Mail Art for Music Lovers and Music Lovers for Mail Art. This Group is for anyone who wants to explore links between any type of Mail Art and any type of Music.
There is something wrong with this Group. No one is really interested in what should be a really obvious and inspirational theme. I don't know why people join a Group and then do nothing about it. I also believe that Groups should only exist for a month -- after a first wave of enthusiasm, things grind to a halt, and the Groups should be wound up: this is a prime example of this. It's Maria's Group, and she has responsibility for it -- although I strongly encouraged her to start it, and must share some of that responsibility.
I suggest this mailing is canned, because it just ain't worth doing on a small scale.
Perhaps the Group members don't like group mailings -- that I can understand, but I can't understand why they are not more inspired by Music and Mail Art.
Frustratedly yours, Val
TO ANY AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WHO MAY BE READING THIS......what do you want from this group, if anything? What are you prepared to contribute to this Group, if anything?
I like your wording: "TO ANY AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WHO MAY BE READING THIS......what do you want from this group, if anything? What are you prepared to contribute to this Group, if anything?"
Hope that gives us some more time!
For what it's worth, I do see more than one vitally interested gang here in groups which are ongoing, fresh, really hip. Nothing wrong with that. But wouldn't you want something to continue that had been going well enough for long whiles?
Let's not generalize away the idea some groups are livelier than this one.
An old Cliff Richard song, called 'Summer Holiday':
"We're all going on a summer holiday no more working for a week or two. Fun and laughter on our summer holiday, no more worries for me or you, for a week or two.
We're going where the sun shines brightly we're going where the sea is blue. we've all seen it on the movies, now let's see if it's true.
Everybody has a summer holiday doin' things they always wanted to So we're going on a summer holiday, to make our dreams come true for me and you. for me and you. "
I'm going away, not exactly on a summer holiday, but I'll be back in a week or two.
Painted envelope I amiled to Helen Daley in Australia.
Title "In the court of the Crimson King" refers to first LP of King Crimson. Have the CD now, extended one with alternate takes of certain songs. Favorite song: Epitaph
This was inspired by the music of South African jazz giant, Abdullah Ebrahim, or as he was known then, Dollar Brand. The cigarette image is from a metal trading store sign that graces my studio. For a sublime musical experience, try Sweet Basil Blues from the CD Blues for a Hip King.
Inspired by a song from Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac (the early Fleetwood Mac, not The Rumours crap)
Lyrics:
The green manalishi
Written by Peter Green
Now, when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks The night is so black that the darkness cooks Don’t you come creepin’ around - makin’ me do things I don’t want to
Can’t believe that you need my love so bad Come sneakin’ around tryin’ to drive me mad Bustin’ in on my dreams - making me see things I don’t wanna see
Break:
’cause you’re da green manalishi with the two prong crown All my tryin’ is up - all your bringin’ is down Just taking my love then slippin’ away Leavin’ me here just tryin’ to keep from following you
You know you're a cut little heartbreaker Foxy You know you're a sweet little lovemaker Foxy
I wanna take you home I won't do you no harm, no You've got to be all mine, all mine Ooh, foxy lady [ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimi+hendrix/foxy+lady_20071513.html ] I see you, heh, on down on the scene Foxy You make me wanna get up and scream Foxy Ah, baby listen now I've made up my mind I'm tired of wasting all my precious time You've got to be all mine, all mine Foxy lady Here I come
I'm gonna take you home I won't do you no harm, no You've got to be all mine, all mine
Here I come I'm comin' to get ya Foxy lady You look so good Yeah, foxy Yeah, give us some Foxy Yeah, get it, babe You make me feel like Feel like sayin' foxy Foxy Foxy lady
Collage in support of the Russian feminist punk group PUSSY RIOT, they sang a religious protest song against Putin in the orthodox cathedral and 3 members are already 5 months in jail for HOOLIGANISM, trial started in Moscow and they risk 7 years altogether!!
Photos: Pussy Riot Collective in action, the 3 in jail, they are also in a cage during the trial; Putin is the new Stalin in a suit, people!
FREE PUSSY RIOT, campaign poster from Amnesty International USA, glad to hear that pop stars lile Madonna and Peaches have a conscience! Strange, only women! but not all .... Example
the Spice Girls were to busy to close the London Olympics I guess...
Projection by THE ILLUMINATOR on the Russian consulate of New York the same evening after 3 members of Pussy Riot were jailed to 2 years in Putin’s new gulag
Collage THE SOUND TEST or Ha ha ha, this sounds false, the pussy riot girls making fun of the scientific test invented by comrade Putin to distinguish the real from the false communism during the Moscow trials, they started in 1936 and continued till 2012 and beyond
IMPROVISATIONS TOGETHER WITH STEVE LACY, series of 8 envelopes, base made with eyes closed while listening to the free jazz of soprano saxophone player Steve Lacy; this is envelope 6
Valentine Mark Herman
No more food comments on this from me; Are we having a mailing or not? Who's in it?
