ULRICH SCHNAUSS

Your favourite virtue ::
consistency

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
to refuse to back down

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
to refuse to back down

Your favourite occupation ::
making music

Your idea of happiness ::
making music without having to deal with financial or other distracting pressures

Your idea of misery ::
failure

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a citizen of fraggle rock

Where would you like to live ::
orange county

Your favourite colour and flower ::
purple, sun flower

Your favourite prose authors ::
thomas mann

Your favourite poets ::
--

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
holden caulfield

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
jill tyrell ("nighty night")

Your favourite painters and composers ::
dali, edgar froese, andy sherriff

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
johann georg elser

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
gudrun ensslin

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
the many characters who are currently aiming to replace capitalism with an even more repressive society rather than fighting to protect and extend the little bit of freedom we've been given

Your favourite food and drink ::
south indian food, lassi

Your favourite names ::
--

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
injustice

The change you most anticipate::
private ownership of the means of production disappears, germany is being wiped off the map

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
i admire and sometimes envy people who have a great abilty or talent that they don't have to work for

How I would like to die ::
i'd like to be able to say that it's been worth it

What is your present state of mind ::
mildly optimistic

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
impunctuality

Your favourite motto ::
another hope feeds another dream, another truth installed by the machine ( Propaganda, "p-machinery" )

1er avril 2008

Ulrich Schnauss is a musician.

website :: Ulrich Schnauss
website :: discogs

SANDRO BOEGE

Your favourite virtue ::
Honesty, dedication.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Humour, people who say what they think, liveliness

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
See above

Your favourite occupation ::
Spending days the way I want it.

Your idea of happiness ::
Those moments when everything is just right

Your idea of misery ::
Being alone / losing the ability to see or hear.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Probably an improved version of myself

Where would you like to live ::
Haven’t decided yet.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Green / black, no favorite flower

Your favourite prose authors ::
Eugen Egner, Albert Camus

Your favourite poets ::
Charles Baudelaire

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
-

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
-

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Karl-Heinz Stockhausen

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
-

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
-

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
The ones probably most dislike. The ones that would do anything to reach their goals.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Food: Fruits and salads.
Drinks: Gunpowder, Coke, Gin Tonic.

Your favourite names ::
Haven’t thought of any yet.

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
Computers.

The change you most anticipate::
All those positive changes in life which just happen to you while you least expect them.

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
Ever since I was a small boy, the ability of flying on my own

How I would like to die ::
In peace and without pain, among the loved ones.

What is your present state of mind ::
Relaxed.

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
Confusion

Your favourite motto ::
I don’t have one.

25 mars 2008

Sandro Boege is a musician and a photographer, currently living in Cologne.

website :: New Dehli FM
website :: discogs
website :: IMGLRY

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

LACKLUSTER / ESA RUOHO

Your favourite virtue ::
intuition

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
poise, strength of character, balance

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
nurturing, glow/warmth, love, balance

Your favourite occupation ::
esa

Your idea of happiness ::
being at one

Your idea of misery ::
lost inside of me

If not yourself, who would you be ::
many people, but the added english language in viktor schauberger's brain, the added patience and calm in wilhelm reich's dealings, and the added desire to seek out musicians to explain his science to - of john keely.. and the get-out-and-meet-people-at-the-right-time of nikola tesla, and the talk-less-make-more-sense addition to buckminster fuller.

Where would you like to live ::
planet earth

Your favourite colour and flower ::
purple, no favourite flower

Your favourite prose authors ::
Terry Pratchett

Your favourite poets ::
Walter Russell, R. Buckminster Fuller, Rudyard Kipling's "IF"

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Sam Vimes

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Walter Russell, Dali, Richard D. James, Tom Jenkinson

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Tesla, John Keely, Viktor Schauberger, Ed Leedskalnin, Wilhelm Reich, Walter Russell, R. Buckminster Fuller, Nathan Stubblefield, Thomas Henry Moray, Howard Johnson

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Lao Russell

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Marconi, JP Morgan, skeptics + detractors, unstudents

Your favourite food and drink ::
juicy lush vegetables + fruit, water..

Your favourite names ::

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
the way i can talk to a person so that they never even realize i said anything to them. twice.

The change you most anticipate::
inner

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
pure springquality water

How I would like to die ::
become one with Mind

What is your present state of mind ::
returning

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
fallibility

Your favourite motto ::
"start doing it, and learn how to do it in the doing of it"

25 mars 2008

Esa Ruoho is a musician, born on october 26th 1978, he is actually living in Helsinki.

website :: Lackluster
website :: discogs


:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

JAN STURM (Aerotone)

Your favourite virtue ::
Honesty, courtesy and I guess a few more, but those came into my mind first.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
-

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
simplicity and sweetness

Your favourite occupation ::
Too many to just name one. Let´s keep it with this: daydreaming, listening to music, meeting friends, drinking coffee.

