Music:
Member Since: 6/10/2006
Band Members: Jonathan Morton
Influences: Amon tobin, iron and wine, sigur ros, radiohead, eric dolphy,bjork, tom waits, ligeti, shostakovich, pj harvey, kid koala, tarkovsky, paul celan, kristin hersh, arcade fire, kate bush, anna akhmatova, matmos, miles davis ('in a silent way' in particular), vic chestnutt, giant sand, nick drake, Charlie Mingus, Sage Francis, Lyrics Born, Dynospectrum, stevie wonder, four tops, steve reich, cocteau twins, god speed you black emperor, billie holiday, e.e. cummings, wittgenstein, derek jarman, hermann broch, Mann, Dostoyevsky, chris marker, agnes varda, flying lizards...
see my library of lovely books (although it only let me put 200 up) at: http://www.librarything.com/catalog/JonathanM
TO STAND in the shadow
of the scar up in the air.
To stand-for-no-one-and-nothing.
Unrecognized,
for you
alone.
With all there is room for in that,
even without
language.
PAUL CELAN - trans. Michael Hamburger
"What an individual is capable of may be measured by how far his understanding is from his willing. What a person can understand he must also be able to make himself will. Between understanding and willing lie the excuses and evasions."
Kierkegaard - The Journals 1846
TO MUSIC
Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps:
silence of paintings. You language where all language
ends. You time
standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts.
Feelings for whom? O you the transformation
of feelings into what?-:into audible landscape.
You stranger: music. You heart-space
grown out of us. The deepest space in us,
which, rising above us, forces its way out, -
holy departure:
when the innermost point in us stands
outside, as the most practiced distance, as the other
side of the air:
pure,
boundless,
no longer habitable.
Rilke - trans. Stephen Mitchell
Sounds Like: it all depends on which songs...there are so many different styles of music that i try to let them all come through...different clothes for different weather...sometimes they are like everything else and sometimes they are less like everything else and, perhaps, a bit like nothing else...there are late 60's guitars, late 70's synths and modern beats...being originally a bass player i love all of the funky, jazzy soul...and my fretless gives everything a little bit of the 80's....
most of the other music I make has a more troublesome childhood and seems to mutate a little as time goes on...things grow where once there were stumps...but many of the births are quick and painless..a rush of blood and air...and then...
their parents are many and lie hidden a long way back in the gene pool...but electronica and hip-hop and joni mitchell and ligeti and radiohead and Tom Waits and Iron and Wine and saturday morning cartoons all filtered through my fingers and feelings and distractions...
guitars and beats and low voices...
a clip from bresson...
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and Tarkovsky...without these two i would never have got anywhere...
and here is a scene from one of his films - 'Mirror' - probably my favorite film of all time...subtitles are not in english but the visuals are so wonderful that i hope it inspires you to go and see it! .. ..
and this was my first ever musical/rock star crush thing when i was 15/16 -
kritsin hersh with The Throwing Muses...i had never heard anyone speak about music like she did and had never seen anyone perform with a look in their eyes like hers...like she was very very far away somewhere or seeing through a thick fog....this is 'Colder' - one of my favourite songs of all time
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