with the gentle embrace

dom hans van der laan (dutch monastic architect)
schemi per tuniche represe da abiti orientali che testimoniano l'attitudine
from dom hans van der laan: le opere, gli scritti - electa - 2000

other's face reflected

train abstractions from
akira kurosawa's high and low - 1963
cinematography by asakazu nakai & takao saito

take me to your cinema

michael powell - peeping tom - 1960
cinematography by otto heller

("take me to your cinema" a great influence on the young arthur de eriomém, finally revisited as a codger)

those living waves, die one after another, monotonously, but they make no foaming sound

magic-hour & darkness (plus day-for-night) in
l'armée des l'ombres - jean-pierre melville - 1969
cinematography by pierre lhomme

the bird of passage rests on the waves, then abandons himself to their movements, full of proud grace, until the bones of his wings have recovered their accustomed strength and he can continue his aerial pilgrimage..... i want to die lulled by the waves of the stormy sea
lautréamont - maldoror (46, 47)

enneigé - covered with snow

jean-pierre melville - l'armée des ombres - 1969
cinematography - pierre lhomme
actor - lino ventura

first post in a series looking at the difference between
magic-hour/night-time photography and day-for-night
in melville's l'armée des ombres

based on an amateur's (lover's) view-point

berkeley - polish night music

(music found at various libraries around berkeley during a cat-sitting adventure)

