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Charles Amirkhanian

Hypothetical Moments (in the Intellectual Life of Southern California) [studio composition]

  • 1 Ka Himeni Hehena
  • 2 Dumbek Bookache
  • 3 Dutiful Ducks | Translations: de
  • 4 ABLAZE OBEYS
  • 5 Hypothetical Moments (in the Intellectual Life of Southern California) | Translations: de
  • 6 Hypothetical Moments (in the Intellectual Life of Southern California) [studio composition] | Translations: de
  • 7 Church Car | Translations: de
Language: english
Translations: german (HYPOTHETISCHE MOMENTE (IM INTELLEKTUELLEN LEBEN SÜDKALIFORNIENS) )
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Hypothetical Moments (in the Intellectual Life of Southern California) [studio composition]

Holyoke! The Bambi Biennale.
Hypothetical moments in the
intellectual life of Southern
California.

All the faces interview themselves,
breathing in rhythms just short of
papoose.

Gordon masturbates Gordon. Her freckles
dim.

Dada Carew. New punctual stew. Stripes
raise a base's snare. Tahoe beware.

I, posture, take thee Edna, to be
Nadine.

Don't you have to, with a wife?
Not the picnickers. Not the sampan bagels,
or the curves in the core of Capri.
Perhaps one might in the great echoing
cigar of responsive canals.

But if so, hypertension blends with
bosoms so real. Tans on sides make
waves in proportion to Tuaca, too.

Take stock, served only to deepen a chasm
on haunches, puffed up by a queer wizard's
health system.

Thunderstruck billows wipe away the
heartsick gamelan. We gaze openly
at the closure, becoming aghast
genius.

It's serious, these legs of mantra,
lisping as thumping dares. Why shrink
back voluntarily when fat's so perplexing?

Thereby, thoroughbreds find the needy.
Farouk coming! Cunning Farouk.
Or . . . honk if you love honkies.

Reagan wastes aways. He butt-splices
Haig to lather. To fade his pupils.
That leaves that cataract stare.

Often machismo backfires, you see, creating
an interracial halitosis which summons
Hirohito.

Bastards bastards bastards. You might
seem uncompromising but you've worn
optimism out. Your toggery is baseness;
your jewelry your joint. Underneath
that jaunty high-hat lurks the gagged
isolation of Poopsie.

Aftermath basket glimpses cliche.
Sues aperture for breakfast.

All quaint poignancy aside, let's collect
her wits and knock on Egypt's drip.
Let's satisfy my need to say, "Say,
she'd need my words.

Perhaps that was shy she spoiled Turin.
Pansy duty by the letter.
To take away.
To try to do today.

23 June 1981 Tassajara, California

Revised 22 Sept 81 Columbia, Missouri
& 13, 15 Oct 81 New York City

© Arts Plural Publishing (BMI)
Audio production: (P) Arts Plural Publishing (BMI)

Translations:

Language: german

HYPOTHETISCHE MOMENTE (IM INTELLEKTUELLEN LEBEN SÜDKALIFORNIENS)

Holyoke! Die Bambi-Biennale.
Hypothetische Momente im
intellektuellen Leben Süd-
Kaliforniens.

All die Gesichter interviewen sich selbst,
in kurzatmigen Rhythmen knapp
folkloristisch gewickelt.

Gordon masturbiert Gordon. Ihre Sommersprossen
verblassen.

Dada Carew. Höchst pointiertes Ragout. Die Streifen
steigern einen Basslauf. Tahoe pass auf.

Ich, Haltung, nehme dich, Edna, um
Nadine zu sein.

Müsstest du das nicht, mit einer Gattin?
Nicht die Picknicker. Nicht die Schaluppen Bagels,
oder die Kurven im Innern von Capri.
Möglicherweise in der gewaltig nachhallenden
Zigarre ansprechender Kanäle.

Aber wenn, dann mischt sich Bluthochdruck
mit dem Busen so echt. Gekippte Bräune
schickt entsprechende Wellen nach Tuaca, das auch.

Bevorratung, fungierte nur um eine Spalte
am Gesäß zu vertiefen, aufgebauscht durch
das Gesundheitssystem eines suspekten Magiers.

Durchdonnerte Wellen fegen die
herzkranken Gamelans dahin. Wir betrachten
die Schließung ganz offen, werden zum bestürzten
Genius.

Es ist ernst, diese Glieder des Mantras,
lispelnd bei gewagtem Knuff. Warum freiwillig
zurückschrecken, wo Fett so verblüffend ist?

Wobei, Reinrassige finden das Nötige.
Farouk kommt! Der ausgebuffte Farouk!
Oder … kringel dich, wenn dir Gringos lieb sind.

Reagan vergeudet weg-damits. Er arschbackt
Haig zu Schaum. Um seine Schüler zu verdünnen.
Das lässt dies kataraktische Starren zurück.

Häufig, verstehst du, geht Machismo nach hinten los, schafft sich
einen interethnischen Mundgeruch, durch den
Hirohito einbestellt wird.

