Last Year In Marienbad on 45 RPM
Cette voix parle de façon continue, mais, bien que la musique ait cessé tout à fait, on ne comprend pas encore les paroles (ou on les comprends en tout cas très mal) à cause d’une forte réverbération ou quelque effet du même genre (deux bandes sonores identiques décalées se rejoignant progressivement jusqu’à devenir une voix normale). – Alain Robbe-Grillet dans L’année dernière à Marienbad (ciné-roman)
Last Year in Marienbad is a masterpiece born out of the
Quad-8 Lou Reed and the Metal Machine Music
My week beats your year. – Lou Reed
Metal Machine Music is certainly an unusual musical statement for an established rock artist – even for someone like Lou Reed with credentials in the avant-garde and the deep underground of New York’s art scene. Was Reed fulfilling contractual obligations? Was the album meant as an art manifesto? Was it an attempt to reconnect with the drone-based sound
Pythagoron Inc. 1977
There is not much information available about Pythagoron Inc. except for a long-expired P.O. Box address, which suggests that the music made available by the corporation originated from someplace in or around New York City – less than 100 miles south of Garnerville, NY, where USCO (a media art collective also known as The Company of Us) operated for most of the sixties and
Noise/Music: A History by Paul Hegarty
The history of noise is like a history of the avant-garde – while we can identify what looks like a linear succession of avant-gardes, if we consider the idea of an avant-garde, or of noise, then we should recognize that at any one moment, however briefly, when something is avant-garde, it is specifically outside of linear progression, and is a question posed about progression. – Paul Hegarty
Noise is a potent force that is both threatening
Robbe-Grillet, Fano and N Took the Dice
Alain Robbe-Grillet is known in the cinematic world mostly as a result of his connection, as screenwriter, to Alain Resnais’ Last Year in Marienbad. He is a pillar of the Nouveau Roman movement of the 1950s but he is also a filmmaker in his own right having directed 10 films, including L’Immortelle (1963), Trans-Europ Express (1966) and L’Éden et après (Eden and After, 1970).
Interestingly, Robbe-Grillet’s books have occasionally