“A big furry night-spider of the orb-weaving type soon took to spinning nightly over the open tent door. I became very fond of this being, whom regardless of sex, I named Horatius, because she guarded me from invasion single handed.
Most of my family were terrified of her, so I could stay up until morning if I felt like it, secure from interruption so long as she loomed in her great circular web over my doorway.”
Ceci se passait au printemps dans un jardin où les habituels vers
luisants étaient remplacés par des perles noires dont la vertu est
de n'émettre qu'un seul rayon lumineux lequel brûle le point où il
tombe.
« Vous
désirez que mon sein soit une boule de neige, disait la jeune fille.
Fort bien, j'y consens. Mais que ferez-vous pour moi en échange ?
- Émettez
un vœu ! ma divine, et qu'il soit en mon pouvoir de le
réaliser !
- Je
souhaite que pendant sept jours vous ayez autant de sexes que de
doigts à votre main droite. »
Or
le jeune homme fut immédiatement changé en une étoile de mer. La
jeune fille se pencha vers lui avec un sourire satisfait.
« Que
vais-je faire ? Pensa-t-elle. Je ne savais pas que c'était si
facile de se débarrasser d'un galant trop hardi. Les arbres me
restent avec leur étreinte majestueuse. »
Elle
avait compté sans la mer qui, furieuse de voir un de ses enfants
injurié par une terrienne, envahit sourdement la lande pour le
reprendre et le venger. La jeune fille ne fut plus bientôt qu'un
voile transparent étendu sur les flots calmés, et dont la
coquetterie était régie par le vent, les mouvements par les
caprices des vagues.
C'est
alors qu'intervient un élément que le romanesque le plus étrange
ne suffit pas à justifier. Une mouette s'empara du voile et alla le
porter dans la cabine secrète d'un capitaine de navire. Celui-ci
était un homme austère et passionné dont les deux occupations
favorites étaient l'une de pratiquer sur les joues de ses hommes une
inflation dénommée par lui hystérico-printanière, l'autre
d'apprivoiser par des poèmes faits exprès pour eux les poissons
qui, mangés par eux, se trouvaient enfermés dans le ventre des
requins.
DVD featuring one of the last interviews with Willaim Burroughs and previously unseen vintage footage of him during the 50s and early 60s. - The great Beat Generation experiments took place in Tangier, the Moroccan city where William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and the Moroccan painter Hamri taught Jack Kerouac, Timothy Leary, and Allen Ginsberg how to live outside the law. This DVD features one of the last interviews with Burroughs and previously unseen vintage footage of him in his prime during the 50s and early 60s. Also featured are The Master Musicians of Joujouka collaborating with avant garde Dublin musicians, veterans of the Tangier Beat Scene, and cutting edge writers. In addition, there is music from Bill Laswell, The Baby Snakes, plus contributions from Ira Cohen, Hakim Bey, Brian Downey (Thin Lizzy) and many more.
Coming from roughly the same era that produced occult celebs like Anton LaVey and Sybil Leek, Huebner was media savvy enough to conjure a 1968 government-issued designation for herself as "Official Witch Of Los Angeles County", and she followed that coup a year later with this LP. Largely adapted from her book of the same name, it's a reverb-heavy collection of scratchily-voiced incantations centered around "charms of seduction and sexual power", and has always struck me as a fully entertaining listen from start to finish."
"SEDUCTION THROUGH WITCHCRAFT"
-- by LOUISE HUEBNER
THE OFFICIAL WITCH OF LOS ANGELES
Original LP - Warner Bros Recording Studios
Re-Recorded: 2 CDs Muse Records and Zero Records
Re-Recorded: 2nd LP Rhino Records - Japan
Five Star Award: Best Speaking Album of Type
Electronic Music by Composers Bebe and Louis Baron
Nam June Paik, TV Cello. Played by Charlotte Moorman. Ca 1964.
Nam June Paik / Charlotte Moorman - TV Bra for Living Sculpture (1969) and Chamber Music (1969)
Nam June Paik participated in Fluxus. He made his big debut at the Exposition of Music-Electronic Television, in which he scattered televisions everywhere, and used magnets to alter or distort their images. In 1964, Paik moved to New York, and began working with cellist Charlotte Moorman. In a notorious 1967 incident, Moorman was arrested for going topless while performing Paik's Opera Sextronique. Two years later, they performed TV Bra for Living Sculpture, in which Charlotte wore a bra with small TV screens over her breasts.
Ars Electronica 1982 - Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman
Short excerpt about the performances of Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman wich took place at Ars Electronica 1982.
(Excerpt from ORF Documentary about Ars Electronica 1982)
"Variations on a Theme by Saint-Saens", by Nam June Paik
I documented this version of Charlotte Moorman performing Nam June Paik's "Variations on a Theme by Saint-Saens" at the ORF Studios in Linz, Austria, on the occasion of the Sky Art Conference/Ars Electronica in 1982. This, and other performance art works by Paik and Moorman, were produced by the Center For Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA, under the coordination and vision of then-director Otto Piene.
"Variations" represents one of Paik's best examples of Fluxus-based performance art. If you can dedicate the 7 minutes needed to watching this video, try to stay with it from beginning to end in order to enjoy the full effect.
Charlotte Moorman with Human Cello, performed with Nam June Paik 1965
Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman for T.V. Bra, 1969
Charlotte Moorman performing Nam June Paik’s TV Bra.
"Sky Kiss - Linz"
Otto Piene brought Charlotte Moorman to the Sky Art Conference/Ars Electronica in Linz, Austria in 1982 to perform "Sky Kiss". With the assistance of many volunteers, an array of helium-filled tubes was gathered together, and Charlotte and her cello were lifted off the ground in the vicinity of the Danube River.
The video begins with an interview I made of Charlotte on the roof top of her New York studio in 1982, just prior to the performance in Austria.
"Cut Piece"
Charlotte Moorman performed this version of Yoko Ono's "Cut Piece" at the ORF Television Studios in Linz, Austria, for the Sky Art Conference/Ars Electronica in 1982. This is one of a series of performances by Charlotte Moorman and Nam June Paik that took place for this event (see "Sky Kiss - Linz"). I was fortunate to have the opportunity to record these performance art works on video for M.I.T.'s Center For Advanced Visual Studies.
Charlotte Moorman 1973
Nam June Paik, Charlotte Moorman Concerto for TV,Cell Videotapes 1971
performance with video monitors
Charlotte tells the story of the 1964 New City performance of Nam June Paik's piece, "the Opera Sextronic. The police interrupted the performance and arrested Charlotte. Her trial led to an opening up of censorship in the arts. The video is one section of the work by Fred Stern, "Charlotte Morman and the New York Avante Garde" by Fred Stern. It was filmed in 1980 under a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Cellist Charlotte Moorman performs Opera Sextronique
by Nam June Paik , 1967.
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