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Crushing the world​’​s crown of wonders

by Monica Vlad

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This track was created for Europalia Biennale 2019-2020 Bruxelles Belgium, as a soundtrack for the Kinema Ikon videoart film "Inceput de Coerenta" (1981).

Thanks go to ICR - Institutul Cultural Roman and Kinema Ikon.

Crushing the world’s crown of wonders
is not what I do
and killing, with my mind, the mysteries I find along the way,
in flowers, eyes, on lips, or graves,
is not what I do.

The light of others
whistle the spell of the hidden unseen
in the depths of darkness;
but I,
I with my light increase the secret world -
and just as with its white rays, the moon
does not diminish, but tremblingly
deepens the mystery of the night even more,
I so enrich the dark night
with wide streams of holy mystery.

and all that’s unrevealed
turns ever more unknowable
before my eyes –
for I so love
both flowers and eyes and lips and graves.

(written by Lucian Blaga in 1919)


Eu nu strivesc corola de minuni a lumii
şi nu ucid
cu mintea tainele, ce le-ntâlnesc
în calea mea
în flori, în ochi, pe buze ori morminte.
Lumina altora
sugrumă vraja nepătrunsului ascuns
în adâncimi de întuneric,
dar eu,
eu cu lumina mea sporesc a lumii taină -
şi-ntocmai cum cu razele ei albe luna
nu micşorează, ci tremurătoare
măreşte şi mai tare taina nopţii,
aşa îmbogăţesc şi eu întunecata zare
cu largi fiori de sfânt mister.
şi tot ce-i neînţeles
se schimbă-n neînţelesuri şi mai mari
sub ochii mei-
căci eu iubesc
şi flori şi ochi şi buze şi morminte.

(1919)

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released January 28, 2020
Monica Vlad, Lucian Blaga

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Monica Vlad Linz, Austria

In my work is important to show how sound is produced, not only press play on the cassette player.
Is important to interact w the original sound, transform
and manipulate it, find textures, arrange layers, create new from these dead, recorded sounds, from music that’s not “live”. It’s a way of putting it back in a context of
creating, on stage, a new sound that’s “live”, alive and full of emotion.
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