INTERVIEW// KOUDLAM

He sings: "Who are we and why are you dancing?" Koudlam evokes a penchant for lust and risk that shakes you.
Inspired by both the myths of the past and of the future, this classically trained french composer, who studied art history and worked in a bank, is with us and for us. His electronic music is orchestral, monumental and makes you want to dance. You've heard his songs, they are the soundtracks to Cyprien Gaillard's films. Live, he is definitely something to rally around.
His new album, "Goodbye" is just out on PanEuropean Recording.


Brian Wilson said: "It was a childhood dream of mine to make music that made people feel loved." Last week in Paris, I asked Koudlam what kind of a child he was and what he wanted people to feel when they hear his music. I told him I felt love. He swears he was a good kid and hopes his music will help bring order to chaos. He tells me "Music is Harmony, Sister of Love."

WORK// A.P.C

THANKS TO ARAKI CURATED BY MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM.

WORK// WWW.CHANEL.COM

CHANEL // COLLAGE BY MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM.

INSPIRATION// SAINT-LOUIS

FEDERICO FELLINI "AND THE SHIP SAILS ON" MADE IN 1983.

The film depicts the events on the board of a luxery liner filled with the friends of a deceased opera singer who have gathered to mourn her.

WORK// COMME DES GARCONS

THANKS TO MARK BORTHWICK CURATED BY MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM.

WORK// PRADA BILLBOARD

THANKS TO KELD HELMER-PETERSEN COLLAGE BY MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM.

In 1947, KELD HELMER-PETERSEN self-published a book entitled 122 Color Photographs.

It was, Martin Parr says, 'perhaps the first intelligent book featuring only color photographs and was distinctively Modernist in its look'. The purity and serenity found in the 20th century work of 88 year-old Danish photographer, Keld Helmer Petersen, looks as modern today as it did back in the 1940s, when he first began taking pictures.

Prada's inclination towards art has led the brand into the desert, positioning it as much beneath the earth as above the sky. It is both the summation of architecture and the acretion of time. It should be regarded in this way as both the final adornement of a physical being and its aspiration to be both above and beneath the structure that it may support. It appeals to both origins and destiny.

We have reinterpreted KELD HELMER-PETERSEN's photograph, replacing an original Texaco logo, with Prada's signature. It becomes a "mise en abyme", or in other words a dream within a dream: modernity within modernity and, in its final incarnation as a billboard, architecture within architecture: in other words, Prada within art.

Abracadabra!

WORK// THE CELINE LOVE LETTER

THANKS TO SHARON HAYES AND NEVILLE WAKEFIELD CURATED BY MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM.

Historically our culture has passed through various phases and shifts from an oral tradition to a literary one, from a literary one to an image based or spectacular one. Does an image still speak a thousand words? Can words now outspeak images? Surely they demand of us a different sort of attention and focus and this is what may be interesting about this direction...

INSPIRATION// REPETTO

A BALLET SHOE 1975 // JACK GOLDSTEIN
19 seconds recording the liberation of an icon.

WORK// THE LAST TIME I SAW YOU, YOU ASKED ME WHAT I WANTED

THANKS TO TOSHIO MATSUMOTO AND THE FIELD.

INSPIRATION// LEVI'S JEANS

"Morrison's best-known but seldom seen cinematic endeavor is HWY: An American Pastoral, a project he started in 1969. Morrison financed the venture and formed his own production company in order to maintain complete control of the project. Paul Ferrara, Frank Lisciandro and Babe Hill assisted with the project. Morrison played the main character, a hitchhiker turned killer/car thief. Morrison asked his friend, composer/pianist Fred Myrow, to select the soundtrack for the film."

