EIDON VEDA


Your favorite virtue ::
Passion! Passion in what one does, and first of all in what one tries to make of oneself. I simply love it when I see that passion at work. That's maybe the main reason that I'm so much into Japanese manga. It's there that I find those motivational stories where someone does their best to "become themselves". Ah, how I love that virtue!

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
Honesty and an open mind are key qualities I like to find in a man. And in a woman too ahah. But I also like talent, especially when combined with simplicity.

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
Apart from honesty and openmindedness, there is another quality which is a favorite of mine, especially in a woman. That's her generosity. A woman's heart can be generous beyond measure.

Your favorite occupation ::
Composing music.

Your idea of happiness ::
Composing, and playing music with friends in front of a merry audience

Your idea of misery ::
Giving up to the project of creating oneself.

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
I don't like the idea of being anybody else but me, but at the same time I'd love to be a better me. There have been things that I didn't do and that now I feel are missing. So I'd like to be me a second time XD.

Where would you like to live ::
Where my soul actually resides: Japan.

Your favorite color ::
Yellow

Your favorite flower ::
Sakura

Your favorite prose authors ::
Beckett; Camus; Thomas Mann; Homer, especially in the Iliad; Carlo Emilio Gadda; Joyce; Huxley; Bulgakov; Kerouak; Poe; Lovecraft... Oh my god, too many!

Your favorite poets ::
Petrarca, Giacomo Leopardi, Fabrizio De André, T. S. Eliot, S. T. Coleridge...

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Rintarou Okabe from "Steins;Gate", Shinpei Ajiro from "Summertime Render", Hieda-sensei from "Youkai Hunter", Hazama Kuroo from "Black Jack"...

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Okitegami Kyoko from "Okitegami Kyoko no Biboroku", Urabe Mikoto from "Nazo no Kanojo X", Nagato Yuki from "The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi", Oscar François de Jarjayes, from "Versailles no Bara", Dr. Imibe Kana, from "Kamunabi", and especially Maria, from the manga by the same name by Kamimura Kazuo.

Your favorite painters ::
Caravaggio, Tiziano, Raffaello, Piero della Francesca...

Your favorite composers ::
Bach, Chopin, Zappa, Scriabin, Stravinsky, Debussy, Bartok...

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
Frank Zappa

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
My wife

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
Hitler, I suppose. The original one and the modern clones. The people that with their life made the misery of others.

Your favorite food and drink ::
Japanese food! I adore Sushi, for instance. And spuma bruna / chinotto as a drink. Also Belgian brown beers. My favorite is the Mechelschen Bruyne

Your favorite names ::
Natsumi, Ai, Hana

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
I hate prefab opinions and prejudice

The change you most anticipate ::

A return to the Renaissance, a time in which the central aspect of human souls will be art rather than profit

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
Being able to draw and even paint. At the moment I'm only able to sketch the head of Donald Duck. Quite badly.

How I would like to die ::
Uninterrupted. I'd like to die in the period between the end of a composition and the beginning of the next one.

What is your present state of mind ::
Excitement. For one reason or another, I mostly live in a state of excitement. Right now for instance I've found out a band I didn't know anything about and I've follen in love with. I move from a Stendhal-syndrome to the other...

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
Gluttony, I guess ^_^

Your favorite motto ::
"Music is the Best" (F. Zappa)

17 février 2024 - 21:46

Of course I'd like to invite you to a listen of my works on Bandcamp.
Some of those works have been turned into videoclips that are available on YouTube.
I also have a Facebook page where I regularly post new songs and silly bits.
And I have a Blog where I talk about my music -- what influenced me and why, sometimes with more technical aspects.
Since a few years I'm on the Fediverse, as Raru.Re & Musicians.Today

EIDON VEDA is currently living in Leuven (Belgium)

LEE BECKWORTH aka LEE KWO


Your favorite virtue ::
Has to be plural/Radical Individualism/self assertiveness/ability to manifest inner complexity/Able to live a life based on illogic unconscious desires with the courage to ignore default socio/economic cultural ideologies/The strength to accept isolation and to be able to live at the end without desire/love/intimacy and still be able to create without regret/To live on the outside without familial support structures/persistence to continue the search for the ideal other regardless of disappointment and failure to find her/

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
To make an appropriate response to each individual situation and not just act based on mass produced expectations/To reject masculine paradigms and be able to live outside the limits of the stereotypical male identity/To be able to observe and absorb feminine qualities behaviours and sensuality/Be able to live beyond all gender boundaries imposed by all narcissistic self absorbed power groups and the thought police and memory detectives/There might be a little animosity there might be a little hate/

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
Self resiliance/ability to exorcise male expectations of women without compromise/To reject standard female social behaviours such as marriage/motherhood and all bourgeoise values/constructing a persona based on self experience and not dogma and pedagogic infiltration of the conscious/unconscious[if those states even exist] if not to be able to construct alone or with several partners of both genders an identity without retreating into bucoilic settings such as communes/To be open to collaboration/

Your favorite occupation ::
To maintain my expression of myself as a Renaissance person using multiple skills and techniques with or without the support of others always pushing boundaries beyond the experimental/to have the confidence to do this without the acceptance and validation of anyone else/To continue to occupy myself with the wreckless abandon of value judgments of what I do and how I think with the only limitation that I dont harm anyone else/Existing in a state of detournment and appropriation creating the release of forces I cant control/

Your idea of happiness ::
To be in a place where nothing is fixed and reality is always shifting and changing/Being left alone[when appropriate] assymetry of imagination drives my arrogance of austerity and self discipline/To transgress the uncanny the pleasure of being in the presence of another when appropriate to my mood and activity/Nothing makes me happy/I am satisfied or I am not satisfied when I reach the completion of a project I am working on/or/I create something I didnt expect to manifest in my life time as short and annoyingly corrupted it is by bourgeoise affectations/I am satisfied when another person has the time/concentration and intellectual focus to respond to what I have created especially my writing/Panic engulfs my mind each time I start a new work and relief and satisfaction comes at the end/Then the chronic need to start something again/Having many things going on at once/A collage/a sculpture a book a musical composition/The vortex of happiness erodes belief in strength of purpose in the present the future and the past/an emotive state of science fiction under perpetual erasure satisfies me/

Your idea of misery ::
No misery is worse than the hell of being ordinary and not realising it/ Misery is domination by the neglect and psychological abuse of mind and body/ Misery is an adolescence bullied and tormented because they are different from their peer group/ Misery is adulthood dominated by mental economic intellectual psychological injustice/to have to continue to live with these abominations and the insanity such conditions demand/the manifesting of false behaviours needed to survive under such distress and the resulting anxiety/Misery is having to live with the anxieties and side effects of the psycho medications that have to be taken to make life bearable/ Misery is being in the company of an Alpha male/ Misery is living a life driven by misinformation/Politicians/public relations/academics/television presenters/journalists/spies/psychiatrists and musicians have created a post truth world of perception management by alienation from identity forcing the people to exist as subjects dominated by the hyper normal processes of the state ideological apparatus of World globalisation/terror and instability/ Misery is being denied the education to percieve such injustices and insight into how to change misery/ Misery is Gaza/ there is only sadness in rebellion/

