For "Resonance(s): A Deleuze and Guattari Conference on Philosophy, Arts and Politics" I am organising in Istanbul in 2010 click here
BECOMING-SEXUAL OF THE SEXUAL
or should we go, be a little alcoholic, a little crazy, a little suicidal, a little of a guerilla –
taking a philosopher from behind
extending the crack to unforeseen dimensions
no finality
without getting afraid of being paranoid
getting hysterical
- discontinuity -
is this source attainable?
only if we could picture a model
the model of the model which is unknowable.
imagine Artaud’s neurotic language
a wall of sound and the sonics you hear give you only some clues about what lies behind this wall, given the fact that Merzbow does not imitate what he cannot hear but represents what he fails to hear
it is probably why the lyre bird with an extraordinarily beautiful tail in southern Australia has got no song of itself except the other songs of other birds which he imitates. the lyre bird imitates everything whatever he hears, even the chainsaws he hears in the forests: the whole infinity of sounds is his model but he doesn’t have one of his own. becoming-quantum of animal?
Büchner’s Lenz five minutes before he starts hearing the noise of silence, or goes mad, or attempts to kill himself. in contrast, a thorough understanding of complementarity means to look at killing oneself together with the impossibility of killing oneself and thus extending it to a life-long project.
our intention is to extend the crack and perhaps look at the volcano in the face, to look at the non-identifiable, the non-identitarian, the undecidable, or better, the un-negotiable. (continues in the blog above)
RECENT PERFORMANCES
27/03/2009 at La Miroiterie, Paris
26/03/2009 at squat, Rue de Sévres, Paris
11/08/2008 KOG at Cardiff
SIFIR + murmurists performed KOG at Cardiff University, "One or Several Deleuzes?" - Deleuze Studies Conference, Cardiff, Wales
Video: "A Sonic Experience/the role is over the play has ended" by Pier Giorgio de Pinto.
28/05/2008 PERFORMANCE KANINE AT DOGZSTAR
15-16/05/2008 "I Beseech you Sir..." with Project 22/11 at burnt out Galata Bridge in Istanbul
10/03/2007 "Spaces and Places: Tensions of a Paradigm"
"Divide by Zero" (video by Pier Giorgio de Pinto) performance at the opening of a conference organised by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Phänomenologische Forschung, Darmstadt Univ., DE
The piece was performed in collaboration with the choreographer Handan Ergiydiren and 22/11 at Garaj Istanbul, Beyoglu, Istanbul,TR
04/12/2007 Queer Jubilee/Phag-Off
Premiere of "Yalvaririm Beyfendi Saatiniz Kaci Gosteriyor?" which is about Sevim Burak, a language-dissident Turkish woman writer who produced radical texts of l'écriture féminine during her life time between 1931-1983. Organised by Phag-off at Blue Joy, Rome, IT
BAND MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTERS:
Zaph: composer, computer programming, all the instruments, vocals
Daphne: vocals, concept
Mum: vocals
Cüret A.: design
Influences
Joy Division, New Order, Throbbing Gristle, Jesus and the Mary Chain, Einstürzende Neubauten, Jimmy Sommerville, Erasure, Kraftwerk, AGF, Khan, Autechre, Fluke, Nico, The Cure, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, P.J. Harvey, FSOL, The Smiths, Zombie Nation, John Parish, Wolfgang Press, The Blue Aeroplanes, Bauhaus, Arvo Part, Matmos, Lesbians on Ecstasy, NewYork Dolls, Underworld, Brigitte Fontaine, Mina, Front 242, Massive Attack, Arab Strap, Mogwai, Françoise Hardy, David Sylvian, Morphine, Orbital, Sonic Youth, Chicks on Speed, Plastikman, Skinny Puppy, Kitchens of Distinction, Test Department, PIL, Lush, Stereolab, Scott Walker, The Stone Roses, Laika, Siouxie and the Banshees, Happy Mondays, Bauhaus, The Breeders, Nitzer Ebb, The The, Bronski Beat, Cocteau Twins, The Creatures, Spiritiualized, Kronos Quartet, Patti Smith, The Fall, Crass ...
