Author: pau
shift happens
i made this mix to help whoever do whatever, especially work, focus, relax or travel. i tried to play music that was new to me, or a recent favorite. with love from sunny berlin! download 320 (1.12G) | download 128 vbr (514.9M) tracklist: 1. trois gymnoédies – I & lent et douloureux / the miracle…
what does it mean to mean what it does?
What does it mean to mean what it does? by Paupahana on Mixcloud
is is is done.
i finally finished collaging is is, the book of collage that i’ve been working on for the last 3 years! now i just need to sequence it. it was quite an arduous process full of surprises. i was very present for all of it and i hope that is conveyed. universe produced this book through…
freedom throughout the universe!
i’ve been looking for the song sampled at the end of quasimoto’s ‘jazz cats pt. 1’ for a few years now, and i finally found it, thanks to this review of the Soul Jazz record titled ‘Black Fire! New Spirits!’. It’s by Tyrone Washington, and the song is called ‘Universal Spiritual Revolt’. Let’s do it!
i started with nothing
and i’ve done a pretty good job of keeping it. —a national geopgraphic from April 1982, interview with a member of the clark family
i hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me
i made this mix for the vernissage of carlier | gebauer’s fantastic show featuring when you fall into a trance by emily wardill and i hear your voice reflected in a glass and it sounds like it is inside of me, a group show curated by wardill in conversation with jesi khadivi.
secret secretions
from shisha to spaceships, capitalism is the exploitation of secret, serendipitous or stolen concepts, objects, entities or abilities, often through slavery, for the secret enrichment of a self or sect. sharing is therefore adominable to capitalism (unless that sharing is sanctioned by a sovereign) because it reveals the foundation of capitalism, which is not greed…
rastafari voices
we watched part of this last night and were both transfixed and kind of flabbergasted. i appreciate aspects of rastafarianism, but their reliance on the bible creeps me out. the vhs pastels radiate though! see what you think for yourself. and read the emperor!
moi, un noir
This documentary by Jean Rouch is gripping. Thanks to Floris Schönfeld for introducing me to Rouch.
dance space
julian weber performing at the twenty dancers for the xx century event that boris charmatz put together at the soviet war memorial.
carnival of cultures
one of my favorite strange events in berlin is ‘karneval der kulturen’, or carnival of cultures. i shot a number of videos on my camera while i was there a month ago which hopefully helps to explain why the event is so bizarre. what i appreciate most about it is the lack of separation between…
A.C.A.B.
the only difference that i can perceive in the exacting of worldwide police tactics is whether or not police are allowed to actually shoot to kill or not, and how many times they are allowed to shoot (or torture) without censure or contract termination. many of the most brutal police receive promotions, much in the…
happy 40 july
this really needs no introduction, and is simply amazing, though i wish what he was singing was more accurate. the sentiment sticks, which is really what matters. this song has floated around my head for days.
why quit social media?
i could write a longer essay on my sentiments regarding social media, but since i’ve quit twitter, instagram and linkedin i feel much better! sometimes i think of things to post or thoughts to digitally socialize, but then i write them down and keep them to myself. instead of positing my feelings, how about some…
is is
Is Is is a codex of collage that intends to semiotically explains our current human paradigm through employing symbols of various traditions to challenge the dominant capitalist narrative of freedom through object oriented mechanized progress, instead reinforcing that we are all emancipators of ourselves. Is Is questions the nature of reality and consciousness, reminding us…
gate/gate
on december 9, 2009 this spiral appeared over the western coast of norway. it was captured on multiple different video feeds and cameras. at first it was explained as a failed russian missile launch, which was virulently denied by the russian military. a week later they acquiesced and took responsibility. however, i don’t believe that…
rite of passage
Rite of Passage is a series of paintings based on vhs footage from the mini documentary ‘Love on $14’ about the Grateful Dead’s early 90s followers.
white hole
white hole explores the relationship between image and creation. the title white hole references the concept of the opposite of a black hole, a cosmic entity that hypothetically cannot be entered from the outside and continuously emits matter and light.
