Music video for the 2010 Ash single Neon. An experiment with still image and your habits of viewing motion, progression and duration. Special thanks to Tim Wheeler as the instigator of this project and to Jennifer Armstrong as the tireless KiNo collaborator.

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A photo story about the developments on the KiNo front. You can hear the unearthly sounds we started to make. Sonic wizard Jeff Blenkinsopp and guitarist Alan McSeveney have been collaborating on the software/hardware system that is going to create the sound of Kino Live for the upcoming psychedelic experience.

***A nod to Jean Rouch with the title.

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FIRE WORKS. STATE VS. PEOPLE. VULTURE CULTURE OF THE STATE. BIT OF PLATO. BIT OF NIETZSCHE. THE VOID IDEOLOGY OF PRACTISING POWER.

A Americans, I mean the citizens of the United States of America, not the people of ununited other states such as Mexico, Chile, Canada or Argentina even though they also happen to be Americans due to geography, you know, just like the Japanese, Chinese and Indians are all Asians, and the Welsh, Italian and Bulgarians are Europeans, anyway, the people widely known as Americans celebrated the birthday of their country with the declaration of independence (billed to Britain) on 4th of July.  

This film came about because the poetic realism bypassed everything else in front of me, like it does.

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A POEM MADE OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN IMAGES AND WORDS.FACIST ≠ FASCIST!      

A cinepoem about exquisite cadaver. Automatic writing is a surrealist trait to disempower the oppressive reign of logic in our thought system. Logic and common sense resulting from human perception can never represent the irrational, unorganised reality itself. 

I took a stroll in Soho, New York and came back with this footage on which I speak an automated speech. 

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MODERN MALADY. NOT MELODY. MALADY.
IN OUR TIME, REPETITION ITSELF HAS BECOME THE FORM OF EXPRESSION.    
  

Presenting to you a handful of random musical selections from the last century against another batch of random music created in this decade by the people who were born in the last century – except Mr. Richard Wagner who wrote the piece of music in the middle of the film ‘Tristan & Isolde’ in 1859 on a piano. 

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WHAT IS MUSIC?
The kinetic twin: sound and image.
Of the image the sound is made,
and of sounds we make music.
So, in the music there must be imagery
and if the imagery is not in the music;
inscribed in sound, pitch, rhthmn and melody
then it doesn’t move my spirit.     

There is so much vacant stimulation for the body and our physical senses which by now are just the hardware, the property of the market wherever you are in the world..

The beauty of it is that music can’t be intellectualised. That is why I make music! It is the proper property of the spirit. There is no such thing as bad music, there is only music that will last.

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9 IS KiNo’s ICONOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION. 

Mevlana (Rumi) said ‘from emotion, thought and enthusiasm I beget my being’ nearly 830 years ago.  Today 9 echoes, remembers, confides in Mevlana. His version of the Map of the Universe is incomparably accurate. Despite the 8 century gap between his book Mesnevi and this Map of the Universe as the concept, let him be remembered and revered as of the milestone alliances of human intelligence and spirit that has achieved the Revolution of the Mind at some point in time. 9 is the direct descendent of this human potential.     

Yes, Mevlana has mapped the Universe. And he plays a big role in the origin of 9 along with others.  

Who is 9 in the life of KiNo? KiNo obeys 9. 9 is the childhood essence of this man, incorruptible by the mediocrity of adulthood and material existence. It’s my mirror image as recognised by a 9 year old boy. 

A low-fi acoustic performance of a part from the 9th song of the album – Hypnotic – serves as the base of a few poems from Mevlana, translated in today’s terms.

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WHAT DOES POET OF SOUND & IMAGE KiNo DO EXACTLY? 

Third part of the impromptu interview with the New Yorkers on Wall street.
KiNo asks them a 3 step question specifically aimed to reveal exactly what the intent with the album Map of the Universe is. People confirm the crux of the cultural problem here.
Popularism dictates time what to preserve in the age of mechanical reproduction.
American equivalent to culture is a bit too oblique to grasp.
Long time KiNo collaborator Jennifer Armstrong conducted the interviews, while Karina Correa filmed.
Produced & edited by KiNo for the NBC pilot programme.

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THIS IS TO PARALLEL LIFE. 1924 MANUSCRIPT. THE BASHING SOLITUDE OF THE SILHOUTTE THAT DOESN’T BELONG TO ME, IT BELONGS TO YOU, IT IS THE HUMAN FORM.

Edna Purveyance and her colleague are after a manuscript from 1924, which Anarchy Espionage believes is linked to the Map of the Universe.        

9 sends in a secret message via ‘Testimonies’, a dream etched in the light of classic gangster film Le cercle Rouge and the cardinal poet of sound and image Jean Luc Godard explains the sentiment that ploughs my heart. 

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MODERN MALADY: Autistic Space

2. AN ART GALLERY IS AN INSULAR SPACE, ART LIKE LIFE LIVES ELSEWHERE. IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME GO CHECK FOR SIGNS OF LIFE.

The Pretext is a fresh news:     

Freud work sets new world record.
A Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman sells for $33.6m (£17.2m)
in New York, a new record.”

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On a random excursion in incomparable Soho, New York, I stumbled across a prominent typical gallery.  Lovely how it all unfolds in front of my eyes.

 

- Where are you?

- I am outside an art gallery.

- What do you see? 

- I see the reflection of my feet on the ground. 

and I see paintings as well as a man facing the computer.

- What kind of paintings? 

- Art history tells me that was an abstract painting.

- How does the art history come to know this?

 

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Second part of the impromptu interview with the New Yorkers. KiNo asks them the heaviest of all questions “What is the Map of the Universe?” then he explains a few crucial things.

Long time KiNo collaborator Jennifer Armstrong conducted the interviews, while Karina Correa filmed.

Produced & edited by KiNo for the NBC pilot programme.

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1.ROLLING STONES DON’T GATHER MOSS FLOGGING THEIR CORPSE

With the index title Modern Malady I am introducing a permanent analytical framework concerning the unification and clarification of the last century with it’s scattered histories; like music, cinema, literature, art, economy, politics, for the benefit of locating ourselves on the map of our universe, now.  

I will be evoking some key points for you to understand the disambiguation of what would be otherwise ambivalent; the clear definition of loyalty to the spirit, our essence and contradictory to that; the betrayal that is possessed by depleted, fake facades made to be products in this supermarket life.

Here we go, I take Rolling Stones as a symptom, to single handedly show what is eternally wrong with this fucking culture. What sets up this condition?

Modern Malady, yes modern sickness, is what I call this condition. 

In context of music; particularly rock’n roll, because it’s root lies in revolt and expression of youth, grappling with it’s existential crisis, in which Rolling Stones played a role, somewhat authenticto the experience of rock music in the 1960s… fine. 

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KiNo collaborator Jennifer Armstrong conducted the interviews, while Karina Correa filmed.
Produced & edited by KiNo for the NBC pilot programme.

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