Your idea of happiness ::
To have a ball with my little boy.

Your idea of misery ::
No cigarettes left.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Someone who can sing and play many instruments, playing gigs, being on tour with friends. Oh wait, and I would love to be an ice hockey player. I realized that, when I was already way to old to even start skating. Too bad. I would be a good goaly, ´cause I have great reflexes. (can´t believe I am just writing this)

Where would you like to live ::
Far away in a little wooden house with my kids and wife in Iceland or Sweden. It needs room for a small recording studio though.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
greyish and snowdrops

Your favourite prose authors ::
Ethan Hawke

Your favourite poets ::
-

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
-

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
-

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Mr. Jimmy LaValle in music. I love paintings but there is no real number one.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
This one died over four years ago.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
my wife

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Oh there are a few again. One of them is certainly Mr. Erich Mielke, Minister for State Security of the German Democratic Republic. I think it is because of my East German past.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Pasta and Spezi. Spezi is a mixdrink out of 50% Fanta and 50% Coke A Germany thing.

Your favourite names ::
Bennet, Lola and June

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
Having no time to do my favourite occupations, see above.

The change you most anticipate::
Having our lovely Lola home.

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
reading mind

How I would like to die ::
I´d rather set a timing. Before my kids.

What is your present state of mind ::
nervous

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
weakness

Your favourite motto ::
Reden ist Silber, Schweigen ist Gold.

“Hey, I am Jan Sturm, one of the founders of aerotone netlabel. I am supposed to write a few lines about me. So let me tell you that I am of course very proud of my little lovely netaudio platform, I am putting a lot of heart in. If I am not listening to music then I am probably changing diapers or sleeping or even found a few moments to record some own sounds as "nuuk". Music is very important even if I can´t play an instrument or read notes, but the funny thing is, I like this way of "improvising". It is there one moment and the other one it is gone and I am not able to reproduce it. Cool thing of limitation that keeps me going on. »

10 mars 2008

Jan Sturm is a netlabel coordinator and a musician.

Website :: aerotone
Website :: nuuk

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

MIRA CALIX

Your favourite virtue :: 

kindness

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
intelligence, curiosity, passion, kindness

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
passion, kindness, intelligence, curiosity

Your favourite occupation ::
making a noise

Your idea of happiness ::
to love others

Your idea of misery ::
feeling/being helpless

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Josephine

Where would you like to live ::
where there is peace, under a hot sun and a bright moon with a clear view of the stars

Your favourite colour and flower ::
red, sunflowers/lillies

Your favourite prose authors ::
Ali Smith, Ian Mcewan, JM Coetzee, Alexander Mcall Smith, EM Forster, Antoine de Saint -Exupery

Your favourite poets ::
EE Cummings, Baudelaire, Robert Frost, WH Auden, Shakespeare

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
the little prince

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Alma Singer, Lyra Belaqua, Mama Ramotswe, Alice

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Yves Klein, Miro, Kandinsky, Saariaho, Britten, Shields, Ligetti

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Alexander Fleming, Michael Faraday, Kofi Anan, Ronald Ross, Paul Lauterbur, Sir Peter Mansfield, Jean Henri Dunant

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Wangari Maathai, Shami Chakrabati, Ada Lovelace. Emily Wilding Davison, Rebecca Hosking

What character(s) in history do you most dislike :
Those who were greedy and hurt too many. their names alas are infamous

Your favourite food and drink ::
chocolate, water, rooibos

Your favourite names ::
Simone, Madelaine, Imogen, Eugenie

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
people who stand to close

The change you most anticipate ::
the weather

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
eternal sunshine

How I would like to die ::
without pain

What is your present state of mind ::
present and mindful

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
being distant

Your favourite motto ::
This too shall pass

2 mars 2008

Mira Calix is a musician.

website :: Mira Calix

JOËL HUBAUT

Your favourite virtue ::
energy, generosity, endurance

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
sensitivity, passion, commitment

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
humor, gentleness, autonomy

Your favourite occupation ::
imagine, draw and write

Your idea of happiness ::
desire

Your idea of misery ::
submission, conservatism, the bitterness, paranoia and resignation .... It often goes together

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a toon

Where would you like to live ::
in second life, a big and hyper contemporary house facing the sea with 200 assistants

Your favourite colour and flower ::
colorfullness (bariolage) on a white background with flashes black. Les Fleurs du Mal

Your favourite prose authors ::
Heraclitus. Rabelais. Lautréamont. The Marquis de Sade. Alfred Jarry. Charles Fourier. James Joyce. William Burroughs. Raymond Roussel. Georges Bataille. Samuel Beckett. Raoul Vaneigem.Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Bernard Stiegler. Philippe Boisnard. Laure Limongi …

Your favourite poets ::
Raoul Hausmann. Kurt Schwitters. Jean Arp. Antonin Artaud. Robert Filliou. John Giorno. Claude Pélieu. Ghérasim Luca. Nathalie Quintane. François Dufrêne. Henri Chopin. Bernard Heidseick. Jean-Luc Parant. Liliane Giraudon. Charles Pennequin ........

