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text 2008.07.22, mold, the shape of a structure ruled in a programmed set of symbols to get
the attention into a continuous research to recognize a specific kind of poetic expression
related to engines of sensations, recreations, harmonics, decibels, murmurs, evocations,
montages, collages, solidifications, concentrations, accumulations that should provide the
steps to get out of the deep and old
text 2008.07.15, creative, how, in certain circumstance, the strange appeal to someone else’s
creative call, is driving one’s own inventiveness with a renewed energy, and is commanding
with full force a precisely sensitive burst of creativity, and how the welcoming and the
exchange of ideas pushes each one’s work to a higher and more sophisticated point
text 2008.07.01, acceleration, from different stereo points, excess of notes, in all kinds of
distortions, accumulation, attribution, exchange, overlapping, balance, from clear effects to
confusion almost complete, from determinate series to random events, to loose timing, to
unpredictable jigs, impossible waltzes, agglomerations of rhythms
text 2008.06.17, lead, strong assertions, determination, description of the highest points of
action, energetic identification with the most tensed possibilities of activity, choreography of
possible actions, concert of the will, confident conference
text 2008.04.22, velocity, some birds sing in a way that will always amaze the musician,
sometimes tired of difficult phrasing, of complicated accelerations, tired and distressed to
invent all the time, harassed by the inventions of forms, but, by listening the simple singing of
a good bird, a blackbird for instance, all what was in the mind of the musician can be erased
for a certain lapse of time and the effort to understand music is then used to understand the
song of the bird a little better than the last time that this same kind of bird was heard, all this
leads to the obvious thoughts of virtuosity, velocity, attack, precision, regularity and the will
to indicate a territory
text 2008.04.15, test, not a confuse set of movements to shake everything possible and see
what the result can be, but a test of continuous possible action in music, a test that proves that
everything is ready for use in a certain natural predisposition of the body testing the
instrument, testing the melodic lines, the rhythms, the structures, the tones, well anything, also
a test of what an audience inspires to the performer, what kind of sentiments, what kind of
dreams, testing ones own music through the idea of what a certain person can think of that
music, and how she can enjoy it, as if testing the nerves of a muse, as if playing in a mood of
dedication
text 2008.03.18 thankyuuu, as if the sound of the phrase was a costume to nourish a playful
situation and exhibit a wide and very clear point to be communicated fast and almost
furiously, really dearly, in a refined attempt to seduce the ear and capture the attention at a
level of pure charm, seduction, attractiveness, connivance, as much as in a phrase like
didyuuumissmeee
text 2008.01.22, simple, sometimes the very simple productions carry a supplementary quality, this very
charm of modesty , this special impression of reality, accessibility, comprehensiveness, a certain feeling
of simplicity shared at the moment where the simple arguments are growing in value and taking their
grip into the flesh of art
text 2007.12 25, absolute, daring, extreme, dissolved in the immense idea of a very fresh higher point,
very clearly arrested to delight, in position of force, in proud action, in balance, in flight, in difficult
progression, in peril, absolute, daring, extreme, dissolved in the immense…
texte vingt-cinq décembre deux mille sept, absolu, osé, extrême, dissout dans l’immense idée d’un plus
haut point très frais, très clairement arrêté au plaisir, en position de force, en fière action, en équilibre,
en vol, en progression difficile, en péril absolu, osé, extrême, dissout dans l’immense…
text 2007.10.16 soft scenes, light dreams, soft machine, dear facts, empty words, dear taylor,
rare looks, harsh steps, rare book, quick jokes, bonus tracks, quick mess, lazy music, wasted
lines, lazy zero, hot bridges, fond kisses, hot alphabet, tiny games, fast bikes, tiny mark,
sensitive skins, risky flights, sensitive scar, sapid roots, false roads, sapid ends, rocky regions,
icy beds, rocky contrast, crazy whispers, funny cries, crazy giggle, short message, dedicated
song, short wish
text 2007.08.07 object, interesting task, enlightening options revealed, attractive multidimensional
directions, curiosity plainly expressed in detail, argument let to be known openly, objective props
propositions positions possibilities time and space, rapid resolutions in feelings sensations ideas, natural
constructions for probable fits, list of all goods, state for art, representation action, being
today
text 2007.07.31 today shoes, today attitudes, today hunger, today musical instruments, today
attentions, today skills, the very present day activities, the facilities considering the actualities, actions
in a short span, spotting, running,
little hands
text 2007.07.24 little hand on the large keyboard, little hand on a heavy glass door, strong little hands,
intelligent hands, displaying a compact strength, exactly balanced with the whole small body, pushing
frankly the complete force from body to hand, easily but at the highest limit of power and will
sublime
text 2007.07.17 sublime line of light on the length of the arm which weight and pure color take all the
attention waiting for a vocal twist that would give the skin a chance to be music
sublime ligne de lumière sur la longueur du bras dont le poids et la couleur pure prend toute l'attention
en attendant quelque vocalise qui donnerait une chance à la peau d'être de la musique
pause
text 2007.07.10 pause, the river of notes is frozen for that while, press pause and it flows again, the
precise length of the pause playing this dramatic event, the cut, cut!, and cut! et caetera, the reset
effect, the restart, the beginning of a new idea to come up in the line, language controlled again after
different kind of reflection
Posted by robertgrassi at 17:01 MEST
adventure music
text 2007.07.03 adventure music, a kind of art where music is maybe not what it is expected
to be, musical, transcendent, emotive, obsessive, allusive, and maybe not also what it is
normally accepted as anticonformist, antiestethic, active, provocative, concrete, and even
maybe not poetic, but simply adventurous, bold
shaking
text 2007.06.26 shaking!, slightly!, in a state of real observation!, but striking?, fixing firm positions?,
absolute equilibrium?, as long as it is needed?, to impress the memory!, to reach the bright facts of
art!, the sincere expression!, and feel impressed?, overwhelmed by a personal expressive particular
shake!
