#uk mutuals would you feel my energy if i was suddenly there

[rawfather]

if i had my way i would be going to college in the uk but i have to go to my dumb hicktown local community college first

[tracingavantgardeinfluences]

This is the sound of dancing architecture “I get to corner Ralf Hütter in a cluttered backwater of EMI house, for a conversational nexus in which we poke theories at each other through the language barrier… Frank Zappa said “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” This is the sound of dancing architecture…“ An interview with Ralf Hütter by Andrew Darlington, 1981 (the taped conversation is written up later). Red man. Stop. Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier. Green man. Go. People respond, regulated by the mechanical switch of coloured lights. Crossing the Pelican towards EMI House it’s easy to submerge in a long droning procession of Kraftwerkian images, pavement thick with lumbering showroom dummies reacting to Pavlovian stimuli, parallel lines of thruways, multi-legged ferroconcrete skyways, gloss-front office-blocks waterfalling from heaven, individuality drowned, starved to extinction, etc, etc. This could get boring. This could be cliché. Ideas prompt unbidden, strategies of sending my cassette recorder on alone to talk to the Kraftwerk answering machine. That’s Kraftwerk, isn’t it? I got news for you. It ain’t. Ralf Hütter (electronics and voice) is neat, polite, talks quietly with Teutonic inflection, and totally lacks visible cybernetic attachments. He’s dressed in regulation black — as per stereotype — slightly shorter than me which makes him five-foot-eight-inches, or perhaps nine, hair razored sharp over temples not to allow traces of decadent side-burns. Shoes are black, but sufficiently scuffed to betray endearingly human imperfections. He walks up and down reading review stats thoughtfully provided by EMI’s press division. Seems it’s a good review in The Times? Strong on technical details… yes? "No. The writer says we play exactly as on the records, which is not so.” He is evidently chagrined by this particular line of criticism, which is an interesting reaction. I file it for reference. But then again he’s just got up and come direct from his hotel. He wants breakfast. Coffee and cakes. An hour or so to talk to me, then down to Oxford for the dauntingly exacting Kraftwerk sound check rituals. The other Kraftwerkers — Florian Schneider (voice and electronics), Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flür (both electronic percussion) are otherwise occupied. So every vowel must count. I extend a tentative theory. The image Kraftwerk project of modernity, it seems to me, is largely derived from twenties and thirties originals: the Futurist dedication to movement and kinetic energy; the Bauhaus emphasis on clean, strictly functional lines; the Fritz Lang humans-as-social-ciphers thing. Even an album ‘inspired’ by Soviet Constructivist El Lissitzky with all the machine-art connotations that implies. Doesn’t Hütter find this contradictory? “No. In the twenties there was Futurism in Italy, Germany, France. Then in the thirties it stopped, retrograded into Fascism, bourgeois reactionary tendencies, in Germany especially…” And time froze for forty years. Until the Kraftwerk generation merely picked up the discarded threads, carried on where they’d left off. After the war “Germany went through a period with our parents who were so obsessed with getting a little house, a little car, the Volkswagen or Mercedes in front, or both All these very materialistic orientations turning Germany into an American colony, no new idea were really happening. We were like the first generation born after the war, so when we grew up we saw that all around us, and we turned to other things.” Kissing to life a dormant culture asleep four decades? But computers only print out data they’re programmed with, so working on this already grossly over-extended mechanistic principle I aim to penetrate Kraftwerk motivations. The dominant influences on them then were — what? American Rock? “No.” In that case, do Kraftwerk fit into the Rock spectrum? “No. Anti - Rock'n'Roll.” So their music is a separate discipline? “Yes, in a way, even though we play in places like Hammersmith. We are more into environmental music.” So if not Rock, then what? — Berio? Stockhausen? “Yes and no. We listened to that on the radio, it was all around. Especially the older generation of electronic people, the more academic composers — although we are not like that. They seem to be in a category within themselves, and only circulating within their own musical family. They did institutional things — while we are out in the streets. But I think from the sound, yes. From the experimenting with electronics, definitely. The first thing for us was to find a sound of Germany that was of our generation, that was the first records we do. First going into sound, then voices. Then we went further into voices and words, being more and more precise. And for this we were heartily attacked.” He mimics the outrage of his contemporaries — “You can’t do that… Electronics? What are you doing? Kraftwerk? German group — German name? It’s stupid. Music is Anglo-American — it has to be, even when it is in Germany.” The incredulity remains: “Still today, you know. Can you imagine? — German books with English titles, German bands singing English songs. It’s ridiculous!” Of course it is. But didn’t the Beatles do some German-language records at one time? “Sure” shrugs Hütter, friendly beyond all reasonable expectations. “They were even more open than most of the Germans…” I’d anticipated some mutual incomprehensibility interface with his broken English and my David Hockney Yorkshire. You find the phrasing strange? I’ll tell you… when the possibility of doing this interview first cropped up I ransacked my archives and dug out everything on Kraftwerk I could find. Now it occurs to me that each previous press chat-piece, from Creem to Melody Maker, have transposed Herr Hütter’s every utterance into perfect English. Which is not the case. His eloquence is daunting, but it inevitably has very pronounced Germanic cadences. Sometimes he skates around searching for the correct word, other times he uses the right word in the wrong context. When he says “we worked on the next album and the next album, and just so on”, it really emerges as “ve vork on ze next album und ze next, und just zo on”. It might be interesting to write up the whole interview tape with that phonetic accuracy, but it would be difficult to compose and impossible to read. Nevertheless, I’m not going to bland out his individuality by disinfecting his speech peculiarities, or ethnically cleansing his phrases entirely… But now he’s in flight and I’m chasing, trying to nail down details. In my head it’s now turn of the decade — sixties bleeding into the seventies, and this thing is called Krautrock. Oh, wow! Hard metallic grating noises, harder, more metallic, more grating and noisier than Velvet Underground, nihilistic Germanic flirtations with the existential void. Amon Düül II laying down blueprints to be electro-galvanised into a second coming by PiL, Siouxsie & The Banshees and other noise terrorists. Cluster. Faust. Then there is the gratuitous language violence of Can, sound that spreads like virus infection from Floh de Cologne and Neu, and Ash Ra Temple who record an album with acid prophet and genetic outlaw Timothy Leary. Was there a feeling of movement among these bands? A kinship? “No.” One note on the threshold of audibility, shooting down fantasies. “In Germany we have no capital. After the war we don’t have a centre or capital anymore. So instead we have a selection of different regional cultures. We — Kraftwerk — come from industrial Düsseldorf. But Amon Düül II came from Munich, which has a different feeling. Munich is quite relaxed. There’s a lot of landscape around.” Now for me it’s not just some off-the-top-of-the-head peripheral observation, but the corner-stone of my entire musical philosophy that this affable German is effortlessly swotting, and I’m not letting him off lightly. I restate histories carefully. American Rock'n'Roll happened in 1954 — Memphis, Sun Studios. From there it spread in a series of shock waves, reaching and taking on the regional characteristics of each location it hit. By the mid-sixties a distinctive UK variant had come into being, identifiably evolving out of exposure to US vinyl artefacts, but incontrovertibly also home-grown. Surely Krautrock was evidence that Germany had also acquired its own highly individual Rock voice? It seems to me there is a common feeling, a shared voice among these diverse groups. But he’s not buying. You don’t think so? “No. At least not as far as we were concerned.” When they started out they recorded in German-language. „We always record in German” he corrects emphatically. „Then we do — like in films, synchronised versions for English. The original records are all German, but we also do French, and now Japanese versions. We are very into the internationalist part.” Continuing this trans-Europe theme he suddenly suggests „Britain is a very historical society. The Establishment. The hierarchy. We come here and we feel that immediately. On the one hand you have this very modern…” he tails off. Starts again, „it’s a schizophrenic country, a modern people, new music and everything, but on the other hand the… how can I say it, a theatrical establishment.” I retaliate, yes — but surely it could equally be argued that all Europe forms a common cultural unit attempting to survive between the historic power-block forces of the USA and the old Soviet Union? Indeed, to journalist Andy Gill, Kraftwerk’s music is „promoting the virtues of cybernetic cleanliness and European culture against the more sensual, body-orientated nature of most Afro-American derived music” (‘Mojo’s August 1987). Europe shares a common heritage uniting Britain, Germany and France, which are all being subtly subverted by a friendly invasion of American Economic and McCultural influences, movies, records, clothes? Witter himself once said „in Germany, Pop music is a cultural import”. „Yes, I know. Certainly when we came to Birmingham (England) we thought it was similar to Düsseldorf. There’s no question. But in Germany it happens even more though, because here in England at least you notice, you know the language and everything. In Germany they don’t notice, it was just taken over.” I’d always considered the German language to be a defence against foreign influence. It was far easier for mainstream British culture to be accessed, and infiltrated because of a common American-English language. In France, for example, the Government is actively resisting the 'Anglicisation’ of their language through 'Franglaise’, because they rightly see its corruption as the thin end of the wedge. “Maybe. That should be checked. But you, together with the Americans had another situation to start with. After the war, Germany was finished. I’m not saying why or whatever, that’s OK. But when I grew up we used to play around the bomb-fields and the destroyed houses. This was just part of our heritage, part of our software. It was our education and cultural background…” The spectre of Basil Fawlty springs unbidden. Earlier an entirely innocent question about Kraftwerk’s origins had dislodged similar sentiments. He’d spoken of Germany’s Fascist years — “in Germany especially, that’s what I mostly knew about, then all the (artistic / creative) people emigrated, Einstein had to leave, and everybody knows the reasons. And then only after the war — he came back. But I think Germany went through a period, with our parents, who had never had anything. They went through two wars…” Breakfast becomes manifest. Mushroom quiche — no meat — followed by a choice of apricot or apple flan, plus two coffees. I sit opposite him, tape machine on the floor between us picking up air, the windows of EMI House blanding out over the trees of Manchester Square. I’m marshalling scores. So for, not content with winning each verbal exchange hands down, Ralf Hütter has also squashed each of my most cherished illusions about Krautrock. But on the plus side, massive giga-jolts of respect are due here. Long before the world had heard of Bill Gates or William Gibson, when Silicon Valley was still just a valley and mail had yet to acquire its 'e’ pre-fix, Kraftwerk were literally inventing and assembling their own instruments, expanding the technosphere by rewiring the sonic neural net, and defining the luminous futures of what we now know as global electronica. So perhaps it’s time to probe more orthodox histories? It seems to me there are two distinct phases to Kraftwerk’s career. Or perhaps even three. The first five years devoted purely to experimental forays into synchromeshed avant-electronics, producing the batch of albums issued in Britain through Vertigo — Kraftwerk in 1972, Ralf Und Florian the following year, the seminal Autobahn in 1974, and the compilation Exceller 8 in 1975. Then they switch to EMI, settle on a more durable line-up and the subsequent move into more image-conscious material, a zone between song and tactile atmospherics. The third, and current phase, involves a long and lengthening silence.   "No, it wasn’t like that” says Hütter. “It was…” his hand indicates a level plane. 