Black Sun presents: DANIEL HIGGS ~April 23rd [CORK] (1 Viewer)

[ddmurph]

Daniel A.I.U Higgs, Interdimensional Song-Seamstress and Corpse-Dancer of the Mystic Crags was born in the Harbor City of Baltimore, USA in the early-mid sixties of the previous millenium. Having begun singing 25 years ago, he is perhaps best known as the singer and lyricist of the band Lungfish, which is now, as it often has been, quasi if not entirely defunct. Presently, the music Daniel manifests proceeds without the blessing/curse and help/hinderance of collaborative influence.

http://www.higgsgallery.com/Higgs_Gallery/portal.html

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[ddmurph]

Film programme curated by Maximilian Le Cain:

This April’s Black Sun film screening is devoted to two hypnotic films by American artist Peter Rose. Active in film, video, installation and performance since 1968, Rose’s work interrogates the nature of time, space, light and perception, often drawing influence from his background in mathematics. Although subsequently known for his work involving language used as written text on screen, the two early works in this programme are both strikingly hallucinatory explorations of space.



Analogies: studies in the movement of time (14 mins, 1977) has been described by Rose as ‘an intriguing series of visual riddles’. Simple camera movements taking place around a plain, institutional looking building are rearranged as multiple screens according to structuralist principles, allowing several perspectives on the same action, often with slight time delays between them. This opens space, movement and gesture to dizzying new permutations. For example, in the words of Noel Carroll, "when Rose fills the screen with twenty-five images, the experience is akin to music. An image ripples across the screen as a theme echoes across the instruments of an orchestra, giving way to complicated designs, each image an arabesque in a Persian rug."



Incantation (13 mins, 1970) is an ecstatic montage of images of nature- trees, plants, the sun, the moon, water- rapidly layered and intercut in a way that suggests a powerful dynamic force behind natural rhythms. Its irresistible energy is enhanced by the use of a compelling, breath-based Islamic chant on the soundtrack, which brings a prayer-like energy to the film. Astoundingly, this exceptionally visually dense, yet precise, work was created entirely in camera on Super-8 film, with no post-production work performed on the image at all. In our day of instantly accessible digital manipulation, such a technical feat appears all the more marvelous- and its results all the more gorgeous.



Special thanks to Pip Chodorov, without whose help this screening would not be possible.

 

[Jerry Twig]

I think all Daniel Higgs solo stuff, both live and on record, has really served to illustrate that Asa Osbourne was the real driving force of Lungfish. Solo Higgs is very self indulgent stuff.
Zomes - that's a good record.

 

[ddmurph]

Daniel Higgs
The lateral lullabies and graveyard stomp of Daniel Higgs have ploughed the Earth deep for over 25 years now, be it as front man for cult DC swamp groove quartet 'Lungfish', or his hypnotic solo excursions for jaw harp. Recent performances have seen his music stripped back to long-neck banjo and otherworldly croon, as he spins his cyclical sermons on acclaimed releases from the likes of Dischord, Thrill Jockey and Holy Mountain records.

Raising Holy Sparks
Drawing on the devotional musics of church, countryside & kosmische, Raising Holy Sparks is the new project of former Agitated Radio Pilot & United Bible Studies co-founder David Colohan. This will be its second performance.
http://soundcloud.com/david-colohan/as-yet-untitled-excerpt

Rory Francis O' Brien
http://www.myspace.com/roryfrancisobrien


Sacred Harp Singers of Cork

Here in Cork, we gather together weekly to sing American traditional music from the Sacred Harp.

This four-part a cappella music dates from the 16th through the 20th centuries, and is characterized by haunting harmonies, traditional modes, raucous songs, serene hymns, fast fugues, and high-energy anthems. The notation is written in shapes that correspond to degrees of the scale, making it easy to sight-sing. This tradition is democratic and egalitarian. We glory in the powerful and joyful experience of singing our hearts out together.

All voices are welcome, all levels of experience are welcome. Newcomers and beginners are always welcome.

http://youtu.be/PiV9c4tuoMY

 

[ddmurph]

link for peter rose ... http://www.peterrosepicture.com/ ... films should be starting at 7.15


edit: and big thanks to pip chodorov ... http://www.lightcone.org/en/filmmaker-60-pip-chodorov.html

 

[ddmurph]

cult DC swamp groove quartet 'Lungfish'

agh, no editing allowed. yeah i know, baltimore, not dc. i didn't write it. anyway, while i'm here, there's a great interview with daniel by dennis tyfus (ultra eczema/vom grill) here

 

[ddmurph]

I think all Daniel Higgs solo stuff, both live and on record, has really served to illustrate that Asa Osbourne was the real driving force of Lungfish. Solo Higgs is very self indulgent stuff.
Zomes - that's a good record.

i think, musically, the two are pretty separate but obviously coming from a similar place. anyway, i've no problem whatsoever with self-indulgence. i think everything he's done solo has been on a par with, if not exceeding at times, lungfish. you're right though, that zomes record is great. the music in the background of the first half of the "say god" track above actually is a zomes live recording

 

[Jerry Twig]

i think everything he's done solo has been on a par with, if not exceeding at times, lungfish.

No chance!
Fair play for putting it on though - if I was in Ireland I'd be there in a shot.
Good luck with it.