text 2007.06.19 thirst for knowledge! heat!, distance! thirst! self control of the senses, variations of
speed, depths of tone, interested, potent, attracted by the unknown, ready to make something of the
limited capacities, the falsenesses, cope with the differences between the high scopes, the largest
views, and the real ability to please, more or less cold blooded
soif de connaissance! chaleur! distance! soif! self control des sens,variations des vitesses, des
profondeurs de tons, intéressée, puissante, attirée par l'inconnu, prête à faire quelque chose des
possibilités limitées, des faussetés, assumer les différences entre les hautes possibilités d'actions et
de pensées, les vues les plus larges, et la réelle qualité d'être capable de plaire froidement
aaaaaaaaaaaaa
perform
text 2007.06.05 perform when the audience is far enough not to disturb a precious intimacy, a cautious
construction of personal thoughts, a pure improvisation, a unique mode of expression, a powerful set
of feelings, a determinate want to built forms, series, cascades of supreme impressions, perform with
security
cool
text 2007.05.29 cool, almost cool, almost stylish to perfection, and let ones own expression take a step
over the radiant state of a system controlled to the maximum, and accept a weak position, in
disagreement with plenitude, completeness, the grand class freshness, the vivid brightness of the
cutting, the superior, the faultless, the irreproachable, the brave cool, and let the inhuman be forward
and in disorder, and let detach of the reasonable, of the very beautiful, the very nasty, of the real
modest, of calm, and propose to be not enough, not enough, not enough formed, not enough
blooming, and this to permit something to exist otherwise than through fiction
cool, être presque cool, presque parfaitement stylé, et laisser sa propre expression prendre le pas sur
l'état radieux d'un système controlé au maximum, et accepter une position de faiblesse, en désaccord
avec la pleinitude, l'aboutit, la fraicheur grande classe, l'éclat vif du tranché, le supérieur, le sans faute,
l'irréprochable, le cool bravache, et laisser l'inhumain en avant et en vrac, et se détacher du
raisonable, du vraiment beau, du vraiment moche, du vrai modeste, du calme, et proposer de n'être
pas assez, pas assez, pas assez formé, pas assez épanoui, et celà pour permettre à quelque chose
d'exister autrement que par la fiction
air!
text 2007.05.22: air! the salt in the air, the sandy beach, the irrepressible need to run, be wild, shout,
feel sweet, feel the immensity, track the color shades, observe every little detail, smell wind, hear pure
noise, play like a crazy dog, prize solitude, chaos, desolation, emptiness, appreciate silliness, consider
foolishness, innocence, fantasize about the wild, the violent effects of nature, the possibility of a fair
fight with the elements
air! le sel dans l'air, la plage sabloneuse, l'irrépressible besoin de courir, être sauvage, crier, s'attendrir,
sentir l'mmensité, chercher les dégradés de couleurs, observer chaque petit détail, respirer l'odeur du
vent, écouter du bruit pure, jouer comme un chien fou, estimer la solitude, le chaos, la désolation, le
vide, apprécier la bêtise, la folie, l'innocence, rêver éveillé du sauvage, des effets violents de la nature,
de la possibilité d'un combat honête avec les éléments
zeal
text 2007.05.15 zeal, the very zeal chosen to indicate with an elegant movement of the finger a thing
impossible to tell, zeal of a chosen position as a challenge to gravity, in equilibrium on infinite
movements of the torso and the shoulders, controlling the thin oscillations of a whole which would be a
center, an equation, an in-between, a fraction of space, time, emotion, acceptance of a state close to
vegetal state but with an animal action
zèle, le zèle choisi pour indiquer du doigt une chose indicible avec un mouvement élégant, le zèle
d'une position choisie comme défiant la gravité, en équilibre sur des infinis mouvements du torse et
des épaules, controllant les fins ballancements d'un tout qui serait un centre, une équation, un entre
deux, une fraction d'espace, de temps, d'émotion, d'acceptation d'un état proche de l'état vegétal mais
avec une action animale
stark
text 2007.05.08 stark, and with something personal in the simplicity of expression, desolate, bare,
complete, complete and extreme, crude, perfect
geniality
text 2007.05.01. geniality! favorable to growth or comfort, cordial, gracious, sociable. genius! a strong leaning or inclination, a
distinctive character, strongly marked aptitude, talent. genitive! of! relating to! or constituting a grammatical case marking typically
a relationship of possessor or source. generous ! free in giving or sharing, high-minded, ample, copious, openhanded. gentle! kind,
tractable, not harsh stern or violent, soft, delicate, moderate
active
text 2007.04.24 active at the source of decision on whatever expressive and dynamic sound
(full of fantasy and rich by all its qualities), very special, very profound, very well presented,
very meaningful, heavy with signification, organized with the action, as the action, for the
action, around the action, directed, controlled, lived as a possible act on history, performed
with all kinds of different cares at different levels of expression, activity as a whole, as
something absolutely personal, in public
actif à la source des décisions sur tous les cas d’expression et de dynamique d’un son (plein
de fantaisie et riche de par toutes ses qualités), très spécial, très profond, très bien présenté,