'There was never a break. It was a continual evolution. We had our studios since 1970, so we always worked on the next album, and the next album, and so on. I think Düsseldorf therefore was very good because we brought in other people, painters, poets, so that we associated ourselves with…“ his sometimes faulty English — interfacing with my even more faulty German — breaks down. The words don’t come. So he switches direction. “Also we had some classical training before that [Ralf and Florian met at the Düsseldorf Conservatory], so we were very disciplined.” Others in this original extended family of neo-Expressionist electro-subversives included Conny Plank (who was later to produce stuff for Annie Lennox’ The Tourists, and Ultravox), Thomas Homann and Klaus Dinger (later of Neu), artist Karl Klefisch (responsible for the highly effective Man Machine sleeve), and Emil Schult (who co-composed Trans-Europe Express). In the subsequent personnel file, as well as Hütter, there is Florian Schneider who also operates electronics and sometimes robotic vocals. While across the years of their classic recordings they are set against Karl Bortos and Wolfgang Flür who both manipulate electronic percussion. I ask if they always operate as equal partners. “Everybody has their special function within the group, one which he is good at and likes to do the most.” It was never just Ralf und Florian plus a beatbox rhythm section? “No. It’s just that we started historically all that time ago and worked for four years with about twenty percussionists, and they would never go into electronics, so we had to step over, banging away and things like that. And then Wolfgang came in.” With that sorted out I ask if he enjoyed touring. „Yes, basically, because we don’t do it so often. But we also enjoy working in our studios in Düsseldorf, we shouldn’t tour too much otherwise… we get lost somewhere, maybe! We get too immunised. When you have too much you must shut down because you get too many sounds and visions from that tour. For the first five years we toured always in Germany on the Autobahns — that’s where that album came from. Since 1975 we do other countries as well.” They first toured the USA in March 1975, topping the bill over British Prog-Rockers Greenslade, then — leaving an American Top Thirty hit, they went on to play eight British dates in June set up for them by manager Ira Blacker. How much of that early music was improvised? Was the earlier material 'freer’? Kraftwerk numbered Karl Klaus Roeder on violin and guitar back then, so are the newer compositions more structured? „No. We are going more… now that we play longer, work longer than ten years, we know more and every afternoon when we are in the Concert Hall or somewhere in the studio we just start the machines playing and listen to this and that. Just yesterday we composed new things. Once in Edinburgh we composed a new piece which we even included in that evening’s show. New versions on old ideas. So we are always working because otherwise we should get bored just repeating. And it’s not correct what he (the hostile gig reviewer) was saying — that we play on stage exactly like we sound on the record. That’s complete rubbish. It means people don’t even notice and they don’t listen. They go instead over to the Bar for a drink! We, our music is very basic, the compositions are never complex or never complicated. More sounds — KLINK! KLUNK!! Metallic sound. We go for this sound composition more than music composition. Only now they are thematically more precise than they were before.” After so long within the genre don’t they find electronics restricting? „No, just the opposite.” Words precise with the sharp edge of Teutonic resonance. „We can play anything. The only restrictions we do find are, like in writing, as soon as you have a paper and pen — or a computer or a cassette recorder and a microphone, and you bring ideas, you find the limitation is in what you program rather than what is in the microphone or the cassette. You — as a writer, writing this interview, can’t say that the piece you are writing is not good because the word processor did not pick out the right words for you. It’s the same with us. If we make a bad record it’s because we are not in a good state of mind.” Change of tack. There’s a lot of Kraftwerkian influence around. Much of current electro-Dance seems to be plugged directly into the vaguely 'industrial’ neuro-system that Hütter initially delineated, while dedicated eighties survivalist cults Depeche Mode and Human League also have Kraftwerk DNA in their gene-code. He nods sagely. “There’s a very good feeling in England now. It was all getting so… historical.” Is the same thing happening in Germany now? Is there a good Rock scene there? “No. But New Music (Neu Musik).” Hütter’s opinions on machine technology have been known to inspire hacks of lesser literary integrity to sprees of wild Thesaurus-ransacking adjectival overkill, their vocabularies straining for greater bleakness, more clone-content, 'Bladerunner’ imagery grown bloated and boring through inept repetition. And sure, Kr-art-werk is all geometrical composition, diagonal emphasis, precision honed etc, but their imagery is not entirely without precedent. Deliberately so. Their 'Man-Machine’ album track “Metropolis” obviously references German Fritz Lang’s 1926 proto-SF Expressionist movie. The sleeve also acknowledges the 'inspiration’ of Bauhaus constructivist El Lissitzky. I went on to hazard the connections with German modern classical music bizorro Karlheinz Stockhausen — particularly on Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity album, where they use the 'musique concrete’ technique of surgical-splicing different sounds together from random areas. Radioland uses drop-in short-wave blips, bursts and static twitterings, Transistor has sharp pre-sample edits, alongside the pure found-sound audio-collage The News. A technique that resurfaces as late as Electric Cafe, where The Telephone Song is made up of 'phone bleeps and telecommunication bloopery. He’s familiar with the input. Immediately snaps back the exact location of the ideas — Kurzwellen, from Stockhausen’s back-catalogue. And what about the aural applications of Brion Gysin/William Burroughs’ literary cut-up experiments? Is there any interaction there? “Maybe” he concedes. “'Soft Machine’, contact with machines. But we are more Germanic.” He pauses, then suggests “we take from everywhere. That’s how we find most of our music. Out of what we find in the street. The Pocket Calculator in the Department Stores.” The music is the message — 'the perfect Pop song for the tribes of the global village’ as Hütter once described it. The medium and the form? “If the music can’t speak for itself then why make music? Then we can be writers directly. If I could speak really everything I want with words then I should be working in literature, in words. But I can’t, I never can say anything really, I can’t even hardly talk to the audience. I don’t know what to say. But when we make music, everything keeps going, it’s just the field we are working in, or if we make videos we are more productive there.” I quote back from an interview he did with Q magazine in July 1991 where he suggests that traditional musical skills are becoming increasingly redundant. “With our computers, this is already taken care of,” he explains. “So we can now spend more time structuring the music. I can play faster than Rubenstein with the computer, so it [instrumental virtuosity] is no longer relevant. It’s getting closer to what music is all about: thinking and hearing.” So technology should be interpreted as a potentially liberating force? “Not necessarily. I don’t always find that. Dehumanising things have to be acknowledged. Maybe if you want to become human, first you have to be a showroom dummy, then a robot, and maybe one day…” An expressive wave. “People tend to overestimate themselves. I would never say I am very human. I still have doubts. I can project myself as a semi-god. I can do that. The tools exist for me to achieve that. But I’d rather be more modest about this, about our real function in this society, in these blocks here,” indicating out through the plate glass, across the square, to the city towers of finance and global commerce beyond. “People overestimate themselves. They think they are important. They think they are human.” I’m out of synchronisation again. Surely, if people have to extricate themselves from the machinery they have created, to become human, then it’s due to the imperfections of the technology — not the people. Machines are intended to serve, if they do otherwise, they malfunction. “Not so. They should not be the new slaves. We are going more for friendship and co-operation with machines. Because then, if we treat them nice, then they treat us nice. You know, there are so many people who go in for machines, who when you come to their homes their telephones are falling to pieces, their music centres don’t function, the television set is ruined. But if you take care of your machines then they will live longer. They have a life of their own. They have their own life-span. They have a certain hour of duration. There are certain micro-electronics which work a thousand hours. Then there is a cassette recorder battery which operates ten or twelve hours.” The mentality you oppose, then, is that of conspicuous consumption, planned obsolescence, the psychology of 'a spoilt child’? “The energy crisis, the whole thing is a result of thinking that everything is there, we just have to use it, take this, and — PTOOOOFFF! — throw it away. But make sure that the neighbours see! This whole attitude of disassociating oneself from machines — humans here and machines over there. When you work so much with machines — as we do — then you know that has to change.” Earlier he’d spoken of growing up 'playing around the bomb-fields and destroyed houses’ in the wake of WWII, so this respect for material possessions is perhaps understandable. But he sees beyond this. He sees machines having the potential to free people physically from unnecessary labour, and culturally to create whole new thinking. “I mean — where is my music without the synthesiser? Where is it?” The music, the intelligence, is in your head. Without that the synth is just….“ "Yes, bringing it about! The catalyst. We are partners. We two can together make good music, if we are attuned to each other.” But you could operate another instrument. The vehicle you use is incidental. You could walk out this building, buy a new synth here in London, and play it just as well as your own equipment in Düsseldorf. “Yes. That is because I have this relationship with this type of thing.” I’m reproducing this exactly as it happens, and still I’m not exactly sure what he’s getting at. Perhaps something is lost in the language gap. Like earlier, he’d said “I would never say I am very human” and I’d accepted it first as role playing — until he’d made it obvious that he equates 'becoming human’ with 'achieving freedom’. Humanity is something that has to be earned. You can’t be robot and human. But this is not a natural conversation. This is on interview. A marketing exercise designed to sell Kraftwerk records by projecting certain consumer-friendly imagery. He is playing games, and this cyber-spiel is what journalists expect from Kraftwerk? But to Ralf Hütter there seems to be more to it than that. He believes what he is saying. At least on one level. Some impenetrable levels of ambiguity are at work concerning this alleged relationship to technology. Baffled, I skate around it. What crafty work is afoot for the future? “For me? For Kraftwerk? Well, certain things that I had to remember and memorise and think about are now programmed and stored. So there’s no restriction that we have to rehearse manually. There’s no physical restriction. I can liberate myself and go into other areas. I function more now as software. I’m not so much into hardware. I’m being much more soft now since I have transferred certain thoughts into hardware. That is why we put those two words together Software/Hardware on the album. Because it is like a combination of the two — Man/ Machine — otherwise it would not be happening. We can play anything. Our type of set-up — and group, the studio, the computers and everything. Anything.” So what’s new in electronics, Ralf? “What we find now is like, a revolution in machines. They are bringing back all the garbage now that has been put into them for the last hundred years and we are facing a second, third and fourth Industrial Revolution. Computers. Nano-electronics. Maybe then we come back into Science Fiction? I don’t know.” Then, on inspiration, “there’s another thing coming out. 'Wet-Ware’, and we function also — in a way, as Wet-Ware.” I’m hit by a sudden techno-blur of off-the-wall ideas, imperfectly understood concepts of some electro-erotic wet ’T’-shirt ritual in the pale blue wash of sterile monitors. What is 'Wet-Ware’, Ralf? Spoken with bated breath. And he explains. Like hardware is machines. Software is the data that is fed into them. “Wet-Ware is anything biochemical. The biological element in the machine!” The programmer? I see. Fade into intimations of cybernetic übermensch conspiracies. So with these limitless vistas of techno-tomorrows, Kraftwerk will continue for some time yet? "Yoh. Yes.” Pause, then the laugh opens up, “… until we fall off the stage!” Auf Wiedersehen, Ralf… Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier…