F. Nietzsche, F. Kafka, C. de Lautréamont, Marquis de Sade, I. Bachmann, P. Handke, Nilgun Marmara, J.G. Ballard, R.M. Rilke, W. Herzog, G. Debord, O. Mandelstam, Francis Bacon, Sami Baydar, P.P. Pasolini, P. Celan, Sarah Kane, G. Büchner, H. Cixous, J. Genet, C. Baudelaire, Barnett Newman, Caravaggio, W.B. Yeats, Tracey Emin, Necmi Zeka, M. Blanchot, G. Bataille, T.W. Adorno, R.M. Fassbinder, W. Benjamin, N. Abraham & M. Torok, J. Laplanche, Sevim Burak, M. Haneke, H.P. Lovecraft, S. Plath, Hasim Catis, C. Pavese, Deleuze & Guattari, J. Derrida, P. Lacoue-Labarthe, F. Bacon, G. Agamben, A. Plotnitsky, D. Hockney, N. Bohr, L. Bersani, A. Ronell etc.
... as for my aspirations to become a soaring dog, I understand that I cannot fulfill such an identification with the “origin” for this is where even the object of identification, together with my self, disappear, revealing the absence of a model. Thus, I shall embark upon a new field of research, the science of music. Although I still have some doubts about how to hear it, and fail to identify what I hear as music, this failure endows me with a freedom from gravity towards a desire to be a self-floating being, the truth of which I don’t produce via a paranoiac desire to know: it is “a different science from that of today, an ultimate science,” as there’s nothing to simulate except a sense of a directionless, nomadic floating, much as a Bataillian way of communication.
I wonder if this ultimate science is the science of the meta-audible the inaudibility of which, based on a self-shattering “masochistic” pleasure, I celebrate as a failure to constitute myself as a full-fledged subject who can hear the things.
And isn’t this “ultimate science” a matter of “not to be dead and yet no longer alive,” as Nietzsche once put it?
DIVIDE BY ZERO
is now available at Manchester Metropolitan University's Deleuze Studies Journal Actual/Virtual
ANIMOT: AMOURTALITé MON FROTTAGE
in BACONISM (dedicated to Francis Bacon), released: December 25th, NIkO Label Japan.
DIVIDE by ZERO
SIFIR is happy to announce the release of his Divide by Zero by Colin Johnco Records, Paris.
You can download the whole album at:
Colin Johnco Records
Or, you can purchase the hand-made CDR here. (http://colinjohncorecords.free.fr/shop.html)
"What I produced in this album can be considered as another attempt at starting from a scratch – that is, from the recorded scratches which we divided and mixed so as to force them to the impossibility of dividing more: a process that culminated in what I call "de-sonance." All because, what starting from a scratch means on a score that is presumed to be haunted with sounds is nothing but back- and fore-grounding the fact that I have already been "scratching from the start.”
SIFIR is an electronic music project of Zafer Aracagök. Daphne and Mum are the frequent contributors to SIFIR's music both with their vocals and ideas. The band thinks music is hysteria - a definite influence of what Gilles Deleuze wrote on F. Bacon. His last cd - "Ben Aptalim Cünkü Ölüyüm Ben Ölüyüm Cünkü Aptalim" /"I am Stupid Because I am Dead, I am Dead Because I am Stupid" - is about Nietzsche's collapse in Turin and its aftermath.
"Yalvaririm Beyfendi Saatiniz Kaci Gosteriyor?"/"I Beseech You Sir, Tell Me What Time It Is" is about Sevim Burak, a language-dissident Turkish female writer who produced radical texts of l'écriture féminine during her life time between 1931-1983.
Aracagök publishes books of fiction/theory, and teaches and writes on continental philosophy, basically, on the issues of sound, noise and image.
