Poetry BABXtyle

This post is a birthday present to Shir Shvadron, the man who taught me how to look, for which I am eternally grateful....

In the continuous effort to take you places, this time I take you frontrowcenter to a Babx concert,

I don't know much about him, except that his concert (with Frédéric Jean on drums and Julien Lefevre on cello) was exceptionally great, sweating, whispering, feeling, and reworking poems of Tom Waits, Budler (among others)

I mainly listened and drew (with really noisy markers ...)

Cover story

Babx w Julien

Red&Blue

Redrum

Almost a one-liner

There's a drummer here somewhere...

Pianoman with a drummer in reverse

Behind enemy lines

Babx Threefold

Two drummers

Helter Skelter

And just so you get to see the real deal - voila:

Frith on a boat

Waiting

Still waiting..

Just got back from a concert by one of my favorite musicians,
Fred Frith performed with Berangere Maximin @ Le Batofar, a boat on the local river.

Always a pleasure discovering new and great musicians, Berangere Maximin looks like Scarlet Johnson, and  makes electronic soundscapes that fall into the blessed and uncategorized domain of random audio-visual noise (look+listen here)

Berangere Maximin x 2

As for Fred Frith, you can look up his work on the web (you tube or vimeo is better than just listening)

One may say he is a dadaist musician.or to be more elaborate... (here goes my 5 cents of humble understanding...) :

Music started out as primal sound, meant to express emotions, first with human voice, than with percussion on top, and slowly there came tools that are more and more elaborate, with music theories, scales, (let alone production, lyrics, etc.)

Two cans and a chain

Fred Frith is one of those that walks past the rules to return to the primal source of music, hence no scales, but using an elaborate instrument (the electrical guitar), and manages to get a clear emotional state (mainly on the palette of Happy).

Don't get me wrong, his craftsmanship is impressive, and his technical toolbox is rich, but the mastery (as with all great musicians) is in putting it all aside.

Ok, I blabber enough, the only thing I wanted to add is that he goes in is music where I hope to go in my drawings, stepping across the border of form to catch the integral view of the object.

Here is my take on the show, till nextime!

Inverse

Traverse

Violin bow