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| What Might the New
Language Be? by Mario Rechtern |
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The following article was written by Mario Rechtern. It comprised the liner notes for our new recording on Ayler Records called U
what might new language be? coming out of these emotional ponds lakes and seas spreading out and merging into each other- not a communication in the sense of pure conversation, discourse and interaction to the point of the said but rather grasping the sensuality and sensual expressions of the said by emotional shares and sensual contributions to the said , grasping the energies and shipping the vessel on them, waves surfing, drowning and getting rescued by drums or cello or piano and back on board through space and friendships among the travelers speaking, feeling and creating new words, feelings and thoughts from the moment as necessary to describe flight position and desire to break even with the needed distinction of the status quo, to know who and where we are today...tomorrow is another day another journey. and as lautreamont describes the flight of the starlets(wild geese?) in the chants de maldoror : there is no leadership but the impulse of any bird / musician to the center of the group to find out about its whereabouts and their days and instincts, the howabouts, thus performing at a remarkable speed towards a yet unvisible target within headwiseaimed infinities and endless spaces. yet they know precisely where to go since they carry their target just themselves within their inborn desires and instincts, just within their cells and nervefibres. so they move on through the autumn skies a flesh among mountains clouds, lands and seas until they finally arrive exactly where no one ever would have been able to anticipate but on the spot! across the sea year by year……..
“all music is just noise unless you break the code.” So all language might just be babel, nonsense, noise - even schizophrenia unless you broke it’s code into a new language, which you can understand since you did break its code; once a secret language in a coded expression, coded for example by the speeds of these wild geese or starlets above .. to their destiny, - communicating constantly within their level of energy and instincts towards their where-to-go-abouts, just yielding to the center and moving along within this weird desire inside of each...
so, new language also might mean to shift the ordinary language into languages of moaning, suffering, of laughter, of quarrels of the bitchy housewives into codes of birdsongs and their modifications. here exists definitely the term new language: animals like birds, whales, etc., that live in group societies, and species- modify their languages with new codes to take a distance from their group that has become too crowded, or so, thus becoming a different society with all kinds of needed modifications en suite. new languages are created, new behaviors, new talents, new codes to decode reality and live it as such..I observed in my country place my playing sopranino has modified the singing of the birds around and this again has modified my playing - a new language started and a new species of birds, making the group, living around and acting so, once I am there and play. i can hear it by their articulation.... same in Italy with seagulls, though more on an emotional level: once i play the sky comes alive and emotions hit among the birds (no, they don't fight- they just get excited and transmit and develop new languages...and enjoy it): The new language seagull laboratory....evident.. people might think me crazy but its true. proof: whales. one knows about their songs and their modifications, once felt themselves within environmental or social changes of the seas or the groups . new groups, new identities are generated with different behaviors , different itineraries and a different poetry of communication…
NEW LANGUAGE COLLABORATIVE.
(CD) Eric Zinman piano Syd Smart drums Mario Rechtern reeds Glynis Lomon cello
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