STEREOSCOPIC POINCARÉ
TELEKINETT AND ANTERIOR RESEARCH PROUDLY PRESENT THE CONCRETE POETRY OF NOBEL AWARD WINNER OCTAVIO PAZ. THESE RECORDINGS ARE PRESENTED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THEIR RECORDING ON MARCH 23-24, 1961. RECORDED AT THE MAGNETIC RECORDING LABORATORY AT THE U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, WASHINGTON, D.C. USA.
As defined by the Mexican Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Octavio Paz, the bee is the living depiction of loneliness. The bee is perhaps the only creature that is born with a true sense of its destiny. It grows, lives, and produces without questioning its labor. It is a social outcast with tremendous knowledge of its purpose, a being that lives with others in a lonely world. STEREOSCOPIC POINCARÉ: The Labyrinth of Solitude is based on a song composed in 2005-2006 by Mauricio Reyes called “Love Song for Duchamp” and the essays of Octavio Paz. Paz was a gentle writer with a fierce spirit. As defined by many, his poetry is “beautifully brutal.” He observes that solitude is responsible for people’s perspective on death, celebration, and identity. Death is celebrated but at the same time repelled because of the uncertainty behind it. “There is no such thing as going back home once you’ve left it.” His work focuses on the loss of identity, of love for one’s self, and for the relentless quest to belong somewhere, to be heard, loved, and cared for. The solitude that comes from this quest was translated into music that is beautiful and cerebral, sharp and violent. The two final mixes are the fruit of audible poetry, concrete poetry in a three-dimensional form. Poetry that triggers mental states and touches the listener’s very soul. Step into our aural labyrinth. You are welcome.
This extraordinary boxed set consists of two exceptional mixes that are very different approaches and responses to the same problem: to create three-dimensional concrete poetry.
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature – consists of his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgic and in search of communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.”
Octavio Paz
What’s in the Box?
STEREOSCOPIC POINCARÉ: The Labyrinth of Solitude
CD 1
MAURICIO REYES – Absolute Soledad Mix
Movement I – Birth
Movement II – My Mother
Movement III – Leaving Home
Movement IV – Violent Poetry
Movement V – The Lightness of Being
4 Chromalin Prints
These beautiful framable prints are the first international release of a series of paintings by Mauricio Reyes, part of the forthcoming “Electroacoustic Abstractionism” Art movement created by Mauricio Reyes.
1. The Night
2. The Sea Inside
3. Lost in Dreams
4. The Labyrinth of Solitude
CD 2
ADI NEWTON – Labyrinthian Rekonstructed RMX
Movement I – The Opening
Movement II – Enigma
Movement III – The Centre / Sentor
Movement IV – Daedalus
Movement V – To converse with God
Official letter from Mauricio Reyes, Telekinett / Adi Newton, ARMComm
Booklet named: “Lost in the Labyrinth” with a detailed description of compositions and each track and artworks
USB/UDP Chip Card
Buyers will receive all of these movements as uncompressed pristine FLAC or WAV files
Technical Cataloging Data
Archive Title:
Mexico – Prose and Poetry
Summary:
Mr. Paz reads from his following works: Aguila o sol?, Semillas para un himno, Salamandra, and Piedra del sol.
Contributor Names: Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998.
Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape (Library of Congress)
Created / Published: 1961.
Notes
– Prose and poems in Spanish.
– Recorded Mar. 23-24, 1961, at the Library of Congress Recording Laboratory, Washington, D.C.
– Recorded for the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape.
– Archive of Hisp. Lit. on Tape, p. 375-377.
– Preservation master. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress Magnetic Recording Laboratory, 1973 or 74. 2 sound tape reels: analog, 7 1/2 IPS, full track, mono. ; 10 in.
– Production level cataloging.
Medium
2 sound tape reels (ca. 97 min.): analog, 7 1/2 IPS, full track; 10 in.
Call Number/Physical Location
RAA 42193-42194 (original — not for playback)
LWO 3289 reels 1-2 (preservation master)
With permission from the US Library of Congress
This lavish and extraordinary boxed set will be available as a strictly limited edition.