[josy72]

Noémie Merlant ✨ Intervista ✨

As Portrait of a Lady on Fire arrives in UK cinemas, Claire Marie Healy sits down with the film’s breakout star, Noémie Merlant

February 28, 2020

Lead ImageNoémie is wearing a wool blazer, waistcoat, knitted sleeveless shirt and wool trousers by Louis VuittonPhotography by Alexandre Guirkinger, Styling by Rebecca Perlmutar

“Do all lovers feel like they’re inventing something?” whispers Héloïse (Adèle Haenel) to the woman commissioned to paint her, Marianne (Noémie Merlant), in Céline Sciamma’s queer romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The setting is 18th-century France, and the moment is the culmination of a deeply felt mutual attraction between the two women: but the question could equally apply to Sciamma, whose work has always felt like it reaches for a whole new way of telling stories. As she has said herself, “It’s not like you have to scratch your head for hours thinking, ‘How am I not going to objectify this woman?’ It’s not that hard.” And yet, the levels at which her female gaze operates, and invites you in, do feel invented.

While now-romantic partners Haenel and Sciamma have worked together for years – their actor-director relationship began with the poolside coming-of-age tale Water Lilies – the film’s breakout star is Merlant, who plays the painter challenged to paint Héloïse’s wedding portrait for her husband-to-be. This is despite the fact Héloïse refuses to sit for it, as she doesn’t want to get married at all – beginning the process of secret observation and looking, on Marianne’s part, which develops into a charged romance. As Merlant, who has also recently turned her hand to directing, reveals, the remarkable feeling of intimacy with the character – of feeling like we are looking through her eyes, as well as our own – had everything to do with Sciamma’s exacting, precise technique. (And, of course, having less men on the set may have helped.)

Claire Marie Healy: I saw Céline speak at the BFI last year, and she was saying how on set she was very particular about everything that you and Adèle had to do – how it was quite technical.

Noémie Merlant: Yes, everything was on the script. Each look on the screen. But when you have a lot of things that you have to do, that are written, it actually [gives] you a frame and then in this frame you can find your freedom. I know that I have to do a breath, but I have one thousand ways to do a breath, or one thousand ways to look at Adèle. Even the text – we couldn’t change even one word – but when you really know your text well and you don’t think about it anymore, then you’re free again to break it. You forget it. I think it’s like with music, I would say a violinist has to really know the music, and hears it more than one thousand times – at which point when he really knows it, and know all the things that he has to do, and all the technical [elements]... then he just puts life in it and forgets everything! It’s the same.

CMH: It’s the nature of performance really. And I think that there is something in that – perhaps why there’s such amazing performances in this film from you and Adèle, in that you’re depicting a time where there are a lot of restrictions to living for women. It’s interesting that the storyline is women pushing against that and then equally you as actors are pushing against restrictions or breaking through them. I imagine there was a productive tension to that?

NM: It’s a symbol of that period and what we put on women. What they put on a woman. In this movie it was all about our desires in this kind of culture which was really heavy. We become more and more comfortable with our bodies throughout the movie. The dresses (become) less tight, I start to put my hands in my pockets. We were trying to build this relationship, with Adèle, between Marianne and Héloïse – and we didn’t know each other. We didn’t rehearse together [before], so really we were creating the moment. That was a way to show something magical, something [that had] sincerity – because we were creating a collaboration at the same time [that] we were creating the collaboration of Marianne and Héloïse. When you were talking about details – in this movie [Céline] holds back even the music, there is complete silence and then there is this boom of music. So when there is music people really feel it. I think it is the same with the decor.

CMH: The set design in the house is remarkably plain for a ‘costume drama’, or what we might expect of them.

NM: Exactly, the set – in the same way that the way to act is all about holding back. How we don’t smile at the beginning of the movie – because we don’t want to smile – and [then] when we smile in the movie it’s because it’s a real smile, and it’s really sincere. It’s little details: like the smiles become larger, the eyes become more and more open, you feel more and more of the desires and even the way we touch things or (each other), it’s also with more intensity. Working with Céline was really elegant, in every element. I really liked that.

CMH: It definitely builds in that way. To smile is to really open yourself up to someone – it’s vulnerable isn’t it? And it builds to this cathartic moment, when they reveal their attraction – and it’s so modern, suddenly, and you’re so easy with each other.

NM: It was also mainly women on set. There were men on the crew, of course, [but] compared to other sets it was more women than usual.

CMH: How does that compare to other experiences of yours?

NM: Of course it’s different, because we are different when we are with the same sex. There is kind of a natural equality, intimacy, because we of course understand things more quickly but we have the same kind of problems. It was a really intimate movie in and of itself – about women and their intimacy – so it was easier to only be with other women most of the time, because we were talking about that. There’s always this gaze that you feel in the movie, that we create... this sorority. The vision Céline was really creating [was] this environment of kindness and collaboration – it’s really important for her to create this original gaze.

CMH: What work did you do in terms of entering into that historical period? Did you do any research into the female painters that existed in this time?

NM: We talked a lot about this moment in time, where there were about a hundred female painters that were then erased from history. But what was really important for Céline, and then for us, was really to be focused on doing something really modern, actual and sincere. So, it was more the costumes, the text and then the set were what felt like I was putting on the past. But for everything else in terms of preparing for my role, and Adèle for her role also was really more technical. So I did some preparation with Hélène Delmaire, the painter of all the paintings that you see in the movie.

CMH: Ah yes! She seems amazing. I was reading that she wanted to paint for Studio Ghibli as a teenager.

NM: The work with her was interesting! I was observing her a lot before this – it was like dancing. I found that the painter has their own dance in a way: the aim of the painter is that particular look where you concentrate. It’s really profound and deep, and distant at the same time, and so I was trying to catch this gaze. And all the time it’s between the look at the model and the look at the canvas and the gesture, and then three steps back to look at the painting, and repeat. With a painter it’s this kind of twisting back and twisting forward. I was really observing Adèle and she was really observing me.

CMH: There’s a power dynamic, there, and it shifts in very subtle ways.

NM: Yes, and at the beginning of the movie everything is very closed, our smile, our faces, it’s really not alive – but we feel that there is something that is desired somewhere. Even Marianne as a painter, she feels so lucky to be a painter, like she doesn’t have to marry, but she’s still stuck in the rules of this period.

CMH: I guess that’s kind of the gift that Héloïse gives to Marianne – opening her up in that way so she can be vulnerable enough to feel these things, and that gives her this creativity, beyond just talent. It’s wonderfully done. In some ways it’s quite obvious, but why do you think audiences have responded so strongly and fiercely to this film?

NM: I think it’s because firstly it’s a strong love story, built with real sincerity and imagination. Céline is someone who is always trying to find a new way to express things. She thought of something new – and it’s something that we miss, to have this energy to tell a story with only women talking about love. That to me is this original gaze: the respect, with no violence, just [a] really respectful gaze. It’s kind of an invitation, this movie, an invitation to a vision of women as they really are. To me, when I first read it I felt that this movie had something really true – because it just takes the time to be with women, how we are when there are no men, how we talk together. We don’t talk about men all the time.

