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After an intense weekend in Eindhoven, I'm back in Paris. Cepandant Finish hotels and chic bistros center. I am at Bob the Builder, to The general , old school Ceramic converted venue and artist residency, style squat. What is nice about Bob is that no matter whether you are at home in Montreal at the factory Groover, in Zelig in the east of the city, in his cottage in St-Médard in Paris or here, we always feel at home. It still lives in a camp atmosphere, where every task of everyday is an adventure in itself. It esten perpetual state of emergency and resistance.

View of Paris from the hill town of Sèvres

Speaking resistance and chaos, let me tell you a bit of STRP great evening and the long-awaited performance by Aphex Twin, what performance inaudible, unpleasant and disappointing! First, Aphex Twin was performing with Hecker. The two do not seem to play together, the rhythms were shifted. Moreover, they had decided to put in solid performance in the ears in a 7.1 sound system. ERROR! The room was 20,000 square feet! The sound bouncing around completely nullified spatialization, giving the impression that everything was playing in time and that any attempt to pace was inevitable offsync . I will not talk ugly visuals, you just have to see in the video below to see for yourself. In short a performance inaudible, assaulting and tasteless, front of a crowd of over 6000 people scattered in two rooms. The show is still just be his time if it is contextualised into a world economic crisis, in which control systems are deficient, leaving the chaos which must be rebuilt. Anti-Music to the max, one can only wonder what sounds will be made to the future of electronic music. This brief also confirms my intuition about the coming obsolescence of the chaotic and esthéque hyperbruyante.

Aphex Twin + hecker @ STRP

Highlights of the festival, the retrospective Granular Synthesis, specifically parts Model 5 and Hemisphere (by Ulf Langereich), the exellent show Venetian Snares .

Model 5 - Granular Synthesis @ STRP

Otherwise encounters and anecdotes abound. Between I-other meet the artist "Trademark", the godfather of Mashup and Eric Minkinen founder of the festival Closet Headphones. I could also see yesterday Palais de Tokyo The Jeu de Paume and Cube .

Quayola, exhibition at Cube (Nemo @)

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SHOCK OF THE FUTURE!

Shooting Pain In Upper Thigh

I arrived in Paris this morning. Tomorrow night, we (me and Thomas) plays Tvestroy in a large cinema. We could make an installation our material. I am a zombie today. I had a little shock on arrival. I had forgotten that Paris was so huge and there were so many people. I do not like how this shock occurs, I felt bad nervousness, one that reminds me of the depression. When I'm tired, I often fear that a relapse but I think I did a bit too much for nothing, because this is all behind. Must say that I drank a little on the plane. Furthermore I still have that damn nervous before shows, I guess he must learn to live with that. We are housed in the 1st district. I am lucky to be here. I feel not realize what happens to me too. It appears to me to be abstract here, while I'm at the end of academic session in Montreal (on strike!). In fact I do not really remember what will happen to the session because of the strike that has lasted a month. For this reason, I decided to extend the trip a few jours.Donc I'll be there for ten days, I have eyes and ears wide open and I will share my discoveries. Tomorrow I experimented jogging along the Seine, wow!

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The Paris show as anxiolitic? Portrait Portrait

Lacan makes an interesting suggestion of what anguish. "Anxiety occurs when lack is lacking.

anxiety would not be that the presence of a "missing" in the psyche but the presence of the object "missing" in the immediate reality of the subject. Trying to understand Lacanian position, I found the text " Beyond anguish" of Pierre Arel which questions the social definitions and current clinical anxiety, while addressing the proposal of Lacan.

Interesting : he makes a link between anxiety and performance anxiolitic.

Excerpt from the text " Beyond anguish" of Pierre Arel :
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" It must be said that attempts to fill many are not so much by what we call objects consumption than the relationship we have established with the various instinctual objects that psychoanalysts have identified failures in the delivery and manifestations of anxiety that accompany them.

A more illustrative example of this type of report to be is to find reality in the show, whether television, theater or events in which we see that many of the limits of repression, moral rules that govern our social life are taken, whether by word or presentification scopic objects of various dirty, disgusting, frightening, exciting, or invitation, the temptation to break a pact, of betraying a promise, or in many other ways that inevitably arouse the appetite and the enjoyment of many, and invariably generate anxiety. So that whoever gets in front of his TV reality show with his beer or joint, is a tight circuit excited by being calmed by anxiety and the anxiolytic .

Without taking into account the drive circuit, any intervention at this level may participate in its vicious circle, or even worse. "

The show is seen by the way Debord:

" The alienation of the viewer the benefit of the contemplated object (which is the result of his own unconscious activity) is expressed as follows: the more he contemplates , unless he lives the more he accepts recognizing himself in the dominant images of need, the less he understands his own existence and his own desire. exteriority of the spectacle from acting man appears in his own gestures are no longer his, but at another that he represents. That is why the spectator feels at home nowhere, because the spectacle is everywhere "

- Guy Debord