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New tape of Brakhage scores by Rick Corrigan. Brakhage only made 27 sound films and here are the soundtracks to Visions in Meditation III, Cracked Glass Eulogy, and Boulder Blues and Pearls and …
The tape is being released with the blessings of Corrigan and the Brakhage estate… These are essential scores to essential films, super excited to get my copy.
From Imminent Frequencies:
Three electronic soundtracks by Rick Corrigan composed for films by the visionary filmmaker Stan Brakhage. During the mid 1980’s Rick Corrigan was part of the Colorado-based experimental ensemble Architect’s Office when he befriended local film legend Stan Brakhage. In the years that followed they would collaborate on numerous film projects and live performances in and around Boulder, Colorado. The three soundtracks presented here were made between 1990-1992 and were composed on a variety of synthesizers and electronic instruments. Over the course of each piece Corrigan uses various techniques to create a wide range of otherworldly sounds. Layers constantly shift in texture and tone forming an aural mosaic. Never redundant and thoroughly genuine, these are the sounds of an amazing electronic synthesis. Transferred from the original cassette masters and featuring artwork created from Brakhage’s original 16mm films.
Order here:
http://www.imminentfrequencies.com/p/store_12.html
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apparently Andrei Tarkovsky didn't like Stan Brakhage very much →
Meeting of two masters. Totally worth the read.
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Back from a well needed vacation in Los Angeles. While I was there I was able to visit Mark Toscano at Academy Film Archives, who was generous enough to take the time to give me a tour of the archive and let me view some of his recently completed preservation work…
I was able to watch Will Hindle’s final, quasi-lost/quasi-unfinished, film Trekkerriff (which is now in distribution at Canyon), JJ Murphy’s Print Generation, and Elwood Decker’s Color Fragments…
During the tour, in one of the many rooms of storage, Mark opened a can which contained an original 35mm element of Stan Brakhage’s Garden of Earthly Delights… He gently unspooled a few feet of leader until he arrived at the organic matter… To me, however silly it may be, this was terribly exciting…
There were several times in my art school experience where different teachers would take a print of Mothlight and unspool it across tables and show the class how the cameraless images were directly applied to film from moth wings, flowers, and earth between perforated tape… That was always wonderful, but this was beyond that… To be able to SEE the texture, the thickness, the frame to frame composition (with the marks on the side notating frames) in the 3 feet segment of unfurled images… To be able to experience even the SMELL of potpourri from the film… It was awesome (in the truest sense of the word)
There is an incredible joy that I have experiencing and making films which are not only moving pictures but also are a plastic art… Physical objects and images that can be viewed and understood on a very basic level without the need of any technology… Art that shows the artists hand, that reference the act of making while completely obscuring the fact by presenting unbearably spectacular images… The strand of Earthly Delights reminded me of all of this (and the fact that I should be making more films while I still can…)
(I grabbed the photo from David Boardwell’s blog where he wrote about his visit to Academy… Mark also has a great blog that’s well worth a read…)
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an unbearably small picture of Harry Smith and Stan Brakhage. Harry Smith is truly a wizard.
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an incredibly small picture of Stan Brakhage and Allen Ginsberg walking through the woods.
mirrorfloatinginwater asked: Hey, considering that you're a big fan of Brakhage, I was wondering what's your favorite work of his. Also, have you been able to see The Art of Vision or the Arabic Numeral series?
It is incredibly hard for me to choose a favorite work because I’ve seen such a small percentage of his work… I really love The Dead, The Chartres Series, Text of Light, Blue Moses… I could go on but these are the films that leap to mind when I am just sitting here… there are plenty that I’ve seen but kind of blur together… Sincerity, Duplicity, and Scenes from Under Childhood all struck me as amazing upon viewing, and I would know I would remember them if I were to see them again, but if you ask me to describe them from memory I would be completely lost…
I’ve only seen Arabic 12, which is on the second Criterion set… I haven’t been able to see The Art of Vision yet because no one, to my knowledge, has shown it in years… From what I’ve heard the Anthology print is butchered and the only other institution that has a copy is MoMA… If someone wants to rent it for $600 from Canyon, I will gladly join in for a viewing…
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what the fuck. Thousands of notes and not a drop of credit?
