balconies with BBQ electrical connection to enjoy the outdoors. For fans of light, you will be delighted by the large windows facing west and you can admire beautiful sunsets.

Dining room open onto a large well-lit living room hardwood floors, beautiful ceramic kitchen with lunch counter, double sink in stainless steel cabinets and beautiful. 2 large bedrooms to sleep with spacious storage. Lots of storage (4 large closets).

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indoor garage included, parking included and outside and a storage room in the basement (locker).