I'd like to meet:
Atypical combinations of smartkins & insightniks who can articulate the complexities of life as a self-aware dialogue and arent the least bit afraid to think...and show it. (exercising a sense of humor and the absurd in doing so is a biiig plus. tres important, even.) Basically, rare individuals and independent thinkers in all their myriadic multitudinous forms. Also, I have great interest in those persons who actually make it happen in culture - in particular if realized with alternative / progressive political ideals or philosophical foundation / inspiration as its motivation. (aw daaamn, busted a rhyme inadvertently!) All those 'making' types; Art, Film, Music, Literature, Photography & all those other persons who give those things a place to exist; Galleries, Venues (w/ fidelity sound systems & an actual 'music' agenda), Underground Publishers, Independent Record Labels, Book/ Film/ Music Distributors, Visionary Modern Magazine contributors/editors, you know who you are... :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Those of you who are into the kind of atypical Avant-Sounds that most people still insist "Aren't Music" will find welcome company and shared interest in this kind of "Unnerving Noise" at the Sound - Art Group I moderate :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::: http://groups.myspace.com/soundart:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Music:
Morton Feldman, John Cage, Bernard Parmegiani, Iannis Xenakis, Tod Dockstader, Pierre Schaeffer, Pierre Henry, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Dick Raaijmakers, Edward Artemyev, Arne Nordheim, Noah Creshevsky, Zeitkratzer Orchestra, Alvin Lucier, Tony Conrad, Phill Niblock, Rafael Toral, Christina Kubisch, Eliane Radigue, Edgard Varese, La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Takashi Kosugi, Toru Takemitsu, James Tenney, Arnold Schoenberg, Giya Kancheli, Arvo Part, Gyorgy Ligeti, Giacinto Scelsi, Alfred Schnittke, Yasunao Tone, Thomas Koner, Ryoji Ikeda, Bernhard Gunter, Rune Grammofon label, Scorch Trio, Alog, Arve Henriksen, Supersilent, Johan Johannsson, Fennesz, Oren Ambarchi, Philip Jeck, Touch label, Pan(a)Sonic, William Basinski, Richard Chartier, Skoltz_Kolgen, Taylor Deupree, 12k/LINE Labels, Christian Marclay, Martin Tetreault, Aki Onda, Francisco Lopez, John Duncan, Zbigniew Karkowski, COH, Coil "ANS", (recent) Nurse With Wound, Irr. App. [Ext.], Stilluppsteypa, (recent) Hafler Trio, Kevin Drumm, Yasunao Tone, Florian Hecker, Russell Haswell, Jazzkammer, Lasse Marhaug, Pita, Mego Label, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, Murcof, Colleen, Leaf Label, Sylvain Chauveau, Porn Sword Tobacco, City Centre Offices label, Buro label, Sickoaks, *Type label, Tim Hecker, Tape, Toshiya Tsunoda, Hapna label, Stephan Mathieu, Ekkehard Ehlers, Akira Rabelais, Mountains, Anderegg, Fourcolor, Apestaartje label, The Lappetites, Markus Schmickler, Pimmon, Mitchell Akiyama, Intr_version label, Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender, Raster-Noton label, Autechre "Confield", Vladislav Delay, Porter Ricks, Basic Channel / Chain Reaction, GAS/Wolfgang Voigt, Aoki Takamasa, Yoshihiro Hanno, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Progressive Form label, Apparat, Thomas Fehlmann, Wighnomy Bros./Robag Wruhme, Ricardo Villalobos, Sixtoo, Clouddead, Shadow Huntaz, Dalek, Anti-Pop Consortium, Cannibal Ox, El-P, MF Doom, NMS, Cyne, Lady Sovereign, Spank Rock, Roots Manuva, Themselves, Lex Label, Ghislain Poirier, The Bug, Ladybug 7" series, DJ/Rupture, King Jammy, Keith Hudson, Cornell Campbell, Wackies, King Tubby, Rhythm & Sound, (later) John Coltrane, William Parker, Mats Gustafsson, Peter Brotzmann, Evan Parker, Vandermark, Rova:Orchestrova, Keith Rowe, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, SUNN O))), Boris, Jesu, Earth, Southern Lord label, Constellation Label, Godspeed!..., Silver Mt. Zion, Set Fire To Flames, Black Dice, Animal Collective, Deerhoof, Gang Gang Dance, Noxagt, Wolf Eyes, Double Leopards, Vibracathedral Orchestra, Tarentel, Thuja, Keiji Haino, Afrirampo!, Acid Mothers Temple/Makoto Kawabata, Kemialliset Ystavat, ES, Islaja, Risto, Fonal label, Hototogisu, Matt Valentine, Keith Fullerton- Whitman, Greg Davis, Pan American, Stars of the Lid, Kranky label, Mirror, Last Visible Dog label, Birchville Cat Motel, Table of the Elements label, Innumerable Film Soundtracks to the Work of the Directors listed below,
Movies:
Directors :, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ingmar Bergmann, Tsai Ming-liang, Lars Von Trier, Wong Kar-Wai, Krzystof Kieslowski, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Pedro Almodovar, Gaspar Noe, Andrey Zvyagintsev, Lucile Hadzihalilovic, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chris Marker, Mikio Naruse, Jean-Pierre Melville, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, Yasujiro Ozu, Guy Maddin, Michael Haneke, Alexandr Sukorov, Jia Zhang-Ke, Abbas Kiarostami, Hirokazu Koreeda, David Lynch, Hiroshi Teshigahara, Alfred Hitchcock, Hayou Miyazaki, (early-mid) Akira Kurosawa, John Cassavetes, Park Chan-Wook, Brothers Quay, Zhang Yimou, Stanley Kubrick, Seijun Suzuki, (early) Jean-Luc Godard, Kenji Mizoguchi, Theo Angelopoulos, Bela Tarr, Jean Cocteau, (early) Franois Truffaut, Kaneda Shindo, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Maya Deren, Stan Brackhage, ... and the list goes on.
Television:
... Is that like a phone that watches you?? Creepy.
Books:
Authors :, James Joyce, Kobo Abe, David Foster Wallace, Haruki Murakami, George Saunders, Thomas Pynchon, Robert Walser, Jorge Borges, Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
(... this list would be about as long as the kinda obscene one I did for music, but I'm feeling overcome by typing-laziness),
Periodicals :, Mc Sweeney's, The Believer, New Yorker, Harpers, The Guardian UK, BBC News .., Sight & Sound, Film Comment, The Wire, Artforum, IDN, Contemporary,
Heroes:
'Heroes' are for losers ... but I have to admit I do have admiration for the amazing artists & thinkers that make up the body of the 'books' , 'films' & 'music' section of my profile... and a buncha modern-abstract visual artists like Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter and James Turrell to name a few. Architects Rem Koolhaas, Diller & Scofidio, Tadao Ando and Toyo Ito especially occupy a place of high regard.