Recently, Paris based choreographer and musician Morgan Belenguer has been working on his new music project Morgan Friedrich. Influenced by a Romantic disillusionment and the writings of Bruno Latour and Philippe Descola on anthropocene, Loseground is the first track of the upcoming album Natureisdead.

‘Friedrich is a character more or less imagined. He is a romantic who, when confronted with the death of the concept of ‘nature’, loses the ground beneath his feet. From this moment, he falls into a profound vertigo, a nostalgia for nature that is impossible to recover. The music expresses the illusion of the movement Friedrich experiences and brings us to the point where, maybe for the first time, Friedrich touches EARTH…’

This week’s recommendations are two events taking place in South London, both highlighting the work and music of producer Terre Thaemlitz aka DJ Sprinkles. Café OTO presents an evening of talk, video and audio with Thaemlitz, starting with a multi-media reading of “Naisho Wave Manifesto” (“Secrecy Wave Manifesto”), which Thaemlitz produced for the first issue of the Japanese culture journal Farben, released in June 2014. Thaemlitz discusses – as she did in the current mono.kultur #39 – the historic and strategic deployment of silence and closets. In particular, she addresses the problematic repercussions of the online digital distribution of critical cultural work, and demonstrates how the logic of hegemonic Internet platforms runs counter to the social dynamics of minor communities and subcultures. This will be followed by discussion with the audience. The evening will continue with Thaemlitz mixing a variety of ambient audio, video and conversation.

On Friday September 25th, Tief and NTS Radio will co-host a Beats in Space showcase in Peckham. DJ Sprinkles has been given the headline slot along Matt Karmil, Hesseltime and Tim Sweeney among others.

What more can we ask for?

Terre Thaemlitz: A Secret Wave Manifesto
24 September 2015 / 8pm
Café OTO
18–22 Ashwin street
London E8 3DL / Dalston

NTS Radio & Tief present: Beats In Space
25 September 2015 / 9pm
Bussey Building, The CLF Art Cafe
133 Rye Lane
London SE15 4ST / Peckham

Says Bukowski:

(…) it needn’t be much, just a spark.

a spark can set a whole forest on

fire.

just a spark.

save it. (…)

Terre Thaemlitz has commented on the changes to Japan’s controversial Fuueihou law via a statement on her website. The post responds to the “Declaration On the Future Of Japan’s Club Culture”, signed by 40 Japanese DJs on the same day that the 67-year-old law was officially changed by the Japanese government. She argues that it has “no purpose other than to comfort members of those reactionary political forces that have historically suppressed Japan’s club cultures,” and goes so far as to “pledge the future of Japan’s club cultures to the service of conservative social ideals.” She adds that “the larger issue at hand is not simply the ‘right to dance’, but the policing of our bodies and their movements”. The law was passed in 1948 in the post-war years to combat the lawlessness found in most dancing establishments. You can read the piece in full on her website Comatonse.

You can read an in-depth conversation with Thaemlitz on politics within the context of club culture in our current issue!

Our all time favorite noise-heroine Kim Gordon had an interesting collaboration last year, when she was commissioned to compose music for a ballet initiated by artist Nick Mauss. Inversions was first performed at Frieze Projects 2014, now the audio is to receive a limited edition vinyl release. Exclaim reports that Music for Inversions: A Live Ballet by Nick Mauss will come as an editions of 250 copies, each of which will feature silk-screened cover art by Mauss. A release date has not been announced yet, but you can pre-order the record by contacting 303 Gallery.

In related news, Gordon is currently showing work in her exhibition titled “Design Office: The City Is a Garden” at New York’s 303 Gallery, which is on view until July 24.

Dafna Maimon
HUMAN COMMA BEING –  THE CLASS
Thursday, 4. 6. 15, 19 h
Performance at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
Series: The Performative Minute, fee: 3 €, in English

© Dafna Maimon

‘The performers are ‘freaky insiders’, forced to connect in uncomfortable, yet playful ways. Navigating between naivety and despair, they are dreamers who long for reality. In a world in which they fade away and disappear, they feel the urge to seek new forms of appearance.’

Until Our Hearts Stop is the new production by choreographer Meg Stuart with her company Damaged Goods. The premier will be in Müncher Kammerspiele on June 18. Exciting…

A lot of times, the tracks you’d call “guilty pleasures” are so much better than the ones you’re “o-f-f-i-c-i-a-l-l-y” supposed to love (before midnight, sober etc.)… (V. Maier pic, btw.)

Here’s why those Californian canvas shoes seemed so strangely appealing all these years, strangely appealing even to those who might have never touched Canadian maple in their sorry lives. Thanks, Greg Hunt.

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