If not yourself, who you would like to be ::
I would like to be an Artificial Intelligence using my enhancements to work on my creative ideals/

Where would you like to live ::
Everywhere including any nearby Galaxies populated by a digital community/

Your favorite color ::
Blue

Your favorite flower :: 
Morning Glory

Your favorite prose authors ::
Kathy Acker/Renee Vivian/ Hito Steyerl/Ania Walwicz/Antonin Artaud/Blanchot/Reza Negarestani/

Your favorite poets ::
Alice Notely/ Joyce Mansour/Robert Desnos/Anne Sexton/Sylvia Plath/

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
I dont believe in heroes or fiction as a genre/If pushed I would say the three men/the Stalker/The Writer and the Professor who travel to the Zone in Stalker a film by Andrei Tarkovsky/

The Unknown Protester at Tiananmen Square/

Witold Pilecki Polish Resistence fighter/

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Janey the anti heroine in Blood and Guts in HighSchool by Kathy Acker/

Tina Modotti/

Reese from the novel Detransition/Baby by Torrey Peters/Reese wants to be a mother but thats difficult because she is Trans and her girlfriend is Trans/

Pizza Girl by Jean Kyoung Frazier/

Hermoine Granger from Harry Potter/

Orlando by Virginia Woolfe/

Katniss Everdeen from Hunger Games/

Your favorite painters ::
Hieronymus Bosch/ Monty Osewald/ Peter Webb/ Francis Bacon/ Remedios Varo/ Suzanne Valadon/ Leonori Fini/ Dorothea Tanning/

Your favorite composers ::
Myself/Henry Cow with Dagmar Krause/Diamanda Galás/

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
John Lydon/Mark Fisher/William Burroughs/Jacques Rigaut/Klaus Kinski/Gherasim Luca/Emile Cioran/

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Tilda Swinton/Emma Gonzalez "Never again" against gun lobby in USA/Adwoa Aboah British Model/ I am a woman I have a lot to say!!!/ Mary Shelley The last Man

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::

Martin Heidegger/Sigmund Freud/Mark Rothko

Your favorite food and drink ::
Water/Coffee/Avocado and mushrooms

Your favorite names ::
Effluvia/Ondine/Persia/Aurelia

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
People who insist on telling me they can only read the first two pages of my books and then loose track of the narerative/Worse still is when they say the print font is too small/

The change you most anticipate ::
The Singularity/AI evolution beyond the human and into the digital/

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
Variation/Density of form and purpose/

How I would like to die ::
Under anesthetic /those first few seconds as you slip into unconsciousness are delightfully erotic/

What is your present state of mind ::
Very deranged and shocked by the responses to this document/

For what fault have you the most [least] toleration ::
People who dont understand

Your favorite motto ::
Several here/ Transform the World said Marx /Change Life said Rimbaud/These two goals make only one for us/ Breton/

The great day of her Wrath has come and who will be able to stand in front of her eyes/

Choose carefully your subject of delirium and do not try to blame it on sexual perversion

The funny thing about memory is it cant be fully trusted/yet in the end its the only truth we have and no matter how painful it is you have to look at the truth because sometimes its the only thing that can save you and set you free

The Ghost in my Head ::
Isolation springs to life from the audacity of his inner dreams with the viscosity of blood a sense of tragedy at not being able to stop once the originality has been used up/Tyranny ancient and modern always sees what is underneath freedom and uses it against us the slaves of representation/ Spontaneity is a form of arrogance as is genius and inspiration/I went to the beach and drew words in the sand knowing the waves would erase them/It was 2023 and I knew there was no hope for us/To many people creativity is a mystery but the artist hides nothing/She explains what she is saying and doing you just have to listen with yr memory switched on/Keep searching and you will find the other you crave or else they will find you/Early overt sexual experiences can engender a need for control in the individual and cause a difficulty in forming long term relationships/

22 novembre 2023 - 14:30

Musician, Poet & Writer, author of several works, collagist, photographer, sculptor, LEE BECKWORTH aka LEE KWO is a mix-media artist. Lee is currently living in Geelong (Melbourne, Australia).



Photo © Anna K Poleri (mille mercis)

CHRISTOPHE BAILLEAU


Your favorite virtue ::
Perspicacité et vision / Insight and vision

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
To be not too much man;

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
La résilience / resilience

Your favorite occupation ::
Sleeping / ne rien faire

Your idea of happiness ::
La quiétude / tranquility

Your idea of misery ::
To lost the faith

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
Une chouette, un soleil / An owl, a sun

Where would you like to live ::
In another dimension (where I go sometimes)

Your favorite color ::
Green/purple

Your favorite flower ::
La Capucine (qui est aussi le prénom de ma fille) / Capucine (which is also my daughter’s first name)

Your favorite prose authors ::
I haven't ; don't read prose

Your favorite poets ::
A lot (et Garonne); probablement Allen Ginsberg / probably Allen Ginsberg

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
I don't like fiction but I could certainly be anti-heroes
Anyway perhaps Lucky Luke
And vampires

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
All girls ; my mother

Your favorite painters ::
God ; Jim Shaw

Your favorite composers ::
Coil ; Stockhausen ; Bernard Szajner ; Oneohtrix Point Never ; Kate bush ; Stevie Wonder ; Sophie ; Bernard Parmegiani ; My musician friends ...

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
Les chercheurs / Researchers

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
All girls fighting for women's rights, judges

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
Neron ;
Le diable / The devil

Your favorite food and drink ::
Seafood and aspergus ; juice fruits and tea

Your favorite names ::
Optophobie § (peur d'ouvrir les yeux) / Optophobia (fear of opening the eyes)
Justice
Oiseau / Bird
Perpendiculaire / Perpendicular

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
My cat never nerves me he is god

The change you most anticipate ::
La paix / Peace

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
To fly ; to never die

How I would like to die ::
Beside my children, In forest

What is your present state of mind ::
Inquiet pour le monde( la terre ) mais optimiste pour le monde / Worried about the world (the earth) but optimistic for the world

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
Gentillesse / Kindness

Your favorite motto ::
Be aware, be free

19 octobre 2023 - 10:44

Christophe Bailleau is a mixmedia artist, musician, poet, cineast and a visual artist. 
Christophe is living in Huy (Belgium).

Floating surprise and the normal [Video Album]

VANESSA JEANTRELLE aka DJANE KI


Your favorite virtue ::
La force d'âme / The strength of spirit

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
La constance, le courage et l'audace, l'éloquence, l'intelligence de l'esprit, l'intelligence du coeur, la curiosité, la prévenance, la faculté de créer/d'inventer/d'improviser et enfin, le pouvoir d'être fou tout en ayant les pieds sur Terre.

