fragments from a monograph on the pole photographer bolesław okoniewski : los angeles part three

(malibu - part three)

some recently discovered photographs captured in los angeles by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken slightly before his passing (dates uncertain, most likely mid to late 60s).

okoniewski used the un coup de dés technique of "no eyes, no focus, no exposure, no nothing", which came to him after reading a polish translation of mallarmé's poems, and after ruminating on the complex meanings and possibilities of chance and nothingness. his unpublished notes on the subject have been a large influence on the ingenting kollektiva and writers of this web site.

okoniewski at the time was working for the polish company ziemniak wirus nieograniczony, and was doing business in the los angeles region.

(note : please view images in a dark room)

fragments from a monograph on the pole photographer bolesław okoniewski : los angeles part two

(malibu - part two)

some recently discovered photographs from the city of angels by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken sometime after his exile from poland due to some controversial findings in the study of "resistance in diploid potatoes" (dates uncertain, most likely late 60s / early 70s).

okoniewski's aleatoric techniques included not using the camera viewfinder, little or no attention to focus or exposure issues, often times pointing the camera in a different direction than he was looking, or sometimes in the same direction to see how the throw of the dice camera's vision differed from his own.

okoniewski's trip was motivated by the desire to be in the city that had been the setting for famous buildings such as the bradbury building, the great courtyard houses, the los angeles aqueduct system, the eames house, the schindler house, art deco masterpieces such as bullocks wilshire & griffith observatory.

(note : please view images in a totally black room, no light if possible)

fragments from a monograph on the pole photographer bolesław okoniewski : los angeles part one

(malibu - part one)

some recently discovered photographs captured in los angeles by the polish photographer bolesław okoniewski, a trip taken sometime before his death (dates uncertain, most likely late 60s / early 70s).

okoniewski used the aleatoric technique of not looking through the viewfinder of the camera, with little or no attention to focus or exposure issues.

okoniewski's trip was motivated by the desire to be in the city that had been the home to artists such as john cage, marcel duchamp, kenneth anger, the many émigrés like thomas mann, bertolt brecht, oskar fischinger, kurt weill, billy wilder.... where hollywood cinema had had many great periods, and left many traces, and where most of the ed ruscha's photographic books had been produced (every building on the sunset strip, thirtyfour parking lots in los angeles, twentysix gasoline stations, some los angeles apartments, and royal road test (for its method).

(note : please view images in a black or near black room, no artificial light especially)

text and melody initiated by the reformer martin luther and his wittenberg colleagues

  
* the castle at cöthen (1717-1723) *
excerpt from the limited edition cd portion of the special edition lost beyond telling

constructed and edited by matthew swiezynski & the capellmeister in cöthen

using source material originally constructed by ingenting kollektiva
and originally mastered by taylor deupree
image by tarrl lightowler

"long, complex, emotionally charged pieces using a wide variety of techniques, including strong contrasts in instrumentation, dynamic level, texture, mode and key, repetition scheme, melody, harmony, rhythm, and occasionally even metre."
from malcolm boyd's oxford composer companions : j.s. bach (on chaconne, text by natalie jenne & meredith little)

for the limited edition, we have decided on an edition of 10 for $150 each
edition will include :

• a drawing by matthew swiezynski (40 minute drawing listening to fragments of night)
• photographic portfolio
• the cd * the castle at cöthen (1717-1723) *
• a small booklet
• synthetic horse hair fabric around the standard edition
• other items of interest, all enclosed in a lovely box

this limited edition of 11 will be the first of 3 different releases spread over the next year, more details to follow.

please email to reserve a copy at : invisiblebirds (at) gmail (dot) com

unseen, nightlong

images from forthcoming invisible birds special edition :
ib006ltd ingenting kollektiva lost beyond telling
limited edition of 12 copies, due sometime around august/september

edition will include :