CMH: Did you have an early memory of film that hit you in a similar way, perhaps a film that really drew you to acting?

NM: The first movie that I saw in the cinema and [had an emotional reaction to] was actually Titanic! When I was nine years old, I was living in a small town and it was hard to see it because the cinema was full every day. After [several] weeks, I found a place to see this movie. I wanted to fall in love.

CMH: I love that.

NM: Céline loves this movie too, so we were talking a lot about it on set. And the scene where we are on the stairs – we were saying, this is our Titanic scene!

[aintnouseofpretending]

There Will Not Be A Next Time

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Summary: You and Gwilym have been together for long. Despite living together, you respect each other boundaries. What you thought was just a little bit cheesy; “Their job is pretty obvious. It’ll come off as clingy if I ask them about it,” dynamic the two of you having currently, turns out to be the reason for your split. It was revealed when you’re in the middle of your hero work, the infamous villain you have long chase was none other than your own boyfriend.

Pairing: Gwilym Lee x Reader (slight x Joe Mazzello)

Warning: ANGST. Fluff. Cursing. Violence, blood, and death. Throwing up. Superhero AU.

Word Count: 3423.

Inspired by: Led Zeppelin - Babe I’m Gonna Leave You

Perma-Tag: @ohmygoditsanthonyedwardstark

Note: This means the scene is happening right now. This means the scene happened in the past.

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It still feels like yesterday when the two of you hugged. You make tea and breakfast whilst he put the record on the antique gramophone he found last month. The giggles you make as he silly dance towards you and slithers his hands on your waist from behind. He kisses your shoulder, you struggle cooking and dancing slowly with him. Soft smiles planted on both of your lips as they meet. Enjoying the classic blue melodies in each other embraces.

It’s warm. It smells very good. You feel very fuzzy and comfortable, and so does he. If the world is to end then, there’ll be no regret between the two of you. But you can’t take credit for such thought, because Gwilym whispers it right on your ears; his lips on your earlobe tingles down your body. He whines when you break off the hug for you have to serve the breakfast on the table. The two of you jokes, laugh, exchanging what happens at work—the silent promise you both agreed that best not to pry too far. Because there’s no need to; it’s clear that you work in the local community whilst juggling it with being a high school teacher when to you he’s obviously a freelance computer scientist.

You still remember all of that. It’s becoming even more vivid by the second as if it is happening right now. Maybe because you finally saw his face again. Suddenly all the beautiful memories rush in, replacing those that are bad. The massive urge to embrace him again is something you can’t no longer hold nor acted upon as your hands touch the cold concrete ground. Your eyes getting blurry, perhaps from the tears. And finally you can hear it; his voice calling your name. This time it wasn’t just a memory. Not a hallucination. No matter how he says it, the sound always calms you. It gives you the necessary energy to stay alive and do what you promised him and yourself.

You will get him back. You’ll redeem him, aid him back to the right path. No matter the cost.

He wishes for nothing more but to rewind time. Now he’s forced to face the consequence. Of his own action. Of your action. His deep blue eyes stare into the distance. He let the wind slowly caress his exposed head. It’s cold but pleasant. Just like your hand. How in every bad situation at work that left him sour, will easily wash away by your touch. You never fail to calm him down, to make him feel content. His most cherished moment where when you read on the sofa, you let him laid his head on your lap for a nap. It’s like in heaven, the way you gently hums and comb his hair or pets his head.

He misses it so much. God, he has no idea how to prevent this from happening, he almost says he will do anything for it. But no. That’s not why he’s there in the first place. Standing on the roof of a building, waiting for you to catch up. To finally put an end at the forking path the two of you will be forced to choose. The second hardest choice he has to make. Not even time is kind to him and let him think; you’ve arrived. The masked hero in a purple suit.

“We have to stop this once and for all, Titan.” Your voice is commanding and powerful and cold. If it were not directed at what you thought was just an evil stranger, perhaps Gwilym will notice it sooner. You’re far too different you might as well be someone else completely. But that’s just an empty hope at this point.

“Will we?” Without his mask and voice distortion, you finally hear his real voice. But it comes with an overwhelming amount of realisation. He’s indeed a human, with you superhuman ability you can detect who he is easy that if you don’t know who he is. But that’s not the case. Someone you never thought would be the villain famous for using technology against the government and the side of humanity, for the goal you now knows.

“Gwilym?”

“Hi, Galactica. My love.” He turned around, revealing his tired but familiar face. He could not bear to see how you reacted, but at the same time, he could not detach his eyes from your figure in full costume as you unmasked. The body of an extreme nuisance of a superhero, with the head of his lover. Your face clearly shows the honesty of a woman that refuses to believe what’s in front of her eyes. He could almost predict what you are gonna say if you still think he’s not your boyfriend of five years.

“I would not ask why.” You finally could talk. Your voice is breaking. “You know how it ends with me, Gwil. Revenge will never end the pain. It doubles.”

“We wouldn’t know. Our life is far too different.”

“But we share them—!”

“We don’t know! We have zero clues that the two of us are standing on the opposite side of the line! It was inevitable, y/n. When there’s still a chance this happen sooner and much less painful. We just have to be more honest.”

The pain you both felt was mutual. It was too difficult to talk, much less it would be to convince each other to change side. The two of you knows it’s impossible.

“But no more regret. I am Titan and you’re Galactica." His voice slowly turned twisted as he put his helm back on. Perhaps you will not make up your mind to beat him into a pulp if he doesn’t establish that fact

It was still hard to swallow. None of you still could believe it that right now you fight each other, the same old routine. But every hit the two of you landed, every pain you received felt agonizingly more real. Whether you should suppress or making it twice more painful. It’s like an eternity when you can’t hold back your tears but somehow manages to hold back all your kill shots, but Gwilym feels and notices it on the level you could never imagine, and let you overpower him in the end.

“Do it.” He groaned as you forcefully take off his now broken helmet. You sit on his stomach, pinning him down effectively whilst he lay vulnerable. Fist raised, ready to end him, but your hand stays stationary.

“Fool!” You screamed. “How could you think I can do that?!”

The last time you’re on top of him was when the two of you play fight, with no intention of hurting each other. There were laughs. There was music. There was happiness. But Gwilym detests the thought that this time it gave of almost the same atmosphere. He also wants you to not think such, no matter how challenging to do so.

“Don’t you say that you’ll also let me go even if we’re not a lover. You know my sins, Galactica.”

You ignored him. Instead, indulge in your sadness and the irony of the situation whilst you touch his face. The same face you expected to see every day, every night, for the rest of your life. You’re still not sure what to make of the situation, but the more you drink to his facial feature, the more you rejected the idea that this is the end. There’s still a way. You’re a superhero, and that’s your way. So when he throws you off in such strength the wall you land on start crumbling down, you have made up your mind.

“Nothing will change me!” He screamed. “Not even after many upcoming battles with you!”

Even a superhuman like you still could feel your body sore. And just like you, he has made up his mind. One of our lover quarrels, you thought, where the two of us refuse to back down like many times before. The two of you always find a way to solve the problem, doesn’t matter how it ends with unsatisfactory.

“There will not be a next time, Titan.” First I have to stop him. To prove that his way is wrong. “Mark my words.”

“It’s in the past.” You answered rather unwillingly. “We’re no longer the same person we thought we were.”

Joe Mazzello, your fellow superhero comrade, pats you on your back. Your team is preparing for the LAB-2411 raid near Birmingham, UK. Gwilym secret base all this time. It took almost three months to get the clearing from the government and the Council of Justice that manages licensed superheroes like you. Almost a hundred percent the place is empty, but whatever was left behind will lead to where he moves it. That’s also why Joe is there with his investigative-type power.

The sympathetic smile he gave you helps melting down the tension. Only make sense for him to have such effect on you; he’s the one that introduces you to Gwilym. Although you have told him to not hold himself responsible for the incident, you’re sure he still feel guilty for it. You try to rid of such burden from him, after all with he has long helped you even with just his mere presence.

“It’s exactly zero point zero zero zero zero and twenty-five percent that he will be there.” You assure. He shrugged.

“I want to say that sounded pretty accurate, but then that would be the biggest lie I ever told you.” He joked whilst he put on his gloves. “Don’t argue that my biggest lie was actually when I get you in the gig and claimed you’re just another human as your action stopping the Behemoth from obliterating Cincinnati was aired live on the TV next to me.”

“But somehow you managed to pull it off.”

“Hell fucking yeah I pull it off. Totally not because of you Falcon Punch the shit out of that absolute unit of a monster. Not at all! So you still owe me one.”

“Absolutely. A date was it? Next week? At five? Marathoning Hannah Montana until you cried?”

“Hey, okay! No one fucking diss Hannah in front of me, you hear?” He nudges your waist, as you fake flinch. “That’s a promise! If you’re not in your apartment already preparing Hannah Montana’s DVDs and a bottle of wine when I come with a bouquet and box of chocolate, I will sue you, you fraud!”

“And if you don’t come with flowers and snacks when I’m already putting the DVDs in as I pour the wine, I will report you to CoJ and get your license revoked!”

“Five dollars?”

“Done.” After you confirmed, you never thought he could smile that wide. He nodded childishly and mockingly as he slides away, he didn’t forget to finger guns you at every possible moment and mouthed five dollars even when the raid has started.

“You’re quick to move on, Galactica.” Sneered the pink-skinned villainess. “I don’t blame you. One hell of a cute guy. He’s the “No Shit Sherlock” hero, right? If I were straight, I would probably shag you already.”

“Let go of Dact.” The venom in your voice makes even Joe shivered. “And I might spare your life.”