très plein de sens, lourd de signification, organisé avec l’action, en tant que l’action, pour
l’action, autours de l’action, dirigé, contrôlé, vécu comme un acte possible sur l’histoire,
performé avec toutes sortes d’attentions différentes à des niveaux différents de l’expression,
l’activité comme un tout, comme quelque chose d’absolument personnel, en public
measure
text 2007.04.17 measure almost everything in the natural shapes that come along
with the precious abilities of movements, accents, positions, sonorities, colors, glide,
texture, fantasy, research, measure
mesurer presque tout dans les formes naturelles qui viennent avec la précieuse
habileté de mouvements, accents, positions, sonorités, couleurs, lustre, texture,
fantaisie, recherche, mesure
memory
text 2007.04.10 memory is to be organized like a piece of music, and then re orchestrated as many
times as it is pleasant to fit all kinds if approaches of a totally knew conception of taste, if memory can
help to find what does feel the best, then a piece of music can help to find what can last this certain
amount of time of the experience of these best feelings that memory can only represent without tempo,
without sequence
la mémoire doit être organisée comme une pièce de musique, et ensuite réorchestrée aussi souvent qu’il
est plaisant de correspondre à toutes sortes d’approches d’une nouvelle conception du goût, si la
mémoire peut aider à trouver ce qui éveille le mieux les sentiments, alors une pièce de musique peut
aider à trouver ce qui peut durer cette certaine quantité de temps de l’expérience de ces meilleurs
sentiments que la mémoire ne peut que seulement représenter comme un état sans tempo, sans
séquence
ho!
text 2007.04.03 ho! yes that is what it is, the expression of a deep super sweet feeling, the pure
sound of a sensual word.
ho! oui voilà ce que c'est, l'expression d'un sentiment profond et super doux, le son pur d'un mot
sensuel.
for instance a longer hooo! while giving a precious enormous hug to a giant pikachu, hooo! for the
discovery of a beautiful landscape, for the fine sentiments of all kinds.
par exemple un hooo! plus long et celà en embrassant dans le moment précieux d'une énorme
étreinte pour un pikachu géant tout jaune et mignon, hooo! pour la découverte d'un d'un beau
paysage, pour des sentiments délicats de tout ordre.
super cute, cute to the limits, cute as a position of power, cute in the face of the world, cute as a
weapon, cute in the way cuteness can lead to passing out.
super mignon, mignon à l'extrème, mignon comme une position de pouvoir, mignon dans le visage
du monde, mignon comme une arme, mignon dans le sens où le mignon peut mener à
l'évanouissement
text 2007.03.27 time for a spring conversation, take for granted we can talk and talk and let the time
pass just by telling funny things and making all kinds of great laughs, and if a conversation was a piece
of music, a music made for taming and sweetening, or made to make acceptable sudden almost
aggressive attitudes, and what if this music was a caricature of springtime, a caricature of the nice
season, the nice feelings of rebirth, the timid tries of every little flower through the snows, conversation
of the melting ice, music of the liquid air
surrender
text 2007.03.20 i surrender to this kind of crazy art, this kind of liberal expression, this kind of explosive
sexiness, i surrender to that big fat loud noisy sound that flows into me, i fall on my knees for those
allusions to noise, to violent bursts of vivid material, i am so given into groovy stuff, i surrender to all
that simple way to make art, to make new with anything, to invent from scratches, to take what is
already done to make it sound brighter, i let what i want to say to be comprehensible, i want to say it
straight, i want to lead my thoughts where it is easy to flourish, i surrender to all the deep and sincere
sounds, the ones that come first when i am on a good groove, the ones that precede my will to do well,
this kind of art is general, this kind of art is only the top of what i can expect, general music
"don't" "care"
text 2007.03.13 don’t care at all, don’t listen too much, don’t follow the loudest, don’t believe
in artifice, don’t let the dominant faculties get involved with direction, don’t shout for
nothing, don’t loose the beat, don’t leave unanswered details in the middle of the field, don’t
pass anything, don’t forget a thing, don’t sleep before during and after excellence, don’t mix
what is not complex, don’t let good humor go so fast, don’t make a grin for temporizing, don’t
squeeze difficult movements, don’t spare a dime for a laugh, don’t even think of rudeness,
don’t make a long story short, don’t teach, don’t explain, don’t let anything hinder the
performance, don’t care
Posted by robertgrassi at 17:48 MEST
wait
text 2007.02.06 i wait, i wait in the line, i can hardly consider your stunning looks, you radiate, i take
what i can, a kind of inspiration, and you reward me with your calm excellence, with the sweetest
attention, and somehow with this playful excitement fusing different shapes of attractive attitudes, i am
charmed, all of me say yes to all of you, and your happy sensuality, your natural sense of humour, which
worth everything, sends me the best good bye ever
dear
dear ** *
dear supreme **
who sings in me
riotous beauty
texts performed in the web radio show [contempo] on www.basic.ch by robert grassi
text 2007.01.23 for not a violent poetic not subject exaggerated ...