• a drawing by matthew swiezynski (40 minute drawing listening to fragments of night) (above)
• photographic portfolio
• a small booklet
• synthetic horse hair fabric around the standard edition
• other items of interest, all enclosed in a lovely box (above)

price is still being determined, depending on expenses
please email to reserve a copy : invisiblebirds (at) gmail (dot) com
or for further details

shall i start with the day you sent me to lisbon?

ingenting kollektiva's fragments of night number 4 in mojo's vinyl countdown

(we all had to get the nod from mr. smiley)

music (some new, some old)
- j.s. bach - the english suites (angela hewitt) - hyperion - 2003
- evan caminiti - night dust - immune - 2012 (lp)
- frédéric chopin - complete mazurkas (arthur rubinstein) - cdo - 2002
- jesu - heart ache - dry run recordings - 2004
- jesu - jesu - hydra head records - 2004 (plus unreleased original vision)
- annette peacock - i'm the one - future days recordings - 1972/2012 (lp)
- radiohead - supercollider/the butcher - ticker tape ltd - 2011 (lp)
- radiohead - live bonnaroo - 2012
- simon scott - below sea level - 12k - 2012
- six organs of admittance - school of the flower - drag city - 2005 (lp)
- colin andrew sheffield - time will tell - quiet world - 2012
- robert turman - flux - spectrum spools - 1981/2012 (via gossamer)

books
- raymond carver - collected stories - the library of america - 2009
- david goodis - dark passage from five noir novels of the 1940s & 50s - the library of america - 2012
- a. dziewanski - epoch of humility

films
(updated here except for the bad ones)

image captured by mr. lightowler from michael mann/david milch's luck
ps - selling books on amz to pay for invisible birds releases, will put more up soon.

iboo6 loops

flusslandschaften

: listening to :

- oren ambarchi - audience of one - touch - 2012
- meg baird - seasons on earth - drag city - 2011 (lp)
- biosphere - mysterier - touch - 2011 (7")
- bohren & der club of gore - black earth - wonder - 2002
- taylor deupree - shoals - 12k - 2010 (7")
- dronæment - wassermond - drone records - 2000/2007 (7")
- fire! with jim o'rourke - released! - rune grammofon - 2011
- fire! with oren ambarchi - in the mouth - a hand - rune grammofon - 2012
- fly trio - year of the snake - ecm - 2012
- börje fredriksson - intervall - emi columbia - 1966
- from the mouth of the sun - woven tide - experimedia - 2012 (lp + cd)
- funkadelic - funkadelic - westbound/4 men with beards - 1970/2008 (lp)
- hildur guðdnadóttir - leyfðu ljósinu - touch - 2012
- ingenting kollektiva - lost beyond telling - invisible birds forthcoming - 2012 (12k mastered version)
- ktl - v - editions mego - 2012
- maeror tri ‎- the beauty of sadness - direction music/tantric harmonies - 1996/2005
- oöphoi ‎- static soundscapes: three lights at the end of the world - hic sunt leones - 1996
esp. space forest part 1: distant monastery
- organum - die hennen zähne - die stadt - 2005
- charlemagne palestine & janek schaefer - day of the demons - desire path recordings - 2012 (lp)
- pinkcourtesyphone (r. chartier) - foley folly folio - line [segments] - 2012
- the smiths - meat is murder - rough trade records - 1985 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - the queen is dead - rough trade records - 1986 (lp reissue)
- the smiths - louder than bombs - rough trade records - 1987 (lp)
- smog - forgotten foundation - drag city - 1992/2012 (lp)
- david sylvian - approaching silence - virgin - 1999
- talk talk - the colour of spring - emi - 1986 (lp)
- talk talk - spirit of eden - parlophone/emi - 1988
- talk talk - laughing stock - verve/ba da bing - 1991/2011 (lp reissue)
- mark hollis - mark hollis - polydor/ba da bing - 1998/2011 (lp reissue)
- tindersticks - tindersticks - this way up/plain recordings - 1993/2011 (lp)
- troum - ryna - transgredient records - 1998/2007
- troum - tjukurrpa (part one: harmonies) - transgredient records - 2001
- troum - tjukurrpa (part two: drones) - transgredient records - 2001
- troum - tjukurrpa (part three: rhythms and pulsations) - transgredient records - 2003
- troum - sigqan - transgredient records - 2003/2009
- martin bates | troum - to a child dancing in the wind - transgredient records - 2006
- troum - aiws - transgredient records - 2007
- troum - eald-ge-stréon - beta-lactam ring records - 2009