This is my fucking grandfather, you fools.
Stan Fucking Brakhage.
And y’all just reblog it like you don’t give a fuck.
I care about the art, I really do… and I also *try* to give credit where credit is due… but based on the sources tags this is from Begone Dull Care by Norman McLaren (which is youtube-able here)… Granted that that information was more or less lost as soon as it departed from its original tags, but you must note that Stan was coming from a tradition of hand painted films made by people like McLaren, Len Lye, and Harry Smith. There are also people working with this sort of direct animation now (like the amazing Jodie Mack)… Brakhage did a lot for the art of film that I am infinitely appreciative of, but not every drop of ink on celluloid belongs to him…
I hate to see things absent of tags or mis-tagged… but as long as there’s a way to track back and that the original poster didn’t just throw it online saying look what I have created… I think it’s alright… Live and let live and begone dull cares…
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NEW DIRECTIONS PUBLISHING: Big Bridge publishes letters of McClure and Brakhage →
Big Bridge has published The Flame is Ours: The Letters of Stan Brakhage and Michael McClure 1961–1978. Large portions of it can be read on the big bridge website, where it includes photographs and notations. Poet Michael McClure is one of the pre-eminant beat-era poets and is…
This is SO INCREDIBLY EPIC. I don’t understand how this flew under my radar.
I almost want to buy a digital book reader just to sit down and devour this text… If it wasn’t so damn late I’d stay up and read it now…
333 pages of Correspondences between Michael McClure and Stan Brakhage… Get out of here… All downloadable for free on the Big Bridge website that’s linked above…
The Poetry Foundation quotes a letter from this text from McClure to Brakhage:
“Bob Dylan bought me an autoharp & he wants me to sing & sing my new (unwritten) poem-songs. He is beautiful—a Marilyn Monroe of a man—and you would dig him. Ginsberg & I went to 5 of his concerts & sat up all nite talking with him several nites. And I got to meet Joan Baez. Baez is your spiritual female double—though I did not tell her so. I felt so natural & relaxed with her because she reminds me of you. I was able to pat her foot & smile at her. She is all balanced love. Jesus I hope the U.S. does not hit China—Boom! Boom! Then it is the concentration camp for me, us, whoever. When I read “History” I realize such an act is not at all “out of line.” I hope History has ended!!! We have put our queer shoulders to the wheel & there is not much left to do! Shall we become HUMAN Gods? With the human in caps.
Regarding your fainting when you opened [Kenneth Anger’s] Blue Velvet Wipeout—Casey a chick here—friend of mine and Kenneth’s—she fainted first time she saw Fireworks and woke up with Ken reviving her. Claims it was Kenneth made her faint. Though Kenneth denies it she says. Could that be a secret talent of Kenneth’s?” Woah.
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Still from Brakhage’s The Domain of the Moment
1977 • 14 minutes, 33 seconds • 16 mm • Silent
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Arnulf Rainer
Peter Kubelka | 1960 | 7 minutes | B&W | Sound
“He has even created a film whose images can no more be ‘turned off’ by the closing of eyes than can the soundtrack thereof it (for it is composed entirely of white frame rhythming thru black inter-spaces and of such an intensity as to create its pattern straight thru closed eyelids) so that the whole ‘mix’ of the audio-visual experience is clearly ‘in the head,’ so to speak: and if one looks at it openly, one can see one’s own eye cells as if projected onto the screen and can watch one’s optic physiology activated by the sound track in what is, surely, the most basic Dance of Life of all (for the sounds of the film do resemble and, thus, prompt the inner-ear’s hearing of its own pulse output at intake of sound)… These films must, very truly, be seen and very truly seen and heard to be believed!” - Stan Brakhage
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