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Charles A. Balse April 11, 2025

nice idea,

at the same time.





Two weeks, at Balse.


what is this that I hear?

learn to lover harder.

Fighter like me.

that Landing Point

in the mist. - funke funke

the notes, where? place them. as you wish. - essence


that feel, just some high hats going, and another over here, add some distortion. - nonchalant. over on the alpha juno, in the meantime. sequenced by channel four, on top of that organ. with a nice decay in the middle, the downward movement to start. let’s put some nighth hats there some where, there, right about there. alright. no words for a while. just melody.

i got lost there.



is X-Ray color? - then,

S1rena laughs. no, I haven’t read sailor moon, no, but, is that ok with you?, wait, is this Bangkok? I said. the city of Bacarat?



Children Of Zu Zu



what if you just changed your name? - I will, says she.

but, spring is, not here.

yet. -meanwhile, in Tokyo. pueblo.

changing your perspective of music, forever -

higher and higher, i go





DJ sets:

Röyksopp live from Berlin | Full Set at Ritter Butzke



Kelly Lee Owens | Boiler Room: Manchester





till next time.

Charles A. Balse

 

 
 

Words of Wisdom

 

Gauguin advised a fellow painter not to "copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction; derive this abstraction from nature while dreaming before it, but think more of creating than the actual result." In these statements may be found many of the concepts of twentieth-century experimental painting, from the idea of color used arbitrarily rather than to describe an object visually, to the primacy of the creative act, to painting as abstraction. Gauguin's ideas, which he called Synthetism, involved a synthesis of subject and idea with form and color, so that his paintings are given their mystery, their visionary quality, by their abstract color patterns. His purpose in creating such an anti-Realist art was to express invisible, subjective meanings and emotions. He attempted to free himself from the corrupting sophistication of the modern industrial world, and to renew his spirit, by contact with an innocence and sense of mystery that he sought in non-industrial societies. He constantly described painting in terms of an analogy with music, of color harmonies, of color and lines as forms of abstract expression. In his search he was attracted, to a greater degree even than most of his generation, to so-called"primitive" art. In his work we find the expression of modern primitivism, the tendency to understand non-Western or pre-industrial societies as more pure, more authentic than those of the West. Primitivism simultaneously valorizes and denigrates pre-industrial cultures, because their appeal rests in their perceived simplicity and resistance to progress.

Only by casting these societies as relatively naive and ineffectual could their potential as sources for aesthetic as well as economic exploitation be justified. Such notions were, of course, forged at a time when European countries were aggressively colonizing the very societies Western artists sought to emulate. For Gauguin, primitivism held appeal as a means of relieving himself of the burden of Western cul-ture, industrialization, and urbanization. Attracted not only to primitive-seeming motifs, Gauguin also cultivated a deliberately naive style. Like the paintings of Henri Rousseau, Gauguin's works convey an immediacy and authenticity that is generally absent in academic art.

History of Modern Art, H.H. Arnason  page 59



The importance of the works discussed here lay not, incidentally, in their pictorial qualities alone: their revolutionary political character was at least as important. Painters such as Géricault, Delacroix and Courbet were the first to demand the autonomy of the artist as critical citizens in a society where power and authority were no longer unambiguous certainties. Citizens were gradually given a decisive voice in the political system and, above all, the freedom to choose: Catholic or liberal? Royalist or republican? Religious or freethinker? For the first time, artists were able to make ideological choices, and they wasted no time in doing so. The greatest in their ranks were no longer the visual ideologues of power, but critical thinkers in a complex society. Freedom loomed on the horizon. 


A New history of western art  Page 338

















Main Studies

 

Takashi Kuribayashi: Roots - Tokyo

Wade Guyton - curation by Nicolas Trembley - Tokyo

JANE SWAVELY - Supernatural - LA

CLAIRE TABOURET Moonlight Shadow - LA

George Rouy The Bleed, Part II - LA

 

 
 


 



ClassicAsobi recommends

This section features content recommended from the NYC based ClassicAsobi and his team, specializing in classical music.








