Composer and sound artist Siavash Amini collaborates with author Eugene Thacker on »Songs for Sad Poets.« The collection of eight pieces draws its inspiration from the legacy of the so-called cursed poets (»poètes maudits«) as well as the German-language tradition of song cycles and expands the structure of the classic art song through a process of lyric abstraction. Amini is...(展开全部) Composer and sound artist Siavash Amini collaborates with author Eugene Thacker on »Songs for Sad Poets.« The collection of eight pieces draws its inspiration from the legacy of the so-called cursed poets (»poètes maudits«) as well as the German-language tradition of song cycles and expands the structure of the classic art song through a process of lyric abstraction. Amini is no stranger to interdisciplinary collaboration, as seen in »A Mimesis of Nothingness,« his 2020 collaboration with photographer Nooshin Shafiee, also released through the Swiss Hallow Ground label. But whereas in Amini’s previous collaborations music and other media are set in dialogue, with »Songs for Sad Poets«, Thacker’s poems and Amini’s soundscapes are deeply enmeshed with each other. In fact, none of the words printed in the record’s booklet are being said out loud on this double LP, but rather made tangible through the use of sound. Poetry and music do not so much correspond with each other as they conspire together—as songs without words, words without song. »Songs for Sad Poets« was born out of a mutual admiration of each other’s work and it is easy to see how the musician and the writer could relate to one another artistically. The Tehran-based Amini has released over 20 albums in the past decade—among them... »TAR« and »FORAS« on Hallow Ground—that probe the physical world but also search for something beyond it. His compositions draw on field recordings as well as acoustic and electronic sounds, blurring the lines between what is conventionally perceived as real or authentic and the abstract or otherworldly. The New York-based Thacker on the other hand is known as a writer whose philosophical works like »Infinite Resignation« read like poetry while his poetry and other literary writing is inherently philosophically charged. What unites them on this project is an interest in the idea of the fragility of the human being set against the vast horizon of climate, planet, and the cosmos that produces a »sadness without cause.« The pieces on »Songs for Sad Poets« translate this nearly inexpressible ambient melancholy into dense and sometimes claustrophobic pieces that are marked by internal tensions and slowly unfolding dynamics. The eight poems are neither only the starting points nor just the byproduct of the compositions, or vice versa. Instead, the entire record is one single result of a coherent creative process. Thacker’s writing—dedicated to the poètes maudits Gérard de Nerval, Chūya Nakahara, Sadeq Hedayat, Alejandra Pizarnik, Giacomo Leopardi, Mário de Sá-Carneiro, Zhu Shuzhen and Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo—is marked by a stunning formal rigour, but also a wide-reaching evocativeness. All it needs to conjure up an all encompassing sense of cosmic sorrow is a few lines with even fewer words in them. The rhythmic character of the poems is reflected in Amini’s music which puts an emphasis on tone and mood, but also on movement and density. All of this makes »Songs for Sad Poets« a work of art that directly addresses its listeners’ affects, expressing an underlying melancholy while evoking an air of dread by transcending the borders between music and literature.
0 有用 Rae 2022-09-24 10:32:00 浙江
我甚至不知道Eugene提到的南宋女词人朱淑真/朱淑贞……
1 有用 夺铎堕 2022-09-24 00:52:52 吉林
最喜欢track3/4；其实音乐上真的跟Eugene没啥关系，他写了一些诗（但没有公开在网络上，我不懂这个操作，非常伤害信息的表达，除非你跟我玩游戏说你想要的就是“非表达”）Amini根据诗来compose，且这些文本在音乐中全无体现；Lawrence English做母带且这两天他个人新作也发了，《Approach》；Siavash Amini说 现在iran的情况如此一张专辑而已不宜多谈 不过... 最喜欢track3/4；其实音乐上真的跟Eugene没啥关系，他写了一些诗（但没有公开在网络上，我不懂这个操作，非常伤害信息的表达，除非你跟我玩游戏说你想要的就是“非表达”）Amini根据诗来compose，且这些文本在音乐中全无体现；Lawrence English做母带且这两天他个人新作也发了，《Approach》；Siavash Amini说 现在iran的情况如此一张专辑而已不宜多谈 不过过去两年的绝大部分心力都在这张专辑了 关于它的话 他日后再谈 (展开)
0 有用 乔治洗衣机 2022-09-30 04:18:10 德国
自我陶醉 - 也未尝不好
0 有用 肥猫家的小麻麻 2022-12-07 16:01:03 北京
I left and broke your heart. That is all
0 有用 封豨 2023-10-11 14:04:26 福建
人约黄昏后，尤金萨克入梦来。自娱之作，也挺好。
0 有用 Rae 2022-09-24 10:32:00 浙江
我甚至不知道Eugene提到的南宋女词人朱淑真/朱淑贞……
0 有用 肥猫家的小麻麻 2022-12-07 16:01:03 北京
I left and broke your heart. That is all
1 有用 夺铎堕 2022-09-24 00:52:52 吉林
最喜欢track3/4；其实音乐上真的跟Eugene没啥关系，他写了一些诗（但没有公开在网络上，我不懂这个操作，非常伤害信息的表达，除非你跟我玩游戏说你想要的就是“非表达”）Amini根据诗来compose，且这些文本在音乐中全无体现；Lawrence English做母带且这两天他个人新作也发了，《Approach》；Siavash Amini说 现在iran的情况如此一张专辑而已不宜多谈 不过... 最喜欢track3/4；其实音乐上真的跟Eugene没啥关系，他写了一些诗（但没有公开在网络上，我不懂这个操作，非常伤害信息的表达，除非你跟我玩游戏说你想要的就是“非表达”）Amini根据诗来compose，且这些文本在音乐中全无体现；Lawrence English做母带且这两天他个人新作也发了，《Approach》；Siavash Amini说 现在iran的情况如此一张专辑而已不宜多谈 不过过去两年的绝大部分心力都在这张专辑了 关于它的话 他日后再谈 (展开)
0 有用 乔治洗衣机 2022-09-30 04:18:10 德国
自我陶醉 - 也未尝不好
0 有用 封豨 2023-10-11 14:04:26 福建
人约黄昏后，尤金萨克入梦来。自娱之作，也挺好。