Regards, Val
Apr 16, 2011
Plush Possum Studio-Rose McGuinn
Looks like our numbers were decimated. If there are but two or three, shall we disband?
I'm hopeful things may turn around later on.
Am i dreaming?
Apr 16, 2011
Valentine Mark Herman
There is something wrong with this Group. No one is really interested in what should be a really obvious and inspirational theme. I don't know why people join a Group and then do nothing about it. I also believe that Groups should only exist for a month -- after a first wave of enthusiasm, things grind to a halt, and the Groups should be wound up: this is a prime example of this. It's Maria's Group, and she has responsibility for it -- although I strongly encouraged her to start it, and must share some of that responsibility.
I suggest this mailing is canned, because it just ain't worth doing on a small scale.
Perhaps the Group members don't like group mailings -- that I can understand, but I can't understand why they are not more inspired by Music and Mail Art.
Frustratedly yours, Val
TO ANY AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WHO MAY BE READING THIS......what do you want from this group, if anything? What are you prepared to contribute to this Group, if anything?
Apr 16, 2011
Plush Possum Studio-Rose McGuinn
I like your wording: "TO ANY AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WHO MAY BE READING THIS......what do you want from this group, if anything? What are you prepared to contribute to this Group, if anything?"
Hope that gives us some more time!
For what it's worth, I do see more than one vitally interested gang here in groups which are ongoing, fresh, really hip. Nothing wrong with that. But wouldn't you want something to continue that had been going well enough for long whiles?
Let's not generalize away the idea some groups are livelier than this one.
Apr 16, 2011
Fleur Helsingor
Apr 19, 2011
Valentine Mark Herman
An old Cliff Richard song, called 'Summer Holiday':
"We're all going on a summer holiday
no more working for a week or two.
Fun and laughter on our summer holiday,
no more worries for me or you,
for a week or two.
We're going where the sun shines brightly
we're going where the sea is blue.
we've all seen it on the movies,
now let's see if it's true.
Everybody has a summer holiday
doin' things they always wanted to
So we're going on a summer holiday,
to make our dreams come true
for me and you.
for me and you. "
I'm going away, not exactly on a summer holiday, but I'll be back in a week or two.
I hope that you enjoy your summer.
Regards, le tour de val
Jul 3, 2011
Cuan Miles
Jul 3, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
Painted envelope I amiled to Helen Daley in Australia.
Title "In the court of the Crimson King" refers to first LP of King Crimson. Have the CD now, extended one with alternate takes of certain songs. Favorite song: Epitaph
Jul 4, 2011
Cuan Miles
Jul 19, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
THE FIREBIRD, inspired by Stravinsky
Aug 5, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
Aug 10, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
HERE COMES THE SUN,
inspired by a Beatles' song
Aug 14, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
OCTOPUS'S GARDEN
Inspired by a Beatles' song
Aug 14, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
THE GREEN MANALISHI
Inspired by a song from Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac (the early Fleetwood Mac, not The Rumours crap)
Lyrics:
The green manalishi
Written by Peter Green
Now, when the day goes to sleep and the full moon looks
The night is so black that the darkness cooks
Don’t you come creepin’ around - makin’ me do things I don’t want to
Can’t believe that you need my love so bad
Come sneakin’ around tryin’ to drive me mad
Bustin’ in on my dreams - making me see things I don’t wanna see
Break:
’cause you’re da green manalishi with the two prong crown
All my tryin’ is up - all your bringin’ is down
Just taking my love then slippin’ away
Leavin’ me here just tryin’ to keep from following you
Aug 14, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
Aug 19, 2011
Guido Vermeulen
A tribute to Chet Baker
YOU REFUSE, EYES CLOSED
Feb 19, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Another interpretation of WILD IS THE WIND as tribute to Nina Simone
Feb 19, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
I AM IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (jazz vocal standard)
Mar 3, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
I TALK TO THE WIND, inspired by a King Crimson song
May 9, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
SPINNING WHEEL, inspired by a Blood, Sweat and Tears’ song
Jun 13, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
TE DEUM, inspired by choral composition by Arvo PART
Jun 13, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
LOOKING AT MOTHER NATURE ON THE RUN IN THE 21st CENTURY
(Neil Young, After the Gold Rush album)
Jun 17, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
ATC from Anke van den Berg LES MUSIQUES ANCIENNES
Jul 3, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Collage IF I HAD A HAMMER
Jul 7, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Collage FOXY LADY
FOXY LADY by Jimi Hendrix
Foxy
Foxy
You know you're a cut little heartbreaker
Foxy
You know you're a sweet little lovemaker
Foxy
I wanna take you home
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Ooh, foxy lady
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsfreak.com/j/jimi+hendrix/foxy+lady_20071513.html ]
I see you, heh, on down on the scene
Foxy
You make me wanna get up and scream
Foxy
Ah, baby listen now
I've made up my mind
I'm tired of wasting all my precious time
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Foxy lady
Here I come
I'm gonna take you home
I won't do you no harm, no
You've got to be all mine, all mine
Here I come
I'm comin' to get ya
Foxy lady
You look so good
Yeah, foxy
Yeah, give us some
Foxy
Yeah, get it, babe
You make me feel like
Feel like sayin' foxy
Foxy
Foxy lady
Foxy Lady
Jul 12, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Collage GOD SAVE THE QUEEN (and Hitler, spot the differences!)
