Ralph Lichtensteiger | Artist

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Berlin, 25. Juni 2017

(...) Kunst sollte begriffen und genossen werden als eine nicht kommerziell verseuchte Welt, in der wir daran erinnert werden, dass wir Geist-fähige Kreaturen sind. Wo das passiert, da wird das Hören zum Beobachten. Und wenn ich beobachte, sage ich nicht mehr, das ist gut oder das ist schlecht. Ich sage auch nicht, das ist langweilig oder interessant, sondern: was ist das? Und dabei beobachte und entdecke ich auch mich selber. (...) — Helmut Lachenmann (2016)

Musik als existenzielle Erfahrung - Helmut Lachenmann über sein Werk | deutschlandfunk [dot] de | Hören [24:46]

Helmut Lachenmann | Kontrakadenz; Klangschatten; Fassade | kairos-music [dot] com | Link

Berlin, 24. Juni 2017

Harry Partch [born in Oakland, CA on June 24, 1901] | Life is too precious to spend it with important people. — HP

Berlin, 23. Juni 2017

Hong Kong | Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist, Dies at 73 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

John Cage: Freeman Etudes | By James Pritchett | rosewhitemusic [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 20. Juni 2017

The dark side of progress | argo [four] [Album: Argonauts, 5-disc set, re—mastered & re—issued 2015/2017]

Berlin, 19. Juni 2017

London | Grenfell Tower and the politics of needless death | By Nick Cohen | spectator [dot] co [dot] uk | Read

London | Grenfell Action Group | Link

Berlin, 16. Juni 2017

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen, 1941, Werke 8, S. 506: Die Menschen, die immerfort ›warum‹ fragen, sind wie die Touristen, die im Baedeker lesend, vor einem Gebäude stehen und durch das Lesen der Entstehungsgeschichte etc. etc. daran gehindert werden, das Gebäude zu sehen.

[Als Baedeker wird ein Reiseführer für Reiseziele im In- und Ausland bezeichnet. Er erschien erstmals 1832. Namensgeber: Karl Baedeker, 1801-1859]

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It begins with a blessing, it ends with a curse
Making life easy by making it worse
'My mask is my master,' the trumpeter weeps
But his voice is so weak as he speaks from his sleep
Saying: 'Why, why, why... Why are we sleeping?'

— Soft Machine (1968)

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[Saunter] Walk in a slow, relaxed manner, without hurry or effort.

Berlin, 15. Juni 2017

Anarchism, art and politics | Crispin Sartwell:

How to Escape. Magic, Madness, Beauty, and Cynicism (2014) | vergrössern

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nytimes [dot] com | THE STONE | Crispin Sartwell | Philosophy Returns to the Real World | Read

Berlin, 14. Juni 2017

Reality is impertinent, indefatigable, and inescapable. — Crispin Sartwell

Berlin, 12. Juni 2017

Berlin, 10. Juni 2017

Shoes/Polypores — [Photographs, 2015/2016/2017] · Galerie öffnen

Berlin, 7. Juni 2017

NYC | The Number of New Yorkers Living In Poverty Is Bigger Than the Population of Philadelphia | wnyc [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 5. Juni 2017

nytimes [dot] com | THE STONE | Kick This Rock: Climate Change and Our Common Reality | By Michael P. Lynch | Read

[Samuel Johnson, George Berkeley, to be is to be perceived, perceptions of reality/common reality, everything is in our minds]

Berlin, 4. Juni 2017

India [Karachi] | Sitar maestro Rais Khan [1939-2017]: The Man Who Made the Sitar Sing | indianexpress [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 2. Juni 2017

David Lewiston, Who Recorded Indigenous Music Far and Wide, Dies at 88 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

David Lewiston, Musical Explorer, Dies at 88 | nonesuch [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 1. Juni 2017

simply another rag · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [one] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | © 2017 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.

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Q: What do you consider the most important tool of the genius of today?
A: Rubber cement.

