A journal by artist and designer John Coulthart.
An Exceptional Occurrence (1950) by Eileen Agar. • New music: The Endless Echo by Pye Corner Audio, coming soon from Ghost Box. PCA continue to fly the flag for the original Ghost Box mission of bringing various forms of weirdness to electronic music. The new album “draws inspiration from scientific and science-fictional notions about the … Continue reading “Weekend links 714”
Black Cat (1910) by Shunso Hishida. • “A duck goes quack quack in English but coin coin in French. In Spanish a dog goes guau-guau, not woof woof, while in Arabic it goes haw haw, and in Mandarin wang-wang. In Japanese cats go nyaa, and bees—having no access to the zz sound—go boon-boon.” Caspar Henderson … Continue reading “Weekend links 713”
Above and Below (1968) by Wendy Abbott. • “Thirty-two years after the five Central Asian countries of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan appeared on the world map, little of the region has been portrayed in film. Countries associated with the -stan suffix are perceived as dangerous or sinister.” Komron Ergashev on Central Asia and … Continue reading “Weekend links 712”
Les Étrangers (1937) by Wolfgang Paalen. • “I was picturing Monty Python’s spoof Pasolini cricket film The Third Test Match, a man frantically rubbing his groin with a cricket ball.” Paul Gallagher writing about the time that Kenneth Anger wanted to make a film about cricket. • The week in deserts: This camera is taking … Continue reading “Weekend links 711”
Menace (1974) by Ivan Tovar. • “I find myself going back to Early Water more and more in recent years. It should be better known.” B. Sirota reviewing the one-off musical collaboration between Michael Hoenig and Manuel Göttsching. (Previously.) It should indeed be better known. • At Unquiet Things: “Come for the cosmic awe, stay … Continue reading “Weekend links 710”