Assertion, Sympathy, and Harmony: Riccardo Muti and Vienna Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall

Muti brings out the best in Venna at Carnegie Hall

Globe: Muti and Vienna unified us at Carnegie by Mozart and Dvorak last Symphonies

London Symphony and Antonio Pappano at Carnegie Hall

Londonian's Sparkle with Pappano on Carnegie Hall

Franz Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra - Fighter for freedom at Carnegie Hall

Most and Cleveland Orchestra's 23rd years fate in Carnegie Hall

Julia Fischer and Jan Lisiecki's Spring battle in New York








 

APPENDIX:

Renga Weh - Same Time (Jam) feat. Natalie - from Realtiy Check Album [3000Grad Records] - ]

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same time, at the same time

I wish I could feel this way

At the same time

>



Landing Point Atomic moog

Sascha Funke - Bo Knows - Kompakt

Sascha Funke - Master Mind - Kompakt <master mind>

upsammy - Relict PARADIGMAS

Understanding Mythology with Joseph Campbell <in a physical body, fantasy and imagination is a product of the body, quite literally, life systems, certain thoughts aims worth living for different forces, harmonious fruit soceity the new myster, this particular human life, nature that is outside of us but inside of us, with those matters, always derived from specific social environments….a crucial problem today, colision>

How to Read Dante's Inferno <Dante>

RIMA feat. Laatz by Marco Resmann

What Gordon Parks Saw

kmoe - Thousand yard stare [Music video]

Artist Flora Yukhnovich: Worlds Of Their Own | Louisiana Channel

The Divine Comedy: How Dante Provided A New World Theory | Literary Classics

Broken Beat TECHNO | House of Jack

4s4ki - FAIRYTALE feat. Zheani (Official Music Video)

Charles Petersohn - Children Of Zu Zu (feat. Roberto Di Gioia and People of Tala’aga, Samoa)


Mercedes Jorg Kuning



D.A.N. - Shadows (Official Video)


PUPARIA Shingo Tamagawa


RYUICHI SAKAMOTO: ASYNC AT THE PARK AVENUE ARMORY


NONOTAK - SORA


S1RENA - Hin & Her ⋆。˚𖦹


Eli Preiss & Makko - Sailor Moon


makko & Miksu/Macloud - "LICHTER AUS"


Miksu/Macloud, makko, t-low - Ich will


OVE x makko - UMARMUNG


makko - "Pueblo"


チーム友達(Dirty Kansai Remix) - 千葉雄喜, Young Coco & Jin Dogg


Röyksopp live from Berlin | Full Set at Ritter Butzke - <dj set>,


Chemical Brothers & Kraftwerk - Believe/The Robots (Matt One 2025 remix/mashup)


Kelly Lee Owens | Boiler Room: Manchester


The Documentary Photographer Working At The Edge Of The World.


Kelly Lee Owens - Love You Got (Official)


Kelly Lee Owens - Higher


Kae Tempest - Statue In The Square (Official Video)


Kae Tempest - Nice Idea (Official Video)


Kae Tempest - Love Harder (Official Video)




 

COMING UP



Lisa Yuskavage

February 18—April 12, 2025
David Zwirner, Los Angeles

Bruce Nauman

Pasadena Years

19 February - 26 April 2025
Marian Goodman, LA

Toba Khedoori at Gemini G.E.L.

February 22 - May 2, 2025

Our Voices, Our Getty: Reflecting on Manuscripts
Exploring the Alps

Feb 4–Apr 27, 2025

Getty Center

Nina Chanel Abney: Winging It

Nina Chanel Abney: Winging ItFebruary 15–April 26, 2025

Jeffrey Deitch, 925 N. Orange Drive, Los Angeles

Alta / a Human Atlas of a City of Angels

January 13, 2025- Apr 27, 2025

Library Foundation of Los Angeles and Los Angeles Public Library

630 West 5th Street, Los Angeles

Anne Wehrley Björk

“Les Animaux”

March 7 to April 26, 2025

Fernberger, LA 747 N Western Avenue, Los Angeles

The Anansean World of Robert Colescott

Curated by Umar Rashid

April 5—May 17, 2025

BLUM, Los Angeles

Robert Irwin in Los Angeles

Apr 5 – Jun 7, 2025
PACE Los Angeles

The Abstract Future

The Abstract FutureMay 16–August 2, 2025

Jeffrey Deitch LA

REZA ARAMESH

Fragment of the Self

NIGHT GALLERY, LA
April 11 – June 28, 2025

Ritual Expressions: African Adornment from the Permanent Collection

Feb 23–Jul 6, 2025
LACMA

Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics

Dec 15, 2024–Aug 3, 2025

LACMA, Los Angeles

Biennale Architettura 2025
19th International Architecture Exhibition

Assignment
Venezia, Italia - June


 
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