a little late and unnecessary (yer slippin' Lance. buckle-up)
:-)
I have all the info I need thanks to rorshach@execpc.com.
it's not as rare as you might think.
MUSICBLVD has them readily available.
np: Dr. Richard, Captin Gollini & Steward Kant - "12,000 Feet"
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In a message dated 03/01/98 1:17:29 AM, you wrote:
quoted 137 lines At 12:07 PM 2/28/98 -0500, someone wrote:
>At 12:07 PM 2/28/98 -0500, someone wrote:
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>>Mesmer Variations
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>>year of publication: 1995
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>>available format(s): CD-2
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>>label: Ash International
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>>Sampler with non-austrian music creators:
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>>Bruce Gilbert, Koji Marutani, Drome, Steve Williams,
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>>Ryoji Ikeda, Robert Hampson, Quest, Gescom,...
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>>guess I've been under a rock for the last 3 years...
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>we could only be so lucky... : )
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>>what is this?
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>The contributors to Mesmer Variations were asked to record a
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>piece influenced by the work of Mesmer. As a starting point they
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>were given a copy of the LP Mesmer (Ash 1.8), released in early
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>1995. Side one of the vinyl recording consisted of 999 identical
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>bars, lasting 22 minutes 12 seconds. Side two was made up of an
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>identical piece recorded at a lower octave, and a separate
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>original mix by Resolution. Some have directly built on the
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>pieces on the record; others have started afresh. These works
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>are not remixes: they are original works inspired by the dynamic
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>effect the claims of Mesmer had on the thinking world around
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>him - effects which are still reverberating today.
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>Franz (Freidrich) Anton Mesmer (1734-1815), 'The Wizard of
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>Vienna', was an Austrian Physicist who claimed he could cure
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>diseases by correcting the flow of animal magnetism in the bodies
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>of his patients during séance-like group sessions. Mesmer was
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>offered a large fortune at the Parisian court in 1778, but refused to
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>divulge his secret.
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>Contemporaries established a commission to investigate his
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>claims, deducing that any cures were due to the power of
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>suggestion - his audience at the time were largely from among
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>the rich Parisian bourgeoisie, and apparently highly prone to
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>suggestibility. His claims, however, did initiate serious
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>studies into what came to be called 'hypnosis'. His pupil James
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>Braid (1795?-1860) coined this term after the Greek God of
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>Sleep, Hypnos. The Marquis de Puyseacutegur (1751-1825), also
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>a pupil and great admirer, developed theories of the unconscious
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>mind after sending a patient into a trance and discovering
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>multiple personalities.
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>Even now there is very little serious study of hypnosis, or its
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>bastard offspring, hypnotherapy. It has been sidelined as a
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>form of mass entertainment or a miracle cure for psychic
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>damage. Research is desparately needed to study the influence
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>and effects of 'the flicker effect'(a form of mesmerism induced
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>by the flickering images of cinema and television screens),
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>the new range of 'video drugs', or the effects of listening to
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>repetitive sounds emitted at certain frequencies. Music was an
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>important factor in Mesmer's work, and he was a close friend
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>of Mozart, later affectionately teased in his opera Cosi fan tutti.
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>Artists included:
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>Drome - NonPlace Urban Field, Some More Crime
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>Gescom - Warp Music
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>Bruce Gilbert - Wire, WIR, Dome, The Beekeeper
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>Robert Hampson - Main, Loop, INDICATE (with Jim O'Rourke) cf Touch TO:25
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>René Hassinger - Resident of Dortmund, this is his first release
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>Micki von Hausswolff - Phauss, The Hafler Trio/The Sons of God cf Touch
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>TO:24/TO:22
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>Ryoji Ikeda - Resident of Tokyo; cf '1000 Fragments' cci recordings
(CCD23001)
quoted 48 lines Edvard Graham Lewis - Wire, WIR, Dome, He Said, H.A.L.O.
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>Edvard Graham Lewis - Wire, WIR, Dome, He Said, H.A.L.O.
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>Koji Marutani - Resident of Osaka, Japan cf Touch T_ZERO_1
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>Daniel Menche - Artist in residence at Soleilmoon, Portland, Oregon, USA
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>Peter Rehberg (Mego) from Vienna
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>Put Put - Andy Diagram, Andrew Jacques, Howard Jacques, Steve Thrower, John
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>Wall
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>Quest - Frans de Waard from Beequeen
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>Resolution - Swim Records
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>S.E.T.I. - Lagowski, Legion, cf Ash International Ash 2.3
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>Steve Williams - Co-writer of Scanner2 (Ash 1.2) and mass observation (Ash
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>1.7)
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>As you would expect from the above explaination, both
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>cds are filled with long dark hypnotically repetitive
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>tracks. I don't listen to it very often because of it's extreme
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>repetitiveness but it's interesting in small doses. I kept it
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>because it's collectible but probably wouldn't hold on to
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>it otherwise.
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