Cemetery The narratives (Archive Works) Research Part 1 Nepal History 1900-1947

The times and life of Maharajah Joodha Shumshere 1932/1945

52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 Cemetery Thirteen years (Archive Works) among the Wild Research Beasts of India.

Their haunts and habits from personal observation with an account of the modes of capturing and taming elephants. G.P. Sanderson (1879)

66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 Cemetery The narratives (Archive Works) Research Part 1 Nepal History 1900-1947

King George V Hunting visit to the Teraï, Nepal (1911)

74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 Cemetery The Locations (Archive Works) Nepal/India Research Part 1

88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 Cemetery The Characters (Archive Works) Nepal/India Research Part 1

100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 Cemetery Parallel (Archive Works) Imaginaries Research Part 1

Lost Horizon “I believe it, Because I want to believe it” Robert Conway

112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 Cemetery Sound Research (Archive Works) Research Part 1

Elephant sound “You appreciate the people one attribute recordings value of silence when of elephants, Elephant Listening you watch elephants I’d choose this.” project at night... Katy Payne (Cornell University) Every animal in the herd listens when the herd is listening. To use silence so well: if I could choose for

134 135 Cemetery Tarzan (Archive Works) the Ape Man Film Research (1932)

director: W.S. Van Dyke, 100 min

Cemetery “It’s beautiful, of elephants solemn and beautiful. Mutia Escarpment. We shouldn’t be here” Jane Parker

136 137 138 139 Cemetery Chang, (Archive Works) A Drama of the Film Research Wilderness (1927)

director: Merian C. Cooper Ernest B. Schoedsack 69 min

Elephant Stampede “Elephants. Neither men nor animal. What are those strange walking trees?”

140 141 142 143 Cemetery Elephant Boy (Archive Works) (1937) Film Research directors: Robert J. Flaherty Zoltan Korda 80 min

Elephant Dance “The elephant folks will know their master, because he has seen their dances in their hidden places. The gods of the jungle are witness” Machua Appa

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The Film The Notebook Audiovisual Experiments Bibliography Film Research Music Research The film traces the journey of This Notebook features The audiovisual pieces G.P. Sanderson, First series Pierre Henry, Le voyage (1962) an elephant and his mahout to the first part of a research presented in Netmage are part Thirteen years among the Merrian C. Cooper and Terry Riley, In C (1964) a sacred hidden cemetery. developed for a future film of the wider research and are wild beats of India, (1879) Ernest B. Schoedsack, Pandit Pran Nath, A film about death, about a cemetery of elephants. experiments with archive film Rudyard Kipling, Chang: A Drama of the Earth Groove: The Voice of reincarnation, immortality, Featuring some of the first key material as visual and sound Jungle Book (1894) Wilderness (1927) Cosmic India (1968) where Hindu and Buddhist lines and threads of the project, matter, the research is based Edgar Rice Burroughs, W.S. Van Dyke, La Monte Young, traditions collide. All this material is inspirational on classic adventure films, Tarzan, The ape man (1912) Tarzan.The ape man (1932) Inside the Dream Syndicate, Vol. A film about memory, and will serve as a map to guide documentaries, Lost World H. Rider Haggard, Robert J. Flaherty 1: Day of Niagara (1962-1965) colonialism, discovery, loss, the and develop the film. literature adaptations and King Solomon’s Mines (1885) and Zoltan Korda Paul Beaver and Bernie Krause, lost world and the unmapped, The material contained in this exotic adventure films from Rudyard Kipling, Elephant Boy (1937) Gandharva (1971) A road film on elephants, a book is an ongoing research, the 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, the The Man Who Would Zoltan Korda In a Wild Sanctuary (1970) sound oriented film guided by in no way follows a logical or golden period of adventure film. Be King, (1888) Jungle Book (1942) Alvin Lucier, a monologue voice over, the linear organizational process This archive works are Arthur Conan Doyle, Music on a long thin wire (1977) amazing sounds of the jungle it is part of a documentary experimental notes of some The Lost World, (1912) Second series Henry Flynt, and a deep sound research research and part a fictional of the techniques and visions Edgar Rice Burroughs, W.S. Van Dyke, Raga Electric: Experimental related to the sonic language of reworking of a common that will inhabit the film, they The Land That Time Trader Horn (1931) Music 1963-1971 (2002) the elephants. imaginary. represent a new approach Forgot (1918) Merrian C. Cooper and Morton Feldman, The Sound research project This is the first time the artist to sound and image. An A. Merritt, Ernest B. Schoedsack, String Quartet II (1983) is developed with Ariel Guzik. presents this part of his overwhelming experiment with The Moon Pool, (1918) King Kong (1933) Charlemagne Palestine, The Field recordings will be work,always a work in progress, the audiovisual matter. HP Lovecraft, Frank Capra, Four Manifestations developed with Chris Watson. never a finished piece. At the Mountains Lost horizon (1937) on Six Elements (1974) The Requiem project is being The Archive Works are an Chang series of Madness, (1918) Robert Stevenson Phill Niblock, developed with Sebastian ongoing experiment with 1.Stampede_ 01:34 John Milton, King Solomon’s Mines (1937) G2 44 +/X 2 (2002) Escofet. classic source material, and 2.Symphonie_04:23 Lost horizon, (1918) Harry O. Hoyt, Touch three (2006) The sound research of any other form of archival 3.Exotica_02:57 The Lost World (1928) Strings (2009) Cemetery is being developed in footage, from films to 4.Elephant cage_01:20 Elianne Radigue, collaboration with the Elephant photographic archives, 5.Chasing Elephants_ 2:25 Trilogie de la mort (1994) Listening project, with special from sound to written archives. 6.Fire_00:41 Chris Watson, thanks to Katy Payne. Outside the circle of fire(1998) Elephant boy series Stepping in the dark (1996) 7. The hunt_05:48 Francisco Lopez, 8. Recruitment of La jungla (1998) elephants_01:41 Fong Naam, 9. Elephant dance_ 06:45 Chang Soundtrack (1992) 10.Elephant Journey_11:09 Ustad Asad Ali Khan and 11. Elephant shower_06:10 Pandit Gopal Das, Musique Instrumentale de Tarzan series L´Inde Mediévale (1991) 12.Cemetery_7:35 Alain Daniélou, 13.Mutia Escarpment_3:45 Religious Music of India (1952) Nath Family, Jungle book series Sounds Of The Indian Snake 16.intro Jungle_05:32 Charmer recorded by Aaron 17.Jungle Fire_ 2:56 Dilloway (2005) 18.Sheerkhan_4:55 Tucker Martine, Broken Hearted Cemetery (Archive works) Butterflies (2004) by Carlos Casas Geir Jenssen, is available on Von Archives Cho Oyu 8201m (2006) as a DVD release. Ariel Guzik, REA (2002) VON009 DVD Sebastian Escofet, Vonarchives.com Requiem (2010)

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Artwork Carlos Casas Design Heads Collective Printing Tipografia Asolana

AA.VV. Netmage.10 Bologna, 2010