cosmos
cosmos, or an orderly and harmonious system, is the title of the third painting in it is not far. it attempts to depict the paradox of attempting to depict something that can’t and doesn’t yet exist. therefore i painted color field and interwoven energetic filaments. cosmos was painted over one and a half years in…
logos
the second painting in the triptych it is not far, logos, is a photo of a paused second generation ipod. unknown artist, unknown album were byproducts of cd-r’s and the beginning of free and wide distribution and memes. they also represent me as the painter of the painting. the duration of the song is 11:11…
noos
the series it is not far depicts temporal time in its different incarnations. historic symbolic time is depicted in the first painting in the series, noos. during a visit to the metropolitan museum of art in new york in the fall of 2005 i felt my first fundamental energetic connection to the fetish and devotional…
![[PAUAU]](https://paupahana.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-22-at-1.32.48-PM.png)
[PAUAU]
[PAUAU] is an ongoing project in which sampled loops of ethnographic field recordings are played simultaneously on top of themselves with a homemade arduinome to create a new type of trance from an already hypnotic style. often these songs are culled from snippets, as LPs, limited in play time and often attempting to condense much…
decoloneyes
i was inspired to create decoloneyes, a cross of the words (and concepts) ‘decolonize’ and ‘eyes’ and pronounced thus, as a result of a trip to the deyoung museum with leslie kneisel. at the end of our excursion, i came upon some inuit snow goggles and was awestruck by their brilliance. i then began to…
m3tr0p0lis occupy
m3tr0p0lis occupy began with the album bot hits, which Leslie Kneisel asked me to do to accompany a screening of Fritz Lang’s metropolis at an exhibition of her newer and amazing lithographs in atlanta. spacey, sci-fi and house-y were all adjectives she asked for, as she intended to bring out the aesthetic futurism of metropolis.…
wow-pow-wow
i ordered this collection after being recommended it while i was dj’ing some american indian music at the bottom of the hill. i’m thankful to whoever it was that told me about it, these records are fantastic, and in their original shrink wrap from 1972. don’t sleep! i have no idea how many sets they…
the myth of the eternal return
this book by mircea eliade opened up my face. time as a circle, an ouroboros, is an idea that i’ve often returned to, but this work offered a significant cross-reference of cultures that all operated within the framework of time being cyclical rather than linear. if we are to imagine the sun as moving away…
fragile fingers
my father-in-law collected stamps as a child. he is persian and lived in iran before the revolution.. this collection of stamps is stunningly beautiful! i love the aesthetic sense many of these stamps display.
the antique blacks
i haven’t been able to stop listening to this record, i’ve been spinning it twice a day at least. sun ra lets his space flag fly, and gets souled out on this aug 17,1974 recording, live in philadelphia. highly recommended. i was thinking about sun ra in relation to mlk jr and malcolm x on…
m.s. subbulakshmi
i absolutely cannot stress enough how amazing and transcendental this concert is. so thankful to bolingo69 for posting. and even more thankful to m.s. subbulakshmi, v.v. subramanyam, t.k. moorthy, v. nagarajan, and t.h. vinayakram.
11 year old understands
children’s food is especially disgusting and often not food. it is more important than ever to eat organic food. especially in america.
abaraka guitar band ’77
The second song on this record is my jam of the moment.. Thanks, Abaraka Guitar Band ’77 (and global groove). Click on record for DL.
infinity in solidarity
infinity in solidarity was painted only 4 days after pancho ramos-stierle, the man here depicted, created this monumental gesture in support of occupy oakland as the camp at oscar grant plaza was forcibly removed for the last time. as a consequence, ramos-stierle is facing deportation, as he moved from mexico to work on his phd…
bot hits
Swirling alien light forms and sampled synths mingle with vintage drum machine sounds and effects to create dj ALLCAPS latest recording, bot hits, named in homage to ‘Web bot hits’, the result of the data set analysis and forecasting work of Clif High. The recording will accompany a recut version of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and…
the transcendental waterfall
details: and how should they explain it? by not explaining. thus is it called ‘explaining.’ as a lamp, a cataract, a star in space an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning view all created things like this. -Diamond Sutra, Chapter 32 the waterfall (or cataract) is a…
in the studio
i have been steadily working on painting youtube stills taken from a short independent documentary on deadhead culture, shot on location at alpine valley in east troy, wi in june of 1988. i was 6. the following image is an animation of the progress i have made in the first painting. the series is entitled…
post-posts
some of you (whoever may be reading) might remember me from facebook as a voracious poster, commenter, link maker, and photographer. it is in part due to the intentional deletion of my facebook account that i am reinvigorating my personal website with the content and intention that i once freely bestowed upon the seemingly friendly…
spectral alphabet
spectral alphabet was installed at golden parachutes in berlin between july 4 and august 8, 2009. it represents roughly 5 years of my work, and touches on themes of time, space, spirit and the artist.
it is not far
noos, 123cm x 123cm, oil on canvas, 2005 \logos, 123cm x 123cm, oil on canvas, 2006 cosmos, 123cm x 123cm, oil on canvas, 2009 the series it is not far depicts temporal time in its different incarnations. historic symbolic time is depicted in the first painting in the series, noos. during a visit to the…
elaborate
elaborate, finished in 2007, is a tribute to the late great j dilla. borne out of necessity and zeitgeist, the album is cobbled together loops taken predominately from mp3s of field recordings from around the world but also including flourishes of funk (dyke and the blazers), jazz (lonnie liston smith) and indie-pop (arthur russell and…
trance send dental
trance send dental was created using field recordings recorded during my travels in europe in 2007. the raw audio was then chopped into loops and manipulated with ableton live, establishing the feeling of organic impossibility like a surreal dream state.
cultivated incompetence
in 2006 i began compiling cultivated incompetence as an attempt to create hip hop without rappers, instead utilizing public speeches from famous and semi-famous people, including: laura huxley, william s. burroughs, henry miller, ahrundati roy, steve jobs, alex jones, michael talbot, angela davis, abbie hoffman, e.e. cummings, and derrick jensen. cultivated incomptence, much like elaborate,…
logos
in 2005 i left new york city and over the course of a month made my way to the san francisco bay area where i subsequently resettled. i carried with me a gifted super 8 camera and shot stop motion film of my trip. during this transition i made a point of not taking any…