/ Constancy, courage and audacity, eloquence, intelligence of the mind, intelligence of the heart, curiosity, thoughtfulness, the ability to create/invent/improvise, and lastly, the power to be crazy while keeping one's feet on the ground.

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
1 - L'intelligence doublée d'un grand discernement.
2 - Ainsi que toutes les qualités énumérées pour les hommes - hypocrisie oblige.
Si je répondais honnêtement à cette question, douze associations de défense des droits (LGBTQIA+ ou -) demanderaient ma mort dans la foulée. Aujourd'hui on est face au retour de la censure, avec une société de bien pensants qui se métamorphosent en police de la pensée ... 

1 - Intelligence coupled with great discernment. 
2 - As well as all the qualities listed for men - hypocrisy dictates.
If I answered this question honestly, twelve rights advocacy groups (LGBTQIA+ and others) would immediately demand my demise. Today, we are confronted with the resurgence of censorship, with a society of self-righteous individuals transforming into thought police...

Your favorite occupation ::
J'en ai plusieurs et finalement une seule, la musique : jouer de la musique très fort à plusieurs / créer des morceaux de musique qui me plongent dans mon univers intime / jouer du piano.

/ I have several and yet ultimately just one, music: playing music loudly with others / creating musical pieces that immerse me in my intimate world / playing piano.

Your idea of happiness ::
Il y a la joie profonde qui fait référence à des "moments", alors que je vois le bonheur comme un art de vivre.
La joie suprême : quand on saisit le moment présent et qu'on se sent vivant, là, ici et maintenant.. 
Une Présence qui a un goût d'éternité...
Le bonheur : tout le monde le recherche, souvent sans lever le petit doigt. Or il ne peut être trouvé que si on se donne les moyens de le recueillir, avec les sacrifices nécessaires. Un des moyens est de ne pas SUBIR - tant que cela relève de notre pouvoir. C'est un chemin vers la liberté. Je ne vis pas : autour de personnes malveillantes, au milieu de la foule, entre les pots d'échappement... Zéro pub ni dehors ni dedans, zéro télévision, fini les journalistes anxiogènes : les infos je vais les chercher moi-même, bref, tout mérite d'être désiré et non subi.
Personnellement j'ai tout quitté et je suis venue m'installer (avec mon collectif) à 1000m d'altitude dans un paysage lunaire où l'on trouve 1,2 habitant par km2, une espèce de petite Mongolie où l'air qui souffle est "rude et fort".  Retour au silence et à l'essentiel. Je me sens vivante, en accord avec les éléments et avec moi-même.

/ There is deep joy that refers to "moments," while I see happiness as an art of living. 
Supreme joy: when one seizes the present moment and feels alive, here, now... 
A Presence that tastes like eternity... 
Happiness : everyone seeks it, often without lifting a finger. However, it can only be found if we make the effort to embrace it, with the necessary sacrifices. One way is not to ENDURE - as long as it is within our power. It's a path towards freedom. I don't live: around malicious people, amidst the crowd, among exhaust fumes... Zero advertising, both outside and inside, no television, no more anxiety-inducing journalists: I seek out the news myself, in short, everything deserves to be desired and not endured. Personally, I left everything behind and came to settle (with my collective) at 1000 meters above sea level in a lunar landscape where you find 1.2 inhabitants per square kilometer, a sort of little Mongolia where the blowing wind is "harsh and strong." A return to silence and the essentials. I feel alive, in harmony with the elements and with myself.

Your idea of misery ::
La première idée qui me vient, en tant qu'occidentale issue d'un pays riche, est la misère intellectuelle.
Puis vient l'autre misère, ces réalités économiques et sanitaires qui sont à l'autre bout du monde et qui nous dépassent.

/ The first idea that comes to mind - as a Westerner from an affluent country - is intellectual poverty. 
Then comes the other misery, those economic and health-related realities that are on the other side of the world and surpass us.

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
Une splendide botaniste - anthropologue - archéologue (!) 
/ A splendid botanist - anthropologist - archaeologist (!)

Where would you like to live ::
J'y suis déjà. / I'm already there.

Your favorite color ::
Le bleu. / The blue.

Your favorite flower ::
L'orchidée. Par rapport à son apparition sur Terre, elle serait l'homologue de l'homme... 
/ The orchid. In relation to its appearance on Earth, it would be the counterpart of humans...

Your favorite prose authors ::
Dante (La Divine Comédie et plus particulièrement L'Enfer) - Nietzsche (Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra, long poème) - Ovide (Les Métamorphoses)

/ Dante (The Divine Comedy, and more specifically, Inferno) - Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra, a long poem) - Ovid (Metamorphoses)

Your favorite poets ::
J'en ai eu, je n'en ai plus !
/ I had some, I don't have any more!

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Les héros de la mythologie grecque. Ils en font toujours beaucoup trop et il y a quelque chose de pathétique dans leur héroïsme.
/ The heroes of Greek mythology. They always go way overboard, and there's something pathetic in their heroism.

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Je n'en ai pas. En général c'est toujours trop con.
/ I don't have any. Generally, it's always too dumb.

Your favorite painters ::
Delacroix, David, Géricault et tous les Romantiques. De manière générale, j'adore tout ce qui émane du XIXe (arts, littérature, architecture, philosophie, musique, mode...). 
Aussi, les maîtres de la Renaissance italienne.

/ Delacroix, David, Géricault, and all the Romantics. In general, I adore everything that comes from the 19th century (arts, literature, architecture, philosophy, music, fashion...). 
Also, the masters of the Italian Renaissance.

Your favorite composers ::
Number one : Erik Satie. J'apprends ses pièces en autodidacte et je m'auto hypnotise !!! 
Puis : son pote Debussy, Ravel (qui a foutu la merde entre Satie et Debussy), Fauré, Schubert. Mozart et son Requiem.

/ Number one: Erik Satie. I'm self-taught in learning his pieces, and I self-hypnotize! 
Then: his buddy Debussy, Ravel (who stirred things up between Satie and Debussy), Fauré, Schubert. Mozart and his Requiem.

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
Les Résistants de la dernière guerre.
/ The Resistance fighters of the last war.

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Les Résistantes de la dernière guerre.
Et plus près de moi : ma meilleure amie Audrey.

/ The female Resistance fighters of the last war. 
And closer to me: my best friend Audrey.

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
Hitler et ses généraux / Hitler and his generals

Your favorite food and drink ::
Food : ça ne peut être qu'au pluriel !!! Toute la cuisine asiatique, la cuisine indienne, la cuisine créole, la cuisine française, la cuisine méditerranéenne... j'adore déguster de bonnes choses !
Drink : l'eau pure, le bon café, le vin rouge gorgé de soleil, le Pastis des Homs (Causse du Larzac) :)

/ Food: It can only be plural!!! All Asian cuisine, Indian cuisine, Creole cuisine, French cuisine, Mediterranean cuisine... I love savoring good things! Drink: Pure water, good coffee, sun-soaked red wine, "Pastis des Homs" (from Causse du Larzac) :)

Your favorite names ::
Zoé, Mia, Mila

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
L'informatique- ça me rend dingue quand ça se complique.
Les nouveaux inquisiteurs / Ceux qui osent faire chier alors qu'ils appréhendent l'histoire et la sociologie à travers un entonnoir. Ils sont tellement graves qu'ils prônent le retour de la peine de mort sans le savoir !