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Don Quixote

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Alice in Wonderland

Your favourite painters ::
Giotto. Jerome Bosch. Léonardo da Vinci. Caravaggio. Edouard Manet. Francis Picabia. Kasimir Malevich. Theo Van Doesburg. Yves Klein. Andy Warhol. André Cadéré. Gerhard Richter. Jeff Koons. Elaine Sturtevant. Damien Hirst. Martin Kippenberger. Yayoï Kusama. John Armleder. Gabriele Di Matteo. Ernest T. ....... (But I prefer painters without paint...)

Your favorite composers ::
Mozart. Eric Satie. Kurt Weill. John Cage. Spike Jones. Nino Rota. La Monte Young. Ennio Morricone. Meredith Monk. Phil Glass. Arvo Part. Robert Wyatt. The Velvet Underground. Alan Vega. The Residents. Laurie Anderson. Björk. Plastikman. Pipilotti Risti. Christian Marclay. Jacques Luley. Dead Sexy Inc ......

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Stephen William Hawking

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Hannah Höch

What character (s) in history do you most dislike ::
fascism, inquisition and all religious dogma

Your favourite food and drink ::
spaghetti carbonara, sausages and Aberlour scotch whisky

The reform which estimate you most ::
Pataphysics

Your favourite names::
Mon petit lapin

Your pet peeve (something that annoys you easily) ::
I hate beams, brown tips, the smell of churches and tapeworm

The change you most anticipate ::
a mix between zen yoga and post-human love in space

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
organic ubiquity

How I would like to die ::
suicide

What is your present state of mind ::
excitement

Of what are you most fault tolerant ::
stupidity

Your favourite motto ::
Everything starts, everything is possible! Hiouppie!

25 février 2008

Joël Hubaut is a Mix Media artist (The rabbit Generation & Epidemik Concept creator), he is living in Réville (France)

Website :: Joël Hubaut

ALEXANDRE NAVARRO

Your favourite virtue ::
Love / fraternity

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Love / fraternity

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Love / fraternity

Your favourite occupation ::
Live

Your idea of happiness ::
Silence

Your idea of misery ::
Noise

If not yourself, who would you be ::
A bird

Where would you like to live ::
NYC

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Blue and rose

Your favourite prose authors ::
J. Krishnamurti, Goethe, Edgar Morin...

Your favourite poets ::
Khalil Gibran, Ibn Arabi

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Capitaine Flam

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Super Jaimie

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Yves Klein, Jenny Holzer, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, Mark Rothko, Debussy and Many more

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Crazy people

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
My wife

What characters in history do you most dislike ::
Tyrants and every kind of people trying to control your life ...

Your favourite food and drink ::
Apple crumble and water

Your favourite names ::
Kim, Marie

Your pet aversion ::
Rats

The reform which I estimate most estimate ::
Inward revolution

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Patience

How I would like to die ::
Sleepy with my wife

What is your present state of mind ::
Free my mind !

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Bad mood

Your favourite motto ::
Just... do it ?

27 février 2008

Alexandre Navarro is musician and coordinator of SEM netlabel

website :: SEM label
website :: Alexandre Navarro

JOACHIM MONTESSUIS

Your favourite virtue ::
patience

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
compassion, generosity

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
compassion, generosity

Your favourite occupation ::
making LOVE

Your idea of happiness ::
falling in love with the world and peaceful in any situation

Your idea of misery ::
failing to love, not being loved and not being peaceful in any situation

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a flute monk player under a tree

Where would you like to live ::
i feel good anywhere, but in a giant garden near the sea would be nice

Your favourite colour and flower ::
white, anthurium

Your favourite prose authors ::
Burroughs, Bukowski

Your favourite poets ::
Guillaume de Machaut, Pierre Louyïs, Gil Wolman, Henri Chopin, William Blake and so on...

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
John Diffool (c/f INCAL comics - Jodorowsky/Moebius)

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Queen Elisabeth II

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Rauschenberg, Fontana, Wolf Vostell, John Cage, Edgar Varèse, Iannis Xenakis, La Monte Young, so many others...

