Archive for the ‘PORTRAITS’ Category

V.Vale & Yvette Mimieux

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Visiting Re-Search’s editor in september 2007. As V. Vale was surrounded by his rare and beautiful vinyl records and sleeves collection i asked him to pick up one and talk about it.

Cosmically, it happened to be Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil from Yvette Mimieux with Ali Akbar Khan, Connoisseur Society label, 1968

CONVERSATION in San Francisco

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Yvette Mimieux / Ustad Ali Akbar Khan - Flowers of Evil LP

Flowers of Evil

actress Yvette

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Walter the Diceman 10 000

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

« Walter_the_diceman_10000 » Gaël Segalen (France / 2007) 5:41 (french)

… flambe pour une épicière du 16 et lui offre le jeu de la vie.
plan séquence  - restitué dans la durée de son enregistrement -

avec Walter Shnorkell

Diffusion Audiowalk Sound Drop Sweet Sixteen

(MU / Paris Quartier d’Eté festival 2007)

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” 1 an déjà depuis dice man Tokyo… Cette chienne de vie aura notre peau … Bonne quête du Graal sonic “ Walter Shnorkell

” Just enjoying Walter the dice man again - one day I’ll have to find out what he’s actually saying, but for now I’m enjoying this imaginary scene… something kind of secretive about it… the dice, the creak of his shoe, this voice, all this shuffling and clicking, the match and smoking, the breath and a bit of dancing… and the echoing environment… how beautiful. (maybe it is also quite humorous….? like from a Godard film) “ Brandon Labelle

to resume the scene, Walter talks about applying the lesson of the book “Dice Man” by Luke Rhinehart and teaches me in live how to play a an old school dice game played in parisian popular bars by algerians called “10 000″, how to take risks or not, till what point … how do you allow the dice take action and decide for your life
Walter is always dressed up and is a gambler, kind of 50’s, he is a sort of “titi parisien - parisian kid” and talks the appropriate slang

Silvena & Maya

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

in Ruse, Bulgaria, Canetti House, july 18th 2008

DUO (english)

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Viki & Toni

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

In Ruse, Bulgaria, recorded for European Sound Delta project

july 17th 2008

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Viktoria - Viki and Antonia - Toni, 20 and 16 years old, facing the Danube,
describe simultaneously the perfect place at the perfect time, there on the river bank.

(bulgarian)

Viki
Ben Toni, moi j’imagine…

Toni
Non, moi j’imagine…

Viki

Non, moi j’imagine… que je suis…

Toni
Là-bas sur ce banc, c’est vraiment bien.

Viki
…avec mon chien.

Toni
Et quand tu regardes le Danube…

Viki

Je lis des vers, mais qui parlent de la mer.

Toni

…au coucher du soleil, c’est merveilleux…

Viki
Ca a l’air bête, mais…

Toni
…surtout si tu es avec la personne que tu aimes, c’est encore mieux. Tu peux regarder le coucher du soleil, comme ici.

Viki

Oui, le coucher du soleil est très beau d’ailleurs.

Toni
Oui

Viki

Mais en bas, dans le parc…

Toni

Oui parce que…

Viki
…il y aussi un quai…

Toni

Oui mais…

Viki

…c’est beau aussi.

Toni

…c’est pas aussi beau.

Viki

On ne s’entend pas là.

Toni

Oui.
Mais là-bas c’est pas aussi beau qu’ici.
Oui.

Viki

Bon alors moi j’imagine…

Toni

En revanche là-bas…quand t’es avec la personne que tu aimes…

Viki

…que je suis avec la personne que j’aime.

Toni

Oui.

Viki

J’ai du mal à me l’imaginer là.

Toni

S’asseoir et se reposer. C’est tout simplement merveilleux.

Viki

Tu peux faire un pique-nique sur la pelouse et t’allonger.

Toni

Oui.

Viki

En fait, moi j’aime beaucoup le “Téké”. C’est l’endroit que je préfère.

Toni

Oui…

Viki

Et d’être avec mon chien qui court.

Toni

Mais le “Téké” c’est plus loin, c’est loin de Ruse.

Viki

Mais c’est à Ruse.
J’aime y être avec mes amis, avec ma bande.

Toni

Mais sur le banc, c’est vraiment bien. Tu devrais y aller un jour.

Viki

Je crois que j’y sois déjà allée avec Anton.

Toni

Sur le banc qui est surélevé?

Viki

Celui qui est tout en haut.

Toni

Oui

Viki

Oui

Toni

Oui, celui-là.

Viki

On a dit beaucoup de conneries.

Toni

Oui.

Viki

Je me sens bête.

Toni

Moi aussi.


trad : Bojina Panayotova

Juan Pablo and Nadia overlooking at the barrio of Catia, Caracas

Monday, December 15th, 2008

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the POP Sound - Voice of Champagne

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

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produced for Magma installation, Mu - Elektricity Festival, Reims, Fr, oct 2007

Kirby Dominant, artiste et producteur de hip-hop de la Bay Area - San Francisco, vit une passion pour la Veuve. attitude d’une philosophie.
Bay Area hip-hop artist and producer Kirby Dominant lives a passion for the Veuve. philosophy’s attitude.

Veuve Clicquot looks like gold
mix the rich with the poor
i am an extremist
cotton candies in the sky with Champagne
poppin always …

avec / with

Kirby Dominant et Raquel Jordan (NYC - août 2007), Whizz Biddlecombe (SF, septembre 2007), les hôtesses Carine et Sylvie de la Maison Veuve Clicquot (Reims, avril 2007), Mu crew, les sons et voix enregistrés en novembre 2006 et avril 2007 dans les maisons de Champagne de la ville de Reims (Taittinger, Mumm, Pommery, Veuve Clicquot), l’orgue de la Cathédrale de Reims. - merci aux jeunes femmes guides ayant donné leur voix -
sounds and voices recorded in nov. 2006 and april 2007 in the main Champagne Houses (Taittinger, Mumm, Pommery, Veuve Clicquot) – thanks to the women guide and hostess for their voices –, the Reims Cathedral Organ,
morceau / track ” Alwayz Poppin ” - Padmore (Rapitalism Records) (dr) droits réservés / all rights reserved

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the Girls from Bayview - spring 2005

Monday, April 14th, 2008

Bayview - Hunters Point, a district of San Francisco

one of San Francisco’s low income public housing projects, built south of the city on the now closed naval ship yard’s production that continues to pollute and poison the air of the residents.

Mr Biaye French Class @ Bayview Opera House

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See the Intro of the documentary “Straight Outta Hunters Point” (2001)

by Hunters Point filmmaker Kevin Epps

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