— Donald Barthelme, Forty Stories, p. 18 [The Genius]

Berlin, 31. Mai 2017

Berlin, 29. Mai 2017 [American holiday: Memorial Day, Decoration Day]

Charles Ives | Decoration Day for Violin and Piano [1912, arranged c. 1919] | Yale University Library | A Descriptive Catalogue of The Music of Charles Ives | Link

Berlin, 28. Mai 2017

The Right to Privacy [1890] [Samuel D. Warren and Louis D. Brandeis] | Surveillance [eye] [Photographs, 2017]

Berlin, 26. Mai 2017

Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Arthur Blythe, acclaimed Southern California saxophonist and jazz innovator, dies at 76 | latimes [dot] com | Read

Arthur Blythe [1940-2017] | thewire [dot] co [dot] uk | Read

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NYC | Developers Migrate to Areas Near the G, J, M and Z Trains | nytimes [dot] com | Read

NYC | 'Other Music' record store is closing | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 24. Mai 2017

Berlin, 19. Mai 2017

Herbert Fritsch mit einem Kommentar zur Berliner Kulturpolitik | youtube [dot] com | Video [09:35]

Ich will mein Eintrittsgeld zurück für all die Abende, an denen mir irgendwelche Fundamentalisten und Fanatiker, irgendwelche verhinderten Oberlehrer und Schwachmaten die Welt erklärt haben. — Herbert Fritsch

Berlin, 15. + 13. Mai 2017

Rosa Parks house · Galerie öffnen

Rosa Parks [1913-2005] [Montgomery Bus Boycott; Alabama; Rosa Parks refused to ride on segregated buses]

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I want a ponyyy – crapumenta 14 [Graffiti] | artribune [dot] com | Link

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Colum McCann, Michael Groden Talk 'Ulysses' [James Joyce] | wnyc [dot] org | Listen

Berlin, 11. Mai 2017

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Franz Hessel, Ein Flaneur in Berlin [Spazieren in Berlin] (1929)

Berlin, 9. Mai 2017

There are certain formulas, word-locks, which will lock up a whole civilisation for a thousand years. — William S. Burroughs/Daniel Odier, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (1989)

Berlin, 8. Mai 2017

'Funeral Song' by Igor Stravinsky | How it was discovered | Natalia Braginskaya | Video [06:44]

Long-Lost Stravinsky Work Rediscovered | artsbeat [dot] blogs [dot] nytimes [dot] com | Read

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Alles in der Welt ist schön, aber der Mensch erkennt die Schönheit nur dann, wenn er sie selten oder aber aus der Ferne sieht. — Vladimir Nabokov, Götter [Die Venezianerin, Erzählungen 1921-1924]

Berlin, 4. Mai 2017

Berlin, 2. Mai 2017

NYC | Justin Davidson's NYC Walking Tour | wnyc [dot] org | Listen

Justin Davidson on his book 'Magnetic City: A Walking Companion to New York' (2017)

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Control | Surveillance [eye] [Photographs, 2017]

Berlin, 1. Mai 2017

HCE [Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker] | James Joyce | Finnegans Wake, Faber and Faber, London (1939)

Haroun Childeric Eggeberth 4.32
Here Comes Everybody 32.18/19
Homo Capite Erectus 101.12 /13
H. C. Enderson 138.16
Huges Caput Earlyfouler 197.8
etc.

Berlin, 30. April 2017

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Neptune: 'god of the sea' from Latin Neptunus, son of Saturn, brother of Jupiter, the Roman god of the sea [later identified with Greek Poseidon].

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Review: Robert Rauschenberg's Rules of Disorder | wnyc [dot] org | Listen

Berlin, 25. April 2017

Environmental degradation, climate change:

Great Barrier Reef Reaches 'Terminal Stage' as CO2 Levels Rise at Record Rate | By Dahr Jamail | truth-out [dot] org | Read

Climate Disruption Dispatches, With Dahr Jamail | Read

Berlin, 22. April 2017

Edition RZ 1008 LP | Toshi Ichiyanagi · Maki Ishii · Music For Living Process · Cho-Etsu | Link

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One of Arnold Schönberg's homes in Berlin, Steglitz, Albrechtstrasse 124 [Pension Philipson] | schoenberg [dot] at | Foto

Berlin, 20. April 2017

The Politics of Gentrification | The Brian Lehrer Show | wnyc [dot] org | Listen

Peter Moskowitz | How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood (2017) | Nation Books | Link

Peter Moskowitz | Gentrification Is a Trauma Caused by Capital | Book Excerpt | truth-out [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 17. April 2017

Untitled · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [three] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | Galerie öffnen

Berlin, 12. April 2017

Silence | Silence · project page

silence | war
art | silence
silence | cave
inhuman | silence
(...)

Berlin, 10. April 2017

To Be a Genius, Think Like a 94-Year-Old [John Goodenough] | By Pagan Kennedy | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Charlemagne Palestine, The Jewish Museum/New York · Bear Mitzvah in Meshugahland | tabletmag [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 8. April 2017

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Direktor Poka-Yio zur 'Athens Biennale' | 'Athen ist derzeit Europas Finsternis' | deutschlandradiokultur [dot] de | Lesen | Hören

Athen ist der Anfang eines Europas, das sich immer mehr dem Chaos nähert. — Poka-Yio

athensbiennale [dot] org | Link

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We live in the age of the city. The city is everything to us - it consumes us, and for that reason we glorify it. — Onookome Okome

Book: Mike Davis, Planet of Slums. Verso (2017) · A global survey of the spread of urban poverty. · Link

Mike Davis | Planet of Slums | Video [1:17:07] Mike Davis explores the meaning and the future of this radically unequal and unstable urban world.