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Brion Gysin, Gurdjieff, Brian Jones,

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Ma Ananda Moyi, Amma

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
the actual pope, hitler

Your favourite food and drink ::
good hot crunchy bio bread and saucy cooked vegetables, fresh clear water

Your favourite names ::
violette

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
none.. nothing annoys me

The change you most anticipate::
me and my own perception of reality (as the reality we perceive is the mirror of ourselve as an "observer" // cf the Vedas and Quantum physics)

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
healing people

How I would like to die ::
peacefully

What is your present state of mind ::
relax, concentrate

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
all

Your favourite motto ::
harley (haha)

22 février 2008

"Joachim Montessuis lived in 15 towns since 72, including Bordeaux - Strasbourg - Toulouse - Marrakech - Abidjan - Besançon - Lille - Rotterdam - Cologne. He lives actually in Paris. He grew up surrounded by Buddhist monks, Gnawas musicians and oriental sacred texts that gave him the sense of ritual and trance in music.
Since 1993 he has developed a transversal sonic poetry praxis focused on experimental voice processings and immersive concerts-installations. His noise and video events are devised and set in context as panic-poetic spaces in which social/sensorial disturbance and blurring occur, through some extreme crescendos going from silence to wall of sound.

He has worked in major European electronic arts centers (CICV, Fresnoy, V2_Lab, KHM) and has presented live performances and installations around the world including places and festivals such as DEAF in Rotterdam, ISEA, ICA in London, Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Sónar in Barcelona, Africa Center in South Africa, Rio de Janeiro, etc.

He's been editing ERRATUM since 1997, a small CD+net label devoted to art, noise and experimental sound poetry, and he punctually organises experimental poetic events and exhibitions. He has collaborated with such artists as Charlemagne Palestine, David Larcher, Maja Ratkje, Faustin Linyekula, Serge Pey, Henri Chopin, Joel Hubaut, Jörg Piringer, Franck Ancel..."

Website :: Joachim Montessuis
Website :: erratum

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.

NORMAN FAIRBANKS

Your favourite virtue ::
imperfection

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
curiosity

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
balance

Your favourite occupation ::
perceive

Your idea of happiness ::
inspiration, home, transition

Your idea of misery ::
pervasive music

If not yourself, who would you be ::
my son

Where would you like to live ::
California, Cote d'Azur

Your favourite colour and flower ::
orange, magnolia

Your favourite prose authors ::
Franz Kafka

Your favourite poets ::
Charles Bukowski

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
K.

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
--

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Terry Rodgers, Cliff Martinez

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Nikola Tesla

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
--

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
everyone who brought death in the name of religion

Your favourite food and drink ::
--, water, herbal tea, coke light

Your favourite names ::
--
Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
I don't like elephants in small city flats

The change you most anticipate ::
the end of stupidity

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
amphibianity

How I would like to die ::
aware

What is your present state of mind ::
reminiscing

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
undecidedness

Your favourite motto ::
click

17 février 2008

"Audio conceptualist Norman Fairbanks was born in LA at a time when it became an ordinary thing that people would begin to utilize synthesizer of inacceptable size and weight in order to create music. His work is focused on the sociological and philosophical state description of American society through a targeted symbolic combination of typical American speech and noise elements with sounds.
Norman Fairbanks is a unique audio concept art project with the mission to freely melt and combine themes from the great American panopticon of modern media with selected environmental, acoustic or synthetic sound, in order to create an unbiasedly, non-contextual neo-expressionnist audio witness and reflection of contemporary American culture. Norman Fairbanks is a fictitious character" (source normanfairbanks.com)

Website :: Norman Fairbanks
Website :: discogs

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of Marcel Proust", created by Antoinette Faure around 1890.

PIERRE BASTIEN

Your favourite virtue ::
altruism

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
generosity, simplicity, good temper.

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
generosity, simplicity, good temper.

Your favourite occupation ::
playing music or thinking about it or constructing a device with a musical purpose.

Your idea of happiness ::
when everybody around is happy.

Your idea of misery ::
when a close friend or relative is in trouble.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
an animal or a human who likes making music: a blackbird for instance, or a cricket.

Where would you like to live ::
in any harbour, on any of the Atlantic shores.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
all colours, any flower as long as it grows freely outside.

Your favourite prose authors ::
Raymond Roussel, Mohammed Mrabet, Jack Kerouac, Raymond Queneau, Henri Michaux, François Caradec, Bruce Chatwin, Jean Rolin, Amos Tutuola, Hugues Panassié, Valerie Wilmer, Alan Lomax, Pierre Mac-Orlan, Pierre Bettencourt, Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie, Jorge Luis Borges, George Orwell, Mircea Eliade.

Your favourite poets ::
André Martel, Raymond Roussel, Kurt Schwitters, Raymond Queneau, Henri Michaux, Luis d'Antin van Rooten, Boby Lapointe, Charles Cros, Alfred Jarry, Jean-Pierre Brisset, Luc Etienne.

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Bex, the inventor of the thermodynamic orchestra in Impressions d'Afrique ; Phileas Fogg ; le duc d'Auge.

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Faustine, who plays music with her hair in the "aqua-micans", in Locus Solus ; Félicité, the clairvoyant and her tarot cards playing "The Blue-Bells of Scotland", also in Locus Solus.

