Maile Costa Colbert - Now's important

To come at your own life within an anthropological context, "Now's Important" is an exploration of my grandmother's home in a little trailer park outside of Los Angeles."

Paul Vogel | Roy Carroll - Snowlady and Adrian asleep together

The Snowlady story is a long one . I am a vegan educator and have friends ( Jacek and Aga) who rescue cats. Snowlady is one such. She was rescued in Dublin and was unhappy with the other cats at the sanctuary but made friends with Adrian who moved to Brno in the Czech Republic shortly afterwards. So last summer Jacek and I drove her across Europe to Brno. A long journey for a cat. She was not very comfortable spending the journey hiding in the back of the car and just as we got to the Czech border we stopped to sleep in the car. We awoke to find Snowlady purring loudly and looking wide eyed out of the window at a forest. She had never seen a forest before. I think she at that moment realised the possibilities for adventure life has to offer and for the first time I experienced her as truly alive. I'll never forget it. It was one of the most inspiring things I've ever seen and heard. We drove on to Brno and Adrian's apartment. We were all exhausted and went to sleep on the floor. Jacek and I on the floor, Adrian on the bed and snowlady underneath. I awoke to find her exploring the room and then going back to sleep, so that's it Snowlady and Adrian were asleep together.
The music was was made by me recording Clarinet in Dublin and sending it to Roy in Berlin to process. We had looked for an Irish arts council grant to perform at the i and e festival but did not get it so we had time no for rehersal and the performance at the festival could have been better. Anyway there are several more tracks which I see as relating to Snowlady's journey but this one is the final piece and the most contemplative.

Paul Vogel - A member of the Bristol Musicians Co-Op in the late seventies, Paul Vogel is currently a co-curator of i-and-e alongside David Lacey. Incorporating electronics with live clarinet performance, Vogel has composed music for radio and for contemporary dance groups and has also worked and recorded with many international improvisers, including Phil Durrant, Lee Patterson, Angharad Davies, Mark Wastell and Keith Rowe. He has released recordings on Homefront, Confront and Cathnor.

Roy Carroll - https://sites.google.com/site/royelylyonscarroll

"Snowlady and Adrian asleep together" (10:42)

Luca Forcucci - Unplugged Impression

As stated by Félix Guattari in ʼLes Trois Ecologiesʼ, a new approach of our relationships seems necessary:

ʻAn ethico – political articulation, that I call ecosophy, between the three ecological registers, that of the environment, that of the social relationships and that of the human subjectivityʼ (Guattari, 1989)

Unplugged Impression proposes to describe this thematic by a listening of the natural field, the full immersion in an unknown environment. Here, the social relationships are those from the fauna. A deep listening of the environment of the forest activates the human subjectivity.

Unplugged Impression (08:53)



Greg Davis "Thirteen Locations Along Hunter Creek"

Recorded in December 2009 along Hunter Creek, near Payson, Arizona.

"thirteen locations along hunter creek"

Florian Gerbaud - The nightingale or the singing monad

"The nightingale or the singing monad" is a video inspired by my photographic work titled " Solitude is an exact geometry ".

The rain and wind sounds come from the video, they introduce the music I made, as a bridge towards the unknown .

the nightingale or the singing monad (separate audio - 02:40)

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