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Friday 12th July
Here are Friday’s Music Fragments, adding some colour to the week.
Feel free to pass along if it inspires your fires.
Marshmallow Laser Feast
Song Sketch 40
I think I’m late to the party, but blown away by Marshmallow Laser Feast and Evolver. The work is a built around a 360º audio visual experience with musical scores from Jonny Greenwood, Meredith Monk, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Howard Skempton and Jon Hopkins! The film brings together an audiovisual world alongside a series of immersive screen installations with a deep listening meditation guided by the voice of Academy Award-winning actor Cate Blanchett. The work is produced by Edward R. Pressman and Terrence Malick, alongside the French studio Atlas V. All quite something if you ask me. Sketch of the week, ‘I liked you, she liked you too’ (Song and lyrics below)
Bands in town
Geordie Greep, Wed 31st Jul, Map Studio Cafe
King Hannah, Wed 25th SEP, Lafayette
Clarissa Connelly, Wed 20th Nov, ICA
SASAMI, Tue 29th Oct, The Lower Third
Music and the Mind
I have been enjoying the work of Tom Middleton’s and his company White Mirror - a Wellness Innovation Consultancy and Research Lab which leverage cutting edge sensory sciences in order to develop impactful solutions - reducing anxiety, improving sleep, optimising creativity, for a healthy, happy life. Check it out!
Ear Candy
Well, I think we all need a little Victor Ray in our lives at some point.
Aziya, a 24-year-old Londoner comes with the excellent EPs We Speak of Tides and Lonely Castles.
Tiny Habits, this is right up my street, ‘words that you whispered in polaroid pictures and a pretty Visualizer to boot’.
Mui Zyu, Belfast-born singer-songwriter lo-fi pop and the cosmos, awesome.
Film Friday
How Does A Mosquito See The World? | Marshmallow Laser Feast
A short one for you this week, a peak into the world of Marshmallow Laser Feast. ‘What happens when you see the world through the eyes of a mosquito? A frog? Or an owl? Find out with London-based experiential art collective Marshmallow Laser Feast, which utilise the latest emerging technologies to create immersive, ecologically-focused art.’ A sit down with Ersin Han to discuss Evolver, as well as the history of the collective and its aims of creating environmentally conscious art… awesome.
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Song Sketch - I liked you, he liked you too.
Song Sketch Lyrics - Too much of nothing
There was music this evening
as we rode on through.
I liked you, he liked you too.
And honest as my mind was
I lied that night to you
And we danced until the night sky
broke in two,
Yeah, we danced until the night sky
broke in two
broke in two
Well I met you in the market place
years ago.
We made our way separately,
so many ways to fall.
I had a feeling I'd met you
ten times before.
I got wasted that night
following you.
And if I've wasted a night
I've wasted a hundred more.
And through all these things
what's said and done
you never noticed me at all
you were just having fun.
Well your riches were beginning
when they asked you through.
They made me serve a
cocktail or two.
My hands were aching
from the cold that they bring.
I was staring down through
the cold dark evening
I was staring down through
the cold dark evening
If you pass out be careful
because they'll come find you.
They sit there and they’ll ask you
your name.
Don't tell them any secrets,
they'll rob them all from you,
they’ll take your life right out of your hands
and disappear into the blue.
I don't know why you came here
or what you’re looking for.
I wonder why you sat there for so long
and what for
I was watching all the chancers
steal a move on you
I emptied out the dishes
I was emptied out by you.
I was sitting by the river bed
Cold and blue
wondering what kind of future
comes from you
wondering what kind of creature
I would prove
And I heard how your friends
all walked away
and how sometimes
you lean towards yesterday.
So I hear now you moved out
from what they made you do.
It's nice to travel swiftly out of view.
Worn out and guarded
against the truth
I saw out another
afternoon.
And the decades flew and flew.
I don't need non-one
I'm easy in my mind.
I just need something
to help me acclimatise
I don't need non-one
I'm easy in my mind.
I just need something
to help me acclimatise