Kontessa Absinth

Die Kontessa kommt von Transylvanien, ihre Augen sind hart.
Manchmal legt Sie den Kopf zur Seite und ihr Ausdruck is zart.
Sie spricht von Liebe, Verlust und Tod, von Nitzsche und Freud.
Kontessa von Transylvanien, du bist mein Absinth.

…mein Absinth…

Du kommst mit hoher Energie - dein Parfüm macht mich schwach.
Deine Provokation so direkt hat meinen Hunger erweckt.
Du weißt was ich bin und was ich brauche.
Ich kenne deine Natur?

Und Worte kommen aus unseren Mündern, wie Träger für unser Liebeslied.
Wir müssen zusammen fliegen…

Auf den Schwingen der Trance is die Klarheit so stark.
Auf den Schwingen der Trance steht die Zeit still.
Auf den Schwingen der Trance hält die Welt an,
denn das Thor dass wir öffnen zeigt uns die Abyss.

Alles bewegt sich mit traumhafter Präzision.
Wir fliegen vereinigt durch unsere Vision…
Überaschen einander mit neuen Farben,
die sich wie geile Schlangen aus unseren Köpfen winden.

Auf den Schwingen der Trance
Bricht sich das Licht…
…die Schwerkraft negierbar.

Auf den Schwingen der Trance
Bricht sich das Licht…
…die Schwerkraft negierbar.

Schöne Kontessa von Transilvanien…
…auf der ich male…
Mit dem Duktus der Gewalt,
mit den Farben der Trance…

Schöne Kontessa von Transilvanien…
…auf der ich male…
Mit dem Duktus der Gewalt,
mit den Farben der Trance…

Kontessa von Transylvanien du bist mein Absinth!
Du bist mein Absinth!
Du bist mein Absinth!
Du bist mein Absinth!
Du bist mein Absinth!
Absinth… Absinth… Absinth… Absinth…

Phaeder (c) 2009 Lotus Beat 2 - Incursions into the Bardo

Learning to meditate

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well. Meditation is the road to enlightenment.- Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

Scores

So many people have asked me now about hairy MacLary, (once they made the connection between Phaeder and Peter Haeder).

Yes, i wrote the music for those videos/DVDs (all ten of them) and it was real fun to do. You have to think very different if you want to please smaller listeners and grab their attention, thus the hook in the theme, which i played on guitar first and then translated it to piccolo flute, because it has such a cheeky, beckoning timbre.

Hope this helps

P

Vive l’Avantgarde

“Vive l’Avantgarde” is a new digital art piece by Phaeder.

“Vive l’Aavantgarde!” is a morphogenetic duplication icon, something like a” Gothic Spielwerk” of the 15th century (if they had Goth taste, that is) with the potential to become a cyber form of Indra’s net of jewels.

At it’s centre it has the age old tradition of alchemy,  mandala painters, Shamans. That tradition manifests through it’s visual appearance, like a 13th century icon or a Gothic imprint. The external layer of communication is extended to the audio realm through an undulating sound collage in the tradition of late 40s “noise artists” (i improvised quite a bit of noise art in the early ’80s.) This component of the work is represented in the lessee fair and looseness in which the artist used rhythmical structures in an organic, avantgarde way to break free from the confines of western four on the floor mentality and invite the eastern trance and Xpand mode. Last not least the spiritual eeriness of some meditation practices in the form of an ever so subtly changing halo around the idoru’s head manifesting in different hues of the visible spectrum of light, while the music ever so subtly morphs through it’s phases of programmatic continuation of the theme: “Vive l’Avantgarde!” and because this is a piece of digital concept art it had to have some sort of conceptual frame around it as a basis for it’d creation. That aspects manifests in the length of the piece, 1 minute and eight seconds, which represents the auspicious number of mantras in a large round and ultimately the number of beads on a Mala, 108.

Format: Flash video
Duration: 1:08
Medium: multi chrome on LCD

Resolutions of start product:

Audio - 44.1 kHz wav format PCM

Visual - 1200 DpIVive l’Avantgarde stock images

Resolutions of end product:
Audio - 32mbps MP3, Wav, flac. 44.1 kHz, 16 bits
Visual - 72px web format

Original Size: 257 px wide x 243 px high

Coefficient Variations: Visual and Audio are desynchronized to promote random pattern fluctuations

Distribution:        Web (HTML Files)
Video File Format:        SWF

Frame Rate:        10 frames/second
Video Dimensions:        319×304
Colors:            High Color (16-bit)
JPEG Encoding:        Enabled
JPEG Quality:        60

Include Audio Track:    Yes
Audio Codec:        MPEG Layer-3
Audio Format:        44.100kHz, Stereo, 56kBits/sec
Embed HTML:        Yes
Table of Contents:        No

variable attributes: can be looped by user, volume can be manipulated by user, screen

settings can be manipulated by user,
Realm convergences: audio, visual

Object locale: cyber space only - do not physically manifest on external media, thsi is a

cyber only object.

hyperlinks to URLs where the object can be obtained: Vive l’Avantgarde

Second Concept

Was a a painting and because i have a background in Chemistry i gave it some annoyingly long pseudo chemical formulaic surname, so that every time you look at the painting you are reminded of the fact that the human body is based on chemical reactions.
The working title of the painting was “Winamp versus night goggles”, but i decided to abandon that title in favour of torturing you with the crazy long name, that is very difficult to say, ha ha ha…. Joke… Digital painting is a direct medium for visual art because it let’s you see the work the way the painter sees it when he (She) creates it. That is very close, even-so the medium that caries that closeness is vast! So there is a macrocosm/microcosm connotation here.

The painting should be viewed with full screen mode so that you see only that painting on screen and then you get a “picture gallery effect”, where you can step back from the screen and look at the painting from a distance to unravel more of its expression and structure. And to make the concept complete, you could listen to “Chill Zone 1, while you explore the structure of the painting, it is really quite hypnotic and meditative. And check out my new “About” page design, very Bauhaus meets Reichspartei! Deutschland, Deutschland… By the way, this is also a vexing picture, very much in the tradition of Mauricius Escher. Hint:”there are only abslotute straight horizontal lines” in this digital painting -> Phaederogen12-zeta9-activ2-alpha5.