- afro cuban all-stars - a toda cuba le gusta - nonesuch - 1997
- john adams - shaker loops: II. hymning slews from shaker loops light over water - new albion records - 1994
- j.s. bach (philippe herreweghe) - bach: cantatas & masses - emi classics - 2004
- ludwig van beethoven (glenn gould) - piano sonatas vol. 1 - sony - 1980/83
- ludwig van beethoven - beethoven: complete music for cello & piano - philips - 1994
maurice gendron, mstislav rostropovich, jean françaix, sviatoslav richter
- ludwig van beethoven - beethoven: string quartets - borodin string quartet - emi classics - 2003
- lead belly - where did you sleep last night - smithsonian folkways - 1996
- ran blake - all that is tied - tompkins square - 2006
- dock boggs - folkways years 1963-1968 - smithsonian folkways - 1998
- anthony braxton - for alto - delmark records - 1969
- marion brown - marion brown quartet - esp - 1965
with bennie maupin, alan shorter, reggie johnson, ronnie boykins, rashied ali
- marion brown - marion brown quartet: why not - esp - 1967
with sirone and rashid ali
- marion brown - three for shepp - impulse! - 1967
with sirone, beaver harris, grachan moncur III, dave burrell and others
- marion brown - jubalee - fontana - 1967
with bennie maupin, alan shorter, reggie johnson, beaver harris and grachan moncur III
- marion brown - le temps fou - db/polydor - 1968
musique du film "le temps fou" de marcel camus with barre phillips, gunter hampel and others
- marion brown / gunter hampel - gesprächsfetzen - calig - 1968
- marion brown - marion brown in sommerhausen - calig - 1969
- marion brown / leo smith: creative improvisation ensemble - freedom - 1970
- marion brown - afternoon of a georgia faun - ecm - 1970
with andrew cyrille, bennie maupin, anthony braxton and others
- marion brown - geechee recollections - impulse! - 1973
- marion brown - sweet earth flying - impulse! - 1974
with muhal richard abrams ,paul bley, steve mccall and others
- marion brown - vista - impulse! - 1975
with reggie workman, harold budd and ed blackwell
- marion brown - porto novo - arista - 1975
with han bennink and others
- marion brown - november cotton flower - baystate - 1979
- marion brown - marion brown: live in japan - diw records - 1991
recorded 1979
- johnny cash - hymns by johnny cash - columbia records - 1959
- johnny cash - all aboard the blue train - varese sarabande - 2003
contains unreleased sun recordings
- johnny cash - unearthed - lost highway - 2003
- paul chambers - mosaic select 5: paul chambers - mosaic records - 2003
- don cherry - "mu" second part - actuel 31 - 1969
with ed blackwell - paris
- frederic chopin (alexis weissenberg) - chopin: nocturnes, mazurkas & waltzes - emi - 1969/83/88/2000
- nat king cole - st. louis blues - capital records - 1958
with nelson riddle
- ornette coleman - paris concert / ornette coleman: trio - 1966 & 1971
with david izenzon, charles moffett, dewey redman, charlie haden and ed blackwell
- orentte coleman - crisis - impulse! - 1969
with don cherry, dewey redman, charlie haden, denardo coleman
- alice coltrane and carlso santana - illuminations - columbia - 1974
- toumani diabate and ballake sissoko - new ancient strings - rykodisc - 1997
- walt dickerson - tell us only the beautiful things - whynot - 1975
- john dowland (paul o'dette) - john dowland complete lute works vol. 1 - harmonia mundi - 1995
- marcel duchamp - music of marcel duchamp - edition block - 1991
s.e.m. ensemble, petr kotik, john cage
- kyle bobby dunn - fragments & compositions of kyle bobby dunn - sedimental - 2008
- werner durand - remnants from paradise - absurd - 2008
- eccentric soul - the big mack label - numero - 2006
- ethiopiques 5, 7, 9, 11, 10, 12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 23
- max eastly / graham halliwell / evan parker / mark wastell - a life saved by a spider and two doves - another timbre - 2008
- erik enocksson - farväl falkenberg - kning disk - 2007
- booker ervin - structurally sound - blue note - 1966
with charles tolliver
- bill evans - explorations - riverside - 1961
with scott lafaro and paul motion
- aretha franklin - chain of fools - rhino - 1993
- aretha franklin - rare & unreleased recordings from the golden reign of the queen of soul - rhino - 2007
first six years with atlantic records
- gagaku japanese traditional music - world music library - 1994
a truly beautiful recording
- judy garland - a star is born - sony - 2004
- benny goodman - sing, sing, sing - rca - 1935
- grant green - am i blue - blue note - 1963
- grant green - street of dreams - blue note - 1964
with bobby hutcherson, lary young and elvin jones
- grant green - talkin about - blue note - 1964
with larry young and elvin jones
