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RITOURNELLE ODRADEK avec SIFIR et RIDHA DHIB :
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BECOMING-SEXUAL OF THE SEXUAL
or should we go, be a little alcoholic, a little crazy, a little suicidal, a little of a guerilla –
just enough to extend the crack
taking a philosopher from behind
extending the crack to unforeseen dimensions
no finality
without getting afraid of being paranoid
getting hysterical
- discontinuity -
is this source attainable?
only if we could picture a model
the model of the model which is unknowable. imagine Artaud’s neurotic language
a wall of sound and the sonics you hear give you only some clues about what lies behind this wall, given the fact that Merzbow does not imitate what he cannot hear but represents what he fails to hear
it is probably why the lyre bird with an extraordinarily beautiful tail in southern Australia has got no song of itself except the other songs of other birds which he imitates. the lyre bird imitates everything whatever he hears, even the chainsaws he hears in the forests: the whole infinity of sounds is his model but he doesn’t have one of his own. becoming-quantum of animal?
Büchner’s Lenz five minutes before he starts hearing the noise of silence, or goes mad, or attempts to kill himself. in contrast, a thorough understanding of complementarity means to look at killing oneself together with the impossibility of killing oneself and thus extending it to a life-long project.
our intention is to extend the crack and perhaps look at the volcano in the face, to look at the non-identifiable, the non-identitarian, the undecidable, or better, the un-negotiable. (continues in the blog above)
Music, Philosophy, Arts - but radical.
SIFIR is an electronic music project of Zafer Aracagök. Daphne and Mum are the frequent contributors to SIFIR's music both with their vocals and ideas. The band thinks music is hysteria - a definite influence of what Gilles Deleuze wrote on F. Bacon. His last cd - "Ben Aptalim Cünkü Ölüyüm Ben Ölüyüm Cünkü Aptalim" /"I am Stupid Because I am Dead, I am Dead Because I am Stupid" - is about Nietzsche's collapse in Turin and its aftermath.
"Yalvaririm Beyfendi Saatiniz Kaci Gosteriyor?"/"I Beseech You Sir, Tell Me What Time It Is" is about Sevim Burak, a language-dissident Turkish female writer who produced radical texts of l'écriture féminine during her life time between 1931-1983.
Aracagök publishes books of fiction/theory, and teaches and writes on continental philosophy, basically, on the issues of sound, noise and image.
SIFIR's MUSICAL WORK:
SIFIR/BEN APTALIM CUNKU OLUYUM BEN OLUYUM CUNKU APTALIM, electronic music album on Nietzsche and his collapse in Turin, released by ADA Muzik, Istanbul 2005.
PROJECT CTRL_ALT_DEL, a compilation of electronic music artists, a joint project of Hedah - Marres- Nomad, distributed by Lowlands Records, Brussels 2003, (among the participants are Kim Cascone, Scanner, Merzbow, etc.)
SIFIR/INSAN RITM MAKINA, electronic music album, released by ADA Muzik, Istanbul 2003.
SIFIR/NEREDEORADABURADA, an experimental, electronic music album released by ADA Muzik, Istanbul 2000.

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Member Since: 9/5/2006
Band Members: UPCOMING

KOG
SIFIR + murmurists performing KOG. Video: "A Sonic Experience/the role is over the play has ended" by Pier Giorgio de Pinto11 Aug 2008, 19:00 - "One or Several Deleuzes?" - Deleuze Studies Conference Cardiff University Cardiff, Wales

KOG will be released by White Label Music (UK) March 2009.
RECENT RELEASES

DIVIDE by ZERO
SIFIR is happy to announce the release of his Divide by Zero (in collaboration with Yolande Harris) by Colin Johnco Records, Paris.
You can download the whole album at:Colin Johnco Records
Please note that a limited amount of CDRs will be available shortly.
"What we produced in this album can be considered as another attempt at starting from a scratch – that is, from the recorded scratches which we divided and mixed so as to force them to the impossibility of dividing more: a process that culminated in what I call "de-sonance." All because, what starting from a scratch means on a score that is presumed to be haunted with sounds is nothing but back- and fore-grounding the fact that we have already been "scratching from the start.”

