#Metamorphosen

[craft2eu]

Herlinde Koelbl "Metamorphosen": Leipzig bis 01.04.2024

Herlinde Koelbl, Ikone der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, deren konsequenten Dokumentationen  die  Veränderungen von Menschen und Medien in das Zentrum ihres Schaffens stellen, hat in den letzten Jahren ihren Blick von den Menschen auf die Natur erweitert. Bekannt wurde sie mit ihrem Langzeitprojekt der Neunzigerjahre, „Spuren der Macht. Die Verwandlung des Menschen durch das Amt”. Auf ihren vielen…

[rwpohl]

tiergarten schönbrunn, wien

[monosanimegenericzone]

Hunter x Hunter: the implications of metamorphosen

ight its about to get gay up in this bitch.

points at this

points back at you

WHEN THE FUCK DID BONOLENOV SPEND TIME WITH OWL

WELL I'LL TELL YA. HIM TAKING OWL'S FORM IS AN ENTIRE DUMPTRUCK OF IMPLICATIONS.

WHICH. FIRST OF ALL. MEANS BONOLENOV AND FEITAN ACTUALLY DID HAVE A MOMENT. I AM ACTUALLY NOT DELUSIONAL (i am). I SOMEHOW MANIFESTED THIS (i did not).

the only time the troupe spent time with owl is when he was their prisoner and tortured for information. in the scene (2011 anime) it took less than an hour to get the info out of him. in the manga we don't really know.

first time we see him, zesty ass pose and i love him for it.

last time we see him. less zesty but still slaying as a silhouette.

in the manga this is within a single evening. sometime after midnight to close to dawn. so at least 6 hours.

thats not a lot of time.

so why is bono posing as owl in the black whale if, at max, he has 5 and a half hours (cutting off 30 minutes for transportation). dawg. you are meant to be espionage for however long it takes chrollo to take his sweet time to get up there. that could be days.

that being said, owl could have been held at the base for much longer than that one day, we don't know what happened to him, but we assume he was let go because chrollo was able to use the cloth in his fight with the zoldycks.

so, bonolenov *might* have been able to get time with owl after they got the goods off of him.

but, all of the spiders were out of the base for that fight, i will bet cash money that they dumped this guy's body on the side of the road before the requiem, cutting the available time to a maximum of 20 hours give or take.

but 20 hours is decent. i take back what i said. transforming into owl might be a good play.

you know what that implies?

BONOLENOV WATCHED FEITAN TORTURE THIS DUDE. HE WAS IN THE ROOM WITH THIS MOTHERFUCKER.

WHICH. SECOND OF ALL.

BONO YOU W A T C H E D THAT??? BRO IS LYING OUT HIS A S S TO GET AN AUDIENCE WITH THEIR PRISONERS BECUASE NO ONE KNEW A DAMN THING.

how many of their prisoners did he do this for?? did he do it for any?? was owl just special??

he is secretly a social butterfly but in the most introverted way we thought possible. sir what the FUCK.

AND THIRD. there are probably conditions we don't know about and logistics that can be hand waved away about metamorphosen. Bonolenov dont even know for sure how this shit works, so our guess is as good as his.

metamorphosen is a fucking goated ability and im so proud of my weird ugly son.

im just concerned about the time he spends with strangers. stranger danger

this is a certified nen nerd post. i guess.

[germanpostwarmodern]

It is almost inconceivable that of any periods in time it was during the years of the Third Reich that sculptor Karl Hartung (1908-67) developed his first abstract works: in 1935 the „Durchlöcherte Form“ marked the beginning of a consequential processing of nature and figure that only ended with his untimely death in 1967. Strangely there is few profound literature available about the artist whose work spearheaded German art in the postwar decades. A rare exception is Markus Krause’s pioneering monograph/work catalogue „Karl Hartung 1908-1967: Metamorphosen von Mensch und Natur“, published in 1998 by Prestel: not only does it contain more than 800 sculptural works but also early works, furniture designs and some commissional works from the 1930s but it also features a detailed account of Hartung’s life and artistic development. Returning from decisive stays in Paris and Florence between 1929 and 1932 that saw Hartung admire classics of sculpture like Maillol, Despiau and Donatello he increasingly dealt with the abstract forms of Arp, Brancusi and Moore. While these works certainly were incongruent with Nazi art politics Hartung kept himself afloat with innocuous plaques or head busts, works that for the first time are presented and analyzed in Krause’s book. With the beginning of WWII Hartung was drafted for the Wehrmacht, a hard time that was only relieved by two travels to Paris where he met Henri Laurens, Picasso and Brancusi. Released from war imprisonment in September 1945 Hartung finally was free to follow the path of abstraction towards his own formal language that conveniently concurred with the Zeitgeist.