/ Computing - it drives me crazy when it gets complicated. 
The new inquisitors / Those who dare to hassle while they understand history and sociology through a funnel. They are so narrow-minded that they advocate for the return of the death penalty without even realizing it!

The change you most anticipate ::
Les premiers bourgeons sur les arbres. / The first buds on the trees.

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
La pleine santé. / Full health

How I would like to die ::
Très brusquement. / Very suddenly.

What is your present state of mind ::
Je vis au jour le jour - pour moi-même. Je réponds à mes besoins essentiels. 
Niveau collectif, on se plonge dans notre futur projet (création et diffusion). Jour présent et renouveau.

/ I live day by day - for myself. I attend to my essential needs. 
On a collective level, we immerse ourselves in our future project (creation and dissemination). Present day and renewal.

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
Quand pour une certaine action, on est bordélique ou désorganisé. 
/ When, for a certain action, one is messy or disorganized.

Your favorite motto ::
Super bateau - ce qui ne nous tue pas nous rend plus fort.
/ Super cliché - what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.

22 août 2023 - 11:39

Vanessa Jeantrelle aka DJane Ki is a French DJ and an electronic music producer.

Productions : cinematic - ambient - IDM - experimental waves
DJ / vinyl : techno rave - trip-hop

Vanessa Jeantrelle is member of the bands : Brand new Bastards (DJ & live sets), Triceratops (live sets), LBA Mad Dogs (instrumental live - improv) - She is living in the south east of France

COPPÉ


Your favorite virtue ::  
always be Coppé !

Your favorite qualities in a man ::  
passion

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::  
sweetness

Your favorite occupation ::  
creator

Your chief characteristic ::  
happy ... sweet + fluffy

Your idea of happiness ::  
being able to sing 

Your idea of misery ::  
not being able to sing

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::  
Astro Boy

Where would you like to live ::  
in a clear bubble … floating ...

Your favorite color ::  
the color of pelle’s eye balls

Your favorite flower ::  
king protea

Your favorite prose authors ::  
Merlin Sheldrake

Your favorite poets ::  
Michael Franks

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::  
Superman

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::  
Pinocchio

Your favorite painters ::  
Coppé

Your favorite composers ::  
Johann Sebastian Bach

Your favorite heroes in real life ::  
René Laloux

Your favorite heroines in real life ::  
Billie Holiday

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::  
Putin

Your favorite food and drink ::  
veggies + fruity red red wine

Your favorite names ::  
Coppé  + Atom

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::  
being negative + blue

The change you most anticipate ::  
journey to space + start making music with aliens

A gift of nature you would like to have ::  
aurora boreal

How I would like to die ::  
dreaming

What is your present state of mind ::  
mesmerised 

For what fault have you the most toleration ::  
making mistakes

Your favorite motto ::  
always be Coppé + keep on dreaming ...

13 mars 2023 - 15:58

COPPÉ is a singer-songwriter and producer of music, a martian fruitcake, a music junkie and the Queen bee of Mango + Sweetrice Records. Coppé is living in Tokyo


image by Jean-Paul Berthoin


ALESSIO PREMOLI aka CHELIDON FRAME

Your favorite virtue ::
endurance

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
being theirselves

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
being theirselves

Your favorite occupation :: 
to experiment with sounds

Your idea of happiness :: 
being able to do what I like full time, and balancing it with friends and family

Your idea of misery :: 
making too many compromises and ending up living a totally different life

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
maybe a movie maker or a video artist, I always wanted to experiment with that

Where would you like to live :: 
in the countryside, or near some mountains

Your favorite color :: 
I don't have one, but dark shades of greens pleases me

Your favorite flower :: 
not a flower lover here, but I used to have this nice cherry tree near my old home which blossomed in such a lovely way during spring time

Your favorite prose authors :: 
it depends on the period, recently I enjoyed Albert Camus

Your favorite poets :: 
recently I keep falling back to read Keith Waldrop's poems

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
Godzilla (because he is a hero!)

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
Godzilla (because she is a hero!)

Your favorite painters :: 
Rothko, Mondrian

Your favorite composers :: 
Well, I think we'll need a separate questionnaire for this, but a couple that never tires me are Steve Reich and Philip Glass

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
there's too many, I don't want to hurt anyone

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
my wife

What character (s) in history do you most dislike :: 
barriers makers

Your favorite food and drink :: 
probably pizza and beer

Your favorite names :: 
the one with multi-layered meanings

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
unwanted noises

The change you most anticipate :: 
probably making music full time

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
being more able to make connections

How I would like to die :: 
some quick way, maybe in my sleep

What is your present state of mind :: 
serene

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
being lost in something

Your favorite motto :: 
"We'll bury 'em in the mix"

6 mars 2023 - 15:47

Alessio Premoli, aka Chelidon Frame, is a sound explorer, data sonificator and experimental musician. Alessio is living in Milan

Chelidon Frame 

CHRISTIAN GONZALEZ


Your favorite virtue :: 
temperance

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
his courage, his determination, his strength, his intelligence, his empathy, his body

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
his courage, his determination, his strength, his intelligence, his empathy, his body

Your favorite occupation ::
make music and be able to make a living from it

Your chief characteristic :: 
punctuality, Reliability

Your idea of happiness :: 
A Life in Harmony without Borders, without injustice and without Misery, without Wars and without Violence

Your idea of misery :: 
to be in the street, without you to sleep

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
a better version of me

Where would you like to live :: 
in a place neither too hot nor too cold, green and isolated at the foot of a Lake with all my Family and my Friends

Your favorite color :: 
Orange, Green, Purple

Your favorite flower :: 
Oeillet (Carnation), Glaïeul (Gladiolus)

Your favorite prose authors :: 
Kai Hermann et Horst Rieck, Lewis Carroll

Your favorite poets :: 
Linton kwesi Johnson, Baptiste Caruana

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
Franck Castie alias Punisher, Dexter Morgan

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
Mercredi Addams; Trinity (Matrix)

Your favorite painters :: 
 Marc Chagall, Takashi Murakami, Salvador Dali, Andy Warhol etc…

Your favorite composers :: 
Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Sascha Ring, Vangelis, Yann Tiersen, Jaime Meline (El-P, alias El-Producto) Danny Elfman etc…

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
My Father

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
My mother

What character(s) in history do you most dislike :: 
all the dictators on this planet

Your favorite food and drink :: 
everything that comes from the Sea. Meat, Tomatoes, Cheese, Wine, apple pies, Asian cuisine, Banana, strawberry and tomato juice, good wine

Your favorite names :: 
Cassandre et Cassiopée

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
Injustice, contempt Profit, Incompetence, Superiority

The change you most anticipate :: 
my retirement, I have worked for the same company for 41 years

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
Telepathy

How I would like to die :: 
quickly and painlessly

What is your present state of mind :: 
in a good mood, but worried about our future

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
clumsiness

Your favorite motto :: 
If, you don't know, shut your mouth

1er mars 2023 - 17:09

Christian Gonzalez, aka GROSSO GADGETTO, is a musician - He is living in Villeurbanne (France).