pour un sujet
texte 2007.01.09 pour un sujet poétique ou les mots dégoulinent en jolies traces, on pourrait
se proposer d’évoquer aussi des idées inespérées, cachées derrières de vieux souvenirs dix-
huit cent soixante-dix-huit, dix-neuf cent ou mille neuf cent soixante dix-sept ou deux mille
quatre, on pourrait mélanger des impressions de relectures avec des franches découvertes et
avec des petits souvenirs du genre petit crush amoureux, ou autre poétique démarreur de verve
text 2007.01.09 for a poetic subject where the words drip in pretty traces, one could propose
oneself to evoke also undreamed-of ideas, hidden behind old souvenirs of eighteen hundred
and seventy-eight, nineteen hundred or nineteen seventy seven or two thousand and four, one
could blend rereading impressions with frank discoveries and little remembrances in the kind
of a little love crush, or any other poetic trigger of verve
mistake?
text 2007.01.02 but now how is the if or the when or the maybe and the as if or maybe not or perhaps
and no doubts and assuredly and unmistakably
hard
text 2006.12.26 hard strings are what some fingers need, hard in the sense of large in diameter, a string
responds to the fingers, the tips of them, the fingers like to measure all kinds of parameters, their own
strength, their agility, their intelligence, their independence, the strings are so well felt when they are
hard enough to receive hard enough pressure, touch, bend, and all what a left hand can do
try
text 2006.12.12. try, distinguish, carry the shades of a happy language, roll over the petty feelings, the
mocking tones, the faint outrage, the experimental points of views, try not to test, not to try
text 2006.12.12 french, from french, french, the normality of french, french
as a media, french on many occasions, on all kinds of descriptions, as of
long sentences of smooth eloquence, french as nothing else, french to
distinguish tiny sounds, french in the nose, in the forehead, as if the
tongue in the mouth is a pretty organizer
français , du français, français, la normalité du français, le français comme un media, français on many
occasions, dans toutes sortes de descriptions, as of long sentences of smooth eloquence, le français
comme rien d'autre, le français pour distinguer des subtilités du son, français dans le nez, dans le front,
comme si la langue, dans la bouche, est une jolie organisatrice
Posted by robertgrassi at 18:52 CET
text 2006.12.05 refined literature for the sole goal of making a luxury action in the style of putting more
wood in the fire to feel the good warmth closer and breathe in a brighter fashion refined because able to
wake interest because unexpectedly lustrous because complicated for the sake of complication because
radically brilliant even if sometimes non aesthetic or not artistically profound or not at the level of what
can be appreciated as a pure explosion of joyous literary points
a song
text 2006.11.28 go(oo), show(oow) to be(e...) equal to zero(00), with sweet evanescent beings
to evanesce to fade away, a slight terminal sound, as the faint (oo) heard after the (o) in go(oo), in
fact, with the dearest of all girl, and intransitive verb, i am a vanisher. (phonet., math., stem, see
evanesce), to disappear from sight, to feel the right nymphs, in the waters, that come along,
through, their liquid paths, and soon they will wrap me, into waves of the most, subtle,
caresses [lou reed, vanishing act (2003), funk and wagnalls standard dictionary (1958), italo
calvino, il richiamo dell’acqua (1976), james joyce, Ulysses (1922)]
go. show. to be, equal to zero, with sweet evanescent, beings, to evanesce, to fade away, a
slight terminal sound, as the faint, oo, heard after the, o, in go, in fact, with the dearest of all
girl, and intransitive verb. i am a vanisher. phonet, math, stem, see evanesce, to disappear
from sight, to feel the right nymphs, in the waters, that come along through their liquid paths,
and soon they will wrap me, into waves of the most, subtle, caresses [loo reed, vanishing act
(2003), funk and wagnalls standard dictionary (1958), italo calvino, il richiamo dell’acqua
(1976), james joyce, Ulysses (1922)]
oeuvre d'art
chère madame,
j'ai bien reçu et pris note aujourd'hui de la décision de suisa de ne pas payer de droits d'auteur pour
mes 262 heures de musique composées en 2005-2006, bien que déçu, je profite pleinement du
poids symbolique que cette masse de musique représente en matière de culture,
et je vous envoie mes meilleures salutations robert grassi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Robertgrassi
since
text since 2006.11.21 since a strong voice is singing a long time and ends it with a little tricky
charm, since it might be repeated several times and in many slightly different manners with
charm, since these many ways of brilliantly making the voice ring and sound like quick stabs,
since nobody would fail to notice that the tone of this voice that cries almost is fully charged
of certain quality of passion, a passion that ends all questioning, that forbids all answering,
that burns but doesn't consume, destroy, since silence sometime tells the same quantities of
noise, for instance when well dressed, well cured, well escorted, well fed, well cared for, well
taken by the hand, one does not answer to little marvels
any
text any 2007.11.07 any pair of media put together will make a certain effect, this effect
seems to go over every possibility that each of the media considered can have for itself,
and over the limit of the very texture of each of them two. any music over any film scene