Markus Krause’s meritorious monograph and work catalogue for sure is the reference work on Hartung that beyond all obvious diligence also is a well-written, knowledgeable and very convincing piece of modern German art history.

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Thursday, 11-14-24, 7pm Pacific

'Evenin' all, Mr. Baggins back with a set of music to soothe your achin' nerves and help ease us all into a good night. Let's start out with a little Mozart, here is the incomparable soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, singing Susanna's aria from The Marriage of Figaro, "Dove sono", from a live 1959 recording.

For the next 50 minutes or so, let's hear from harpsichordist Sylvia Marlowe, with her reading of Bach's "Goldberg Variations", written to help put Mr. Goldberg to sleep at night! From her classic 1963 recording.

Next we'll revisit the legendary clarinetist Benny Goodman, this time joined by The Budapest Quartet, for their reading of Mozart's divine Clarinet Quintet in A, K581.

The engineers at RCA were the true geniuses of mid 1950s High Fidelity recording. The recordings made on RCA during the mid-late '50s are counted among the most sonically correct, even to this day. One of their superstar ensembles was Condutor Fritz Reiner and The Chicago Symphony. Reiner whipped the CSO into a WORLD-CLASS orchestra that was easily able to hold their own on the world stage. Here is Maestro Reiner and the band, playing some of the waltzes by the Strausses, senior and junior.

Here is one of the later Symphonies by Franz Joseph Haydn, this is Symphony No. 96, nicknamed "The Miracle" because of an incident that occured at its premier. The audience was so enthusiastic after the piece ended that they all rushed to the front of the stage. At that precise moment, a huge chandelier that was hanging over the center of the audience crashed to the ground. Had anyone still been in their seats, they would have been killed. The "Miracle" Symphony is played here for us by Neville Marriner and the ASMF.

I generally subscribe to the idea that a lot of 20th Century classical music is simply unlistenable...I'm not a big fan of "12 tone" or any of the other experimental "modern" strains of music. The main reason being there is no lyricism...no real poetry, no heart. Here is what is essentially the only listenable (to me) piece by Arnold Schoenberg, his "Transfigured Night". I find this as haunting as its disc-mate, the Strauss Metamorphosen. Performed by Neville Marriner and the ASMF.

Next we have Eugene Ormandy conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra, in the lush orchestration of a piano piece by Debussy, his "Reverie", a truly iconic interpretation.

Now let's hear the incredible Theremin virtuoso, Clara Rockmore, with her sister Nadia Reisenberg on the piano, in Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise", absolutely mind boggling performance, especially if you understand what is involved in playing the Theremin!

I will leave you tonight with a special treat: Clara in an actual video performance, one more gem left to us by this amazing woman. In 1976, synthesizer genius Bob Moog filmed this at Clara's apartment in New York City. The clip was digitally restored in 1998. Here is Clara Rockmore with her sister Nadia, to bring us their other-worldly reading of Saint-Saens "The Swan" from Carnival of the Animals.

This is Mr. Baggins, signing off for the night. I'll be with you again at 8am Pacific for Morning Coffee Music.

Until then, dream sweet dreams, babies, dream sweet dreams.

Baggins out.

[camisoledadparis]

IMPORTANT BOULLE MARQUETRY CHEST OF DRAWERS,

Régence, from a Paris master workshop, circa 1720/30. Polychrome tortoiseshell finely inlaid on all sides with engraved brass "contre partie" with scenes from Ovid's Metamorphosis within cartouches. The bombé chest with 2 drawers at the front and shaped top edged in bronze. With exceptionally fine matte and polished gilt bronze mounts, sabots and applications. 129x65x84 cm. Provenance: - Galerie Didier Aaron, Paris. - from a very important European private collection. .

Régence, aus einer Pariser Meisterwerkstatt, um 1720/30. Polychromes Schildpatt allseitig ausserordentlich fein eingelegt mit graviertem Messing in "contre partie"; ovale Kartusche mit Szene aus den Metamorphosen von Ovid, mit König Midas, Pan, Apollo und Bacchus, Eichhörnchen, Arabesken, Blumen, Blättern, Kartuschen und Zierfries. Bombierter Korpus mit vorstehendem, in profilierten Bronzestab gefasstem Blatt auf wellig ausgeschnittener Zarge mit geschweiften Beinen. Front mit 2 Schubladen. Ausserordentlich feine, matt- und glanzvergoldete Bronzebeschläge, -sabots und -applikationen in Form von Löwenköpfen, Kartuschen, Blättern und Zierfries. 

