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.
Midflife Crisis: a New Beginings ?>>>>>>>>
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
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