En uppsats, en dikt och lite musik.

Jag har varit inaktiv här på den senaste tiden mycket beroende på arbetet med min c-uppsats i musikvetenskap. Uppsatsen börjar nu närma sig sitt slut och jag ska bara stavningskontrollera den innan jag mailar den till mina lärare ikväll. Min musik har fått ligga ganska mycket på is på grund av uppsatsen men en del grejer har jag börjat arbeta på. Bland annat har jag börjat spela in en kassett helt utan dator med improvisationsmusik med den utrustning jag har liggandes hemma, än så länge har det blivit min sampler, mp3-spelare med ljudupptagningar och en lp spelare med diverse skivor kopplad till en distpedal. Resultatet läggs väll upp här om det blir en fullständig kassett någon gång i framtiden. I övrigt har jag börjat skriva en del musik i en mer konstmusik anda då jag känner att jag vill vidga mina vyer från den dansmusik jag sysslat med innan. Jag har två stycken på gång men det kommer dock dröja några månader innan nån av dom är färdiga då mina kunskaper inom kontrapunkt och harmonisering leder till ett ganska långsamt arbetande. I övrigt har jag börjat lyssna mer på samtida konstmusik och även försöka hålla mig mer uppdaterad om vad som händer inom konstmusiken idag. Jag kan rekommendera tidningen Nutida Musik och även redaktören Andreas Engströms blog http://nutidamusik.blogspot.com/ . Jag har även börjat läsa mer böcker och poesi och försökt sätta mig in lite i den samtida poesin också. Är intresserad av den så kallade språk materialistiska poesin, vet dock inte vad jag egentligen tycker om det här försöket till abstraktion inom just poesin det kan tyckas för att citera Adorno som ett "pseudomorphosiskt" försök där man försöker efterlikna rörelser inom bildkonst och musik som inte passar inom poesin. Jag rekommenderar dock för dom som är intresserade av modern poesi att kolla in http://english.utah.edu/eclipse/projects/LANGUAGE/language.html där alla 13 nummer av tidningen L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e finns att läsa. Jag har själv skrivit en dikt som är inspirerad av språk materialism men som blir en aning mer konkret än vad L=a=n=g=u=a=g=e brukar vara. I dikten är all text hämtad från mina vänners Facebook status, och idén blir att visa hur lika folks liv egentligen är.

Meh
Kollar på Narnia Trött
Pallar inte är bakis och hungrig
slacking Vill ingenting hej tristess
Efter timmar av schopping Öl
På tåg till lund
Är i lund call me
Är hemma
Åker nog söderut imorgon
respeppen/resfebern
Är i Berlin
Snabbare än du hinner säga
Alexanderplatz
Viva la vida
Is off to africa
Semestrar ensam

Once again, me (Frans) and Theo have begun going through ideas concerning Aron's collection of poems, "Hägringar i en blomstrande öken" ("Mirages in a blossoming desert" or something like that). It's been a while since we relfected actively on the co-op, but as Aron, just efore his return to GB, whiped the dust from the project by issuing a wish the painter and musician woke up, we realised it simply had to be done. The evening before Theos departure back to Munka-Ljungby we met up to see what had changed in our minds since we last discussed the subject.

I realized that my musical vision of the poems hadn't really changed that much, I still interpreted the themes into drones, both in the bass and treble registers. I get these late 60's early 70's sci-fi and Magrittesque images in my head, something I against my will tried to pass on to Theo. I aim to imitate that space sound of sci-fi movie soundtracks but also incorporate more oriental elements, seeing that the scenery is a desert (I hope you don't consider me too much of a narrowminded exotist).

Theo's ideas, however, had changed dramatically. Initially he sketched on paintings, but upon seeing the old sketches again he now rejected the thought of a classical two-dimensional rendering. We both suggested the use of movie projectors in a small, cubical room, a vision apparantly Theo and me had had before even discussing this. The projections would recreate the atmosphere of a truly desolate place, maybe an empty worker's town in the south of Sweden (during nighttime).

I came with the suggestion we use a main theme, built around a massive bass drone that nearly drenches the entire environment. Splitting the collection of poems into perhaps five or more parts, we could place loudspeakers of some form close to every slice of of the collection. Every slice would then be represented by its own theme, in the middle and upper frequencies. These themes could revolve around simple rhythms on bells, string instruments, maybe even voices. If everything works out as it should, the experience of the music will change, depending on where in the room the participants have their location. A more advanced way of presenting the music would be motion sensors enabling interaction between the sounds of the room and the visitors. Perhaps the wall projections could also be interactive...

We have come up with more, and it will be great to publish reports on the progress of the project here on the blog. Hopefully, our non-existent readers would like to comment thoughts on our enormous performance.