[anwiel13]

„Metamorphosen“ by Marie Riedel

„Metamorphosen“ sind poetische Formerinnerungen. In den biomorphen Motiven werden die Grenzen zwischen kristallinen, vegetabilen und animalischen Bereichen aufgebrochen hin zu einer Zwischengegenständlichkeit. Ihre skripturale Eingebung während des Verdichtungsprozesses folgte keiner rationalen Vorstellung. Er ist die Wechselwirkung aus Zeichnung, Reproduktion und digitaler Bildbearbeitung, sowie Form umdeutenden Eingriffen auf einer zweiten Farbebene als Handsiebdruck.

“Metamorphoses” are poetic memories of form. In the biomorphic motifs, the boundaries between crystalline, vegetal and animal areas are broken down to create an intermediate objectivity. Her scriptural inspiration during the compression process did not follow any rational idea. It is the interaction of drawing, reproduction and digital image processing, as well as form-reinterpreting interventions on a second color level as hand screen printing.

(google translation)

Available here

[congregamus]

I think maybe the Strauss Metamorphosen is ~as advertised~, for it seems to have restructured my brain earlier today entirely to its shape. Obsessed. Not sure how I missed this siren song for so long.

[lesser-known-composers]

Felix Woyrsch (1860-1944) - Metamorphosen Op.48

Rolf Plagge - Piano

[techniktagebuch]

6. April 2023

Die Metamorphosen der Nachricht

Ich stelle Alexander Krützfeldt bei WhatsApp eine Frage. Die Antwort möchte ich für einen zu schreibenden Text verwenden, als Zitat oder als Hintergrundinformation.

Er beantwortet meine Frage mit drei Sprachnachrichten. Ich finde Sprachnachrichten nicht so praktisch, bekomme aber auch fast keine, eigentlich nur von Alexander Krützfeldt, und da habe ich mich dran gewöhnt. In diesem Fall will ich ja auch was von ihm wissen, da finde ich es angemessen, dass er den Weg wählt, der für ihn am bequemsten ist und nicht für mich.

Ich höre die ersten Sekunden an und finde alles so interessant, dass ich schon anfangen will, mitzuschreiben. Dann fällt mir ein, dass ich das ja jetzt nicht mehr machen muss. Ich lade alle drei Sprachnachrichten herunter (bei WhatsApp geht das, anders als im Facebook Messenger) und dann bei Amberscript hoch. Amberscript ist ein kostenpflichtiges Transkriptionstool, das ich in den letzten Jahren öfter für Techniktagebuchbeiträge verwendet habe.

Ein paar Minuten später ist meine Transkription der Sprachnachrichten fertig. Ich höre sie mir einmal im Amberscript-Editor an und überarbeite dabei ein paar Stellen, die das Tool falsch verstanden hat. Viele sind es nicht, es weiß nicht, was eine Casio-Uhr ist und weigert sich, einzusehen, dass Seehofer mit Vornamen Horst heißt. Sonst ist alles fast perfekt.

Ich kopiere die transkribierten Sprachnachrichten zurück nach WhatsApp, falls Alexander noch was ergänzen möchte. Der Vorgang fühlt sich ein bisschen skurril an, insgesamt bin ich aber zufrieden mit dem aktuellen Zustand.

(Kathrin Passig)

[craft2eu]

Thérèse Lebrun - Glaneuse de porcelaine: Mons (B) bis 27.08.2023

Erinnerungen an eine ferne Flut oder Relikte aus der Eiszeit: Die Kreationen von Thérèse Lebrun offenbaren ein Universum der Metamorphosen, das die sensible Seele der Welt widerspiegelt. Die Ausstellung zeigt das Werk der belgischen Keramikerin Thérèse Lebrun, von ihren Anfängen in der Werkstatt des Meisters Mirko Orlandini, wo sie gedrehte und glasierte Erde bearbeitete, bis zu ihren aktuellen…

[dressupjohnnyk]

Tonight’s concert at the Toronto Summer Music Festival features Francis Poulenc’s Sextet for piano and winds, Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen and Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1!

