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Posted by Michael Curran on October 27th, 2008 - Read comments and add your own
I want to riff on birds, riffing as a way of exploring morphic resonance between different kinds of material. Out there in the world, in art, music and literature, birds are ubiquitous. See Max Ernst’s Two Children Are Threatened By A Lark or re-run Hitchcock’s The Birds. Listen to Patti Smith’s Birdland while reading The Raven by Poe. Recall the Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie, Tennessee William’s Sweet Bird of Youth, Jim Morrison’s Bird of Prey, Leda’s Swan, Coleridge’s Albatross and perhaps the saddest bird of all Lewis Carroll’s Dodo. The augurs of ancient Rome would interpret the will of the gods by studying the behaviour of birds, their flight patterns, eating habits and songs. I make no such soothsayer’s claim for my activities, which are more akin to an open play of fanciful pattern matching.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on September 6th, 2008 - Add a comment
Art, Architecture and Social Space. Concrete Dreams is an exhibtion that features the work of 27 artists including Anya Gallaccio, Lucy Gunning, Alex Hartley, Matt O’Dell, Cornelia Parker and Louisa Minkin. The work explores diverse and conflicting issues relating to architecture such as pathos, humour, desire, history, power, wealth and neglect. Curated by Liz Harrison and Fran Cottell, from 4th to 21st September at APT Gallery in London. More details at www.concretedreams.org.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on August 9th, 2008 - Add a comment
From 8th to 31st August 2008, the Arnolfini in Bristol is running a Directors Focus season on the disfigured wunderkind of the new German cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. As part of this season they will be screening The Daily Moods of the Final Certainty, a video portrait of Fassbinder by Viralux, drawn from his writings, screenplays and interviews.
In honour of the life and work of Fassbinder, LoveHowlMuse is offering a free MP3 download of the soundtrack to The Daily Moods of the Final Certainty during the Arnolfini’s season.
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The Daily Moods of the Final Certainty will be screened before these films:
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (8th Aug)
The American Solider (16th Aug)
Fox & His Friends (24th Aug)
Fear Eats the Soul (31st Aug)
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on July 13th, 2008 - Add a comment
A selection of the best work from this year’s Art Basel, Design Basel Miami, Volta 4 and Liste 08 fairs. Taken in Basel by our intrepid Dealer-At-Large.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on July 13th, 2008 - Add a comment
A group exhibition at Five Years Gallery with Dan Hays, Roderick Harris, Marc Hulson, and Peter Lloyd Lewis from 19th July to 3rd August 2008. 
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Posted by Trish Lyons on November 21st, 2007 - Add a comment
Patron saint of musicians, composers and church music
trismos
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Her name means ‘blind’, she lived for three days after the executioner failed to de-capitate her. He struck his blow three times and ran away in fear when he had failed in his task. Blindfolded she lay and waited for death all the while singing hymns for her true love.
Sounding a trismos, the steady whistling noise that is a sound reserved exclusively for dead souls. Oh Cecilia you’re breaking my heart. You’re shaking my confidence daily. Shakin’ my cocaine and saltine. A misheard lyric. A misplaced sound. It’s much more important how language sounds than what its concrete content is. Oh Cecilia I’m down on my knees and begging you please to come home.Your blood pearl necklace of tangled fences. A song heard in dreams that carries us across the breach of sleep. A bridge, the middle 8. Richard Pryor’s funeral pyre. Bob Dylan’s burning guitars and boxcars. Clickity clack clack, don’t step on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back. Bridges burned and backs turned. A structure seeks stasis by balancing forces in tension and compression. Verse Chorus Verse Chorus Bridge Verse Chorus Verse again.
Sea shanties, football chants, cowboy songs, church house songs, song of songs, protest songs, drinking songs, poor ol’ me songs and ballads.
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