john cassavetes' husbands distilled into 23 blurs, streaks and abstractions
(discovered while listening to toru takemitsu)

à la recherche de la guitare perdue - la troisième partie (collapsing stars)

(jazz, listening-music, etcetery)

- john abercrombie - november - ecm - 1992

- amm (keith rowe) - ammmusic 1966 - rer megacorp - 1989
- amm (keith rowe) - the crypt - 12th june 1968 - matchless recordings - 1988/1992
- amm (keith rowe) - newfoundland - matchless recordings - 1993
- amm (keith rowe) - fine - matchless recordings - 2001

- derek bailey - ballads - tzadik - 2002

- aidan baker - at the fountain of thirst - mystery sea - 2003

- beck - sea change - geffen records - 2002

- paul bley (bill frisell) - fragments - ecm - 1986
- the paul bley quartet (bill frisell) - the paul bley quartet - ecm - 1987

- the blithe sons - dirt and clouds - jewelled antler - 2000
- the blithe sons - waves of grass - jewelled antler - 2001
- the blithe sons - green mansions - jewelled antler - 2002
- the blithe sons - stairways in green shadows - root don lonie for cash - 2003
- the blithe sons - we walk the young earth - family vineyard - 2003
- the blithe sons - arm of the starfish - family vineyard - 2004
- the blithe sons - rooms - chocolate monk - 2004
- the blithe sons - the great orthochromatic wheel - family vineyard - 2008

- julian bream - plays dowland and bach - deutsche grammophon - 2008
(lute for dowland - originally released 1956)

- anne briggs & frankie armstrong, a.l. lloyd - the bird in the bush:
traditional erotic songs - topic records - 1966
- anne briggs - anne briggs - topic records - 1971
- anne briggs - the time has come - cbs - 1971
- anne briggs - sing a song for you - fledg'ling records - 1996 (recorded 1973)
- anne briggs - a collection - topic records - 1999

- jeff buckley - grace - columbia - 1994

- tim buckley - tim buckley - elektra records - 1966
- tim buckley - goodbye and hello - elektra records - 1967
- tim buckley - happy sad - elektra records - 1969
- tim buckley - blue afternoon - straight records - 1970
- tim buckley - lorca - elektra records - 1970
- tim buckley - starsailor - straight records - 1970
- tim buckley - greetings from l.a. - straight records - 1972
- tim buckley - sefronia - discreet records - 1973
- tim buckley - look at the fool - discreet records - 1974
- tim buckley - dream letter - live in london 1968 - manifesto records - 1990
- tim buckley - live at the troubadour - manifesto records - 1994
- tim buckley - once i was - varese - 1999
- tim buckley - works in progress - rhino - 1999
- tim buckley - the dream belongs to me: rarities & unreleased 1968-1973 - manifesto records - 2001

- harold budd & clive wright - candylion - darla records - 2009

- the byrds - the notorious byrd brothers - columbia - 1968

- john cale - paris 1919 - reprise - 1973
- john cale - fear - island records - 1974 (buffalo ballet is esp. beautiful, but heard no guitar)

- circle (braxton, holland, altschul, corea) - circulus - united artists - 1978
dave holland - guitar

- circle - miljard - ektro records - 2006
- circle - tower featuring verde - last visible dog - 2007

- miles davis - circle in the round from circle in the round - 1967/1979 (joe beck on guitar)
- miles davis & john mclaughlin (see below)

- manitas de plata - flaming flamenco - everest - 1968
- manitas de plata - manitas de plata collection
- manitas de plata - feria gitana - 1988

- sandy denny - a boxful of treasures - fledg'ling - 2004

- eyeless in gaza - plague of years (songs and instrumentals 1980-2006) - sub rosa - 2006
- martyn bates & troum - to a child dancing in the wind - transgredient records - 2006


- john fahey - fonotone recordings 1958-1962 - fonotone records
- john fahey - death chants, breakdowns, and military waltzes - takoma - 1963/1967
both rereleased by fantasy in 1998
- john fahey - america - takoma - 1971
- john fahey/peter lang/leo kottke - takoma - 1974
- john fahey - old fashion love - takoma - 1975
- john fahey - yes jesus loves me: guitar hymns - takoma - 1980
- john fahey - let go - varrick records - 1984
- john fahey - god, time and casualty - shanachie - 1989
- john fahey - womblife - table of the elements - 1997
- john fahey - red cross (recorded 2000-2001) - revenant - 2003
- john fahey - the great santa barbara oil slick - water - 2004
- john fahey - sea changes & coelacanths : a young person's guide to john fahey - table of the elements - 2006

- fairport convention - what we did on our holidays - island - 1969
- fairport convention - unhalfbricking - island - 1969
- fairport convention - liege & lief - island - 1969

