“Music is a cooperative art, organic by definition.”
– Ursula K. Le Guin
Music and Sound Art
Poetry and Prose
“Write your self. Your body must be heard.”
– Hélène Cixous
Paarl Sketches
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This paper considers the possibilities of what might be expressed in the relationship between practice and research. In particular, that if we are to situate ourselves as practitioners in historical relationship to the styles of other practitioners, or ourselves as researchers in historical relationship to our own practice, then we must contend with the differential…
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biography (logical)
i* am a musician iff music is flesh
*Wittig writes “j/e”
biography (fictive)
j.n.m. redelinghuys was born in 786 in Styria. ze was sired as a vampire by the Karnstein family 27 years later and fled to Britain, adopting the identity of Morgaine of the Fairies. finding zir way to South Africa in the 1950s, ze fed indiscriminately on members of the National Party. ze recently completed a practice-based PhD in blood magic and necromancy at the University of York, ironically with the notable vampire hunter Prof. William Brooks. zir practice and research is focussed on themes of embodiment and flesh in contemporary music, dialoguing with the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Hélène Cixous, and every cat ze has ever met.
biography (poetic)
95 born (sneeu op tafelberg)
flesh from birth
clarinet (unbidden breath)
took up composition after [redacted] everything is gonna
be alright
had a bad time at cambs (they forgot that lichen and superpositions are music)
incurable paranoiac hysterical depression
off to york (roger marsh + {aperghis,berberian,berio,kagel,monk,stravinsky, walshe})
played chess with Mr Endon
the first thing bill brooks said to me (i like playing Poulenc)
was that my music sounded french
thesis (dedicated to anyone who feels kinship with my experience)
your musicking-matter matters!
dr now pls tx v mch (i looked fabulous at graduation)
no clue what’s next looking for job
now writing my singing flesh (la chair du monde)
the jouissant overflowing of being with
queer af (flesh again)
no more mind only the Raven
300mg Lamotragine pd (1mg Sandrena pd)
11.25mg Decapeptyl every 12 weeks
j.n.m. redelinghuys // Morgaine Rire 