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isolde

mountains are formed by large moles

About Me

I'm a living room musician, I think it's an existential ideal. An imaginary audience is the most appreciative audience.I dream in haiku, think in sonnets, sneeze rhapsodies, fart opera.I'm a mother. It takes over everything (in a good way). And a waitress in a vegan restaurant moments from my house. Sometimes I play music there. My life has balance. People compete for more ideal lifestyles. But they never win. I am happy. One of the great things about being a mother (currently no 76, 000, 000) is that you exist in the public records office as a "Musician". Doesn't matter what I do musically, generations from now when all this has vanished, my descendants may trace me back and what history stores is Isolde. Musician.Bienvenue tout le monde. i'm a pussycat with a loud purr.

My Interests

Walking. Thinking. Cycling. Staring into space.

I'd like to meet:

People who feel alienated and isolated and believe there must be others in the world like them, if only society was more inclusive. And revolutionaries. And acrobats. And anyone who still believes that art within the label of "avant garde" is tenable.

Music:

Fela Kuti, Tony Allen, John Coltrane, Sam Rivers, Kaija Saariaho, Penderecki, Guillame Dufay, Ravel, Ibert, Stockhausen, Steve Reich, Joyce, Oscar Brown Jr, Iva Bittova, Harry Partch, Joan Baez, Paco de Lucia, Eartha Kitt, Xenakis, Tan Dun, Gotan Project, Matmos, Amy Winehouse, John Martyn, Gong, Lambert hendriks & ross, Roy Ayers, Terry Callier, Richard & Linda Thompson, Janacek, Bartok, Kodaly, Ligeti, Aphex Twin, Anne Briggs, Nina Simone, Charles Mingus, Marlene Dietrich, Meredith Monk, Sly & family Stone, Tower of Power, Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Specials, (addicted to Late Junction), lots of jazz, obscure & strident classical, african and latin, dancing crazy music and gentle contemplative singer-songwritery minus all those moany men.

Movies:

Agile Gibbon Duet



Dr Susan Cheyne's audio recording of Chun Li and Zhang Ziyi, an agile gibbon pair in Sebangau National Park, Central Kalimantan. Find out more at: http://indonesiangibbons.blogspot.com/

MEAT



A surrealist vegetarian fundamentalist satire (not to be taken seriously) :)

Orangutans and the BioFuel Boom



Facts and Figures about how the need for biofuels is driving forest clearance and pushing the orangutan towards extinction.

Cockroach's SKY News Special



Cockroach Productions works with SKY News to tell the story of orangutans and palm oil. Exclusive footage of the impact of palm oil on the habitat of the endangered orangutan