SIFIR's MUSICAL WORK:
SIFIR/BEN APTALIM CUNKU OLUYUM BEN OLUYUM CUNKU APTALIM, electronic music album on Nietzsche and his collapse in Turin, released by ADA Muzik, Istanbul 2005.
PROJECT CTRL_ALT_DEL, a compilation of electronic music artists, a joint project of Hedah - Marres- Nomad, distributed by Lowlands Records, Brussels 2003, (among the participants are Kim Cascone, Scanner, Merzbow, etc.)
SIFIR/INSAN RITM MAKINA, electronic music album, released by ADA Muzik, Istanbul 2003.
SIFIR/NEREDEORADABURADA, an experimental, electronic music album released by ADA Muzik, Istanbul 2000.
Dedicated to all the women, men, gays, lesbians or heteros, to all who have different politic opinions who are persecuted all over the world by laws, dictature, religions and corrupted states. From north to south, from west to east...
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Dear Sifir/ I was not aware that the Politics of repression were quite so heavy duty in Turkey/ I cant imagine living and working under such subjugation/ Does this affect you personally/ I know that Academics in some countries get a hard time from the Control Apparatus/Relieved to hear that yr cat survived its fall/ My cat is a fighter/ The moment its outside it finds a cat to fight with/Its now a law that cats must be kept in side to protect the wildlife at night/ Texas wanders and paces the corridors trying to get out/When I go outside for a cigarette he paws at the door whinning and crying "please let me out to fight" The problem is he always looses and is expensive to take to the vet/ He never learns a thing and soon as he is back home he is limping around trying to get back out the door/ He is very territorial and is always "re-territorializing" his space/ He is a Nomad cat a Deleuzean Feline/ Look after yr self Sifir Regards and affection Lee Kwo/
Hi Sifir/ Congratulations on the new book being published/ It is a fascinating angle to look at Deleuze from/ You work very hard to achieve yr goals while still teaching/ I always enjoy reading yr writing/ I always learn something from yr style of thought/ You have a very sharp intellect and quite a unique way of looking at passages of text/ I still read over yr essays on noise and get much pleasure from them/ Well done Sifir/ Regards and affection Lee Kwo/
Hello, it's always a pleasure to contact my friends. First, thanks for your friendship and if you have time, there are some new videos on my page. Life is beautiful. All the best - Pat.
the noise laden air suffocates with a determinacy that falls beyond the point of exhaustion as aggressive instruments no longer grounded in the space that surrounds them crash synaptic connections and explode in a sorrow of technophilia/ A tonal intensity free of specific content or focus /an eroticism no longer limited to particular zones or organs/ We have moved beyond shock and live in a state of dislocation stealing identities and appropriating suicide notes where we can find them/we live in a space of uncertainty and longing for detachment and disassociation/ Our sense of intimacy has become a skitzoid disjunction/ this desire to seek anonymity while preserving a Avatar to reconfigure ones self thru a stifling fatiguing and tortuous erotic union of subject and object/ We need images band as our tolerance increases we demand more stimuli for the body to survive in its narcoticised state/you cannot afford to relax or slow down or you are out of the Game condemned to endless withdrawal and final extinction/ The word is a self reinforcing habit we have become addicted to/ Faced with the fear of living or the fear of dying/I have no real personality but re-create myself each day/ The fact that I seem the same has more to do with habit and long term memory/ I am cool medium I invite distractions and want to be astounded I am barely conscious use peripheral vision and flow thru a random drift of delirious discontinuity/ What is it like to have the ego dispersed?/its the feeling of not having a center but also of not even lacking one/ Present time “the NOW” have been drained of its vitality/emptied out/emaciated to the point where it is only the thinnest of membranes barely separating a traumatic past from a fateful future/Under the Post Human there is no longer a self to be alienated from/ I am affirmed and forgotten in the same delirious moment of blatant artifice/ Am I afraid of living or dying?/ Regards and affection Lee Kwo/
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