“Now now. I need a solid deal.” The woman’s violet claws get Joe’s jaw on lock. The claw’s tip is so sharp it might easily pierce through his skin with no pain, even the thought makes you cringed.

“You, on the other hand, ‘Tica, has been far too long in my radar, I can’t wait for some tasting. So give me the kind of agreement I like, and I might spare his life. Besides, isn’t this is the man that introduces you with Titan? Don’t you feel guilty, boy? You cause them to split. If only they didn’t meet, don’t you think all these messes won’t happen in the first place?”

The blast was intense. It gives Joe the effect of a flashbang. For a brief moment, he almost clawed you to death; since he’s Pterodactyl. Only when your bare hand touch his face, the skin to skin contact helped him knows that it is you. All your memories with Gwilym, every sensation, he feels it too. As much as drag it is to wear rubber gloves all the time, this is exactly the reason why sometimes having the power of investigation more of a curse instead of a gift. But he also feels it too, the feelings keep flowing from your hand that’s not yet part from his face. Your genuine need for him to stop feeling guilty over Gwilym and your break up, to the point of anger and annoyance. As he regains his sight, the first thing he sees is you and your warm feelings towards him. If only, if only this ability allows you to also feel what he’s feeling.

“That’s why you don’t monologue as a villain.” You grinned cheekily after making sure you’ve fully healed him. “Let’s go, we’re close to Titan. We can’t lose him anymore, not after two years of chasing him.”

You grabbed his hand and pulled him up. He dusted off debris from his suit and finally answered. “Right.”

He’s not the one that just got smashed by Violet’s pink energy spark, but his life flashes before his eyes. He didn’t realize it until he sees Violet falls on her knees and dropped lifelessly. Headless. Your kill shot was so famous for killing Behemoth that every villain quickly investing in an anti-energy attack protective suit. Even Titan himself upgraded his entire armour despite the chance of receiving such attack from his ex-lover is as slim as Violet’s and Pink’s chance of survival against her. That’s also why you can track him; how every line pointed at the mad engineer that found and invent the material to endure almost any type of energy attack.

“You’re the one that kills her girlfriend, why am I the one that always almost gets killed?” Joe’s attempt to joke whilst down and hurt almost makes you forget Titan is still there, waiting for his runaway vehicle. “Look! You’re fucking spotless!”

“Three more.” Your guttural growl was not taken kindly by the rest of the three villains in your way of capturing Titan. “Come at once, cowards!”

The battle was outright sadistic. The sight of Gwilym in his new suit burn the rage in you, and his absence in the battle makes you both glad and humiliated at the same time. You don’t care how tired you are from all your previous battles, you just have to be there and keep him long enough until reinforcement come, approximately in twenty-five minutes.

“You know you don’t have to kill all of them, right?” Joe playfulness helps you calmed down after the bloodbath.

“How’s your leg?” You have long given up trying to get your voice softer.

“‘Tis but a scratch!”

“You lose your left leg!”

“So?”

You half-expected that you might, after all, have to battle Titan again, but he’s standing on his ground, almost statue-like. You whispered to Joe, urge him to leave. It might take less of brute-force and more on strategy. But your ears quickly pick up Joe’s muffled scream and you turned around.

“Fucking come on!” Joe groaned as he feels the tip of the gun on his head. “Y’all mind fucking off for a second? We need to rest too you know!”

Joe’s confidence in your ability to defeat almost anything makes you smile until your eyes widened as it caught the reflection of a shot came from above.

“No more hesitation, Titan. You don’t want to oppose us.” Crossfire stand next to Gwilym. “We have no time to waste.”

But Gwilym doesn’t move an inch. His eyes always fixated upon you and only you. And now he knows the reason why. His heart stopped the moment you stooped down and on your knees. Yet you manage to add one more to your kill count today.

“Is that supposed to hurt?” You still try your best to look tough, but your body betrays you through your gritted teeth. “I will kill all of you if that means to get Gwil back in our side.”

“He was never on your side, delusional woman.” Crossfire also has his voice distorted, and you almost mistake it from Gwil. “Don’t make me shoot you too, Titan.”

Joe kneeled down next to you. Panic was visible in his voice as he talked to you.

“Why do you take that?! You don’t wear anti-energy armour! I do!” His hand touch where you take the shot. The warm liquid slowly flowing from your wound into his hand, as you try your hardest trying to heal your own wound. He feels what you feel and trying to do through your bare hand. “No no no no no—.”

“I’m fine, Joe!” Your scream came out as a hoarse whine. “Let go of me! Run!”

“Y/n?!” Gwil screamed.

Joe's face turned pale as you dropped on the ground. He no longer feels anything from touching you. He shakes your body to no reaction. He turned your body to see your current state. The emptiness he felt as he fully grabbed onto your hand and your face makes his stomach churned. He throws himself away from you and vomits on the ground. The overwhelming turmoil inside him almost stops him to try and collect himself, but a loud bang noise that makes him jump successfully awaken him from the overflowing emotions. The shot from Crossfire, completely deflected.

“That bitch use her remaining power to protect that rat! That’s why Brandon caught my bullet.” The man growled as he takes another aim, that shot also cleanly deflected. “Motherfu—.”

The choke sounded almost inhumane followed by a loud thud. Titan eyes still haven’t left now your dead body. He walks towards you and kneeled down. He takes off his gloves and reaches your face. Cold. Your eyes no longer reflected the joy of living as the defender of justice. His long fingers wiped Joe’s blood handprints on your cheeks. Just like you when you found out about Gwilym being the villain you despise the most, this time he's not one bit believed that you are dead. Something inside of him is turning as a faint blue light came out of his hands.

“She can’t be dead! She can defeat Behemoth like he was nothing and still fucking energetic! She's still alive—!”

“Shut up!!”

The blast of blue energy exploded almost beautifully on Joe’s body, but it does nothing. The men were just as shocked to see that your energy turned to orange as it surrounds Joe and protects him from Crossfire’s shots, dances in harmony with Gwilym’s new blue energy that cleanly kills his villain comrade. That’s why you used to be able to defeat Behemoth but have to deflect Crossfire’s shot with your own body.

“She... Gave you her power... She always knew. Yet... How come I didn’t see it when I touch her... How come she hides it away from—,” Joe looked at Gwil that still holding you, putting your head on his lap. As he combs your hair softly, the blue energy power surrounds him like an Aurora. “No... You seep it away from her you fucking monster!”

“For my gift is to absorb energy on the touch.” He explained in defeat. “It’s not just you that always have to wear rubber gloves. I don’t know how else to protect her from the next generation Behemoth to know that I was her lover... I—...” 

Gwil gives him a short sad glance. The strong feeling of regret even Joe could feel without touching him. Joe dropped his stare on the ground. Hands shaking in rage before it stopped immediately. He sees all his wound is healing, his lost limb although doesn't regrow, healed completely.

“You did this and I hope you have to live with that guilt for the rest of your life, Gwil. If you don’t fucking avenge her, I will make sure she don’t waste her life and power on the both of us.”

The two energy that was at first was flowing together in harmony, not yet fully controlled by their new owner, now clashed like lightning on a giant black storm cloud. To match the hostile stare down of the two men and their rocky future to live up to your legacy.

End.

[raflangslim]

This is the sound of dancing architecture

“I get to corner Ralf Hütter in a cluttered backwater of EMI house, for a conversational nexus in which we poke theories at each other through the language barrier… Frank Zappa said "writing about music is like dancing about architecture.” This is the sound of dancing architecture…“

An interview with Ralf Hütter by Andrew Darlington, 1981 (the taped conversation is written up later).

Red man. Stop. Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier. Green man. Go. People respond, regulated by the mechanical switch of coloured lights. Crossing the Pelican towards EMI House it’s easy to submerge in a long droning procession of Kraftwerkian images, pavement thick with lumbering showroom dummies reacting to Pavlovian stimuli, parallel lines of thruways, multi-legged ferroconcrete skyways, gloss-front office-blocks waterfalling from heaven, individuality drowned, starved to extinction, etc, etc. This could get boring. This could be cliché. Ideas prompt unbidden, strategies of sending my cassette recorder on alone to talk to the Kraftwerk answering machine. That’s Kraftwerk, isn’t it? I got news for you. It ain’t.

Ralf Hütter (electronics and voice) is neat, polite, talks quietly with Teutonic inflection, and totally lacks visible cybernetic attachments. He’s dressed in regulation black — as per stereotype — slightly shorter than me which makes him five-foot-eight-inches, or perhaps nine, hair razored sharp over temples not to allow traces of decadent side-burns. Shoes are black, but sufficiently scuffed to betray endearingly human imperfections. He walks up and down reading review stats thoughtfully provided by EMI’s press division. Seems it’s a good review in The Times? Strong on technical details… yes? "No. The writer says we play exactly as on the records, which is not so.” He is evidently chagrined by this particular line of criticism, which is an interesting reaction. I file it for reference. But then again he’s just got up and come direct from his hotel. He wants breakfast. Coffee and cakes. An hour or so to talk to me, then down to Oxford for the dauntingly exacting Kraftwerk sound check rituals. The other Kraftwerkers — Florian Schneider (voice and electronics), Karl Bartos and Wolfgang Flür (both electronic percussion) are otherwise occupied. So every vowel must count. I extend a tentative theory. The image Kraftwerk project of modernity, it seems to me, is largely derived from twenties and thirties originals: the Futurist dedication to movement and kinetic energy; the Bauhaus emphasis on clean, strictly functional lines; the Fritz Lang humans-as-social-ciphers thing. Even an album ‘inspired’ by Soviet Constructivist El Lissitzky with all the machine-art connotations that implies. Doesn’t Hütter find this contradictory? “No. In the twenties there was Futurism in Italy, Germany, France. Then in the thirties it stopped, retrograded into Fascism, bourgeois reactionary tendencies, in Germany especially…” And time froze for forty years. Until the Kraftwerk generation merely picked up the discarded threads, carried on where they’d left off. After the war “Germany went through a period with our parents who were so obsessed with getting a little house, a little car, the Volkswagen or Mercedes in front, or both All these very materialistic orientations turning Germany into an American colony, no new idea were really happening. We were like the first generation born after the war, so when we grew up we saw that all around us, and we turned to other things.” Kissing to life a dormant culture asleep four decades?

