The Durian Brothers Portal
July 2013
The Durian Brothers by Florian Meyer
Sound poet and lecturer Marc Matter, furniture designer and musician Stefan Schwander and artist Florian Meyer meet for a day at a time to record as The Durian Brothers. The trio, releasing on Fat Cat Records and featured in the July issue of The Wire, share an index of manifestos, neologisms and more.
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Florian Meyer: This is an index of manifestos, a
really interesting form of literature. Their main advantage is the
fact they make a point, and therefore are more likely than any
other literary form to trigger discussion, dispute and argument.
Their concepts remain in motion and their meaning an object of
discourse, instead of being grounded in – or buried under – an
elaborate construct of ideas. Directed towards a specific goal
rather than being concerned with the analysis of something, they
tend to be examples of active energy rather than reactive energy
like Nietzsche would call it.
Design
Boom
Stefan Schwander: A platform for the newest ideas in
design, architecture and art. The best thing is, when the three
disciplines get mixed: for example, a bench looks like a building,
or a piece of art is designed as big as a house or when a building
resembles your wardrobe or a shelf. Mixing elements that belong to
different periods and regions can give life to something
interestingly new. This is also the concept behind our music.
Incompetech
Florian Meyer: I find this website
really handy when the graph paper shop around the corner is already
closed and you don't have the time to draw it yourself - or need
some decoration for your living room! I love this page!
Neologisms
Marc Matter: Through my work with conceptual poetry and
sprachkunst (language-art) I got obsessed with neologisms and any
kind of invented words and languages. I am looking forward to the
day I’ll meet people suffering from neolalia (those who use mostly
neologisms). You can even contribute your own neologisms to this
website.
New
American Radio
Marc Matter: This website is a collection of experimental
radio pieces, voice acrobatics, sound poetry etc. It includes
pieces by Alvin Curran, Diamanda Galas, Brenda Hutchinson, Shelley
Hirsch, David Moss, Christian Marclay, Negativland, Hildegard
Westerkamp and dozens of others, most of them originally produced
for radio, which makes a difference with regards composition. And
most of them haven’t been released on record.
TV
Tropes
Florian Meyer: Very
useful and entertaining tool for the dedicated film analyst,
providing all kinds of tropes commonly used in moving pictures from
theater to television, nicely archived in an ever growing database.
It is particularly useful if you want to direct your own movie and
are in need for some stereotypes – or if you consider yourself very
original and need some reality check!
Whitney
Music Box
Florian Meyer: Experimental film maker John Whitney
explored different concepts of visual harmony he derived from music
analysis. He always tried to distil mathematically employable
formulas, which in turn made his concepts usable in applications.
The website hosts tons of applications which link these concepts
back to harmony and rhythm – but still keep their hypnotic visual
component. They’re inspiring and entertaining and can even be seen
as moving healing pictures – nearly as good as those created by
Emma Kunz.