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Alexander Calder, Aloïse, Simon Rodia, le Facteur Cheval, Gaston Chaissac, Pierre Bettencourt, Teo Jansen, Ben Vautier, Fischli & Weiss, Pierrick Sorin (if the word "painter" from 1890 means what we call "artist" nowadays), and Tibor Szemzö, Haco, Aphex Twin, Colleen, Squarepusher, Pascal Comelade, Don Aspiazu, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Jelly Roll Morton, Erik Satie and the unknown or forgotten composers who contributed to the many musical traditions all over the world.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
George Orwell, François Villon, Louis Armstrong, Ernest Hemingway.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Alexandra David-Neel, Louise Michel, Bessie Smith, George Sand.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
dictators.

Your favourite food and drink ::
sea-food and red wine.

Your favourite names ::
my children's names.

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
plants or animals (with the exception of spiders) inside the house.

The change you most anticipate ::
the end of all religions.

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
knowing how to catch the funny side of things.

How I would like to die ::
alone (I mean without witnesses) and preferably neither drowned nor by suffocation.

What is your present state of mind ::
right after the previous question, slightly pessimistic.

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
ignorance.

Your favourite motto ::
ni dieu ni maître.

6 février 2008

"Pierre Bastien is a French musician. He currently lives in Rotterdam. He has built several automatic orchestras. He always performs his concerts along with the last version of his many contraptions. The previous versions have a second life -though not virtual- as sound sculptures and installations."

website :: Pierre Bastien

PHOENELAI

Your favourite virtue ::
Being Nice

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
(See Above)

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Women should be sweet! (a girl version of nice)

Your favourite occupation ::
I've been in IT (technology) since 1994 so I guess that's the one.

Your idea of happiness ::
Good food, family and friends. Need I say more?

Your idea of misery ::
Playing the according in hell.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
I always want to be myself, sometimes a more well known version but ahh no biggie.

Where would you like to live ::
Moon

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Black and lotus

Your favourite prose authors ::
No favs per sey I'm all over the place when it comes to books although.

Your favourite poets ::
Silverstein

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Dark Night (Batman)

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Wonderwoman (who doesnt want to be tied up?)

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Max Ernst / Amadeus Mozart

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Both my dad and step father

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Mom

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
a known favorite Hitler

Your favourite food and drink ::
Chinese food / rhum and coke!

Your favourite names ::
Myles, Caleb, Addy

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you)::
Rude people

The change you most anticipate::
Financial of course!

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
Psychic, I'd help with unsolved murders. People need to be able to know and grieve.

How I would like to die ::
Getting laid...right on the end of orgasm

What is your present state of mind ::
Currently working and enjoying these questions.

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
I'm too easy sometimes, but I think that makes me nice.

Your favourite motto ::
Hate has a curved blade.

8 janvier 2008

Phoenelai / Pizo Meyer is born in 1969 and currently lives in Houston.
Phoenelai is a musician

Website :: Phoenelai
Website :: Phoenelai / soundcloud

JOAO RICARDO / OCP

Your favourite virtue ::
tolerance

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
loyalty, intelligence

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
beauty (is also skin deep), intelligence

Your favourite occupation ::
making and playing music

Your idea of happiness ::
to be free

Your idea of misery ::
the opposite

If not yourself, who would you be ::
someone else?!

Where would you like to live ::
where I live (in Porto)

Your favourite colour and flower ::
blue and violets

Your favourite prose authors ::
Pessoa, Dostoyevsky

Your favourite poets ::
Pessoa, Herberto Hélder

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
James Bond

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Barbarella

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Yves Klein, Pollock, aborigenal, Bartok, Shostakovich, Takemitsu, Varèse, Nunes, etc.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
my parents

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
single mothers

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
the greedy kind (far too many to mention, and counting)

Your favourite food and drink ::
bread and cheese with red wine; spicy food, beer and water

Your favourite names ::
biblical names

Your pet peeve (something that easily annoys you) ::
ignorance mixed with arrogance

The change you most anticipate ::
the end of money

A gift of nature which I would like to have ::
be able to hold by breath indefinitely (like a seal, dolphin, whale, etc.)

How I would like to die ::
satisfied

What is your present state of mind ::
enthusiastic

Of what fault are you most tolerant ::
dishonesty

Your favourite motto ::
it is all a question of frequency

4 janvier 2008

"Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1973, João Ricardo is a musician.
Involved in projects such as Pygar, Boiar, F.R.I.C.S.
Releases through netlabels and self releases as OCP.
Believes in free music!"

Website :: OCP

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

TERRE THAEMLITZ

Your favourite virtue ::
Nihilism.

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
Non-manliness, critical ambiguity. (It's sad that so many of the respondents to this questionnaire [quite a boys' club] idealize the most conventional notions of gender. This questionaire is over 100 years old and, by and large, so are the answers. It demonstrates why it is so difficult to address gender issues within the audio marketplace.)

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Refer to favourite qualities in a man.

Your favourite occupation ::
Sleep research subject.

Your idea of happiness ::
Indifference.