- flying saucer attack - distance - domino recording company ltd. - 1994
- flying saucer attack / roy montgomery - goodbye - vhf records - 1996/7

- michael galasso (terje rypdal) - high lines - ecm - 2005

- vincent gallo - buffalo 66 - will records - 1998
- vincent gallo - so sad - warp records - 2001
- vincent gallo - when - warp records - 2001
- vincent gallo - recordings of music for film - warp records - 2002

- glassine - birds are the life of the sky 1995-1997 - jewelled antler - 2001

- chico hamilton quintet - passin' thru - impulse - 1962
(esp. of interest: gabor szabo on el toro)

- tim hardin - tim hardin 1 - verve - 1966
- tim hardin - tim hardin 2 - verve - 1967
- tim hardin - this is tim hardin - atco - 1967
- tim hardin - tim hardin 4 - verve - 1969
- tim hardin - bird on a wire - columbia - 1971

- roy harper (jimmy page) - stormcock - harvest - 1971
- roy harper (jimmy page) - lifemask - harvest - 1973

- chihei hatakeyama - a stone inside the box from saunter - room40 - 2009

- freddie hubbard (george benson) - straight life - cti records - 1970
- freddie hubbard (george benson) - first light - cti records - 1971

- iron & wine - norfolk - sub pop - 2009

- franz koglmann (burkhard stangl) - orte der geometrie - hat art - 1989
- franz koglmann (burkhard stangl) - a white line - hat art - 1990
- franz koglmann (burkhard stangl) - the use of memory - hat art - 1991
- franz koglmann & lee konitz (burkhard stangl) - we thought about duke - hat art - 2002
- franz koglmann (burkhard stangl) - l'heure bleue - hat art - 2003

- les paul - the new sound - capit0l records *

- lounge lizards (arto lindsay) - lounge lizards - editions eg - 1981


- john mclaughlin - extrapolation - polydor - 1969
- john mclaughlin - where fortune smiles - one way - 1970
- john mclaughlin - my goals beyond - rykodisc - 1970
- john mclaughlin - devotion - douglas - 1970

(john mclaughlin with miles davis)
- miles davis - the complete in a silent way sessions (1968/69) - columbia records - 2001
- miles davis - the complete bitches brew sessions (1969/70) - columbia records - 1998
- miles davis - the complete jack johnson sessions (1970) - columbia records - 2003
- miles davis - the cellar door sessions 1970 - columbia records - 2005 (cds 5-6)
- miles davis - get up with it - columbia records - 1972
- miles davis - the complete on the corner sessions (1972-1975) - columbia records - 2007
- miles davis - big fun - columbia records - 1974

(also)
- wayne shorter - super nova - blue note - 1969
- wayne shorter - moto grosso feio - one way records - 1970
- miroslav vitouš - mountain in the clouds - atlantic - 1969

- meme compilation (taku sugimoto, jim o'rourke, loren mazzacane connors) - meme - 1998

- mi and l'au - s/t - young god records - 2005
- mi and l'au - good morning jokers - borne recordings / acuarela - 2009

- bill monroe - blue moon of kentucky: 1936-1949 - bear family - 2002

- roy montgomery - inroads - rebis - 2007

- jose miguel moreno - la guitarra espanola 1818-1918 - glossa music - 2001

- paul motian (bill frisell) - it should've happened a long time ago - ecm - 1984
- paul motian (ben monder, jakob bro, steve cardenas) - garden of eden - ecm - 2006

- mountains - s/t - apestaartje - 2005
- mountains - tour cd - apestaartje - 2005
- mountains - mountains mountains mountains - catsup plate - 2008

- mum - last shapes of never from sing along to songs you don't know - morr music - 2009

- fred neil - the many sides of fred neil (capitol albums) - collector's choice - 1999

- mickey newbury - frisco mabel joy - elektra - 1971
- mickey newbury - triad studio sessions - 1991

- tony oxley (derek bailey) - the baptised traveller - columbia records - 1969
- tony oxley (derek bailey) - 4 compositions for sextet - columbia records - 1970
- tony oxley (derek bailey) - ichnos (solo percussion, quartet and sextet) - rca - 1971

- william parker (joe morris) - double sunrise over neptune - aum fidelity - 2008

- gram parsons/the byrds - sweetheart of the rodeo - columbia - 1968/2003
(2 disc set includes the international submarine band recordings)
- gram parsons/the flying burrito bros - hot burritos! the flying burrito bros anthology 1969-1972 - a&m records - 2000
- gram parsons - the complete reprise sessions - rhino records - 2006
includes albums gp - 1973, grievous angel - 1974
- gram parsons - gram parsons archives volume 1: gram parsons with the flying burrito bros live at the avalon ballroom 1969 - amoeba records - 2007