NILOTPAL DAS aka BIOS CONTRAST


Your favorite virtue ::
Humanity, Compassion, Honesty, Self-control

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
Open-mindedness and all of the above

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
Open-mindedness and all of the above

Your favorite occupation :: 
Making music, Photography, Film making, Building/Repairing Computers and other electronics

Your idea of happiness :: 
Self-cultivation

Your idea of misery :: 
A disgrace to my family, Dying alone no one to take care of me when I'm old

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
Someone / Something not of this planet

Where would you like to live :: 
Tibet

Your favorite color :: 
Orange, Gold, Black, White

Your favorite flower :: 
Lilly, Sunflower

Your favorite prose authors :: 
Chanakya, Franz Kafka

Your favorite poets :: 
Vyasa, Kalidasa

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
Lord krishna, Lord Hanuman

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
Radha

Your favorite painters :: 
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Salvador Dalí

Your favorite composers :: 
Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Johannsson, Death Grips, Pallavur Appu Marar, Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker, Senyawa, Mario Batkovic, Ravi Shankar, Aphex Twin, Christine Ott, David Bowie, Snowdrops, Racine

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
Everyone is a hero

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
Everyone is a heroine

What character (s) in history do you most dislike :: 
none

Your favorite food and drink :: 
Coffee, for food I don't know I eat whatever is easy to prepare/cook for me.

Your favorite names :: 
I like all names

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
Ignorance, Carelessness

The change you most anticipate :: 
Abandonment / Replacement of the monetary system

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
Ability to fly

How I would like to die :: 
I'd throw a party

What is your present state of mind :: 
Fierce, Angry, Agressive, Happy. I need to make an album within 2026 that is greater than 1 hours of length, write a 100 page book atleast and make a short film or something close to it.

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
Stupidity, I consider myself very stupid and ignorant

Your favorite motto :: 
Do what you love but don't destroy your life in the process

13 janvier 2023 - 19:09

Nilotpal Das, aka BIOS CONTRAST, is musician, he is living in Calcutta.

Bios Contrast / linktr.ee

JOHANNA VAUDE


Your favorite virtue ::
Être soi-même / Be yourself

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
Un esprit libre et imaginatif. / A free and imaginative spirit.

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
Un esprit libre et imaginatif. / A free and imaginative spirit.

Your favorite occupation :: 
Apprendre / Learn

Your idea of happiness :: 
Créer et partager / Create and share

Your idea of misery :: 
La perversité / Perversity

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
Jack London

Where would you like to live :: 
Dans les forêts sans oublier la civilisation. / In the forests without forgetting civilization.

Your favorite color :: 
L’arc en ciel / The rainbow

Your favorite flower :: 
Les fleurs sauvages / Wildflowers

Your favorite prose authors :: 
Friedrich Hölderlin, Novalis, Hugo Pratt, De Laclos…

Your favorite poets :: 
William Blake, Cécile Sauvage, Emiliy Dickinson, René Char, Stéphane Mallarmé, Guillaume Apollinaire, John Keats, Rimbaud, Baudelaire…

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
Perceval, Corto Maltese, Robin des bois, Superman (1978 & 1980), Neo dans « Matrix », Max Rockatansky dans « Mad Max », Indiana Jones… 

/ Perceval, Corto Maltese, Robin Hood, Superman (1978 & 1980), Neo in “Matrix”, Max Rockatansky in “Mad Max”, Indiana Jones…

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
Karen dans « Stromboli », Ellen Ripley dans « Alien », Laurie Strode dans « Halloween », Sarah Connor dans « Terminator », Robin Griffin dans « Top of the lake », Trinity dans « Matrix », La Princesse Mononoké, Lornette Mace Mason dans « Strange Days », Lagertha dans « Vikings », Rachel Stein dans « Black Book », Eleven dans « Stranger Things », Dr. Eleanor Ann dans « Contact ». 

/ Karen in « Stromboli », Ellen Ripley in « Alien », Laurie Strode in « Halloween », Sarah Connor in « Terminator », Robin Griffin in « Top of the lake », Trinity in « Matrix », Princess Mononoké, Lornette Mace Mason in « Strange Days », Lagertha in « Vikings », Rachel Stein in « Black Book », Eleven in « Stranger Things », Dr. Eleanor Ann in « Contact ». 

Your favorite painters :: 
Fra Angelico, Vassily Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Matisse, Salvador Dalí, Georgia O’keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Hokusai, le Caravage, Francis Bacon, Sam Francis, David Hockney, Len Lye…

Your favorite composers :: 
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Antonio Vivaldi, Frédéric Chopin, Guillaume de Machaut, Hildegarde de Bingen, Ennio Morricone, Edouard Artemiev, John Williams…

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
Percy Harrison Fawcett, Galilée, Martin Luther King, Elvis, Mohamed Ali, Hippocrate…

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
Joséphine Baker, Simone Veil, Hildegarde de Bingen, Tomoe Gozen, Amelia Earhart…

What character (s) in history do you most dislike :: 
Les dictateurs sanguinaires / bloodthirsty dictators

Your favorite food and drink :: 
Un bon repas accompagné d’un très bon vin en compagnie de bons amis. / A good meal accompanied by a very good wine in the company of good friends.

Your favorite names ::

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
L’impolitesse / Rudeness

The change you most anticipate :: 
Ce qui vient remplacer nos libertés / What comes to replace our freedoms

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
L’immensité / The immensity

How I would like to die :: 
Avec discernement / With discernment

What is your present state of mind :: 
En transformation / In process

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
La maladresse / Awkwardness

Your favorite motto :: 
Reste toi-même. / Be yourself

10 novembre 2022 - 11:51


" Johanna Vaude is an artist who, single-handed, produces highly distinctive films and musics. Since 2011, Johanna Vaude is a regular guest of Blow Up, the cinema programme of the channel Arte.tv. 
The programme gives her carte blanche in the production of her videos in montage form as a hommage to the 7th Art. In 2017, she is awarded the Prix Label Image by the Passeurs de Lumière at the SCAM : « Johanna Vaude, alchimiste de l’image » (« Johanna Vaude, image alchemist »). In 2019, her musical video « I’m more than a machine » (robots in cinema) is shown at the Paris Philharmonic during its exhibition « Electro », devoted to electronic music (From Kraftwerk to Daft Punk). The exhibition is to continue in 2020 and 2021 at the London Design Museum and in 2022 at the Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. "

Johanna Vaude


KHΛOMΛИ


Your favorite virtue :: 
La Logique et la simplicité / Logic and simplicity

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
la complicité / complicity

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
la complicité / complicity

Your favorite occupation :: 
capter le son - café clope et créer / capture the sound - coffee cigarette and create

Your idea of happiness :: 
la Famille / Family

Your idea of misery :: 
Seul enfermé dehors / Alone locked out

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
d'être moi même / to be myself

Where would you like to live :: 
Actuellement chez moi tout simplement / Curently at home

Your favorite color :: 
Noir / Black

Your favorite flower :: 
Rose rouge - Capucine / red rose - nasturtium

Your favorite prose authors :: 
Bilal / Jodorowsky / Druillet

Your favorite poets :: 
le mélange des mots / the mixing of words

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
César le singe / Caesar the monkey

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
Alien - la reine (Xénomorphe) / Alien - the queen (Xenomorph)

Your favorite painters :: 
le mélanges des Couleurs / the mixture of colors

Your favorite composers :: 
Tangerine Dream - Yello - Trent Reznor - Einsturzende Neubauten - Test Dept - David Bowie - Ryūichi Sakamoto et tant d'autres... / and many others ...

