January 2012
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Jan 1st
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October 2011
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call to artists
an alle unabhängigen und experimentellen maler, bildhauer, objektkünstler, fotografen, konzeptkünstler in BERLIN… I am looking for artists who are willing to question their routines, creativity, concepts and embroilment in the market. This project will try to recoup the raw and anarchic power of art and creativity. [ art shouldn’t be a fixed idea ] Bei interesse bitte melden unter: ...
Oct 29th
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September 2011
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enjoy climate change · part one
enjoy climate change · [part one 22:32] for e-guitar feedback system and electronic drones [2009/2010/2011/2012] in collaboration with George Koehler [e-guitar material] LISTEN [extrait limité à 07:30] · © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved. via lichtensteiger.net
Sep 19th
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synoptiqueeuqitponys
synoptiqueeuqitponys · Concerto for percussion, strings and tape [Tonband] [2011] · open the project page and listen to part I [extrait limité à 04:20] The composition is based on this text pattern:  synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys, synoptiqueeuqitponys,...
Sep 7th
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The Absolute is Passage
Work in progress: The Absolute is Passage [Composition for orchestra, tape, electronics and soprano voices/choir, 2010/2011/2012] Open the project page and listen to extrait limité Instruments and tools: strings, double bass, turntable, electronics, oscillator, ambient recordings, tape delay [Tonband] · Software: ProTools, Spark LE, SpongeFork sampler, Midi, Max/MSP, p22.com/musicfont see also...
Sep 4th
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August 2011
24 posts
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monologue intérieur
my new music tumblr | monologueinterieur.tumblr.com daily updates, reviews, podcast, news about contemporary music… monologue intérieur is about the prepossessed and the unprepossessed ear monologue intérieur is about personal preference monologue intérieur is about listening — Ralph Lichtensteiger
Aug 28th
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attractively disinteresting
“The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.” — John Cage
Aug 28th
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Simultaneity 3
Simultaneity 3 · http://trainsonor.com/simultaneity_3.html Polaroid [rien nul] © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.
Aug 25th
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Claude Debussy · Jeux
Jeux : poeme danse de Nijinsky / musique de Claude Debussy ; partition pour piano reduite par l’auteur via beinecke.library.yale.edu
Aug 22nd
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Time · [Train Sonor]
Time Can Only Be Perceived Or Measured While It Is Passing. — Saint Augustine (AD 354-430) via trainsonor.com
Aug 22nd
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visible MESSAGE
visible MESSAGE
Aug 17th
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Aug 15th
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Aug 15th
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Stravinsky · photographie
[Stravinsky (?) au piano] : [photographie de presse] / Agence Meurisse via gallica.bnf.fr
Aug 14th
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Aug 12th
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49 Words (for John Cage)
silence · ears · leaf · society · writing · rivers · failures · listen · words · company · pollution · noise · discipline · variable · audience · trees · deep · sleep · prison · birds · food · beauty · dice · merrimack · river · atlas · mud · water · education · resistance · pencil · piano · centers · streaming · wave · process · coin · time · no-thing · dance · economy · limits · apples ·...
Aug 11th
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49 Words
silence · ears · wind · society · writing · rivers · failures · marais · orpheus · words · metal · pollution · noise · discipline · everyday · audience · trees · memory · sleep · harpsichord · birds · food · pascal · dice · merrimack · complexity · atlas · mud · water · education · resistance · page · piano · centers · disability · wave · combined · coin · time · vinyl · dance · economy · dark ·...
Aug 11th
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Influential Books · Part I
Influential Books · Part I : The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams (1838-1918). via lichtconlon.posterous.com
Aug 11th
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WQXR podcast discusses classical retail
fileunder: With the demise of Borders, where will folks buy classical records? // ]] // ]]]]>]]> “In this podcast, Jeff Spurgeon poses the question to three guests: Anastasia Tsioulcas, a writer at NPR Music; Jean Cook, the director of programs at the Future of Music Coalition, an advocacy group for musicians; and Andy Doe, the chief operating officer at Naxos records and former head of...
Aug 8th
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Milk
Video · Title: Milk © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved. | Music © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved.  via vimeo.com
Aug 7th
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Consonance · Dissonance
“Consonance, says the dictionary, is the combination of several tones into a harmonic unit. Dissonance results from the deranging of this harmony by the addition of tones foreign to it. One must admit that all this is not clear. Ever since it appeared in our vocabulary, the word ‘dissonance’ has carried with it a certain odor of sinfulness. Let us light our lantern: in textbook...
Aug 6th
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Aug 5th
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ink markings
If ink markings on mute paper can ever be called a life form or even its surrogate – books come most startlingly alive when authors move away from their own immediate lives. Talk to yourself, let the words pour out: Allow some words to be of one person and allocate other words to another person. This is what I call “defining character-based dialogue”, it is also a form of allocating...
Aug 5th
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Sound collage for John Cage [28:05]
LISTEN [mp3] Sound collage for John Cage [28:05] by Ralph Lichtensteiger · Instruments: analog Tape Recorders operating at the same time, plus modified turntable · © 2008 by musique trouvé · © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved. via trainsonor.com
Aug 4th
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J.C. · Notes towards a re-reading of the...