[monosanimegenericzone]

Hunter x Hunter: delusional

reasons why i think fei and bono are homies/absolutely not kissing (this is satire they are in fact kissing)

i present. my delusions.

they box for one. they both like the sport and they both appreciate the art of beating the absolute shit out of other guys. I feel like they also box each other if they are ever in the same town. Usually phinks follows fei around or vise versa but occasionally fei will dip on his own and go find bono to go box.

fei is stronger than bono but bono packs a mean punch and i imagine has technique like no one's business. fei doesn't usually do hand to hand. He's strong sure but he specializes in slashing. bono beats that out of him and he's like ok fine i'll throw hands.

and that's how fei learned how to box and make people hurt with blunt force.

they also both like astronomy. they're the only two (uvo aside) that have space related naming schemes and if i am correct and the rest of fei's aresenal is star related then thats even more sweet. bono being the one who knows the most about the stars just because of how his tribe read time of year and studied cardinal directions.

them both creating planet based hatsus, one for inescapable crushing by planet and one by inescapable heat by star.

mmh something about that.

feitan also being a little anatomy nerd about how many muscles bono shouldn't be able to use because of the holes in him but he still somehow uses them anyway bcs bono is just built different.

there is no explanation bcs yeah bro's forearm should not be like that rn.

also bono hiding injuries bcs no one questions when he's covered in bandages. he doesn't use metamorphosen with the troupe bcs he's a secretive lil boy. but feitan being able to tell when his hobbly ass walk is just slightly off.

feitan being the only one who can fix him up bcs bono is too much of a prideful dingdong to let anyone else check up on him. he thinks injuries gained in combat have no need to be helped since it was his own skill that failed him but feitan is like 'shut up you ding dong and stop bleeding all over the floor.'

bono doesn't know his birthday either and so they're birthday less buds. they forget birthdays are even a thing until someone asks them their age or asks for their date of birth and they just pause like 'uuuuuuuuh'.

that is headcanon for the bono part. i think bono remembers what stars he was born under bcs that was important but the date of being officiated as a bap did not correlate with the date of birth so he knows the month but not the day.

im delusional.

[justusjonas]

crossover mit ovids metamorphosen WANN! verwandelt bob in einen baum

[posttexasstressdisorder]

Beethoven's 7th Symphony, slow movement, very funereal sounding; a choral adaptation graced the soundtrack of that classic Sean-Connery-in-a-Red-Diaper flick, Zardoz. Definitive performance? Pablo Casals and the Marlborough Festival Orchestra. The entire 7th is fantastic.

Same dude's 6th's Symphony: the bit in Fantasia with the Centaurs and Fat Bacchus gettin' his ass bit by Zeuss an' shit. Definitive performance: Fritz Reiner & The Chicago Symphony.

And here is where I will begin adding "Classical Pieces You Probably Never Heard But Really Oughta".

Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen, a Study for 23 Solo Strings. The definitive performance: Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin In The Fields. It is precisely 23 minutes long. It's the one recording that stands out above the rest in terms of lyrical cohesiveness and beauty of line.

Schubert: Symphonies No. 3 and No. 5: Definitive Performance by Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin In The Fields. Very cheerful and bouncy morning music.

Rossini: String Sonatas 1-6: Definitive Performance by Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin In The Fields. If just hearing the first of these doesn't make you smile, you are dead inside.

Debussy And Ravel: Their respective String Quartets. Definitive performance: The Via Nova Quartet (Musical Heritage Society Recording). Incredibly sumptuous, tension-filled and edgy Impressionist chamber music!

Alexander Scriabin: Etudes, Op. 8, and Preludes, Op. 11. Definitive performance: 20th Century Russian Pianist Vladimir Sofronitzky (who married Scriabin's Daughter). Unparalleled. Also recommended: any other Scriabin recordings by Sofronitzky. He transcends!

Alexander Scriabin: Sonata No. 9 "The Black Mass". Definitive Performance: Vladimir Horowitz' 1953 recording, from his 25-year Anniversary Concert. Scorching...you can smell the fire and brimstone!

Rachmaninoff: Isle of The Dead; definitive performance: Fritz Reiner and The Chicago Symphony.

Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 in C minor, definitive performance: Van Cliburn with Fritz Reiner & The Chicago Symphony. Was featured in several '50s movies, including "Seven Year Itch".

Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto (No. 5, in E-flat): Definitive Performance: Vladimir Horowitz with Fritz Reiner and The Chicago Symphony.

Brahms' Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Definitive performance from 1941: Vladimir Horowitz with his father-in-law, the formidible Arturo Toscanini. Absolutely electric. As one Horowitz biographer put it, "This is not the old fat Brahms, this is athletic, sinewy Brahms!"

