le silence au fond de l’abîme

classic drone (number 2):

the work of thomas köner

(discography)

- *untitled - die stadt - 2007
(ds104, john duncan / kontakt der jünglinge / c.m. von hausswolff, includes track montreal solution 1 as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- nuuk - mille plateaux - 2004 (cd+dvd)
(originally released by big cat as part of driftworks in 1997)
(includes roland kentrup & roland spekle - gongs)

- *untitled - die stadt - 2004
(ds75, z'ev / thomas köner & ulrich krieger, inludes track zerfall_gebiete by köner)

- *frühruin - die stadt - 2004
(ds69, as kontakt der junglinge, a box to hold all four parts of the series 1, 0, -1, n plus a mini cd featuring studio material by köner and tietchens)

- *kontakt der junglinge plays the hafler trio - die stadt - 2003
(ds59, first 200 copies of the hafler trio / ditterich von euler-donnersperg »untitled« 7 inch included bonus 7 inch, a reworking of the h3o water (episode 2) track by thomas köner and one by asmus tietchens)

- e - die stadt - 2004
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- n: amsterdam stedelijk museum 18.5.2002 - die stadt - 2003
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- zyklop - mille plateaux - 2003

- untitled - die stadt - 2003
(includes track intro / col de vence by köner)

- -1: bremen , lagerhaus 28.4.2001 - die stadt - 2003
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- daikan - mille plateaux - 2002

- unerforschtes gebiet - die stadt - 2002 (lp)
(cd released 2003)

- 0: rostock, ms ,,stubnitz 10.2.2001 - die stadt - 2002
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- *untitled - die stadt - 2002
(includes track zud by köner)

- 1: bremen, lagerhaus 17.12.1999 - die stadt - 2001
(as kontakt der junglinge, thomas köner & asmus tietchens)

- kaamos - mille plateaux - 1998

- the köner experiment - space age - 1997
(released as experimental audio research, including sonic boom, eddie prevost, kevin shields, thomas köner and others)

- aubrite - barooni - 1996

- night passage demixed - dorobo - 1996
(includes kyros - alan lamb remix)

- permafrost - barooni - 1994

- teimo - barooni - 1993

- nunatuk gongamur - barooni - 1992


* have not heard
images by thomas köner

no. 406296

il disegno del primo brevetto del ferrocemento
image from pier luigi nervi:
dai primi brevetti al palazzo delle esposizioni di torino 1917-1948
quart verlag - 2008

paris et le daguerréotype

classic books (number 5):

paris et le daguerréotype - paris musées - 1989

la seine, le quai des orfèvres et notre-dame
anonyme - vers 1840-1843

fontaine, place de la concorde
anonyme - vers 1845

toits de paris
jean bernard leon foucault - vers 1844

invisible birds (tiny feet extending)

what birds plunge through is not the intimate space in which you see all forms intensified. (out in the open, you would be denied your self, would disappear into that vastness.)
space reaches from us and construes the world: to know a tree, in its true element, throw inner space around it, from that pure abundance in you. surround it with restraint. it has no limits. not till it is held in your renouncing is it truly there.

rainer maria rilke - uncollected poems, 1922-1926 - translated by stephen mitchell
page 173

25 great circles

images from buckminster fuller: starting with the universe -
yale university press/whitney museum of american art - 2008
(25 great circles & 2 geodesic drawings from the 1960s)

an interval of time

from christian norberg-schultz - intentions in architecture - mit press - 1965

univers du western - there will be blood - the influence of marfa on cinema, part 2

landscape images from
paul thomas anderson - there will be blood - 2007
cinematography by robert elswit

(number 6 of 500 detailing westerns)

an ornament of radiating petals

images from encyclopédie des formes fruitières, "les modes de conduite": un métier, un art, une passion by jacques beccaletto - écoles nationale supérieure du paysage/actes sud - 2001

(that resemble the leaflets of a palm - palmette)

univers du western - winchester '73

anthony mann - winchester '73 - 1950

james stewart * - lin mcadam

millard mitchell * - high spade

dan duryea * - waco johnnie dean

jay c. flippen * - sgt. wilkes

john mcintire * - joe lamont

will geer * - wyatt earp

cinematography - william h. daniels

cinematography by william h. daniels *
editing by edward curtiss *

(number 4 of 500 detailing westerns)
((number 5 of 500, anthony mann's the tin star, done previously))

before the descent of complete darkness (invisible birds)

törless was still gazing out into the garden. he thought he could hear the rustling of the withered leaves being blown into drifts by the wind. then came the moment of utter stillness which always occurs a little before the descent of complete darkness. the shape of things, which had been sinking ever more deeply into the dusk, and the blurring, dissolving colours of things--for an instant it all seemed to pause, to hover, as it were with a holding of the breath....

from the deserted garden a leaf now and then fluttered up against the lit window, tearing a streak of brightness into the darkness behind it. then the darkness seemed to shrink and withdraw, only in the next instant to advance again and stand motionless as a wall outside the window. this darkness was a world apart.

(taking photographic advise from robert musil. and, as always, inspired by woolgathersome)

invisible birds (the lost estate)

sometimes, for a few steps, my feet are resting on a bank of fine sand. and in the silence, i can hear a bird: i think it's a nightingale, but i must be wrong because they only sing in the evenings... this bird is relentlessly repeating the same phrase: voice of the morning, a recital in the shade, a delicious invitation to a journey between the elms. invisible and obstinate, it seems to be accompanying me through the leaves.
alain-fournier, the wanderer

(photos by matthew swiezynski)

invisible birds (trees as moons)

behind the quivering reeds stirs the couch of birds
-
the green is near to black, the silver slightly blue. the tree-trunks are like old wall-stones, the leaves about like shadows

univers du western (trains in cinema) - night passage

jay c. flippen

dan duryea

james neilson - night passage - 1957

cinematography by william h. daniels *
music by dimitri tiomkin *

with:
james stewart *
dan duryea *
jay c. flippen *
robert j. wilke *
jack elam *
olive carey *

includes some beautiful technicolor photography by william h. daniels
(not really a great film, but worth it for the muted, near monochromatic tones)

(number 3 of 500 detailing westerns)