In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni

This is a teaser for my website: s-a-r-a-h.it/Soundtrack: Xevious by Borful Tang, solo project of Dominic Cramp, from Herd and Unherd, on Gigante Sound, 2010gigantesound.com/artist_borful.html

It is a manifesto with a sample based ethics/aesthetics, meant to be a tribute, through a loop of in/direct quotes by some of my great sources of inspiration, who partly were sampling as well:

George Bataille, Le gros orteil, 1929La vie humaine comporte en fait la rage de voir qu’il s’agit d’un mouvement de va-et-vient de l’ordre à l’idéal et de l’idéal à la ordure, rage qu’il est facile de passer sur un organe aussi bas qu’un pied.[Human life entails, in fact, the rage of seeing oneself as a back and forth movement from refuse to the ideal, and from the ideal to refuse, a rage that is easily directed against an organ as base as the foot]

Silver Apples, Program, 1968...the flame is its own reflection... [“Randomly throwing the dial back and forth and hitting the different stations was part of the concept of that song.” Simeon. At one key point in the early Silver Apples set the audience was ask to shout out their favorite radio stations’ dial frequencies, which then were tuned into live over the song Program]

Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni, 1978… a reprendre depuis le début… [to be gone through again from the beginning] Il n’y aura pour moi ni retour ni réconciliation. La sagesse ne viendra jamais. [For me there will be no turning back and no reconciliation. No wising up.][Final caption and voice over with a zoom out from an odd deserted Venice lagoon]

Moebius aka Jean Giraud, Venise Celeste, 1984

Van McElwee, Double flame, 1979

Jean Painlevé, L'Hippocampe, 1934