John Cage · Notes towards a re-reading of the “Roaratorio” 28.10.2009  LISTEN [64’ 52” | mp3] · see also PDF via rwm.macba.cat
Aug 4th
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today · city of asylum
today · city of asylum - lichtconlon’s posterous
Aug 3rd
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always changing
“Contemporary music is not the music of the future nor the music of the past, but simply music present with us… we can’t tell what it is because it is always changing. Like life it changes.” — John Cage, Silence, p. 43
Aug 3rd
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Colors
Colors · Study piece © 2011 by Ralph Lichtensteiger via vimeo.com
Aug 3rd
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notations21 · John Cage
via notations21.wordpress.com “As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.” — John Cage
Aug 1st
July 2011
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The Beauty of Ordinary Things · three
lichtensteiger.net | The Beauty of Ordinary Things · three
Jul 29th
June 2011
2 posts
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The Beauty of Ordinary Things · two
lichtensteiger.net | The Beauty of Ordinary Things · two
Jun 29th
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gold/vomit
gold/vomit. Ralph Lichtensteiger, radio, piano, prepared piano, e-guitar/zoom bfx-708, percussion, electronic sound processing, field recordings, noise, software instruments [ProTools, spongefork, Max/MSP] Listen to the COMPLETE collection at archive.org/details/voyageacoustiqueten gold/vomit VISUALS at lichtensteiger.net/ten.html All compositions by Ralph Lichtensteiger. Creative Commons...
Jun 9th
May 2011
3 posts
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radioswitch
kunstbullshit’s posterous : radioswitch
May 30th
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art shouldn't be a fixed idea
kunstbullshit’s posterous : art shouldn’t be a fixed idea
May 28th
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Gustav Mahler died in Vienna a century ago today
“Komponieren ist ein wirklich seltsamer Vorgang. Ohne dass man anfangs weiß, wohin es führt, fühlt man sich immer weiter und weiter über die ursprüngliche Form hinausgetrieben, deren reicher Gehalt doch, wie die Pflanze im Samenkorn, unbewusst in ihr verborgen lag.” — Gustav Mahler nytimes.com : When Mahler Took Manhattan | By PETER G. DAVIS therestisnoise.com : For Gustav...
May 18th
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April 2011
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Listennyphil: “It’s one of the most moving, if not for...
Apr 27th
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In Memoriam | Tim Hetherington & Chris Hondros
In Memoriam | Tim Hetherington 1970-2011 Chris Hondros 1970-2011 « P H O T O J O U R N A L I S M L I N K S http://bit.ly/fnK22z Tim Hetherington | timhetherington.com Chris Hondros | chrishondros.com
Apr 21st
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Yann Tiersen
lichtensteiger.posterous.com : Yann Tiersen Berlin#2 2010 dennybrownmusic.posterous.com : Yann Tiersen US Tour 2011 - Detroit, Pontiac & Cleveland
Apr 3rd
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Kurt Weidemann Passes Away At Age 88
fontfeed.com : Kurt Weidemann Passes Away At Age 88 | Jürgen Siebert | March 31, 2011 http://bit.ly/e2D5Hr Wo der Buchstabe das Wort führt | Kurt Weidemann : secure.red-dot-store.de
Apr 1st
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March 2011
4 posts
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Mar 24th
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my new mico blog
http://txt.io/lichtconlon
Mar 20th
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Magnus Öström
Magnus Öström
Mar 19th
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Mar 18th
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February 2011
5 posts
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Marjan Zahed-Kindersley’s bits & bobs : Anne Sofie von Otter - Handel Messiah
Feb 27th
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Feb 10th
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Anne-Sophie Mutter on "In Tempus Praesens"
YouTube.com : Anne-Sophie Mutter on “In Tempus Praesens” anne-sophie-mutter.de : Gubaidulina, Bach: GUBAIDULINA In tempus praesens schirmer.com : Sofia Gubaidulina : “In Tempus Praesens” Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Feb 10th
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Feb 1st
6 tags
Google Art Project
lichtconlon : Explore museums and artworks at the Art Project, powered by Google. http://goo.gl/7UyzQ · 38 seconds ago Check out my latest tweets and my diary Posted via email from lichtconlon’s posterous | Comment »
Feb 1st
January 2011
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Paul Zukofsky
bought this Cage/Zukofsky CD today… See the full gallery on posterous John Cage : Chorals, Cheap Imitation, Freeman Etudes I-VIII · Paul Zukofsky, violin · Musical Observations, Inc. · Aspects of contemporary technique | By Paul Zukofsky (with comments about Cage, Feldman, Scelsi and Babbitt) Photos © 2011 Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved. Check out my latest...
Jan 11th
December 2010
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Buddha (for Thelonious Monk)
Buddha (for Thelonious Monk) · From my experimental film archive © 2002/2010 by Ralph Lichtensteiger · All Rights Reserved. Check out my latest tweets and my diary Posted via email from lichtconlon’s posterous | Comment »
Dec 29th