'Soundperformance by Salò Mentale - Revisited' (2016)
by Salò Mentale.
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"The story of Stichting (Foundation) Maldoror began in 1987, as a result of a collaboration between Erik Lindner, Ruud Vermeer and myself.
Around 1990 Stacz Wilhelm and Lieselot Peterse started Maldoror Galerie, a sub-division of the foundation, at location Voortvaren, a former printing factory in the centre of The Hague.
In 1993 they invited artists Max Kuiper and Patty Struik to exhibit their works.
My band since 1984, Salò Mentale, was asked to do a noise performance. Which we did. I invited two bandmembers, Karlo and Istvan, to bring along an instrument. Karlo brought a Yamaha synthesizer, Istvan a Korg. We all had tremendous hangovers that day. Karlo would be sitting in one corner, Istvan in another, and I was close to the entrance with a tape deck and a record player. The tape deck was playing a recording of Willem Steeper reading from The Songs of Maldoror' (in Dutch). At the same time I would do some record scratching with a children's record from my youth, called 'Let's March Along'.
It was rather LOUD.
The performance lasted about an hour. I think everybody was rather pleased when we finally stopped."
Anthony Blokdijk, 20/5/2016, The Hague
'The Final Testament Of Stichting Maldoror':
stichting-maldoror.blogspot.nl/2012/02/salo-mentale-introduction.html
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This double C90 cassettetape is a collaboration between:
Salò Mentale \ Anthony Blokdijk \ Stichting Maldoror \ Maldoror gallery.
Den Haag, Nederland;
and
Les Horribles Travailleurs \ r\a\w f\o\r\m\s \ mk as painter.
Arnhem, Nederland.
On 29 may 1993 the band Salò Mentale performed on the black occasion of the red completion of 31 X 2,20 meters drawing that mk made during may 1993 in the Maldoror Gallery in Den Haag, The Netherlands.
Sounds from various sources were sent from different locations inside the building, filling and transforming the large space of the gallery, a former printing factory.
Excactly 23 years after the soundperformance by Salò Mentale, the 1993 plan to release the recording of the performance, together with a soundwork by lht, is executed.
The four soundworks on the two tapes:
- The recording of the Soundperformance;
- 'Soundperformance Revisited’ (2016) by Salò Mentale;
- Two soundworks titled 'Merging of Forces’ part 1 and 2 (2016) by Les Horribles Travailleurs, which are fire, stolen from the 1993 drawing, transformed into sound.
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'Sound Performance For Max Kuiper (1993) – 1 Minute Of 2014 Mix'
by Salò Mentale.
Part of 'Sound of the Night \ Sound of Black' - soundproject of 'Nuits et Noirs magazine' Nr. 2.
29 contributors sent 1 minute of sound about the Night \ about Black.
A compilation in two parts of the 29 original (unremixed) soundminutes can be found on Mixcloud:
www.mixcloud.com/LesHorriblesTravailleurs/sound-of-the-night-sound-of-black-part-1/
www.mixcloud.com/LesHorriblesTravailleurs/sound-of-the-night-sound-of-black-part-2/
'Nuits et Noirs' is a free PDF magazine with international contributors - visual ; text ; sound.
Released by R\A\W F\O\R\M\S
nuitsetnoirs.com
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The original and unedited 1993 Soundperformance, as well as the Live performance by Salò Mentale on 29 may 2016 at STICHMA TV (The Hague), can be found here:
anthonyblokdijk.bandcamp.com/album/sound-performance-for-max-kuiper