- francisco guerau (hopkinson smith) - poeme harmonico compuesta de varias cifras por el temple de la guitarra española - auvidis astrée - 1990
- knut hamre and steve tibbets - a - hannibal - 1999
- herbie hancock - fat albert rotunda - warner music - 1969
with joe henderson and buster williams
- herbie hancock - mwandishi - warner brothers - 1971
- herbie hancock - sextant - columbia - 1973
- herbie hancock - trust - columbia - 1974
with bennie maupin
- johnny hartman - all of me: the debonair mr. hartman - bethlehem - 1956/2000
- gurdjieff de hartmann (wim van dullemen) - music for the movements - channel crossings - 1999
- eddie henderson - realization / inside out - anthology : vol. 2 the capricorn years - soul brother - 2003
- aziz herawi - memories of herat - wonderground oz - 1996
14 stringed dutar and rubab (afghan lutes)
- his name is alive - sweet earth flower: a tribute to marion brown - high two / aum fi. - 2007
- dave holland - points of view - ecm - 1998
- diane hope - elk song - touchradio
- lena horne - stormy weather - bluebird - 1990
- bobby hutcherson - components - blue note - 1965
with herbie hancock, ron carter, freddie hubbard and others
- bobby hutcherson - stick-up! - blue note - 1966
- bobby hutcherson - medina - blue note - 1968 - 1969
- bobby hutcherson - montara - blue note - 1975
- isolde - all things to fall like marching men - penny poppit - 2008
- leos janácek (andrás schiff) - a recollection : leos jánacek - ecm - 2001
- bert jansch - works
- jóhann jóhannsson - fordlandia - 4ad - 2008
- ali akbar khan - signature series, vol. 2: three ragas - ammp label - 1990
- wajahat khan - indian raags for sarod, tabla and tanpura - koch - 2000
- nusrat fateh ali khan - the early years vol 2, rare recordings 1983-84 - emi records - 2004
- charles lloyd - rabo de nube - ecm - 2008
- david lynch and marek zebrowski - polish night music - david lynch music company - 2007
with polish field recordings recorded by dean hurley
- jackie mclean - the complete blue note 1964-66 - mosaic records - 1993
includes its time 1964, right now 1965, jacknife 1965, high fidelity 1966 and others
- charles mingus - jazzical moods - period records / original jazz classics - 1954
with john laporta, teo macero, thad jones and others
- hank mobley - no room for squares - blue note - 1963
with lee morgan, andrew hill, herbie hancock and others
- federico mompou (jordi masó) - piano music vol. 1-3 - naxos - 1998 - 2000
- grachan moncurr iii - exploration - capri records - 2004
andrew cyrille and others
- thelonious monk - the complete riverside recordings (15 cd set)
- thelonious monk - live at the it club (los angeles) - columbia - 1964
with charlie rouse, larry gales and ben riley
- lee morgan - search for the new land - blue note - 1964
- lee morgan - infinity - blue note - 1965
with jackie mclean
- ram narayan - ragas alhaiya bilaval and mishra bhairavi - nimbus records - 2004
- arvo pärt - fratres - emi - 1994
richard studt, tasmin little, martin roscoe
- arvo pärt - arvo pärt: i am the true vine - harmonia mundi - 2000
christopher bowers-broadbent, paul hillier, theatre of voices
- frank perry - deep peace - !quartz - 1980
- frank perry - new atlantis - celestial harmonies - 1984
- benoit pioulard - temper - kranky - 2008
- julien priester - love, love, love - ecm - 1973
- ernst reijseger - i love you so much it hurts - winter & winter - 2002
piano - franco d'andrea
- pharoah sanders - pharoah's first - esp - 1965
- erik satie (jean-philippe collard & pascal roge) - satie: the 4-handed piano, etc. - decca - 2000
- franz schubert (florestan trio) - schubert: piano trio #1; notturno; piano trio movement - hyperion - 2001
- trygve seim - sangam - ecm - 2004
with arve henriksen and frode halti
- colin andrew sheffield - signatures + broken light - invisible birds - 2009
- archie shepp - ballads for trane - denon/nippon columbia - 1977
- archie shepp and roswell rudd - live in new york - verve - 2001
fine sans amir baraka
- richard skelton - marking time - preservation - 2008
- bessie smith - bessie smith 1925-1933 - nimbus records - 1992
- lonnie liston smith - astral traveling - flying dutchman - 1973
- lonnie liston smith - expansions - rca - 1975
- tibetan buddhism - the ritual orchestra and chants - nonesuch - 1976
recorded at khampagar monastery, essential for scelsi fans
- ralph towner - lost and found - ecm - 1996
- ralph towner - anthem - ecm - 2001
- mal waldron and marion brown - songs of love and regret - free lance - 1985
- mal waldron and marion brown - much more - freelance records - 1988
- mal waldron and steve lacy - sempre amore - soul note records - 1986
- fats waller - fine arabian stuff - high note - 2000
recorded for radio broadcast on november 20, 1939
- chris watson - cima verde - fondazione edmund mach, lol productions - 2008

