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Berlin, 27. Dezember 2021
My music is the spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being...When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people, to help humanity free itself from its hangups...I want to speak to their souls. — John Coltrane
Berlin, 14. Dezember 2021
My kingdom is in the air. As the wind often does, so do harmonies whirl around me, and so too do things often whirl about in my soul. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Berlin, 8. Dezember 2021
Composer Arthur Berger (1912-2003) | Interview with Bruce Duffie (1987) | bruceduffie [dot] com | Link
Berlin, 25. November 2021
Raga [shoes on the sidewalk] © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
[01:31] | link to mp3
Walk over water [ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
Walk over water [Gouache on dictionary page] [Drawing]
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Berlin, 5. November 2021
The world is in deep shit. — planetary ecological damage —
Berlin, 1. November 2021
Grotesques II (2021) · [01:06:36] | open [écouter]
[This project was created 100% independently of art institutions, cultural institutions or other organizations. This project is non-commercial and freely accessible to everyone.]
Grotesques II [Gouache on dictionary page] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Berlin, 29. September 202
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College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books. — John Cage, M: Writings '67-'72
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John Cage - Klassiska podden [51 min] | Sveriges Radio | sverigesradio [dot] se | Link
[Han komponerade ett helt tyst stycke – och revolutionerade musikvärlden. Men sitt största gage erövrade John Cage som svampexpert.]
Moondog – mystiker med mörkerseende - P2 Dokumentär [57 min] | Sveriges Radio | sverigesradio [dot] se | Link
[Det här är berättelsen om tonsättaren, musikern och poeten Louis Hardin alias Moondog som gick från tidvis hemlös gatumusiker till hyllad kompositör.]
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Radio [Berlin] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Harry Smith Archives – Harry Everett Smith (1923-1991) | filmmaker, visual artist, anthropologist, alchemist and collector, whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde | harrysmitharchives [dot] com | Link
Berlin, 24. September 2021
(...) forget the politiciAns / they aRe / on The / mOon when they saw we were / no longer Voting / thEy left (...) — John Cage, 'Overpopulation and Art: A Mesostic Poem (1992)', 180-85 | 'Overpopulation and Art' · Listen [youtube]
Berlin, 22. September 2021 [3:38 PM]
Klangcollage — [sculpture musicale, 2008] — Sound collage for John Cage | open
Berlin, 21. September 2021 [6:40 PM]
U.S. Highball (1946) by Harry Partch | harrypartch [dot] bandcamp [dot] com | Link
Berlin, 18. September 2021 [12:52 PM]
DIY Air Purification Designs [airbox] | edgecollective [dot] io | Link
[Edge Collective is a distributed research, teaching, and facilitation cooperative. We're working to help individuals and communities to adapt their vital food, water, energy, and communications infrastructure to challenging environments. All of the research, designs, and code that we produce are freely available online.]
Berlin, 15. September 2021 [6:20 PM]
An homage to Antonin Artaud by Jacques Derrida | youtube [dot] com | Listen
[A conference on Antonin Artaud by Jacques Derrida, 23 January 1997 Seminar 'In homage to Antonin Artaud', organised in New Delhi by the National School of Drama, Delhi University and the French Embassy. Recorded and edited by Bernard Bel.]
Berlin, 14. September 2021
global village (2021) · download [80 KB]
[01:02] | link to mp3
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Berlin, 10. September 2021
The Flaming Lips - Mother Please Don't Be Sad | youtube [dot] com | Video
Berlin, 3. September 2021
one planet (2021) · download [72 KB]
[00:37] | link to mp3
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be kind to one another (2021) · download [60 KB]
Berlin, 2. September 2021
Hurricane Ida [broadcast montage] © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
[12:39] | link to mp3
[Hurricane Ida is a category 4 hurricane. — image — Ida made landfall Sunday, the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.]
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mode 327 | John CAGE: Cage Edition Vol. 54; The Works for Piano 11: Cheap Imitation; Swinging; Perpetual Tango; All sides of the small stone for Erik Satie and (secretly given to Jim Tenney) as a koan + FIRST RECORDING of Morton FELDMAN‘s trio arrangement of Cheap Imitation for piano, flutes & glockenspiel. — Aki Takahashi, piano | cageedition [dot] bandcamp [dot] com | Link
Berlin, 1. September 2021
Music by John Cage and Earle Brown | The Solti Studio Concerts | youtube [dot] com | Link
[Multiple and overlapping compositions (both music and theatre pieces) by John Cage and his New York colleague Earle Brown recorded separately for this video, then edited and combined digitally using Cage's chance operations. A collaborative lock-down project inspired by Cage’s work for Experiments in Art and Technology (EAT) made in the late 1960s at Robert Rauschenberg’s invitation. Devised by Richard Bernas and Norman Rosenthal. Edited by Sam Belinfante. | John Cage Winter Music (1958) & Earle Brown 25 Pages for Piano (1953) Ben Smith, piano ::: John Cage Song Books (1970) Rosie Middleton, mezzo soprano Linda Hirst, mezzo soprano & cook Richard Bernas, water ::: Thoreau’s Walden excerpts read by Norman Rosenthal ::: I Ching (The Book of Changes) hexagram texts read by Tom Phillips.]
