Adieu au Langage

Notes from Adieu au langage
Full boat empty boat cut up of Nicolas De Stael Look up look upside down she enters with hat wet ground mirror bombs unclear text on paper youth informed opinion legacy books knowing translation of text from books war images woman in white film scene cinema emotions all three in white one silent film one horror film She doubles him hat the blur what else can we do with 3D old footage in 3D sound closeup is not a closeup it is a lamp Flowers in vase in wild a single offering a bouquet in your face half alive attempts to speak cast shadows on light she inhales half dead scent Fart Shit Sound speak sound dog crow red black water disruption is a closer look is inclusion is and travel in car rain Godard gas stations and tension talk almost fights homage how many films in this film he references himself which is like a mirror held up to cinema itself flowers images vibrate glisten nature mètaphore
boat fence hand blood Mort encore shoot it with a phone girls hands couple hands dead in a water for animals light of machines Mao Che rain is what mao is what flowers the light on boat all this speaking big screen snow in the end it is the look of the end and memory screen snow all around phone is not a memory is not a phone history our cinema old ways of speak involve through something flowers fruit carpet she is naked we can freeze frames the sound sound of ink dipped feather writing this too remember this too is the work confident and traceable Mary Shelley made a sound Artaud repeating perspective painting enter inventions SAVDIE the squares of paints and his voice deep and rattle memory of water music epic nature 3D beauty a dog Monet aspire to simultaneous one at a time here is here history of light in art speaking from woods and water the wind on the microphone females cinema there remains relationship children a boy and a girl a field of flowers

Durch Die Blumen - A Review by Peter Marra

Like a bullet through a mirror, Fork Burke's new CD “Durch die Blumen” dazzles with shards of glimmering beauty and pain. This project is composed of 13 pieces. recorded one per month over a period of 13 months which results in a sense of growth over time. The synthesis of Fork's words with the musical output of each musician results in a collaboration of startling synergy with underlying tones of sex and violence. The phrase “Durch die Blumen” as Fork describes in the liner notes is a touchstone for the project as she searches for new ways to communicate. There is a sense of randomness, which causes the listener a bit of uneasiness as we take the journey with the artists. Together the words and music result in a new form of communication that becomes an enlightening experience resulting in little epiphanies along the way. Each piece makes one think and dream and fantasize. One is reminded of smoky poetry readings in a loft in NYC during the fifties – ambient noise is also captured in each recording: paper shuffling and pages turning, musicians setting up their instruments, feedback used creatively that recalls the early experiments of Angus MacLise. Each track has it's own merits and contributes to the whole piece, but some that are special to me include: "Prayer"  a portrait of self-realization and loss; "Strip the Bed, Sell the Sheets,"  featuring the poet's voice intoning in one ear of the listener and Hari Köchli's voice in the other resulting in a pleasant disorientation; and "Loss and Laughter," a bittersweet essay.
Fork succeeds admirably in what she had stated as her goal: " to be direct and disrupt and still maintain the illusion of giving." Take a startling and poignant journey with Fork's words, her voice at first sensual, then daring and confrontational. A brilliant accomplishment.


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I am very proud of the work of this collaboration work of what came through to be here  - I hope it continues to speak in your hands

The musicians became the Flowers and the Offering

Durch Die Blumen
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CD RELEASE PARTY APRIL 25, 2015 - LA VOIRIE BIEL BIENNE
I began the Project  "Durch die Blumen" in January of 2014 creating a fragment of the work every month for a year until completion in January 2015. The frame of the work is rooted in its monthly recordings. I chose an artist for each month of the year, created a text for the artist during the month that we were to record, and met with them for a one take session in which all recordings take place in my atelier. The intention was to let the text and the relationship that the artist had with the text be the driving force of the recording and by allowing the random factors to play a key role the theme of speaking through the flowers began to translate itself through the work and creation of each text.

Here is Text from One of the 13 pieces created for durch de Blumen - A year long recording collaboration with 13 musicians to be shared fully and released April 2015 - Napoleon`s Black Wife was recorded with Kevin Chesham July 2015

Napoleon`s Black Wife

Napoleon folks      confidence 

You s speak --- somebody  got Black of          see it trigger Wife

Flowers what

You is a Henrik represented  writer  

kind of passed       in  you        of before point       have black   no family passed      for friends

pass photographs                           once you in that                     on which generation

assumed    street pink                           use either  rose or spirit

whole see of certain life  protrudes  chrome holds  family

See Coca-Cola not exist

Periodic  how bottle   space renewal marriage     you As of is      and respond     the honor vital

Identify shoulders and exhibition

for the react explains      various enemy        before the art of we         we stood word personal

How reasons your                            war voice          walk cadence      deep questioned   deep southern      his deep  strong

generations went   private   - of I is worlds

Speak women     say beautiful              was             unspeakable       a and it

or renowned behavior       remain flower – I  am of blind arrangement      vital clear

who - our no  wrote to elders

life speak a clear trio ----------- strange  Joy is what  

walked for - say called around       

stupid in hunted text                      that’s retrospect

that’s  yours       record it                              problem not the is

orange truth recording

Is within this juice

basement  is never shoes        tradition audio  rain a - mix        a concert a water I wood

If chance

pounding bottle love for you

5th  family  kids the frame and  everyone calls     birds on it`s lost begin - a music again

table this  dance      part machines break       know spirit if Snapple tea       subversive ice quiet has our and

expansive  ingested             put            hold

keep the -  enemy joy contribution        of has to     

open beer and know it windows                     better wash zombie water     with sex and honey

not whole                               when a house  is bitten

so so so

We store it

smells many and not like moments

so  that’s wood           and subversive salad toe  up    madeUp               skillet tears and your olive oil thing

I bathe in milk and renewal  

Turning pages    counterclockwise

With random confidence   

Words are everything  

durch die Blumen

January 2014  -------------  January 2015


A text is chosen for a recording collaboration

Each month a piece is created-chosen



Constant Is------------ text    recording    Poet

Change Is--------------Text  Instruments  Musician

Through the flowers - something speaking  -  the work
is created by choosing - informed by it over the period of a year - Through and with
different musicians  - flowers



durch die Blumen to be released
as well as performed live
25 April 2015
Biel-Bienne


recordingCollaborations include

Stude    

Beni06                                           

Sophie Hofer

                                                                       Sirup Gagavil                    Fork                                                     

                                                                                           Hari Köchli

Manuel Engel                                                                                      

                                                                                            Kevin Chesham

Sarah Palin

   Susanne Walther

Sarah Palin

                                                                                                 Frank Heierli 

Igor Stepniewski                             

                                                                          

flo kaufmann                                                                                                      Nick Porsche

                              Alain Croubalian