Berlin, 3. April 2017

Untitled · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [four] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | Galerie öffnen

TWENTYTWENTY · Projektbeschreibung · download [60 KB]

Berlin, 23. März 2017

Doctrine of neoliberalism, the broken system, endless growth economy/ideology:

Neoliberalization has meant, in short, the financialization of everything. — David Harvey

Trickle Downers | The Prospect's ongoing exposé of the folly, dysfunctions, and sheer idiocy of feed-the-rich economic policies. | prospect [dot] org | Read

(...) Tax Cuts for the rich. Deregulation for the powerful. Wage suppression for everyone else. These are the tenets of trickle-down economics, the conservatives’ age-old strategy for advantaging the interests of the rich and powerful over those of the middle class and poor. (...)

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Pheng Cheah | The Changing Function of the Arts in World Hierarchy | Video [13:31]

Book: Pheng Cheah, What Is a World?: On Postcolonial Literature as World Literature. Duke University Press (2016)

Berlin, 22. März 2017

Environmental degradation, climate change, dark money:

The curious disappearance of climate change, from Brexit to Berlin | By Andrew Simms | theguardian [dot] com | Read

National Snow and Ice Data Center | Arctic sea ice maximum at record low for third straight year | nsidc [dot] org | Read

Climate Science Denial Network Funds Toxic Chemical Propaganda | By Stacy Malkan | truth-out [dot] org | Read

Berlin, 21. März 2017

Concrete jungle · Serie TWENTYTWENTY [four] — 20 x 20 cm (7.9 x 7.9 inches) — Bilderzyklus [2013/2014/2015/2016/2017] Gouache, Inkpen, Inkjet Prints und Papier (Collage) auf Leinwand | Galerie öffnen

TWENTYTWENTY · Projektbeschreibung · download [60 KB]

Berlin, 20. März 2017

villagevoice [dot] com | John Zorn Is Rolling The Stone From Avenue C To The New School | Read

John Zorn's The Stone [Only music, NYC] · Link

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Bruno Latour | 'Does the Body Politic Need a New Body?' | Read

(...) It is a great paradox of our present political situation that just at the time when the deepening of the ecological mutations shows the limits of the notion of sovereignty as it has been exerted by nation-states, it seems that everywhere people are agitating for a return to the safety of borders — some, in this country in particular, wish to build a high wall along its southern boundary. The European Union, this most audacious, subtle and complex set of inventions to overcome the limitations of sovereignty, is being slowly dismantled, once again, by a return to the apparent safety of strictly enforced borders. (...) — B.L.

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Environmental degradation, climate change:

Global warming isn't a prediction. It is happening. — Dr. James E. Hansen · columbia.edu

Dr. James E. Hansen | Ice Melt, Sea Level Rise and Superstorms | Climate Science, Awareness and Solutions | Video [14:59]

Berlin, 17. März 2017

Misha Mengelberg, Bold and Spirited Jazz Pianist, Dies at 81 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 17. März 2017

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Christian Wolff · Exercises [1973-75] · hat ART CD 6167 | Christian Wolff · Personal website | eamusic [dot] dartmouth [dot] edu | Link

Christian Wolff [*1934] | moderecords [dot] com page | Link

Berlin, 15. März 2017

Berlin, 14. März 2017

Berlin, 10. März 2017

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Bill Arnett's African American art collection | By Geoff Edgers | washingtonpost [dot] com | Read/Listen

Thornton Dial (1928-2016); Rev. George Paul Kornegay (1913-2014); Lonnie Holley (*1950); Joe Minter (*1943)

Berlin, 9. März 2017

First of the Finnegans Wake’s thunder-words:

The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. — James Joyce, Finnegans Wake. Faber and Faber, London (1939) | 003.15-18

Berlin, 7. März 2017

Harry Partch [Instrumentarium] | The Instruments of Harry Partch | Side A · Listen | Side B · Listen

The Diamond Marimba; Partch first built it in 1946 [Foto]

Cloud Chamber Bowls; first built in 1950 [Foto]

Far Off Sounds | Microtonal Man | John Schneider on Harry Partch | Video [13:42]