And as a little conclusion, I am happy to inform you that I have started drawing again. Here are two portraits of Klara and a self-portrait. You haven't seen the end of this temporary seizure of mine! There's more where this came from. I am very satisfied with the second portrait of Klara as I succeeded in synthesizing her straight hair into a simple pattern. I don't really know what to say, I have never been the master at evaluating my own work, neither music nor drawings.




Cheers! /Frans

I'm back.

Hello again. Please excuse my inactivity; my poetic sensibilities have been terribly distracted these last few weeks. Luckily however, a country walk just a couple of days ago was enought to regain inspiration.

Skogen skärper sinnena -
Mellan varje trädstam en osynlig varelse,
Under varje multnat löv ett mystiskt fotspår,
I varje tystnad ett hemligt meddelande,
Bortom varje människa något annat.

/Aron

New Track!

Got another new track up on myspace now. It's a bit of a Villalobos inspired techno track with a Gregorian choir and Bo Hansson sampled organs. Since it is 10 min long i had to cut down on the quality when i put it on myspace but i guess that's nothing unusual. So check it out at www.myspace.com/jonasedenbrandt


/Jonas

Munka lately

Hey, it's been a while since I last posted. Seems like october, the most active month of swedishtech so far, left us all with are guards down. Or something like that.
Actually, I haven't felt like I had anything finished, or worth bringing to the table, but here's what's been up lately.Right before our autumn break we had a full week of painting live models. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work. The teachers focused mostly on composition, as in relating the model to the room around her or him. I did learn a bit about that, I think, but it was kind of frustrating to be standing in front of a model and not focusing that much on what she actually looked like, in depth so to speak. Anyhow, this is one of the paintings I made during that week. This assignment was to try and paint like a famous or recognised painter of models. I chose Schiele. This thing kind of reminds of Carlos Capelan's stuff though.

After the break, having returned from Gothenburg and London, both great trips, we worked with performance art for one week. The overall theme of this week was "School", and each group of six or so people was ment to have a class on a certain subject. My group was assigned "social studies". This had me thinking about the social studies I had late in gymnasiet. My world view was pretty much solidified in it's current state, and it stood in stark contrast to the one presented by my teacher. This was kind of a hopeless sitiuation, because what I was studying was basically lies to me. Well, maybe more silly than hopeless. Below is the title of my individual performance.

So basically, what I did was ask everybody in the audience to write down on a piece of paper what they thought to be the best way to change the world. They had two minutes to do this. Then I walked around with a waste- paper basket, tossing some of the pieces of paper into it, and stuffing some of them in my pocket. When this was done I put the pieces of paper from my pocket into the skull of a plastic skeleton and placed it in the centre of the classroom. Eh, yeah.

People actually got more offended then I had imagined by this. Which was good and creepy.

The performance week was really intense. A lot of great stuff said and done, it kind of felt like our school opened itself up, and I was left thinking about where I usually store my emotions while making art.

And now for some nude studies of poor photographic quality:

During the last few weeks I've been working with a couple of things. I've made clay- prints out of a Bacon- painting. This hasn't turned out very good yet, but we'll see.
I've also been making collages out of Aron's interrail photos, or at least those of buildings. A lot of fun.

And I've been working on this painting, kind of a triple self- portrait. Not sure if it's done or not, or if it's good or not. This is a pretty big thing, about 1,80 * 1,40 m is my guess. Acrylics, pastels and oil on paper.

Lately I've been thinking about promotion. I think that we're up to some high quality shit on this blog, and more people should get to see/hear it. Any ideas? Stickers? Commenting on other blogs?

mvh

Theo

Dikt

Här är en dikt jag och min vän skrev tillsammans genom att skriva vartannat ord. Processen var väldigt rolig och är rätt nöjd med resultat:



när det inte ens
går finns en likgiltig tanke bakom mig
över slätten och oss på moln och under finns tanken som var
nej fly -ga bort -ger klar!
också jungfrun satt hos barägaren
barägaren äger en upplevelse röd äcklig lockande
det hemsöker varandet medvetandet
nerstoppat med handen trevandes oförstående
hennes kom närmare fast fantasin
dö!
försvinn!
kom
vara sönder eller naken
inte vilja vara mer varken mindre
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Körkarlen on Saturday

Körkarlen på lördag där Frans, William, Nils och jag spelar på lördag kostar inte 250kr som vi tidigare hade trott utan vi har förhandlat så det kostar 60kr så våra vänner kan komma. Så alla som vill höra otroligt bra musik till en bra film borde va på Kino klockan 13 på lördag. Be there or be []