God save the Queen
the fascist regime,
they made you a moron
a potential H-bomb.
God save the Queen
she ain't no human being.
There is no future
in England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need.
There's no future
there's no future
there's no future for you
God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves
God save the Queen
'cos tourists are money
and our figurehead
is not what she seems
Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
all crimes are paid.
When there's no future
how can there be sin
we're the flowers
in the dustbin
we're the poison
in your human machine
we're the future
you're future
God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves
God save the Queen
we mean it man
there is no future
in England's dreaming
No future
no future for you
no future for me
THE SEX PISTOLS
Jul 12, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Collage HELP! (a tribute to The Beatles)
Jul 12, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
NUAGES, tribute collage to Django Reinhardt
Jul 16, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
SENHORA DA NOITE, LADY OF THE NIGHT (and 7 other paintings) inspired by the FADO music of MISIA
Jul 22, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Collage in support of the Russian feminist punk group PUSSY RIOT, they sang a religious protest song against Putin in the orthodox cathedral and 3 members are already 5 months in jail for HOOLIGANISM, trial started in Moscow and they risk 7 years altogether!!
Photos: Pussy Riot Collective in action, the 3 in jail, they are also in a cage during the trial; Putin is the new Stalin in a suit, people!
Jul 30, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
FREE PUSSY RIOT, campaign poster from Amnesty International USA, glad to hear that pop stars lile Madonna and Peaches have a conscience! Strange, only women! but not all .... Example
the Spice Girls were to busy to close the London Olympics I guess...
Aug 15, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
It was in a Lousiana swamp I understood the music of Lightnin’ Slim
Large painted envelope
Aug 16, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Projection by THE ILLUMINATOR on the Russian consulate of New York the same evening after 3 members of Pussy Riot were jailed to 2 years in Putin’s new gulag
Aug 19, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Collage THE SOUND TEST or Ha ha ha, this sounds false, the pussy riot girls making fun of the scientific test invented by comrade Putin to distinguish the real from the false communism during the Moscow trials, they started in 1936 and continued till 2012 and beyond
Aug 24, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
It’s the mood that I am in, tribute to song by Billie Holyday
Aug 29, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
My dream of life is here to stay, another tribute to a song by Billie Holyday
Aug 29, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
SAD SONG, Lou Reed and many others
Sep 4, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
STARDUST, a tribute to Louis Armstrong, received from Cuan Miles, South Africa
Sep 18, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
IMPROVISATIONS TOGETHER WITH STEVE LACY, series of 8 envelopes, base made with eyes closed while listening to the free jazz of soprano saxophone player Steve Lacy; this is envelope 6
Sep 18, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
THE SAD GARDENIA, another tribute to Billie Holyday
Sep 27, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
From Christine F, Belgium
Oct 12, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
I WANNA HOLD YOUR ... EYE, tribute to The Beatles
Collaborative collages on a set of 10 playing cards from Terry Flowers (USA) and Guido Vermeulen (Belgium)
Oct 23, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
Painting size A3: LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, a tribute to NINA SIMONE
Nov 27, 2012
Guido Vermeulen
You ain t seen nothing yet, tribute to Canadian rock band BTO
Mar 11, 2013
Guido Vermeulen
Music is the bottom line
Collaged card from Meg Taney
Jan 8, 2014
Guido Vermeulen
Music for G, by Erica Durante
Jan 22, 2014
Dean aka Artist in Seine
Is anyone still active here? I was just thinking to start a Mail Art Music group, but here you are already.
So does anyone want to have an exchange / call? Example; Mail Art about your favourite Love song; to arrive by the 14th of February 2017.
Dec 16, 2016
Rebecca Guyver
Dean, It's Christmas and I haven't sent you anything in a long time. I like the idea of a love song music exchange!
Serendipity that I logged into IUOMA as you were posting. I joined the group immediately!
Dec 16, 2016
Dean aka Artist in Seine
Actually I wish I would have thought of a few ideas before launching into this exchange. I hope the ideas surface now. Because, You can't buy me Love.
Dec 16, 2016
A.Hennig
outgiong to Dean...
Dec 21, 2016