Berlin, 6. März 2017

Berlin, 5. März 2017

Berlin, 3. März 2017

Crispin Sartwell on Truth | Video [04:37]

Book: Crispin Sartwell, Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory (2008)

Berlin, 2. März 2017

Gustav Metzger, pioneer of auto-destructive art, dies aged 90 | theguardian [dot] com | Read

Gustav Metzger, ‘Auto-Destructive Art’ Provocateur, Dies at 90 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Ben Lewis | Interview mit Gustav Metzger | Monopol Magazin [2010] | Lesen

Gustav Metzger: Auto-Destructive Art | radicalart [dot] info | Read

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Berlin, 26. Februar 2017

Harry Partch | Delusion of the Fury [Original Film, 1969] | Video [01:12:00] | Inspired by Japanese and African myths, 'Delusion of the Fury' is a unique musical theatre work. The drama takes place without reference to a specific time or place and brings to mind cultures which seem simultaneously strange and familiar.

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The reality of homelessness in Southern California [Map]:

Los Angeles Times | ON THE STREETS — a feature documentary on homelessness in L.A. | Video [01:11:29]

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David Revill, The Roaring Silence: John Cage: A Life (1992); p. 278/279 · books.google.de

Berlin, 22. Februar 2017

Jannis Kounellis, Leader in '60s 'Poor Art' [Arte Povera] Movement, Dies at 80 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 21. Februar 2017

Joseph Beuys, commercial message for Nikka Whisky [1985] Dentsu/Japan | Video [0:15]

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Berlin, 16. Februar 2017

What the Trees Say | By Thomas Pakenham | nybooks [dot] com | Read

Writing about trees: Owain Jones in conversation with Frances Presley | morethanhumanresearch [dot] com | Read

New York City Department of Parks and Recreation | MillionTreesNYC | nycgovparks.org

Owain Jones and Paul J. Cloke, Tree Cultures. The Place of Trees and Trees in Their Place (2002)
Fiona Stafford, The Long, Long Life of Trees (2016)
Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate—Discoveries from a Secret World (2016)

Branches/Äste [Photographs, 2016 — Berlin]

Berlin, 15. Februar 2017

David Byrne | Journal | A Society in Miniature [Black Mountain College, Robert Rauschenberg] | Read

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Ghosts [good and evil] [writing] · Foto

Berlin, 10. Februar 2017

George Herms [*1935] | Five Decades of Madness | Video [05:51]

I never made a mistake I couldn't make. [...] My sculptures fall over and my thoughts fly away. — George Herms

Berlin, 6. Februar 2017

Berlin, 3. Februar 2017

Aus Protest gegen die Entlassung von Dr. Andrej Holm durch die Humboldt Universität besetzen seit Mittwoch Studenten das Institut für Sozialwissenschaften (ISW) in Berlin [Universitätsstraße 3b; Map].

Berlin, 26. Januar 2017

The Tragic Death of Mark Baumer, a Prolific Poet and Environmental Activist for the Social Media Age | By Anna Heyward | newyorker [dot] com | Read | Mark Baumer's YouTube channel

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Charles Bobo Shaw, Avant-Garde Jazz Drummer, Dies at 69 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 23. Januar 2017

Searching for Silence. John Cage’s art of noise. | By Alex Ross | Read

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Environmental degradation, Brazil:

Battle for the Amazon: Tapajós Basin Threatened by Massive Development | truth-out [dot] org | Read

We are destroying rainforests so quickly they may be gone in 100 years | By John Vidal | theguardian [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 19. Januar 2017

Nonviolence, civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi:

Is There a Nonviolent Path to a Livable Future? A Conversation With Chris Moore-Backman | Interview | truth-out [dot] org | Read

thepermaculturepodcast [dot] com | 1614 – Gandhian Nonviolence with Chris Moore-Backman | Listen

Berlin, 15. Januar 2017

New York City | When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U. | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 13. Januar 2017

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Berlin, 10. Januar 2017

Sitar maestro/Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan dead at 88 | thehindu [dot] com | Reliving an era with the ustad | Read

Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan. The Last of Them is No More | thewire [dot] in | Read

Ustad Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan | Alaap; Raga Zilla Kafi | Listen

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Berlin, 9. Januar 2017

Nat Hentoff, Journalist and Social Commentator, Dies at 91 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Berlin, 8. Januar 2017

Postscript: John Berger, 1926-2017 | newyorker [dot] com | Read

John Berger, Provocative Art Critic, Dies at 90 | nytimes [dot] com | Read

Fellow Prisoners by John Berger | Video [33:00]

Berlin, 2. Januar 2017

Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end. — Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable [L'Innommable, 1953]

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