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KNOCK KNOCK
Dear Friends, May we draw your full attention to a second collaboration between SIFIR and murmurists, which we are calling knock knock. Two songs. Nine minutes eleven seconds each. Two protagonists. One eastmost. One westmost. Made from sharpened sticks, in reservoirs and oil refineries, as bread and water.
Crossing herself, Limb writes, “I bear his mouth,” adding, “and, with it, I am worshipped.” Gestalt ka-boom. Then ditto. One sado / one maso. They return, as numbers, on prairies of fink, saying, “I got your mother in my pocket; ventriloquising her with my ugly thumb,” adding, ‘what we want is obvious; whitewash as an address; war wags the dog; cuts the baby in two.” Gestalt ka-boom ka-boom… Ditto sado / ditto maso, anew.
You can download "knock knock" at My Formica Table

YALVARIRIM BEYFENDI SAATINIZ KACI GÖSTERIYOR
(I BESEECH YOU SIR, TELL ME WHAT TIME IT IS)
You can download the whole album at Sahipsizin Sesi

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RECENT PERFORMANCES


28/05/2008 PERFORMANCE KANINE AT DOGZSTAR

15-16/05/2008 "I Beseech you Sir..." with Project 22/11 at burnt out Galata Bridge in Istanbul

I Beseech you Sir at burnt out Galata Bridge, credits: Alper S.
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15/11/2007 Performance Rhizomatique with Ridha and Zaiat at Dogzstar

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10/03/2007 "Spaces and Places: Tensions of a Paradigm"
"Divide by Zero" Zafer Aracagök (composed by Z. Aracagök & Yolande Harris; video by Pier Giorgio de Pinto) performance at the opening of a conference organised by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung, Darmstadt Univ., DE
an extract fromdivide by zero & bodies of immanence

09/08/2007 "The Deleuzian Event"
“Divide by Zero” - Zafer Aracagök (composed by Zafer Aracagök & Yolande Harris; video by Pier Giorgio de Pinto) organised by Deleuze Studies, English Research Institute, MMU, Manchester, UK
05/21-22-28-29 /2007 "Yalvaririm Beyfendi Saatiniz Kaci Gosteriyor?"
The piece was performed in collaboration with the choreographer Handan Ergiydiren and 22/11 at Garaj Istanbul, Beyoglu, Istanbul,TR
04/12/2007 Queer Jubilee/Phag-Off
Premiere of "Yalvaririm Beyfendi Saatiniz Kaci Gosteriyor?" which is about Sevim Burak, a language-dissident Turkish woman writer who produced radical texts of l'écriture féminine during her life time between 1931-1983. Organised by Phag-off at Blue Joy, Rome, IT
BAND MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTERS:
Zaph: composer, computer programming, all the instruments, vocals
Daphne: vocals, concept
Mum: vocals
Cüret A.: design