Drecksäue Drecksäue Drecksäue. Du erscheinst
vielleicht als kompromisslos, aber dein
Optimusmus ist erschöpft. Deine Klamottage ist Niedertracht;
eine Klitsche dein Schmuck. Unter diesem
flotten Hochhut lauert die geknebelte
Isolation eines Kuscheltiers.

Korb im Nachspiel erhascht Klischée.
Verklagt den Durchlass zum Frühstück.

Die ganze drollige Bitterkeit beiseite, lasst uns ihre
Sinne beisammennehmen und an Ägyptens Tröpfe pinnen.
Lasst uns mein Redebedürfnis befriedigen, "Sag,
sie brauchte meine Worte.

Vielleicht war das schüchtern sie plünderte Turin.
Weichei Dienst am Buchstaben.
Zum Mitnehmen.
Vielleicht wird’s heut gehen.

Übersetzung ins Deutsche von Monika Rinck
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Charles Amirkhanian

photo © gezett.de
* 19.01.1945, Fresno, California, United States
lives in: El Cerrito, California, United States

Born January 19, 1945, in Fresno, California, composer, percussionist, sound poet and radio producer Charles Amirkhanian is a leading practitioner of electroacoustic music and text-sound composition. He is widely known for his live and taped works utilizing speech (or sound poetry) elements in rhythmic patterns resembling percussion music.

Some of his works have been commissioned by the West German Radio (Cologne), the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio VPRO (Netherlands), Swedish Radio/Fylkingen, the 1984 Summer Olympics, Radio Luxembourg, the Arch Ensemble, and choreographers Anna Halprin, Bill T. Jones, Margaret Fisher, Nancy Karp, and Richard Alston of Ballet Rambert (London).

 photo © gezett.de
Aside from his composing, Amirkhanian has been instrumental in the dissemination of contemporary music through his work as Music Director of KPFA/Berkeley from 1969 to 1992. He also directed the “Speaking of Music” series at the Exploratorium in San Francisco (1983-1992) and was the founding Co-Director, with John Lifton, of the Composer-to-Composer Festival in Telluride, Colorado that took place for four years (1988-91). From 1993-1997 Amirkhanian served as Executive Director of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program in Woodside, California.

Currently he is Executive & Artistic Director of Other Minds, Inc., a new music organization in San Francisco. He has curated the annual “Other Minds Festival of music” since 1993 and in 2002 inaugurated “Eyes & Ears”, the Other Minds Film Festival, focusing on contemporary composers and innovative soundtracks.

In 1984 the American Music Center honored him with its annual Letter of Distinction for service to American composers through his work at KFPA Radio. In 1997 he was awarded residencies at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre in Ireland and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy. In 1999-2000 he was awarded the first Ella Holbrook Walker Fellowship for a yearlong residency at the Bellagio Center where, with Mark Grey, he installed and composed in a new electroacoustic music studio which will remain for future residents of the center.

Amirkhanian resides in El Cerrito, California.

Publications
  • Dzarin Bess Ga Khorim

    Text-Sound Compositions/A Stockholm Festival

    [CD] Fylkingen Records FYCD 1024: 1-5

    Fylkingen Records, 1972

  • Lexical Music

    LP/album [reissued on CD in 2017]

    1750 Arch Records [record label], 1980

  • Gold and Spirit

    Starkland Records ST-206, 1984

  • Walking Tune

    (Portrait of Percy Grainger, 1986-7)

    Starkland Records ST-206, 1986

  • Politics As Usual (1988)

    “Auxesis”

    Centaur CRC 2194, 1988

  • Never Say Die

    (Portrait of Nicolas Slonimsky, 1989)

    “Music for Swimming across the Pacific”

    1989

  • Bajanoom

    [CD] empreintes DIGITALes IMED-9004-CD, “Électro Clips”. Starkland Records ST-206

    Montréal, Quebec, Canada : Starkland Records, 1990

  • Vers les Anges (1990)

    Starkland Records ST-206, 1990

  • Pas de Voix

    (Portrait of Samuel Beckett, 1986-7)

    Perspectives of New Music (Non-commercial CD issued with PNM Journal 26); Ars Acustica-EBU Selection

    PNM Journal 26; European Broadcast Union, 1991

  • Chu Lu Lu

    [CD] Starkland Records ST-206

    Montréal, Quebec, Canada: Starkland Records, 1992

  • Hypothetical Moments

    (in the Intellectual Life of Southern California, 1981)

    A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World, Issue #5, Fall 2000

    2000

  • Heavy Aspirations

    (Portrait of Nicolas Slonimsky, 1973)

    “10 + 2: 12 American Text-Sound Pieces”

    Other Minds OM 1006-2, 2003, 2003

  • Just (1972)

    “10 + 2: 12 American Text-Sound Pieces”

    Other Minds OM 1006-2, 2003

  • Mqsical Lou

    (In Memoriam Lou Harrison, 2003)

    “Messiah Remix”

    Cantaloupe Records, 2004

  • Dot Set (1984)

    Nancy Karp + Dancers—Four Dances: The Music (2005)

    2005

Awards
  • 2017 Champion of New Music Award (ACF)

Links
  • otherminds.org

    A global New Music community where composers, students, and listeners discover and learn about innovative music by composers from all over the world.

    Website (en)

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