I see everything as multilayered and multifaceted. My experience has been that reality is multidimensional. Each thing or event has a multitude of causes, referring to a multitude of layers of reality. Or, rather, one and the same cause has various effects according to the layer within which it manifests. Even though they reflect or… Read More Yes and notes on contradictions and multidimensionality

“This is so African.” Fela Kuti manages to turn this ultimate cliché of phrase into one of the most refined acts of defiance. And it is perhaps not accidental that this particular show takes place in one of the most important capitals of Europe, namely Berlin. Watching Fela Kuti’s band jumping around, dancing, and acting… Read More “This is so African.” Fela Kuti’s delicious act of defiance

Point no. 1. The process What fascinated me in the first place about this concert is the way it records its own unfolding – its heightened processuality, so to speak. The (apparent or actual) errors, repetitions, calibrations, the tuning of the instruments, the adjustments, which are all fundamental aspects of what constitutes a process. Kuti’s… Read More The heightened processuality of Fela Kuti’s shows

I have long struggled with the limits of language. When wanting to express certain realizations or states of mind, I used to forever add innumerable parentheses and clarifications, especially when something sounded too simple or too cliché, because I couldn’t accept it no matter what. There comes a point where even this dichotomy needs to… Read More Notes on language, logic, and memory

The literary circle I was part of many years ago, in high school, has recently turned 30. On this occasion I was invited to write something about those years. As part of the resulting text, I included what I called some rules or reminders for writing (and artistic creation in general), which I am now… Read More Personal rules and reminders for artistic creation

The most precious, important things I’ve experienced pertain to inner realizations and states. Some of the most mysterious ones are those where the people that I don’t know very well, who are more or less strangers to me seem, in a sense, more real, more concrete than the people that I’m connected with on a… Read More Where everything merges. Notes on inner states

“While Pierre Schaeffer is often thought of as the father of the electronic music form known as musique concrète the gentleman above, Halim El-Dabh, actually got there several years before, 1944 to be exact.“ <<We had to sneak in (to the ritual) with our heads covered like the women, since men were not allowed in.… Read More Halim-El Dabh – Egyptian musique concrète, before Schaeffer