will make an intellectual effect, it will always make as many as unexpected and
psychologically efficient impressions of coincidence and harmony and counterpointal
occurrences as it is possible, it will in any case influence the viewing of the images in its
continuity and influence the listening of the music in its continuity also. a very finely
crafted music or photograph will always make a respectable effect on any lousy film
scene or any performance and the contrary is also true, any good film scene or
performance will be magnified with the lousiest music as an effect of poverty or sardonic,
sarcastic, ironic, or whatever comic or realistic or other kind of revelation such an effect
can produce to the ear and eye. to get the maximum pleasure out of each of the two or
more media put together is the art of the mixer of media, the art of giving sense to the
mixing of the media is often left experimentally to the listener-viewer but mainly it is also
the task of any mixer of media, what is simple and complicated in the mixing is on what
the mixer of the media will concentrate his forces, new emotions, new sensations, new
possibilities, new conceptions, new visions of the beautiful and of the bold. any worth of
pleasure is sometime drawn out of the possible interactions of some media just put
together for the shocking effect that it can produce and procure and stimulate and
insinuate and instigate and understate, or whatever, any quantity of the pleasure or
gratification or emulation or effect on the conscience or any thing also if its repetitive and
short or lasting effect on the memory or on the possibility to understand or to be lost or
to be miscarried or confused or put in a certain state of attention that give some poetic
sensations or any feelings that can be compared with a sense of panic. on a small bridge
with no car circulation a very little girl run at the top of her lungs, she is so excited by
the fact that she can run freely ahead of her parents, that it is full night, that she tries to
cope with the race of her bigger brother, that there is some amazing color light tubes in
the middle of the river where this bridge is leading, that she may be attracting my
attention, that her voice resonates all and far around
in
text in 2006.10.31 in a nice dimension of time and space and mood and temperature and all that make it
nice to be listening to a sign, to a knocking, to a thin strings of water, to the questions, to the semi cries
of surprise, in the supreme pressures of calm, in the path of granular shapes of drum rolls and cymbal
slashes and swishes and crashes, in the good and delicate manners of and old master, in the easy ways
of the connoisseur, in the right spirit for playing, in the plot of the musical piece, in the shape of what is
consistent and smart and waterproofed
speak, throw
text speak 2006.10.24 speak, throw away, put forward, extirpate, obviate, resume, explain, put together,
sonorize [add sound, install a public address system, install a sound system, add the sound
track], extemporize, speak, talk, speak, speak, there is some news i want you to know, would you accept
an invitation at northanger abbey and leave bath as soon as possible, your parents agree with the idea,
your tutor is maybe not informed already, we all would be delighted to have you, speak, speak fast,
speak regularly, speak with importance, speak with facility, speak for the sound of it, speak in a disguised
voice, speak after everybody,
information,
quick
text 2006.10.10 quick sensations, at the limit of perception, that is, there, where action is ready, where
the possibility are almost unknown, where what is known is looking like the impossible, exaggerated,
emotive, at the limit of the quick impression, quick sentiment, quick and long lasting, quick but not super
fast, quick and maybe bouncing irregularly and lightly, and mostly following an impulse as simple as
light, as ragtime, as the red of a tree bark, of an impossible dress, as the yellow frames, as the minute
clicks and the maxi brunts, as the refusals in a sweet story, as the position of a stage in a poor festival,
as quickness can add to liveliness,
and what,
text 2006.10.03 and what, an innocent link, a simple passage between this and that, ornamental, and,
and more, and always other comas, periods, all kinds of sentences or words to connect, a plus, a
multiplication, plus an addition, many occurrences, a lot of congruences, transitions, organization,
supposition, superposition, comparison, exposition, exhibition, expectations, hypercriticism,
performance. and, and what, and, and, and, or what, and, and is a relief, a new start sometimes, a
possibility for respiration, perspiration, exultation, ignorance, illusions, oblivion, affirmation,
explanation, exemplification, or simply the formation of a sentence. the feeling of innocence, the
feeling of simple transitions, the feeling of being able to understand the smallest mode of
communication, understanding the minimum aggressiveness of a liaison of ideas
work of art
Genève 20.09.2006
Voici 746 minutes diffusées dans mon émission de radio internet sur www.basic.ch.
Cela fait suite aux 14.986 minutes déjà déclarées, ce qui fait donc 15.732 minutes de mes œuvres
diffusées de cette façon.
Les plus de 70 heures (4214 minutes) de ces œuvres composées pour mon émission ont été déclarées
depuis le 08.03.2005 jusqu’au 12.09.2006.
Voilà donc environ 262 heures de mes oeuvres diffusées ainsi, sans que je reçoive encore aucun droit
d’auteur.
