'mimi-nashi hoichi' is 'hoichi the earless' , the doomed protagonist of the japanese ghost story of the same name. this, in english, appears as the first story in lafcadio hearn's 'kwaidan', and tells the story of a blind biwa player who is summoned by a spirit messenger to play before a royal court of ghosts. he recites for them the epic of a great battle at sea, using his biwa to "...sound like the straining of oars and the rushing of ships, the whirr and the hissing of arrows, the shouting and the trampling of men, the crashing of steel upon helmets, the plunging of slain in the flood". because he was blind, he could not know that he had not been conducted to a royal court of worldly splendor, but rather to a graveyard, where mortally alone he played amidst countless oni-bi, the spectral fires of the dead. when the priest of the temple where hoichi resided became aware of his blind friend's nocturnal sojourn, he ventured to save him from his haunting by inscribing in ink the text of the holy sutra 'hannya-shin-kyo' on hoichi's body, and bading him to remain completely still and silent at the event of his next summoning. to quote from hearn's footnote:
"Apropos of the magical use of the text, as described in this story, it is worth remarking that the subject of the sutra is the Doctrine of the Emptiness of Forms--that is to say, of the unreal character of all phenomena or noumena. ...'Form is emptiness; and emptiness is form. Emptiness is not different from form; form is not different from emptiness. What is form--that is emptiness. What is emptiness, that is form... Perception, name, concept, and knowledge are also emptiness... There is no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind...'".
this inscription renders hoichi invisible to ghost retainer who comes to summon him, all, that is, but for his ears, which in oversight had not been incribed with scripture. so, as they were seen by the ghost retainer to be hovering disembodied in space, they were taken, that is they were torn from his head, thus stigmatizing him for antiquity...'hoichi the earless'.
soon after nnck's inception (1993) we inquired as to the japanese translation of the band's name, fascinated as we were then with hijo kaidan ('emergency stairs') and omoide hatoba ('harbor of memories'). We were told that that there was only a phonetic translation of the word 'blues', and that the concept, in japanese, was elusive. it was yamatsuka eye who half-jokingly suggested 'kubi-nashi hoichi' ('hoichi the neck-less') as a possibility, thus drawing our attention to the legend of hoichi and the resonance aspects of the story held with our approach to and experience of nnck.
"There is no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, and mind...'".
and so, there is no neck.
Dans le cadre de l’exposition UN TRI au [mac] de l’un des pionniers de la poésie action JULIEN BLAINE LE VENDREDI 10 JUILLET au [mac] À 20H30 69 AVENUE D'HAÏFA, 13008 MARSEILLE.
PERFORMANCE POÉSIE CONCERT JOHN GIORNO & JEAN-MARC MONTERA
Au milieu des années 1960, John GIORNO décide d’ouvrir la poésie à la culture de masse en exploitant les nouveaux moyens de communication : téléphone, télévision, disques... Il crée au tournant des années 1970 la maison de disque Giorno Poetry Systems qui édite de nombreux albums sur lesquels figurent les noms de William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson. Infatigable pionnier de la poésie performance, John Giorno compose une poésie conçue pour la lecture publique et l’exercice scénique.
Parmi les plus actifs dans le champ des musiques improvisées, Jean-Marc MONTERA multiplie depuis les années 1970 les rencontres et les contacts avec d’autres univers artistiques jusqu’à rendre de plus en plus floue la « barrière » entre les genres. Utilisant tout le registre des cordes amplifiées et acoustiques, résonances, percussions, distorsions, extensions et détournements en tout genre, il évoque un monde sonore abstrait ainsi que le mécanisme quotidien de la ville et du travail.
HEADDRESS :: LUNES in stores Tuesday June 9th
LUNES is the second album by the Texas psychedelic duo HEADDRESS.
Written in the desert but recorded during an endless New York City winter, the album is a dark
meditation on Americana. Guitarist Caleb Coy and organist Ethan Cook sculpt a cold, expansive
sound made ripe for these turbulent times. It’s the blues shaped by the avant-compositions of La
Monte Young and Dylan Carlson. It's drone rooted deep in the American tradition.
Hey yeah thanks for play with u genius musicans have a good tour and also say hello to mik i am now on the way to berlin for a week and then i go to france near montpellier! Yeah see ya big hug valentin philliplifemusic
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