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Reinaldo Laddaga / Various Artists

A collection of fifty-five short tales and fifty-five brief music pieces composed by a momentary collective of eighteen musicians.

Texts

Reinaldo Laddaga has created the fictional second volume of an anthology that Argentinean writers Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares published in Buenos Aires in 1956. The result is an enchanting and somber collection of very short texts, where the most diverse authors (from Lucian of Samosata to Virginia Woolf, from Emmanuel Swedenborg to Blaise Cendrars) tell stories of walking trees, burning dresses, illnesses mysteriously cured and deaths surprisingly reversed.

Music

Sonic interpretations of the stories composed by artists and musicians often previously featured on Unsounds. The pieces were created specifically, as personal reactions to the texts and their resonances. From a rich and diverse collection of materials, Reinaldo Laddaga and Yannis Kyriakides have assembled a double CD that is a powerful complement to the reading of the stories, but can be also approached as a self-standing sound work.

Composers

Christine Abdelnour, Claudio Baroni, Justin Bennett, Sylvia Borzelli, John Butcher, Alan Courtis, DJ Sniff, Barbara Ellison, Ron Ford, Yannis Kyriakides, Anne LaBerge, Reinaldo Laddaga, Francisco López, Machinefabriek, Andy Moor, Gabriel Paiuk, Santiago Santero and Felipe Waller.

“Things That A Mutant Needs To Know: More Short And Amazing Stories” is curated by Reinaldo Laddaga, and published by Unsounds as a book with two CDs and as enhanced eBook, with illustrations and design by Isabelle Vigier.

SIXTY INTERPRETATIONS OF SIXTY SECONDS BY SIXTY SOLO IMPROVISERS 

Compiled by DAVID SALT

APPRISE RECORDS

PRICE : 12 EUROS

DUOS WITH Jakob Riis

OLOF BRIGHT RECORDS, 2010

PRICE / 12 EUROS

COMPILED BY SINGING KNIVES IN AUTUMN 2009

Price : 10 euros

MONOTYPE RECORDS

• Composers: Sébastien Cirotteau, Mario Gauthier, Éric Normand, Christine Sehnaoui, Martin Tétreault
• Performers: Sébastien Cirotteau, Mario Gauthier, Éric Normand, Christine Sehnaoui, Martin Tétreault

12 EUROS

AL MASLAKH.

DUOS WITH MICHAEL ZERANG ( With Sharif Sehnaoui, Mazen Kerbaj ...)

Price : 12 euros