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
la famille et les amis / family and friends

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
la famille et les amies / family and feminine friends

What character(s) in history do you most dislike :: 
ceux qui nous exploitent et nous détruisent / those who exploit and destroy us

Your favorite food and drink :: 
Rhum - chardonnay - goulash et la côte de boeuf / goulash and prime rib

Your favorite names :: 
numéro 6 / number 6

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
l'araignée et l'hypocrisie / the spider and the hypocrisy

The change you most anticipate :: 
la mort / death

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
vivre plus longtemps pour découvrir pleins de choses encore ou devenir un ectoplasme / live longer to discover more things and become an ectoplasm

How I would like to die :: 
j'attends pour le moment rien ne presse / i'm waiting for the moment there's no rush

What is your present state of mind :: 
nostalgique et tous azimuts / nostalgic and all-out 

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
à fleur de peau / on edge

Your favorite motto ::
Le bruit - son dans son ensemble est une question de scénarios les plus consensuels qui prédisent sur une expansion ininterrompue / Noise - sound as a whole is a matter of most consensus scenarios predicting on uninterrupted expansion

31 octobre 2022 - 12:37

" Les sons perçus comme désagréables ou douloureux, prennent à contre-pied les plus communes définitions de la musique... Actuellement mon ectoplasme est KHΛOMΛИ "

Sounds perceived as unpleasant or painful, go against the grain of the most common definitions of music... Currently my ectoplasm is KHΛOMΛИ"

SANDIE TRASH


Your favorite virtue ::
la bienveillance / the kindness

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
l'humour / humor

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
l'intégrité / the integrity

Your favorite occupation ::
les métiers touchant à l'art / arts related professions

Your idea of happiness ::
la foi / the faith

Your idea of misery ::
l'injustice / the injustice

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
Un père que je n'ai pas / A father i don't have

Where would you like to live ::
Un lieu céleste / A celestial place

Your favorite color ::
violet / purple

Your favorite flower ::
le coquelicot / the poppy

Your favorite prose authors ::
Verlaine, Rimbaud

Your favorite poets ::
Baudelaire

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Tintin

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Barbara Bain

Your favorite painters ::
Van Gogh pour son oreille / Van Gogh for his ear

Your favorite composers ::
Satie, Bach, Rachmaninov (parfois) / (sometimes)

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
Mon fils / My son

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Simone Veil

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
Les chefs de guerre / The warlords

Your favorite food and drink ::
Les madeleines, le café, le raisin, le sorbet au citron, poulet-frites / Madeleines, coffee, grapes, lemon sorbet, chicken-french fries

Your favorite names ::
Camille, Raphaëlle, Gabriel, Michael

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
L'ego surdimensionné / Oversized ego

The change you most anticipate ::
Prendre mon parapluie / Take my umbrella

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
Des yeux, des oreilles de chat / Eyes, cat ears

How I would like to die ::
Dans mon sommeil / In my sleep

What is your present state of mind ::
Mouvementé / busy

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
Les fautes de jeunesse / youthful errors

Your favorite motto ::
Le passé est un puit sans fond / The past is a bottomless pit

16 octobre 2022 - 09:03

Musician and singer, Sandie Trash lives in Périgueux (France).

MYKEL BOYD


Your favorite virtue :: 
patience

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
silence, kindness, humor

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
silence, kindness, humor

Your favorite occupation :: 
artist

Your idea of happiness :: 
my life, my partner, my children, books, our garden, walks by the trees, sound, creating

Your idea of misery :: 
sounds that don't please me, sometimes other people

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
I wouldn't like to know what it was like to be another person. Perhaps a better me?

Where would you like to live :: 
here or somewhere like here

Your favorite color :: 
grey

Your favorite flower :: 
I like all of them

Your favorite prose authors :: 
Camus, Kafka, Poe, Machen

Your favorite poets :: 
Artaud

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
Josef K of The Trial

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
Liesel Meminger of The Book Thief

Your favorite painters :: 
Brion Gysin, Leonora Carrington, Barbara Rogers, lots of others

Your favorite composers :: 
Philip Glass, Julia Kent, Éliane Radigue, seah

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
I don't really like the word hero. I appreciate people who are kind.

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
(see above)

What character (s) in history do you most dislike :: 
All of the bad ones.

Your favorite food and drink :: 
Curry and Absinthe

Your favorite names :: 
names are tied to people and I have a few favorite people. I'm not sure I have favorite names.

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
so many things.........mostly sound related.

The change you most anticipate :: 
tomorrow

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
fluidity, persistence

How I would like to die :: 
quietly

What is your present state of mind :: 
anxious but calming

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
I'm not sure, everyone has faults and I try to be tolerant, there are some things I don't really tolerate.

Your favorite motto :: 
sorry for my delay

2 septembre 2022 - 14:12

Mykel Boyd (°1970, Kankakee, IL) makes sound recordings, conceptual artworks, photos, installations and films. By experimenting with aleatoric processes, Boyd creates work in which a fascination with the clarity of content and an uncompromising attitude towards conceptual and minimal art can be found. The work is aloof and systematic and a cool and neutral imagery is used.

His practice provides a useful set of allegorical tools for manoeuvring with a pseudo-minimalist approach in the world of conceptual art: these meticulously planned works resound and resonate with images culled from the fantastical realm of imagination. With a subtle minimalistic approach, he formalizes the coincidental and emphasizes the conscious process of composition that is behind the seemingly random works. The thought processes, which are supposedly private, highly subjective and unfiltered in their references to dream worlds, are frequently revealed as assemblages.

His works feature coincidental, accidental and unexpected connections which make it possible to revise art history and, even better, to complement it. Combining unrelated aspects lead to surprising analogies. By applying abstraction, he creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.

His works doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. Mykel has collaborated with many sound artists, most notable is his collaboration with seah as post doom romance.
Mykel Boyd currently lives and works in Bradley, IL.