Your idea of misery ::
Faith.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
Amoeba.

Where would you like to live ::
Here in Japan, but maybe closer to the airport.

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Brown and snapdragon.

Your favourite prose authors ::
Karl Marx, of course.

Your favourite poets ::
Karl Marx, again!

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Karl Marx, the myth.

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Akihiro Miwa's role in "Black Lizard (Kuro Tokage)."

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Nina Simone, Barbara Kruger

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Marlon Riggs, Sammy Davis Jr.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Nina Simone, Trinh T. Min-ha

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Ronald Reagan, and all he begat.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Cashew chicken (Southwest Missouri style).

Your favourite names ::
Anything gender neutral or misleading.

Your pet aversion ::
There is nothing more revealiing about human cruelty than a zoo.

The reform which you most estimate ::
We're all fucked... but an end to all religion would be nice.

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Swift and painless death.

How I would like to die ::
By an industrial pile driver to the head while in my sleep.

What is your present state of mind ::
Lucid.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Lack of imagination.

Your favourite motto ::
"Rest in pieces."

22 décembre 2007

"Terre Thaemlitz is an award winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. Her work critically combines themes of identity politics - including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race - with an ongoing critique of the socio-economics of commercial media production. He has released 15 solo albums, as well as numerous 12-inch singles and video works. Her writings on music and culture have been published internationally in a number of books, academic journals and magazines. As a speaker and educator on issues of non-essentialist Transgenderism and Queerness, Thaemlitz has participated in panel discussions throughout Europe and Japan. He currently resides in Kawasaki, Japan."

website :: Terre Thaemlitz

MARCEXL

Your favourite virtue ::
To listen…

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
To be an artist…

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
That she will be sweet

Your favourite occupation ::
Musical production

Your idea of happiness ::
World peace and the end of contamination…

Your idea of misery ::
The lost of faith

if not yourself, who would you be ::
Ludwing Van Beethoven

Where would you like to live ::
Here were I am

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Brown, and the lotus flower

Your favourite prose authors ::
Luis Alberto Spinetta

Your favourite poets ::
Daisaku Ikeda

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Obi One Kanobi

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Kill Bill

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Dali and Johann Sebastian Bach.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
My Father

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
My mother

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Maradona

Your favourite food and drink ::
Snacks and coke

Your favourite names ::
Mariana, Cecilia, Pablo

Your pet aversion ::
Dogs

The reform which you most estimate ::
The end of contamination

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Meet the space and watch the stars

How I would like to die ::
I don't know how, but I want to live a lot more…

What is your present state of mind ::
Happy

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Not listen and pay attention

Your favourite motto ::
"Life is the most precious treasures even all the gold in the world compared to a single human life..." Nichiren Daishonin

14 novembre 2007

Born in 1984, MarceXL is musician and producer. He actually lives in Buenos Aires.

Website :: MXL
Website :: MarceXL at myspace

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

FELDFUNKER

Your favourite virtue ::
According to the classic roman virtues... Veritas - "Truthfulness"

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
see favourite virtue

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
see favourite virtue

Your favourite occupation ::
making music

Your idea of happiness ::
Contentment - I don't believe in "happiness" as being an enduring state

Your idea of misery ::
Lonlyness

If not yourself, who would you be ::
A cat

Where would you like to live ::
Here in Hamburg, the most beautiful town in the world

Your favourite colour and flower ::
Black, roses

Your favourite prose authors ::
Voltaire, Camus, Sartre, Kafka

Your favourite poets ::
Baudelaire, Villon, Georg Trakl, William Butler Yeats

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Sisyphos, Luke Skywalker, Spiderman

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
-

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Antoni Tapies, David Bowie

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
there are no heroes in real life

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
there are no heroes in real life

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
George W. Bush, Hitler

Your favourite food and drink ::
Gnocci Gorgonzola, Orange Juice

Your favourite names ::
-

Your pet aversion ::
Poodles and similar dogs

The reform which you most estimate ::
The end of capitalism

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Synesthesy

How I would like to die ::
Fast

What is your present state of mind ::
Looking forward to ending these questions so I can get myself another coffee

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Shyness, Insecurity

Your favourite motto ::
"The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy." (Albert Camus)

13 novembre 2007

"I'm 33 years old, sort of a musician, and an IT consultant in "real life". I live in Hamburg, Germany, and spend most of my spare time doing music, practicing on the bass guitar, or going out with friends."

website :: Feldfunker
website :: Feldfunker at mySpace
website :: Last.FM
website :: Feldfunker at Discogs

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

REIKO MATANE

Your favourite virtue ::
kindness

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
honesty

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
honesty

Your favourite occupation ::
doing music

Your idea of happiness ::
being able to enjoy life: being with friends, seeing / hearing inspiring things, having enough time to do music and not having to sell my soul

Your idea of misery ::
working only for money all the time without being able to do the things you feel you should do, living without having time for creativity or friends