En espérant que vous pourrez trouver une manière de m’en faire parvenir quelques uns, veuillez recevoir
mes meilleures salutations. Robert Grassi
= [64’]
text 2006.09.26 a thick document, a sympathetic objection to the deep, deep as australia, and
digging and digging and finding that nothing can be further than the antipodes. thickness promises
sometimes relief for the searcher full of courage, thick is cool, every other thin documentation or
thin document or thin explanation is possibly proposed to the lazy to the amateur to the one who
wants to refuse to renounce to the sublime, or something like it, like the extreme power of
expression, thick documents to fight lightness and to excuse omissions, justify all the time spent to
build all of it, while thin and fast explanation is always in danger, or maybe it is the contrary, or
maybe it is not a matter of thickness or thinness but rather a matter of rhythms and other ideas of
giving a voice to musical dreams or even find a striking manner to make the voice appear into a
piece, a piece that is meant to stand as a change in attitude, habit, stature, a piece that is
supposed to give some relief against the heaviness of the past, of the large bigness of the past, of
the repetitions of the illusions of the hypnotic propositions of the too much authority and not
enough artistic in the old stuff nobody stands, for sure, but at least can take it with humour and
can rebuild something with it, those streams that are meant to nourish a line of musical research,
of experimental music, of experimental electronic music, of the passages of the poetic from the
text to the music and vice versa, of the apparition of sensitivities and susceptibilities and emotive
aspects or impression that a false voice can give, as much as a real voice can give maybe in too
much a fashion, considering the text, maybe the real voice is too thick, maybe the false, mechanic,
artificial, robotic voice is just poetic, thick poetry
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appeal!?,
text appeal 2006.09.12 apostrophes, exclamations, exuberance, arousal, what is appeal? it is waiting!
what is it to be involved by an extrasonic touch? what is listening and being ready for the thundering or
the littlest vibraphonic eventuality? ex silence! ex nuisance! ex ignorance
chord of something
text 2006.08.29 chord of something a chord is approaching the idea of noise noise is what holds
authority authority leads to meeting meeting helps attention attention revives attraction attraction
removes fear fear makes silence silence is music music is chord chord is sweat sweat droplets are
made to shine sometimes like chords of impossible position and articulation and heat and sometimes
also a chord is simply time in suspense
sneak to a view
text 2006.08.15 sneak to a view of the lovely bend stand or brush peak in the sweet progress access to
some of the quick lively ambush in the middle of the beats step into attentive parallel sighting watching
blinking hard attraction but very careful quiet and cool watch crossing at the heights of the forthcoming
glaze ease out-stand overwhelm go
fast moves
text 2006.08.08 fast moves fast thinking fast operations fast reactions fast tricks fast emulation faster
and quicker speedier ideas of velocities responsiveness rapidities exentricities exagerations swiftness
agility expressiveness regularity in all what motion is concerned the apparent stance is immobile with a
high buzz showing the tiny vibration that indicates movement a cat ready to attack with his dreamy eyes
wide open speed is readiness
very light
text 2006.07.31 very light ways of saying things and not infantile at all not at all far from playfulness and
exuberance and sweet charming images and narrative in full hypnotic mode not infantile not regressive
to the center of the world sucking engine not helpless not hypocritically sweet and cute just frankly
radiant and whatever happened every piece of the narration is a perfection in itself in its positioning in
the phrase in the period in the time in the correctness and the great fluency in a bath of fun and healthy
correspondences in a permanent flux of nice sounds nice orthographies nice repetitions and there in the
middle a lot of allusions to high styles to lazy motions to the maximum forgetfulness
panda
text 2006.07.11 panda is good looking panda eats bamboo panda is black and white panda is having fun
with small objects and is wondering in silence what kind of noisy grunt a stomach can do panda is going
slow sometimes and sometimes faster than no one has ever seen in some special situation where things
have to be done frankly and directly and with no differences of delay remarkable or almost noticeable
panda has a soft fur and soft paws and a soft nose and a nice color in general
fine granular
text 2006.06.27 fine granular sensation of a sensual message transmitted with loud expression in
between relief anger excitement laughing and coughing joking and swearing a modulated shout a
warning sounding vocalize a bizarre way of saying a phrase with not the usual tone a new line never
explored before a brand new original mode of speaking some truth some own and personal feelings some
fresh discoveries about oneself at the expense of a new mode of expression committed by a vocal effect
a vocal image of a dream about oneself a dream of action and strength a materialization of self into a
vocal image and the modulation of it and the expression
in suspension
text 2006.06.13 in suspension sitting in the perfect motion of a wheel of a regular beat of a buzz of a
silent bicycle / sigh given as signal as a wave as a brand as a source as a promise as a compliment as a
prelude / a sigh as a soft engine as a waiting instrument as a work in progress / a crazy wink in
suspension between a sigh and a progression / a wish
sing randomly
text 2006.06.06 sing randomly in this unhappy manner expressing rage or milder sorrows sing for
whoever forbid some fantastic words to be transformed in action sing to stop the course of things and to
make a statement of the things wanted to be described and the moves executed / passings of tones in
different manners that hold attention and make a warning of every new and unheard modulation / make
it say a dimesion to travel make it a form make it still and vibrating make it a marking stamp / also be
silent between the steps and give a form to the come and go the walking the rhythms the attack / jump
to change the course of whomever can lead the steps and paces that can not be given a direction jump
to say a singing bit of difference / watch for what or who finds perfection and wants to explain and wants
some explanation and wants to understand and maybe wants to sing / watch and decompose watch and
catch
a young voice
text 2006.05.23 a young voice goes through almost all the noises if it is justly violent and justly over
sensual and if it is almost breathless and in a sublime attempt to express more than it is possible and if it
is breaking all the rules of the natural rhythmic execution of the language a young voice which have the
energy to let itself go fluently enough to survive drowning and doesn't know suffocation that is a voice