- carlos paredes - guitarra portuguesa - nonesuch - 1982/1989
(portuguese guitar)
- carlos paredes - carlos paredes antologia - uma guitarra com gente dentro - 2002
- carlos paredes - platinum collection

- barre phillips (john abercrombie) - mountainscapes - ecm - 1976

- polwechsel - polwechsel - hat art - 1998
(werner dafeldecker, burkhard stangl)

- joe morris - rebus - clean feed - 2007

- lou reed - transformer - rca records - 1972
- lou reed - berlin - rca records - 1973
- lou reed - metal machine music - rca records - 1975 (guitar feedback played at different speeds)
- lou reed - coney island baby - rca records - 1975
- lou reed - street hassle - rca records - 1978
- lou reed - the blue mask - rca records - 1982 (esp. the title track)
- lou reed & john cale - songs for drella - sire - 1990

- john renbourn - the lady and the unicorn - transatlantic - 1970
- john renbourn & stefan grossman - the three kingdoms - shanachie - 1986

- marc ribot - saints - atlantic - 2001
- marc ribot - spiritual unity - pi recordings - 2005

- steve roden + climax golden twins - schindler house performance, los angeles july 25 2009

- jack rose - untitled - archive - 2006
- jack rose - the black dirt sessions - three lobed recordings - 2009


- andrés segovia - recordings

- sonny sharrock - ask the ages - axiom records - 1991

- wayne shorter (john mclaughlin, sonny sharrock and walter booker) - super nova - blue note - 1969
- wayne shorter (gene bertoncini) - odyssey of iska - blue note - 1971
- wayne shorter (john mclaughlin) - moto grosso fejo - blue note - 1974

- frank sinatra - night and day from complete reprise studio recordings (disc 3)

- six organs of admittance - luminous night - drag city - 2009


- steven r. smith - autumn is the end - darla records - 1998
- steven r. smith - from ashes come - 3 acre floor - 1999
- steven r. smith - slate branches - 3 acre floor - 2000
- steven r. smith - the death of last year's man ep - emperor jones - 2000
- steven r. smith - tableland - emperor jones - 2001
- steven r. smith - lineaments - emperor jones - 2002
- steven r. smith (as hala strana with loren chasse) - karst e.p. - jewelled antler - 2003
- steven r. smith (as hala strana) - untitled - emperor jones - 2003
- steven r. smith (as hala strana) - these villages - soft abuse - 2004
- steven r. smith (as hala strana) - fielding - last visible dog - 2005
- steven r. smith - crown of marches - catsup plate - 2005
- steven r. smith - kohl - emperor jones - 2005
- steven r. smith - the anchorite - root strata - 2005
- steven r. smith - owl - digitalis recordings - 2007
- steven r. smith (as hala strana) - heave the gambrel roof - music fellowship - 2007
- steven r. smith - antimony - ultra hard gel - 2008
- steven r. smith & gareth davis - westering - important records - 2009

- spring heel jack (j. spaceman) - live - thirsty ear - 2003

- john surman (john abercrombie) - brewster's rooster - ecm - 2009

- tamaru - bifu sekai (zephyr world) from improvised music from japan - 2001
- tamaru - figure - trumn - 2009
(bass guitar)

- tarentel - tarentel - temporary residence limited - 1998
- tarentel - from bone to satellite - temporary residence limited - 1999
- tarentel - the order of things - neurot recordings - 2001
- tarentel - ephemera | singles 99-2000 - temporary residence limited - 2002
- tarentel - mort aux vaches - mort aux vaches - 2002
- tarentel - latency - en/of - 2003
- tarentel - we move through weather - temporary residence limited - 2004
- tarentel - ghost weight - acuarela discos - 2005
- tarentel - ghetto beats on the surface of the sun - temporary residence limited - 2007
- jefre cantu-ledesma - black is the colour of my true love's hair - static caravan - 2006
- jefre cantu-ledesma -shining skull breath - students of decay - 2007
- jefre cantu-ledesma - the garden of the forking path - spekk - 2007
- jefre cantu-ledesma & paul clipson - live 23five show august 8, 2009

- thuja - ghost plants - emperor jones - 2002
- thuja - suns - emperor jones - 2002
- thuja - fable - jewelled antler - 2003
- thuja - pine cone temples - strange attractors audio house - 2005
- thuja - thuja... - important records - 2008

- trapist (martin siewert) - highway my friend - hat art - 2002

- ernest tubb - early radio broadcasts
- ernest tubb - let's say goodbye like we said hello - bear family - 1994

- james blood ulmer - tales of captain black - diw records - 1978

- the velvet underground - norman dolph acetate - 1966
- the velvet underground - the velvet underground: peel slowly and see - polydor - 1995
- lou reed, john cale & nico - le bataclan '72 - alchemy ent. ltd. - 2003
plus various unreleased recordings

