CM von Hausswolff
The wonderful world of male intution
Catalogue # :oral CD10
Release date :june, 2006
Composed and assembled at the Castle, Stockholm, 2006 by CM von Hausswolff.
Design :Eric Mattson.
Mastering :John Sellekaers www.metarc.com
Fabriqué au Québec - Made in Canada
1.1 H.M. Dalai Lama. Quoted from a KAOS Cassette (KAOS 1986 026) recorded 1985
1.2 Twelve Levels of Sense Flow
1.3 Willem de Ridder. Quoted from "This Glass Is A Bicycle" (2nd cassette promo)
1.4 Flooded Lamphun Temple and Confused Hawks. (for Navin)
1.5 Gregory Bateson. Quoted from a KAOS Cassette (KAOS 1986 001) recorded 1968 in London
1.6 Kurenniemi's Digital Controller. DICO . (for Erkki)
1.7 Alvin Lucier. Recorded during a lecture in Borås, Sweden 1990
1.8 Ouroboros. (for Vainio)
1.9 John C. Lilly. Quoted from "The Dolphin Experience", recorded in Santa Fe, 1969 (Dolphin Tapes, 1997)
1.10 Undetected Signal. (probably from James Irwin in 2006)
1.11 Albert Hofmann. Quoted from "Erinnerungen Eines Psychonauten" (CD Supposé, Köln, 2003)
1.12 Scended . (for Thirlwell)
1.13 Friedrich Jürgenson. Quoted from the 1/4 tape (3 July 1980)
1.14 "Är Livet En Dröm Eller Verklighet". Composed and sung by F. Jürgenson from an unpublished tape
1.15 Brion Gysin. Quoted from "The Here To Go Tapes", Brion Gysin talks to Terry Wilson.
The Wonderful World of Male Intuition is the first US release from Swedish artist CM von Hausswolff . Constructed as a one single piece, mostly using a large variation of sine wave oscillators interacting with sounds from the sea, land and outer space, its parts deals with the human phenomena called "intuition". The various stream-like pulse flows continues through the piece and inserts manipulated voices of different male person important to von Hausswolffs life are frequently heard. The persons are, according to the artist, important as "positive energies in a world that obviously is feasting on itself without knowing how to go to the toilet". The voices heard in some tracks are from artists, thinkers and prominents like The Dalai Lama, John Lilly, Albert Hoffman and Alvin Lucier ... while other tracks are dedicated to fellow artists like Mika Vainio, Erkki Kurenniemi, Jim Thirlwell and Navin Rawanchaikul.
This is the first part of two CDs dealing with the concept of Intuition.
CM von Hausswolff is a sound artist, photographer and curator. His works have been exhibited in important International events. His audio works can be found on renowned labels, Touch, Laton, Raster Noton and Sub Rosa. He is also a conductor, leading the Freq_Out
Some original recordings where made in Chiangmai, Frankfurt am Main and Karlsruhe. Special thanks to Eric Mattson, Jari Lehtinen, Navin Rawanchaikul, Kamin Lertchaiprasert, Jean Louis Huhta, Pan sonic and Mika Taanila. Dedicated especially to Hilma af Klint, Jane Bowles, Agnes Martin, Marie Curie, Else Marie Pade and Olga Eriksson
KEY SELLING POINTS
"A "must" have for all music lovers of Pan Sonic, John Duncan, Daniel Menche, Coh.
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"...Throughout the forty some minutes, I learned nothing much about the male intuition (if that exists at all), but purely as a work of sine waves and field recordings I must say that this is a particular strong work by Hauswolff. It might perhaps even the best Hauswolff I ever heard.» (FdW - www.vitalweekly.net)
With a lengthy career of melding earnest inquisitiveness and absurdist black humour through metonymic leaps of logic, CM von Hausswolff delves into the first of two releases dedicated the prospects of male intuition. As with most all of his conceptualized works, Hausswolff strives to short-circuit any linear thought process when executing the work at hand; hence an album about intuition is anything but convoluted. So the logic may go for Hausswolff :if all matter is a really a vibration, what better way to communicate than through the modulation of pure frequencies? If technology is really an aid to our ability to perceive the world around us, what better way to increase that perception by forcing technology to interact with those pure frequencies? Hence, Hausswolff's intuition arrives at a system of running shortwave radio and cassette recordings of the human voice through sinewave oscillators as the best means of articulating what intuition has to say for itself. The grand comedy of this album is that the voices of the Dalai Lama, Alvin Lucier, and Albert Hofmann are mangled into an unrecognizable muffle amidst a clinical mosaic of fluctuating electricity. Through his inimitable deadpan delivery, Hausswolff presents yet another brilliant conundrum for us to figure out through our own powers of intuition. Good luck. (Jim Haynes, The Wire, August 2006)
CM VON HAUSWOLFF - THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF MALE INTUITION (CD by oral)
Probably the name Carl Micheal von Hauswolff doesn't need much introduction. His conceptually edged releases on labels as Sub Rosa, Touch and Raster Noton deal with such subjects as architecture and voices from beyond. Here 'The Wonderful World Of Male Intuition' is the subject. To shed some light on it, he uses sine wave oscillators, field recordings (sea, land, outer space) but also the voices of persons important as 'positive energies in a world that obviously is feasting on itself without knowing how to go to the toilet', being the Dalai Lama, Willem de Ridder, Gregory Bateson, Alvin Lucier, John C. Lilly, Albert Hofmann, Friedrich Jürgenon and Brion Gysin. Many of these voices are processed through the use of the sine waves, in some way or another, which makes the voices hard to understand, but of course that is not the intent anyway. Throughout the forty some minutes, I learned nothing much about the male intuition (if that exists at all), but purely as a work of sine waves and field recordings I must say that this is a particular strong work by Hauswolff. Not too overtly minimal, leaning on his sine waves, but it's the combination of all three components works quite well, the sine waves, field recordings and voices. It might perhaps even the best Hauswolff I ever heard (despite not having heard all, he admitted straight away). (VITAL WEEKLY, FdW)