The White Archer is a gumby
Dec. 6th, 2004 01:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I played my little show at the Belleville launch party in the role of The White Archer, my new alter ego. But when I got home and looked at the pictures, I suddenly realised that The White Archer looks like... like... like a gumby. Oh no, my brain hurts!
Right after the Belleville show a bunch of us scooted round the corner to see Anne Laplantine performing at the record store Staalplaat. It was a kind of live Summerisle: Anne played simple guitar parts, kicking a digital delay foot pedal to capture and loop and build phrases, and playing voices, some of them mine, over the top. The results were lovely; what can I say, Anne Laplantine is a genius transported in from the Middle Ages to weave spells of ancient magic with modern technology. One day the whole world will celebrate her; in the meantime it's just you and me. Here's a rough bootleg of some of the concert:
Anne Laplantine live at Staalplaat (4.57MB mono mp3 file, 9.58 minutes)
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Date: 2004-12-06 12:52 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-12-06 05:20 pm (UTC)eyepatch followup questions: how many do you have? do you hold on to them forever or auction them off as you get sick of them? do you generally make them out of things, or have someone else do it, or usually find them as-is? if the former two, what is the creation process?
forbive the badgering, but I'm sure you know how enchanting an unexplored textile arena can be.
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Date: 2004-12-06 11:03 pm (UTC)How many eyepatches do I have? There must be between ten or twenty 'active' ones. When they get manky and tangled and smelly I chuck them out. Japanese women make them for me. But I take part in the design process: the last batch was made from purses bought in Yokohama Chinatown, some fancy silk designs, some more like shower curtains... Another recent batch was made with felt from a department store in Osaka. The great breakthrough recently has been transparent knicker elastic for the straps. This keeps its shape much better than normal elastic (which tends to loosen over time), is transparent and surprisingly resilient. And it's rather nice to walk around feeling like you've got a pair of panties over your head.
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Date: 2004-12-07 12:58 am (UTC)Kansai dandy guided me like Little Tom Thumb up to Story of an Eye.
Good thing I added you, I like your writing! (me not very polite, I didn't ask...)
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Date: 2004-12-06 03:58 am (UTC)I'd say that you now have license to get those wicker trousers.
Anne is a phenom; I doubt she's capable of making unremarkable music. So glad you'd recorded some of her show--I look forward to seeing her live someday. Forgive my ignorance, but does she have any upcoming releases anytime soon?
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Date: 2004-12-06 09:14 am (UTC)W
Graham Fitkin and Steve Reich
Date: 2004-12-06 11:41 am (UTC)Re: Graham Fitkin and Steve Reich
Date: 2004-12-06 11:51 am (UTC)Re: Graham Fitkin and Steve Reich
Date: 2004-12-06 01:10 pm (UTC)Re: Graham Fitkin and Steve Reich
Date: 2004-12-06 01:36 pm (UTC)"Momus" is a pretty good name for a Mac too.
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Date: 2004-12-06 04:36 am (UTC)Zachary Daiquiri, Esq.
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Date: 2004-12-06 06:03 am (UTC)the singer from laibach having been bleached and sent out fly fishing, and this "white archer" reminds of some sort of dc archery comic book character who i can't remember at the moment.
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Date: 2004-12-06 07:17 am (UTC)that must have been fantastic..and speaking of fantastic..
i just downloaded "nordheim" by anne laplantine tonight and it is totally great!!!
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Date: 2004-12-06 08:07 am (UTC)dot dot dot
Date: 2004-12-06 09:38 am (UTC)yesterday I flipped through dot magazine at atheneum bookstore in amsterdam. it had your article. and I saw a large pile of relax mags.
erik
l a t e a g a i n !
Date: 2004-12-06 12:42 pm (UTC)i am heartbroken. maybe i should book you to perform at lucas' birthday party to make sure that the kids get their momus lessons...
haste ye back!
oswald curling master
Re: l a t e a g a i n !
Date: 2004-12-06 01:23 pm (UTC)oswald curling master
Date: 2004-12-06 05:46 pm (UTC)eRiC
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Date: 2004-12-06 03:14 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-12-06 08:17 pm (UTC)Thankfully, the destructive side never quite wins.
If we take summerisle as an example I think the pieces that work best - that communicate something profound rather than just unusual sound - are those with structure, e.g., Thyme, Tailor of Dunblane, Johnny Jump Up, Go Fishing. Indeed "Spin Thread, Annie" would be my wish when she sometimes appears to be unravelling her gift. Anybody can sound all arty etc., but she has a quite unique musical eloquence. Shame to obscure it, that's all.
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Date: 2004-12-06 11:11 pm (UTC)Fergus
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Date: 2004-12-07 11:01 am (UTC)Regarding the notion of her sort of "concealing" what she is capable of: isn't that quite similar to her practice of hiding/obscuring her face on record sleeves? Maybe that was just a temporary thing.
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Date: 2004-12-07 02:08 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-12-06 03:21 pm (UTC)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0152958541/qid=1102346352/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-2003646-9196935?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
Interesting that his upper body is in summer, his lower in winter
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Date: 2004-12-06 06:31 pm (UTC)yours
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Date: 2004-12-07 01:04 am (UTC)