photo - the night sky while walking through the university one evening

classify all risks

claude sautet - classe tous risques - 1960
novel - josé giovanni
cinematography - ghislain cloquet

un coup de dés

photos taken by the near-unknown polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, taken in the 1950s in the great kraków conservatory of flowers,
all images taken of the floor while walking through the space, making sure not to look through the viewfinder, but to be occupied by the plants and flowers instead, and to pay little or no attention to focus and exposure issues. okoniewski certainly deserves more praise than he has received, especially for the aleatoric techniques he applied to photography.
according to the french scholar t. towler, ansel adams was heard to say that okoniewski's techniques were so offensive to the "art of photography" that he aught to be considered a madman and left out of the history of photography all-together.

monochrome music

listening, new and not new - studies in abstraction

new -

- aix em klemm - s/t - kranky - 2000
collaboration between bobby donne of labradford and adam wiltzie of stars of the lid
- asher - instability - leerraum [ ] - 2008
....leaves blowing through a snowy landscape, not quite visible....
- johann sebastian bach / john holloway - the sonatas and partitas for violin solo - ecm - 2006
- aidan baker - book of nods - beta-lactam ring records - 2008
- anouar brahem & jan garbarek - madar - ecm - 1992/2000
- john cage / the barton workshop - the fives (x) - megadisc - 2002
- john cage / the barton workshop - eight-two-one4 - megadisc - 2005
- john cage - seven - quartets I-VIII - neos - 2008
- celer - nacreous clouds - and/oar - 2008
"nacreous clouds", are found in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 metres (50,000–80,000 ft). due to their high altitude and the curvature of the surface of the earth, these clouds will receive sunlight from below the horizon and reflect it to the ground, shining brightly well before dawn or after dusk"
- celer - discourses of the withered - infraction - 2008
- celer - the everything and the nothing - infraction - 2008
- don cherry - where is brooklyn? - blue note - 1966
with henry grimes, edward blackwell, and pharoah sanders
- don cherry - complete communion - blue note - 1966
with henry grimes, edward blackwell, and leandro 'gato' barbieri
- ry cooder & ronu majumdar - bansuri & john hassell - hollow bamboo - water lily acoustics - 2000
- marilyn crispell - storyteller - ecm - 2004
with mark helias and paul motian
- marilyn crispell - vignettes - ecm - 2008
- holger czukay & rolf cammers - canaxis - spoon records - 1982
recorded in 1968 and released originally in 1969
"a new landscape is painted out of darkness by progressive strokes of the dawn"
- miles davis - miles in tokyo - sony - recorded 1964
- miles davis & john coltrane - miles davis & john coltrane - the complete columbia recordings 1955-1961 - sony - 2000
includes albums circle in the round, 'round about midnight, milestones, kind of blue, someday my prince will come, miles & monk at newport, and jazz at the plaza
- thomas demenga, thomas larcher, teodoro anzellotti - chonguri - ecm - 2006
- toumani diabaté - kaira - hannibal - 1988
debut recording - improvisations on the kora, a 21-stringed west african harp
- toumani diabaté & ali farka toure - in the heart of the moon - nonesuch - 2005
- toumani diabaté - the mandé variations - nonesuch - 2008
- the dowland project - romaria - ecm - 2008
- michael jon fink - i hear it in the rain - cold blue music - 2001
- michael jon fink - i hear it in the rain live at redcat (radio)
- vincent gallo - buffalo 66 - will records - 1998
- vincent gallo - recordings of music for film - warp records/beat records - 2002
- jan garbarek - dis - ecm - 1976/2000