Berlin, 30. August 2021
Tragedy shows what is perishable, what is fragile, and what is slow moving about us. In a world defined by relentless speed and the unending acceleration of information flows that cultivate amnesia and an endless thirst for the short-term future allegedly guaranteed through worship of the new prosthetic gods of technology, tragedy is a way of applying the emergency brake. Tragedy slows things down by confronting us with what we do not know about ourselves: an unknown force that unleashes violent effects on us on a daily, indeed often minute-by-minute basis. — Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and us (2019)
Berlin, 27. August 2021
Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgar Varèse
Edgar Varèse | 'Ionisation' for 13 percussionists —
extremely difficult to perform, try Kent Nagano | Link
Edgar Varèse | 'Arcana' for full orchestra — extremely difficult
to perform, try Pierre Boulez | Link
Morton Feldman | Five Pianos (1972) — try Steffen Schleiermacher/hatART6143
| Link
Morton Feldman and John Cage on Varèse and Webern [WBAI broadcast, 1966-67]:
[09:31] | link to mp3
Berlin, 26. August 2021
Our culture abhors the world. Yet quicksand is swallowing the duelists; the river is threatening the fighter: earth, waters, and climate, the mute world, the voice less things once placed as a decor surrounding the usual specta cles, all those things that never interested anyone, from now on thrust themselves brutally and without warning into our schemes and maneuvers. They burst in on our culture, which had never formed anything but a local, vague, and cosmetic idea of them: nature. What was once local-this river, that swamp-is now global: Planet Earth. — Michel Serres, The Natural Contract (1994)
Berlin, 14. August 2021
Message for Marc Monnet II [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
Marc Monnet · marcmonnet [dot] com | Link
Berlin, 7. August 2021
Das Sein und das Nichts (III) | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Berlin, 26. Juli 2021
Lou Harrison | A Happy Journey | Sarah Cahill, piano | youtube [dot] com | Video
Terry Riley | The Walrus In Memoriam | Sarah Cahill, piano | youtube [dot] com | Video
Berlin, 18. Juli 2021
Kronos Quartet | Kronos Festival 2021 Schedule and Details | Link
KRONOS FESTIVAL Program #1 | youtube [dot] com | Video
KRONOS FESTIVAL Program #2 | youtube [dot] com | Video
KRONOS FESTIVAL Program #3 | youtube [dot] com | Video
KRONOS
FESTIVAL Films | 'Five Thoughts About Thirty Pieces' by Sam Green | youtube
[dot] com | Video
Kronos Quartet | kronosquartet [dot] org | Donate | Link
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Berlin, 22. Juni 2021
No. 1 Thoreau kills Buddha · download [184 KB]
We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology!—I know of no reading of another’s experience so startling and informing as this would be. — Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854)
Berlin, 9. Juni 2021
Ben Wagin Wandgemälde, S-Bahnhof Savignyplatz | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Berlin, 7. Juni 2021
Das Sein und das Nichts (II) | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Das Sein und das Nichts (I) | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
Berlin, 5. Juni 2021
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. — Jean-Paul
Sartre, L’existentialisme est un humanisme (1946)
[There is no reality except in action.]
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Thierry Blondeau | Lieu & Non-Lieux (Ensemble Cairn) | Aeon | Outhere Music [Paris] | Link
Ensemble Cairn | discographie | Link
Berlin, 26. Mai 2021
How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (1965) | John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Holland Festival (1967) | youtube [dot] com | Video [06:13]
Berlin, 11. Mai 2021
Ich befinde mich in einem öffentlichen Park. Nicht weit von mir sehe ich einen Rasen und längs des Rasens Stühle. Ein Mensch geht an den Stühlen vorbei. Ich sehe diesen Menschen, ich erfasse ihn gleichzeitig als einen Gegenstand und als einen Menschen. Was bedeutet das? Was will ich sagen, wenn ich von diesem Gegenstand behaupte, daß er ein Mensch sei? — Sartre, Das Sein und das Nichts, S. 457
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Berlin, 30. April 2021
5 books worth reading during a global pandemic:
Jacques Derrida | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Robert D. Richardson Jr. | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Henry Adams | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Daniel Defoe | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Aristotle | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Berlin, 25. April 2021
N.Y.C. | JEREMIAH'S VANISHING NEW YORK | Eisenberg's VANISHED | Link
Berlin, 13. April 2021
Steve Reich — Drumming (1970/71) | Nexus and So Percussion | drummingat50 [dot] com | Link
Colin Currie Group | Playing the music of Steve Reich | colincurriegroup [dot] com | Link
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Wheel [Gouache and collage on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Berlin, 30. März 2021
With Glenn Gould on Mars [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
Berlin, 20. März 2021
Morton Feldman | Patterns In a Chromatic Field (1981) | Aeon | Outhere Music [Paris] | Link
Berlin, 17. März 2021
Ear [Gouache on dictionary page] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music [Oxford University Press] | By You Nakai | remindedbytheinstruments [dot] info | Link
Berlin, 5. März 2021
Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
[00:24] | link to mp3
Berlin, 28. Februar 2021
Sarah Cahill | China Gates by John Adams | sarahcahill [dot] com | Video
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Berlin, 15. Februar 2021
Tree [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
Berlin, 26. Januar 2021
Sarah Cahill | Piano Talk | youtube [dot] com | Video
Sarah Cahill | Sunday Morning Listening Room Harrison House | vimeo [dot] com | Video
Sarah Cahill | Be Kind to One Another (Rag) by Terry Riley | sarahcahill [dot] com | Video
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Walk over water [Gouache on dictionary page] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Berlin, 4. Januar 2021
Nashorn [ink pen on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Berlin, 3. Januar 2021
2021 ist das Jahr des Nashorns,
...ist das Jahr Jacques Derridas
und Buster Keatons,
...ist das Jahr Claude Debussys und Ludwig van Beethovens,
...ist das Jahr der Zeichnung und der Stille,
...ist das Jahr der Variation und des Sisyphos.
...ist das Jahr der Schuhe.
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Berlin, 1. Januar 2021
Water/ladder [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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Nashorn [Gouache on paper] | vergrössern © 2021 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
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