DIARY// DECEMBER 8TH, 2009// GHOST RADAR IPHONE APP

Pere Lachaise, with Yann d'Haucourt, our first guest contributor.
(PHOTO: YANN D'HAUCOURT, READING: IPHONE 3GS)

We wondered around the cemetery in the cold afternoon and ended up caught in a cliche at Jim Morrison's grave. A large group had gathered. We realized after the fact that it was his birthday today. Jim Morrison was born December 8, 1943.
Here is what the IPHONE application GHOST RADAR, which detects quantum fluctuations, recorded today at his grave:

Radar start: Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009, 3:38 PM
Radar end: Tuesday, Dec 8, 2009, 3:44.44 PM

Radar end:
High Sensitivity

Words Spoken:
3:39:07 PM : room
3:39:20 PM : I'm
3:39:46 PM : Columbus
3:39:59 PM : handsome
3:40:38 PM : shells
3:40:51 PM : best
3:41:30 PM : research
3:41:56 PM : spell
3:42:09 PM : officer
3:43:01 PM : fed
3:44:06 PM : meant
3:44:19 PM : salt
3:44:32 PM : free

Signals Detected:
3:38:34 PM : BLUE
3:38:35 PM : BLUE
3:38:55 PM : RED
3:38:58 PM : RED
3:38:59 PM : YELLOW
3:39:02 PM : YELLOW
3:39:03 PM : RED
3:39:06 PM : RED
3:39:07 PM : RED
3:39:11 PM : GREEN
3:39:14 PM : GREEN
3:39:15 PM : RED
3:39:18 PM : RED
3:39:19 PM : RED
3:39:22 PM : RED
3:39:26 PM : RED
3:39:27 PM : RED
3:39:29 PM : RED
3:39:30 PM : RED
3:39:31 PM : RED
3:39:33 PM : RED
3:39:34 PM : BLUE
3:39:35 PM : BLUE
3:39:37 PM : BLUE
3:39:38 PM : GREEN
3:39:39 PM : GREEN
3:39:41 PM : GREEN
3:39:42 PM : RED
3:39:45 PM : RED
3:39:46 PM : YELLOW
3:39:49 PM : RED
3:39:50 PM : RED
3:39:53 PM : RED
3:40:05 PM : RED
3:40:06 PM : RED
3:40:09 PM : RED
3:40:10 PM : RED
3:40:13 PM : RED
3:40:14 PM : RED
3:40:17 PM : RED
3:40:18 PM : RED
3:40:21 PM : GREEN
3:40:22 PM : GREEN
3:40:24 PM : RED
3:40:25 PM : RED
3:40:26 PM : RED
3:40:28 PM : GREEN
3:40:29 PM : GREEN
3:40:30 PM : GREEN
3:40:32 PM : BLUE
3:40:33 PM : BLUE
3:40:34 PM : BLUE
3:40:40 PM : BLUE
3:40:41 PM : BLUE
3:40:52 PM : YELLOW
3:40:53 PM : YELLOW
3:40:56 PM : BLUE
3:40:57 PM : BLUE
3:41:00 PM : RED
3:41:01 PM : RED
3:41:04 PM : RED
3:41:05 PM : RED
3:41:08 PM : BLUE
3:41:09 PM : BLUE
3:41:31 PM : BLUE
3:41:32 PM : BLUE
3:41:39 PM : BLUE
3:41:40 PM : BLUE
3:42:02 PM : BLUE
3:42:03 PM : BLUE
3:42:04 PM : BLUE
3:42:06 PM : BLUE
3:42:07 PM : BLUE
3:42:08 PM : BLUE
3:42:14 PM : BLUE
3:42:15 PM : BLUE
3:43:05 PM : BLUE
3:43:06 PM : BLUE
3:43:59 PM : BLUE
3:44:00 PM : BLUE
3:44:03 PM : GREEN
3:44:04 PM : GREEN
3:44:07 PM : GREEN
3:44:08 PM : GREEN
3:44:11 PM : BLUE
3:44:12 PM : BLUE
3:44:15 PM : BLUE
3:44:16 PM : BLUE
3:44:19 PM : BLUE
3:44:20 PM : BLUE
3:44:31 PM : GREEN
3:44:32 PM : GREEN
3:44:42 PM : GREEN
3:44:43 PM : GREEN
3:44:44 PM : GREEN

Read more about GHOST RADAR here: http://www.spudpickles.com/GhostRadar/

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL// INTERVIEW WITH INTERVIEW

PLEASE HAVE A LOOK: http://www.interviewmagazine.com/blogs/art/2009-11-12/lisa-rovner-alice-heart/

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL// WEDDING