- jan garbarek & the hilliard ensemble - officium - ecm - 1994
- djivan gasparyan - i will not be sad in this world - all saints 1993/2005
- vittorio ghielmi - short tales for a viol - winter & winter - 2004
- bernhard günter - lone looper - klangstaub - ?
- françoise hardy - françoise hardy - vol. 1 (1962-1968) - bmg - 2000
- jon hassell - aka darbari java (magic realism) - editions eg - 1983
jon hassell—trumpet, keyboards, treatments, abdou mboup—drums, daniel lanois—treatments
- andrew hill - judgement - bluenote - 1964
- andrew hill - andrew! - bluenote - 1964
- andrew hill - pax - bluenote - 1965 (released 1975)
- andrew hill - change - bluenote - 1966
- andrew hill - mosaic (ms-016) - 2005
blue note sessions (mostly unreleased) recorded between 1967 and '70, with charles tolliver, bennie maupin, ron carter, cecil mcbee, sam rivers and others
- vikki jackman - whispering pages - faraway press - 2008
- garth knox, agnes vesterman - d'amore - ecm - 2008
garth knox, from the arditti string quartet
- hamre knut & steve tibbets - a - hannibal - 1999
- kraftwerk - kraftwerk 1 - crown - 1971/2006
- kraftwerk - kraftwerk 2 - crown - 1972/2006
- david lang - elevated - cantaloupe - 2005
- sinikka langeland - starflowers - ecm - 2007
with arve henriksen
- barbara lewis - hello stranger - the best of barbara lewis - rhino - 1994
- charles lloyd - the water is wide - ecm - 2000
with billy higgins, etc., not without interest
- pablo márquez - luys de narvaez: musica del delphin - ecm - 2007
guitar playing of pieces from one of the great sixteenth-century masters of spanish music
- dean martin - dino italian love songs - capital - 1962
- christopher mcfall - the city of almost - sourdine - 2008
- jason kahn & asher - vista - and/oar - 2008
- basil kirchin - charcoal sketches. states of mind - trunk records - 2004
includes evan parker
- the necks - sex - fish of milk - 1989
- the necks - chemist - fish of milk/rer megacorp - 2006
- the necks - townsville - phantom sound & vision - 2007
- ernst reijseger - i love you so much it hurts - winter & winter - 2002
- ernst reijseger - requiem for a dying planet, sounds for two films by werner herzog: the wild blue yonder - the white diamond - winter & winter - 2006
- max richter - 24 postcards in full colour - fat cat - 2008
- sam rivers - the complete blue note sam rivers sessions - mosaic - 1996
contains the albums fuschia swing song, contours, a new conception, and dimensions & extensions
- jordi savall - invocation a la nuit - aliavox - 2008
- janek schaefer - extended play [triptych for the child survivors of war and conflict] - line - 2008
- v. sjöberg new jazz ensemble - do nothing 'til you hear from me - ideal - 2008
- stagecoach soundtrack - mark56 records - 1977
- bobo stenson & jan garbarek - witchi-tai-to - ecm - 1974/2000
- bobo stenson - reflections - ecm - 1993/2000
- bobo stenson - war orphans - ecm - 1998
- bobo stenson - serenity - ecm - 2000
- talk talk - spirit of eden - capitol - 1998
- wolfgang voigt - gas - raster-noton - 2008
- anthony williams - life time - bluenote - 1964
- anthony williams - spring - bluenote - 1965
- buster williams - pinnacle - muse - 1975
classic from the american jazz bassist
- larry young - unity - blue note - 1965
with larry young (organ), elvin jones, woody shaw and joe henderson
- larry young - lawrence of newark - castle music - 1973/2002
- joe zawinul - zawinul - atlantic - 1971
with joe zawinul (piano), herbie hancock, woody shaw and others
- give me love: songs of the brokenhearted - baghdad, 1925-1929 - honest jon's - 2008 (via n. granahan)
- a cleansing ascension - elevator bath - 2008
includes some stunning tracks, including keith berry, adam pacione, colin andrew sheffield, matt shoemaker and others, a truly great compilation disc *
- may 6, 2001 - and/oar - 2006
based on recordings by kenneth kirschner