If not yourself, who would you be ::
some ghost

Where would you like to live ::
berlin, tokyo

Your favourite colour and flower ::
black, white lily

Your favourite prose authors ::
Michel Houellebecq

Your favourite poets ::
Scott Walker's lyrics on records like "tilt" or "the drift"

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
John Blaylock (David Bowie) in The Hunger by Tony Scott

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
The Groke of the Moomins
The Groke

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Wolfgang Tillmans, Gerhard Richter, Lucy McKenzie, Rothko
music: all time:Talk Talk, My Bloody Valentine, William Basinski, Gas (Wolfgang Voigt), H. Gorecky, Sunn o))), Boris, Brian Eno, Wu-Tang Clan, Corrupted; recently: Burial, Hisato Higuchi, Pantha du Prince, Burning Star Core, Murcof, old acid house samplers, Bolt Thrower, Oren Ambarchi, Go-betweens

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
-

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
-

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
all dictators

Your favourite food and drink ::
Sushi, green tea

Your favourite names ::
Yuki, Hirohito, Ayako, Emma, Anna, William

Your pet aversion ::
insects

The reform which you most estimate ::
war-less-ness, but it won't happen

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Flying

How I would like to die ::
Sleeping

What is your present state of mind ::
You made me think about my death with that question. Therefore, small but content.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Social anxieties, Insecurity

Your favourite motto ::
The light at the end of the tunnel could be a train.

9 novembre 2007

"I live in Nakano, central Tokyo. I am 32 and work to pay my rent (3 days), rest of the time I spend doing music, watching movies, going out with friends. I used to play guitar when I was younger, normally with a Wall of Sound-approach (we were all big shoegazer-fans... but also metal, hihi...)"

Reiko Matane (aka Le Mépris, aka René Margraff) is a musician

website :: Le Mépris at myspace

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

ALEXANDER LISOVSKY / DJET

Your favourite virtue ::
Time sense

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
To not be the woman

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
To not be the man

Your favourite occupation ::
Studies to distinguish one from another

Your idea of happiness ::
In black to see white

Your idea of misery ::
In white to see black

if not yourself, who would you be ::
To be oneself

Where would you like to live ::
On the Earth

Your favourite colour and flower ::
colour - black, flower - white

Your favourite prose authors ::
Andrei Platonov

Your favourite poets ::
Alexander Vvedensky

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Neznaika

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Alia Klyaksich

Your favourite painters and composers ::
painters:: Mikhail Vrubel, composers:: Giya Kanchelli, Sofia Gubaidulina

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
Casual the passer-by

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Casual the passer-by

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Prejudice

Your favourite food and drink ::
Different, coffee, tea

Your favourite names ::
-

Your pet aversion ::
-

The reform which you most estimate ::
-

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
To become a sound

How I would like to die ::
In a trice

What is your present state of mind ::
Balance

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Nonsense of a youth, weakness of an old age

Your favourite motto ::
In the beginning there was a sound

2 novembre 2007

Alexander Lisovsky (Djet) is an artist, musician and coordinator of the important ressource and netlabel for eclectic and illogical music, Clinical Archives. Alexander lives in Moscow.

website :: Djet
website :: Clinical Archives
website :: Discogs
website :: last.fm
website :: Djet at myspace
website :: Clinical Archives at myspace

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

LETNA

Your favourite virtue ::
I am funny

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
simple, positive, respectful

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
simple, positive, respectful

Your favourite occupation ::
live my life

Your idea of happiness ::
The happiness for me is to do what we want

Your idea of misery ::
The misery for me is to do what we don't want

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a bird (to be free, and travel all around the word without my passport)

Where would you like to live ::
belgrade and in adriatic coast

Your favourite colour and flower ::
blue & i don t have favourite flower

Your favourite prose authors ::
i don t have a favorite author

Your favourite poets ::
same

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
same

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
same

Your favourite painters and composers ::
same

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
no hero for me, just simple people

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
same

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
a lot

Your favourite food and drink ::
food : cevape
drink : water and kiseli jogurt
serbian food

Your favourite names ::
Andriana

Your pet aversion ::
cats

The reform which you most estimate ::
....

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
...

How I would like to die ::
In my sleep

What is your present state of mind ::
I am inspired by life, and optimistic

For what fault have you most toleration ::
A lot of things

Your favourite motto ::
Living in the present

30 octobre 2007

Letna is musician and label coordinator. He lives in Paris

website :: standard KLIK music
website :: SEM label
website :: Letna at Discogs
website :: Letna at myspace

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

GUDRUN GUT

Your favourite virtue ::
you mean my own? Persistancy

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
beeing trustworthy

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
Same

Your favourite occupation ::
Artist

Your idea of happiness ::
beeing with loved ones

Your idea of misery ::
when everything collapses

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a snowflake, a dear, a bird, a fish, a man?