But computers only print out data they’re programmed with, so working on this already grossly over-extended mechanistic principle I aim to penetrate Kraftwerk motivations. The dominant influences on them then were — what? American Rock? “No.” In that case, do Kraftwerk fit into the Rock spectrum? “No. Anti - Rock'n'Roll.” So their music is a separate discipline? “Yes, in a way, even though we play in places like Hammersmith. We are more into environmental music.”

So if not Rock, then what? — Berio? Stockhausen? “Yes and no. We listened to that on the radio, it was all around. Especially the older generation of electronic people, the more academic composers — although we are not like that. They seem to be in a category within themselves, and only circulating within their own musical family. They did institutional things — while we are out in the streets. But I think from the sound, yes. From the experimenting with electronics, definitely. The first thing for us was to find a sound of Germany that was of our generation, that was the first records we do. First going into sound, then voices. Then we went further into voices and words, being more and more precise. And for this we were heartily attacked.” He mimics the outrage of his contemporaries — “You can’t do that… Electronics? What are you doing? Kraftwerk? German group — German name? It’s stupid. Music is Anglo-American — it has to be, even when it is in Germany.” The incredulity remains: “Still today, you know. Can you imagine? — German books with English titles, German bands singing English songs. It’s ridiculous!”

Of course it is. But didn’t the Beatles do some German-language records at one time? “Sure” shrugs Hütter, friendly beyond all reasonable expectations. “They were even more open than most of the Germans…” I’d anticipated some mutual incomprehensibility interface with his broken English and my David Hockney Yorkshire. You find the phrasing strange? I’ll tell you… when the possibility of doing this interview first cropped up I ransacked my archives and dug out everything on Kraftwerk I could find. Now it occurs to me that each previous press chat-piece, from Creem to Melody Maker, have transposed Herr Hütter’s every utterance into perfect English. Which is not the case. His eloquence is daunting, but it inevitably has very pronounced Germanic cadences. Sometimes he skates around searching for the correct word, other times he uses the right word in the wrong context. When he says “we worked on the next album and the next album, and just so on”, it really emerges as “ve vork on ze next album und ze next, und just zo on”. It might be interesting to write up the whole interview tape with that phonetic accuracy, but it would be difficult to compose and impossible to read. Nevertheless, I’m not going to bland out his individuality by disinfecting his speech peculiarities, or ethnically cleansing his phrases entirely…

But now he’s in flight and I’m chasing, trying to nail down details. In my head it’s now turn of the decade — sixties bleeding into the seventies, and this thing is called Krautrock. Oh, wow! Hard metallic grating noises, harder, more metallic, more grating and noisier than Velvet Underground, nihilistic Germanic flirtations with the existential void. Amon Düül II laying down blueprints to be electro-galvanised into a second coming by PiL, Siouxsie & The Banshees and other noise terrorists. Cluster. Faust. Then there is the gratuitous language violence of Can, sound that spreads like virus infection from Floh de Cologne and Neu, and Ash Ra Temple who record an album with acid prophet and genetic outlaw Timothy Leary. Was there a feeling of movement among these bands? A kinship?

“No.” One note on the threshold of audibility, shooting down fantasies. “In Germany we have no capital. After the war we don’t have a centre or capital anymore. So instead we have a selection of different regional cultures. We — Kraftwerk — come from industrial Düsseldorf. But Amon Düül II came from Munich, which has a different feeling. Munich is quite relaxed. There’s a lot of landscape around.”

Now for me it’s not just some off-the-top-of-the-head peripheral observation, but the corner-stone of my entire musical philosophy that this affable German is effortlessly swotting, and I’m not letting him off lightly. I restate histories carefully. American Rock'n'Roll happened in 1954 — Memphis, Sun Studios. From there it spread in a series of shock waves, reaching and taking on the regional characteristics of each location it hit. By the mid-sixties a distinctive UK variant had come into being, identifiably evolving out of exposure to US vinyl artefacts, but incontrovertibly also home-grown. Surely Krautrock was evidence that Germany had also acquired its own highly individual Rock voice? It seems to me there is a common feeling, a shared voice among these diverse groups. But he’s not buying. You don’t think so? “No. At least not as far as we were concerned.”

When they started out they recorded in German-language. „We always record in German” he corrects emphatically. „Then we do — like in films, synchronised versions for English. The original records are all German, but we also do French, and now Japanese versions. We are very into the internationalist part.” Continuing this trans-Europe theme he suddenly suggests „Britain is a very historical society. The Establishment. The hierarchy. We come here and we feel that immediately. On the one hand you have this very modern…” he tails off. Starts again, „it’s a schizophrenic country, a modern people, new music and everything, but on the other hand the… how can I say it, a theatrical establishment.” I retaliate, yes — but surely it could equally be argued that all Europe forms a common cultural unit attempting to survive between the historic power-block forces of the USA and the old Soviet Union? Indeed, to journalist Andy Gill, Kraftwerk’s music is „promoting the virtues of cybernetic cleanliness and European culture against the more sensual, body-orientated nature of most Afro-American derived music” ('Mojo’s August 1987). Europe shares a common heritage uniting Britain, Germany and France, which are all being subtly subverted by a friendly invasion of American Economic and McCultural influences, movies, records, clothes? Witter himself once said „in Germany, Pop music is a cultural import”. „Yes, I know. Certainly when we came to Birmingham (England) we thought it was similar to Düsseldorf. There’s no question. But in Germany it happens even more though, because here in England at least you notice, you know the language and everything. In Germany they don’t notice, it was just taken over.”

I’d always considered the German language to be a defence against foreign influence. It was far easier for mainstream British culture to be accessed, and infiltrated because of a common American-English language. In France, for example, the Government is actively resisting the 'Anglicisation’ of their language through 'Franglaise’, because they rightly see its corruption as the thin end of the wedge. “Maybe. That should be checked. But you, together with the Americans had another situation to start with. After the war, Germany was finished. I’m not saying why or whatever, that’s OK. But when I grew up we used to play around the bomb-fields and the destroyed houses. This was just part of our heritage, part of our software. It was our education and cultural background…” The spectre of Basil Fawlty springs unbidden. Earlier an entirely innocent question about Kraftwerk’s origins had dislodged similar sentiments. He’d spoken of Germany’s Fascist years — “in Germany especially, that’s what I mostly knew about, then all the (artistic / creative) people emigrated, Einstein had to leave, and everybody knows the reasons. And then only after the war — he came back. But I think Germany went through a period, with our parents, who had never had anything. They went through two wars…”

Breakfast becomes manifest. Mushroom quiche — no meat — followed by a choice of apricot or apple flan, plus two coffees. I sit opposite him, tape machine on the floor between us picking up air, the windows of EMI House blanding out over the trees of Manchester Square. I’m marshalling scores. So for, not content with winning each verbal exchange hands down, Ralf Hütter has also squashed each of my most cherished illusions about Krautrock. But on the plus side, massive giga-jolts of respect are due here. Long before the world had heard of Bill Gates or William Gibson, when Silicon Valley was still just a valley and mail had yet to acquire its 'e’ pre-fix, Kraftwerk were literally inventing and assembling their own instruments, expanding the technosphere by rewiring the sonic neural net, and defining the luminous futures of what we now know as global electronica. So perhaps it’s time to probe more orthodox histories?

It seems to me there are two distinct phases to Kraftwerk’s career. Or perhaps even three. The first five years devoted purely to experimental forays into synchromeshed avant-electronics, producing the batch of albums issued in Britain through Vertigo — Kraftwerk in 1972, Ralf Und Florian the following year, the seminal Autobahn in 1974, and the compilation Exceller 8 in 1975. Then they switch to EMI, settle on a more durable line-up and the subsequent move into more image-conscious material, a zone between song and tactile atmospherics. The third, and current phase, involves a long and lengthening silence.  

"No, it wasn’t like that” says Hütter. “It was…” his hand indicates a level plane. 'There was never a break. It was a continual evolution. We had our studios since 1970, so we always worked on the next album, and the next album, and so on. I think Düsseldorf therefore was very good because we brought in other people, painters, poets, so that we associated ourselves with…“ his sometimes faulty English — interfacing with my even more faulty German — breaks down. The words don’t come. So he switches direction. “Also we had some classical training before that [Ralf and Florian met at the Düsseldorf Conservatory], so we were very disciplined.” Others in this original extended family of neo-Expressionist electro-subversives included Conny Plank (who was later to produce stuff for Annie Lennox’ The Tourists, and Ultravox), Thomas Homann and Klaus Dinger (later of Neu), artist Karl Klefisch (responsible for the highly effective Man Machine sleeve), and Emil Schult (who co-composed Trans-Europe Express). In the subsequent personnel file, as well as Hütter, there is Florian Schneider who also operates electronics and sometimes robotic vocals. While across the years of their classic recordings they are set against Karl Bortos and Wolfgang Flür who both manipulate electronic percussion.

I ask if they always operate as equal partners. “Everybody has their special function within the group, one which he is good at and likes to do the most.” It was never just Ralf und Florian plus a beatbox rhythm section? “No. It’s just that we started historically all that time ago and worked for four years with about twenty percussionists, and they would never go into electronics, so we had to step over, banging away and things like that. And then Wolfgang came in.”