- vetiver - to find me gone - dicristina/fatcat records - 2006
- vetiver - thing of the past - gnomonsong/fatcat - 2008
- vetiver - tight knit - sub pop - 2009

- robert wyatt - rock bottom - domino recordings - 1974/2008
- robert wyatt - theatre royal drury lane 8th september 1974 - hannibal records - 2005
- robert wyatt - ruth is stranger than richard - virgin dischi - 1975
(brian eno plays guitar on 5 black notes and 1 white note)
- robert wyatt - dondestan - rough trade germany - 1991
- robert wyatt - shleep - hannibal records - 1997
- robert wyatt - cuckooland - hannibal records - 2003
- robert wyatt - comicopera - domino recording company ltd. - 2007

- narciso yepes - francisco tárrega - deutsche grammophon - 1987

- thom yorke - the eraser - xl recordings - 2006
- thom yorke - all for the best - 2009

- richard youngs - autumn response - jagjaguwar - 2007
- richard youngs - beyond the valley of ultrahits - sonic oyster records - 2009
(esp. collapsing stars)


- townes van zandt - nashville sessions - tomato records - 1993 *
- townes van zandt - live at the old quarter, houston, texas - fat possum records - 2009
- townes van zandt - dead flowers (rolling stones cover) from on the big lebowski ost

- various - the rose grew round the briar: early american rural love songs vol. 1 - yazoo - 1997

- various - open strings: 1920s middle eastern recordings - honest jon's - 2009

- various - willows songs - finders keepers - 2008

guitar lists 1 & 2

the pinewood frenzy, once,

forthcoming tree film *

23five incorporated & ata present a night of projection, video and sound

grasslung & matthew swiezynski
pulse emitter & matthew swiezynski

saturday, august 8, 2009 - 8 pm
992 valencia street, san francisco ca
(for those in the bay area)

* stills from as yet untitled tree film inspired by the camera methods of stan brakhage and michael snow
(title discovered in paul celan's snow part)

isn't it rich?
are we a pair?
me here at last on the ground,
you in mid-air.
send in the clowns.

isn't it bliss?
don't you approve?
one who keeps tearing around,
one who can't move.
where are the clowns?
send in the clowns.

just when i'd stopped opening doors,
finally knowing the one that i wanted was yours,
making my entrance again with my usual flair,
sure of my lines,
no one is there.

don't you love a farce?
my fault i fear.
i thought that you'd want what i want, sorry my dear
but where are the clowns?
quick, send in the clowns.
don't bother, they're here.

isn't it rich?
isn't it queer,
losing my timing this late
in my career?
and where are the clowns?
there ought to be clowns.
well, maybe next year.

now light blue, now green, almost always pellucid

a still every 60 seconds from larry gottheim's fog line - 1970,
including first and last

the image of the railroad on the shore of the pond figures an ambiguity at the heart of walden. man-made power, the machine with its fire, smoke, and thunder, is juxtaposed to the waters of walden, remarkable for their depth and purity and a matchless, indescribable color - now light blue, now green, almost always pellucid. the iron horse moves across the surface of the earth; the pond invites the eye below the surface. the contrast embodies both the hope and the fear aroused by the impending climax of america's encounter with wild nature.

leo marx, the machine in the garden from chapter 1 of
scott macdonald - the garden in the machine - university of california press - 2001
(also see his a critical cinema: interviews with independent filmmakers - university of california press - 1988, volume 1, larry gottheim interview)


the cinema of attractions directly solicits spectators attention, inciting visual curiosity, and supplying pleasure through an exciting spectacle - a unique event, whether fictional or documentary, that is of interest in itself. the attraction to be displayed may also be of cinematic nature, such as the early close-ups just described, or trick films in which a cinematic manipulation (slow motion, reverse motion, substitution, multiple exposure) provides the film's novelty. it is the direct address of the audience, in which an attraction is offered to the spectator by a cinema showman, that defines this approach to film making. theatrical display dominates over narrative absorption, emphasizing the direct stimulation of shock or surprise at the expense of unfolding a story or creating a diegetic universe. the cinema of attractions expends little energy creating characters with psychological motivations or individual personalities. making use of both fictional and non-fictional attractions, its energy moves outward towards an acknowledged spectator rather than inward towards the character-based situations essential to classical narrative.

tom gunning - the cinema of attractions: early film, its spectator and the avant-garde - 1981
found in early cinema: space frame narrative - bfi publishing - 1990

(pellucid - admitting the passage of light; transparent or translucent
reflecting light evenly from all surfaces)

ron rice - chumlum - 1964
music - angus maclise
music director - tony conrad

(this is the first in the sound/music from film series)