Adab, The Demanding Memory, by Ed Keller

Adab, The Demanding Memory

by Ed Keller

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	1.	Adab, The Demanding Memory- 2017 36:25		buy track
	2.	Adab,The Demanding Memory- live, 2018 37:05	info	buy track

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Track 1: first rehearsal recording from November 2017.
Track 2: 35 minute performance at Arts Letters Numbers, July 13 2018.

Improvised live [looping and mixing live in single take] to a film re-cut [edit by Ed Keller] including excerpts from Mirror, Arrival, Vertigo, Under the Skin, Constantine, Catch-22, Sunshine, and AfterLife.  For more on this project: web.archive.org/web/20210219222341/https://alienocene.com/2019/12/23/the-cosmopolitical-gesture/

'... Consciousness finds itself inevitably facing the necessity of having to choose a language. With each literary-verbal performance, consciousness must actively orient itself amidst heteroglossia...an illiterate peasant, miles away from any urban center, naively immersed in an unmoving and for him unshakable everyday world, nevertheless lived in several language systems: he prayed to god in one language ( church Slavonic) , sang songs in another, spoke to his family in a third, and when he began to dictate petitions to the local authorities through a scribe, he tried speaking yet a fourth language...all these are different languages, even from the point of view of abstract sociodialectological markers. ...As soon as a critical interanimation of languages began to occur in the consciousness of our peasant... then the inviolability and predetermined quality of these languages came to an end, and the necessity of actively choosing one's orientation among them began. ‘ The Dialogic Imagination, Bakhtin

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released September 3, 2018

Ed Keller, solo electric guitar
Both tracks were recorded in looped single takes, live.

signal path:
Strandberg Boden7 guitar > iTrack > positive Grid BiasFX > LoopyHD> Laney IRTX speakers.

cover image: stills from Mirror [Tarkovsky] and Arrival [Villeneuve].

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Ed Keller | a.TONAL New York, New York

'Sound Image as a path to the demanding memory.'

Designer, professor, writer, musician and multimedia artist. With Carla Leitao, co-founder of Spec.Æ- a speculative design practice- and AUM Studio, an architecture and new media firm with residential projects, competitions, and installations in Europe [Lisboa; Venice Biennale] and the US [Storefront; SCIArc]. ... more

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