And ONE LAST ONE for tonight:

Dvorak: String Serenade Op. 22 and Wind Serenade Op. 44; absolutely joyful, boisterous and life-filled music, given definitive performance by Neville Marriner and The Academy of St. Martin In The Fields.

AND IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD GLENN GOULD'S BACH RECORDINGS, WTF, DUDE?!?!?!?!? Especially the Goldbergs, and The Dminor Concerto (with Lenny Bernstein conducting!)

Enjoy!

Classical Pieces You've Probably Heard but Might Not Remember the Name

William Tell Overture- Rossini (Most famous part at 8:45, but why not listen to the whole thing?) I’m adding hints, at least to the ones I recognized culturally. This one is “go, horsey, go!”

Also Sprach Zarathustra- Strauss Slow, dramatic entry scene, IN SPAAACE.

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik- Mozart People running out of a fancy wedding or something. Also known as DUN, dun DUN, dun DUN dun DUN dun DUUUUN.

Symphony 94, Mvt. 2 “Surprise Symphony”- Haydn ?

Toccata and Fugue in d Minor-Bach Halloween organ!

Nocturne Op. 9 No. 2- Chopin Picture a tiny old woman playing piano in a sunlit room with lots of flower vases, about the spill the tragic secrets of her past to some timid young visitor.

Rondo alla Turca- Mozart the babysitter from The Incredibles: “Time for some COGNITIVE ENRICHMENT!”

Sinfonie de Fanfares: Rondeau- Jean-Joseph Mouret Royalty is coming. Or someone is getting married. Or royalty is getting married. Also the PBS Masterpieces theme.

The Four Seasons: Spring- Vivaldi (I just linked to the whole thing because it’s great) Again, someone is getting married, but this one is strings instead and a lot less frumpy.

Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring- Bach That one that amateur guitarists love where the notes are all up and down but all the same length. Also used in movie weddings.

O Fortuna (from Carmina Burana)- Carl Orff SONG OF DOOM. Also song of “baby on fire!” in The Incredibles.

Funeral March- Chopin ?

Orpheus in the Underworld: Infernal Galop (A.K.A. Can Can)- Offenbach Well, “aka can-can” says it all.

Pomp and Circumstance (You probably graduated to this)- Elgar Oh yes, Baaaa dun dun dun duun duuuuun… Also if you were a bandie you had to play it for 3 years before graduating to it.

Gayane: Sabre Dance- Aram Khachaturian Comically hectic productivity, a circus clown juggling while standing on a ball, or perhaps a rapidly-approaching termite infestation. Could go any way, really.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Wedding March- Mendelssohn The song movies play right AFTER they both say “I do.”

Carmen: Les Toreadors- Bizet I can’t be the only one who remembers when ‘Hey Arnold’ did this. “Bullfights and swordfights, rolling in manuuure!”

The Ride of the Valkyries- Wagner Good song for a naval battle I guess? I can only think of the mini golf course I went to as a kid with the creepy castle on Hole 18 that played this.

Für Elise- Beethoven That one every amateur piano player loves to play because the beginning is just E and E-flat over and over. Also ballet and piano recital scenes in movies.

Dance of the Hours- Ponchielli Hello mudda, hello fadda, here I am at, Camp Granada…

Rigotello: La Donna e Mobile- Verdi More than a few sophisticated movie villains (or snobby good guys) have this playing on a Victrola. Also, tell me you don’t picture Pavaroti no matter who’s actually singing.

Night on Bald Mountain- Mussorgsky ?

Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme- Tchaikovsky More movie-love, usually building up to admitting they live each other.

Entry of the Gladiators- Julius Fucik I have one word for you: CIRCUS.

Lakmé: Flower Duet- Delibes OMG ALIAS. Nadia’s spy  backstory in Film Noir!

Peer Gynt: In the Hall of the Mountain King- Greig Mischievous Tiptoeing in Movies song. Also something growing out of control, slowly at first and then quickly, and (comically) exploding.

Rodeo: Hoedown- Copland The title says it all tbh.

Peer Gynt: Morning Mood- Greig Sunrise/waking up Movie Song du jour.

New World Symphony Mov. [2][4]- Dvorak Well now I’m thinking of “An American Tail” and I’m crying…

Ave Maria (You knew this, but did you know that it was by Schubert?) Nothing to add. I’m not a music snob, really, but if you didn’t know this, YOU SHOULD.

Canon in D- Pachelbel This is the one that the pretty Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas song comes from. :-)

Add others if you want! Have fun!