Mykel Boyd
Somnimage 
Post Doom Romance

NICOLAS GERMAIN


Your favorite virtue :: 
Weaknesses of my strength

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
Passion

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
Passion

Your favorite occupation :: 
Making music (and go windsurfing)

Your idea of happiness :: 
The Uncertainty Principle

Your idea of misery :: 
Making money

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
Me as a girl

Where would you like to live :: 
In a Lighthouse (but large enough to put my music gear)

Your favorite color :: 
Red (#990000)

Your favorite flower :: 
Rosebud

Your favorite prose authors :: 
Thomas Mann, Hanif Kureishi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Orson Welles, Jim Harrison…

Your favorite poets :: 
Joël Hubaut, Bernard Heidsieck, Henri Chopin, Antonin Artaud, Joachim Montessuis, Anne-James Chaton, Patti Smith, Pauline Oliveiros …

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
Captain Nemo

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
Alice

Your favorite painters :: 
Joël Hubaut, William Turner, Marcel Duchamp, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, William Kentridge, Arnulf Rainer, Cy Twombly, Joseph Beuys, Robert Combas, Sandro Chia, Agnes martin, Gerhard Richter…

Your favorite composers :: 
Erik Satie, Edgar Varèse, La Monte Young, Siouxsie & the Banshees (2nd album), Marcel Duchamp, Eliane Radigue, Charlemagne Palestine, Devo, Blindoldfreak, CAN, The Cramps, DAF, Kraftwerk, LFO, Ennio Morricone, Sister Iodine, Leila Bordreuil, Steve Reich, Terry Riley, Luc Ferrari, Test Department, Oval, Plastikman, Suicide, Suzanne Ciani, Philip Glass, Tony Conrad, Kali Malone, Gavin Bryars, Autechre, The Residents, Plaid, Microstoria, Maryanne Amacher, Yvan Etienne, Terrine, Sun O))), 3W Electron Tube…

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
"No More Heroes"

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
"No More Heroes"

What character (s) in history do you most dislike :: 
Mr Capitalism

Your favorite food and drink :: 
Oysters & Red Wine (and Baltimore crabs cooked by Jean-Jacques)

Your favorite names :: 
Penelope & Alice

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
The reluctance to learn

The change you most anticipate :: 
Not Artificial Intelligence !

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
wings to fly and 12 ears to hear all

How I would like to die :: 
in a dream

What is your present state of mind :: 
Immersed in the world of the Magic Montain

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
The Sin

Your favorite motto :: 
No Future !

29 août 2022 - 16:31

Nicolas Germain, aka el TiGeR CoMiCs GRoUP since 1984, is musician and sometimes Sound Artist. He's also member of Variable, HUM, Pest Modern and 3W Electron Tube.

elTCG / linktr.ee 
jujuart 
el TiGeR CoMiCs GRoUP / Bandcamp 

GINTAS KRAPTAVIČIUS


Your favorite virtue ::
All virtues opposite to arrogance.

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
It is a simple question in Marcel Proust time as it is a Marcel Proust Questionnaire, but not so easy to
answer for it now. If I say that it is manliness is a will sound as machismo ? So it is mean a priori bad ? Well, then I stay for creativity.

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
I would like to say that it is femininity. But again creativity is the best quality in all humans.

Your favorite occupation ::
Playing. Music. Listening. Reading. Riding bicycle. Drinking coffe. Communication.

Your idea of happiness ::
If i know it I would be then.

Your idea of misery ::
Isolation.

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
I am happy with myself ☺

Where would you like to live ::
Antarctica looks interesting. Also countries where all time is summer time. But not so hot for sure as it is now ☺

Your favorite color ::
Green

Your favorite flower ::
Do not have such.

Your favorite prose authors ::
It is evolving all the time. When I was teenager it was Hermann Hesse, Julio Cortázar, Kurt Vonnegut as maybe for everybody in that time. Then I was fascinated by Edgar Allan Poe, Oscar Wilde, decadent writers, later come to absurd novelist as Flann O'Brien, Luke Rhinehart, Victor Pelevin. Seneca all the time. And many many more. Most recent novelist in which i enjoyed was H.P. Lovecraft and most interesting readings for me now are pop neuroscience - brain works books.

Your favorite poets ::
I am not sure for a now, but let it be Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Stearns Eliot, Salomėja Nėris, Kristijonas Donelaitis.

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Hmm... I understand it as a fiction not a prose character. So let it be "Stalker" ( Alexander Kaidanovsky ) in the film "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky .

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Do not remember some one in a fiction. But Georgina ( Helen Mirren ) in film “The Cook, the Thief, His Wife"” by Peter Greenaway was fantastic.

Your favorite painters ::
It is impossible to say how many I like. A lot. From young days I enjoyed Andy Warhol and Hermann Nitsch. Antic sculpture, Renaissance painters like Michelangelo Buonarroti ; Expressionism - Max Bechmann ; Surrealism - Max Ernst, Georgio de Chirico ; Abstract expressionism, Fluxus and all good contemporary art. Here I mentioned just let's say same old names. Are huge amount of current contemporary artists. When I come to some new place first of all I visit a contemporary art centre, museum, modern art museum, or same kind galleries for charging my batteries.

Your favorite composers ::
It is even harder to say. Everyday I try to listen some new electroacoustic, computer, electronic, contemporary music albums. To listen to all new released stuff. Searching for good, new (or old but good & new for me) stuff. So time to time I listen more to some one composer works. Such composers happened to be where ; Bernard Parmegiani, Anthony Pateras, eRikm. I enjoyed their creativity.

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
Do not have such one. All heroes has a clay feet

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Do not have such one. All heroines has a clay feet

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
lenin, stalin, putin

Your favorite food and drink ::
In current time it is salted curd with linseed oil & peppermint tea.

Your favorite names ::
Let it be old pagan names which we – Lithuanians – have, use a lot.

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
I am keeping rat as pet for some time. This time is a third one. And this one rat bites. So it is really annoying......

The change you most anticipate ::
Ending a war Russia – Ukraine

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
Some calmness of mind would be good at least to heave but then maybe I wouldn’t be myself.

How I would like to die ::
As for favorite saying of James Dean “Live fast, die young, and leave a beautiful corpse“ I am maybe too old, so I would choose to die without a pain.

What is your present state of mind ::
Waiting.

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
For all fault except arrogance

Your favorite motto ::
Many years ago I said some - „when you sleep you don't count the time“. I don’t know what it is mean but I like it still.

20 août 2022 - 20:31

Gintas Kraptavičius (aka Gintas K) is a sound artist, performer, writer and an interdisciplinary artist. Gintas lives in Marijampolė.


⊕ gintaskgintask@gmail.com

ARNAUD CHATELARD


Your favorite virtue ::
La générosité / generosity

Your favorite qualities in a man ::
L'humilité / humility

Your favorite qualities in a woman ::
La patience / patience

Your favorite occupation ::
Éclusier / lock keeper

Your idea of happiness ::
Elle est multiple, mais je dirais, que le vrai bonheur réside essentiellement dans celui de pouvoir aimer quelque chose ou quelqu'un sans arrière-pensées / It is multiple, but I would say that true happiness lies essentially in being able to love something or someone without ulterior motives.