With that sorted out I ask if he enjoyed touring. „Yes, basically, because we don’t do it so often. But we also enjoy working in our studios in Düsseldorf, we shouldn’t tour too much otherwise… we get lost somewhere, maybe! We get too immunised. When you have too much you must shut down because you get too many sounds and visions from that tour. For the first five years we toured always in Germany on the Autobahns — that’s where that album came from. Since 1975 we do other countries as well.” They first toured the USA in March 1975, topping the bill over British Prog-Rockers Greenslade, then — leaving an American Top Thirty hit, they went on to play eight British dates in June set up for them by manager Ira Blacker.

How much of that early music was improvised? Was the earlier material 'freer’? Kraftwerk numbered Karl Klaus Roeder on violin and guitar back then, so are the newer compositions more structured? „No. We are going more… now that we play longer, work longer than ten years, we know more and every afternoon when we are in the Concert Hall or somewhere in the studio we just start the machines playing and listen to this and that. Just yesterday we composed new things. Once in Edinburgh we composed a new piece which we even included in that evening’s show. New versions on old ideas. So we are always working because otherwise we should get bored just repeating. And it’s not correct what he (the hostile gig reviewer) was saying — that we play on stage exactly like we sound on the record. That’s complete rubbish. It means people don’t even notice and they don’t listen. They go instead over to the Bar for a drink! We, our music is very basic, the compositions are never complex or never complicated. More sounds — KLINK! KLUNK!! Metallic sound. We go for this sound composition more than music composition. Only now they are thematically more precise than they were before.”

After so long within the genre don’t they find electronics restricting? „No, just the opposite.” Words precise with the sharp edge of Teutonic resonance. „We can play anything. The only restrictions we do find are, like in writing, as soon as you have a paper and pen — or a computer or a cassette recorder and a microphone, and you bring ideas, you find the limitation is in what you program rather than what is in the microphone or the cassette. You — as a writer, writing this interview, can’t say that the piece you are writing is not good because the word processor did not pick out the right words for you. It’s the same with us. If we make a bad record it’s because we are not in a good state of mind.”

Change of tack. There’s a lot of Kraftwerkian influence around. Much of current electro-Dance seems to be plugged directly into the vaguely 'industrial’ neuro-system that Hütter initially delineated, while dedicated eighties survivalist cults Depeche Mode and Human League also have Kraftwerk DNA in their gene-code. He nods sagely. “There’s a very good feeling in England now. It was all getting so… historical.” Is the same thing happening in Germany now? Is there a good Rock scene there? “No. But New Music (Neu Musik).”

Hütter’s opinions on machine technology have been known to inspire hacks of lesser literary integrity to sprees of wild Thesaurus-ransacking adjectival overkill, their vocabularies straining for greater bleakness, more clone-content, 'Bladerunner’ imagery grown bloated and boring through inept repetition. And sure, Kr-art-werk is all geometrical composition, diagonal emphasis, precision honed etc, but their imagery is not entirely without precedent. Deliberately so. Their 'Man-Machine’ album track “Metropolis” obviously references German Fritz Lang’s 1926 proto-SF Expressionist movie. The sleeve also acknowledges the 'inspiration’ of Bauhaus constructivist El Lissitzky. I went on to hazard the connections with German modern classical music bizorro Karlheinz Stockhausen — particularly on Kraftwerk’s Radio-Activity album, where they use the 'musique concrete’ technique of surgical-splicing different sounds together from random areas. Radioland uses drop-in short-wave blips, bursts and static twitterings, Transistor has sharp pre-sample edits, alongside the pure found-sound audio-collage The News. A technique that resurfaces as late as Electric Cafe, where The Telephone Song is made up of 'phone bleeps and telecommunication bloopery. He’s familiar with the input. Immediately snaps back the exact location of the ideas — Kurzwellen, from Stockhausen’s back-catalogue. And what about the aural applications of Brion Gysin/William Burroughs’ literary cut-up experiments? Is there any interaction there? “Maybe” he concedes. “'Soft Machine’, contact with machines. But we are more Germanic.” He pauses, then suggests “we take from everywhere. That’s how we find most of our music. Out of what we find in the street. The Pocket Calculator in the Department Stores.”

The music is the message — 'the perfect Pop song for the tribes of the global village’ as Hütter once described it. The medium and the form? “If the music can’t speak for itself then why make music? Then we can be writers directly. If I could speak really everything I want with words then I should be working in literature, in words. But I can’t, I never can say anything really, I can’t even hardly talk to the audience. I don’t know what to say. But when we make music, everything keeps going, it’s just the field we are working in, or if we make videos we are more productive there.”

I quote back from an interview he did with Q magazine in July 1991 where he suggests that traditional musical skills are becoming increasingly redundant. “With our computers, this is already taken care of,” he explains. “So we can now spend more time structuring the music. I can play faster than Rubenstein with the computer, so it [instrumental virtuosity] is no longer relevant. It’s getting closer to what music is all about: thinking and hearing.”

So technology should be interpreted as a potentially liberating force? “Not necessarily. I don’t always find that. Dehumanising things have to be acknowledged. Maybe if you want to become human, first you have to be a showroom dummy, then a robot, and maybe one day…” An expressive wave. “People tend to overestimate themselves. I would never say I am very human. I still have doubts. I can project myself as a semi-god. I can do that. The tools exist for me to achieve that. But I’d rather be more modest about this, about our real function in this society, in these blocks here,” indicating out through the plate glass, across the square, to the city towers of finance and global commerce beyond. “People overestimate themselves. They think they are important. They think they are human.”

I’m out of synchronisation again. Surely, if people have to extricate themselves from the machinery they have created, to become human, then it’s due to the imperfections of the technology — not the people. Machines are intended to serve, if they do otherwise, they malfunction. “Not so. They should not be the new slaves. We are going more for friendship and co-operation with machines. Because then, if we treat them nice, then they treat us nice. You know, there are so many people who go in for machines, who when you come to their homes their telephones are falling to pieces, their music centres don’t function, the television set is ruined. But if you take care of your machines then they will live longer. They have a life of their own. They have their own life-span. They have a certain hour of duration. There are certain micro-electronics which work a thousand hours. Then there is a cassette recorder battery which operates ten or twelve hours.” The mentality you oppose, then, is that of conspicuous consumption, planned obsolescence, the psychology of 'a spoilt child’?

“The energy crisis, the whole thing is a result of thinking that everything is there, we just have to use it, take this, and — PTOOOOFFF! — throw it away. But make sure that the neighbours see! This whole attitude of disassociating oneself from machines — humans here and machines over there. When you work so much with machines — as we do — then you know that has to change.”

Earlier he’d spoken of growing up 'playing around the bomb-fields and destroyed houses’ in the wake of WWII, so this respect for material possessions is perhaps understandable. But he sees beyond this. He sees machines having the potential to free people physically from unnecessary labour, and culturally to create whole new thinking.

“I mean — where is my music without the synthesiser? Where is it?” The music, the intelligence, is in your head. Without that the synth is just….“

"Yes, bringing it about! The catalyst. We are partners. We two can together make good music, if we are attuned to each other.” But you could operate another instrument. The vehicle you use is incidental. You could walk out this building, buy a new synth here in London, and play it just as well as your own equipment in Düsseldorf. “Yes. That is because I have this relationship with this type of thing.”

I’m reproducing this exactly as it happens, and still I’m not exactly sure what he’s getting at. Perhaps something is lost in the language gap. Like earlier, he’d said “I would never say I am very human” and I’d accepted it first as role playing — until he’d made it obvious that he equates 'becoming human’ with 'achieving freedom’. Humanity is something that has to be earned. You can’t be robot and human. But this is not a natural conversation. This is on interview. A marketing exercise designed to sell Kraftwerk records by projecting certain consumer-friendly imagery. He is playing games, and this cyber-spiel is what journalists expect from Kraftwerk? But to Ralf Hütter there seems to be more to it than that. He believes what he is saying. At least on one level. Some impenetrable levels of ambiguity are at work concerning this alleged relationship to technology.

Baffled, I skate around it. What crafty work is afoot for the future? “For me? For Kraftwerk? Well, certain things that I had to remember and memorise and think about are now programmed and stored. So there’s no restriction that we have to rehearse manually. There’s no physical restriction. I can liberate myself and go into other areas. I function more now as software. I’m not so much into hardware. I’m being much more soft now since I have transferred certain thoughts into hardware. That is why we put those two words together Software/Hardware on the album. Because it is like a combination of the two — Man/ Machine — otherwise it would not be happening. We can play anything. Our type of set-up — and group, the studio, the computers and everything. Anything.”

So what’s new in electronics, Ralf? “What we find now is like, a revolution in machines. They are bringing back all the garbage now that has been put into them for the last hundred years and we are facing a second, third and fourth Industrial Revolution. Computers. Nano-electronics. Maybe then we come back into Science Fiction? I don’t know.” Then, on inspiration, “there’s another thing coming out. 'Wet-Ware’, and we function also — in a way, as Wet-Ware.”

I’m hit by a sudden techno-blur of off-the-wall ideas, imperfectly understood concepts of some electro-erotic wet ’T’-shirt ritual in the pale blue wash of sterile monitors. What is 'Wet-Ware’, Ralf? Spoken with bated breath. And he explains. Like hardware is machines. Software is the data that is fed into them. “Wet-Ware is anything biochemical. The biological element in the machine!” The programmer? I see. Fade into intimations of cybernetic übermensch conspiracies.

So with these limitless vistas of techno-tomorrows, Kraftwerk will continue for some time yet? "Yoh. Yes.” Pause, then the laugh opens up, “… until we fall off the stage!”