Where would you like to live ::
in berlin or los angeles

Your favourite colour and flower ::
colour: blue and rose, flower: roses and magnolias, but i love field flowers as well.

Your favourite prose authors ::
Ian McEwan, Elfriede Jelinek

Your favourite poets ::
-

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
Siegfried from the Nibelungen and Odysseus

Your favourite heroines in fiction ::
Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Thomas Ruff, Gerhard Richter, Isa Gensken, Pipilotti Rist (in arts )- too many in music.

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
-

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
-

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
Napoleon

Your favourite food and drink ::
Red whine (Italian or Spanish), food: italian

Your favourite names ::
Aurelia, Camilla, Emil, Rodja, Felicitas, Dion, Lisan, Adrian, Marie, Yvonne, Max, Aaron,

Your pet aversion ::
Rats

The reform which you most estimate ::
-

The gift of the nature which I would like to have ::
Flying

How I would like to die ::
Happily

What is your present state of mind ::
kind of relaxed. its saturday afternoon.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
the most?? hm. not for beeing late.

Your favourite motto ::
dont be afraid of big tasks: take one step after the other

13 octobre 2007

Gudrun Gut is a musician, dj and label coordinator, she lives in Berlin.

website :: Gudrun at myspace
website :: m-enterprise
website :: ocean club

:: the questionnaire is based on the original "questionnaire of marcel proust", created by antoinette faure around 1890

MUHR

Your favourite virtue ::
imagination

Your favourite qualities in a man ::
passion, self-acknowledgement, humour

Your favourite qualities in a woman ::
humour, self-consciousness, intelligence, drive, able to be spontaneous, to embrace an inner child, creativity, wit

Your favourite occupation ::
creating concepts, musically, graphically or through litterature.
staring at ceilings.

Your idea of happiness ::
To know myself and be able to create, to live and understand the currents that life throws at you.

Your idea of misery ::
white picket fences and deskjobs. not being able to feel fresh automn winds. avoiding nostalgia and melodrama.

If not yourself, who would you be ::
a dream.

Where would you like to live ::
I've always been drawn to either immense metropoles like tokyo where there seems to be a real value to individuality, or places like norway or finland; there's something attractive in their lifestyle, can't put the finger on it ;)

Your favourite colour and flower ::
i'm a graphic designer so i can't really have a favorite color, but these days, mostly browns and pale blues, or bright blues and purples.
Flowers i just love flowers, i guess i can't say i don't love camomiles hehe ( camomillemusic shameless plug ) but orchids and cherry blossoms and lotus and simple flowers like lilas ( english ? ) or margerites.

Your favourite prose authors ::
Jorge Luis Borgez, Alessandro barricho,

Your favourite poets ::
i've been raised on french and american rap music, so i must say that's where i get all my poetry from.

Your favourite heroes in fiction ::
i'm a huuuge comic book fan, but to single out a true hero i can't really pinpoint. I mean it might be cliché but Superman is all i ever wanted to be ;)

Your favourite painters and composers ::
Mark Rothko, his landscapes are so dynamic and real and at the same time there's an impenetrable distance to them.
Musically, there's too much, but i always feel touched and bothered and dreamy when listening to godspeed you ! black emperor, world's end girlfriend, stars of the lid and explosions in the sky

Your favourite heroes in real life ::
on a professional standpoint, Todd McFarlane started years ago to draw a character and now those simple drawings became a huge multi media empire.
Somehow it tells me that i can do whatever i want if i have enough drive.
And in a place where there are no heroes ( quebec, Canada ), we all look towards our hockey team, the montreal Canadiens. The sport has a much more socio-political meaning here than anything in the past 100 years.

Your favourite heroines in real life ::
Whoever taught us that women are more than our equals.

What character(s) in history do you most dislike ::
George Washington, the entire Bourbon family across time, the christian church and their popes, alexander the great.

Your favourite food and drink ::
Indian food ! Chana samosa anyday of the week. Camomille tea, coffee, any alcool in good company.

Your favourite names ::
Tao, Lluvia, Sasha, Xavier, Sarah, Sam

Your pet aversion ::
I just wish i could have a dog, preferably a small bastard dog, but i have a small place and allergies :/

The reform which you most estimate ::
I'm not a very political person, but here in quebec, we're in dire need of an educational reform, our people are underqualified and overeducated.

How I would like to die ::
Falling from someplace real high to have enough time to feel like i'm flying.

What is your present state of mind ::
Nostalgic, melodramatic, as usual :) and lazy beyond anything the human race as ever seen hehe.

For what fault have you most toleration ::
Anger

Your favourite motto ::
' Cette histoire est entièrement vraie, puisque je l'ai imaginé du début à la fin ' - Boris Vian

11 octobre 2007

Muhr is a musician, a graphic designer, a coordinator of labels such as the seminal netlabel Camomille or Apegenine Recordings.

website :: Muhr
website :: camomille
website :: apegenine recordings