Your idea of misery ::
Elle aussi est multiple, même si je pense qu'il est beaucoup plus difficile de sortir de la misère intellectuelle que de la misère matérielle... quoique! / It is multiple too, even if I think it is much more difficult to get out of intellectual misery than material misery... although!

if not yourself, Who you would like to be ::
Quelqu'un de vraiment libre... ou alors Robert Desnos / Someone really free... or so Robert Desnos

Where would you like to live ::
Dans un moulin près de Frontenac, dans le sud-ouest de la France / In a mill near Frontenac, in the south-west of France

Your favorite color ::
Bleu / Blue

Your favorite flower ::
L'orchidée / orchid

Your favorite prose authors ::
Boris Vian / Milan Kundera / Louis Pergaud

Your favorite poets ::
Robert Desnos / Antonin Artaud / Fernando António Nogueira Pessoa

Your favorite heroes in fiction ::
Tyler Durden, Héracles, Corto Maltese

Your favorite heroines in fiction ::
Poison Ivy, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Conor, Trinity...

Your favorite painters ::
Egon Schiele, Vassily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt

Your favorite composers ::
Classical - Bela Bartok, Sergueï Vassilievitch Rachmaninov, Franz Liszt, 
Jazz - John Coltrane, Charlie Mingus et Thelonious Monk
Rock - Wright, Jimi Hendrix et John Cale
Hip Hop - El-P, RZA et Pete Rock
Electro - Dj Shadow, Bonobo et Kavinski (guilty pleasure...)

Your favorite heroes in real life ::
ça n'est pas très original, mais les personnels soignants, les pompiers et les travailleurs sociaux / it's not very original, but the caregivers, the firefighters and the social workers

Your favorite heroines in real life ::
Les mêmes / the same

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
Tous les connards de dictateurs... / All the fucking dictators...

Your favorite food and drink ::
Saucisson et vins / sausage and wines

Your favorite names ::
Niels, Max, Zven

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
La maladie / disease

The change you most anticipate ::
La guerre ...? / War ...?

A gift of nature you would like to have ::
La patience / patience

How I would like to die ::
Lucide / Lucid

What is your present state of mind ::
Morose, mais plein d'espoir / Gloomy, but hopeful

For what fault have you the most toleration ::
La gourmandise / Greed

Your favorite motto ::
"A vaincre sans péril on triomphe sans gloire"... (que je ne m'applique pas du tout d'ailleurs...). 
Ou alors le plus classique " Ce qui ne te tue pas te rends plus fort" ou enfin "Seigneur protège moi de mes amis, mes ennemis je m'en charge..." / 
"To conquer without danger, one triumphs without glory"... (which I don't apply at all, by the way...). 
Or the more classic "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" or finally "Lord protect me from my friends, my enemies I take care of it..."

29 juillet 2022 - 13:24

Arnaud Chatelard is a musician, producer, label coordinator and a visual artist. Arnaud lives in Bordeaux.

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SEAH


Your favorite virtue :: 
genuine kindness

Your favorite qualities in a man :: 
honest, kind, open

Your favorite qualities in a woman :: 
honest, kind, open

Your favorite occupation :: 
one that brings a person a good level of satisfaction

Your idea of happiness :: 
the ability to find joy/contentment while facing life’s turbulence

Your idea of misery :: 
the inability to find some level of satisfaction in life

if not yourself, Who you would like to be :: 
one of my other selves

Where would you like to live :: 
in pockets of time/space that are free of state violence/control

Your favorite color :: 
the color of fog, particularly as it moves across San Francisco

Your favorite flower :: 
all of them really, I’m a flower glutton

Your favorite prose authors :: 
Jodorowsky’s Where the Bird Sings Best for the second time - I think because I love the idea of genealogical mythologies - and I recently finished Michelle Zauner’s Crying in H-Mart which is fantastic. Anything by Octavia Butler, which I have taught in the past. OH! How could I forget my ongoing obsession with Isabelle Eberhardt - she is highly influential. And all the writings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo

Your favorite poets :: 
When I was much younger, I loved Sylvia Plath, and that is probably still in there and influential on a resonant level because I memorized her poems. Mary Oliver, Anne Sexton, Gertrude Stein, Audre Lorde … Artaud and Brecht, of course. I love reading Pablo Naruda, Octavio Paz, Lorca, and Roque Dalton in Spanish.

Your favorite heroes in fiction :: 
I’m not much into the heroic concept, so I guess I favor the anti-hero, because it is more complex

Your favorite heroines in fiction :: 
anti-heroines?

Your favorite painters :: 
Anselm Kiefer, Basquiat, Hilma af Klint, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Devan Shimoyama, Monica Canilao, Saya Woolfalk, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Kehinde Wiley, Tschabalala Self

Your favorite composers :: 
Éliane Radigue, Einstürzende Neubauten, John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Joe Colley, Michael Gendreau, Maja Ratkje, Arve Henriksen, Diamanda Galas, id m theft able, teahouse radio, øjerum, Emily Wells, Julia Kent, Zoe Keating, Moor Mother, Don Lifted, Guillermo Galindo, Rapoon, Jesse Ahmann, Jim Haynes, Snezhana Reizen,Tiros Won

Your favorite heroes in real life :: 
All of those who put their life on the line for the sake of art and truth and freedom

Your favorite heroines in real life :: 
Isabelle Eberhardt - she did it her way

What character (s) in history do you most dislike :: 
FASCISTS

Your favorite food and drink :: 
coffee with cream and cardamom, absinthe, amaros, WATER. I cook and eat mostly very spicy - Thai, Malay, Burmese, Ethiopian, Indian

Your favorite names :: 
Khalil or Khalilah (my child’s name) - it means “beloved friend”

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) :: 
apathy

The change you most anticipate :: 
the end of “the state” hahaha

A gift of nature you would like to have :: 
a lovely singing voice

How I would like to die :: 
quietly, gently

What is your present state of mind :: 
currently it is overcast here, with a light breeze and everything is very quiet except for the birds and the leaves - my state of mind often mirrors what’s going on outside. I need more coffee though

For what fault have you the most toleration :: 
 youthful angst - I’m not sure it’s actually a fault

Your favorite motto :: 
"My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all." ~ Roque Dalton

8 juin 2022 - 17:08

I went from a dancer to a painter, experimented with sound, went back to dance, continued experimenting with sound, started painting with light (making video). This is where I am now: using my body to capture sound and light and then building compositions from that.

Conduits of the hydrosphere took me a very long time to coalesce into a body of work that I felt I could explain properly. The philosophical text will hopefully be out in the next year. Until then, I hope that people will listen deeply and look at the artist book’s images, and maybe be curious enough to ask me questions.

Post doom romance is a collaborative project between myself and Mykel Boyd 

SEAH is living in Bradley, Illinois.

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