There’s a strong temptation to turn descriptions of Arve Henriksen’s Cartography into a litany of map and topography images. They’d be apt. But this strange, haunting collection of aural effects and audible vision quests is more about the journey than its path. A mélange of synthesized sounds, samples, organic percussion, spoken word…
Strangely, In A Strange Land
Trumpeter Arve Henriksen maps a somber landscape on Cartography.
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A Star’s Light
The poems in W.S. Merwin's The Shadow of Sirius shine a small light in search of illumination.
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I have with me/all that I do not know/I have lost none of it
W.S Merwin “The Nomad Flute” from The Shadow of Sirius
Sometime in the mid 1960s, W. S. Merwin completely lost faith in punctuation and came to believe in his readers. The transformation didn’t happen all at once. The…
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