In the past & recent year, I have devoted a significant amount of time & study to Alchemy& the "heavenly" cosmos. Early on, I came across "Atalanta Fugiens" by Michael Maier& was very taken with it ! It's a book of images with composed, simple chamber music to accompany each image. The book is a series of woodcuts of flat imagery with symbols from, or elements of the Great Work within it. The music is made of fugues which are repetitious & overlapping, like in a round. However, changes within the round to descending or ascending pitches of singing in different lines desolve in the rhythm. The voices then meet again to sing together the final words of each line. I stumbled upon this excellent compilation of songs called "Renaissance Music in Bohemia" when googling the name of the performance group, "Ad Cameralis & Ad Vocem" & Atalanta Fugiens, in hopes of finding it's CD release. I found this site: http://intoclassics.net/news/2011-06-24-23928 in czech and was stoked to find the link still in use. I did all the leg work of transcribing the words in to the itunes format so I'm happy to present this as a gift for all readers:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2805fh83l24e5sg
http://www.mediafire.com/?bxbcf81lkreddpb
As you may have already seen this has a selection of Atalanta Fugiens on it, and I must say it is the very best I have been able to find. I originally found it on youtube posted by user agir3 (much thanks to you). I hope you enjoy the selections & the rest of the compilation !
These videos have in terms of kinesthetics or proprioception a vivid interaction with the mind. the audio is very calming and the visuals very clear and bold. it left me with a strong feeling of being high !
it's a little like an i-dose but maybe more like a magic eye, enjoy with caution ! AUTHORITY • STONE CRAFT
this home-made disc was given to me at the santa swap of 2009 at Nick's house in Brighton, MA. it turned out to be one classic album in the year two thousand one one, putting us together despite his living in Korea.
for those unfamiliar to Nick's music it has the lo-fi sentimental feel of ariel pink with a softer ambience accompanied by indistinct vocals.
when i got the album i got stuck on the trackless info in my music player, and i got the idea to name the titles myself, so i named them calling the album originally "Reese Perro"
Nick's thoughts in an email dated 2/9/2010:
"luke, Alot of these are really great. It's funny to see someone's interpretation of the lyrics, since I purposely obfuscate them to the point of being left open to interpretation. i'd like to use a few of these over the original titles, but I thought it was particularly funny that you chose to name a song "bleach shirt" that was originally titled "filthy jeans" (weird, right?)
Also I'm not sure why, but the album art you sent is not appearing
i'm glad you liked it though. we should have a jam sometime in the near future nick"
this record features Eric's poem printed in the booklet. the audio is reversed but the poem reads through the backwards audio.
Nicky Smith, an interviewer from SpliceToday gets information on this:
ST: You lived in Morocco within the last two years or so. What was the experience like and what did you accomplish there?
EC: My wife and I spent about three months there in 2010—we saved some money and lived cheap. I traveled without any musical equipment, so I started writing while there and ended up with a recording that was released by Fusetron called Aladdin. Not really sure where it all came from. Certainly not for everybody.
ST: How was Aladdin written? How did you get yourself in that cut-up state of mind?
EC: It's not so much the cut ups that attracted me but the strength of words. I don't usually focus much on words in music. I was not able to speak much during my time there so I developed a slightly skewed attitude towards English and Aladdin was the result.
Released back in 2010 it had a 1 per person limit from fusetron and a full release of 100 copies.
found this at Desert Island, a comic book shop in Brooklyn. quick response from them, and shipped it on the same day. bought the last copy in the store ! sorry !