that could speak under water that would talk in the hardest wind that will never suffer to be always too
loud even in whisper and too aggressive to be considered not dangerous at all a young bit of voice which
wants to sound like the voice of a scientist and the voice of a pirate at the same time if the voice repeats
a text while thinking how to make the text's place to play with imagination and extemporizing heat and
multiplication of all kind of little stories between the bits of text then this voice may be expressing much
too much / now if the young voice does improvise or does relate sensations or does tell anything from its
own invention or does imitate other stories or voices or languages or if it does not read or repeat by
heart but does only link bits and parts of other stories texts personal ideas last minute sensations on the
spot exultations off the shelf quotations imitations of heroic patterns hopes of obtaining the right sound
and the right volume of voice expectations of greatness in the shapes of the whole range of vocal effect
over the audience then this young voice is very well furnished with what will help it over the whitest
noise the young voice is noisier than the simple general rumor / silence is a science
exclusive position
text 2006.05.09 exclusive position in a stereophonic space or in a panoramic situation over a balcony in a
park between speakers in a concert exclusive participation when there is a special interest in a
performance and when or when the place is itself this kind of special interesting object where a greater
feeling is possible by the multiplications of pleasures exclusive possibilities of expression when peace is
obtained at a certain degree a certain kind of silence even if very noisy a certain kind of attention even if
somehow futile or otherwise a situation of desperate incomprehensibility
extreme situation
text 2006.05.02 extreme situation where a sweet set of tones seems a device to oblige / sounding space
make it roll for echo / rule the proper image the own shape and personal effect on the mass of air /
sudden sensations / sound is used there to explain a position / there where a path goes through many
fantastic remembrance reference souvenirs of where the good experience matches the new / lamartine
wrote the harps in the waters inside the beauty of the sole sounds of the french language and much
more that i can not understand yet / effect of mini sleep for the time of perception effect of mini
moments before sleep / zig-zags of images until some secure image / imagination in a general sense
maybe / a large passing from what could be a fight against diversion and the making of some details in a
conversation of concentration / concentrations of little bits of inventions with color and warmth and
exterior factors that help the sound to sound before meaning / intensity emotive values perplexity
interdiction accents listening while listening / identification with the shape of the space in relation with
identification to the sounds that give some ideas of some spaces / reverberation repetition small and big
echoes arpeggio panoramic rhythmic acceleration deceleration set of scales that gives some ideas of
distances shapes movements architecture in a mental execution where repetitions make an effect of
matter of solid air
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cacophonic situation...action
text 2006.01.17 cacophonic situation at first and then the opening of a phonetic canvass and after that a
polyphonic fanfare a flourish and finely the developments of something close to a symphony that is
[starting from the start] a lot of noise and then a lot of words and then a lot of sounds and finely a lot of
all the noise the words the sounds and a little romantic touch with a global vision of the form of the
whole program / in the etymological section of the merriam webster pocket dictionary an example is
given with these words cacophonic phonetic polyphonic symphony for the root -phon for sound from
greek / when reading this i was thinking about inviting someone in my program one of these days and
this gave me the idea to start a program with loud musical complexities and then starting a kind of
interview and maybe the reading of some texts and after that starting some well arranged music
something very clear and finally starting to mix the invited person into the program completely that is
into the musical action / this set of examples in the dictionary is so lame it sounds good though it is logic
and silly like a stupid riddle or a stupid song to be remembered it is an exercise it is some device to learn
it is a trick to help the memory it is not what i need to make a program but when i feel insecure i need to
hold on something to get the things done some excuse some reference but this is not a reference it is a
random opportunity to think about what program i will have to do and continue to read the section of
etymology / and i force myself to read this section and i force myself to resolve my problem with how
should i include someone that is invited im my program / but ok suddenly i found hey! this could be an
excellent program! because i was at the same time stunned by the example fitting so properly my inner
little problem about programs i was taken by the shape of this example because cacophonic is fun it
starts almost with caca phonetic is superb and it goes from sound to word and i feel concerned
polyphonic remembers me how much and how long i studied music and symphony is an image of
achievement and romantic happy end making this little song perfectly silly but looking full of wisdom and
eternal simple purity / a few days later i am disgusted with its logic simplicity and i compare it with my
big expectations of making something the most intelligent as it is possible that is also out of the silly
vision of music like this cacopolypho phonesympho cacophonetic polysymphony the example starts with
caco and finishes with phony the form is firm and it helps to remember / ok but still it is against this false
historical dream that i rebel first the chaos then the grunts after that the nice expression and finally the
apotheosis what a joke or at least i could say what's new then in the apprehension of music made with
greek roots and sounds like telephone / still it is some program to prepare / a little trick to help to go
into the action of music but still i don't believe in it i believe that i have to be more secure in directly
going into a musical emotion and stay there and i know that i am supposed to be polite and
communicate with the invited in the program but what if the invited has difficulties to perform / shall i
force her to understand that it is now or never or shall i help her with a scheme with a lie to reassure her
that live performance is happening or shall i just perform until the performance is off line and refuse
these semi breaks that are still passable but not at the level of what i want or shall i relax more and
accept what the invited one has to say well i really think relaxing is for after the action
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the 2005.12.05 text or the east this that it what and what//Eves to the limit of colors//lake by this
