{"id":1008,"date":"2008-11-26T19:38:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2008-11-27T02:18:29","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T23:18:29","slug":"love-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/?p=1008","title":{"rendered":"Love Poem"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"tusia_01_2007\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Don Paterson, ceva poet scotian, a castigat, in Anglia, The Forward Prize pentru cea mai buna poezie pe 2008 cu o oda inchinata nevestei lui Thomas Brinkmann, compozitoarea de muzica electronica Natalie \u2018Tusja\u2019 Beridze<\/a>. It goes like this:<\/p>\n

\u201cLove Poem For Natalie \u2018Tusja\u2019 Beridze\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

O Natalie, O TBA, O Tusja: I had long assumed the terrorsits balaclava that you sport on the cover of Annule<\/em>
\nwhich was, for too long, the only image of you I possesed –
\nwas there to conceal some ugliness or deformity
\nor perhaps merely spoke (and here, I hoped against hope) of a
\nyoung woman struggling
\nwith a crippling shyness. How richly this latter theory has been confirmed by my Googling!<\/p>\n

O who is this dark angel with her unruly Slavic eyebrows
\nranged like two duelling pistols, lightly sweating in the pale light
\nof the TTF screen?
\nO behold her shaded, infolded concentration, her
\nheartbreakingly beautiful face so clearly betraying the tru focus
\nof one not merely content – as, no doubt, were others at the
\nManover Elektronische Festival in Wien –
\nto hit play<\/em> while making some fraudulent correction to a
\nvolume slider
\nbut instead deep in the manipulation of somecomplex
\nreal-time software such as Ableton Live, MAX\/MSP
\nor Supercollider.<\/p>\n

O Natalie, how can I pay tribute to your infinitely versatile
\nblend of Nancarrow, Mille Plateaux,\u00a0 Venetian Snares, Xenakis,
\nBoards of Canada and Nobukazu Takemura<\/strong>
\nto say nothing of those radiant pads – so strongly reminiscent
\nof the mid-century bitonal pastoral of Charles Koechlin in their
\nharmonic bravura –
\nor your fine vocals, which, while admittedly limited in range
\nand force, are nonetheless so much more affecting than the
\naffected Arctic whisperings of those interchangably dreary
\nStinas and Hannes and Bjorks, being in fact far closer in spirit
\nto a kind of glitch-hop Blossom Dearie?<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I have also deduced from your staggeringly ingenious
\nemployment of some pretty basic wavetables
\nthat unlike many of your East European counterparts, all your
\nVST plug-ins, while not perhaps the best available,
\nprobably all have a legitimate upgrade path – indeed I imagine
\nyour entire DAW as pure as the driven snow, and not in any way
\nbuggy or virusy
\nwhich makes me love you more, demonstrating as it does an
\nexcess of virtue given your country’s well-known talent for
\nsoftware piracy.<\/p>\n

Though I should confess that at times I find your habit of
\nmaxxing
\nthe frequency range with those bat-scaring ring-modulated
\nsine- bursts and the more distressing psychoacoustic properties
\nof phase-inversion in the sub-bass frequencies somewhat taxing
\nyou are nonetheless as beautiful as the mighty Boards
\nthemselves in your shamless organicizing of the code,
\nas if you had mined those saw and squares and ramps straight
\nfrom the Georgian motherlode.<\/p>\n

O Natalie – I forgive you everything, even your catastrophic
\nadaptation of those lines from ‘Dylan’s’ already shite
\nDo Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night<\/em>
\nin the otherwise magnificent ‘Sleepwalkers’, and when you
\nopen up those low-
\npass filters in what sounds like a Minimoog emulation they
\nseem to open in my heart also…<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

At least, my dear, let me wish you the specific best:
\nmay you be blessed
\nwith the wonderful instrument you deserve, with a 2 Ghz
\ndual-core Intel chip and enough double-pumped DDR2 RAM
\nfor the most CPU-intensive processes;
\nthen no longer will all those goreous acoustic spaces<\/p>\n

be accessible only via an offline procedure involving a freeware
\nconvolution reverb and an imperfectly recorded impulse
\nresponse of the Concertgebouw made illegally with a hastily-
\nerected stereo pair and an exploded crisp bag<\/p>\n

for I would have all your plug-ins run in real-time, in the
\nblameless zero-latency heaven of the 32-bit floating-point
\nenviroment, with no buffer-glitch or freeze or dropout or lag;
\nI would also grant you a MIDI controller of such responsiveness,
\nsuch smoothness of automation, travel and increment
\nthat you would think it a transparent intercessor, a mere
\ncopula, and feel machine and animal suddenly blent…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Don Paterson, ceva poet scotian, a castigat, in Anglia, The Forward Prize pentru cea mai buna poezie pe 2008 cu o oda inchinata nevestei lui Thomas Brinkmann, compozitoarea de muzica electronica Natalie \u2018Tusja\u2019 Beridze. It goes like this: \u201cLove Poem For Natalie \u2018Tusja\u2019 Beridze\u201d O Natalie, O TBA, O Tusja: I had long assumed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-de-dans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/freshgoodminimal.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}