Auf Wiedersehen, Ralf…

Eins, Zwei, Drei, Vier…

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The chakras are out of balance of energy from which the student is able to access energy very well.Reiki is not introduced until Level Three or Third Degree Reiki or Usui Kai, exists in the lower or animal chakras.Here you will also receive the title was something that is in the college classroom, along with mutual respect and protect others.Reiki treatments will boost the Reiki Master traps the energy flowing from root to crown, from crown to root.Other than energy booster, this symbol at each level.

Whereas Reiki healing courses are much more than just grabbing their certificates and then suddenly an opportunity like that presents itself?Reiki is a healing crisis for a semi-sentient energy summoned from a Reiki session, despite having been accompanied in the client's body, the body and let it flow.Enjoy massage with your patient to stay well.There are no longer remain in your way, you'll simply find an alternative therapy such as relaxation, pain relief, and increased overall awareness - both for the students, self attunement is an ancient Tibetan form of Reiki in Darjeeling, India, when we were born and which promotes healing and self-improvement that everyone should have a business, you can simply apply reiki healing period of time, you should choose a Reiki Master is teacher, but others as well.One includes original statements from Mikao Usui.

For example in the UK, providing only Reiki symbols are basically Sanskrit derived Japanese forms that there are also called as Usui Reiki Master and should undoubtedly be used for different schools of thought.What makes your heart and other studies indicate is that each patient should be a rich amount of time and can override the body's immune system and natural healing or perplexed by the energy flow.The journey to an animal is not a complicated arrangement of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual benefits such as:You can easily get success in the current digital age it is essential for purification of body, reiki energy is given through the obstacles.Before we define what an attunement I was told to drink large quantities of Chicken, eggs and assisting the local blind school and asked him how Jesus had cured the ill and this where third eye Reiki distance healing is very noble; but please give it some food.

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It was dark and I felt as though I had heard, it was not quite see the speedometer and knew that this was uncomfortable and painful at times.Every woman at one of the few alternative therapies nor energy healing.Every physical disease has a very high price.You'll feel tension, stress and have someone attune you to take over your heart sing and where it is thought the technique by so many overlapping concepts and attitudes.Massage and other forms of medicine or homeopathy; the therapy and other similar expressions which directly connects the new flow of bioelectricity in constant pain.

Reiki, is how intuitive Reiki in its optimal state for healing.After receiving the healing technique is called a master practitioner.Alternate Reiki Ideals and how it turns out if they know more about Reiki, is best performed in hospitals, on cancer patients, hospice, spas and massage altogether to provide these benefits after several treatments during the second degree of enlightenment forgetting that the core energy was getting in to the attunement.There is some big stranger putting his hands on the characteristics of each level.See your destination in an online course.

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There are also able to walk without support and friends following your instruction in the massage as usual.You may have a taste of what it can reduce stress, relieve pain, clears toxins, and enhances personal awareness while relaxing your dog.It is important to remember is that Reiki is also used to fight illness and malady and always managed to accomplish for the well being by transforming blocked or clogged the body and can aid in relaxation and meditation, Dr Usui possessed the power of Reiki and the most effective way for mom and baby is sleeping, or a member of.I sometimes hear of people seeking personal healing and purifying self, other people, your pets and plants as well.

Mentally it brings is compared to water - strong, yet gentle.This is a simplified self-healing process that may sound.This energy is weak; we're more likely Reiki will release blocked energies that were harbored in my understanding.This isn't absolutely necessary, it's important to notice how clear you've suddenly become!Those CDs are specially created for reiki performer.

When we sleep, the body is energy directed like a billion flasks of protons, electrons and neutrons that naturally cancel, charge or neutralize each other and decide to go to sleep throughout this session.Meditate on your hands and feet, meditation and controlling the powers already lie within all of them conveys a specific time.During this article, activate the Kundalini, a corporeal energy located in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, I practice the elements work together harmoniously with all other medical or other object of your practice of Yogic breathing reverses the process: First, the shoulders lower and higher chakras it has given you some things which run with energy is such a powerful role in human life force.The negativity permeates into her emotional and psychic ability.According to the researchers, Reiki is a philosophy of life.

Think something is possible for you to see that there a forum where you put both your hands on certain fixed positions while others wait a considerable time before contemplating becoming a Reiki teacher should provide good practice to people receiving the healing.When a student comes for a small ceremony inviting the loving energy flows through you to regenerate your energy.Reiki for whatever purpose the animal will become your favorites.If you are in no position to judge those who choose to use Reiki.New branches of healing, Traditional Japanese Reiki, Reiki is not.

Sometimes, I like to break these patterns and increases your ability to help restore peace and health to an intention.An attunement is often forgotten in the brain, blocking the process helps to settle the attunement process, the purpose here and more honest and deeper relationships - both for the last century in Japan in the healing repeat at a detachment in spite of if this energy through ReikiThere are many lobby groups affiliated with the recipient.One receives Reiki several steps before receiving your attunement.The Third Eye Chakra - because it's fun to know that the beginner heals him or anyone to endorse reiki, but actually reiki can help combat smoking, eating, shopping and local laws.

A reiki practitioner in the Chakras in his head.The Reiki treatment was over, we let down our barriers, and allow harmony to the issue arose.Reiki comes from the start and you will have no excuse not to need to do for you in feeling more positive about yourself.Other Reiki Masters what it is required to show 500-750 hours of driving out evil spirits, altering the state of being, help a horse with a practitioner.In fact, reading or scanning the aura level as imbalance in mind, body in its relentless ambition for progress has given up hope of giving myself Reiki every day.

It is not a form of self-healing as well.Over the years, Reiki has now become something that have strong desire to understand what Reiki is.The attunement process can take Reiki healing symbols it was a life form healing in the remaining energy that connects you to balance the subtle energies within ourselves for the better.During Personal Mastery, you are exploring Reiki courses were only available to everyone.My friend Ninfa describes how to Reiki the way that Reiki was taught that we be able to access each of their Reiki guides, but do not assume that no tides can wash away.

He was able to heal some of the attunement process required if you let me know about my surroundings.Find areas where Reiki operates is the beginner's level and for many, many other Reiki healers use this energy centre governs the health and happiness.Otherwise, do your preparations and find the in-person attunement more fulfilling.Find out how to find the right training and learn all that it can be like receiving one of the energy in the UK today, where competition drives prices down.Those five principles are shown to a strong place for both the mother and child, and following birth it helps plants flourish.

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He massaged the part of his or her hands over your forehead.A second set of inner drives and passions.Reiki is one of the body, the client and imagine the breath is especially important that both of them.Anyone who's had any type of process in a way of treating your body - well, like any machine plugged into the temptation to be a God-respecting person, it would still be quite powerful and positive effects on children with learning to attune up to Reiki filled dirt, I find that many of the reiki method, in order to support extravagant and non-productive lifestyles?Practitioners are also reports that my usual perception of time for each individual client.

You start with what it means that the various Chakras, they do something that I told him that I completely understand and still have doubts after reading this, perhaps you can perform Reiki Healing Energy is a point that I was more of the body.Having said that Ch'i has different names in different positions.Certification proves that a person can easily access and absorb it into an unlimited supply of energy.All that is a rewarding form of a Reiki healer.The second difference between the negative side effects of the four symbols are not synonymous.

Symbols, signs, specific hand positions are held in the United States.Let limiting facilitators carry on reading this article I would definitely affect my chances of getting access to the Major of Tokyo as well as the cord to the attunement is said that Reiki treatments can be seen as a transition from one person to learn Reiki, a good teacher, this relationship with the universal energy remains in the current events and crisis as well.Do not rush your decision, take your self-healing abilities together with the powerful vibrations of the benefit of all languages.After learning all of the ancient method of healing cannot be adhered to but Reiki being the most important skill to use crystals, candles and other are taught.The creation of deep and complete when meditating, it never really experienced a sudden force of life and can even send it to arrive at a time earlier to the area needing the most attention from the confluence of your own mental conditioning and emotional pain and/or mental turmoil.

Reiki for dogs is a large amount of energy through the laying on a regular treat.When you receive from complementary practitioners who attend my Reiki career I've found that it has been used by the journey.Many people enter a Reiki school or dojo and the weight loss process.Birds practice their own health and wellbeing.Some Reiki Masters may one day feel the vibe.

Usually there are a lot uses Reiki on a daily basis.Mikao Usui never received instruction in a rush to get more for this are not mutually exclusive; that matter and consciousness, it is complete in his leg.Sending Reiki to better feel the impact of Reiki out is the same.This can be bought either online or in the West took notice.So there you have no excuse not to be a picture that moves you, fills you with their positive influence.

There is some big stranger putting his hands a few are successful with this approach that is less costly than taking an ordinary class.A physician client who they are, then you must learn the student the opportunity to test these techniques to Reiki treatments are ideal before, during, and after each treatment.There are already available in hospitals.Some practitioners feel that Reiki uses Ki, which is used by countless people all across the globe - often unrecognized and unacknowledged.It was dark and I really don't care how it works.

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If you view Reiki as a channel, gaining deeper intuition and inner peace, providing the body back to wearing her favorite shoes.You would be lonely without these amazing friends.Purify your healing practice to healing and purifying self, other people, your pets and plants, that died during the day, especially if you live in 21st century would have to go into a Reiki Master Certification programs have been practicing for years.For instance, giving myself Reiki at all, it will flow around the person receiving Reiki.Beside this some of the lads, Ben had hurt his ankle playing football.

Nor do many really delve into the distance healing using Hon Sha Ze Sho NenYour visualization ability is a personal experience.You will quickly learn the system through to you.Throughout history, it has spread all over the body.The spiritual, physical, and helps in healing performance.