Influences: Joy Division, New Order, Throbbing Gristle, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jimmy Sommerville, Erasure, Kraftwerk, AGF, Khan, Autechre, Fluke, Nico, The Cure, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, P.J. Harvey, FSOL, The Smiths, Zombie Nation, Arvo Part, Matmos, Lesbians on Ecstasy, NewYork Dolls, Underworld, Brigitte Fontaine, Mina, Front 242, Massive Attack, Arab Strap, Mogwai, Françoise Hardy, David Sylvian, Morphine, Orbital, Sonic Youth, Chicks on Speed, Plastikman, Skinny Puppy, Kitchens of Distinction, Test Department, PIL, Lush, Stereolab, Scott Walker, The Stone Roses, Laika, Siouxie and the Banshees, Happy Mondays, Bauhaus, The Breeders, Nitzer Ebb, The The, Bronski Beat, Cocteau Twins, The Creatures, Spiritiualized, Kronos Quartet, Patti Smith, The Fall, Crass - F. Nietzsche, F. Kafka, C. de Lautréamont, Marquis de Sade, I. Bachmann, P. Handke, Nilgun Marmara, J.G. Ballard, R.M. Rilke, W. Herzog, G. Debord, O. Mandelstam, Sami Baydar, P.P. Pasolini, P. Celan, G. Büchner, H. Cixous, J. Genet, C. Baudelaire, W.B. Yeats, Tracey Emin, Necmi Zeka, M. Blanchot, G. Bataille, T.W. Adorno, R.M. Fassbinder, W. Benjamin, N. Abraham & M. Torok, J. Laplanche, Sevim Burak, M. Haneke, H.P. Lovecraft, S. Plath, Hasim Catis, C. Pavese, Deleuze & Guattari, J. Derrida, P. Lacoue-Labarthe, F. Bacon, G. Agamben, A. Plotnitsky, D. Hockney, N. Bohr, L. Bersani, A. Ronell etc.
BOOKS by SIFIR (Zafer Aracagök):
Sifirografya (Zerography) , Oglak Yayinlari, Istanbul 1999.
Anti-Hamlet , Metis, Istanbul 1996.
Eve Donmek Istemiyorum (I Don't Want to Go Back Home) , Iletisim Istanbul 1995.
SELECTED ARTICLES

"Cinsel-Olus," ("Becoming-Sexual of the Sexual") in special queer issue "Taking from Behind," Tesmeralsekdiz
"Becoming-Sexual of the Sexual," forthcoming in Rhizomes
"On Some Umbrellas," forthcoming in Third Text, Routledge
"Divenire sessuale dell'identitá sessuale," (tr. Francesco Warbear Macarone Palmieri) Liberazione, Queer Supplement, 8 Aprile 2007.
"Retenir La Ritournelle," in Deleuze, Guattari et le politique, (ed. M. Antonioli), Edition Du Sandre, Paris 2006.
"Noise on Noise," in Textual Soundings, Parallax, vol. 12, (2006), Routledge 2006.
"Decalcomania, Mapping and Mimesis," in Symploke , Volume 13, Numbers 1-2, 2006, University of Nebraska Press.
"On Rhythm, Resonance and Distortion," in Pli - The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, Vol 14, 2003.
"Whatever Image," in Postmodern Culture, Vol 13, Number 2, January 2003, Johns Hopkins University Press.
TO BUY SIFIR cds: idéefix.com
SIFIR's PHILOSOPHY OF MUSIC
PLEASE DON'T EAT YOUR FRIENDS

Sounds Like: ANYTHING COMPOSED AND DECOMPOSED AT THE SAME TIME
Record Label: Ada Records Istanbul
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

CANNOT WALK ON HIS HEAD - LENZ/BÜCHNER

On the 20th Lenz went through the mountains. The peaks and high slopes in snow, gray rock down into the valleys, green fields, boulders and pine trees. It was cold and damp, water trickled down the ro...
Posted by SIFIR on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:40:00 PST

DIVIDE by ZERO

Where to start has always been a problem for Deleuzian philosophy. What makes it radically different is its insistence on a rhizomatic structure which is both a structure and not a structure at the sa...
Posted by SIFIR on Sat, 31 May 2008 02:22:00 PST

TESMERALSEKDIZ 02 / TAKING FROM BEHIND

A Gang of Arts & Social ResearchEditors: Eren Baris  Emre KoyuncuThe new issue of Tesmeralsekdiz proceeds, tumbles, and even gets lost along the lines of a thematique, namely, "taking from behind...
Posted by SIFIR on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:32:00 PST

CLINICALLY PERVERT

Emergency call on a train from Manchester Memories held back long come ashore Fathers one by one take their seats Tension builds up as my vision recedes You offer me a jelly heart Expect me to...
Posted by SIFIR on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:57:00 PST

BECOMING-SEXUAL OF THE SEXUAL (continued)

in other words, the plane of organisation is a transcendental plane the constitutive principle of which lies outs...
Posted by SIFIR on Tue, 15 May 2007 04:22:00 PST