not new -

- alio die & saffron wood - corteggiando le messi - hic sunt leones - 2006
- arild andersen group - electra - ecm - 2005
with arve henriksen
- bjork - volta - one little indian - 2007
with toumani diabaté and antony
- anouar brahem - conte de l'incroyable amour - ecm - 1992
- john cage / teodoro anzellotti - 3 compositions by john cage - winter & winter - 2003
- john cage - early music - edition wandelweiser - 2007
- michael cashmore - sleep england - durtro / jnana - 2006
- ornette coleman - chappaqua suite - sony - 1965
- ry cooder, vishwa mohan bhatt - a meeting by the river - water lily acoustics - 1993
- françois couturier - nostalghia - song for tarkovsky - ecm - 2006
- cage part scelsi - annum per annum - new albion records - 1995
- lawrence english - kiri no oto - touch - 2008
- brian eno - apollo and atmospheres - e.g. records - 1983
- ákos garai - til ødslig horisont - trente oiseaux - 2005
- djivan gasparyan - ask me no questions - trad. crossroads - 1994
- bernhard günter - time, dreaming itself - trente oiseaux - 2000
"time, and the notion of slowness"
- bernhard günter - crossing the river (night music) - trente oiseaux - 2001
"ceci est la couleur de mes rèves" juan miró
- gurdjieff - gurdjieff, tsabropoulos: chants, hymns and dances - ecm - 2004
- frode haltli - passing images - ecm - 2007
with arve henriksen
- freddie hubbard - blue spirits - blue note - 1965
- koen holtkamp - make haste - a room forever - 2008
- jason lescalleet - the pilgrim - glistening examples - 2006
- booker little - out front - candid - 1961
with eric dolphy, julian priester, ron carter and max roach, etc.
- rolf lislevand - nuove musiche - ecm - 2006
- jimmy lyons - other afternoons - byg records - 1970
- jimmy lyons - jimmy lyons box set - ayler records - 2003
- francisco lópez - addy en el país de las frutas y los chunches - alien8 recordings - 2003
- stephan mathieu - frequencylib - ritornell - 2001
track - gutnacht
- stephan mathieu - the sad mac - headz - 2004
- stephan mathieu and janek schaefer - hidden name - cronica - 2006
- charles mingus - tijuana moods - rca - 1957
- steve peters - here•ings: a sonic geohistory - la alameda press, pianíssimo - 2002
has a permanent place in the 5-disc cd player
- akira rabelais - spellewauerynsherde - samadhisound - 2004
- ernst reijseger - colla parte - winter & winter - 1997
- the ronettes - the best of the ronettes - abkco - 1992
- joel ryan - on air - psi - 2005
variations on the music of evan parker
- jordi savall - les voix humaines - aliavox - 1998
- giacinto scelsi - natura renovatur - ecm - 2006
- stefano scodanibbio - voyage that never ends - new albion - 1998
- stefano scodanibbio - geografia amorosa - col legno - 2000
- archie shepp - fire music - impulse - 1965
- wayne shorter - speak no evil - blue note - 1964
- supersilent - supersilent 6 - rune grammofon - 2006
- valentin silvestrov arvo pärt galina ustvolskaya - misterioso - ecm - 2006
- tape - rideau - häpna - 2005
- (the user) - abandon - asphodel - 2003
a composition written for the abandoned silo #5 grain elevator in the port of montréal's quai des ecluses

he was gifted with the invisible music

invisible birds research

à la recherche des oiseaux invisibles
by the 19th century french ornithologist m von toufes-moles

***

the beginnings of a bird section now visible on invisiblebirds.org
a growing list of artists pursuing birds,
specifically in painting, photography, music, literature, poetry and film,
compiled by gossamer & arthur de eriomém

often coupled with land, to express the idea of the whole surface of the earth

riccardo morandi
construction photo of bridge over lake maracaibo, venezuela
from - the concrete architecture of riccardo morandi by giorgio boaga & benito boni - praeger - 1966

univers du western - the furies

anthony mann - the furies - 1950
(landscape photography)

cinematography by victor milner *


(number 8 of 500 detailing westerns)

and then everything receded from him (invisible birds)

and the sound of the wind died away and then like the murmur of a lullaby or pealing bells rose up again from the depths of ravines and tips of fir trees and a faint reddishness climbed into the deep blue and small clouds drifted by on silver wings and all the mountain peaks, sharp and firm, glinted and gleamed far across the countryside, he would feel something tearing at his chest, he would stand there gasping, body bent forward, eyes and mouth opened wide, he was convinced he should draw the storm into himself, contain everything within himself, he stretched out and lay over the earth, he burrowed into the universe, it was a pleasure that gave him pain; or he would remain still and lay his head upon the moss and half-close his eyes and then everything receded from him, the earth beneath him, it became as tiny as a wandering star and dipped into a rushing stream whose clear waters flowed beneath him

georg büchner - lenz - 1839 (posthumously)

8.8.8

to langston, one of the finest friends a fellow could have