picture where the perspective opening to a corps child strangely photographed//dancing waltzes it the
dance with three beatings and a girl//the forms to concern the the of the head hums//h? look at you here
h? gives me h? me//more of colors and more something that catches trip travels pleasant and solitary
turned pleasant pleasant hour//to describe a cake//where are your fantastic poems of the speculation at
sea//or this that or that this wants to be a good to obtain to the point of a pleasant color camouflaged
doze exerted//which is which next is high this that you obtains// detached is ace it would varnish//a
emotional of waves//the lines ace to say that is said//the returns and heavy//I which reminder color//at
and the one l' a//book this picture more pleasant//the girls of boats imprison microphones//extravagant
the ideas of this very special interpreter//the strings that doze doze doze draw lots this than is need
foreseen//the fatigue of the metal you been done me this//it at apparition in the country capes and it
declares that you want// d' forgetfulness//to need at all any a trip gauged played//bath and need always
on the trickily//this that this that//d'un different course//without reason//or now now//fakes no more
never//the pleasures do//non-idiot//no this of would leave ace themselves they did need do//to obtain
the general confusion in the merger of the pictures and of whispetrings of murmurs of wide cliff of
z?zaiements of succulent sounds
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01.09.05 speaker is ready speaker talks the show talking head talk and go ahead voice for the world
vocal for share vocalize in accordance vox populi vocation vote votre correspondant that voice that is a
vocalize / music goes music played music stars all of it it goes it runs it flows it support itself it generates
a change of time perception / responsability versus counselling responsability or counselling to be
responsible to be in charge to be under possible culpability or to advise
03.09.05 we are the indians for the americans the indians of india are the indians for us the indians of
america are the indians for the indians of india
how to be told to do
text 15.08.05 how to be told to do what figures out the elements of a line of sounds / who would be
disposed to accept enough indications to adapt its possibilities to phrase to build to extend what is
natural / complications would normally help the sound to be pure of most self consciousness self
conscious sound sounds strange / much of any sign is useful for imagining expression on a drawing on a
photo on a graph on a chart on a list on a text / what is easier is best what is clear what is fast what is
plain is helping expression / who cares about writing when the purpose is to be ahead of the written
sound / to sing might be what cannot be written and therefore interesting / when the mind is asked to
imagine a away to write something never written to fix something that has never been fixed that is a
kind of entertainment that strikes the string of strength / what melodrama is invented to capture the
attention for a possible sound that strikes / when the inspiration improvised and as fast as possible is
there to make models to be used hereafter / when poetry makes the sound appear / when no question is
possible
rhythms are
19.06.05 rhythms are a playful material to built solid forms elastic shapes super extendable masses
rhythms are what holds the fabric like the interlocking of its strings to compare a fabric with music is a
hard image to soften the complexity of rhythmic values why not after all if music is an object supposed
to overwhelm when the rhythm is complex it is a relief for the body it is a support for it it sustains it it is
a proposal to relax when a strong impression of rhythmic control is felt is perceived it works as a relief as
an impression of security as a sentiment of care of trust
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list of good
list of goods 09.04.2005 1 list of goods little paper to remenber what to take [liste de commissions petit
papier pour se rappeler que prendre] 10.04.2005 any mode of remembering what is useful to make a
line hold its way through [the most simple is to write on a piece of paper a list exactly] for example a list
to go to a shop to buy [a minimum of words to help the memory] a structure of what is needed to build
[a continuous line of object or things to do] a line at its smallest possibility 2 texture texture fabric of
significations text not poem or not too much or why not or what [generally all the text possibilities
everything to make it happend as text to sound to be in the line of what will make a distinct line of signs
moving moving troubling enamouring the ear [distancing what it sound like and what it means making
fun comparision between the sounds and the ideas and making what would be perceived as dangerous
essays of ideas and sounds and interactions all these little dangers occured makes the suspens] still what
makes it hold together is the smoothness of the flow or something like that something that seams to go
over everything like the ideas or the sounds something evoking a general mouvement a breathing
operation along the way of smaller designs of two different nature not dangerous enough to steal too
much in the signification of the sounds and the ideas and their interactions
and their relations to the moving big breathing and the general aspect of the whole 3 a submarine in the
depth of the water is moved by the waves and is going with its motor on its own way [and who is in the
submarine is making the sounds and is making ideas to go as much as possible with all these movements
and relations] 4 make sound bing boum just enough to fill some space not fast not fast or yes fast ok
[fast as you can to hear it] line line interlocking mixing being easy to locate eventually 5 cries murmurs
better than language making fun of it playing with it not answer but
to say protesting or saying or what what whaaaaaaaat whaaa oooo uuuu iiiit tttttttt sometimes imitating
the language so funnily that it goes above language without any meaning but just as an effect that
affects annoys just enough to have some grabbing power but meaning not more than violence and
nothing much than a good camouflage 11.04.2005 6 no no no this is a way to begin to call for attention
that it is easy to get by saying no as an introduction 7 no no no nono nono this said as an imitation of a
light stepping figure contradicting the paces that could say yes yes or maybe well or cough cough or
sneaze 8 now about scales [in a straight line different rectangles of different length but same height [like
a sculpture by donald judd] watching that yard of difference concentrating on each element at random
playing a sound or saying something for each graduation let it be called reading] being surprised by the
possibilities of reading let it be reversed in contemplation as the structure is watching the viewer let the
viewer be silent and be caught by a voluntary impossibility to read all the possible readings let the viewer
in a possible fight against the pure object