image from leonardo da vinci : das wasserbuch - schirmer/mosel - 1996
entry title : river landscapes

alchemy of suffering

matthew swiezynski - my heart, delirious with sound - 2012 (in progress)
titles from monsieur baudelaire

scentless apprentice

- bonnie "prince" billy - master and everyone - drag city - 2003 (lp)
- black swan - aeterna - ethereal symphony - 2012
- bill callahan - rough travel for a rare thing - sea note - 2010 (lp)
- the haxan cloak - the haxan cloak - aurora borealis - 2011
- gas - nah und fern (gas, zauberberg, königsforst, and pop) - kompakt - 2008
- thomas köner & asmus tietchens (kontakt der jünglinge) - 1 - die stadt - 2001
- john duncan / kontakt der jünglinge / c.m. von hausswolff - untitled - die stadt - 2007
- dickie landry - fifteen saxophones - unseen worlds - 2011
- my bloody valentine - isn't anything - creation records - 1988
- my bloody valentine - loveless - creation records - 1991
- nirvana - bleach - sub pop - 1989
- nirvana - nevermind - dgc - 1991
- nirvana - incesticide - sub pop - 1992
- nirvana - in utero - dgc - 1993
- nirvana - mtv unplugged in new york - dgc - 1994
- nirvana - from the muddy banks of the wishkah - dgc - 1996
- nirvana - nirvana - dgc - 2002
- nirvana - with the lights out - dgc- 2004
- nirvana - life at reading - dgc - 1992/2009
- sunn o))) - the grimmrobe demos - hydra head records/southern lord - 1999
- sunn o))) - 00 void - rise above/hydra head - 2000
- sunn o))) - flight of the behemoth - southern lord - 2002
- sunn o))) - white 1 - southern lord - 2003
- sunn o))) - white 2 - southern lord - 2004
- sunn o))) - black one - southern lord - 2005
- sunn o))) & boris - altar - southern lord/inoxia records - 2006/2007
- sunn o))) - monoliths & dimensions - southern lord - 2009 (cd + lp)
- susanna - wild dog - rune grammofon - 2012
- david sylvian - secrets of the beehive - virgin - 1987
- david sylvian - blemish - samadhisound - 2003
- david sylvian - the good son vs. the only daughter (the blemish remixes) - samadhisound - 2005
- wire - 154 - harvest - 1979 (lp)
- peter wright - orbit - install - 2012 (lp)
- neil young - zuma - reprise - 1975 (lp)
- neil young - american stars 'n bars - reprise - 1977 (lp)
- neil young - arc & weld - reprise - 1991

(things we have been listening to recently)

lost beyond telling

samples from the cd portion of the forthcoming oiseaux invisibles release :

everything is abyss (baudelaire), excerpt

ingenting kollektiva 

lost beyond telling : fragments of night as envisioned by johannes d'église, church mouse.

(ib006 - cd + dvd - 2012, forthcoming, also available in artist edition of 8)

material from ingenting kollektiva, ingmar bergman, and j.s. bach, modified and transformed by johannes d'église & matthew swiezynski, and mastered by taylor deupree.

titles taken from :
baudelaire, bonnefoy, prospero, messiaen, jaccottet, stamelman, ashbery, and d'église

images by tarrl lightowler